France's Fillon says press report about his wife shows 'contempt'

French presidential election frontrunner Francois Fillon said on Wednesday that he was outraged at a press report that his wife had been paid for work she did not do, describing it as proof of a "stinkbomb" campaign against him. The satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine reported that Penelope Fillon had been paid 600,000 euros (511,979 pounds) for employment as a parliamentary assistant to him and later to his replacement as a National Assembly lawmaker, and for work at a cultural journal, though