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Police raided the Paris home of French rightwing presidential candidate Francois Fillon on Thursday over an alleged fake job scandal as a senior party colleague warned him he risked dragging his party "into an abyss".


Fillon revealed Wednesday he is set to be charged over allegations he paid his wife and children hundreds of thousands of euros for fake parliamentary jobs Cheap Air Jordan 1 Flyknit For Sale , but he has vowed to continue his bid for power.

　　Fillon is set to be charged over allegations he paid his wife and children hundreds of thousands of euros for fake parliamentary jobs (AFP PhotoPASCAL GUYOT)

After searches at his parliamentary office last month, police raided his central Paris home Thursday as he visited winegrowers on the campaign trial in southern France.


The raid "finished several hours ago", a source in Fillon's team told AFP late Thursday Cheap Jordan 1 Flyknit For Sale , confirming information first reported by Le Parisien newspaper.


Fillon was accused by Dominique de Villepin, another former premier from his Republicans party, of driving the right wing "into the abyss" with his insistence on running for the presidency.


"Going down this dead-end street is taking the state Cheap Air Jordan 1 PINNACLE Metallic Gold White For Sale , our faith in democracy and its fellow travellers hostage," de Villepin wrote in Le Figaro newspaper.


Fillon has called the charges against him "entirely calculated to stop me being a candidate for the presidential election" and has ruled out stepping aside.


But defections from his team and calls from senior Republicans for ex-premier Alain Juppe, 71 Cheap Air Jordan 1 Retro Purple Pink Black For Sale , to replace him have underlined divisions in his camp.


"The French people back me," Fillon insisted Thursday. "The base is holding."


New polls suggest Fillon is in third place and would win 19-20 percent in the first round of the election on April 23, behind centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen.


Thousands still turned out to Fillon's rally in the town of Nimes on Thursday evening and his calculation appears to be that he can close the small gap on his rivals in the remaining two months.


The top two from the first round proceed to a run-off on May 7 Cheap Air Jordan 1 Phat Black Gold 364781-001 For Sale , which Macron is currently shown winning.


But analysts warn against firm forecasts after a rollercoaster campaign so far.


- Le Pen loses immunity -


Le Pen's legal woes also deepened as the European Parliament lifted her immunity to allow her to be prosecuted for retweeting images of Islamic State atrocities.


The anti-EU, anti-immigration candidate also faces a separate parliamentary expenses investigation and a campaign financing probe in France -- all of which she, like Fillon Cheap Women's Air Jordan 1 GS Black Pink 332148-019 For Sale , denounces as a plot to thwart her.


The investigation in focus on Thursday concerns graphic pictures including that of a beheaded journalist that Le Pen, an MEP, tweeted in 2015.


They were addressed to a French television journalist who had likened her National Front party to the Islamic State group Cheap Air Jordan 1 Retro Mens Blue White 552312-401 For Sale , leading police to open a probe into "the dissemination of violent images".


"The thing about the judicial affairs for Marine Le Pen and the National Front is that they are not about personal enrichment, while Francois Fillon's family is directly implicated," far-right expert Cecile Alduy from Stanford University told a conference this week.


- Macron's agenda unveiled -


Macron Cheap Air Jordan 1 Phat Carbon Fiber Black 364770-004 For Sale , meanwhile, promised a "strategy to make public life more ethical" as he unveiled his full programme for the first time.


The 39-year-old said he would ban parliamentarians from employing relatives, bar candidates with criminal records from standing for office Cheap Men's Air Jordan 1 Retro Rare Air Banned Black Red For Sale , and increase the scrutiny of MPs' expenses.


Speaking late Thursday, he also said he would pull out of the election if he was charged "in the same way, in principle Cheap Men's Air Jordan 1 Retro High OG Black White For Sale , a minister must leave the government if he is charged".


"To be president is to be the guarantor of institutions -- that is to say someone who guarantees the di

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