(Radio France) Testimony from bereaved families continues before the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried on suspicion of involvement in the November 2015 massacre of 130 people in the French capital. “The suffering is a relentless part […]
(AFP) Two men went on trial on Tuesday over the 2018 murder of an elderly Jewish woman that provoked protests and alarm in France about anti-Semitic crime. The partly burned body of Mireille Knoll, 85, was found in her apartment in central […]
(Radio France) Bataclan survivors, hostages, police officers and the families of victims continued their tragic testimonies this week at the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried for alleged involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in which […]
(Radio France) On Friday, at the special criminal court where 20 men are being tried on suspicion of involvement in the November 2015 Paris massacres of 130 people, the families of some of the 90 Bataclan victims attempted to describe their on-going […]
(Radio France) “When my father died at the Bataclan, I was seven years old. I didn’t know what death meant.” With testimony from the families of victims continuing at the November 2015 terror trial, the profound sadness in the wake of the […]
(Breitbart) A man who described himself as “Moroccan” has been sentenced to a year in prison after threatening to behead populist French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen. The man threatened to behead Ms Le Pen and conservative writer and pundit Eric Zemmour […]
(Radio France) The psychological damage does not affect only those who were witnesses or victims of the terrorist attacks on the night of 13 November 2015. Practically all the civil witness testimonies point to the impact of the victims’ damaged lives on […]
(Breitbart) An 11-year-old pupil yelled “Allahu Akbar” during a school tribute to murdered teacher Samuel Paty, while the child’s father was later arrested for threatening to burn the school down. The initial incident took place on Friday at the Jean-Zay middle school in […]
(Radio France) After the explosion which killed Sami Amimour, the two surviving murderers lined up a group of terrified hostages and began herding them along the left-hand balcony of the Bataclan, in the direction of the stage. “It was,” explained one of […]
(Radio France) Few of the witnesses who chose to go to the Bataclan concert on 13th of November 2015 from the right-hand balcony were seriously injured physically in the terrorist attack. But what they saw, heard and suffered has left none of […]
(BBC) More than 800 people have crossed the English Channel to Kent over three days, the Home Office has said. On Saturday 410 people were intercepted in 11 boats, followed by 102 migrants in three boats on Sunday and another 294 in […]
(Radio France) The second week of witness evidence from those who survived the attack on the Bataclan music venue has been full of grief, guilt and the seemingly endless struggle to turn the page emotionally. One young woman told two anecdotes, one […]
(AFP) France paid tribute to schoolteacher Samuel Paty on Saturday, one year after he was beheaded by an extremist after showing his class cartoons of the Muslim prophet Mohammed. Paty, 47, was stabbed and then decapitated after leaving the middle school where he […]
(Radio France) Friday’s session at the special criminal court in Paris, where 20 men are being tried for their alleged participation in the November 2015 terrorist attacks, heard the anger and grief of the survivors and their families expressed in different accents, […]
(Radio France) There are no easy days at the Paris attacks [trial], but Thursday’s evidence from the families of victims was particularly intense. We heard from a woman who lost her sister in the attack on the Belle Équipe restaurant in central […]
(AFP) Pupils in schools across France on Friday paid tribute to Samuel Paty, a year after the teacher was beheaded by an extremist for showing his class cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed. Paty’s violent death sent shockwaves through France and beyond, […]
(Radio France) Wednesday’s Paris terror trial hearing opened with evidence from Luciana Milani Solesin, the mother of Italian national Valeria Solesin, who was murdered by Islamists at the Bataclan concert hall in the French capital on 13 November 2015. Behind the dignified […]
(Radio France) French Interior Minister [Gerald Darmanin] has ordered authorities to close a mosque in the north-west, following evidence it preached radical Islamism. Since the murder of teacher Samuel Paty by an Islamist a year ago, France has been cracking down on […]
(AFP) A year after the brutal murder of a French teacher, beheaded for showing his students cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, schools are struggling with how to teach core French values without inflaming tensions with young Muslims. Samuel Paty, who was 47, […]
(Radio France) Survivors of the Paris terrorist attack on the Bataclan concert hall in November 2015 continue to testify before the special criminal court where 20 men are being tried for alleged involvement in the planning and preparation of a night of […]
(Kathimerini) French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has praised the “Greek model” of migration control and vowed France’s support in bolstering border security when it assumes the European Union’s six-month rotating presidency on January 1. “We ask other southern EU countries to do […]
(Euronews) French politicians hit back at the UK and at their own government on Monday as a surge in the number of migrants trying to cross the English Channel in small boats heightened tensions between the two countries. Politicians from the region […]
(BBC) Eleven boats with 364 migrants on board crossed the English Channel to reach Kent on Sunday, the Home Office said. French authorities also stopped 16 vessels, preventing over 500 further migrants from making the crossing. It follows 40 boat crossings on […]
(BBC) Payments to France to help tackle migrant Channel crossings should be finalised in “the coming weeks,” Security Minister Damian Hinds has said. The UK promised France £54m in July to boost police patrols at its beaches. But on Saturday, a French […]
(Radio France) The fifth week of the Paris trial of the 20 men accused of involvement in the November 2015 attacks was marked by the start of hearings of the evidence from survivors of the Bataclan, the concert venue where 90 of […]
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(Radio France) Friday’s witnesses came from Los Angeles, from Turkey, from the central French Nièvre region. And, as from the start of the witness testimony, all the stories from the Bataclan survivors and their families are the same. And each is absolutely […]
(AP) France’s interior minister on Saturday urged Britain to fulfill its promises to provide tens of millions of pounds (dollars) to help France stop migrants from trying to cross the English Channel. Visiting the northern port of Dunkirk, French Interior Minister Gerald […]
(AFP) French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Saturday called for the start of negotiations for a migration treaty between the European Union and Britain. Darmanin also urged the British government to “uphold its promise” to finance the fight against the illegal immigrants […]
(Radio France) At the special criminal court where 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killings of 130 people, survivors of an attack at the Bataclan concert hall on Thursday described the night of horror […]
(AFP) French police are inflicting misery on migrants in the northern port of Calais, routinely tearing down their tents and forcing them to wander the streets as part of a deterrence policy, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report Thursday. The […]
(Radio France) On Wednesday, at the Paris trial of the 20 men accused of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in the French capital, survivors from the Bataclan music venue, where 90 people lost their lives, began to recount their long […]
(AFP) Survivors of the 2015 Islamic State massacre at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Wednesday told the trial being held over a night of bloodshed in the French capital they “played dead” on the ground for hours to avoid being […]
(Radio France) Salah Abdeslam, the sole survivor of the terrorist groups that murdered 130 people in Paris in November 2015, has frequently interrupted proceedings at the trial where, along with 19 co-accused, he faces charges of conspiracy, perpetration or complicity in terrorism. […]
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(AFP) The Tunisia-born baker who just won the coveted annual award for the best baguette in Paris has been caught up in a row over claims he shared extremist posts on social media. Makram Akrout, whose achievement last month in beating off […]
(Radio France) The court has already received requests to testify from more than 350 civil witnesses. These are the people who were affected by the November 2015 killings, either directly or because family members and friends were killed or injured in the […]
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(Radio France) At the November 2015 terror trial, the first week of witness evidence came to an end with further testimony from those who survived the shooting attacks at the Belle Équipe bar in central Paris. At the trial on Friday, a […]
(BBC) The prime minister said the French authorities “could do more” to stop migrants crossing the English Channel. The number of people who have crossed the Channel so far this year is more than double the total for 2020. In an interview […]
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(Radio France) The evidence from victims and bereaved families continues at the Paris trial of the 20 men accused of complicity in the November 2015 terrorist attacks. Everyone in the vast courtroom has been affected by the generally quiet dignity of the […]
(AFP) “The moment they are in the boats at sea, they’ve won,” says a French policeman as he looks out across a windswept departure point for migrants heading across the Channel to Britain. Day and night, military police officers like Maxence, a […]
(Radio France) If the testimony of those hurt or bereaved in the November 2015 attacks has been generally characterised by tragic dignity, Wednesday’s hearing was marked by an outburst of anger. After a day devoted to those who suffered at the Stade […]
(Radio France) Police dismantled the largest migrant camp currently set up in the northern city of Calais on Tuesday, moving dozens of people into reception centres in the region. Local authorities had rigged up water taps and aid groups had been handing […]
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(AFP) France is moving to shut six mosques and break up several associations suspected of producing radical Islamic propaganda, Interior Minister [Gerald] Darmanin said on Tuesday. A third of the 89 places of worship “suspected of being radical” and flagged by the […]
(AP) It is almost the forgotten attack of Nov. 13, 2015: France’s national stadium was the sole site outside Paris to come under assault that night from Islamic State extremists. The three suicide bombers who struck killed one man out of the […]
(Breitbart) A man who claimed to be a former Islamic State fighter was arrested in Perpignan, France, after threatening to attack several police stations with a Kalashnikov rifle. The suspect had called stations in Lyon, Strasbourg, Lille, Marseille, Bordeaux, Narbonne, and the Paris […]
(BBC) More than 660 migrants crossed the English Channel on Sunday, bringing the total so far this year to more than double the total for 2020. The Home Office said 669 people crossed in 22 boats on Sunday, with the French authorities […]
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