Former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon leaves after a national ceremony for late Lieutenant-Colonel Arnaud Beltrame at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, France, March 28, 2018. Beltrame was killed by an Islamist militant after taking the place of a female hostage during a supermarket siege in Trebes. Ludovic Marin/Pool via Reuters
PARIS (Reuters) - Former French prime minister Francois Fillon and his wife Penelope go on trial on Monday over a fake jobs scandal that wrecked his 2017 run for president and opened the Elysee Palace door for Emmanuel Macron.
Fillon's bid for the presidency unravelled after allegations he paid his wife hundreds of thousands of euros for doing little, if any, work as his parliamentary assistant.
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