Nicolas Vaux-Montagny, Author at Daily Hampshire Gazette

FILE - Bodies of victims covered by sheets at the scene of a truck attack in Nice, southern France, Friday, July 15, 2016. Eight people go on trial Monday Sept.5, 2022 in a special French terrorism court for alleged roles in helping the attacker who drove a truck into the Nice beachfront on Bastille Day 2016, killing 86 people. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

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Emotions raw before trial in Nice Bastille Day attack

by Barbara Surk Associated Press, and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny Associated PressSeptember 4, 2022

NICE, France — It was Bastille Day on the French Riviera.A lawyer was strolling with her mother, friends and a colleague along the beachfront boulevard in Nice to celebrate France’s national day. Four young sisters from Poland had spent a day of…

FILE - A woman is evacuated from the Bataclan concert hall after a shooting on Nov. 13, 2015 in Paris. The historic trial in Paris of 20 men suspected of critical roles in the Islamic State massacres that killed 130 people in 2015 has ended this week with verdicts against the defendants in France's worst peacetime attack expected on Wednesday June 29. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

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Surviving attacker in Paris massacre guilty of murder

by Nicolas Vaux-Montagny Associated Press, and Barbara Surk Associated PressJune 29, 2022

Security forces guard an entrance of the Palace of Justice Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021 in Paris. France is putting on trial 20 men accused in the Islamic State group's 2015 attacks on Paris that left 130 people dead and hundreds injured. The proceedings begin Wednesday in an enormous custom-designed chamber. Most of the defendants face the maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted of complicity in the attacks. Only Abdeslam is charged with murder. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

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Paris terror trial opens for 20 accused in 2015 attacks

by Lori Hinnant Associated Press, and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny Associated PressSeptember 8, 2021

Satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo's chief editor, Laurent Sourisseau, known as Riss, center, arrives at the courtroom for the opening of the 2015 attacks trial, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020 in Paris. Thirteen men and a woman go on trial Wednesday over the 2015 attacks against a satirical newspaper and a kosher supermarket in Paris that marked the beginning of a wave of violence by the Islamic State group in Europe. Seventeen people and all three gunmen died during the three days of attacks...

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Charlie Hebdo terror attack suspects go on trial in Paris

by Lori Hinnant Associated Press, and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny Associated PressSeptember 2, 2020

In this image made from video provided by BFMTV, a rooster is seen in a cage, with a sign reading in French "The countryside lives, makes noise, the rooster as well", during court proceedings in Saint-Pierre-d'Oleron, France, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. A French court has ruled that a rooster called Maurice can keep crowing, rejecting a complaint from neighbors who were suing over noise nuisance. Maurice's owner, Corinne Fesseau, will be able to keep the rooster on the small island of Oleron, off France's Atlantic coast. (AP Photo)

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Cock-a-doodle-doo! French rooster crows over court win

by Nicolas Vaux-Montagny Associated PressSeptember 6, 2019

An image made available by Gigarama.ru on Wednesday shows an aerial shot of the fire damage to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Tuesday. Nearly $1 billion has already poured in from ordinary worshippers and high-powered magnates around the world to restore the cathedral after it was damaged in a massive fire on Monday.

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Bells ring in Notre Dame tribute

by Sylvie Corbet Associated Press, and Nicolas Vaux-Montagny Associated PressApril 18, 2019