Photo: AFPA video in which Francois Fillon's wife, Penelope, reportedly says she has "never been the assistant" of her husband is set to air on French TV on Thursday night - as the couple fight to prove that her €900,000 earnings were legitimate. Envoyé spécial, a French investigative TV programme, claims to have ten-year-old footage of Penelope in which she denies working for her husband. "I've never been his assistant," she reportedly told the UK's Sunday Telegraph in 2007, which given Fillon has spent a week insisting she was, is now an explosive statement. Envoyé Special, which will be shown on French TV on Thursday night (Channel France 2 at 9pm) have managed to track the video down. The allegations also surround Penelope Fillon's earnings from a literary review owned by a billionaire friend of her husband's where she allegedly picked up €100,000.

Source: The Local February 02, 2017 10:24 UTC