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The Administrative Court of Bordeaux has rejected an environmental association's request to suspend the construction of a controversial Flying Whales airship factory in Laruscade, Gironde, validating its implantation.
A French court has ordered the state to suspend ptarmigan hunting for five years. These birds are primarily found in Arctic and boreal regions, with small, isolated groups in the French Alps and Pyrenees.
A French court on Thursday (February 26) sentenced Iranian national Mahdieh Esfandiari to prison for justifying terrorism in a case linked to a possible prisoner swap with two French citizens held in…
A French court on Thursday sentenced an Iranian woman, Mahdieh Esfandiari, to one year in prison on charges of justifying terrorism in a move that observers believe could spur Paris' negotiations with Tehran for the release of French nationals Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, who are detained in Iran.
A French administrative court upheld a speeding fine for a woman who drove 43 km/h over the limit to take her cancer-stricken husband to urgent medical care, ruling it lacked jurisdiction to overturn the sanction based on medical emergency.
A French administrative court annulled the procedure for awarding a water market contract in the Île-de-France region to Suez, citing a violation of the principle of equal treatment for candidates.
Amélie de Montchalin, the newly appointed president of the French Court of Auditors, will recuse herself from debates concerning public finances for 2025. Her appointment sparked controversy due to potential conflicts of interest, as she previously served as a government minister.
A French court has suspended Georgia's $383 million payment to ENKA Renewables, the company involved in the Namakhvani HPP project, following the termination of their contract in 2021.
A French appeal court upheld one jail term and reduced three others over the chain of events that led to the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty by a Chechen jihadist in October 2020.
A French court upheld the Interior Ministry's decision to label Jean-Luc Mélenchon's La France Insoumise (LFI) as 'far left,' rejecting the party's appeal and impacting its candidates' classification in upcoming municipal elections.
An Iranian national, Mahdieh Esfandiari, has been sentenced to a year in prison by a French court for promoting terrorism on social media. Observers suggest she could become a bargaining chip in negotiations with Tehran for the release of French nationals held in Iran.
A French court is set to deliver its verdict in the trial of Iranian Mahdieh Esfandiari, accused of glorifying terrorism, with speculation she could be a bargaining chip for French nationals held in Tehran.
A French court handed suspended prison sentences and five-year bans from France to three men from Gozo who were arrested last month in the Savoie region in connection with a large-scale crime.
A French court has confirmed the decision to ban beach restaurants (paillotes) in La Grande Motte, rejecting an appeal by the mayor and three operating companies.
A French court has acquitted a former DGSE engineer accused of delivering classified defense information to a foreign power, despite the prosecution's request for a four-year prison sentence.
A former French Senate adviser has received a one-year suspended sentence for collecting over 1,800 sexual images, primarily taken without consent in public.
A French court on Monday reduced on appeal the prison sentences of three men convicted over the 2020 jihadist beheading of a teacher who showed a class cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Samuel Paty, 47, was murdered in October 2020 by Abdoullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old radical Islamist of Chechen origin, in an act that horrified France. Anzorov was killed in a shoot-out with police. Two friends of Anzorov, French national Naim Boudaoud and Azim Epsirkhanov, a Russian of Chechen origin, had th...
A French court has sentenced an Iranian woman, Mahdieh Esfandiari, to one year in prison on charges of promoting terrorism.
A French court has sentenced Iranian national Mahdieh Esfandiari for justifying terrorism, in a case potentially linked to a prisoner swap for two French citizens held in Iran.
The French Court of Accounts has issued a warning regarding the conditions of a contract between the French state and GazelEnergie, the operator of the Gardanne power plant, highlighting a significant increase in public support to 1.5 billion euros.
Former Wagner Group members are reportedly serving as security agents on ships belonging to Russia's 'ghost fleet,' as revealed in a French court case.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's legal team has requested a French court to merge two conviction sentences into time served with an ankle monitor.
A French court is set to determine its jurisdiction over the Chinese captain of the oil tanker Boracay, which is reportedly part of Russia's 'shadow fleet,' after he failed to comply with French navy orders off the coast of Brittany.