A former French energy boss now aged 99 stands trial Monday with others on charges of corruption, in a case dating back to 2002 that his lawyers slam as an abomination.
Jean Bonnefont is charged with distorting the energy market to ensure the favourable awarding of a contract for the heating and air conditioning of the La Defense business district in Paris.
Along with Bonnefont, a former executive of the Charbonnages de France mining firm, also going on trial at the court in Nanterre outside Paris are former Eaux-Vivendi executive Bernard Forterre, now 82, and businessman Antoine Benetti, 68. It is impossible to grasp that a 99-year-old man is going on trial, said Olivier Baratelli, Bonnefont s lawyer.
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CORRECTS story dated Jan. 10. Corrects age of Bonnefont to 98 from 99, removes erroneous lawyer quote in fourth graf.
A former French energy boss now aged 98 stands trial Monday with others on charges of corruption, in a case dating back to 2002 that his lawyers slam as an abomination.
Jean Bonnefont is charged with distorting the energy market to ensure the favourable awarding of a contract for the heating and air conditioning of the La Defense business district in Paris.
Along with Bonnefont, a former executive of the Charbonnages de France mining firm, also going on trial at the court in Nanterre outside Paris are former Eaux-Vivendi executive Bernard Forterre, now 82, and businessman Antoine Benetti, 68.
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A former student may have arranged to meet Irish teacher John Dowling outside a Paris university. After meeting up, he allegedly murdered him in cold blood, it emerged on Thursday night.
A Pakistani national and former student of Irish teacher John Dowling stabbed him to death. This took place Wednesday in Paris outside a university. Ali R., 37, told responding police he killed him [in cold blood] because he “insulted the Prophet Muhammad.”
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Ali R. was seen talking with lecturer John Dowling, 66, outside Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci where Dowling taught English before he brandished a steak knife and stabbed the lecturer in the throat and chest, the Daily Mail reported.