Fillon trial: the National Assembly demands more than a million euros from the former Prime Minister

Over a million euros in damages. This is the sum that the National Assembly will ask ex-Prime Minister François Fillon as well as his former alternate Marc Joulaud, during the trial on fictitious job suspicions which will begin Monday, February 24. The Meeting will specifically demand: 1,081,219 euros, according to information from BFMTV confirmed by Le Parisien. Or 679,989.32 euros to Marc Joulaud and 401,230.19 euros to François Fillon, details for his part Europe 1.

After more than two years of instruction, François Fillon, ousted presidential candidate of 2017, will have to answer before the judges of the alleged fictitious employment of his wife Penelope, whom he has employed for years. The latter, a 64-year-old Franco-Welshwoman, who would have received more than a million euros for the jobs of parliamentary assistant at the heart of the case, will appear at his side on Monday.

He disputes all charges

She is being prosecuted for “complicity in receiving” crimes of embezzlement of public funds and abuse of social property. Her husband will have to answer him 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". The former deputy to the National Assembly of François Fillon, Marc Joulaud, will be tried for "embezzlement of public funds".

"I trained my family in a test of incredible violence and I have no desire to drag them again into this violence," said the late 65-year-old former prime minister in late January during a rare interview on France 2. "I started by winning ( Editor's note: the primary of the right ) forces of great power, probably because I was not an expected candidate," he said, contesting each of the accusations of the Penelopegate.