(Reuters) France’s broadcast regulator said on Wednesday a far-right commentator known for incendiary remarks on Islam, immigration and French identity had signalled electoral ambitions and should be subject to limits on air time for political figures. Eric Zemmour, a regular feature on […]
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(BBC) The home secretary is expected to hold talks with her French counterpart about the number of migrants crossing the English Channel to the UK. Priti Patel and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin are both due to attend a meeting of G7 ministers […]
(France 24) Salah Abdeslam, the 31-year-old French-Moroccan believed to be the only surviving member of the group that carried out the November 2015 jihadist attacks in Paris, told a courtroom on Wednesday that he was a “soldier of the Islamic State group.” […]
(National-UAE) A Belgian politician who investigated the suspected mastermind of the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks said mistakes have been repeated that have left youngsters at risk from dangerous radicalisers in their communities. Belgian-Moroccan citizen Oussama Atar is believed to have been killed […]
(Politico) The French interior ministry said a mooted decision in the U.K. to pay France only if more migrants are stopped from crossing the Channel would represent “a grave loss of trust” between the two countries. “The conditions of the funding were […]
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(Radio France) The trial opens in Paris on Wednesday of the twenty men accused of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks which left 130 people dead in the French capital. Who are the accused? What are they suspected of having done? […]
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(Brussels Times) The Belgian Francophone broadcaster RTBF found recordings of an interview with terrorist Salah Abdeslam and two of his accomplices, immediately after the terror attacks in Paris, in its archives. On 14 November 2015, the morning after the terror attacks in […]
(AFP) The biggest trial in France’s modern legal history begins on Wednesday over the November 2015 attacks on Paris that saw 130 people slaughtered at bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. The suicide bombing and gun assault by three teams of […]
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(BBC) Even among the Afghan migrants already living at the camp in Calais, Mohammad Wali stands out. Tall and broad, with a huge gap-toothed smile and a blue scarf wound around his head, he seems full of energy, full of hope. He […]
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(AFP) A French court handed a 10-month suspended jail sentence to an Afghan man for violating a surveillance order days after France evacuated him from Taliban-controlled Kabul, intensifying a controversy over suspected links between at least one evacuee and the Taliban. The […]
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(AFP) France has detained an Afghan it helped evacuate from the country as part of an investigation into links with the Taliban, the government spokesman said on Tuesday. The man is believed to be close to another Afghan evacuee who is suspected […]
(AFP) The discovery of Afghan evacuees representing potential security risks in France and Britain has put the spotlight on screening efforts during the evacuation operation with Western diplomats working under extreme pressure in Kabul. Five Afghans who arrived in France in recent […]
(BBC) More than 800 migrants crossed the English Channel to the UK on Saturday — setting a new record for crossings in a single day. The Home Office said nearly 200 people making the trip were also stopped by the French authorities. […]
(AFP) France has placed under surveillance an Afghan evacuated from Kabul who is suspected of links to the Taliban, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Monday. About 1,300 Afghans have in recent days been evacuated by France via a military base in […]
(AFP) Over 100 migrants were rescued in the Channel on Saturday as they tried to reach Britain on makeshift boats, the French maritime prefecture said. A first boat carrying 38 migrants was reported in difficulty off Boulogne, the authorities said. The migrants […]
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(Connexion) Nice will not allow Afghan refugees to settle, mayor Christian Estrosi has said, because the city has suffered due to Islamic terrorism in recent years. When asked on RTL if Nice would welcome refugees, Mr Estrosi said: “No, no, it’s very […]
(Politico) France and Germany will push for a European plan to tackle migration flows from Afghanistan as people flee the Taliban’s control, Emmanuel Macron said Monday evening. “We must anticipate and protect ourselves against major irregular migratory flows that would endanger those […]
(Radio France) French constitutional watchdogs have cleared the path for a new law aimed at countering Islamist extremism. Officially known as the law comforting the principles of the republic, the draft law was approved in parliament in July. But around 100 MPs […]
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(Al-Jazeera) It all started with an Instagram broadcast on January 18 last year. Mila, then 16, with a head of newly dyed purple hair, went on a rant against Islam, addressing some of her 10,000 followers who tuned in. “The Quran is […]
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(BBC) A further 475 migrants crossed the English Channel in 15 small boats on Thursday, following a record 482 arrivals on Wednesday. The Ministry of Defence earlier said an exercise on its firing range at Hythe had to be stopped on Wednesday […]
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(BBC) Small boats carrying 281 people were intercepted trying to cross the Channel on Tuesday. Border Force officials stopped seven boats, while French authorities intercepted one crossing carrying a further 20 migrants. So far this year more than 9,700 people have reached […]
(Breitbart) Three North African men beat a plainclothes French police officer attempting to intervene while the migrants harassed a young couple at a train station. The incident took place at the Massy-Palaiseau RER train station in the Paris suburb of Massy on Monday […]
(Breitbart) Two Afghan migrants were arrested in Rennes, France, after allegedly stabbing a man near a metro station and sexually assaulting the victim’s ex-girlfriend. The attack took place on the night of Friday the 10th to Saturday the 11th of July. Two […]
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Halal school lunches have been in the news lately. Last spring, school districts in Buffalo, New York, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, announced they would begin pilot programs to serve halal lunches at some of their schools. New York City announced it […]
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(AFP) Britain and France on Monday signed a new security deal aimed at protecting the public in the event of a terror attack in the Channel against a large vessel such as a passenger ferry, the British government said. The UK-France Maritime […]
(Breitbart) Police arrested four men in Nantes after they allegedly slaughtered a pair of sheep in the middle of a street during the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival. The four men were taken into custody on Tuesday at around 11:25 a.m. in the Bellevue district […]
(Anadolu) The controversial anti-separatism bill in France limits the existence and rights of Muslims, a French Muslim human rights activist said on Sunday. “The anti-separatism bill completely limits the right to organization and the existence of Muslims as people who have Islamic […]
(Anadolu) Turkey’s communications director on Saturday criticized France’s parliament for passing a controversial bill, stressing that it would further marginalize Muslims and other religious minorities. Fahrettin Altun said on Twitter that though France claims to be based on the principles of freedom, […]
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(Anadolu) The imam of a mosque in France’s Loire region was dismissed at the behest of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, on the grounds that the verse and hadith the former recited in the Eid al-Adha prayer sermon were deemed “contrary to the […]
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(France 24) The French National Assembly on Friday approved a controversial “anti-separatism” bill despite strong criticisms from parliamentarians from the left and the right. The government argued the legislation was needed to bolster France’s secular system, but critics say it breaches religious […]
(AFP) Towns along France’s northern coast on Thursday limited takeaway sales of fuel to 10 litres per customer to curb illegal migration across the Channel, a local newspaper reported Thursday. “Buying or selling more than 10 litres of fuel — petrol or […]
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