A 22-year old Frenchman backpacking around Australia has been charged with murder after a man was stabbed outside a nightclub on Christmas Day.

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French tourist on murder charge in Australia

A 22-year old Frenchman backpacking around Australia has been charged with murder after a man was stabbed outside a nightclub on Christmas Day.

Published: 3 January 2012 08:17 CET

Le Figaro newspaper reported that Thomas Camus was arrested after an argument with 32-year-old Kristopher Dixon became violent.

Dixon died at about 2am on Christmas morning close to a nightclub in the remote Western Australian tourist town of Broome.

Police had initially charged 22-year-old Camus with causing grievous bodily harm but later changed it to murder.

“The charge has been upgraded to murder,” a spokesman for Western Australia police said Tuesday.

Camus appeared before magistrates in Broome on Tuesday via video link.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that he did not react when told the charge had been upgraded.

Camus will appear in court on January 18th in Perth.

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French court convicts 8 for stealing Banksy from Paris terror attack site

Three men in their 30s who admitted to the 2019 theft were given prison sentences, one of four years and two of three, although they will be able to serve them wearing electronic tracking bracelets rather than behind bars.

Another man, a 41-year-old millionaire lottery winner and street art fan accused of being the mastermind of the heist, was given three years in jail for handling stolen goods after judges found the main allegation unproven. His sentence will also be served with a bracelet.

Elsewhere in the capital, the defence was making its final arguments in the trial of the surviving suspects in the 2015 Paris attacks themselves, with a verdict expected on June 29.

‘Acted like vultures’

British street artist Banksy painted his “sad girl” stencil on the metal door of the Bataclan in memory of the 90 people killed there on November 13th, 2015.

A white van with concealed number-plates was seen stopping on January 26, 2019 in an alleyway running alongside the central Paris music venue.

Many concertgoers fled via the same alley when the Bataclan became the focal point of France’s worst ever attacks since World War II, as Islamic State group jihadists killed 130 people at a string of sites across the capital.

On the morning of the theft, three masked men climbed out of the van, cut the hinges with angle grinders powered by a generator and left within 10 minutes, in what an investigating judge called a “meticulously prepared” heist.

Prosecutor Valerie Cadignan told the court earlier this month that the perpetrators had not sought to debase the memory of the attack victims, but “being aware of the priceless value of the door were looking to make a profit”.

She said the thieves “acted like vultures, like people who steal objects without any respect for what they might represent”.

During the trial, Bataclan staff said the theft sparked “deep indignation”, adding that the painted door was a “symbol of remembrance that belongs to everyone, locals, Parisians, citizens of the world”.

Investigators pieced together the door’s route across France and into Italy, where it was found in June 2020 on a farm in Sant’Omero, near the Adriatic coast.

Three men involved in transporting the door were each jailed for 10 months, while a 58-year-old Italian man who owns a hotel where it was temporarily stored received a six-month suspended sentence.

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