Bénédicte de Perthuis, the judge who sentenced Le Pen for embezzling EU funds and barred her from running in France's 2027 presidential election, was placed under police protection on Monday ...

De Perthuis also sentenced Le Pen to four years in prison but said that part of her sentence would be served as house arrest, with her wearing an electronic tag, not in a prison.

The address of Benedicte de Perthuis - the head of a three-judge panel that found Le Pen guilty of embezzling EU funds and handed her a five-year ban on seeking public office - was shared online ...

Judge Benedicte de Perthuis said Le Pen had been "at the heart" of the scheme. Le Pen's removal from the race is likely to intensify a debate in France over how judges police politics.

De Perthuis said her fellow judges had weighed the “two risks” in their sentencing: the risk of a person convicted for embezzlement being elected for political office and the “major risk to ...

Judge Benedicte de Perthuis said Le Pen had been "at the heart" of a scheme to misappropriate more than 4 million euros ($4.3 million) of EU funds and use them to pay the far-right party's staff ...

Benedicte de Perthuis, head of the three-judge panel that found Le Pen guilty of embezzling EU funds, issued a five-year ban on the politician seeking public office on Monday.

De Perthuis convicted Le Pen and two dozen figures from her National Rally (RN) party last month of embezzling EU funds. She handed Le Pen an immediate five-year ban on running for office, which ...

The court’s presiding judge, Bénédicte de Perthuis, said Le Pen’s actions amounted to a “serious and lasting attack on the rules of democratic life in Europe, but especially in France ...