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Added on the 09/04/2021 12:52:36 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
A van carrying Chilean Nicolas Zepeda, on trial on appeal for the murder of his Japanese ex-girlfriend Narumi Kurosaki in 2016, arrives at the Vesoul courthouse in eastern France on the day the verdict is due to be delivered. IMAGES
French serial killer Michel Fourniret's widow, Monique Olivier, arrives in the courtroom's dock to stand trial for complicity in the abduction and murder of little girl and two young women in northern France. Spanning three decades, the murders included a 9 year old girl on her way back from school, a mentally disabled 18 year old and a 20 year olf British woman whose body was found in a river in 1990. Fourniret, known as the "ogre of the Ardennes", was charged with abduction, rape and murder in the cases but died in 2021, aged 79, before he could be brought to trial. IMAGES
Trial opens for six teenagers for their role in the 2020 beheading of French teacher Samuel Paty, the first of two trials in a case that horrified France. The suspects, who were between the ages of 13 and 15 at the time of the murder, are accused of having been on the lookout for Paty, identifying him to the killer in exchange for money, or for making false accusations. Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography teacher, was stabbed and then beheaded near his secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. His attacker was shot dead at the scene by police. IMAGES
The Gambetta secondary school in Arras, northern France reopens its doors under police guard, the day after a French teacher was stabbed to death by a young man with a record of radicalisation, an act described by Emmanuel Macron as "Islamist terrorism". IMAGES
French rapper MHD arrives at the tribunal in Paris, where he will stand trial alongside eight other men for a murder committed during a brawl between two rival gangs in the capital in 2018. IMAGES