France plans to cut powerful judges down to size

Reported by Seattle Times on Thursday, 5 November 2009 (on November 5, 2009)

France's investigating judges are a powerful lot: They can order phone taps and home searches, interrogate terrorists and bring down politicians. Now, one has even ordered former French President Jacques Chirac to stand trial.

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