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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
The trial of Algerian student Sid-Ahmed Ghlam, accused of planning an attack against a church in April 2015 in Villejuif, southern Paris, and of having killed Aurélie Châtelain there, opens at the Special Assize Court of Paris. IMAGES
The outline of the new spire on the Notre-Dame Cathedral was visible on the Paris skyline as a key part of the reconstruction from a devastating fire approached completion. Scaffolding still surrounded the new spire and officials did not wish to comment while they await the finishing touches. IMAGES
Nicolas Sarkozy is back at Paris Court House this Friday to answer questions in his appeal trial about illegal campaign financing during his 2012 failed re-election bid. The Former head of state was sentenced to one year's imprisonment in 2021 in what has been dubbed the "Bygmalion case". Conservative Sarkozy has faced a litany of legal problems since his one term in office from 2007 until 2012, and has been charged separately with corruption, bribery, influence-peddling, and breaking campaign financing laws. IMAGES
Former French prime minister François Fillon and his wife Penelope arrive at the Paris courthouse for their appeal trial against a conviction for fraud. The 2017 presidential hopeful was last year sentenced to five years in prison, three of them suspended, for orchestrating a fake job for his wife, who received a suspended three-year sentence. IMAGES
Isabelle Coutant-Peyre, Carlos the Jackal's lawyer, arrives in court in Paris, as the Venezuelan militant who was behind some of the biggest terror attacks of the 1970s and 1980s seeks to have one of his three life sentences reduced. The final trial will only determine the length of his sentence, 47 years after the murderous attack on the Drugstore Publicis in Paris. IMAGES
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