Trân Tô Nga is a veteran combatant with the gift of a disarming smile. To the journalists who had come to listen to her last week at the Paris headquarters of the General Union of the Vietnamese of France, she announced that “I want to give you a smile in thanks”, and her face, until then solemn, lit up. It was a winning smile, but this 78-year-old of joint French-Vietnamese nationality knows she will need much more than that to win over France’s justice system when her long battle for justice begins in a French court on Monday.
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