Former French Prime Minister François Fillon was sentenced on appeal to four years in prison, including one year, a lighter sentence than the first time, in a case of fabricated work about his wife who exploded before the 2017 presidential election when he was right. -wing candidate.
This file fully turned the campaign for François Fillon’s Élysée Palace, which initially emerged as a big favorite on the ballot, but was eventually eliminated in the first round.
François Fillon, 68, and his wife Pénélope Fillon, 66, who opposed any fabricated work from the start, were not present to deliver the decision. François Fillon’s former deputy also tried when he was deputy, Marc Joulaud, 54.
Removed from political life, Mr. Fillon announced at the end of February, after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to resign from his commands to the boards of directors of the petrochemical giants Sibur and Zarubezhneft (hydrocarbons).
In addition to the imprisonment sentence, the former prime minister, from 2007 to 2012, was sentenced to 375,000 euros (511,000 $ CA) in fines and 10 years of disqualification.
The prison sentence may be adjusted: if Mr. Fillon does not appeal, he will be summoned before a judge enforcing the sentence who may decide, for example, whether to wear an electronic bracelet.
For the first time, on June 29, 2020, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment, including two years, combined with the same fine and the same period of disqualification, for embezzlement of public funds, conspiracy and concealment of abuse. .
Her husband was sentenced on appeal to a two -year suspended prison sentence, a 375,000 euro ($ 511,000 CAD) fine and a two -year disqualification sentence. Successor Marc Joulaud was given a three -year suspended sentence of imprisonment and five years of disqualification.
The couple and the former representative were finally ordered to pay approximately 800,000 euros (CA $ 1 million) to the National Assembly, as a civil party.
These two other sentences are also lighter than the one passed for the first time in 2020.
The Court of Appeal actually acquitted Fillon’s wives regarding the first of three disputed contracts of Penelope Fillon’s parliamentary assistant, between 1998 and 2002, for the benefit of the doubt.
The appellate court, on the other hand, confirmed the guilt of the defendants regarding a contract between Ms. Fillon and Marc Joulaud, also for a contract between the spouses. Also, a contract of literature consultant from Franco-Welsh to Analysis of the two worlds is judged imagination.
On appeal, the public prosecutor’s office (representing the State) also requested lower sentences than those passed in 2020.
I am not a fictional MP who is primarily concerned with moneyrose in November at the bar François Fillon, unhappy forty years of (political) commitment erased an article in a satirical newspaper and an investigation against.
” My wife worked alongside me, there is no denying that. “
For the prosecution, the taking of Ms. Fillon counts literature consultant in 2012-2013 within Analysis of the two worlds (RDDM) is a work of pure convenience admitted the owner of the publication and close to François Fillon.
Stigmatizing a file diminishing in one dropFrançois Fillon’s lawyer Me Antonin Lévy, pleaded for release, citing 41 certificates (establishes) in a specific and detailed manner the contribution of Mrs. Fillon.
Defendant’s attorneys denounced a media madness around Penelopegateasserted that if he indeed had been on board within Analysis of the two worldshe’s fine work.
The owner of Analysis was sentenced in 2018 for misuse of company assets, recognizing a partially fictional contract.
Source: Radio-Canada
