(Adnkronos) – Following the sentence handed down yesterday, the president of the criminal court dealing with the case of the parliamentary assistants of the French National Rally has been placed under police protection. This was stated by a source to the newspaper Le Figaro.
Magistrate Bénédicte de Perthuis, who presided over the proceedings for two months, from 30 September to 27 November, issued her verdict yesterday and sentenced Marine Le Pen to four years in prison, of which two years with electronic surveillance, a 100,000 euro fine and five years of ineligibility with provisional execution. The magistrate was the subject of “a large number of messages containing death threats in particular”, according to the police source quoted by the newspaper. As a result, patrols were organized around her home in Paris.
In a press release, the first president of the Paris Court of Appeal, Jacques Boulard, expressed his “deep concern”, deploring the fact that the decision issued by the Paris court had given rise, “in particular on social networks, to personal attacks against the three judges in charge of the case”.
