Senator sentenced over calls
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Your support makes all the difference.An elderly French senator was handed a three-month suspended jail term for making insulting telephone calls to constituents, threatening to burn their houses or kill them.
Senator Kleber Malecot, 82, was convicted by a Paris court of making the calls in 1992 when he was mayor of the central town of Neuville-les- Bois.
A member of the rightist Union for French Democracy, he denied making the calls and insisted he was the victim of a political plot.
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