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Australia's rugby captain Rocky Elsom gestures during their training at Kings Park Stadium in Durban, South Africa, Friday, Aug. 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)
Former Australia rugby captain Rocky Elsom sentenced to 2 years in prison by French court
Former Australia rugby captain Rocky Elsom has been sentenced to two years in prison by a French court for misusing corporate assets during his time as club president of Narbonne.
 
In this Oct. 29, 2020, file photo, police officers stand guard near Notre Dame church in Nice, southern France. (Eric Gaillard/Pool Photo via AP, File)
A Tunisian extremist is imprisoned for life for killing 3 people in a French basilica in 2020
A Tunisian national has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in France for the murders of three people in October 2020 in an attack linked to Islamic extremism.
 
This courtroom sketch by Valentin Pasquier shows Joel Le Scouarnec, now 74, sitting in courtroom and accused of raping or abusing 299 people, mostly child patients, at the Vannes courthouse, western France, on the opening day of his trial, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025. (Valentin Pasquier via AP)
A French surgeon is on trial accused of raping or abusing 299 people, mostly child patients
A former surgeon is standing trial in France for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims. Most of them were children who were his patients. Investigators and his notebooks describe a pattern of violence spanning over three decades.
 
FILE -Activists hold posters during a women's rights demonstration, Dec. 14, 2024 in Avignon, southern France, where the trial of dozens of men accused of raping Gisèle Pelicot while she was drugged and rendered unconscious by her husband is taking place. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard), File)
A French ex-surgeon is accused of raping or abusing 299 victims. Most were child patients
A former surgeon is going on trial in France for the rape and sexual abuse of 299 victims over a period spanning more than three decades.
 
In this Oct. 29, 2020, file photo, police officers stand guard near Notre Dame church in Nice, southern France. (Eric Gaillard/Pool Photo via AP, File)
A Tunisian extremist is on trial accused of killing 3 people in a French church
A Tunisian man is on trial in France on terrorism charges over the killing of three people in a basilica in the French Riviera city of Nice in 2020. It was one of multiple attacks that year linked to Islamic extremism.
 
This undated wanted poster, provided by the U.S. Marshals, shows Ian Cleary, of Saratoga, Calif. U.S. (U.S. Marshals via AP)
American accused of assaulting a Pennsylvania student is extradited from France to the US
An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said “So I raped you” has been extradited from France to the United States. A U.S.
 
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives as he goes on trial over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
France’s former President Sarkozy stands trial over alleged campaign funding by Libya’s Gadhafi
A trial has opened of France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy and 11 co-defendants over alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of then-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
 
FILE - French President Emmanuel Macron leaves after paying his respects by the coffin of slain teacher Samuel Paty in the courtyard of the Sorbonne university during a national memorial event, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020 in Paris. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, Pool, File)
Trial opens in France in the beheading of a teacher over prophet cartoons
The trial of eight people in Paris on terrorism charges started on Monday over the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty.
 
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, front, speaks to the media as she arrives at the court house in Paris, Monday, Sept. 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
France’s Le Pen denies wrongdoing as she and her party go on trial accused of embezzling EU funds
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has denied violating any rules as she and her National Rally party and two dozen others went on trial accused of embezzling European Parliament funds.
 
Gisele Pelicot arrives in the Avignon court house, in Avignon, southern France, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. A woman allegedly drugged by her ex-husband so that she could be raped by other men while she laid unconscious, is expected to testify before a panel of French judges. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly)
A French woman whose husband is accused of inviting men to rape her testifies in court
A woman who was allegedly drugged by her now ex-husband so that she could be raped while unconscious by other men has testified in a court in France about her yearslong ordeal.
 
FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016 file picture, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy caresses the brow of her husband, the former French President and candidate for France's conservative presidential primary, Nicolas Sarkozy, during a campaign meeting in Marseille, southern France. Former first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy was given preliminary charges Tuesday, July 9, 2024, and placed under judicial supervision for alleged involvement in efforts to pressure a witness who accused ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy of receiving illegal campaign financing from Libya. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)
Ex-French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy charged with witness tampering in husband’s campaign case
Former supermodel and French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has been given preliminary charges for involvement in alleged efforts to pressure a witness who accused ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy of receiving illegal campaign financing from Libya.
 
FILE - This wanted poster provided by the U.S. Marshals shows Ian Cleary, of Saratoga, Calif. U.S. marshals have been leading the two-year search for Cleary since prosecutors charged him with sexually assaulting a young woman in 2013 at Gettysburg College. (U.S. Marshals via AP, FILE)
French court rules American man detained after ‘So I raped you’ Facebook message can be extradited
A French court has ruled that the American, accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said “So I raped you” can be extradited to the United States.
 
FILE - In this photo released on Nov. 9, 2019 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks in Damascus, Syria. In a landmark trial, a Paris court will this week seek Tuesday May 21, 2024 to determine whether Syrian intelligence officials were responsible for Patrick and Mazzen Dabbagh's disappearance and deaths. The hearings are expected to air chilling allegations that President Bashar Assad's regime has widely used torture and arbitrary detentions to keep power in Syria's civil war. (SANA via AP, File)
France is trying Syrian ex-officials for the torture and killing of a father and son. Here’s why
A Paris court is seeking to determine this week whether top Syrian intelligence officials were responsible for the disappearance and deaths of a French-Syrian father and his son.
 
FILE - This wanted poster provided by the U.S. Marshals shows Ian Cleary, of Saratoga, Calif. U.S. marshals have been leading the two-year search for Cleary since prosecutors charged him with sexually assaulting a young woman in 2013 at Gettysburg College. Cleary, accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” has been detained in France after a three-year search. (U.S. Marshals via AP)
American sought after ‘So I raped you’ Facebook message detained in France on 2021 warrant
An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” has been detained in France after a three-year search.
 
FILE - French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti arrives at the Elysee Palace for the fist cabinet meeting since French President Emmanuel Macron 's reelection, on May 23, 2022 in Paris. France’s justice minister goes on trial Monday Nov. 6, 2023 on charges of using his office to settle personal scores, in an unprecedented case that has raised concern about checks and balances in French democracy. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)
French justice minister is on trial accused of conflict of interest
France’s justice minister went on trial Monday on charges of using his office to settle personal scores. The unprecedented case that has raised concern about checks and balances in French democracy.
 
FILE - A French police officer lays flowers while paying tribute to his colleagues killed in a knife attack near their home in Magnanville, west of Paris, France, on June 14, 2016. A trial is opening in French counterterrorism court Monday Sept. 25, 2023 over the killing of two police officers in their home in 2016, in front of their 3-year-old son. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
A trial opens in France over the killing of a police couple in the name of the Islamic State group
A trial is opening in a French counterterrorism court over the killing of two police officers in their home in 2016, in front of their 3-year-old son. The attacker said he was acting in the name of the Islamic State group.
 
Emotions raw before Paris trial for Islamic State carnage
Survivors of Islamic State group’s 2015 attack on Paris and those who mourn the 130 people killed that night are bracing for a long-awaited trial that starts this week in Paris.
 
Charlie Hebdo, market attacks turned widow into fugitive
The fugitive widow of a French Islamic State attacker calls home once a year to catch up. That’s according to testimony from her sisters in the trial of 14 people accused of helping in the January 2015 attacks against the Charlie Hebdo newspaper and a kosher supermarket in Paris.
 
5-year sentence for French priest who abused boy scouts
An ex-French priest who acknowledged sexually abusing at least 75 boys over decades was sentenced Monday to five years in prison. It’s France’s worst case of clergy abuse to reach trial.
 
Appeals court acquits French cardinal of sex abuse cover-up
A French appeals court has acquitted a French cardinal of covering up the sexual abuse of minors in his flock. But Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, archbishop of Lyon, said Thursday that he will nevertheless again ask the pope to allow him to resign.
 
Court to decide fate of French cardinal in sex abuse coverup
A French appeals court is deciding the fate of a French cardinal convicted for covering up the sexual abuse of minors by a priest in his flock.
 
2 women convicted in failed 2016 Notre Dame car bomb plot
Two women who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and tried to blow up a car near Notre Dame cathedral in 2016 were convicted of terrorism charges and sentenced to 30 and 25 years in prison after apologizing for their actions.
 
French trial accusing Orange of moral harassment wraps
A trial in which French mobile phone company Orange, its former CEO Didier Lombard and others have been accused of moral harassment linked to a spate of suicides between 2006 and 2009, has ended.
 
Saudi princess tried in absentia for alleged Paris beating
The only daughter of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman is being tried in absentia in Paris over the alleged 2016 beating of a plumber at her family’s apartment.
 
Climate activists convicted for removing Macron portrait
Six French environmental activists have been convicted of theft for removing an official portrait of President Emmanuel Macron to protest his climate change policies.
 
French telecom giant Orange on trial over staff suicides
French telecom giant Orange and seven former or current managers are on trial in a case involving 19 employee suicides and 12 suicide attempts over three years. Managers deny wrongdoing.
 
French cardinal likely to be cleared in abuse cover-up trial
France’s most important church sex abuse trial to date is likely to end in acquittal for a cardinal and other senior Catholic officials. They’re accused of protecting a pedophile priest who has confessed to abuse.
 
Text to mom announcing death reveals 3rd Bataclan attacker
Then, about 10 days ago, Foued Mohamed-Aggad’s mother in Strasbourg received a text message in English announcing her son’s death “as a martyr” — a typical way that the Islamic State group notifies families of casualties. She gave French police a DNA sample which showed that one of her sons was kill