Overview
- Peimane Ghaleh-Marzban said any U.S. sanctions targeting French magistrates would be an “inacceptable and intolerable” intrusion into France’s internal affairs.
- Der Spiegel reported that the Trump administration had weighed sanctions against the Paris criminal court judges who issued Le Pen’s first-instance conviction in March.
- The Paris Court of Appeal began hearing the case involving Marine Le Pen, the Rassemblement National as a legal entity, and eleven co-defendants over suspected misuse of European Parliament funds.
- Ghaleh-Marzban cited ICC judge Nicolas Guillou, who has been under U.S. sanctions since August, as a precedent and urged opposition to the very notion of such measures.
- Donald Trump previously likened Le Pen’s sentence to his own legal troubles, underscoring the political overtones surrounding the proceedings.