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Dutch-Belgian actress Sand Van Roy had accused Besson of raping her over a two-year on-off relationship, and filed a complaint against him in May 2018.

Campaigners protest against ‘government of shame’ after new minister Damien Abad, who is accused of rape by two women, is kept in place.

Jacques Bouthier, who has now stood down as president of Assu 2000, is under investigation after a woman, 22, went to the Paris police in March and said he had held her captive for five years and repeatedly raped her.

Prosecutors say a homicide investigation has been opened after a security guard at the Qatari Embassy in Paris was killed and a suspect arrested.

Women quoted in a Mediapart investigation said Abad had forced them to have unwanted sexual relationships with him in late 2010 and early 2011.

Four of the victims are believed to be from the same family.

President Emmanuel Macron retained his finance and interior ministers while appointing only the second woman to head France's foreign ministry. 

Among them is Jérôme Peyrat, a candidate for President Emmanuel Macron's LREM party who was found guilty of violence against his former partner.

National forecasting centre Météo France, which warned of a May heatwave back in March, said temperatures of between 30°C and 35°C were unusual in terms of their “earliness, durability and geographical extent". 

Following an appeal court ruling, the cement giant must now face charges of complicity in crimes against humanity over alleged payoffs to Islamic State group and other jihadist groups during Syria's civil war.