Description
Added on the 09/09/2020 14:28:12 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Swiss Islamologist Tariq Ramadan, indicted in France for two rapes that he contests, arrives at a Paris Court to be heard by examining magistrates, more than a year after his last interrogation on the merits of the case. 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
The Swiss Islamic scholar, Tariq Ramadan, arrives in court in Geneva on the second day of his trial, charged with "rape and sexual coercion", allegations which the former Oxford University professor denies. IMAGES
In Moscow, Russian journalist Marina Ovsiannikova goes on trial for on charges of "discrediting" the army, after she burst onto live television with a placard criticising Russia's offensive in Ukraine. IMAGES
The Rwanda ex-official Laurent Bucyibaruta, over alleged role in the 1994 Tutsi genocide, arrives at the Paris court on the last day of his trial. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).