François Bayrou left the Victor-Hugo room of the Paris criminal court on Monday morning relieved.
The affair of the European parliamentary assistants, this ordeal which led him to leave the Ministry of Justice in June 2022, has just ended with his acquittal at first instance.
“Give the benefit of the doubt,” declared the president of the court.
“
For me, it’s a seven-year nightmare that has just ended
,” said the centrist afterwards, in front of the press and under the gaze of those close to him.
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During the hearing, the prosecution presented him as the instigator of a fraudulent system in force between 2005 and 2017 and requested a 30-month suspended prison sentence, a fine of 70,000 euros and three years' imprisonment against him. ineligibility also accompanied by a suspended sentence.
His defense had pleaded for acquittal during his long trial, maintaining that the current High Commissioner for Planning was not implicated by any witness...
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