51.   Former Foreign Minister Roland Dumas was placed under investigation Wednesday for an alleged role in a kickback scandal, judicial sources said.

52.   France Info radio, citing unidentified judicial sources, reported that the medication was a banned substance.

53.   Four cyclists from the TVM team took EPO and other banned drugs during the Tour de France, judicial sources said Thursday.

54.   French customs officials have found banned doping substances in a van used by the Cofidis cycling team, judicial sources said Friday.

55.   French authorities were investigating a neo-Nazi Internet site for questioning the history of the Holocaust and inciting violence against non-whites, judicial sources said Wednesday.

56.   Four Chirac aides were also questioned about the tickets on Tuesday, judicial sources told The Associated Press.

57.   Four Chirac aides were questioned on Tuesday in connection with the case, judicial sources told The Associated Press.

58.   France issued an international arrest warrant for the two suspects in Germany, judicial sources said.

59.   German authorities extradited to France Thursday a suspect in the assassination of an Iranian dissident earlier this year in Paris, a judicial source said.

60.   French judicial sources said prosecutors would need to prove that the drugs were destined for Europe, and France in particular, as Lewisch claims.