The Court has declared inadmissible the application in the case of Fillon and Others v. France.

The application essentially concerned the fairness of the trial of the three applicants who had all been convicted of embezzlement of public funds, handling of those funds or complicity in the offence.

The Court noted, first, that the applicants’ allegation of a lack of independence and impartiality in the preliminary investigation stage of the proceedings against them was not manifestly ill-founded and that it was not its task to intervene in the national debate concerning reform of the public prosecution service in France. It then held that the criminal proceedings in question, taken as a whole, had been fair within the meaning of the Convention.

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