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Articles by John Leicester

Immigration

French police are slashing boats but migrants are still determined to reach the UK

July 7, 2025 John Leicester and Nicolas Garriga  

(AP) Across the English Channel, the U.K.’s white cliffs beckon. On fine days, men and women with children in their arms and determination in their eyes can see the shoreline of what they believe will be a promised land as they attempt […]

Discrimination & “Islamophobia”

Olympics security means minorities and others flagged as potential terror threats can’t move freely

August 5, 2024 John Leicester  

(AP) They are Nabil, Amine, François and more. But they will not be seen around the Paris Olympics, because France’s government barred them from getting anywhere close. French authorities are making unprecedentedly broad use of discretionary powers under an anti-terror law to […]

Crime

French police fatally shoot a man suspected of setting fire to a synagogue

May 17, 2024 Jeffrey Schaeffer and John Leicester  

(AP) French police shot and killed a man armed with a knife and a metal bar who is suspected of having started a fire that charred and blackened the insides of a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen early Friday, an […]

Clothing

Macron attacks Le Pen on Russia, Muslim headscarf ban pledge

April 20, 2022 John Leicester and Sylvie Corbet  

(AP) French President Emmanuel Macron tore into his far-right challenger Marine Le Pen in a television debate Wednesday for her ties to Russia and for wanting to strip Muslim women of their right to cover their heads in public, as he seeks […]

Animals

In France’s election, a meaty issue unites Jews and Muslims

April 15, 2022 John Leicester  

(AP) As she cooks lunch and talks politics, Sarah Gutmann has a nasty feeling — of would-be French president Marine Le Pen invading the privacy of her home and meddling with her Jewish faith and the plates of chicken and kosher sausages […]

Immigration

Afghans push through snowy Alps toward new lives in Europe

December 17, 2021 John Leicester and Daniel Cole  

(AP) When suicide attackers and gunmen massacred crowds flocking to Kabul’s airport, they also severed the escape route that Ali Rezaie hoped would take him to a new life abroad, far from the Taliban and their suspicions of well-educated, middle-class people who […]

Academics & Education

French police detain 7 in probe of teacher’s beheading

January 12, 2021 John Leicester  

(AP) French anti-terrorism police on Tuesday detained seven people suspected of having communicated via social media with the killer of a schoolteacher whose beheading last year reopened debate about France’s cherished rights of expression, a judicial official said. The teacher, Samuel Paty, […]

Academics & Education

French police quiz child apologists of teacher’s beheading

November 7, 2020 John Leicester  

(AP) Police in France questioned four 10-year-olds who voiced support for the beheading of a schoolteacher and who said they would kill their own teacher if he lampooned Islam’s prophet, the government reported as the prime minister warned Saturday that Islamic extremists […]

Crime

Anti-police violence surges in the tough suburbs of Paris

November 5, 2019 John Leicester  

(AP) A resurgence of anti-police violence has emerged in the long-troubled towns around Paris, signs that lawlessness still simmers in French urban hotspots that exploded in three weeks of rioting in 2005. Violence on Saturday night in Chanteloup-les-Vignes and recent flare-ups in […]

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