Marine Le Pen at the European Parliament (© Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons)

Marine Le Pen at the European Parliament (© Claude Truong-Ngoc / Wikimedia Commons)

Marine Le Pen ineligible : a political earthquake

Marine Le Pen was sentenced on Monday by the Paris Criminal Court to five years’ ineligibility with immediate execution, together with a four-year prison sentence, two of which were suspended, and a fine of 100,000 euros. She will therefore be ineligible to stand for the 2027 presidential election.

Pavel Duroc (TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Pavel Duroc (TechCrunch, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Telegram founder arrested in France: dictatorship on the march

Pavel Durov, CEO and founder of 900-million-user encrypted messenger Telegram, was arrested this Saturday at Le Bourget airport. The 39-year-old Franco-Russian billionaire was arrested by French authorities under a search warrant issued by the French Office for Combating Violence Against Minors.