(Reuters) As French President Emmanuel Macron recognised Palestine statehood earlier this week, dozens of town halls across France hoisted the Palestinian flag in celebration — defying instructions by Macron’s interior ministry not to do so. By Wednesday, some had taken the flag […]
(AFP) More than 80 town halls in France hoisted the Palestinian flag Monday ahead of the recognition of a Palestinian state by President Emmanuel Macron in defiance of a government warning not to do so. Macron is to recognise a Palestinian state […]
(AP) Some French mayors have defied government orders and flown Palestinian flags on town halls, with more expected to follow suit as France prepares to formally recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly. It’s unclear how many cities will […]
(Jerusalem Post) Two teenagers, aged 15 and 17, of Muslim Arab origin, were arrested by French police late last month in Paris, on suspicion of planning an attack against synagogues and the Eiffel Tower in the French capital, French newspaper Le Figaro […]
(Middle East Eye) A French imam has sparked outrage after dancing at an event organised in support of Israel and Israeli captives in Paris. On 22 June, during “We Will Dance Again,” an Israeli music festival, Hassen Chalghoumi was spotted on a […]
(Middle East Eye) A new promotional video by a Dutch modest clothing brand featuring the Eiffel Tower draped in an Islamic headscarf has sparked a barrage of anti-Muslim criticism and commentary in France this week. The realistic animation by Merrachi, which caters […]
(AFP) A man who went on a stabbing rampage in France, killing one and wounding several others in what President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist act,” was on a terrorism watchlist and subject to deportation orders, according to authorities. The knife-wielding […]
(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 […]
(GB News) Isis has made a threat to use bombs to target this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris. The terrorist organisation has shared a picture of a faceless person operating a drone carrying a package marked “gift” towards the Eiffel Tower. The […]
(AP) Brought into the international spotlight by the ban on hijabs for French athletes at the upcoming Paris Olympics, France’s unique approach to “laïcité” — loosely translated as “secularism” — has been increasingly stirring controversy from schools to sports fields across the […]
(Sky News) A 16-year-old boy has been arrested by anti-terrorism police in France after he allegedly said on social media he wanted to “die a martyr” at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer. A spokesperson said on Wednesday the boy was […]
(NL Times) The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a new warning for people traveling to France after the French government raised its domestic security threat level to its most heightened position. The assessment of “Emergency: Attack” was issued by Prime Minister […]
(JTA) The Jewish French-Moroccan journalist Ruth Elkrief — who has delivered TV news in France for over 30 years — found herself at the center of the story when she was placed under police protection in December. Elkrief received the security detail […]
(AFP) French security forces have rejected 13 people who were selected to take part in the torch relay for the Paris Olympics, including some who had committed drugs offences as well as a suspected Islamist, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday. […]
(AP) The bar was already high, but the security challenge ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games only grew with a knife attack last weekend that killed a tourist near the Eiffel Tower. Still, the assault at the hand of a suspected […]
(AP) A French juvenile court on Friday convicted six teenagers for their roles in the 2020 beheading of a teacher by an Islamic extremist, an attack that shocked the country and shone a light on the real-world dangers of online hate speech. […]
(NL Times) The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has raised the travel advisory level for Paris due to terrorist threats. Paris is now under a yellow travel advisory, indicating that travel is possible but not without risks. The rest of France maintains […]
(Politico) A new generation of French teenagers is being wooed by the Islamic State terrorist group — infamous for its on-camera immolations of captives in Iraq — and seems ominously susceptible to the group’s propaganda, according to the head of France’s DGSI […]
(AP) A man accused of fatally stabbing a tourist and injuring two other people over the weekend near the Eiffel Tower was placed under investigation Wednesday on charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist organization, the prosecutor’s office […]
(AFP) There was a clear failure in the psychiatric care of the radicalised Islamist suffering from mental troubles who stabbed a German tourist to death in central Paris at the weekend before being arrested, France’s interior minister said Monday. The attack close […]
(AFP) The man who stabbed a tourist to death near the Eiffel Tower in Paris swore allegiance to the Islamic State group in a video posted to social media, French anti-terrorist prosecutors said Sunday. Known to the authorities as a radicalised Islamist […]
(Free Beacon) The Biden administration earlier this year tapped the Council on American-Islamic Relations for an initiative to curb anti-Semitism. This week, the anti-Semitic group and its leaders defended Hamas attacks that have killed more than 1,000 Jews. The White House announced […]
(Oregonian) A man who immigrated to Oregon from Iraq in 2014 on Tuesday pleaded guilty to advocating for violent jihad through an online Arabic newspaper in support of the Islamic State terrorist group. Hawazen Sameer Mothafar, 33, who lives in Troutdale, was […]
(AFP) A man who received orders from the jihadist Islamic State group to carry out a drone attack against a Barcelona-Real Madrid football match was sentenced Monday by a Spanish court to three years in jail. Mohammed Yassi Amrani, a former bar […]
(AFP) A Spanish court on Thursday handed jail terms of up to 53 years to three men who helped the jihadists behind the 2017 Barcelona attacks that killed 16 people. The Islamic State (IS) group claimed the bloodshed of August 17-18, 2017, […]
(Breitbart) Text messages obtained from the phone of Nice basilica terrorist Brahim Aouissaoui revealed the Tunisian illegal immigrant allegedly came to France specifically to commit an attack, and his original target was Paris. The more than 2,000 text messages sent during Brahim Aouissaoui’s voyage from […]
(AFP) Spanish judges on Wednesday began deliberating a verdict in the trial of three men accused of helping the jihadists behind the 2017 attacks in Barcelona and a nearby town that killed 16. The Islamic State (IS) group took responsibility for the […]
(AP) Activists rallied Sunday in Paris to demand that the French government abandon a bill aimed at rooting out Islamist extremism that the protesters say could trample on religious freedom and make all Muslims into potential suspects. French lawmakers hold a key […]
(AFP) Three men went on trial Tuesday for helping the jihadists behind the 2017 attacks in Barcelona and a nearby town that killed 16 people and left 140 wounded. The Islamic State group took responsibility for the August 17-18 bloodshed, including a […]
(AFP) Three men go on trial at Spain’s top criminal court Tuesday for helping the perpetrators of twin jihadist attacks in 2017 that killed 16 in Barcelona and a nearby seaside town. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the bloodshed which […]
(Oregonian) A federal indictment unsealed Thursday accuses an Oregon man of advocating violent jihad in an online Arabic newspaper in support of the terrorist organization ISIS. Hawazen Sameer Mothafar, 31, of Troutdale was arrested Thursday morning, federal authorities said. Mothafar pleaded not […]
(AFP) A ceremony was held in Barcelona on Monday in memory of the 16 people who died during attacks in the Spanish city and a nearby resort three years ago. Wearing face masks and maintaining social distance because of the pandemic, dozens […]
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