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“If I had been able to open the door during the flight, I would have thrown myself into the void”

The release of Tugdual Denis’ book, The Truth about the Fillon Mystery, is an opportunity for the former presidential candidate to settle scores.

François Fillon in Paris, February 27, 2020.
François Fillon in Paris, February 27, 2020. Mehdi Taamallah / NurPhoto via AFP

“The fifteen months of my existence that caused me the most unhappiness will have been the fifteen months that I have been the happiest.” This sentence from Marie, François Fillon’s daughter, probably sums up perfectly what the candidate for the 2017 presidential election and his family endured during the whole campaign. Tugdual Denis has managed the feat, in his latest book *, of penetrating the intimacy of a family and a man who have been completely secret until now. The journalist obtained the agreement of Anne Méaux, the communicator of the former prime minister, and that of François Fillon. He spent several days in immersion in the Beaucé manor with them, followed him to his friends, Henri de Castries, met his relatives, François Sureau, Antoine Gosset-Grainville, Bruno Retailleau.

By only questioning relatives, the author inevitably paints a favorable portrait of a François Fillon who takes advantage of this to settle accounts. With Nicolas Sarkozy first. Former President of the Republic

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