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Added on the 18/12/2021 17:27:36 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
After announcing that she was "considering her candidacy" for the 2022 presidential election, former French Minister of Justice, Christiane Taubira, causes a crush during a visit in Saint-Denis near Paris. IMAGES
France's well-liked former justice minister Christiane Taubira officially launches her campaign for the presidential election, joining other leftist candidates to satisfy the requirements for a government "of a great democracy, free of monarchical fantasies". SOUNDBITE
Stella Assange, wife of Julian Assange, and his supporters march to 10 Downing Street in London to call for his release after a British High Court heard a last-ditch bid by the jailed WikiLeaks founder to appeal his extradition to the US to face espionage charges. Washington indicted Assange multiple times between 2018 and 2020 over WikiLeaks's publication of hundreds of thousands of secret military and diplomatic files on the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. IMAGES
French president Emmanuel Macron along with France's leading political and artistic personalities arrive for the national tribute to Robert Badinter at the Place Vendôme in Paris, home of the Ministry of Justice, where the late former Minister of Justice led the fight to abolish the death penalty in France, in 1981. IMAGES
Following the acquittal of French Justice Minister, his lawyer speaks of a "great satisfaction and (...) a great emotion". A French court on Wednesday acquitted France's justice minister in a conflict of interest trial that has been an embarrassment for President Emmanuel Macron's government. Eric Dupond-Moretti, a pugnacious former star defence lawyer, had in 2021 been charged with misusing his position to settle scores with opponents from his legal career. SOUNDBITE