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The lawyer for Amanda Knox says the American is "very upset" after an Italian court reconvicted her of slander for accusing an innocent man of killing her British roommate in 2007, a murder she herself was jailed for before being acquitted. "She was looking to have a final point," lawyer Carlo Dalla Vedova tells journalists, referring to the 17 years of legal procedures following the 2007 killing, "so at the moment she is very upset". SOUNDBITE
A van carrying Chilean Nicolas Zepeda, on trial on appeal for the murder of his Japanese ex-girlfriend Narumi Kurosaki in 2016, arrives at the Vesoul courthouse in eastern France on the day the verdict is due to be delivered. IMAGES
The family of Japanese student Narumi Kurosaki "have come without "no hope whatsoever of any disclosure nor admission" to the appeal trial in eastern France of Chilean Nicolas Zepeda, sentenced to 28 years in prison for the murder of the student in the first trial. SOUNDBITE
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
Trial opens for six teenagers for their role in the 2020 beheading of French teacher Samuel Paty, the first of two trials in a case that horrified France. The suspects, who were between the ages of 13 and 15 at the time of the murder, are accused of having been on the lookout for Paty, identifying him to the killer in exchange for money, or for making false accusations. Paty, a 47-year-old history and geography teacher, was stabbed and then beheaded near his secondary school in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. His attacker was shot dead at the scene by police. IMAGES
Acquitted in April 2022 by the Assize Court of Ain, in eastern France, Mamadou Diallo arrives at the Lyon Court of Appeal to be retried by the Assize Court of Rhone for the murder of Catherine Burgod, a postmistress from Montreal-la-Cluse who was stabbed to death in December 2008. IMAGES
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