Chirac's would-be assassin jailed
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A student who tried to assassinate French President Jacques Chirac is sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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A French mercenary fails to attend a trial over his suspended sentence for a coup attempt in the Comoros.
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A French court on Friday sentenced the French neo-Nazi who tried to shoot President Jacques Chirac during the Bastille Day parade in 2002 to 10 years in prison.
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A French court sentenced 10 people to prison terms of up to 10 years for taking part in a conspiracy to blow up a Christmas market in the eastern city of Strasbourg.
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An Algerian man is sentenced to life in jail for helping to fund the deadly 1995 Paris Metro bomb attacks.
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Prosecutors demanded life imprisonment Wednesday for a man on trial for allegedly killing two girls and a woman in a series of murders three years ago that shocked France.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va.  - A prominent Muslim activist who admitted participating in a Libyan plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia's crown prince was sentenced Friday to the maximum 23 years in prison for illegal business dealings with Libya.
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An Indian court has sentenced the son of an influential politician to life behind bars for the murder of a young model, a crime he could have got away with had there not been a public outcry.
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A French court sentences a former Eta military commander to 30 years in prison for the attempted murder of a policeman.
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A man who said he had failed in life admitted Monday he tried to assassinate President Jacques Chirac, and told a court he wanted to go down in history with a shocking act.
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NICE, France  - A brother and sister were sentenced by a French court to 25 years jail each on Friday after being convicted over the killing of her estranged husband, Lord Shaftesbury, to stop a love rival inheriting a fortune.
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A man who told people their loved ones had been killed on holiday is jailed for six months.
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An Islamist extremist who hatched a plot to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier then publish the footage on the Internet was jailed for life on Monday.
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A loyalist who confessed to the "cruel and callous" murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane is jailed for life.
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France on Friday extradited to Bulgaria Vasil Kachikov, a Bulgarian national suspected of complicity in the assassination of one of his country's underworld bosses in Amsterdam about a year ago.
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A former military commander of Spain's Basque separatist group ETA was handed a 30-year jail sentence Wednesday for the near-fatal shooting of a French gendarme in 2001.
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Former Panamanian dictator to be extradited to France after completing a prison sentence in Miami.