The French far right's leader, sentenced in 2025 to four years in prison and a five-year ban on holding an elected office after being convicted of embezzlement of pubic funds, goes back to court with 11 co-defendants for a one-month trial starting Tuesday.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is back in court on Tuesday to appeal her embezzlement conviction, with the verdict to determine whether she is eligible to run in the 2027…

OP-ED. In the ideological battle that followed the conviction of the president of the far-right Rassemblement National, the very future of French democracy is at stake, writes…