Protests marked Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's controversial first official visit to Europe for more than a year. On the day European Union travel sanctions were renewed for a year against him, he, his wife and about 70 other members of the Zimbabwean leadership flew into the French capital by private plane and checked into a five-star hotel.
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