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Être battu

Roue de coups

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Be beaten up

Be knocked about

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Un traumatisme remontant à l’enfance

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A childhood trauma

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Violence conjugale

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Domestic violence

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Faire l’objet d’une enquête pour suspicion d’inceste

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To be investigated for suspected incest

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Être enclin à la violence

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Be bent on / prone To violence/ violence prone

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Mauvais traitements ou sévices sexuels sur les enfants

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Child abuse

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Le travail des enfants

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Child labour

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Enfant soldat

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Child soldier

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Se faire agresser et dépouiller de son argent

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To be mugged and robbed of all one’s money

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Tabasser un migrant

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To bash a migrant up

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Cruauté gratuite

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Wanton cruelty

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Causer à quelqu’un des blessures graves

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To cause someone grievous bodily harm

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Avouer sous la torture

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To confess sth under torture

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L’accident de chemin de fer à cause la mort de quarante personnes / a fait quarante victimes

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The train crash claimed forty lives

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Être tué à coups de couteau

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To be stabbed To death

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Une agression à l’arme blanche

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A knife attack

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17
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Mesures répressives contre la mafia

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A crackdown on syndicated crime

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18
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Les violences auxquelles se sont livrées les armées d’occupation

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Violence perpetrated by the occupying army

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Tentatives faites pour contenir l’escalade de violence

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Attempts To contain the escalating violence

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Des violences peuvent éclater d’un moment à l’autre

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Violence mat erupt / break out any time

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Violence à l’encontre des minorités

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Violence towards ethnic minorities

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Agression contre les homosexuels

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Gay bashing

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Proférer / recevoir des menaces de mort

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To make / receive death threats

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Exécuter une menace

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To carry out a threat

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Absence totale de pitié

Caractère impitoyable

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Ruthlessness

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Indignation provoquée par les agressions racistes

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Outrage at / over racist attacks

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Abattre des animaux

Massacrer des personnes

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Slaughter

Slaughterhouse

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Homicide involontaire

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Manslaughter

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Pillage

Saccage

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Looting

Ransacking

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Défoncer, briser des vitrines à coups de barres de fer en se servant de voitures ou camions comme béliers

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To smash shop windoWs in with metal bars or cars used as battering rams

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Se déchaîner

Devenir violente

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To run amok ( crowd)

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Carnage

Effusion de sang

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Bloodshed

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Verser

Faire couler le sang

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Spill blood

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34
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Acte de barbare

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Barbaric act

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35
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Protêt une arme à feu sur soi

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To carry / tote a gun

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36
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Arme à feu

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A gun

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37
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Arme de poing

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A handgun

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38
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Faire chanter quelqu’un et l’amener à verser beaucoup d’argent

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To blackmail so into paying a lot of money

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Les jeune sont ils violents par nature ?

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Are young people naturally violent ?

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40
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Enlèvement d’enfant

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Abduction of a minor /child snatching

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41
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Être retenu en otage contre rançon

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To be Held hostage for ransom

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Prendre / détenir quatre personnes en otage

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To take/hold four people hostage

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Crier / hurler des insultes / des injures

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To shout / shriek insults / abuse

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Payer une amende pour propos grossiers ou injurieux envers l’arbitre

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To be fined for abusing the referee

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Utiliser un langage ordurier

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To use foul language

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46
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Proférer des jurons / gros mots

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To use swear words

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47
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Inciter / pousser à la violence

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To incite violence against immigrants

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Faire un doigt / bras d’honneur à qqn

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To give somebody the finger

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49
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Les femmes battues

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Battered wives

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50
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Violence domestique et envers les enfants

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Domestic violence and violence To children

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51
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Violence et usage de la force

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Violence and use of force

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52
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Agressions physiques

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Physical aggressions

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53
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Vol à l’arraché

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Bag-snatching

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54
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Vol à la tire

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Pickpocketing

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55
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Vol à l’étalage

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Shoplifting

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56
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Une bande de voyous

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A gang of thugs

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57
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Viol en réunion.

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Gang rape

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58
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Viol par une personne connue

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Date rape

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59
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Tentative de viol

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Attempted rape

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Une agression sexuelle

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A sexual assault

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Un délinquant sexuel

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A sexual offender

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Plaintes

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Complaints

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Porter plainte troubles du voisinage

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To make / file /lodge a complaint neighbourhood disturbances

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Signaler / rapporter un vol / des d’images faits à une voiture

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To report a theft / damage To a car

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Vote plainte a été enregistrée en main courante

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Your complaint has been logged

66
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Troubles à l’ordre public

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Acts of public disorder

67
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Opérations banchais et spéculations

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Banking and speculation

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Les banques persuadent des investisseurs qu’ils savent insolvables par de fallacieux arguments, d’emprunter de l’argent et d’acquérir des actions au cours fluctuant

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Banks cheat investors they know are insolvent into borrowing money and buying fluctuating shares.

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Jouer / spéculer a la bourse

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To speculate on the stock market

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Les propriétaires de terres cultivables jouent la hausse des prix du foncier .

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Owners of agricultural land speculate on rising land prices.

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Le prêt doit être remboursée au plus tard le 31 décembre

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The loan must be repaid in full by December 31st

72
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Un cambiste

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A currency dealer

73
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Obligations pourries / toxiques

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Junk bonds

74
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La corruption

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Corruption

75
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La corruption électorale

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Political bribery

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Accepter des commissions de trafiquants d’armes

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To take bribes from arms dealers

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Se faire escroquer / dépouiller de toutes ses économies

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To be swindled / conned (out) of all one’s savings

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Dénoncer la corruption.

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To expose corruption

79
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Pratiques illégales

Traffic d’influence

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Corrupt practices

80
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Être accusé de corruption / d’accepter des cadeaux ou de l’argent

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To be accused of graft

81
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Commette un abus de pouvoir

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To commit ( an act of) abuse of power

82
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Un don à fon de corruption

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A corrupt gift

83
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Etre confronte a des allégations de corruption

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To face sleaze allegations

84
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Détournement de fonds

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Embezzlement

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Abus de biens sociaux

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Misappropriation of corporate funds

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Fraude fiscale

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Tax fraud

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Évasion fiscale

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Tax evasion

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Un escroc

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A crook / con artist / swindler

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Une escroquerie

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Con / swindle

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Dessous de table

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Under-the-counter payment

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Backchich pot de vin

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Bribe kickback

Backhander

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Trucage des élections

Bourrage des urnes

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Ballot rigging

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Pratiques clientelistes

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Vote-catching practices

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Crimes ou criminalité

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Crimes

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Com être un crime odieux/ atroce

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Commit an appalling crime

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La criminalité est en hausse

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Crime is on the rise

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Délinquance économique et financière

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White-collar crime

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Enquêter sur quelque chose

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To investigate sth

99
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Les statistiques / chiffre ses actes criminels

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Crime figures

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Grand criminalité

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Organized crime / syndicate

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Répression

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Crackdown on crime

102
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Il n’y a pas de trace écrite de l’affaire

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Details of the case went went unrecorded

103
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Ne pas avoir de condamnation antérieure

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To have no previous convictions

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Avoir un casier judiciaire vierge

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To have a clean record

105
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Inculper quelqu’un / mettre en examen

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To indict somebody

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Inculpation

Acte d’accusation

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Indictment

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Police

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Police

108
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Faire une descente de police au domicile

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Raid a suspect’s home

109
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La police procede souvent à des interpellations musclées

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Police often arrest people for questioning with unnecessary force

110
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Passer les menottes

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Handcuff somebody

111
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Menottes aux poneys

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Handcuffed/in handcuffs

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Terrorisme

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Terrorism

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Une bombé à retardement

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A Time bomb

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Une voiture / mette / colis piégé

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A car/letter / parcel bomb

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Teleguide

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Remote - controlled

116
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Un attenta terroriste

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A terrorist bombing

117
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Saboter quelque chose

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sabotage sth

118
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Un sabotage

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An act of sabotage

119
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Combattre le terrorisme

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Fight terrorism

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Céder au terrorisme

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To give terrorism

121
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Émeutes

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Riots

122
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Un émeutier

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A rioter

123
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Déclencher une émeute

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To spark ( off ) a riot

124
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Il est interdit de porter des cagoules / capuches

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Wearing hoods is forbidden

125
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Lancer violemment des bouts de chiffons enflammés dans un restaurant

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To hurl lighted rages into a restaurant

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des voitures ou camions servant de béliers

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Cars or lorries used as battering rams

127
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Enfoncer détruire des vitrines avec des barres de fer

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To smash in Windows with metal bars

128
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La foule furieuse se déchaîna

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The mob ran amok

129
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Faire reculer de force en arrière la foule en colère

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To force back the angry crowd

130
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Mettre le feu à des poubelles

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To set fire To rubbish / garbage bins

131
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Éteindre un début d’incendie en le piétinant

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To smash out a fire as it starts

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Des forces de police en tenue abri-émeute

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Police in full riot gear

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Réprimer yen émeute

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To put down / crush a riot

134
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Prostitution

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Prostitution

135
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Yen prostituée

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A prostitute / hooker / tart

136
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Un proxénète

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A pimp

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Il quitta en se faisant proxénète un emplo a durée limitée mal payé et se retrouva en prison pour un séjour de longue durée sans aucun salaire

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He pimped his way out of a short-term, badly paid job straight into a long stretch in jail with ni pay at all

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Avoir recours à la prostituons pour pouvoir payer le loyer d’un studio

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To turn To prostitution To pay a rent on a bedsit

139
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Dit in faire payer une amende aux clients ?

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Should clients be made To To pay a fine ?

140
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Un réseau de prostitués

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A prostitution ring

141
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Ola eu des relations tarifees avec une call girl

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Je paid for sex with a call girl

142
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Incivilites

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Lack of respect

143
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De nombreux enseignants se font bousculer ou cracher dessus

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Many teachers are jostled about and spat on

144
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Ne faire preuve d’aucun respect pour les personnes âgées

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To show / have no respect for the elderly

145
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Faute

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Foul

146
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Jeu irrégulier

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Foul play

147
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Commette une faute contre un joueur

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To foul a playeur

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