From February 24 to March 11, former Prime Minister François Fillon, his wife Pénélope and his former deputy to the Assembly, Marc Joulaud, will be tried in the case of the alleged fictitious jobs of Pénélope Fillon. The affair ran from the early 1980s to 2013, for jobs supposedly occupied in the National Assembly as parliamentary assistant and in La Revue des deux mondes as "literary advisor".
According to Mr. Yves Claisse, a lawyer for the National Assembly who took legal action, the financial loss that will be claimed at the hearing will amount to 1,081,219.51 euros. In detail, 679,989.32 euros for the "period" Marc Joulaud and 401,230.19 euros for the "period" François Fillon, he said in a message to Reuters.
On January 30th on France 2, François Fillon had defended his wife. "She was my first and most important collaborator", he declared in the program "You have the word", adding that the employment of Pénélope Fillon "was not fictitious" and that "the proofs will be brought during the trial ".
This affair had broken out during the presidential campaign in January 2017, following revelations from the
Duck chained, at a time when the polls promised victory to François Fillon. Decided to maintain his candidacy despite the development of the instruction and his indictment, the champion of the Republicans finally failed in third place in the first round, with 20.01% of the vote. Retired from political life, François Fillon, aged 65, now works as a partner in the management and investment company Tikehau Capital.
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