François Burgat, 78, was sentenced on May 27 by the Aix-en-Provence appeal court to a fine and payment of damages to civil parties. Acquitted at first instance, the former CNRS research director has filed an appeal to the Court of Cassation.
The academic was prosecuted for statements made or reposted on his X account in 2024, including the sharing of a Hamas communiqué saluting the “blessed Operation al-Aqsa Flood”.
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Convicted Tuesday by the Paris Court of Appeal, Marine Le Pen announced the same evening on TF1 that she would run in the 2027 presidential election while filing a Cassation appeal.
A 27-year-old Tunisian man was arrested on May 7 and charged on Monday with planning a jihadist attack on a Paris museum, possibly the Louvre.
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Paris investigating judges ordered a general dismissal of charges in favor of independence leader Christian Tein and CCAT militants, two years after the 2024 riots in New Caledonia. The Paris prosecution immediately appealed the ruling.