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Gisèle Pelicot addresses the world’s press after the verdict is announced in Avignon on December 19, 2024. MANON CRUZ /…

There have been so many horrors since September 2. And now peace. “The criminal hearing is adjourned,” Roger Arata, the…

Gisèle Pelicot leaves the courthouse with her lawyer Stéphane Babonneau after the verdict in the trial for Dominique Pelicot and…

Paty was killed near Paris on October 16, 2020, days after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a debate on free expression. The assailant, an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, was shot to death by police.

The French Police had to pander to public opinion, and echoes of the French revolution still ring through Court in Paris. In a case of such global media exposure, the French had to deliver prosecutions. The killer was already dead, so they had to find some other perpetrators. 

Gisèle Pelicot, Avignon, December 19, 2024. MANON CRUZ/REUTERS These are just four moments in one woman’s life. Four moments in…

France began withdrawing soldiers from Chad on Friday, Chad’s ministry of the armed forces said, after N’Djamena last month abruptly…

In profile, he looks a bit like Emmanuel Macron. Same antique straight nose, same height, same look. His official title:…

Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando, in Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris.” CINEMATHEQUE On Friday, December 20, as part of…

France’s anti-terrorism court on Friday convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty four years ago.…

Dominique Pelicot, the ex-husband of French rape survivor Gisèle Pelicot, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of drugging and raping her, as well as inviting dozens of other men to abuse her over a period of nearly a decade. The 72-year-old was found guilty of all charges by a judge in Avignon, southern France, and became emotional in court as the sentence was read.