Former French Prime Minister François Fillon was handed a four-year suspended prison sentence on Tuesday over a fake jobs scandal that derailed his 2017 presidential campaign. It marks the third appeal trial in the case since 2022.
Fillon, 71, had been found guilty in 2022 on appeal of embezzlement for providing a fake parliamentary assistant job to his wife, Penelope Fillon, that saw her being paid from public funds.
