While François Fillon is clinging on for dear life over claims his wife was paid nearly €900k to do a fake job it's worth taking a moment to looks at ten other political scandals that rocked France. It was the political scandal that just kept running and running in France. It led to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy being charged with taking financial advantage of the mentally fragile billionaire at her mansion outside Paris. On July 10th 1985, French secret service agents sank the Rainbow Warrior, owned by Greenpeace, off the coast of New Zealand, drowning a photographer. In 1999, former Prime Minister (and later Foreign Minister under François Hollande) Laurent Fabius was charged with manslaughter but later cleared.

Source: The Local February 01, 2017 13:07 UTC