Due to lack of capacity after the latest applications made to the Petit Chateau refugee center in Belgium’s Brussels, many refugees were not accepted. Despite some non-governmental organizations and the Red Cross allocated temporary places, especially for families with children, many young refugees began settling in the streets. The refugees who were not accepted to the center spent the night by sleeping on cardboards or beds that they laid on benches.
Marine Le Pen, a leading figure in the National Rally (RN) party in France, was found guilty of embezzling European Union (EU) funds that were supposed to be paid to party employees and was sentenced to four years in prison with two years suspended and a fine of 100,000 euros.
The court also imposed a 5-year political ban on Le Pen, which means she will not be able to run in the 2027 presidential elections.
Le Pen, who was President Emmanuel Macron’s main rival in the previous elections, had previously accused prosecutors of seeking her “political death.”
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