(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 […]
(AFP) Survivors of the November 2015 Paris attacks will testify at a historic trial from Tuesday, reliving the most traumatic events of their lives as they try to put the horror into words. One by one over the coming weeks, 300 survivors […]
(Radio France) The third week of the trial of those suspected of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris was entirely devoted to police and expert evidence. Much of what we heard and saw was difficult for the families of […]
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(Radio France) The third week of the trial of those accused of involvement in the November 2015 massacre of 130 people in Paris came to an end with three very different reports from expert witnesses. The themes were DNA, explosions and Islamic […]
(Radio France) The eleventh day of the Paris court hearing into the terrorist attacks which killed 130 people in the French capital in November 2015 was devoted to the medical machinery which handled the bodies of the victims, and the frequently inadequate […]
(BBC) More migrants have crossed the Channel in small boats so far in September than in any other previous month since the crisis began. According to the Home Office, 459 migrants were intercepted on Wednesday, on 14 boats. The total number of […]
(Radio France) At a criminal trial centred on the violent deaths of 130 people, there are no good days. But there are less bad ones. On Wednesday, after nine hearings devoted to the catalogue of cowardice and horror, heroism finally had its […]
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(AP) The uncle of an 18-year-old woman who disappeared months ago in Italy after refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan was detained Wednesday on the outskirts of Paris, according to Italian authorities who fear the teenager may be dead. Saman Abbas was […]
(AFP) A French appeal court on Tuesday increased a jihadist’s sentence for his senior role with the Islamic State group in Syria from 30 years to life in prison. Frenchman Tyler Vilus had already been convicted for his work with the IS […]
(Radio France) On Monday, at the start of the third week of the Paris November 2015 terror trial, two police experts described the scenes at La Belle Équipe bar, where 21 people died in a hail of bullets, and at the Comptoir […]
(Radio France) The second week of the Paris trial of those accused of involvement in the November 2015 terrorist killing of 130 people brought us from the legal technicalities of the crimes allegedly committed to the stark humanity of the dead, the […]
(BBC) More than 400 migrants have been intercepted or rescued while crossing the Channel on small boats, the Home Office has confirmed. UK authorities dealt with 426 people in 14 incidents on Saturday. French officials dealt with 28 people in two incidents […]
(Radio France) The second week of the Paris hearing at which 20 men are being tried for their alleged involvement in the terrorist attacks which killed 130 people in the French capital in November 2015 came to an end with the presentation […]
(Anadolu) French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Friday announced the closure of the Muslim-owned publishing house Nawa, describing it as contrary to Western values and having separatist tendencies. Taking to Twitter, Darmanin wrote: “I have started the termination process due to some […]
(Radio France) This trial of 20 men accused of involvement in the terrorist attacks which cost the lives of 130 people in Paris on 13 November 2015 was always going to be difficult for the families of those killed or injured. The […]
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(BBC) More than 400 migrants have crossed the English Channel in three days, the Home Office has confirmed. On Wednesday, 85 people made the crossing, followed by 222 on Thursday and 174 on Friday. The French authorities stopped 267 people from making […]
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