11.   The Parrishes went on to the Palais de Justice to meet the woman examining magistrate who is in charge of the murder investigation.

12.   Examining magistrate Eva Joly is trying to determine whether Paribas was aware of accounting irregularities at its then subsidiary.

13.   Examining magistrate Eva Joly is trying to determine whether Paribas was aware of accounting irregularities at Ciments Francais.

14.   Examining magistrate Joly is trying to determine whether Paribas was aware of accounting irregularities at Ciments Francais.

15.   France last May issued an international arrest warrant for Parretti after French examining magistrate Patrick Fievet questioned him in Italy.

16.   He is said to have talked to the examining magistrate in Bordeaux, the equivalent of a prosecutor in the United States, but was not charged.

17.   Le Floch-Prigent is the second chief executive in less than a month to become embroiled in an investigation by Paris-based examining magistrate Eva Joly.

18.   Once the investigation is in the hands of an examining magistrate, all information on a case, according to French law, is secret.

19.   They met examining magistrate Herve Stephan and visited the crime squad headquarters at Quai des Orfevres in central Paris.

20.   Under French law, being placed under investigation means facing questioning by an examining magistrate.