Monique Olivier, who is 75 and already serving a life sentence in jail, faces trial over her role in the murder of the 20-year-old Leeds University student who had been working as a gap-year English teacher.
The stabbing of the 16-year-old, named only as Thomas, at a village dance party, has been seized upon by the far-right who have portrayed the killing as symbolic of increasingly insecure conditions in French society.
One of the six teenagers is accused of giving a false account of a lesson given by teacher Samuel Paty at his school in a Paris suburb, after which he was murdered and beheaded by an Islamic extremist, while the five others are accused of helping the killer identify his target.
Cédric Sapin-Defour's book Son odeur après la pluie (His Smell after the Rain), inspired by his grief over his dog's death, has turned the unassuming school sports teacher into the most unlikely French literary sensation of the year.
In an interview with The Guardian, prominent French economist Thomas Piketty, the author of the seminal work Capital in the Twenty-First Century, argues that the carbon inequality gap is greater than it has been since the 19th century and is a major factor for those opposing policies to slow climate change.
Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev has accused France of 'pursuing a militaristic policy by arming Armenia, encouraging revanchist forces in Armenia, and laying the groundwork for provoking new wars in our region'.
The French senate on Wednesday began debating draft legislation acknowledging the persecution of homosexuals under past homophobic laws and which would offer financial awards for those who fell victim to them.
