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French authorities arrested 26 people and seized €11 million as they smashed a migrant trafficking ring suspected of bringing several thousand people from South Asia…
The feminist lawyer, and Joséphine Baker’s grand-niece, was impressed by the women in her family who transcended their conditions and misfortunes to move forward. Lawyer…
A march is organized in tribute to the 27 migrants who died in the Channel on November 24, 2021, in Dunkirk, on November 23, 2024…
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen talks to journalists after a meeting with the French prime minister to discuss the 2025 budget at the Hotel…
A lawyer for the chief defendant in a French mass rape trial on Wednesday, November 27, urged the court to recall his good side after prosecutors demanded lengthy jail terms for the dozens of suspects. The main defendant, Dominique Pelicot, has admitted enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his then-wife while she was drugged and unconscious.
Provisions for immunity from prosecution at the International Criminal Court (ICC) apply to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the French foreign ministry said on Wednesday, November 27. In a statement the ministry reaffirmed its commitment to international justice after the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, but also said that the Israeli leader was covered by immunity rules that apply to states which are not a party to the ICC. Israeli is not an ICC member.
A new page was turned in the Pelicot rape trial on Wednesday, November 27, with the end of three days of the prosecutions’ closing arguments…
She sees everything. Hitler’s too-black mustache, the missing centimeters on a barricade, an actor’s stumble. She hears everything. The creak of a pulley, the music…
The Palestinian cause lost one of its most active defenders before international judicial bodies. Gilles Devers, a lawyer from Lyon who helped bring this issue…
The first time The World met him, he was wearing a Roman collar and a small silver cross pinned to his jacket pocket, and went…
“Between going to Congress to listen to Pedro Sánchez or going to Cope to attend Carlos Herrera’s interview with Víctor de Aldama, I chose the…
France announced Monday, November 25, a new campaign to combat violence against women, including raising awareness about the use of drugs to commit sexual abuse,…
It was the last week of May. A bourgeois Parisian dinner party was being held near the Luxembourg Gardens. The evening’s hosts were entertaining three…
Six men linked to Juventus and France midfielder Paul Pogba face trial from Tuesday, November 26, accused of blackmail, attempted extorsion of millions of euros…
In line for a book signing by the far-right Rassemblement National party’s president, Jordan Bardella, in southern France, November 22, 2024. SANDRA MEHL FOR THE…
On September 12, 2020, Jean-François Mayet, on call at the prosecutor’s office in the southeastern French town of Carpentras, was informed about the arrest of…
Hold me back or you’ll see! Despite being hampered by a trial for charges of embezzling EU Parliament funds in a fake jobs scheme…
Mark Twain wrote that “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.” A lie has gone…
Secretary-General of the Elysée Palace Alexis Kohler in Strasbourg, France, November 23, 2024. SARAH MEYSSONNIER / REUTERS French President Emmanuel Macron’s chief of staff Alexis…
French prosecutors on Tuesday, November 26, demanded sentences of up to 15 years for the remaining co-defendants in the trial of a man charged…
This Tuesday, the iconic El Molino venue in Barcelona hosted the first edition of La Nit d’Els40 to recognize Catalan music in 2024. Figa Flawas…
French supermarket group Carrefour attempted on Tuesday, November 26, to end a supplier “boycott” of its stores in Brazil by apologizing for refusing to…
The French presidency on Tuesday, November 26, issued a categorical denial that President Emmanuel Macron had predicted that the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier…
The only debate between the three candidates to lead Esquerra was reduced this Tuesday to practically an exchange of speeches, with white gloves, between the…
A key measure of France’s sovereign borrowing costs hit a 12-year high on Tuesday, November 26, indicating growing investor concern over the government’s stability following…
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