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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
After only recently getting out of police custody for driving twice while disqualified, football star Benzema has landed himself in police hands again after a spot of blackmail.
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
Clairefontaine (France), May 27 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Antonio Torres del Cerro / Christophe Petit-Tesson) Orange vest, pink boots and accompanied by his friend Raphaël Varane. This is how Karim Benzema presented himself in his first open training with the French team, five years and seven months after his last training session.FOOTAGE OF THE TRAINING SESSION.
The trial of retired surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, accused of rape and sexual assault on four children, with hundreds more possible victims, starts this morning at the Criminal Court at Saintes in France. Images of courtroom before trial IMAGES
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein leaves the New York state courthouse using a walker on the first day of his sex crimes trial which is expected to last six weeks and could see the once-mighty Hollywood producer jailed for life if convicted on charges of predatory sexual assault. IMAGES