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Paris prosecutors said Friday they have launched a preliminary murder investigation over the death of a French TV journalist in Syria, with his network raising questions about a suspect military escort.
Initial charges have been filed against a photographer accused of swindling France's wealthiest woman, L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, out of about 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion).
The Paris prosecutor's office has dropped a preliminary investigation into a lawyer's claims that he arranged the handover of suitcases of cash from African leaders for then-French President Jacques Chirac, an official with the prosecutor's office said Wednesday.
Disgraced American cyclist Floyd Landis was convicted by a French court Thursday for his role in hacking into the computers of the anti-doping lab that caught him cheating at the 2006 Tour de France.
French prosecutors say Dominique Strauss-Kahn did something to a writer that qualifies as sexual assault, but they can't send him to trial because it happened too long ago and they are dropping the case.
The Paris prosecutor's office on Thursday dropped its investigation into a writer's claim that Dominique Strauss-Kahn tried to rape her, though it said the former IMF chief admitted to behavior that could qualify as sexual assault.
France must not extradite Rwanda's former first lady who has been sought by Rwandan prosecutors in connection with the African country's 1994 genocide, an appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Jacques Chirac's attorneys pleaded for an acquittal Friday in the alleged corruption trial against the former French president — the first of an ex-head of state here since World War II — arguing that judges "cannot sully Jacques Chirac ... without sullying France" itself.
A judicial official says the Paris prosecutor's office is opening a preliminary investigation into the claims of a French lawyer that former President Jacques Chirac received suitcases of cash from African leaders when he was in office.
Police questioned Dominique Strauss-Kahn for three hours Monday over accusations that the former International Monetary Fund chief tried to rape a writer during a 2003 interview, a judicial official said.
French investigators have questioned one of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's daughters, one of his ex-wives and may question a Socialist presidential hopeful about claims the former International Monetary Fund chief tried to rape a writer.
The new chief of the International Monetary Fund won a legal reprieve Friday when a French court delayed a decision on investigating whether she overstepped her authority in a divisive euro285 million ($406 million) arbitration deal.
French prosecutors have opened a judicial inquiry into alleged rape and sexual assault by a former minister and asked that he be charged.
A French court has postponed a decision on whether to open an investigation into Christine Lagarde, the country's finance minister and front-runner to take the helm at the International Monetary Fund, a judicial official said Friday.
Lawyers for Moammar Gadhafi's daughter filed suits Tuesday in Paris and Brussels, claiming war crimes by NATO and the alleged assassination in late April of four of the Libyan leader's relatives.
The French prosecutor's office opened a preliminary investigation Wednesday after a former government minister alleged that another ex-minister had participated in an orgy with young boys in Morocco.
A French prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation for murder and attempted murder in connection with the April 28 terror bombing in a Marrakech cafe that left 17 dead.
French investigators have dropped terror charges against 24 members of an exiled Iranian opposition group whose arrest in 2003 triggered several sympathizers to set themselves alight in protest.
A Paris appeals court sided with two police officers Wednesday, dropping a "failure to help" case against them for two teens whose deaths in 2005 led to weeks of rioting around France.
A Paris judicial official says France is extraditing a Rwandan rebel to the International Criminal Court to face accusations of orchestrating killings and rapes in neighboring Congo to gain political power.
France's defense ministry said Friday it will declassify photographs and video footage taken during a failed attempt by French forces to rescue two hostages earlier this month in Niger.
Paris anti-terrorism investigators have gone to Niger to probe the deaths of two French hostages killed amid a rescue operation led by French special forces, a judicial official said Monday.
A French appeals court on Friday upheld the convictions of 16 people for their roles in the 2006 kidnapping, torture and murder of a young French Jew, handing down sentences of up to 18 years in prison.
Former French President Jacques Chirac has been ordered to stand trial in a second party financing case dating back to his 1977-1995 tenure as Paris mayor, judicial officials said Monday.
French prosecutors want to drop a highly charged case against two police officers in the electrocution deaths of two teens that sparked fiery nationwide riots in 2005, a judicial official said Friday.
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