A marble bust of Napoleon Bonaparte commissioned by the emperor from Italian artist Giuseppe Franchi in 1797, and which was unwittingly sold at a French art market in 2019 as being that of an anonymous subject, is to be auctioned in London in July with an estimated upper value of £180,000.
At the end of an almost ten-month trial in Paris of 20 men charged with taking part or helping in the November 13th 2015 terrorist attacks in the French capital, in which 130 people were murdered, a panel of judges on Wednesday found 19 of them guilty as charged, handing down sentences ranging from two years to life in prison, including a minimum jail term of 30 years for Salah Abdeslam, 32, the only surviving member of the Islamic State group cell that carried out the killings.
At the end of the longest-ever trial in French legal history, a jury of magistrates on Wednesday found Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of an Islamic State group cell which murdered 130 people in a series of shooting and suicide bomb attacks in Paris in November 2015, guilty of terrorism and murder as charged, and pronounced guilty verdicts on 18 others charged with various degrees of complicity in the killings.
Yaël Braun-Pivet, 51, a member of Emmanuel Macron's Renaissance party, has been elected to the post of president - or Speaker - of the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament, marking the first time a woman has been given the post.
At the close of the nine-month trial in Paris of 20 people accused, variously, of perpetrating or helping to commit the November 13th 2015 terrorist attacks in the French capital, the 14 defendants present – six are being tried in absetia – were on Monday given their last opportunity to speak before the court retired to decide its verdicts, which will be delivered on Wednesday.
Constitutional law would cement abortion rights for future generations, says member of parliament, following US Supreme Court's ruling on the issue in US.
The two lawyers representing Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the terrorist group which caused the deaths of 132 people in the November 2015 massacres, urged court not to impose life imprisonment; the verdicts are due on June 29th.
