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Articles by Geert De Clercq

Government & Politics

France threatens to review Algeria migration pact in row over deportations

February 26, 2025 Geert De Clercq  

(Reuters) France said on Wednesday it would review a decades-old agreement that makes it easier for Algerian citizens to move to France unless Algeria agrees to take back those who are deported by the French authorities. Already strained ties between Paris and […]

Clerics & Preachers

France expels ‘radical’ Tunisian imam — interior minister

February 22, 2024 Geert De Clercq  

(Reuters) France has expelled a Tunisian Muslim cleric for “radicalism” and “unacceptable remarks,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said in a statement on Twitter. “The radical Imam Mahjoub Mahjoubi has just been expelled from the national territory, less than 12 hours after his […]

Crime

Sudanese asylum seeker who killed French official had no terrorist motives — prosecutor

February 20, 2021 Geert De Clercq  

(Reuters) A Sudanese asylum seeker who fatally stabbed an employee at a migrant reception centre in the southern French city of Pau on Friday had no terrorist motives, the Pau prosecutor said on Saturday. Prosecutor Cecile Gensac said that the assailant was […]

Crime

Sudanese refugee kills French immigration official after asylum request rejected

February 19, 2021 Geert De Clercq and Matthieu Protard  

(Reuters) A Sudanese refugee stabbed and killed an employee at a centre for asylum seekers in the southern French city of Pau on Friday after his request for political asylum was rejected, authorities said. A police source said the Sudanese asylum seeker […]

Arts & Entertainment

Paris attacker wanted to set Charlie Hebdo offices on fire, prosecutor says

September 29, 2020 Geert De Clercq  

(Reuters) A Pakistani man accused of wounding two people with a meat cleaver in front of the former offices of Charlie Hebdo last Friday did not know the satirical magazine had moved and wanted to set its offices on fire, the Paris […]

Immigration

French police clear migrant tent camps in northern Paris

November 7, 2019 Geert De Clercq, Simon Carraud and Sophie Louet  

(Reuters) French police cleared two huge migrant tent camps in northern Paris on Thursday and authorities vowed to clear other camps, a day after the government announced tighter immigration policies. Buses took away more than 1,600 people in the Porte de la […]

Government & Politics

France on high alert for revenge attacks following death of Baghdadi

October 27, 2019 Sophie Louet and Geert De Clercq  

(Reuters) French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner, in a letter to police prefects seen by Reuters, called on Sunday for increased vigilance to prevent possible revenge attacks following the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. “… The possible intensification of jihadist […]

Law Enforcement

Paris knife attacker had USB drive with information about colleagues: media

October 7, 2019 Geert De Clercq and Marine Pennetier  

(Reuters) An IT worker who killed four people at Paris police headquarters with a knife last week had a USB drive with personal details about his colleagues, French daily Le Parisien reported on Monday. The attacker on Thursday killed three police officers […]

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