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A young Chinese couple have been sent to jail in Monaco for attempting to steal a dozen bottles of Chanel perfume in a shop in Monte-Carlo.
The man and woman made a first visit to the Paris 8 boutique on avenue Princess Alice on November 29, where their behaviour aroused suspicion. Only after they had left was it discovered that four bottles of the fragrance had also left the building.
When the two came back for a second visit on December 21, the police were alerted and eight bottles of the same brand of perfume were found in their bags as soon as they were stopped after leaving the store. A metal box the couple were carrying had been used to disarm the theft detectors, Monaco’s Criminal Court was told.
The court accepted that the theft was not a one-off misdemeanour, but part of a pattern of crime. The young woman had previously appeared in court in France for theft and her name is registered with Sirasco, a crime agency charged with investigating and recording organised crime.
The tribunal agreed with the prosecution, and sentenced the two defendants to 45 days in jail and ordered them to pay €448.50 in damages.
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(L-R): Christian Roisse, Eutelsat-IGO Executive Secretary (France), Rodolphe Belmer, Eutelsat SA CEO, Piotr Dmochowski-Lipski, Eutelsat-IGO Executive Secretary-Elect (Poland) , Frédéric Labarrere, President of the Assembly of Parties of Eutelsat-IGO (Monaco), Ivana Stankovic, Vice-President of the Eutelsat-IGO Assembly of Parties (Serbia). Photo: DC[/caption]
Monaco has been elected to the Presidency of the Eutelsat-IGO Assembly of Parties at the 40th meeting of Eutelsat, which took place in Paris on March 15 and 16.
Frédéric Labarrère, First Counsellor at the Embassy of Monaco in France, currently Vice Chair, was elected by acclamation as President of the Assembly of Parties. Serbia was elected as Vice-President. The term of office is two years.
The new Executive Secretary of the organisation, also elected at the meeting, is Piotr Dmochowski-Lipski, from Poland, who will replace the current French Executive Secretary, Christian Roisse, on July 2, 2017.
A new Advisory Committee, the Council's advisory body, has also been appointed, consisting of Germany, France, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Switzerland.
During the Assembly many issues were discussed, including those relating to the use of radio frequencies assigned to Eutelsat-IGO, deliberate programme interference transmitted by satellite and protection of the C-band for the fixed-satellite service.
Participation of Eutelsat-IGO in the activities of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, and the International Telecommunication Union and its relations with other intergovernmental satellite organisations were also talked about.
The Eutelsat Intergovernmental Organisation, now known as Eutelsat-IGO, has 49 member states. Founded in 1977, it set up the first telecommunications satellite system in Europe. In 2001, the organisation created Eutelsat SA, a satellite operator, to which it transferred its activities while continuing to ensure that the company complied with certain agreed commitments vis-à-vis the Eutelsat Member States.
