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Convictions at the court of Lucca for the death of Sofia Bernkopf, 12 years old from Parma, who died on 17 July 2019 in hospital following an accident in the swimming pool of the Texas bath in Marina di Pietrasanta four days earlier, on 13 July. After eight people had been sent to trial, the court sentenced the pool supplier and installer to 4 years; at 3 years and 2 months the person in charge of the swimming pool and lifeguards. The lifeguard, 21 years old, on duty at the time of the events, was fully acquitted. Established provisional amounts…

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South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol has defended his decision to declare a short-lived martial law, saying it was a measure to protect the country’s democracy.

English football endured yet another near miss on the field this year while, off it, some of its most high-profile managers moved on. Hopes had been high ahead of Euro 2024 that England, with a squad bursting with talent, could finally land their first tournament success since 1966. Once again it was not to be as Gareth Southgate’s side fell at the final hurdle, losing to worthy champions Spain 2-1 in the showpiece in Berlin. It was a second successive Euros final loss for the national team but, in truth, it was a patchy campaign that started with a dull…

Dublin Airport has been told by its neighbouring local authority that the night-time noises its flights produce and their impact on local residents are “still a concern”. The latest noise action plan for Dublin Airport, published by Fingal County Council on Wednesday, notes that the number of people affected by night-time noise at the hub is greater than it had been in 2019, in breach of a priority requirement of the Noise Abatement Objective (Nao) for the airport. While the airport is “on track” to achieve the medium and long-term objectives of the Nao, nevertheless “night-time noise exposure remains a…

Feminist megaphone Bretonne by birth, Parisian by adoption, Lauriane Nicol founded the online media outlet Lesbien Raisonnable in 2017. First in the form of a newsletter and an internet site, which she enhanced in 2018 with an Instagram account where she now counts 32,000 subscribers. The 34-year-old sees these tools as both a cultural medium and a relay for feminist struggles. “I can’t help being an activist, it’s in my DNA. Lesbians have always been involved in feminist struggles.” A supporter of Adèle Haenel since the actress revealed to Mediapart in November 2019 that she had been sexually assaulted as…

  “This hearing must remind us of the forbidden, who was the adult, who was the child, it must set the world straight.” It was with these words that prosecutor Camille Poch requested, on Tuesday, December 10, a five-year prison sentence, two of which would be under house arrest, for Christophe Ruggia. The filmmaker is on trial for sexually assaulting Adèle Haenel when she was between the ages of 12 and 14. At the end of two days of often tense hearings, in a packed courtroom at the Paris Criminal Court, the prosecutor highlighted Haenel’s “constant, coherent and clear discourse”…