(NEWS. COMMENT AND ANALYSIS WITH MAINSTREAM MEDIA SOURCES)
"I am not very much at ease with this new society...I think my time is done"
In a courtroom this week acting legend Gerard Depardieu testified facing allegations by two women that he groped them on a film set in 2021.
76-year-old Depardieu saying he may have touched the women by accident or to maintain his balance but he had no intention to touch intimate parts of their bodies...
Prosecutors seeking an 18-month suspended sentence for Mr. Depardieu.
FORMER PRESIDENT NICOLAS SARKOZY, ALREADY CONVICTED OF CORRUPTION, AND SERVING HOUSE ARREST WITH AN ELECTONIC BRACELET, ON TRIAL IN ANOTHER CORRUPTION CASE THIS WEEK.
SARKOZY LINKED TO MILLIONS OF EUROS IN LIBYAN MONEY FLOWING TO HIS 2007 ELECTION CAMPAIGN.
HE WAS ACCUSED OF AN 'INDECENT CORRUPTION PACT' WITH LIBYA'S FORMER RULER MUAMMAR GADDAFI.
IT'S WORTH NOTING THAT PRESIDENT SARKOZY ORDERED MILITARY INTERVENTION IN LIBYA TO BRING DOWN GADAFFI'S REGIME WITH FRENCH WARPLANES CONDUCTING SOME OF THE FIRST OFFENSIVE ACTIONS.
THE PROSECUTORS IN THE CASE ENDED UP CALLING FOR MR. SARKOZY TO BE GIVEN A SEVEN YEAR PRISON SENTENCE, A 300 THOUSAND EURO ($323,910 US) FINE AND A FIVE-YEAR BAN.
Historic visits to Israel this week by French 'far-right' politicians to attend an "Antisemitism Conference" in Jerusalem.
National Rally President Jordan Bardella and Marion Marechal, politically estranged niece of Marine Le Pen, among attendees from many nations including politicians from various nationalist parties.
This caused some on the Left to pull out of the event including French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy and Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League in the United States...
IN PARIS THIS AFTERNOON A PROTEST HELD BY LES PATRIOTES THE POLITICAL FACTION THAT BROKE AWAY FROM THE NATIONAL RALLY.
LES PATRIOTES STAUNCHLY OPPOSED TO THE POSTURING OF PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON IN SUPPORT OF UKRAINE.
SPEAKING NEAR THE END OF THE RALLY LES PATRIOTES LEADER FLORIAN PHILIPPOT.
THE MESSAGE OF THIS EVENT ONE OF 'PEACE' IN OPPOSITION TO THE TOUGH ATTITUDE OF PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON AGAINST RUSSIA IN REGARDS TO THE UKRAINE WAR.
AN ATTITUDE THAT SEEMS TO WANT TO EXTEND THE WAR INSTEAD OF ENDING IT.
"US interference in French companies' inclusion policies is unacceptable, just like its unjustified tariff threats"
This weekend France's trade ministry saying it was 'unacceptable' for the US to warn French companies doing business with the US government that Diversity Equity and Inclusion programs were illegal under US anti-discrimination law...
That's the story about France this week.
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