[Marine Le Pen and 23 other current or former members of her party were convicted on Monday, March 31, of embezzlement. The leader of the far-right Rassemblement National was sentenced to four years in prison, two of which suspended and the other two to be served at home with an electronic tag, a €100,000 fine, and a five-year ban on running for office effective immediately. Here are the key excerpts of the Paris court's 152-page decision, translated by Le Monde in English. The subheadings are drawn from the decision itself.]

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Nine members of the European Parliament [MEPs], Fernand Le Rachinel, Bruno Gollnisch, Marine Le Pen, Louis Aliot, Marie-Christine Arnautu, Mylène Troszczynski, Dominique Bilde née Pierron, Nicolas Bay and Marie Christine Boutonnet were prosecuted for embezzlement of public funds, an offense outlined in Article 432-15 of the Penal Code. Twelve parliamentary assistants, Thierry Légier, Micheline Bruna, Guillaume L'Huillier, Yann Maréchal, Catherine Griset, Gérald Gérin, Jeanne Pavard, Julien Odoul, Loup Viallet, Timothée Houssin, Charles-Henri Hourcade and Laurent Salles were prosecuted for concealing the embezzlement of public funds. (…)

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