Overview

• The court imposed a 375,000-euro fine alongside the suspended prison term and ineligibility period.
• The Cour de cassation mandated a fresh sentencing hearing in April 2024, citing the need for clearer justification of an earlier one-year firm prison term.
• Penelope Fillon’s two-year suspended sentence and Marc Joulaud’s three-year suspended term were upheld with their respective ineligibility periods intact.
• Judges confirmed 126,167 euros in damages linked to Penelope’s 2012–2013 parliamentary contract as part of roughly 800,000 euros owed to the Assemblée Nationale.
• Fillon has begun repaying the ordered damages under a set schedule, fulfilling public demands to return misused funds.