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                        Five more arrests but jewels still missing in Louvre raidVast gap between the extraordinary nature of the arrests and the ordinariness of our client, say lawyers defending robbery suspect 
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                        Photos: €4 million French chateau has €1 million auction start priceAmerican couple are selling historic property near Cannes due to job change. It needs renovation work 
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                        Woman to receive medal after scaring off suspected attacker on French trainThe incident happened on an RER in the Paris suburbs this month 
230,000 people in France sign cold call petition
Almost 230,000 people signed an online petition demanding a ban on marketing cold calls within three days of it going live.
 
        In France, consumers are assumed to have given consent to cold calling unless they explicitly “opt out”. Consumer watchdog UFC-Que Choisir is calling for a ban on this kind of marketing, which it calls a “plague” and “intrusive”.
The petition can be found at quechoisir.org/action-ufc-que-choisir-demarchage-telephonique-interdisons-le-fleau-n74803
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