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“Various facts” and “immigrants”: Jean-Marie Le Pen accused of defamation
The former president of the national Front Jean-Marie Le Pen has been indicted on Monday for defamation, after having said in 2009 on RTL that “90% of the events have their origin, either an immigrant or a person of immigrant origin”, a-t-on learned from several sources.
The former president of the Front national, at the age of 90, traveled in a wheelchair from her car to the office of the investigating judge, the court of Paris, found journalists from AFP.
His counsel, mr. Frederic Joachim, as well as the entourage of Mr. Le Pen, confirmed to the AFP this review.
“We are going more and more towards a dictatorship of the single thought,” said the lawyer. “We can worry about pluralism. It is amazing that since 2009 justice is nothing more urgent than to continue the remarks of Jean-Marie Le Pen”, he added.
According to the lawyer, this procedure has been initiated by the prosecutor’s office in Paris following a complaint filed by SOS Racisme.
In June 2017, the european Parliament had lifted the immunity of Mr Le Pen at the request of the French justice, then he was targeted by the judicial investigation opened for “public slander” of a racist nature.
In the area of defamation, the indictments are virtually automatic, and the statement of the case is made at the time of the hearing.
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