In a speech, Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, cast a judicial decision prohibiting her from running for office as a threat to democracy.

Far-right French politician Marine Le Pen, who was convicted last week of embezzling public funds and banned from running for office, stood unshaken before a sea of French flags in Paris on Sunday.

Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party gathered in Paris after her conviction for embezzlement of European Parliament funds. A member of Emmanuel Macron's party accused the far right of attacking the judiciary.