A French court has found Marine Le Pen guilty in an embezzlement case.
But it did not immediately say what her sentence might be and how it might impact the National Rally leader’s political future.
Ms Le Pen and 24 other officials from her National Rally were accused of having used money intended for European Union parliamentary aides to pay staff who worked for the party between 2004 and 2016, in violation of the 27-nation bloc’s regulations.
Le Pen and her co-defendants denied wrongdoing.