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The trial in call from François Fillon and his wife Penelope began Monday, November 15. The journalist Sophie Neumayer takes stock of this first day, live from the Paris courthouse for the 19/20 of France 3.
The Fillon couple is back in court. Their appeal trial in the fictitious employment suspicion case began on Monday (November 15th). François Fillon now has fifteen days to prove that his wife was indeed performing the function of parliamentary assistant at his side. “He immediately set the tone, in a few words: ‘I challenge the judgment of first instance.’ This is what François Fillon said at the opening of the hearing“, reports the journalist Sophie Neumayer, live from the courthouse in Paris for the 19/20 of France 3.
The former prime minister is expected to detail his strategy on Tuesday “during a declaration promised to the court of appeal“, specifies the journalist, who continues:”The stakes are high: he was sentenced in court to a five-year prison term, two of which are closed.“For her part, Penelope Fillon, his wife, justified herself at greater length, and”told how she felt despised, even humiliated in the first instance, and even condemned from the outset“, which has it, according to her,”paralyzed“, quotes Sophie Neumayer.”This is why she did not succeed in explaining her work, her obligations, in short, the reality of her job.“, indicates the journalist.