Open on February 26, the trial of the Fillon spouses – he was tried for embezzlement of public funds, she for complicity and concealment – enters this week in its final stretch: final interrogation of personality of the defendants on Monday, indictment by the prosecution on Tuesday then pleadings of the defense Wednesday, before deliberation several months before the final judgment. As always, everyone will be proverbially in their role, but the intervention of the lawyer for the National Assembly, who has become a civil party, will be particularly scrutinized: he could claim the reimbursement of all or part of the million euros that Penelope Fillon would have received under the cover of parliamentary assistance from her husband François then from his deputy, the current mayor of Sablé-sur-Sarthe, Marc Joulaud, also prosecuted for embezzlement of public funds. At the risk of sinking them a little more, criminally and in the media. Meanwhile, back on the first two weeks of debates at the
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