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The trial took place in a specially constructed courtroom inside the Palais de Justice on the Île de la Cité, an island in the River Seine in central Paris.The temporary courtroom was designed to accommodate 500 people, on account of the large number of civil parties (French: parties civiles), including the bereaved and survivors of the attacks.
"The challenge that I will be bringing to the European Court of Human Rights may, alas, lead to a condemnation against France," wrote Sarkozy on social media network X. "I want to once again state ...
A special court cleared France’s justice minister of conflict of interest Wednesday, ruling he was not guilty of having used his office to settle personal scores, in the first such trial of a ...
Clichy was the birthplace of weeks of riots in 2005 that shook France, prompted by the deaths of two teenagers electrocuted in a power substation while fleeing from police. One of the boys lived ...
In France, a cour d'assises, or Court of Assizes or Assize Court, is a criminal trial court with original and appellate limited jurisdiction to hear cases involving defendants accused of felonies, meaning crimes as defined in French law. It is the only French court that uses a jury trial. [1] [2]
1980s: contaminated blood scandal [2] The Canard enchaîné satirical newspaper fought to bring to light evidence of alleged corruption during President Jacques Chirac's tenure as Mayor of Paris. [3] 1990s: Angolagate (arms-for-oil scandal) La Fayette scandal; 1994: Yann Piat affair; a former National Front MP, assassinated on 25 February 1994)
In France prior to 2020, the Tribunal d'instance (literally "Court of First Instance") was a judicial lower court of record of first instance for general civil suits and included a criminal division, the Police Court (tribunal de police), which heard cases of misdemeanors or summary offences (contraventions).
Clichy was the birthplace of weeks of riots in 2005 that shook France, prompted by the deaths of two teenagers electrocuted in a power substation while fleeing from police. One of the boys lived ...