(European Conservative) At a time when the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood is finally being recognised and taken seriously by the French authorities, the minister for higher education and the minister for national education are finding ways to argue about the […]
(Politico) French Prime Minister François Bayrou on Tuesday delivered a scathing critique of his predecessor and centrist ally Gabriel Attal’s proposal to ban Muslim headscarves for minors under 15. Attal, the leader of President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance political party, publicly floated the […]
(Brussels Signal) Academics have called for the resignation of the president of France’s University of Lyon 2, Isabelle von Bueltzingsloewen, over her treatment of a professor targeted by “anti-racist and anti-colonial students.” “Fabrice Balanche, a senior lecturer and recognised specialist in Syria […]
(European Conservative) A renowned French university professor finds himself caught up in turmoil for having expressed his opposition to the holding of an Islamic breaking of the fast on the premises of the Lumière University Lyon 2 (Lyon-2). Prevented from teaching and […]
(Politico) French Prime Minister François Bayrou convened key Cabinet members on Tuesday after divisions among ministers over banning athletes from wearing hijabs during sporting events spilled into public view. “There’s only one line within the government … no visible religious symbols should […]
(AP) The alleged rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a suspected antisemitic attack has sent shockwaves throughout France and thrust concerns about antisemitism to the forefront of campaigning for the country’s legislative elections. The anti-immigration National Rally party, which has tried […]
(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 […]
(AP) French police arrested a man who targeted passersby in Paris on Saturday night, killing a German tourist with a knife and injuring two others, France’s interior minister said. Police subdued the man, a 25-year-old French citizen who had spent four years […]
(AFP) More than 180,000 people turned out on Sunday to march against anti-Semitism in France, after a surge in anti-Jewish incidents across the country in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict. France has recorded nearly 1,250 anti-Semitic acts in recent weeks and […]
(Arab News) Panic buttons will be installed in French schools in a bid to alert police of terrorist attacks, the Times reported. The move follows the murder of a teacher by an Islamist last month, and as tensions surge in the country […]
(AP) French President Emmanuel Macron held a special security meeting on Monday amid heightened alert against feared terror threats, as a high school where a teacher was fatally stabbed in an attack last week has been evacuated over a bomb threat. Several […]
(AFP) A Chechen-origin man fatally stabbed a teacher and severely wounded three other adults Friday at a school in northeastern France, with authorities suggesting a probable link to the ongoing violence in the Middle East. The attack, denounced by President Emmanuel Macron […]
(Middle East Eye) French athletes will not be allowed to wear veils during the Paris Olympic Games set to be held next year, the country’s sports minister announced on Sunday. Appearing as a guest on the show Sunday in Politics, airing on the […]
(Reuters) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will travel to Lampedusa on Sunday, an official said, as dozens of the Italian island’s citizens protested over a recent surge in migrant arrivals. Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called on Friday for the […]
(AFP) French authorities were on Monday imposing a newly-announced ban on the abaya Muslim dress for women in schools, with over 500 establishments under scrutiny as children across the country returned to class. The government announced last month it was banning the […]
(AP) Widespread riots in France sparked by the police killing of a teenager with North African roots have revealed the depth of discontent roiling poor neighborhoods — and given a new platform to the increasingly emboldened far right. The far right’s anti-immigration […]
(Euractiv) The leader of the far-right party VOX, Santiago Abascal, indirectly accused radical Muslims living in the European Union of fuelling and masterminding recent rioting and looting in France. The French authorities are still on alert in Paris, although the sixth night […]
(AFP) French investigators on Tuesday searched the homes of a journalist and a former senior official over allegations of embezzlement from a fund set up in memory of a teacher beheaded by an Islamist radical. The controversy is casting a shadow over […]
(AFP) A Syrian refugee armed with a knife stabbed four preschool children and injured two adults by a lake in the French Alps on Thursday in an attack whose motive remains unclear. The youngest victim in the quiet town of Annecy was […]
(AFP) French junior minister Marlene Schiappa, who made headlines this week for a clothed Playboy photoshoot, is at the centre of accusations of alleged misuse of cash from an anti-radicalism fund set up after the beheading of a teacher. Schiappa, whose ministerial […]
(AFP) French politicians paid tribute Saturday to Charlie Hebdo staff and other victims of the January 2015 Islamist attacks, days after the satirical weekly’s latest edition sparked outrage in Iran. French President Emmanuel Macron tweeted the names of all 17 victims of […]
(Connexion) French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne is among those to have paid homage to the victims of the terrorist attacks of November 13, seven years after 130 died and 350 were injured. A minute of silence was observed today, November 13, 2022, […]
(BBC) Grief and outrage in France over the murder of a 12-year-old girl found dumped in a plastic trunk in Paris has turned into a political row over the migrant status of the suspect. Lola’s body was found last Friday in a […]
(AFP) Over 10,000 people turned out north of Paris on Sunday for a march against Islamophobia that drew criticism from both the government and the far right. It was called following last month’s attack on a mosque in the southern French city […]
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