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Trial of European parliamentary assistants: François Bayrou exonerated with the benefit of the doubt
Trial of European parliamentary assistants: François Bayrou exonerated with the benefit of the doubt – (France 2)
The leader of the MoDem, François Bayrou, was acquitted for the benefit of the doubt in the affair of the European parliamentary assistants, Monday February 5. Five deputies received suspended prison sentences.
The leader of the centrist MoDem party and mayor of Pau, François Bayrou, was exonerated with the benefit of the doubt in the affair of the European parliamentary assistants. In 2017, the affair caused the resignation of the president of MoDem from the government. “The court said, not only that I was not involved in this case, but that there was no system, that there was no personal enrichment”explained François Bayrou.
“A nightmare of seven years”
The leader of the centrists showed his relief after “a nightmare of seven years which has just ended”. The Paris judicial court nevertheless sentenced 8 members of the MoDem, including 5 former European deputies, to suspended prison sentences and ineligibility, as well as fines of 10 to 50,000 euros.
