A special tribunal on the crime of aggression against Ukraine in the Hague, the Netherlands, will not try Russian President Vladimir Putin in absentia as long he remains leader. Read more from @euronews
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#Putin #Hague #WarCrimes #Ukraine #Netherlands #Trial
ON TRIAL - not me, these powerful STIGA SC100e pruning shears. Apologies for the lack of make-up and messy hair but you get to see how these loppers work, enabling me to tackle jobs I thought were beyond me! Thanks to STIGA and Rabbit Attack PR.
#gardening #trial #tools #stiga #loppers #lessablegardening #empowerment #pruning
Judges who convicted Marine Le Pen on embezzlement charges and banned the far-right politician from public office for five years have faced death threats since the sentencing earlier this week. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Andrew Smith, lecturer in liberal arts at Queen Mary, University of London. He says that the ramping up of rhetoric against the judiciary is particularly dangerous and 'it reeks of 1934'.
#MarineLePen #France #trial
In his first reaction to Monday's court ruling against far-right leader
#MarineLePen , French president Emmanuel #Macron told members of the government that the country’s judiciary was "independent" and that "judges must be protected", according to an official present at the meeting. It comes after Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said an investigation had been opened into threats made against the panel of judges who convicted Le Pen.
#France #election #trial #embezzlement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRsdaFOnT7U
The thunderclap court ruling barring far-right politician Marine Le Pen from office for the immediate future reverberated across the political spectrum of France and Europe on Monday, with her supporters on the far right both in France and abroad branding the verdict an assault on democracy.
#MarineLePen #LePen #trial #France #embezzlement #FarRight
Luigi Mangione may get a laptop in jail to work on his defense in CEO murder case
Marine Le Pen is found guilty of embezzlement and barred from office.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was banned from running for public office with immediate effect after a court found her guilty of misappropriating EU funds through her National Rally party.
The ban will last for five years, as demanded by prosecutors. She has also been handed a four-year prison sentence to be served with an electronic tag.
Marine Le Pen has been banned from running for public office for 5 years effective immediately after she was found guilty, along with 8 other officials from her party National Rally, of embezzling EU Parliament funds.
This means she will not be able to run in the next presidential election in 2027
She has also been sentenced to four years in jail (two of which are suspended jail terms)
#MarineLePen #court #EU #trial #France #FarRight #embezzlement
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250331-%F0%9F%94%B4-french-court-convicts-far-right-leader-marine-le-pen-in-embezzlement-trial
A friend of Kimberly Sullivan, a Connecticut woman accused of keeping her stepson a prisoner in their home for decades, will testify in court that Sullivan never mentioned having a stepson in the 21 years she’s known her. Read more from @NBCNews
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#Connecticut #KimberlySullivan #Stepson #Trial #Crime
Prosecutors seek a seven-year jail term for ex-president Sarkozy in Libya trial.
French prosecutors have requested a seven-year jail sentence and a €300,000 fine for French former president Nicolas Sarkozy for allegedly taking millions of euros from late Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to help his 2007 election campaign.
Sarkozy, president of France from 2007-2012, denies the charges.
French prosecutors on Thursday requested a seven-year jail term for former president Nicolas #Sarkozy who is accused of illegally accepting funds for his successful 2007 presidential campaign from former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi .
#France #Libya #corruption #trial
French actor Gérard Depardieu acknowledged Tuesday that he aggressively subjected a woman who accuses him of sexual assault to vulgar and heated language and that he grabbed her hips but denied that his behavior was sexual as he testified for the first time at his landmark trial in Paris. @AssociatedPress reports:
https://apnews.com/article/france-depardieu-trial-sexual-assault-ceaa8cc98325319edad9d732fa7fd722
AP: Mangione asks for laptop to prepare for legal case while awaiting trial in killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO
Actor Gérard Depardieu arrived in a Paris court on Monday for his #trial over alleged sexual assaults on a film set, a case placing one of France's best-known movie stars at the heart of the country's broader reckoning over sexual violence.
#France #cinema #MeToo #SexualViolence #SexualAssault #justice
“‘I want to look my nieces in the eye and say I did everything I could’: eight Just Stop Oil supporters found GUILTY”
by The Canary @thecanaryuk
“During the trial the judge removed all legal defences from the jury’s consideration, ruled the climate emergency to be ‘irrelevant’ and forbade defendants from mentioning that a jury has a right to acquit a defendant as a matter of conscience”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/03/21/just-stop-oil-heathrow-10/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh
Israeli Strikes Kill 174+ Children in Gaza as Netanyahu Breaks Ceasefire to Save Political Career
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo66BHTjRW8
Fever pitch mass murder for more days in power.
Trial, a discount store operator based in the Kyushu region, said Wednesday that it will acquire supermarket operator Seiyu. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/03/06/companies/trial-seiyu-acquisition/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #trial #seiyu #kkr #supermarkets #acquisitions
“A coalition of media organizations, including the North Dakota Monitor, petitioned the state Supreme Court…seeking expanded access to the trial involving the #DakotaAccessPipeline developer & #Greenpeace. Southwest Judicial District Judge James Gion has denied #media requests for photography or video during the 5-week civil #trial... He also has denied requests for a public livestream or use of cellphones or recording devices during the trial…” | North Danota Monitor https://northdakotamonitor.com/2025/02/27/media-petition-north-dakota-supreme-court-for-expanded-access-to-greenpeace-trial/
