Sentenced to two years in prison and a three-year suspended sentence at first instance, former Prime Minister François Fillon and his wife Penelope Fillon will know this Monday, May 9, the decision of the Paris Court of Appeal in the case of suspicions of fictitious jobs.
A few days after the presidential election, justice decides a second time in the file which had charred the campaign of the candidate of the right in 2017, a time favorite of the polls but finally eliminated in the first round.
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François Fillon, 68, and Penelope Fillon, 66, who have always protested their innocence, will not be present at the delivery of the decision at 1:30 p.m., nor will the former substitute for the first in Sarthe, Marc Joulaud, 54 years, their lawyers told AFP.
Withdrawn from political life, François Fillon announced at the end of February, in the face of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to resign from his mandates on the boards of directors of the petrochemical giant Sibur and Zarubezhneft, a company specializing in hydrocarbons.
First conviction in June 2020
Sentenced in June 2020 by the court, the Fillon couple and the former deputy again faced the judges in November, maintaining the same defense, in a much less electric atmosphere than at the first trial.
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On appeal, the public prosecutor's office requested five years in prison, including one year under an electronic bracelet, as well as a fine of 375,000 euros against François Fillon, for embezzlement of public funds, complicity and concealment of misuse of corporate assets. .
Against Penelope Fillon, the prosecution demanded a two-year suspended prison sentence as well as a 100,000 euro fine and, against Marc Joulaud, a three-year suspended prison sentence.
Ineligibility sentences of ten, two and three years respectively were also requested.