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Guilty of embezzlement: France’s far-right Marine Le Pen barred from running for President| BBC News
The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzling EU funds and barred from standing in an election for five years, with immediate effect. The court’s verdict is a catastrophic setback for Le Pen which is likely to end her ambition to run for President in 2027.
Le Pen was also given a four-year prison sentence, of which two will be suspended. The other two can be spent with an electronic tag in home detention rather than in custody. She has also been handed a 100,000 euro fine.
The judge said Le Pen had been at the “heart of a system” which saw the embezzlement of €2.9m worth of European funds. Two dozen members of her party were also found guilty and the party was ordered to pay a €2m fine, with half the amount suspended.
Le Pen went on national television to claim the court’s verdict was “political”. “I’m not going to let myself be eliminated like this,” Le Pen told French TV station TF1. She will appeal against the verdict “as soon as possible” she said, with “whatever legal avenues I can.” “Millions of French people are outraged” she said, claiming that judges have “implemented measures that are reserved for authoritarian regimes.”
Shortly before her sentencing, Le Pen received messages of support from the Kremlin, as well as European allies such as Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Italy’s Matteo Salvini.
But some of Le Pen’s political opponents have also said they disapproved of the judge’s decision. Centrist Prime Minister François Bayrou was reported to be “troubled” by the ruling while Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the far-left France Unbowed said:
“The choice to dismiss an elected official should only belong to the people.”
Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Europe editor Katya Adler.
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Hundreds of women have come together in Delhi to protest against the alleged gang-rape of a 17-year-old near Delhi university’s campus.
This is one of multiple protests that have been taking place in the capital over the past week, after a string of sexual assaults and rape cases have made headlines.
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04:51 Reaction from the authorities
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Floods have hit Australia’s largest city Sydney for the third time this year prompting evacuation warnings to 50,000 people.
Parts of Sydney have received about eight months of rain in four days.
Roads have been cut off, some houses are under water and thousands have been left without power.
Widespread flooding across Australia – driven by a La Niña weather pattern – has killed more than 20 people this year, many in New South Wales.
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Saudia Arabia vows ‘serious response’ to Houthi attacks and other stories | Global News Podcast
The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen have continued to fire missiles towards Saudi Arabia, after a number of deadly attacks on Riyadh’s main international airport.
Almost all flights to and from the airport have been suspended. The Houthis say their actions are in retaliation for “brutal Saudi aggression” against areas they control in western Yemen.
Saudi Arabia’s energy minister Prince Abdul Aziz bin Salman told a conference in Riyadh that the seriousness of the attacks required an equally serious response from the Kingdom.
Also in the Global News Podcast:
04:59 India’s opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has led thousands in a march through Delhi, demanding the resignation of the election chief
06:59 Hundreds of supermarkets in France have been hit by a cyber-attack that caused their refrigerators to defrost
09:30 President Zelensky says Washington has to make Russia respect the energy ceasefire announced by Donald Trump
12:45 As the US midterm elections loom, we have a special report on a key political flashpoint; the data centres powering the AI boom
16:10 Microsoft’s President Brad Smith tells the BBC that milk and washing machines are currently more regulated than artificial intelligence
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