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The Slovakian, 25, died in extreme conditions in a tough Horn of Africa desert training camp after he was refused water and made to climb steep slope.

Budget minister was forced to resign in 2013 after Mediapart revealed that he held a secret Swiss bank account. 

Ex-interior minister Claude Guéant will be tried in September over claims he received secret monthly tax-free cash bonus of 10,000 euros.

Laurent Rambaud, 37, says he felt threatened when he came across a man while guarding his farm in south-eastern France in 2010.

The Outreau affair - named after French seaside town where the participants lived - rocked France when it first hit the headlines in 2001.

Gilles Le Guen, 60, faces ten years in jail for allegedly collaborating with Al-Qaeda’s branch in Mali, where he was captured in 2013.

The pensioner claimed 271 works by Pablo Picasso, stored in his garage, were gifts from the artist's widow for odd jobs he did at her home.

The financial crime prosecutors' office has ecommended charges be brought against the bank for encouraging tax fraud and money laundering.

The presiding judge of the trial of the former IMF chief, accused of pimping in orgies organised with cohorts, will deliver his verdicts in June.

The prosecutor at the Lille trial into a sex ring involving the former IMF chief said there was insufficient evidence he was involved in pimping.

The trial of ten men accused of profiting from the dementia-suffering multi-billionaire Liliane Bettencourt enters its final stages on Monday, after three weeks of hearings. The court in Bordeaux has heard the extraordinary detail of how a disparate group of defendants, including high-society dandies, wealth managers, lawyers, solicitors and a former minister, gravitated around the fortune of the L’Oréal cosmetic company heiress, as first revealed by Mediapart in 2010. This week the court in Bordeaux will proceed with the last cross-examinations, before hearing the final arguments of the defence and prosecution. Mediapart’s legal affairs correspondent Michel Deléan, present in court since the start of the case, reports on the outcome so far.

Prostitutes' testimony during the trial in which the former IMF chief answered charges of pimping reveals world of deprivation and abuse.

A former prostitute told a French court the former IMF boss, on trial for pimping, sodomised her as if she was 'an object for his consumption'.

The former IMF boss told French court that sex parties in France and the US were 'festive and playful', despite prostitute's harrowing testimony.