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Vietnamese property tycoon Truong My Lan could face the death penalty as she and dozens of other co-accused await verdicts in one of the country's biggest fraud cases over the embezzlement of $12.5 billion. IMAGES
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the Paris courthouse to hear the verdict of the appeal trial in the 'Bygmalion' case. Sarkozy was previously sentenced to a year in prison for illegal financing of his 2012 presidential campaign. IMAGES
The President of French centrist party MoDem, François Bayrou, and former Secretary of State to the Minister of the Armed Forces, Geneviève Darrieussecq, arrive at the Paris Court House as they await verdict in their trial. Bayrou and ten senior members of the party are accused of devising a fraudulent scheme to pass some party members as European parliamentary assistants and get them paid as such. IMAGES
Security forces are on alert for potential clashes in Dakar as a court prepares to issue a verdict in the trial of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on rape charges. The two-year case has deeply polarised the West African country, igniting accusations of political meddling in the judiciary and sparking violent confrontations between Sonko's supporters and the security forces. IMAGES
Roseline Hamel, the sister of a priest murdered in France, the Archbishop of Rouen Dominique Lebrun and lawyers for the civil parties and the defence leave the courtroom at the special assize court in Paris pending the verdict in the trial of the murder of Father Hamel, in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray. Hamel, 85, was giving Mass in the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray, in northern France, on July 26, 2016 when he was killed by Islamist assailants. IMAGES