France: Le Pen dismisses reported allegations of misuse of EU funds

Le Pen is set to face President Emmanuel Macron in the election runoff on April 24.

Nationalist leader Marine Le Pen on Monday brushed off allegations that she and several of her party members misused hundreds of thousands of euros of European Union funds, with less than a week left before she stands in the final round of the French
presidential election.

“These dirty tricks from the European Union, a few days before the second round, I’m very used to them,” Le Pen said during a campaign stop in Normandy. “I obviously and absolutely dispute these accusations.”

The Paris prosecutor said it received a report detailing alleged abuse of funds between 2004 and 2017, when Le Pen