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The court sentenced six others up to 15 years in prison, while five were acquitted (Representational) Nice, France: A French court on Wednesday sentenced to 18 years in jail an Italian man accused of orchestrating the kidnapping of an ageing hotel heiress in the French city of Nice. Giuseppe Serena, 67, was among 13 people on trial over the plot against Jacqueline Veyrac, owner of the five-star Grand Hotel in Cannes and the ritzy Mediterranean seafront restaurant La Reserve in Nice. Prosecutors accused Serena of seeking revenge for Veyrac's 2009 decision to terminate his contract to rent and...

BBC News Published image captionJacqueline Veyrac, whose lawyer Luc Febbraro is pictured above, was kidnapped in 2016 A millionaire French hotel owner is set to testify in court as part of the trial of 13 people accused of involvement in her kidnapping. Jacqueline Veyrac, the 80-year-old owner of the five-star Grand Hotel in Cannes, was bundled into a van outside her home in Nice in October 2016. She was found bound and gagged in the vehicle by a passer-by two days later. The suspects include an Italian restauranteur, a British former soldier and a private detective. The accused were in the c...