Le Pen's lawyer announced his intention to appeal the verdict against her.

The defense of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French parliamentary National Unification Party, intends to appeal the court's verdict. This was announced on March 31 by her lawyer Rodolphe Bossel.

"We will appeal," the BFM TV channel quoted him as saying.

According to him, there are no legal remedies against the preliminary execution of the sentence.

Earlier in the day, Le Pen was sentenced to four years in prison and five years in prison. It clarifies that the sentence must be executed "immediately." She is accused of embezzlement of public funds.

A member of the Berlin Senate, Gunnar Lindemann, in an interview with Izvestia, commenting on the verdict, said that the decision indicates that the European Union is approaching dictatorship. According to him, real democratic standards look completely different.