Wife interview deepens woes for France's Fillon

PARIS: Embattled French presidential hopeful Francois Fillon warned Thursday of a plot to "steal" his voters as a scandal over payments to his wife rumbled on, fuelled by new footage from an interview.

Fillon's campaign has been struggling since it emerged that his Welsh-born wife Penelope was paid 830,000 euros ($900,000) as a parliamentary assistant over more than a decade -- despite almost no one recalling her on the job.