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A former Socialist party mayor, Mélanie Boulanger, arrives at Bobigny criminal court, which is due to hand down a verdict in the case against the former elected official and around 15 other people suspected of being implicated in drug trafficking in Canteleu, a town of 14,000 inhabitants in Seine-Maritime. IMAGES
Three decades later, the appeal trial of the non-ministerial financial part of the 'Karachi scandal' opens: six men are suspected of having played a role in a system of kickbacks on arms contracts that boosted the presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur in 1995. IMAGES
The former mayor of Canteleu in Normandy, Melanie Boulanger, arrives at the Bobigny criminal court, where she will be tried along with 18 other defendants for a vast drug trafficking operation in her small town. The hearing, which had barely begun on Monday 27 May, had been suspended for the week due to a pending appeal. The outcome of the trial depends on the high court. IMAGES
Six people aged between 39 and 54 are on trial at the Rhone Criminal Court in France for the robbery of an armoured truck in Switzerland in 2017 with a record haul of nearly €42 million. Three of the six defendants are still on the run. IMAGES
A French court opens the appeal trial for a Chilean man who was sentenced to 28 years in prison last year for murdering his Japanese ex-girlfriend, Narumi Kurosaki. IMAGES