Lily Radziemski

Europe, France, Marseille

France Correspondent at Courthouse News Service

France correspondent @courthousenews and freelance journalist based in Marseille. Words @nytimes, @washingtonpost, @BBC & others. [email protected]

Articles

Kim Kardashian testifies she feared for her life while bound, robbed in Paris jewel heist

2 days ago | courthousenews.com | Lily Radziemski

MARSEILLE, France (CN) — In a crowded Paris courtroom Tuesday, Kim Kardashian testified how she was tied up and held hostage at gunpoint in a hotel room almost 10 years ago, before robbers got away with roughly $10 million in jewels. It was the biggest robbery of an individual on French soil in decades. Kardashian has previously talked about the experience in fragments on various platforms. But on Tuesday, she took the stand to deliver emotional testimony recounting every detail of Oct.
French film star Depardieu found guilty of sexual assault

2 days ago | courthousenews.com | Lily Radziemski

Gérard Depardieu acknowledged boorish behavior but had denied assault in a case seen as symbolic of the French film industry's reckoning with accusations of sexual misconduct. MARSEILLE, France (CN) — A Paris criminal court on Tuesday found Gérard Depardieu, the French cinema star,guilty of sexual assault and gave him an 18-month suspended prison sentence. Depardieu faced two sexual assault charges from women, identified as Amélie K.
If Europe has to go it alone, Macron wants to lead the charge

6 days ago | courthousenews.com | Lily Radziemski

The EU is ramping up efforts to tighten bonds and strengthen its defenses as once-solid U.S. support seems anything but guaranteed. MARSEILLE, France (CN) — Strategic autonomy, an idea long brushed aside from Europe's top agenda, is now center stage in the bloc as U.S.-EU relations teeter for the first time in recent history.
Pre-conclave politics reveal how pope’s reach stretches deep into secular world

1 week ago | courthousenews.com | Lily Radziemski

MARSEILLE, France (CN) — All eyes were on the Vatican during the second day of the papal conclave to see if white smoke would billow from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that 1.4 billion Catholics have a new leader. But in a strikingly chaotic time for global politics — with extreme-right political groups garnering ever-more strength, longtime alliances breaking and a general feeling of uncertainty — this papal conclave will be especially critical for geopolitics.
Anti-judiciary wave ripples across Atlantic as France’s far right aims to salvage presidential hopes

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Lily Radziemski

MARSEILLE, France (CN) — Financial judges generally don’t become household names in France. But these days, everyone has been talking about Bénedicte de Perthuis, the judge who slapped extreme-right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen with a five-year ineligibility sentence, effectively taking her out of the 2027 presidential race. De Perthuis has been at the center of the public conversation.
EU adviser finds Polish judiciary should disregard illegitimate higher courts

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Lily Radziemski

(CN) — Poland's lower courts must ignore rulings from a higher court if it was not properly "established by law," an adviser to the EU’s top court said Thursday. Kim Scheppele of Princeton University told Courthouse News that the advocate general's opinion for the European Court of Justice is noteworthy against a backdrop of years of problems with the judiciary.
Tariffs leave French winemakers seeing red

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Lily Radziemski

MARSEILLE, France (CN) — French winemakers and importers are scrambling to salvage deals and shipments, as the uncertainty surrounding U.S. President Donald Trump's 20% tariff on European wines bound for the U.S. leaves many bottles all packed up with nowhere to go. “Some bottles have already left, they’re already on the ships,” Laurent Bunan, a third-generation winemaker at the Domaines Bunan in Provence, told Courthouse News.
Trump’s transatlantic anti-DEI push ignores French system - and cultural differences

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Lily Radziemski

MARSEILLE, France (CN) — The Trump administration’s crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion is crossing borders. Dozens of companies across Europe recently received letters from U.S. embassies questioning their DEI programs, and the widespread backlash was immediate. “France and Europe will defend their companies, their consumers, but also their values,” the French ministry of foreign trade said in a statement.
EU legal adviser finds Hungary erred by nixing contract for independent radio station

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Lily Radziemski

(CN) — Hungary infringed EU law by refusing to renew the contract of Klubrádió, an independent radio station that is often critical of the government, an adviser to the EU's top court said Thursday. EU advocate general Athanasios Rantos agreed with the European Commission's claim that the radio station was wrongly prevented from providing its services when the government opted not to renew its license.
Top EU court urged to push Poland on rights for gay spouses

1 month ago | courthousenews.com | Lily Radziemski

(CN) — Poland should honor the rights of same-sex couples who got married in other EU countries, a legal adviser to the bloc's top court said Thursday. EU advocate general Jean Richard de la Tour wrote in an advisory opinion for the European Court of Justice that the country should register the marriage certificate of two Polish citizens who wed in 2018 in Germany, where same-sex marriage is legal. In Poland, it is not.