the trial of François Fillon postponed to April 29, 2025

The former Prime Minister was found definitively guilty by the Court of Cassation in April, but it ordered a new hearing to reassess his prison sentences, fines and ineligibility.

What sentence against François Fillon? The Paris Court of Appeal has postponed the trial of the former Prime Minister until April 29, 2025, during which the sanctions imposed on him in the case of his wife's fictitious jobs must be re-examined, due to the absence of a hospitalized lawyer.

The 70-year-old former Prime Minister was found definitively guilty by the Court of Cassation in April. However, she ordered a new hearing to re-evaluate his prison sentences, fines and ineligibility in this resounding affair, which had abruptly stopped his leading race for the 2017 presidential election.

On appeal, on May 9, 2022, the former tenant of Matignon was sentenced to four years of imprisonment, including one year, a fine of 375,000 euros and 10 years of ineligibility for embezzlement of public funds. His wife, Penelope Fillon, was sentenced to two years in prison, as well as a fine of 375,000 euros, and his ex-deputy, Marc Joulaud, was sentenced to three years in prison, with fines. respective ineligibility periods of two and five years.

The three defendants were also ordered to pay a total of approximately 800,000 euros in damages to the National Assembly. The Court of Cassation confirmed the sentences of the 69-year-old Franco-Welsh woman and the 57-year-old former deputy for Sarthe.

On the other hand, the high court, which controls compliance with the rules of law and not the merits of the cases, considered that the Paris Court of Appeal had not sufficiently justified the firm part of the sentence imposed on François Fillon. Furthermore, the Court ruled that the amount of 126,167 euros, awarded to the National Assembly in damages for Penelope Fillon's parliamentary assistant contract with her husband in 2012-2013, had been incorrectly assessed, in to the extent that the court of appeal recognized that Penelope Fillon had nevertheless carried out certain tasks.