Marine Le Pen’s Trial for Anti-CCIF Comments Delayed Until After French Election

The CCIF was dissolved on December 2, 2020, but its legal actions remain valid. At the request of his lawyer David Dassa-Le Deist who feared an instrumentalization "ten days before the first round" of the presidential election, the 17th chamber of the Paris judicial court decided to postpone Marine Le Pen’s trial for her remarks against the association, after the electoral period, and this, "for the proper administration of justice" and in order to ensure "the serenity of the debates", reports Le Monde.

Reacting to the attacks against two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, which resulted in 51 deaths and 49 injuries, the president of the Rassemblement national had described, on March 17, 2019, the CCIF as a "collective of Islamist fundamentalists who seek to prevent any criticism of Islamist fundamentalism, by qualifying it as Islamophobic".