World May 28 French pedophile sentenced to 20 years in jail for sexually assaulting hundreds of patients in his care Most of the 299 victims were unconscious or sedated hospital patients at the time of the assaults. The average age was 11.
World May 13 Kim Kardashian describes being bound and held at gunpoint in robbery trial testimony Kim Kardashian says she feared she would be raped and killed during a 2016 armed robbery in Paris. She testified in the trial Tuesday, confronting for the first time the men accused of tying her up at gunpoint in her…
World Feb 24 A French surgeon is on trial accused of raping or abusing 299 people, mostly child patients A former surgeon went on trial in France on Monday for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims, most of them children who were his patients, in what investigators and his own notebooks describe as a pattern of…
Nation Jan 16 American accused of sexual assault has been extradited from France to the U.S. An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said “So I raped you” was extradited Thursday from France to the United States.
World Jun 10 Children stabbed in France no longer in life-threatening condition, suspect charged Four young children stabbed in a playground in the French Alps are no longer in life-threatening condition but remain hospitalized, the regional prosecutor said Saturday, as the suspected attacker was handed preliminary charges of attempted murder.
World Oct 09 Families seek truth as Airbus, Air France face trial over 2009 crash Aviation industry heavyweights Airbus and Air France are charged with manslaughter in a trial that opens Monday over the crash of Flight 447 on June 1, 2009, killing all 228 people aboard.
World Jun 29 Lone surviving attacker in 2015 Paris attacks gets life in prison, no parole The only surviving attacker from the 2015 terrorist massacre at the Bataclan theater and other sites in Paris has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. That is the most severe sentence possible…
Arts Jan 19 French actor Gaspard Ulliel dies in skiing collision French actor Gaspard Ulliel has died after a skiing accident in the Alps, according to his agent's office.
World Sep 30 French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy convicted in campaign financing case It is the first time in France's modern history that a former president has been convicted and sentenced to a prison term for actions during his term.
World Sep 08 Paris terror trial opens for 20 accused in 2015 attacks Nine Islamic State group gunmen and suicide bombers struck within minutes of one another at several locations around Paris on Nov. 13, 2015, leaving 130 people dead and hundreds wounded.