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Laurent-Graciet Case: Another Victory for Morocco

French justice on Friday validated the two recordings between the Lawyer of the Moroccan King Mohammed VI and two French journalists, Eric Laurent and his colleague Catherine Graciet, as an admissible proof in the blackmail and extortion legal proceedings. The Court of Cassation, the highest court in France to which the two journalists appealed, considered […]

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Laurent-Graciet Case: French Appeal Court Admits Incriminating Evidences

French appeal court of Reims ruled this Thursday that the evidences provided by lawyers of King Mohammed VI of Morocco against two French blackmailers, journalists Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet, are admissible and thus will be taken into consideration in the legal proceedings. The ruling upholds a prior decision issued by the Court of appeal […]

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Laurent-Graciet Case: French Appeal Court Turns Down Defendants’ Pleas

A French appeal court has turned down the pleas submitted by two French blackmailers, journalists Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet, requesting the magistrates to discard the audio and video recordings showing them in full extortion acts. The case of the two French journalists who attempted to blackmail Morocco and King Mohammed VI broke out last […]

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Morocco-France: Burglars sneaked into King’s lawyer office in Paris

Burglars sneaked into the office of a renowned Paris-based lawyer, ransacked the place and robbed two computers. The incident, unveiled earlier this week by the French media, could have gone unnoticed were it not for one of the files the lawyer, Eric Dupond-Moretti, is currently in charge of and were it not for the outstanding […]

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The Laurent-Graciet case, this is like being in a bad movie, French FM

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius likened Sunday the case of the two French journalists Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet who attempted to blackmail Morocco and its King Mohammed VI to a bad movie. “This is like being in a bad movie,” Laurent Fabius said in a first response by a French official to the case […]

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French Felon Journalists Indicted

The two French journalists Eric Laurent and Catherine Graciet have been indicted early Saturday by a paris investigating judge for attempted blackmail and extortion against the King of Morocco Mohammed VI. The case which sounded like a thunderclap in this late summer has been making the headlines since it broke out on Thursday when the […]