French court bars far-right leader Le Pen from public office

A French court has imposed a jail sentence on far-right leader Marine Le Pen and barred her from seeking public office after it found her guilty of embezzling European Union funds.The Paris court ruled on Monday that Le Pen used more than 3 million euros ($3.3m) of European Parliament funds to pay members of her National Rally (RN) party.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Is Elon Musk a Nazi, and can he get European far-right hardliners elected?list 2 of 3France’s Bardella cancels CPAC speech after Steve Bannon’s ‘Nazi’ gesturelist 3 of 3Video: Le Pen sentence ‘as bad as it could get’ says Al Jazeera reporterend of listIn the sentencing, the chief judge announced that the nationalist politician would not be allowed to run for office for five years, effective immediately. A four-year jail sentence was also imposed, with two years suspended and the remaining two to be served using an electronic tag rather than in custody.Le Pen was also ordered to pay a fine of 100,000 euros (...