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The public prosecutor's office has requested 30 years' imprisonment against Cécile Bourgeon, mother of 5-year-old Fiona who died in 2013, and her ex-boyfriend Berkane Makhlouf, in a new appeal trial before the Rhône assizes court. Images of Bourgeon arriving at court, where the verdict is expected on Wednesday. IMAGES
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the Paris courthouse to hear the verdict of the appeal trial in the 'Bygmalion' case. Sarkozy was previously sentenced to a year in prison for illegal financing of his 2012 presidential campaign. 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 van carrying Chilean Nicolas Zepeda, on trial on appeal for the murder of his Japanese ex-girlfriend Narumi Kurosaki in 2016, arrives at the Vesoul courthouse in eastern France on the day the verdict is due to be delivered. IMAGES
Following the acquittal of French Justice Minister, his lawyer speaks of a "great satisfaction and (...) a great emotion". A French court on Wednesday acquitted France's justice minister in a conflict of interest trial that has been an embarrassment for President Emmanuel Macron's government. Eric Dupond-Moretti, a pugnacious former star defence lawyer, had in 2021 been charged with misusing his position to settle scores with opponents from his legal career. SOUNDBITE
French Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti arrives at Paris Courthouse as verdict is expected in his conflict of interest case that could seal the fate of this government stalwart. IMAGES
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