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French serial killer Michel Fourniret's widow, Monique Olivier, arrives in the courtroom's dock to stand trial for complicity in the abduction and murder of little girl and two young women in northern France. Spanning three decades, the murders included a 9 year old girl on her way back from school, a mentally disabled 18 year old and a 20 year olf British woman whose body was found in a river in 1990. Fourniret, known as the "ogre of the Ardennes", was charged with abduction, rape and murder in the cases but died in 2021, aged 79, before he could be brought to trial. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron expresses his condolences for the death of former US president H.W. Bush, who died aged 94. SOUNDBITE
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
The family of Japanese student Narumi Kurosaki "have come without "no hope whatsoever of any disclosure nor admission" to the appeal trial in eastern France of Chilean Nicolas Zepeda, sentenced to 28 years in prison for the murder of the student in the first trial. SOUNDBITE
"I have come here to answer the court to show my good faith" says French Labour Minister Olivier Dussopt as he arrives at the Paris court. On trial for alleged favouritism, Dussopt will have to explain how he passed on privileged information concerning a call for tenders for a contract worth €5.6 million to the water treatment group Saur at the end of the 2000s, when he was a member of the French parliament. IMAGES
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