Business lunch Fillon: Jouyet and acquitted two journalists – Le Point

The Paris court on Thursday acquitted the Elysee secretary general Jean-Pierre Jouyet and two journalists from the World , sued for defamation by former Prime Minister Francois Fillon, in the case known Jouyet / Fillon. The court acknowledged the defamatory nature of the statements complained to them, but he retained the “good faith” in favor of the accused.

The secretary general of the Elysee Francois Fillon accused of having asked to take legal action at a luncheon to impede the return to politics of Nicolas Sarkozy. In their book Sarko was killed , the journalists of World Gerard Davet and Fabrice Lhomme wrote that Francois Fillon had asked Jean-Pierre Jouyet, at a luncheon on June 24, 2014, to “type fast” to Nicolas Sarkozy, implicated in several criminal investigations, not the “sauté” in politics. During a meeting with them at the Elysee in September 2014, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, a friend of François Hollande for 40 years, had told his interlocutors that they were well informed and had added about François Fillon: “In Basically, his thing was to tell but type fast! Type faster ! “His comments were recorded and broadcast by the journalists of World .

Lunch in question took place on June 24 at the Pavillon Ledoyen , two steps from the Elysée Palace, in a private room. The meeting did not have the character of absolute secrecy since the three protagonists were entered and left through the front door in full sight of the customer. Indeed, there were three. Antoine Gosset-Grainville, former deputy director of the office of Francois Fillon at Matignon, who is also a friend of Jean-Pierre Jouyet, played the intermediaries to set up this lunch.

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Remember that the three men participated in the adventure of the Fillon government I and II, as Jean-Pierre Jouyet, a friend of thirty years of François Hollande, had agreed to be Secretary of State for European Affairs between Fillon May 2007 and December 2008. It is also the only known period of estrangement between Jouyet and Holland, who did not appreciate this “betrayal” … Enough of that.

After belied his words the World , Jean-Pierre Jouyet operated in view of the sound recording by the journalists brandished the World , a pinpoint turn in a statement read to the Agency France-Presse. “Francois Fillon told me of his deep concern about the Bygmalion case, said Jouyet. It is said shocked. [...] He also raised the question of regular payment of penalties paid by the UMP for the overspending allowed under the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy. “He added:” I expressed my interlocutors that the Presidency of the Republic could do nothing with regard to this procedure within justice. “

Meanwhile, François Fillon and Antoine Gosset-Grainville denied the content of this interview which, according to them, was not as friendly. The former prime minister said he was the victim of a “plot”, a “affair of state”, of “stink bombs” to eliminate it.