Mugabes head home after shopping

ROBERT and Grace Mugabe swept out of Paris yesterday afternoon after a high profile summit and shopping trip which defied calls from the EU for the couple to be banned.

Thanks to the patronage of French President Jacques Chirac, the president of Zimbabwe, his wife and a vast entourage of bodyguards and servants enjoyed a winter break in Europe in the company of the heads of state of 51 other African nations.

Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell attempted to have Mugabe arrested by French police and put on trial for torture and other human rights abuses.