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...despite the unspeakable brutality and hatred in Halimi's murder that has unleashed wide condemnation of anti-Semitism in France, some officials are worried that the retrial will set a bad precedent. "Justice isn't the same thing as vengeance," warned Emmanuelle Perreux, president of one of the French legal profession's main labor unions, on radio station RTL. "Giving in to pressure from any [civil party] that believes, and will always believe, that punishment isn't severe enough strikes me as troubling." Perhaps, but as those pushing for a new trial note, adding a few years to prison sentences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Mulls Anti-Semitic Killers' Retrial | 7/14/2009 | See Source »

...term, the gap between the two communities will not close until the French of immigrant descent are properly educated and trained and the nation can give them real jobs and decent housing. Knowing my countrymen, I figure that will take a while, if it ever happens. Bernard Goussault Le Perreux sur Marne, France Heroes Give Hope Thank you for your extensive coverage of global health [Nov. 7]. In a world that is becoming more and more interconnected, the problems of people in Africa or Asia are also those of the West. Trying to solve them means that we will make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Most Amazing Inventions | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...François Fratellini, 72, worldfamed clown of Paris' Medrano arena, leaving his brother Albert as the only survivor of the Three Fratellinis, who kept a generation of Europeans laughing, drew a 1949 boo from the U.S.S.R. ("reactionary . . . bourgeois . . . classical exponents of buffoon games"); of cancer; in Le Perreux, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 2, 1951 | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...Communists so angry that Saigon was no longer safe for Nguyen. The French suggested that he transfer his base of operations to Paris. Nguyen settled with his wife and his 20-year-old niece, Ly Phan Van Tey, in a pleasant house in the suburb of Le Perreux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Nine O'Clock News | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...last week Merchant Nguyen and his family were gathered around the television set in the master's bedroom at Le Perreux waiting for the 9 o'clock news to come on. The doorbell rang. Pretty Ly ran down to answer it. The caller was Student Vo. Ly invited him upstairs to join the family circle. As the show began, the visitor leaped from his chair, whipped out a pistol and screamed at Nguyen: "You are a traitor to your country. You have been supplying the French with rice. You have been condemned by a tribunal of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Nine O'Clock News | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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