Jean-Bédel Bokassa was a Central African political and military leader. He became the second president of the Central African Republic (CAR) after seizing power in the Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état on 1 January 1966. He later established the Central African Empire (CAE) with himself as emperor,reigning as Bokassa I until his overthrow in a 1979 coup.
Alain Marie Juppé is a French politician. A member of The Republicans,he was Prime Minister of France from 1995 to 1997 under President Jacques Chirac,during which period he faced major strikes that paralysed the country and became very unpopular. He left office after the victory of the left in the snap 1997 legislative elections. He had previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1995,and as Minister of the Budget and Spokesman for the Government from 1986 to 1988. He was president of the political party Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) from 2002 to 2004 and mayor of Bordeaux from 2006 to 2019.
In the 1980s and 1990s there were,in the Paris region (Île-de-France),multiple instances of alleged and proved political corruption cases,as well as cases of abuse of public money and resources. Almost all involved were members of the conservative Rally for the Republic (RPR) ruling party,which became the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) in 2002.
Jean-Louis Debré is a former French judge and politician who served as President of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007 and President of the Constitutional Council from 2007 to 2016. He was Minister of the Interior from 1995 until 1997 during the presidency of Jacques Chirac. Since 2016 he has been President of the Superior Council of Archives.
Michel Tabachnik is a Swiss conductor and composer with an international career. A promoter of contemporary music,he has premiered a dozen works by Iannis Xenakis,among others. He is also the author of essays on music and novels. In 1995,he was implicated in the case regarding the mass murder-suicides of the Order of the Solar Temple,from which he was acquitted by the courts.
The murder of Ilan Halimi was the kidnapping,torture,and murder of a young Frenchman of Moroccan Jewish ancestry in France in 2006. Halimi was kidnapped on 21 January 2006 by a group calling themselves the Gang of Barbarians. The kidnappers,believing that all Jews are rich,repeatedly contacted the victim's modestly placed family demanding very large sums of money. Halimi was held captive and tortured for three weeks,and died of his injuries. The case drew national and international attention as an example of antisemitism in France.
François Charles Armand Fillon is a French retired politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy. He was the nominee of The Republicans,the country's largest centre-right political party,for the 2017 presidential election in which he ranked third in the first round of voting.
The Maison de Balzac is a writer's house museum in the former residence of French novelist Honoréde Balzac (1799–1850). It is located in the 16th arrondissement at 47,rue Raynouard,Paris,France,and open daily except Mondays and holidays;admission to the house is free,but a fee is charged for its temporary exhibitions. The nearest métro and RER stations are Passy and Avenue du Président Kennedy.
Louis Charles Eugène Protot was a French lawyer (avocat) and a political opponent of the Second Empire. During the Paris Commune in 1871,he was minister of justice for a month before going into exile until 1880. After his return to France he was prevented from working at the Bar and earned a living as a specialist in Oriental languages.
Richard Malka is a French lawyer,comics writer and novelist. As lawyer Malka in 2007 successfully defended Charlie Hebdo editor Philippe Val against charges of racism following the magazine's publication of Mohammad caricatures. Other clients include Clearstream,Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Caroline Fourest.
Salah Abdeslam is a Belgian-born Islamic terrorist who was sentenced to life in prison in France in 2022 as the only surviving member of the 10-man unit that carried out the attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015,in which 130 people were killed and more than 490 injured.
Patrick Klugman is a French attorney at the Paris bar and a politician. He is a former president of the Union des étudiants juifs de France,and is an anti-racist activist.
The Brussels Islamic State terror cell was a group involved in large-scale terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015 and Brussels in March 2016. The terror cell was connected to the Islamic State (IS),a jihadist terrorist organisation primarily based in Syria and Iraq.
Gabriel de Lurieu was a French author and playwright.
Sarah Halimi was a retired French doctor and schoolteacher who was attacked and killed in her apartment on 4 April 2017. Circumstances surrounding the killing—including the fact that Halimi was Jewish,and that the assailant had shouted Allahu akbar during the attack and afterward proclaimed "I killed the Shaitan"—cemented the public perception,particularly among the French Jewish community,that it was a stark example of antisemitism in modern France.
Mireille Knoll was an 85-year-old French Jewish woman and Holocaust survivor who was murdered in her Paris apartment on 23 March 2018. The murder has been officially described by French authorities as an antisemitic hate crime,which has since been on the rise in France.
The Paris attacks trial was the trial in Paris,France,of twenty men accused of involvement in the Paris terrorist attacks of 13 November 2015,which killed 130 people and injured hundreds. The ten-month trial was the longest criminal trial in French history and took place in a specially built courtroom inside the Palais de Justice before five judges presided over by Jean-Louis Périès. The court sat for 148 days between 8 September 2021 and 27 June 2022. Verdicts were delivered on 29 June 2022. Nineteen of the twenty defendants were found guilty of all charges and sentenced to prison terms ranging from four years to full-life. One defendant was found guilty of fraud but not terrorist involvement and sentenced to two years imprisonment. In France the trial is also known as V13 as the attacks took place on Friday the 13th.
Benjamin Haddad is a French politician who has served as Minister Delegate for European Affairs in the government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier since 2024. A member of Renaissance (RE),he previously served in the National Assembly from 2022 to 2024,representing Paris's 14th constituency,which encompasses most of its 16th arrondissement.
Jean-Pierre Charles Lecoq is a French politician.
François Vauglin is a French politician of the Socialist Party. Since 2014,he has served as mayor of the 11th arrondissement of Paris. As mayor,he oversaw the Charlie Hebdo shooting,part of the November 2015 Paris attacks,the murder of Mireille Knoll and the killing of Sarah Halimi,which occurred in the arrondissement. He served as president of Homosexualités et Socialisme from 1997 to 2002,and has been a member of the Council of Paris since 2008.
