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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
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
Bobbi Sternheim, Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer, says her client "will appeal this case," after she was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a New York judge for helping the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls. "We are confident that she will prevail on appeal," Sternheim tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
A Tokyo court on Thursday handed a six-month suspended jail sentence to Greg Kelly, a former aide to ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, on financial misconduct charges. Prosecutors had sought a two-year sentence for Kelly, an American citizen who was detained alongside Ghosn in November 2018. The sentence will be suspended for three years, the judge said Thursday. IMAGES of Kelly arriving at court
Nicolas Redouane and Antoine Quirin, the two French police officers accused of raping a Canadian tourist in 2014, arrive at a court on the outskirts of Paris for their appeal trial. In 2019, they were found guilty of the gang rape of Emily Spanton, now 41 years old, and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment. IMAGES
A Paris court on Monday sentences former French prime minister Francois Fillon to five years in prison, with three suspended, after finding him guilty of orchestrating a fake job for his wife, a scandal that cost him his shot at the presidency in 2017. IMAGES
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