Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was found guilty of embezzlement by a criminal court in Paris on Monday and immediately barred from running for public office for five years, setting off a democratic crisis in France. The court ruled that she had played a “central role” in a scheme to use assistants paid with European Parliament funds to perform tasks for her party.
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