François Fillon and his wife Pénélope were they at the heart of a biased investigation? The former head of the National Financial Prosecutor's Office, Eliane Houlette, claims to have been under pressure in the conduct of this case. For Jean-Luc Mélenchon, these statements are proof of "political intrigue" of which he also believes he was the victim.
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Heard on June 10 by the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the independence of the justice, Eliane Houlette was moved by the "very close control" and the "pressure" that would have exerted the general parquet, its direct supervisory authority, in the conduct of investigations targeting from January 2017 the Fillon spouses after suspicions of fictitious jobs revealed by the Canard Enchaîné .
Also behind the searches at the headquarters of the Insoumis in 2018?
The head of the General Prosecutor's Office Catherine Champrenault, still in office, "is a component of the socialist network within the justice system set up by Hollande, and who is also the one who took charge of the so-called preliminary investigations against me and decided to search "at LFI headquarters in October 2018, denounced Jean-Luc Mélenchon, on the road to Le Havre, at the microphone of Jean-Rémi Baudot on Europe 1.
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These investigations, aimed at suspicions of fictitious jobs in the European Parliament and overcharging in the campaign accounts for the 2017 presidential election, were in fact ordered by the Paris prosecutor's office. "Now we discover that as I said, it was a political operation, of people who are customary in this type of operation", tackle Jean-Luc Mélenchon. "What Ms. Houlette denounces is a practice denied by (Catherine Champrenault), (...) there were also many commentators to believe her, because she was perhaps better looking and that she inspired more confidence than me, "mocked the boss of the LFI deputies.
"Macronie worthy heiress of Holland"
"But the proof is now made that it was a political intrigue in the case of Mr. Fillon and in my case," he said. "These are shameful processes that show macronia as a worthy heir to Holland," he mocked. "Two years later, I still do not know anything, I have not been heard by anyone, I have not met any judge," said the deputy of Bouches-du-Rhône who said with irony: "I think that files will emerge in good time, that is to say in electoral time ". For the Insubmissive, "there was a pack effect against Mr. Fillon and it is clear that his political liquidation served as an ascent for Mr. Macron, one goes with the other".