Supporters are likening a five-year ban on Marine Le Pen running for office to a political witch-hunt. But the criticisms — and death threats to a judge — could backfire.

Embezzlement and polarizing legal decisions aren’t new, of course. But the crisis of Western democracy, most fundamentally, ...

A 76-year-old Frenchman was found guilty on Wednesday of threatening a judge who barred French far-right leader Marine Le Pen ...

French authorities on Tuesday detained a 76-year-old man over a death threat against the judge who presided over the panel ...

Far-right French politician Marine Le Pen, who was convicted last week of embezzling public funds and banned from running for ...

France's far-right National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen has called a court ruling banning her from running for office for ...

France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday vowed to pursue her presidential ambitions after she was found guilty of ...

A week after Marine Le Pen was found guilty of using European Parliament funds to pay party staff in France, thousands ...

In a speech, Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, cast a judicial decision prohibiting her from running for office as ...

Thousands of supporters gathered at Place Vauban for the event organised by Le Pen’s party, the National Rally.