What was Penelope Fillon doing? Why these wages? Where is the evidence? Judged in Paris for suspicions of fictitious jobs, the discreet wife of the former Prime Minister suffered Thursday a rolling fire of questions during a hearing under tension.
The themes of the reports for which she was paid in the 1980s? “It was my husband” who decided, she said, right at the bar of the criminal court. Money? “My husband”. A temporary part-time shift? “My husband” too.
Under the watchful eye of Francois Fillon, Penelope Fillon cashes in the salvo of questions from the tribunal and the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), who seek to know if she has really worked with him as a parliamentary assistant or if the Fillon have hijacked more 400,000 euros of public money between 1998 and 2002 then 2012 and 2013.
