One, sent in by a Canadian named Pierre Brunet, asked about the upcoming UFO cable release.

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Prosecutors asked Judge Jean-Pierre Boyer to bar the publication of details of medication Magnotta was taking, however.

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Anelka later refused to apologise when asked to do so by French Football Federation president Jean-Pierre Escalettes.

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Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the interim Prime Minister, has, as expected, been asked to form the new Government: his calm, unfussy and low-profile approach has won widespread approval.

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Even as the court was handing down its judgment on the retired Mr Dumas, two present-day Socialist politicians, Pierre Moscovici, minister for European affairs, and Claude Bartolone, minister for urban affairs, were being asked by France's newly-zealous investigating magistrates to testify about the past use of kickbacks on public-works contracts in the Paris region to finance political parties.

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