This Monday a French court will deliver its verdict on the far-right leader’s role in an alleged fake jobs scam at the EU parliament; a guilty verdict could bar her from standing for president in 2027.
The criticism comes after the US embassy in Paris warned several French firms against using diversity and inclusion programs, a frequent target of the Trump administration.
For more than twenty years residents living near a steel plant operated by ArcelorMittal at Fos-sur-Mer on France's Mediterranean coast have been campaigning against the pollution it has been spewing out. According to Mediapart's information, and later confirmed by local prosecutors in nearby Marseille, the multinational steel giant ArcelorMittal – run by Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal - has now been placed under formal investigation over the pollution. The criminal probe centres on claims that the steel plant has exposed residents to illegal emissions and put their lives in danger. The company says it denies the accusations. Pascale Pascariello reports.
Philippe Vedovini and his wife, Anne, were among four people detained earlier this week on suspicion of the murder of Émile Soleil and concealment of a corpse.
President Macron made announcement after a summit in Paris on Thursday of more than two dozen allies of Ukraine – the so-called Coalition of the Willing.
Prosecution's demands were over allegations that Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign was illegally financed by former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s government.
Former president Nicilas Sarkozy is accused of entering a ‘corruption pact’ with the dictator by accepting millions of euros to fund his election campaign.
The trial of Nicolas Sarkozy and 11 others on corruption charges relating to the alleged funding of the former French president’s 2007 election campaign by the regime of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is now entering its final stages after prosecutors on Thursday called for Sarkozy to be handed a seven-year jail sentence and a 300,000-euro fine. Mediapart looks back at the significant moments of the trial so far, before the court hears the arguments for the defence of Sarkozy and his co-accused, who include three former ministers. Fabrice Arfi and Karl Laske report.
Beer drinkers have launched an online name-and-shame campaign to combat a trend in bars of serving less than the 500ml that equates in France to a "pinte" by using thick glasses that hide the fact that they contain a quarter less.
