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Added on the 30/04/2024 10:46:06 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The President of French centrist party MoDem, François Bayrou, and former Secretary of State to the Minister of the Armed Forces, Geneviève Darrieussecq, arrive at the Paris Court House as they await verdict in their trial. Bayrou and ten senior members of the party are accused of devising a fraudulent scheme to pass some party members as European parliamentary assistants and get them paid as such. IMAGES
A rally against anti-Semitism organised by French far-left party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) is disrupted by demonstrators carrying signs reading "Touche pas à la mémoire" ("Don't touch our remembrance"), in criticism of party leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon's stance on recent events. The protest took place near the site of the former Vél d'Hiv in Paris, where Jews were infamously rounded up and detained during the second World War before being sent to camps. IMAGES
Dozens of left-wing supporters called by Nupes gathered outside the French National Assembly in Paris after a parliamentary committee voted against repealing the pension reform proposed by the Liot parliamentary group. IMAGES
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of France's left-wing alliance 'Nupes' (New Popular Social and Ecological Union, Eds.), votes in Marseille during the second round of the parliamentary elections. IMAGES
Hard-left firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon, leader the freshly-formed New Ecological and Social Popular Union (NUPES), votes in Marseille in the first round of the French parliamentary elections, as the left seeks to thwart President Emmanuel Macron's plans for reform. IMAGES