"Mr Fillon wants to address the French people," one of the sources close to Fillon told AFP, without giving any details. Some reports claim he will also offer to pay back all the public money his wife earned as a parliamentary assistant. British-born Penelope Fillon is suspected of having been paid without doing any of the normal work of a parliamentary aide. So not in their capacity as lawyers as Fillon first suggested in a TV interview. Penelope Fillon was paid €100,000 (€5k a month) to work on the literary review, but there are suspicions that she did little in reality to earn that salary.

Source: The Local February 06, 2017 12:26 UTC