François Baroin, Gerard Larcher and a couple of frames of the Republicans (LR) and the IDU have signed in The Figaro a forum of support to François Fillon. – Witt/SIPA
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They bang their fist on the table to defend their leader, bogged down in the case of Penelope Fillon. Seventeen executives of the Republicans (LR) and the UDI denounced, in a commentary published Thursday in Le Figaro, an attempt of putting to death “of the campaign of François Fillon, an operation that seeks to install” a face-to-face mortal ” between the left and the national Front. Among the signatories, we find the loyal lieutenant of François Fillon, Bruno Retailleau, but also François Baroin, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet and Jean-François Copé.

” pilloried in the media and politics “

” over the last week, François Fillon is pilloried in the media and politics. To achieve this, all the blows are allowed : we throw to the wolves a man, his wife, his children, his employees, without waiting for their arguments nor to hear their defence “, say the authors, among them the president of the Senate Gérard Larcher (LR), the chairman of the LR group in the Senate by Bruno Retailleau, or the secretary-general of LR, Bernard Accoyer.

” Every day are discharged onto the public square, rumors, approximations, and slander “, also write the signatories, including several former