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Added on the 28/01/2023 16:10:22 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Socialist presidential candidate Anne Hidalgo votes in Paris, shortly after the opening of polling stations, for the first round of voting. IMAGES
French economist Thomas Piketty, the best-selling author of Capital, has turned down the Legion of Honor, since he is of the opinion that it is not the government's role to decide who is honorable.
Arnaud Rousseau, President of the FNSEA, France's top farmers' union, welcomes Marc Fesneau, the French Agriculture Minister, to the 78th FNSEA Congress in Dunkirk, northern France, at a time when the beginning of the year has been marked by a vast movement of anger in the farming world. IMAGES
Members of the Socialist Party react to exit polls predicting their defeat in the elections and a win for the centre-right PSD party. IMAGES
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
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).