The Paris prosecutor's office on Monday, January 30, requested a trial for thirteen people, including the president of the MoDem, François Bayrou, suspected of embezzlement of public funds or of complicity in the case of the irregular employment of assistants to MEPs, a said the prosecution on Tuesday, confirming information from
Les Echos
.
Invited on Wednesday on BFMTV, the mayor of Pau denounced a “
political battle
”:
“Political life is a jungle.
And quite often, the wild beasts that attack you are not necessarily on the side of your enemies.
François Bayrou also denied the alleged facts: “
We have never used these processes.
All those who were parliamentary assistants to MEPs had a part-time contract for the MEP, and a part-time contract for the movement
”.
And to warn: “
All the evidence that we will provide will show that those who attacked us were political adversaries.
»
Visibly moved, François Bayrou continued: “
There are people who have enough thick skin to withstand this kind of trap.
Others do not have this solidity, fall ill and die.
“Apolline de Malherbe then questions him:”
Are you talking about Marielle de Sarnez
[right arm of François Bayrou, deceased in January 2021, editor’s note]
?
“And the mayor of Pau to answer:
” I do not know a single person who knew her who could say the opposite.
There are people who are, from the point of view of the image, fragile.
We have been through this.
In a human team where bonds are extremely strong, it is extremely difficult to carry.
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