A slate of detentions carried out on December 12 during a Paris protest by tens of thousands of people against France’s controversial security bill were “arbitrary”, Amnesty International France said Monday. Out of 142 people who were arrested, including 124 who were taken into custody,
The Administrative Tribunal in Paris ruled this week that France failed to live up to its promise of reducing greenhouse gases under commitments made in the 2015 Paris Agreement, declaring that France was “responsible for ecological damage.” Several environmental groups were responsible for the case
Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has acted on his warning that the curfew in France would be more strictly policed after new measures came into force to combat the spread of coronavirus. On Sunday following the announcement, border crossings and 743 public places were checked and 62,198
A restaurant owner was in police custody on Thursday after he defied France’s coronavirus restrictions by inviting dozens of people to eat in a revolt against the government’s ban on the opening of cafes and other eateries. The incident underscored the risks for President Emmanuel
Covid-19 lockdowns sparked a big drop in the number of reported crimes in France last year, except for domestic violence and rape cases which continued to rise, the interior ministry said on Thursday. As a result of “exceptional circumstances” brought on by the coronavirus epidemic, which
The number of anti-Semitic incidents recorded in France in 2020 dropped by 50% from 2019, yet physical assaults remained almost unchanged despite COVID-19 lockdowns, French Jewry’s security service said. The SPCJ service recorded 339 incidents last year compared to 687 cases in 2019. Of those,
France will tighten its laws on incest, President Emmanuel Macron said in a series of tweets on Saturday, after publication of a book accusing a top French political commentator of abusing his stepson sparked outrage across the country. Macron said on his Twitter account that
The former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is facing a preliminary investigation for influence peddling in connection with a €3m (£2.7) contract he signed with a Russian insurance company. The rightwing politician reportedly received a first payment of €500,000 last year after being hired as a “special adviser”
Several children have played with drug found in a school of Gagny, in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis (Paris region), on Thursday, October 8th. Two of them were reportedly briefly hospitalised. Some of them brought cocaine to their mouths On Thursday afternoon, six children found a
The Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, declared on Sunday, September 27th, that France is “at war against Islamist terrorism”. “We must win this war” During his visit to the Boulogne-Billancourt synagogue on Sunday, Gérald Darmanin told a handful of journalists: “We are at war against Islamist