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Former French prime minister François Fillon and his wife Penelope arrive at the Paris courthouse for their appeal trial against a conviction for fraud. The 2017 presidential hopeful was last year sentenced to five years in prison, three of them suspended, for orchestrating a fake job for his wife, who received a suspended three-year sentence. IMAGES
Josu Ternera, the former head of the Basque separatist organisation ETA, arrives at his appeal hearing in Paris. He had been sentenced in absentia to 7 years in prison in 2010 for "participation in a terrorist criminal association". Arrested in 2019 in France after more than 16 years on the run, he is challenging the ruling. IMAGES
Paris (France), Nov 18 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Christophe Petit-Tesson).- The trial against former ETA leader José Antonio Urrutikoetxea 'Josu Ternera' continued on Wednesday in Paris, after the French Supreme Court rejected the former leader's appeal against the extradition to Spain. FOOTAGE OF THE SUPREME COURT IN PARIS.
Patrick Balkany arrives at the Paris Court of Appeal, which is due to sentence the former mayor of Levallois-Perret, a wealthy Paris suburb, for aggravated money laundering. At first instance, the court had sentenced Patrick Balkany to five years in prison. 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