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Nurses and rescue workers carry an injured person into the back of an ambulance after the terror attack on Aug. 9, 1982, on Jewish restaurant and deli, Jo Goldenberg, in Paris, France. (AP Photo/ Aulnay)
July 9, 2025, 8:17 pm
French prosecutors seek trial of Palestinians accused of 1982 attack on Jewish eatery
No suspects were ever tried in the murders of six people 50 years ago at the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in Paris, attributed to the Abu Nidal Palestinian terror group
By Reuters
Members of the public stand in front of a photograph depicting French history and geography teacher Samuel Paty as they attend a tribute ceremony in Paris, on October 16, 2021. (Alain Jocard/AFP)
December 21, 2024, 1:25 am
French court convicts 8 people of involvement in 2020 beheading of teacher
Two friends of dead attacker sentenced to 16 years in prison for complicity in murder; father of schoolgirl whose lies sparked killing sentenced to 13 years
By TOM NOUVIAN and Samuel Petrequin
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy (L) at a court hearing in Paris on June 15, 2021. (Christophe Archambault/AFP)
May 17, 2023, 7:19 pm
French court upholds Sarkozy’s graft sentence in wiretapping case
Former president plans on appealing the ruling that found him guilty of founding a ‘corruption pact’ with his lawyer and a judge
By Anne Lec'hvien and Anne-Sophie LASSERRE
A victim under a blanket lays dead outside the Bataclan theater in Paris, Nov. 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
June 29, 2022, 11:06 pm
Court finds 19 men guilty of terrorism-related charges in 2015 Paris attacks trial
Salah Abdeslam, the chief suspect in the case, faces up to life in prison without parole, the toughest sentence possible under France’s justice system
By NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY and Barbara Surk
French far-right media pundit Eric Zemmour, surrounded by bodyguards, arrives to visit the "Made in France" fair at the Porte de Versailles in Paris, on November 14, 2021. (Thomas Samson/AFP)
November 17, 2021, 2:24 pm
French far-right candidate on trial for hate speech over comments on migrants
Eric Zemmour, a Jewish TV pundit who is expected to run for president, already has two prior hate speech convictions
By Sylvie Corbet
The teenager identifying herself online as Mila, center right, leaves the courtroom on Monday, June 21, 2021 in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
June 22, 2021, 6:35 pm
French teen critical of Islam becomes center of free speech debate
13 people are on trial in Paris for harassing the girl, known as Mila, forcing her to leave school and be placed under police protection
By Stuart Williams and Guillaume DAUDIN
Claire Gimpel arrives in the Paris appeals court courtroom for the opening of a trial with members of her family, descendants of Jewish art collector Rene Gimpel, who filed suit against the state for restitution of three Andre Derain paintings looted during WWII in Paris; June 25, 2019. (Jacques DEMARTHON/AFP)
October 1, 2020, 8:14 am
Court orders France to return art to Jewish collector’s heirs
Early 20th century paintings by Andre Derain were taken as spoils in WWII after their owner, Rene Gimpel, was denounced by a rival dealer for joining the resistance
By AFP
Police officers stand guard outside a Paris courthouse on September 2, 2020, on the opening day of the trial of 14 suspected accomplices in the Charlie Hebdo jihadist killings. (Thomas Coex/AFP)
September 8, 2020, 10:53 pm
Survivor of Charlie Hebdo attack recalls ‘horror’ at trial
It took a long time for Corinne Rey, 38, forced at gunpoint to open the office door by killers Cherif and Said Kouachi, to understand ‘that I am not the guilty one’
By Anne-Sophie LASSERRE and Valentin Bontemps
Journalists queue to enter the courthouse before the trial of accomplices in the January 2015 attacks in Paris, September 2, 2020 in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
September 2, 2020, 11:25 am
14 go on trial for aiding 2015 Paris attacks that sparked terror wave
Accused accomplices in deadly shootings at Charlie Hebdo magazine and kosher supermarket claim they thought they were abetting an ordinary crime
By Lori Hinnant and NICOLAS VAUX-MONTAGNY
Illustrative: Employees checking the arrival of the then forthcoming edition of the weekly satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, on January 13, 2015, Paris, France. (AFP/Martin Bureau)
September 1, 2020, 4:29 pm
French paper attacked in 2015 reprints Prophet Muhammad caricatures
Satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo says publishing the cartoon that offended Muslims is necessary, as accomplices in terror attack and subsequent attack on Jewish food shop go on trial
By Agencies
Rifaat Assad, an uncle of Syrian President Bashar Assad, speaks with the Associated Press on November 15, 2011, in Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
June 17, 2020, 3:56 pm
Uncle of Syria’s Assad sentenced to prison in France for graft
Rifaat Assad, who was convicted of money laundering and misappropriating Syrian public funds, handed 4-year prison sentence by French court
By AFP
Saudi princess Hassa bint Salman's bodyguard Raina Said, right, arrives at the courthouse with his lawyer Yassine Bouzrou, left, in Paris, September 12, 2019. The only daughter of Saudi Arabia's King Salman has been found guilty by a Paris court of charges that she ordered her bodyguard to detain and strike a plumber for taking photos at the Saudi royal family's apartment in the French capital. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
September 12, 2019, 9:28 pm
Paris court finds Saudi princess guilty in beating of plumber
Hessa bint Salman, daughter of Saudi king, became enraged when she saw plumber at royal residence taking her picture, ordered bodyguard to assault him
By John Leicester
A court sketch made on January 22, 2019 at the Brussels Justice Palace, shows people watching video images during the trial of French jihadist Mehdi Nemmouche, accused of shooting four people dead at a Jewish museum in Brussels on May 24, 2014, allegedly the first Syria jihad veteran to stage a terror attack in Europe. (Igor Preys/BELGA/AFP)
January 30, 2019, 5:55 pm
Lawyer for victim in Belgian Jewish museum terror attack threatened
Prosecutors say someone broke into the office of Vincent Lurquin, who represents a woman present at the jihadist shooting, stole a computer and left a fake Kalashnikov rifle
By AP
French national Peter Cherif, right, alleged associate of the Kouachi brothers, perpetrators of 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack, is extradited to France at Djibouti International Airport in Djibouti on December 22, 2018. (Houssein Hersi/AFP)
December 27, 2018, 9:44 pm
Key French jihadist Peter Cherif set to return to prison
High-ranking member of Al-Qaeda’s most dangerous branch, now in French custody, linked to perpetrators of Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher terror attacks
By Mehdi CHERIFIA
Illustrative photo of a phone scammer (Photo credit: lolostock/iStock)
November 7, 2018, 9:03 am
Victims of French-Israeli ads scam to get some money back, not from Israel
Funds stolen from French small business owners in ‘directory scam’ allegedly ended up in Israel, but Israel authorities have not helped with probe or frozen suspects’ bank accounts
By Pierre Assouline and Simona Weinglass
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