Spanghero horse meat fraud trial opens in Paris Four people went on trial in Paris today over a 2013 meat scandal in Europe that saw millions of meals withdrawn from supermarket shelves after they were found to contain horse instead of beef. Two former executives from a meat processing company in the south of France, as well as two meat traders from the Netherlands, face a range of serious fraud charges which could see them sentenced to up to ten years in jail. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES from the courthouse