Le Pen, who is one of the frontrunners in the race, has said in the past she refused to be questioned by anti-corruption investigators during the presidential campaign, as "there can not be the neutrality or calm necessary for the justice system to function properly".
Marine Le Pen of French National Front (FN) attends a prime-time televised debate for the candidates at French 2017 presidential election in La Plaine Saint-Denis, near Paris, France, April 4, 2017.
French prosecutors have asked the European parliament to lift the immunity of Marine Le Pen over an expenses scandal, deepening her legal woes on the eve of a presidential election shaping up as a tight four-way race.
Le Pen, who dismisses the probe as a plot to derail her campaign bid, shrugged off the move. Contrary to Ms Le Pen, Mr Fillon obeyed the magistrates' request and was formally placed under investigation on fraud-related charges on March 14th.
The allegations appear to have little impact on Le Pen's campaign, being dwarfed by the bigger scandal engulfing her conservative rival Francois Fillon.
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The pictures triggered an investigation for "dissemination of violent images". "This is normal. It's the classic procedure".
The parliament believes the party used funds allotted for parliamentary assistants to pay Le Pen's personal assistant Catherine Griset and her bodyguard Thierry Legier for party work in France. Le Pen has repeatedly refused to show up for police questioning, citing her immunity.
The judges from the "financial pole" of the Paris prosecutor's office sent their request to the European Union parliament at the end of March, but the development became known only on Friday when the Agence France Presse news agency broke the story.
He said the slight slide in Le Pen's support could be due both to the race tightening closer to the voting date, and to minor protest candidates stealing votes from her.
On Friday, an IFOP-Fiducial poll suggested that the National Front leader will top the first round on 23 percent, with Macron claiming 22.5 percent and 19 percent going to Fillon and Melenchon each. Her statement that France was not responsible for the deportation of Jews during the second World War has also hurt her. Most are undecided voters in the camp of the three leftist candidates - sotsialistat Benua Amon, the leader of the movement "Next", Emmanuel Macron and the representative of the movement "Rebellious France", Jean-Luc Melanshon. The leader of the National Front party, on track to make it through to the run-off election on May 7, has recently seen her momentum slowed.
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