Viral videos claiming to show support rallies for Marine Le Pen debunked

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Viral videos claiming to show support rallies for Marine Le Pen debunked  Some videos have been erroneously captioned, while others genuinely do show support for Le Pen following her embezzlement conviction.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/04/22/viral-videos-claiming-to-show-support-rallies-for-marine-le-pen-debunked  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Marine Le Pen rally videos debunked

00:03A video has gone viral on X allegedly showing Marine Le Pen greeting scores of fans in Paris

00:14following a court ruling that banned her from running for public office for five years.

00:19In the video, we can see the far-right national rally leader greeting and taking pictures

00:23with fans.

00:24The caption shared with the video reads,

00:26The French people love Marine Le Pen and demand that her guilty verdict is immediately overturned.

00:32This is a reference to her conviction at the end of March for embezzling EU funds.

00:37As well as receiving a €100,000 fine and a suspended prison sentence, Le Pen was also

00:42banned from running for public office, which has immediately come into force despite her

00:47appeal against the verdict.

00:49The video, however, has been miscaptioned.

00:51A reverse image search of a still from the clip shows us that while it does indeed show

00:56Le Pen being greeted by adoring fans, it actually dates back to April 2022, just before the

01:02first round of the French presidential election that year.

01:05So it's misleading to suggest that this video shows crowds of people taking to the streets

01:10to support Le Pen following her conviction in 2025.

01:13However, it's also important to note that many did come out in support of Le Pen following the

01:18court decision.

01:19The account that shared the miscaptioned video also more recently shared a similar

01:23video of Le Pen greeting fans in Paris.

01:26This one says that she was swarmed by supporters after giving a speech at a rally.

01:30It matches another video shared by Le Pen's official social media accounts on the same day,

01:35the 6th of April, nearly a week after her conviction, lending credibility to its authenticity.

01:41For more investigations and fact checks, head to our website, euronews.com.

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