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Judges rule top Macron aide can face conflict of interest trial

Emmanuel Macron, pictured in 2016 while he was economy minister with his chief of staff Alexis Kohler who faces a conflict of interest prosecution over his ties to a family-run shipping firm. AFP/File

French President Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff Alexis Kohler can be prosecuted over an alleged conflict of interest in a previous job, the Paris appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

According to reports from the French news agency AFP, Kohler can be prosecuted on suspicion of illegally favouring a company to which he had family ties while working as a senior civil servant between 2009 and 2016.

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