François Fillon withdraws his enchantment within the case of his spouse’s fictitious jobs, his sentence turns into remaining | EUROtoday

Former Prime Minister François Fillon withdrew his enchantment within the case of the fictional jobs of his spouse Penelope, making his sentence definitive, his guilt already being so, declared Monday February 16 a judicial supply to Agence France-Presse (AFP), confirming info from West France.

The former tenant of Matignon had filed an enchantment in opposition to the choice of June 17, 2025 of the Paris Court of Appeal. But he withdrew his enchantment, as did his spouse, a call recorded by the Court of Cassation on January 9 in an order consulted by AFP.

In 2017, the “Penelopegate” had derailed the marketing campaign of the previous head of presidency of Nicolas Sarkozy, eradicated within the first spherical with 20% of the votes, an unprecedented scenario for a right-wing candidate underneath the V^e Republic.

In this case, François Fillon was definitively sentenced in June by the Paris Court of Appeal to 4 years in jail for the fictional jobs of his spouse, Penelope, within the National Assembly. He was additionally fined 375,000 euros and 5 years of ineligibility. A sentence barely decreased in comparison with that handed down on May 9, 2022: different magistrates from the identical court docket of enchantment then pronounced 4 years in jail, together with one yr, with the identical high-quality, however ten years of ineligibility.