Tag: prison
Why Georges Tron, mayor of Draveil, resigned after three months in prison?
Georges Tron, imprisoned in February after being convicted of rape, finally announced on Tuesday his intention to resign from his mandate as mayor – Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All…
Navalny defends his complaints against the prison administration
Alexeï Navalny appeared from prison, by videoconference. – Evgeny Odinokov / SPUTNIK / SIPA A Russian court was examining this Wednesday three complaints by the imprisoned opponent Alexeï Navalny against…
Detainee found dead in his cell at Vannes prison
Illustration of the interior of a prison. – C. Allain / 20 Minutes He was 31 years old and was due to serve a sentence of 23 months in prison.…
escaped from Périgueux prison, he was arrested in Italy
At Gradignan prison, near Bordeaux. (drawing) – UGO AMEZ A prisoner who had dressed up “in the old fashioned way”, by sawing the bars of his cell in the Périgueux…
Twenty-five years in prison for the murder of his wife in 2019
In court in Lyon. (archives) – AFP A violent husband was sentenced Friday to twenty-five years of criminal imprisonment by the Assizes du Rhône for the murder of his wife…
Six years in prison for a mother found responsible for the death of her baby
At the Grenoble court. (archives) – AFP A sentence of six years of criminal imprisonment was pronounced Friday evening by the Assize Court of Isère against a mother suspected of…
Sentences of 3 to 7 years in prison for the robbery of a Saudi prince
The facade of the courthouse in Paris. (Drawing) – Clément Follain / 20 Minutes Six of the seven men tried by the Paris Assize Court for having participated in the…
Suspended prison sentence for disabled activists who blocked airport runways
Of the 16 defendants in this trial, 11 are disabled. Drawing. – Mabel Amber – PixaBay 16 Toulouse accessibility activists were sentenced this Wednesday in Toulouse for blocking a TGV…
Doc Gyneco sentenced to five months suspended prison sentence and a fine of 2,000 euros
The artist Doc Gyneco was sentenced Tuesday in Paris to five months suspended imprisonment and a 2,000 euros fine for domestic violence. – SADAKA EDMOND / SIPA The verdict is…
Sentenced to prison for molesting a mayor
A mayor’s scarf. Drawing. – Raphael Bloch – Sipa The mayor of Saubens, Jean-Marc Bergia, says he is “satisfied” to turn “a painful page in his life as a city…