The week at a glance...Europe

Paris

Sexual assault arrest: A cabinet minister who resigned in May after being accused of sexually assaulting employees has been arrested for the alleged assaults. Georges Tron, formerly France’s public works minister and still the mayor of the town of Draveil, is accused of raping two women who worked for the Draveil Town Hall. The women said Tron, who is a practitioner of foot reflexology, offered them foot massages before attacking them. Tron denied the charges and said his two accusers are out to get him. The allegations were made last month, shortly after the arrest of ex-IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn sparked a wave of discussion in France about how sexual harassment and worse is routinely covered up.

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Knox appeals: American student Amanda Knox is innocent of murder, a prison inmate testified at her appeal last week. Knox and her then-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were convicted of murdering her British housemate Meredith Kerchner in 2009, in a trial that some American legal experts have said would not have met U.S. standards. Rudy Guede, a drifter who had admitted to being in the house the night of the murder and whose DNA was found on the body, was also convicted. Last week a convicted child murderer housed in the same prison as Guede said Guede told him that he and a friend had killed Kerchner while Knox was not at home. Meanwhile, 11 Italian lawmakers have called for an investigation into the case’s prosecutor, who contended that Knox murdered Kerchner as part of a satanic sex game.