Elon Musk joins Trump in call for France to release Marine Le Pen

US tech billionaire Elon Musk on Friday demanded that the government of France release the National Rally party’s parliamentary faction leader, Marine Le Pen.

“Free Le Pen!” Musk, who heads the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), shared a post on X with a screenshot of US President Donald Trump criticizing Le Pen’s sentencing on his Truth Social media platform.

Earlier, Trump called the verdict against Le Pen a witch hunt and demanded her release.

On Monday, a Paris court handed Le Pen a four-year prison sentence—two years to be served as a suspended sentence and the other two under house arrest with an electronic monitoring device.

Another stipulation of the verdict is that Le Pen is not allowed to run in the French presidential election in 2027.