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Nicolas Sarkozy leaves the courtroom after the Paris court of appeal lightened a one-year prison sentence for the former French president over illegal campaign financing, saying he needed to spend only half that time behind bars. But while lighter than the original sentence, Wednesday's ruling was still harsher than the one-year suspended sentence that prosecutors called for. IMAGES
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin says he has instructed police to show "great moderation" toward farmers who have blocked highways as part of a nationwide protest movement against agricultural policies. SOUNDBITE
Representatives of the majority farming unions, Arnaud Rousseau (FNSEA) and Arnaud Gaillot (Jeunes Agriculteurs), arrive at Matignon to meet French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and obtain "concrete measures" to deal with farmers' anger. IMAGES
"The Prime Minister claimed that he was meeting us to prepare a general policy speech, but instead we got the impression that he was preparing a programme of general suffering," says Manuel Bompard Gabriel, far-left France Unbowed (LFI) MP for Bouches-du-Rhone, denouncing a "huge increase in the cost of living" as France Unbowed MPs were met in Matignon by Gabriel Attal. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron receives UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the Elysee Palace, as part of the preparations for the summit for a new global financial pact. IMAGES
Fire burns the doors of a police station and the former Convent of the Jacobins in Rennes, during demonstrations against the decision of the French Constitutional Council, which validated most of the controversial government pension reform. IMAGES
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