A football fan has been jailed for almost 35 years for killing a 15-year-old schoolboy who was a fan of a rival team. The court heard that the killer, identified as John Jairo Soto Ospina, who was 18 at the time, shot the younger man because he was a fan…
Five African rights activists who tried to steal items from a museum in France to "take them home" have appeared in court in Paris. The prosecutor is asking for a EUR 1,000 (GBP 907) fine against Congolese activist Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza despite the maximum possible sentence of 10 years in…
A travel agency has been ordered to pay EUR 5,313 (GBP 4,859) to a family who claimed their holiday was ruined by algae on the beach. The travel agency had argued that it was an act of God and not foreseeable, but the court ruled that the family should have…
A Muslim man has been ordered to pay over EUR 2,000 for refusing to shake hands of prefect in France because she was a woman. The ruling by a court in Bourges comes after the man refused to shake Catherine Ferrier's hand. At the time, she was the prefect of…
A beautiful young ballerina was murdered while walking home from a class teaching kids to dance when she was followed by an escaped convict 'planning to kill'. Convicted murderer Ozgur Arduc, jailed for 20 years in 2005, had escaped on 1 December last year and told a court he had…
