Balkany trial postponed due to lawyer's strike Isabelle Balkany, one half of a French power couple who dominated politics in a wealthy suburb of Paris for decades, arrives at a Paris court for the start of an appeal hearing against a conviction for tax evasion and money laundering - only to see the trial postponed until Tuesday because of a lawyer's strike over pension reform. On October 18, 2019 she was sentenced to four years for concealing 13 million euros from the French tax man between 2007 and 2014. Her husband Patrick is already serving a five-year sentence for his role in the affair. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES