One of the “grandpa robbers” found guilty of stealing jewellery worth millions from reality TV star Kim Kardashian has died one month after being convicted, French media have said. Didier Dubreucq, 69, was diagnosed with lung cancer while in detention prior to going on trial and had been undergoing chemotherapy. In May, he and seven...
Austria’s former chancellor Sebastian Kurz has won his appeal against a conviction for giving false testimony to a parliamentary committee. The court’s ruling overturns last year’s judgement and eight-month suspended prison sentence for the former political star. Once hailed a wunderkind of Europe’s conservatives, the 38-year-old resigned as chancellor in 2021 and quit politics amid...
France’s far-right National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen called a court ruling that bans her from running for office for five years a “political decision” at a rally in Paris on Sunday. “I won’t give up,” she told thousands of flag-waving supporters in Place Vauban, close to the Eiffel Tower. She was on Monday...
Former Barcelona and Brazil defender Dani Alves has had a rape conviction overturned on appeal by a Spanish court. The appeals division of Catalonia’s High Court of Justice unanimously upheld the appeal by the 41-year-old and acquitted him, saying the case against him had “inconsistencies and contradictions”. Alves was sentenced to four and a half...
