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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The custody of LFI MEP Rima Hassan was lifted Thursday evening in Paris over charges of «terrorism apology» stemming from an X post on March 26. The Paris prosecutor's office announced she will stand trial on July 7 before the correctional tribunal. A search revealed small amounts of CBD and 3MMC in her belongings, prompting a separate procedure.
Hicham Harb, a 72-year-old Palestinian suspected of supervising the 1982 antisemitic attack on Rue des Rosiers in Paris, was placed in pre-trial detention on Friday after extradition to France. Arrested by Palestinian authorities in September 2025, he had been subject to an arrest warrant since 2015. The National Counter-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office announced his upcoming appearance before a special anti-terrorism assizes court.
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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.
David G., a 36-year-old municipal employee, appeared Tuesday before the Paris correctional court on charges of sexually assaulting nine children and two colleagues.
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Nicolas Sarkozy, sentenced in first instance to five years' firm prison for criminal association in the Libyan financing case, relies on his former chief of staff Claude Guéant in the appeal. Absent for medical reasons, Guéant may take responsibility for 2005 meetings in Tripoli with Abdallah Senoussi. The trial's outcome largely depends on these exchanges also involving Brice Hortefeux.
Daisy Duveau, the new RN mayor of Grenay in Pas-de-Calais, has removed a commemorative plaque honoring Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese militant convicted of terrorism and released last summer. This decision, one of her first acts, aims to restore the town's dignity, according to the mayor. RN deputy Bruno Bilde praised the move.
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La France insoumise MEP Rima Hassan held a press conference on April 3, denouncing 'judicial political harassment' following her April 2 custody in Paris for suspected apology of terrorism over a March 26 X post. Substances including legal CBD and synthetic drug 3MMC were found in her bag; she faces trial on July 7.