The former Prime Minister has emerged from a three-year silence. He recognizes “mistakes” but always defends tooth and nail the reality of the work of his wife Penelope.
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Dsince almost three years, he had been extremely discreet. After his stinging presidential defeat, François Fillon returns for a long television interview on France 2 on Thursday. To “deliver his truth”.
The timing is not trivial: from February 24 to March 11, François Fillon and his wife will be tried in Paris. The former Prime Minister will have to answer in particular 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”.
Faced with Léa Salamé and Thomas Sotto, it looks like back in 2017. Fictional work, costumes offered, … François Fillon finds himself again faced with the affairs that marked his fall in politics. He recognizes mistakes: “I made the mistake of provoking Nicolas Sarkozy with this sentence, I should never have accepted the costumes. I made mistakes, but certainly not on this parliamentary assistant case. Right in his boots, concerning the reality of his wife’s work.
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He said that he had finally turned the page on politics. “I lost the election, I dragged my family into an ordeal of incredible violence. I turned the page, completely. ” “Finished,” he assured journalists, who asked him about the possibility of returning for the municipal elections. His wife, Penelope Fillon – also indicted in the case of alleged fictitious jobs -, would take up the torch: his candidacy in the town of Solesmes, in Sarthe, leaves no doubt.
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