A French court on Monday sentenced Le Pen to a four-year prison term, to be served with an electronic tag, and banned the far-right leader from running for office for five years.

Le Pen and nine figures from her National Rally (RN) party were convicted over a scheme where they took advantage of European Parliament expenses to employ assistants who were actually working for the party.

Salvini’s anti-immigrant and nationalistic League is part of the same far-right bloc within the European Parliament, Patriots for Europe, as Le Pen’s party, and the two leaders are closely allied.

“In Paris, they condemned Marine Le Pen and would like to exclude her from political life. A bad film that we are also seeing in other countries like Romania,” wrote Salvini on social media.

He called it a “declaration of war by Brussels, at a time when the war instincts of Von der Leyen and Macron are frightening. We don’t let ourselves be intimidated, we don’t stop: full speed ahead my friend!”

The eurosceptic Salvini – whose League is part of the right-wing coalition government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni – often rails against EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, as well as French President Emmanuel Macron.