After appeal ruling: Le Pen announces pourvoi en cassation in assistants affair

Paris - 08.07.2026: The leadership of the Rassemblement National is taking the legal dispute over allegedly misused European Parliament funds to the next level. One day after the Cour d'appel in Paris's appellate ruling, Marine Le Pen's lawyer Rodolphe Bosselut announced that he would file a pourvoi en cassation. The aim is to have the legal applicability of the offenses relied on by the appellate court reviewed. The long-running case concerns the allegation that parliamentary funds were used for internal party tasks. In French cassation proceedings the Cour de cassation ...