Dec
Protesters choked on tear gas shot by French police as tens of thousands of union members marched through the centre of Paris in a show of force on Thursday. Dozens were arrested by riot police in the capital, and tear gas was also fired at protesters marching in the western city of Nantes. The marches […]
Dec
The French National Assembly approved the draft law, which regarded anti-Zionism as equivalent to antisemitism. French National Assemblyin the voting, anti-zionismn Anti-Semitismand without any sanction, the bill was accepted with 72 ‘no’ vote and 154 ‘yes’ vote. The bill was based on the International Holocaust Memorial Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism. In an open letter published in the […]
Nov
Thousands of bodies were left to decay at a donation center at Paris-Descartes University, leading to an investigation from the school. An investigation from L’Express newspaper published Tuesday revealed that dozens of bodies were left to decompose on tables in what was described as a “mass grave,” and alleged some body parts were sold to private […]
Nov
French police started evacuating migrants on Thursday (Nov 28) from an illegal camp site in northern Paris, the local police force said in a statement, as the government aims to show it is taking a tougher stance on illegal immigration. The police said it would be moving between 200 and 300 people from the illegal […]
Nov
A French nun was forced to turn down a place in a state retirement home because she was told she would have to stop wearing her religious habit and headscarf. The case has reopened the row over secularism in France just weeks after a Muslim woman was asked to remove her headscarf while accompanying a […]
Nov
The violence in Paris, where police battled rioters for hours around the southeastern Place d’Italie square, was the worst in the French capital in months. A total of 173 people were arrested in the city, Castaner told Europe 1 radio, revising upwards Saturday’s count of 147. Dozens more were arrested in smaller protests in cities […]
Nov
Around 600 French police took part in the evacuation which began in the early hours of Thursday morning. Between 1,500 to 3,000 migrants, including 250 women and children, had been living in the camps that had sprung up alongside major roads, underneath motorway flyovers and bridges around the Porte de la Chapelle area of northern […]
Oct
The French Senate approved a bill Tuesday proposed by the mainstream right that would oblige women wearing headscarves to remove them when accompanying school outings. The issue has been in the news in recent weeks since a far-right politician objected to a mother wearing a headscarf who was accompanying a school trip to a regional […]
Oct
Police in Paris have detained a man who stood up and started shouting “Allahu akbar!” during a screening of the film “Joker,” sending moviegoers into a panic, witnesses say. The 34-year-old individual, who has not yet been identified, is now being observed in the psychiatric ward of police headquarters following the incident Sunday night at the massive Grand Rex […]
Oct
An 84-year-old former candidate for France’s ultra-right party shot and wounded two men in their seventies Monday as he attacked a mosque, prompting the government to express “solidarity” with Muslims hours after railing against Islamic “separatism”. The octogenarian attacked the mosque as two men were preparing it for afternoon prayers, Bayonne mayor Jean-Rene Etchegaray told […]
