"Emmanuel always gets it wrong,” said Trump, dismissing the French president’s statement that the US head of state was helping negotiate an Israel-Iran ceasefire.
It marks the third appeal trial in the case since 2022 when Fillon, 71, had been found guilty on appeal of embezzlement for providing a fake parliamentary assistant job to his wife, Penelope Fillon, that saw her being paid from public funds.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday arrived in Greenland, where he met with the Danish and Greenlandic prime ministers, in a visit he said was to demonstrate French 'solidarity' for 'the sovereignty and territorial integrity' of Greenland, which US President Donald Trump has talked of annexing.
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been stripped of his Légion d'honneur, an award officially handed to those who have provided "eminent" services to France, as a result of his conviction for corruption, the government gazette announced on Sunday.
Marthe Cohn, who became fluent in German through her upbringing in north-east France, and was famed for her heroic actions during the Second World War as a spy for France's Resistance movement, when she went deep behind enemy lines to glean military information, has died at her home in California at the age of 105.
A small group of Tesla clients in France are suing the brand for termination of their leasing contracts, claiming that the political behaviour of the carmaker's CEO, Elon Musk, has turned their vehicles into 'far-right totems' and prevents them from being enjoyed by their owners.
The wreck of a 16th-century merchant ship carrying Italian plates and jugs, cauldrons and defensive canons, has been found intact in the Mediterranean Sea off south-east France and lying 2, 567 metres underwater, the deepest of any such find in French territorial waters.
