The "Fillon trial" opens Monday before the Paris Criminal Court. And the different parties are sharpening their files. According to information from BFMTV confirmed by Europe 1, the National Assembly will claim more than one million euros in damages from the Fillon couple and the former deputy of the former Prime Minister, Marc Joulaud. In detail, the Meeting will claim 679,989.32 euros from Marc joulaud and 401,230.19 euros from François Fillon, for a total of 1,081,219.51 euros.
The trial is scheduled to last until March 11. This resounding affair had stopped the race for the 2017 presidential race of François Fillon, candidate of the right-wing party favorite in the polls but finally eliminated in the first round. François Fillon, 65, will have to answer for "embezzlement of public funds" over several periods between 1998 and 2013, "complicity and concealment" of this crime, "complicity and concealment of abuse of social property". But also of "breach of the declarative obligations of the High Authority for the transparency of public life".
Part of the prescribed charges
Penelope Fillon, paid as a collaborator in the National Assembly when François Fillon was a member of Parliament, is prosecuted for "complicity and concealment" of crimes of embezzlement of public funds and abuse of social goods. The former deputy of François Fillon at the National Assembly, Marc Joulaud, mayor LR of Sablé-sur-Sarthe and member of the European Parliament, for which Penelope Fillon was paid as a collaborator between 2002 and 2007, will be tried for "embezzlement of public funds". dating back to the 1980s, are prescribed. In the 1998-2013 period alone, Penelope Fillon would have received more than a million euros in total. The Fillon couple will also have to answer before the court of complicity and concealment of abuse of social goods for a partly fictitious job of Penelope Fillon in the Revue des Deux Mondes , property of the billionaire Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, close to François Fillon.