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French company liable after employee dies during sex on business trip

September 11, 2019 World Justice News 0

A French company has been found liable for the death of an employee who had a cardiac arrest while having sex with a stranger on a business trip. A Paris court ruled that his death […]

French rooster Maurice wins battle over noise with neighbours

September 7, 2019 World Justice News 0

A French court has ruled in favour of a cockerel owner after her bird’s early morning crowing provoked a noise pollution complaint from neighbours. Maurice, who roosts on the picturesque isle of Oléron off the […]

French ‘cybercops’ dismantle pirate computer network

August 28, 2019 World Justice News 0

A team of French police dubbed “cybergendarmes” has destroyed a virus that infected more than 850,000 computers worldwide, authorities say. The network of infected computers, known as a botnet, was controlled from France and is […]

Paris waiter ‘shot dead over slow sandwich service’

August 17, 2019 World Justice News 0

A waiter in Paris has been shot dead by a customer who was reportedly angry because his sandwich wasn’t prepared quickly enough. Police say a murder investigation has been launched after the incident on Friday […]

Tate Modern: Teenager in court after six-year-old boy thrown from 10th floor

August 6, 2019 World Justice News 0

A teenager has appeared in court charged with attempted murder after a six-year-old boy was allegedly thrown from the 10th floor of the Tate Modern. The child, who was found on a fifth-floor roof after […]

French drug smuggler’s death sentence in Indonesia ‘commuted to 19 years’

August 2, 2019 World Justice News 0

A Frenchman sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Indonesia has had his sentence commuted to 19 years in jail, his lawyer and media have said. Félix Dorfin, 35, had been convicted of trafficking about […]

France’s MeToo creator on trial for defaming man she accused

May 30, 2019 World Justice News 0

The woman who started France’s campaign to encourage women to expose their sexual harassers has appeared in court over allegations of defamation. Sandra Muller is being sued by Eric Brion, who she named when she […]

Woman of 102 suspected of care home murder in France

May 23, 2019 World Justice News 0

A 102-year-old woman is suspected of having murdered her 92-year-old neighbour in a French retirement home. The suspected killer is now in a psychiatric hospital. Earlier she told one of the carers that she had […]

Josu Ternera, leader of Eta Basque rebels, arrested in France

May 16, 2019 World Justice News 0

The political leader of the Basque separatist group Eta has been arrested in the French Alps after 17 years on the run, officials say. In a joint French-Spanish police operation, Josu Ternera – whose real […]

France Telecom suicides: Former bosses go on trial

May 6, 2019 World Justice News 0

The ex-boss of France Telecom and six other former executives have gone on trial in Paris, accused of moral harassment linked to a spate of suicides among employees. Didier Lombard and his fellow defendants deny […]

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Nigerian court orders UK to pay £420m over 1949 killing of miners

February 8, 2026 0

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay $27m (£20m) to each of the families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by the colonial administration in the south-east of the country. The […]

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Rape trial puts Norway’s royal family in unwelcome glare of public

February 1, 2026 0

When Marius Borg Høiby stands up in room 250 at Oslo district court on Tuesday, at the start of Norway’s biggest trial in years, he will have no moral support from his closest relatives. His […]

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France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex

February 1, 2026 0

France is to enshrine in law the end of so-called “conjugal rights” – the notion that marriage means a duty to have sex. A bill approved on Wednesday in the National Assembly adds a clause […]