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France's Marine Le Pen gets 4 years for embezzlement

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Le Pen denounced the ruling as “a democratic scandal, a real shame, staining our country.”
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The Paris appeals court said on Tuesday it had received three appeals for a court decision against the far-right National Rally party that saw its leader Marine Le Pen banned from running for public ...
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French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou told lawmakers on Tuesday that he "unconditionally supported" the judiciary.
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