2024-10-09 23:13:00
At first, the court barely masked an amused smile as it listened to the elderly gentleman expound, in strong and imperfect subjunctives, about the Constitutional Council, the separation of powers and the court’s incompetence in judging the case of the National Front assistants (FN). of the European Parliament. Bruno Gollnisch, 74, former number two of the party, professor of Japanology and former dean of the far-right faculty Lyon-III, was questioned about the rather questionable contracts of his assistants. He is accused of stealing 1.41 million in European funds between 2005 and 2015, from three people who actually worked for the FN.
A few hours later, on Tuesday 8 October, President Bénédicte de Perthuis showed some signs of impatience but, once given an audience, Professor Gollnisch did not want to give up so soon and answered the questions with real liveliness of mind. After four hours, the president asked him to sit down again. We would feel sorry for his lawyer, Mᵉ Nicolay Fakiroff, if he in turn did not ask endless questions that only result in throwing yet another shovelful of coal into the defendant’s verbal locomotive, which is running at full speed.
The president was angry the next day. “What do you mean that you haven’t already said?” » “Many things, Madam President”Bruno Gollnisch replies mellifluously. “You always explain the same things, cuts Madame de Perthuis, we don’t want generalities, we can’t speak vaguely. » “Madam President, I will be extraordinarily specific. Some elements on the proceedings at the Court of Justice of the European Union…” “This is not the question we asked you, the president frankly annoys. We can’t spend time hearing you repeat the same things. Otherwise we stop. Go sit down for five minutes. » “If I am continually interrupted while presenting evidence…”the old gentleman grumbles.
“I don’t know why they changed the envelopes”
The MEP’s three former assistants had a more classic defense, unfortunately not much more effective. Micheline Bruna, personal secretary of Jean-Marie Le Pen, paid by Strasbourg and alleged parliamentary assistant of Bruno Gollnisch, has agreed to keep the tables of parliamentarians’ envelopes updated and to insert a new part-time assistant here, a few days there, just to cover the budget kindly offered by Parliament. “It was you who centralized the budget allocations of the deputies”confirms the accusation. “Jean-Marie Le Pen told me: “So and so will pass over this MP”, I have made arrangements”, Mrs. Bruna admits. “But was it for budget reasons? » «Ah, I don’t know why they changed the envelopes. she replies, all confused by the evidence. I had no decision-making power…”
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