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On the 5th day of the trial over the foiled Paris train attack in August 2015, Anthony Sadler and Aleksander Skarlatos, two of the three Americans whose heroic intervention stopped assailant Ayoub El Khazzani, arrive at the Palais de Justice in Paris to give evidence. Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood made the 2018 film "The 15:17 to Paris" about the events of August 21, 2015 and had even been listed as a possible witness in the trial but will in the end not have to give testimony. IMAGES
In 2015 Ayoub El Khazzani, a 25-year-old Moroccan, was stopped by several passengers including several American tourists as he prepared to launch a terrorist attack on a French high-speed Thalys train travelling to the French capital from Brussels. He stands trial in Paris and the prosecution lawyer, Thibault de Montbrial, says any attempt at repentance by the accused should be ignored. SOUNDBITE
One year after the attack on the Strasbourg Christmas market, French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner travelled to the city for the this year's opening of the famous annual festive fair. The minister was given a tour of the "enhanced" security measures in place around France's most famous Christmas market. IMAGES
Images of the closing of polling stations in Nouméa, New Caledonia, during the second round of the early legislative elections, a ballot under heavy surveillance in this overseas territory, almost two months after the deadly riots that shook the island. IMAGES
French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti meets with prison guards' unions the day after two prison officers were killed in an attack on a prison van at a toll booth in Normandy. The unions are calling for "a drastic reduction in prison transport by promoting the use of videoconferencing by judges or their travel to prisons." IMAGES
Parents wait to collect their children from a school in the French town of Souffelweyersheim, in the east of France, after an assailant wounded two girls aged six and 11 in a knife attack near the premises. The man was later arrested. The girls' wounds are not deemed serious. IMAGES (VIDI34PP789_EN)
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