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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
Fifteen ex-employees of the Eiffel Tower have been
convicted for stealing €700,000 from ticket receipts
for visits to the world’s most popular monument. The
accused took advantage of loopholes in the ticketing
system which has now been updated. The staff, aged
between 35 and 64, received suspended prison sentences
and were ordered to repay the money with interest.
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
In an unprecedented case, the Paris
prosecutor has launched investigations
into claims that President Omar Bongo
of Gabon has been the beneficiary of
stolen government funds in his country.
The original complaint was made by a
lawyer, William Bourdon, President of the
NGO Sherpa; he claimed that the President
could not possibly have acquired the
valuable properties he and his family owns
in the 16th arrondissement of Paris without
dipping into public funds given to Gabon
to alleviate poverty.
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
Eighty people have appeared in court suspected of stealing and
dealing in stolen metal.
With the recent boom in the price of semi-precious metals
there have been thefts throughout France. Most popular with
thieves are copper and stainless steel. In the Bas-Rhin, bronze
plaques were levered off a local war memorial. Houses
benefiting from the new fashion for copper gutters and
downpipes are particularly vulnerable but the biggest victims
have been France Telecom and the railway authority SNCF.
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
A small piece of legal history has been made in court in
Rouen by the anti-advert hoarding campaigners the
Collectif des déboulonneurs.
Although the Collectif admitted deliberately defacing
a publicity poster with slogans such as “Pub = pollution” and
“La Pub fait dé-penser”, Rouen’s public prosecutor
asked for no sanction. The court
decided on a symbolic one euro fine.
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
On the night of the final victory of Nicolas
Sarkozy when, for the first time since 1978,
a government won a renewed majority in the
national assembly, the Socialists also celebrated
winning more seats than the polls had
predicted. It was a good night for getting out
bad news. Ségolène Royal chose the moment to
announce the departure of the father of her four
children, Socialist party secretary François
Hollande, from the family home. The mini
political bombshell also followed a new book
by journalists Raphaëlle Bacqué and Ariane
Chemin, that “reveals all” about the effect of
the two Socialist leaders’ relationship in the
presidential race. Ségolène is about to bring out
a book too any day now. Perhaps it will try and
explain why she was talking about marrying the
poor fellow only the other day.
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