Hugh Schofield

And that, the prosecution said, was his motivation.

He protested his innocence.

The defence said there was no tangible proof of any of this.

And obviously, it was quite hard to establish exactly what had happened in cases which were so old.

But the court believed that he was responsible in all these cases, 30 overall, 12 of them resulting in deaths.

And they've given him this very stiff punishment of imprisonment for life, basically.

So are you prepared to, when Russia says it wants the whole of the Donbass region, what do you say?

The Labour Tribunal is more used to settling complaints for unfair dismissal from shop assistants and office staff, but this is an affair in which phantasmagorical sums of money have been at stake.

Kylian Mbappe, who left the club in such bitter circumstances in June 2024, wanted €260 million, $306 million, from PSG.

PSG countersued for €440 million, $518 million.

In the end, the tribunal has found for Mbappe, but awarded him a smaller sum than what his lawyers were demanding.

Essentially, the €60 million, or $71 million, amounts to the salary and bonuses that he says PSG failed to pay him at the end of his time there when the club was furious at his refusal to extend his contract.

At around 9.30 this morning, so when the museum had already opened, the gang of three or four men armed with cutters, they broke into the Apollo Gallery, which is where what remains of the French crown jewels are kept.

There they opened two display cases and made off with several items of jewellery.

The whole operation took seven minutes and the men left the scene on motorbikes.

It's not known what precisely were the items stolen, but the Interior Ministry said they were of inestimable historical and cultural value.

We now have, after a very, very tense couple of hours, we have a definitive verdict and sentence on Marine Le Pen. And that sentence is the worst she could possibly have hoped for. In other words, a five-year period of ineligibility to be carried out straight away, regardless of whether or not she appeals. And this is the key point in all of this.

We now have, after a very, very tense couple of hours, we have a definitive verdict and sentence on Marine Le Pen. And that sentence is the worst she could possibly have hoped for. In other words, a five-year period of ineligibility to be carried out straight away, regardless of whether or not she appeals. And this is the key point in all of this.

I think everyone, even she herself, expected to be convicted on the charges. But the key question was what she would be sentenced to. And there was... Ein legaler Satz, der am Herzen ist, der französische Exekution Provisoire. Wenn diese Worte von der Präsidentin des Gerichts, dem Gericht, geäußert wurden, würde das Zeitraum der Unabhängigkeit direkt aufhören. Sie hat diese Worte geäußert.

I think everyone, even she herself, expected to be convicted on the charges. But the key question was what she would be sentenced to. And there was... Ein legaler Satz, der am Herzen ist, der französische Exekution Provisoire. Wenn diese Worte von der Präsidentin des Gerichts, dem Gericht, geäußert wurden, würde das Zeitraum der Unabhängigkeit direkt aufhören. Sie hat diese Worte geäußert.