Lawyers for French presidential candidate Francois Fillon today called on prosecutors to drop their probe into payments received by his wife for a suspected fake job, calling it "illegal".
The probe into the payments from parliamentary funds deals a "serious blow to the principle of the separation of powers", lawyer Antonin Levy said, adding that the financial prosecutor's office was "not competent" to investigate the matter.
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