Former Prime Minister François Fillon will be heard this Tuesday by the National Assembly about his links with Russia. The unsuccessful 2017 presidential candidate worked for two boards of Russian multinationals.
The former presidential candidate will appear before the commission of inquiry initiated by the far-right National Rally (RN) The other camps accuse the far right of a strategy of "diversion" in the face of accusations of proximity between the RN and the Kremlin. "We are not fooled by the strategy" of diversion of the RN, says former RN MEP Jean-Luc Schaffhauser.