He had triggered the “Fillon affair” in 2017, by revealing suspicions of fictitious employment of Pénélope Fillon, wife of the presidential candidate. Le Canard enchaîné is in turn targeted by suspicions of fictitious employment, reveals France Inter, an employee appearing in the workforce and who is the companion of one of the members of the board of directors of the newspaper. After a complaint was filed against X by a journalist from the editorial staff on May 10, the Paris prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for “misuse of corporate assets” and “concealment”.
The editorial journalist who filed a complaint against X on May 10 is none other than Christophe Nobili, the one who had released the case of the fictitious jobs of the Fillon couple, in 2017, within the Canard enchaîné. The journalist discovered within the staff of the newspaper, composed of about twenty people, an employee whom he did not know, whose press card is affiliated with the satirical newspaper.
The companion of a member of the board of directors
This employee turns out to be the companion of the cartoonist André Escaro, 94 years old today, a historical signature of the newspaper since 1959 and member of the board of directors of the newspaper until June 22.
Christophe Nobili hesitated to denounce these facts, for the reputation of his newspaper, but the silence would have been unbearable to him. After his complaint filed on May 10 with the status of whistleblower, the police officers of the Paris financial brigade began their investigation into these suspicions of fictitious employment for twenty years with damage estimated at three million euros. euros.
After his complaint filed on May 10 with the status of whistleblower, the police of the financial brigade of Paris have started their investigation. From the beginning of the summer, a first series of hearings of the employees of the weekly took place. These hearings have accelerated this past week.