While the trial of the Fillon couple in the case of suspected fictitious jobs will begin on February 24 before the Paris Criminal Court, the National Assembly plans to request 1,081,219 euros in damages from François Fillon, according to information from BFMTV, confirmed on World by several sources.
“By decision of the presidency, the National Assembly became a civil party at the trial. She therefore requests compensation for the damage suffered, the amount of which corresponds to the wages paid with the employer’s charges ”, specifies at World MP La République en Marche (LRM) from Hauts-de-Seine, Laurianne Rossi, Quaestor of the Assembly.
According to a source familiar with the matter, the Assembly intends to claim this amount only from the former prime minister, and not from his former deputy Marc Joulaud, contrary to what BFMTV announces. “These are different procedures so only Fillon is concerned by the request of the Assembly”, adds this source.
A trial that promises to be resounding
Three years after the case of suspected fictitious jobs from his wife Penelope, who had pulverized his presidential campaign, Mr. Fillon, his wife and his former alternate will appear as of Monday in Paris. Scheduled to run until March 11, the trial promises to be one of the most resounding in recent years. At the height of the incredible fall of the right-wing candidate, a champion of integrity to whom the Elysee seemed promised, finally eliminated on the evening of the first round.
Justice was seized the day of the first revelations, January 25, 2017 by The chained Duck, and François Fillon had been indicted in March, six weeks before the first round. A first for a presidential candidate.
The examining magistrates, who have been investigating for more than two years, have become convinced that Penelope Fillon, 64, has worked in fictitious parliamentary assistant jobs with her deputy husband and her deputy in Sarthe. Part of the charges of embezzlement, complicity or concealment, which date back to 1981, are time-barred. In the period 1998-2013 alone, more than one million euros of public money was “Diverted”, say the investigators.
The Fillon are also prosecuted for concealment and complicity in the misuse of corporate assets, for the employment of literary advisor obtained by Mme Fillon à la Review of the two worlds of their friend Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière, between 2012 and 2013. A job “Pure convenience, without real consideration” according to the prosecution, for which the billionaire was convicted for misuse of corporate property after a separate procedure from ” to plead guilty “. François Fillon, Penelope Fillon and Marc Joulaud face ten years in prison, heavy fines and ineligibility. Their lawyers will plead for release.
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