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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 President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives in a Paris court as his appeal hearing opens against a conviction for illegal campaign financing in a failed 2012 re-election bid. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron hosts business leaders, including Elon Musk and Lakshmi Mittal, for a roundtable discussion on green industry at the 'Choose France' summit in Versailles. IMAGES
The plane carrying the two Frenchmen released by Iran, Benjamin Briere and Bernard Phelan, lands at Le Bourget airport near Paris. The pair were among some two dozen foreigners jailed in Iran who campaigners see as hostages held in a deliberate strategy by Tehran to extract concessions from the West. IMAGES
Photos of dead and living dolphins are displayed by League for the Protection of Birds on the esplanade of the Invalides, in Paris, to raise public awareness of the fate of the marine mammals. Since December 1st, more than 400 dolphins have been found dead. NGOs and scientists are calling for a temporary halt to fishing, deemed responsible for these deaths. IMAGES
In Paris, four months after the death of Mahsa Amini and the beginning of the protests in Iran, the Eiffel Tower reads "Women, Life, Freedom" in support of the Iranian people. IMAGES
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