Pillar of the majority in court. Last March, two Parisian investigating judges ordered the dismissal of François Bayrou, as well as ten others, in a case of illegal employment of aides to MEPs. According to a court source, the trial will take place in October next year.
The trial is scheduled for October 16 – November 22 in Paris, according to a source familiar with the matter, confirmed by the prosecution.
François Bayrou, 71, the current High Commissioner for Planning and a close ally of Emmanuel Macron, will be tried for complicity in the embezzlement of public funds in Europe between June 2005 and January 2017 as president of the UDF party and then Modem.
Among the eleven are also former keeper of the seals Michel Mercier or former MEP Jean-Luc Bennamias. They are all suspected of having used European funds to hire parliamentarian aides who actually worked, at least in part, for the party between 2009 and 2014.
Source: Le Parisien
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