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Paul Rusesabagina, the polarising hero of the hit movie "Hotel Rwanda," appears at court in Kigali after admitting to helping form an armed group but denying any role in its crimes. Rusesabagina is famous for his depiction by Don Cheadle in the 2004 film "Hotel Rwanda" in which a moderate Hutu is shown as saving hundreds of lives at a luxury hotel during the 1994 genocide, which left some 800,000, mostly Tutsi, dead. IMAGES
Paul Rusesabagina, the polarising hero of the hit movie "Hotel Rwanda," arrives in court in Kigali, where he is being tried on 13 charges including terrorism, financing and founding militant groups, murder, arson and conspiracy to involve children in armed groups. He admits helping to form an armed group but denies any role in its crimes. Rusesabagina appeared clad in Rwanda's pink prison outfit and accompanying pink mask. IMAGES
Charlie Hebdo lawyer Richard Malka and Hyper Cacher hero Lassana Bathily arrive at the Paris court on the first day of the appeal trial of two alleged supporters of the 2015 attackers. Ali Riza Polat, a 37-year-old Franco-Turkish man who faces the heaviest charges and a life sentence, had marked the first "historic" hearing with his outbursts and invective. The second defendant, Amar Ramdani, received the maximum sentence of 20 years for criminal terrorist association. IMAGES
Martin Vettes and Olivia Ronen, Salah Abdeslam's two lawyers, enter the courtroom at the Paris courthouse on the Ile de la Cité for the reading of the verdict in the November 13 trial, during which the court is expected to rule on the fate of the main defendant in the 2015 Paris attacks and his co-defendants. IMAGES
Journalists and civil parties arrive at the courthouse on the Ile de la Cité in Paris for the verdict in the 2005 Paris attacks trial, after 10 months of hearings. The court is due to give its long-awaited decision on the fate of main accused Salah Abdeslam and his co-defendants. IMAGES