Why was François Bayrou launched? | EUROtoday
Get real time updates directly on you device, subscribe now.
PTo perceive the choice to acquit François Bayrou, we should return to the Penal Code, extra exactly to its article 121-7 referring to “complicity”. The president of the MoDem was, in actual fact, prosecuted for “complicity by instigation of embezzlement of public funds”: funds usually supposed to pay parliamentary assistants have been diverted from their objective to pay political collaborators, within the service of the centrist social gathering.
The parliamentarians behind these embezzlements are the principle perpetrators; those that pushed them to behave or helped perform this maneuver are complicit.
The legislation distinguishes two most important varieties of complicity: complicity by “provider…
https://www.lepoint.fr/societe/pourquoi-francois-bayrou-a-t-il-ete-relaxe-05-02-2024-2551591_23.php