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Six Frenchmen were sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday by an Iraqi court for membership of the Islamic State group. A seventh received 15 years in prison. One of the lawyers has already announced that he would make a call.
On Tuesday, an Iraqi court sentenced six French nationals to life imprisonment and one seventh to 15 years in prison for membership of the ISIS group. Marie-Charlotte Rupie is live from Baghdad.
MEPs almost unanimously rejected on Friday in committee the "revenues" part of the 2027 state budget, a setback, but without immediate consequences, with the text returning to the House on Tuesday in the initial version of the government. On the side of high school mobilizations, the student and professional interunion called for a new day of mobilization Tuesday, October 13.
How do the French perceive this student anger movement? On Tuesday, parents and union activists joined the demonstrations, a sign of a possible convergence of mobilizations. According to two separate polls, one in two Frenchmen said they supported the movement.
After listening to Emmanuel Macron's speech at the Elysée, Pope Leo XIV took the floor behind the same desk on Friday 25 September, affirming that "just secularism does not consist in excluding religion from public space", and judging "urgent" dialogue between "people of different cultural and religious affiliations", seven months from the presidential election.
In recent weeks, Internet users have been seeking through their publications to tarnish Franco-Ivoirian relations. Both by ensuring that Paris will offer Abidjan its first metro line, and by saying that France wants to humiliate Côte d'Ivoire by giving it tons of condoms and hygienic protections. Explanations.
Former French jihadist Othman Garrido, accused of being an Islamic State executioner, was sentenced on Tuesday night by the Paris Special Assize Court to 30 years' imprisonment with a two-thirds security sentence.
Azerbaijan pardoned French prisoner Martin Ryan, according to a presidential decree published on Wednesday. This 38-year-old businessman had been sentenced in March to ten years in prison for "espionage", in a context of tensions between Baku and Paris.
In the face of rising prices at the pump and the concern of French motorists, the government announced on Tuesday the extension until the end of the year of aid for large motorists. The scheme will also be expanded to cover up to 5.5 million potential beneficiaries.
The trial of six French nationals accused of membership of the Islamic State organization began on Sunday, 20 September, in Baghdad. Our correspondent Marie-Charlotte Rupie tells us more.
Six French nationals suspected of belonging to the Islamic State (IS) organization are tried from Sunday in Baghdad, Iraq, where they face the death penalty. Iraqi prisons, already full of ISIS suspects, have been hosting thousands of detainees from Syria since last year.
