1.   They feel he should give evidence to the investigating magistrates and make his position clear in an address to the nation.

2.   Besides, he had not yet had a chance to speak to the investigating magistrate about the pay-off.

3.   An investigating magistrate in Paris on Tuesday began a formal investigation into the role of photographers seized by police at the scene of the crash.

4.   An investigating magistrate agreed that the authorization was backdated.

5.   An investigating magistrate here, Laurent Kasper-Ansermet, announced the sum last week at a legal seminar on corruption.

6.   An investigating magistrate is looking into allegations that Bouygues provided illicit political funding for the former mayor of Lyons.

7.   An investigating magistrate, Herve Stephan, led the inquiry and turned the case over to the state prosecutor earlier this summer.

8.   An investigating magistrate has said enough evidence exists to charge the French chief of state and his son, Gilbert, with fraud.

9.   An investigating magistrate, Isabelle Prevost-Desprez, has so far placed top executives from eight French banks under investigation for blanchiment aggrave, serious money-laundering.

10.   At one point a furious Dumas broke off his testimony and seemed to threaten the investigating magistrates.