They are again fixed on their fate.
The Paris Court of Appeal sentenced former Prime Minister François Fillon to four years in prison on Monday afternoon, three of which were suspended, and his wife to two years suspended.
in the fictitious jobs suspicion case that exploded ahead of the 2017 presidential election.
In November, the prosecution had requested five years' imprisonment, including a firm under electronic bracelet, as well as a fine of 375,000 euros, against the former Prime Minister.
The day after Emmanuel Macron's re-election, justice therefore ruled a second time in this case which had plagued the campaign for the Elysee Palace of the candidate of the right, a time favorite but finally eliminated in the first round.
Absent at the pronouncement of the decision
François Fillon, 68, and Penelope Fillon, 66, who have contested any fictitious employment since the beginning, had indicated that they would not be present at the statement of the decision at 1:30 p.m. on Monday.
No more than the former deputy of the first to the post of deputy in the Sarthe, Marc Joulaud, 54 years old, indicated their lawyers.
Withdrawn from political life, François Fillon announced at the end of February, after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, to resign from his mandates on the boards of directors of the petrochemical giant Sibur and Zarubezhneft (hydrocarbons).
At first instance, on June 29, 2020, the Matignon tenant from 2012 to 2017 was sentenced to five years' imprisonment, including two years' imprisonment, a fine of 375,000 euros and ten years of ineligibility, for embezzlement of public funds, complicity and concealment of misuse of corporate assets.
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Fictitious jobs: in June 2021, François Fillon sentenced to 2 years in prison
His wife had been given a three-year suspended prison sentence, a 375,000 euro fine and two years of ineligibility, and Marc Joulaud a three-year suspended sentence, a 20,000 euro suspended fine and five years of ineligibility. .
The couple immediately appealed and returned to the stand in November, maintaining the same defense in a much less electric atmosphere than at the first trial.
