PARIS, June 20 ― President Emmanuel Macron has called for a probe into claims that prosecutors were pressured to move fast in a fraud inquiry against former prime minister Francois Fillon, his main right-wing rival in France’s 2017 presidential race. Fillon lost what many considered a walkover...
Saturday, 20 Jun 2020 06:29 PM MYT
Fillon lost what many considered a walkover vote after a newspaper report claimed that he orchestrated a fake parliamentary assistant job for his wife that saw her paid hundreds of thousands of euros in public funds. Fillon’s supporters seized on the comments as proof that the prosecutor’s superiors, possibly acting at the behest of justice ministry officials, had infringed on the judiciary’s independence to speed his downfall.
But the uproar prompted Macron’s office to say late Friday that the president had asked France’s judicial watchdog, the Supreme Judiciary Council, to investigate the claims. They accuse Fillon of paying his wife €613,000 net in public money over 15 years for a fictitious job, saying the couple produced no solid proof she ever carried out any significant work.
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