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A French court has sentenced a doctor thought to be the country's most prolific ever paedophile to a further twenty years in jail. Joel Le Scouarnec had admitted abusing nearly three hundred people, many of them children under sedation.
Also in the programme: on the front line in the east of Ukraine; and the Czechs accuse the Chinese of a state-sponsored cyber attack.
(Picture: A man carries a banner reading 'Listen to us' during a demonstration in support of Joel Le Scouarnec's victims on the verdict day of the trial of the French surgeon in Vannes, France, 28 May 2025. Credit: EPA)
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A French court has sentenced a doctor thought to be the country's most prolific ever paedophile to a further twenty years in jail. Joel Le Scouarnec had admitted abusing nearly three hundred people, many of them children under sedation.
Also in the programme: on the front line in the east of Ukraine; and the Czechs accuse the Chinese of a state-sponsored cyber attack.
(Picture: A man carries a banner reading 'Listen to us' during a demonstration in support of Joel Le Scouarnec's victims on the verdict day of the trial of the French surgeon in Vannes, France, 28 May 2025. Credit: EPA)

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