Jean-Bédel Bokassa,also known as Bokassa I,was a Central African political and military leader who served as the second president of the Central African Republic (CAR) and as the emperor of its successor state,the Central African Empire (CAE),from the Saint-Sylvestre coup d'état on 1 January 1966 until his overthrow in a subsequent coup in 1979.
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.
Gaston Flosse is a French Polynesian politician who has been President of French Polynesia on five separate occasions. He is currently a member of the Senate of France and has been a French junior minister under Jacques Chirac. He received sentences for corruption,which are under appeal.
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 French municipal elections of 2008 were held on 9 and 16 March to elect the municipal councils of France's 36,782 communes. The first task of each newly constituted municipal council was to elect a mayor.
Chaillot is a quarter of Paris,France,located in the 16th arrondissement,on the Right Bank. It is adjacent to Passy to the southwest and is bound by Avenue de la Grande-Armée to the north.
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.
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.
Paris Centre is an administrative division of Paris encompassing the 1st,2nd,3rd and 4th arrondissements of the city.
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.
Antony Daniel Teva Géros is a French Polynesian politician and current President of the Assembly of French Polynesia. He has previously served as a Cabinet Minister,and three times as vice-president of French Polynesia. Since 2020 he has served as Mayor of Paea. He is a member of pro-independence party Tavini Huiraatira.
Vincent Dubois is a French Polynesian lawyer and politician who represented French Polynesia in the Senate of France from 2014 to 2015. He is the son-in-law of Tahoera'a Huiraatira leader Gaston Flosse.
