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French sex workers protest as the country's lower house bans payments from clients. Paul Chapman reports.
Mayor of Saint-Etienne, Gael Perdriau, mired in a case of political blackmail involving a sex tape that has shaken his city since September 2022, is placed in custody by the judicial police of Lyon. The elected official was summoned at the same time as his former private secretary Pierre Gauttieri, his former deputy Samy Kefi-Jerome and the latter's ex-partner, Gilles Rossary-Lenglet. IMAGES
The lawyers of Karim Benzema and Mustapha Zouaoui arrive at a court in Versailles, near Paris, to hear the verdict of a trial in which the Real Madrid star was charged with complicity in a bid to blackmail his former France team-mate Mathieu Valbuena with a sex tape. Karim Benzema was given a one-year suspended sentence. IMAGES
Bishops of the Catholic Church gather in Lourdes for their annual meeting, one month after a devastating report by an independent commission on widespread child sex abuse within the insitution. IMAGES
Paris, Jun 9 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Christophe Petit-Tesson) France opened up to foreign tourism on Wednesday coinciding with the beginning of a new phase of de-escalation that involves the lifting of many restrictions, which have prevented serving inside bars and restaurants for more than seven months due to the pandemic. FOOTAGE OF BARS AND RESTAURANT TERRACES IN PARISSOUNDBITES FROM DIRECTOR OF PANACHE RESTAURANT, CLAIRE, AND XAVIER, WORKER CLAIRE"We are very happy to have the curfew a little later to be able to receive our clients later and allow them to dine more comfortably, more calmly.""It was very, very difficult. There are many restaurants, many businesses that have not recovered at all. But we have a lot of confidence. We hope a lot."XAVIER"I hope that by the end of June we can permanently abolish the curfew and go back to living normally.""For me, the disarray has been done quite intelligently, because it has been done on a regular basis: first at six in the afternoon, then at seven, then at nine and now at eleven."