As they entered the court dozens of lawyers were staging a protest outside over plans to merge their pension scheme into a single system.
The allegations that Ms Fillon, who is also charged in the case, was paid up to €10,000 a month for little to no work emerged in January 2017 and quickly snowballed into a scandal that cost Mr Fillon his shot at the presidency just a few months later. The Fillons and a third defendant, Marc Joulaud, who stood in for Mr Fillon in parliament when he was a cabinet minister and also hired Ms Fillon as an assistant, face up to ten years in prison.
The paper detailed the amounts paid to Ms Fillon, as well as thousands of euro paid to two of his children as parliamentary assistants when he was senator.
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