Supporters are likening a five-year ban on Marine Le Pen running for office to a political witch-hunt. But the criticisms — and death threats to a judge — could backfire.

A 76-year-old Frenchman was given an eight-month suspended sentence for threatening a judge who barred Marine Le Pen from the ...

A French retiree was given an eight-month suspended sentence for making a death threat against Judge Benedicte de Perthuis, who barred Marine Le Pen from running for president in 2027. The man shared ...

A man has been arrested on suspicion of making death threats against the judge who barred French far-right leader Marine Le ...

De Perthuis headed the judicial panel that convicted Le Pen last week in a corruption case that has sent shockwaves through ...

French authorities on Tuesday detained a 76-year-old man over a death threat against the judge who presided over the panel ...

French authorities on Tuesday detained a 76-year-old man over a death threat against the judge who presided over the panel ...

Photo: Far-right leader Marine Le Pen poses prior to an interview on the evening news broadcast of French TV channel TF1, after a French court convicted ...

The leader of France’s National Rally (RN) party, Marine Le Pen, told supporters she would not give up despite being ...

The American president cast the French politician’s conviction as an example of far-right persecution, ignoring ample ...

The presiding judge in Le Pen’s case, Bénédicte de Perthuis, said the politician’s actions amounted to a “serious and lasting attack on the rules of democratic life in Europe, but ...

Macron made the comments after the Reuters news agency reported Benedicte de Perthuis, the judge who barred Le Pen from running in France's 2027 presidential election, had been given police ...