Some “sympathizers” are already crying the justice is interfering with politics. Although the suspension of electoral rights is inscribed in the law, and would you expect anything less of a punishment for someone who corrupted millions of € of public money ?!?
These same “sympathizers” are constantly shouting everywhere that our justice is to soft and that criminals should be punished more harshly.
Yes. They are wrong. Which is why I won’t agree with them just because the criminal in question is one of theirs.
And yes, I’m worried that fascists have a history of weaponizing institutions against their enemies when they control them and presenting themselves as victims and eroding those same institutions when democratic processes hold them accountable for criminal behavior.
It’s why, while I don’t question the criminal outcome, I would have politically preferred for them to lose support electorally before this happened. They are likely to try to capitalize on presenting this as persecution and, looking at historical comparables, they are likely to succeed. It’s not like Marine is so charismatic that her absence decapitates the movement by default. She’s no Trump.
Still, I’m not objecting to her being inhabilitated or jailed. I just hope the rest of the French political spectrum has a plan to manage the fallout, because so far they haven’t even been able to manage the fallout of actually not losing an election, so from the outside looking in my level of trust is low and Europe can’t afford to have France spiral down into fascism as well.
Some “sympathizers” are already crying the justice is interfering with politics. Although the suspension of electoral rights is inscribed in the law, and would you expect anything less of a punishment for someone who corrupted millions of € of public money ?!?
These same “sympathizers” are constantly shouting everywhere that our justice is to soft and that criminals should be punished more harshly.
Yes. They are wrong. Which is why I won’t agree with them just because the criminal in question is one of theirs.
And yes, I’m worried that fascists have a history of weaponizing institutions against their enemies when they control them and presenting themselves as victims and eroding those same institutions when democratic processes hold them accountable for criminal behavior.
It’s why, while I don’t question the criminal outcome, I would have politically preferred for them to lose support electorally before this happened. They are likely to try to capitalize on presenting this as persecution and, looking at historical comparables, they are likely to succeed. It’s not like Marine is so charismatic that her absence decapitates the movement by default. She’s no Trump.
Still, I’m not objecting to her being inhabilitated or jailed. I just hope the rest of the French political spectrum has a plan to manage the fallout, because so far they haven’t even been able to manage the fallout of actually not losing an election, so from the outside looking in my level of trust is low and Europe can’t afford to have France spiral down into fascism as well.