Crime
Hull man concocted audacious plot to smuggle asylum seekers into UK (LINK ONLY)
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France
Alcohol & Drugs
Israel blasts French ruling keeping Sarah Halimi’s killer from trial Calling the murder ‘despicable,’ Foreign Ministry says court judgment fails to convey attitude of zero tolerance toward anti-Semitism
(Times of Israel) Israel blasted on Tuesday the ruling by France’s highest court that the murderer of Sarah Halimi was not criminally responsible because he had smoked marijuana before the crime. “Sarah Halimi was murdered for clearly anti-Semitic motivations, for the sole […]
Law Enforcement
Suspect linked to 2016 Nice attack arrested in Italy
(AP) Italian media say a 28-year-old Albanian wanted in connection with a 2016 truck attack in the French city of Nice that killed 86 people has been arrested in southern Italy. News agency LaPresse said police arrested the suspect, identified as Endri […]
Government & Politics
French debate on ‘secular values’ opens in a climate of political hostility
(Radio France) As the government launches a series of discussion groups on the place of religion in contemporary French society, the battle lines are already drawn. The proposed broad public debate on the troubled relationship between faith and state has been criticised […]
Alcohol & Drugs
Macron urges law change after Jewish woman’s killer avoids trial
(AFP) President Emmanuel Macron urged a change in French law after a man who murdered a Jewish woman in 2017 avoided a trial on the grounds he acted in delirium due to drug-taking, in an interview published Monday. Jewish groups have reacted […]
Immigration
Delivery man who refused to service French Jews deported back to his native Algeria
(JTA) French immigration authorities deported a 19-year-old immigrant from Algeria who was jailed for refusing to deliver food to Jews after it was discovered he was living [in] France illegally. Dhia Edine D. was sentenced in January to four months in jail […]
Health & Medicine
French police instructed to bend lockdown rules for Muslims during Ramadan: report
(Breitbart) Police and gendarmes in the French department of Tarn have reportedly been instructed to not give out warnings or fines to Muslims breaking Wuhan coronavirus curfew during Ramadan. Officers have allegedly been instructed by the Tarn prefecture not to hand out […]
Fasting
Ramadan 2021: Evian’s social media post sparks backlash Mineral water brand accused of religious insensitivity by France's large Muslim population
(National-UAE) Water brand Evian created a storm after its social media post sparked a backlash for apparently offending Muslims observing Ramadan. On Tuesday, when the faithful were marking the start of a month-long fast between the hours of sunrise and sunset, the […]
Alcohol & Drugs
French top court upholds decision not to try Muslim man who killed his Jewish neighbor while high on marijuana
(JTA) Relatives of a Paris woman who was killed by her neighbor while he spewed anti-Semitic slurs and was high on marijuana have lost their final appeal to have the killer tried. In its decision Wednesday, the Court of Cassation’s Supreme Court […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
Amnesty condemns controversial French bill Calls on government to withdraw discriminatory provisions stigmatizing Muslims
(Anadolu) Amnesty France on Tuesday urged the Macron government to withdraw discriminatory provisions adopted in an amended version of a controversial bill confirming respect for the principles of the Republic that targets the French Muslim population. The rights group expressed concerns about […]
Academics & Education
French Senate approves toughened version of bill accused of stigmatising Islam
(Radio France) France’s right-wing majority Senate has approved proposals including expanded bans on religious symbols and clothing in a set of new draft laws to counter what President Emmanuel Macron has called Islamist separatism. Critics say the new measures, which may not […]
Academics & Education
Paris mosque implicated in teacher’s murder reopens after six-month ban
(Radio France) The mosque in the north-Paris suburb of Pantin is open for Friday prayers for the first time in six months. It was closed by police last October, following accusations that some members had contributed to the on-line campaign against Samuel […]
Government & Politics
Strasbourg mosque a lightning rod for broader French-Turkish tensions
(VOA) The cement skeleton of the unfinished Eyyub Sultan mosque in France’s eastern city of Strasbourg has become a repository for myriad grievances, ranging from local partisan wrangling to longstanding friction between Islam and this country’s staunchly secular creed. The grievances also […]
Law Enforcement
Massive Iranian spy network in Europe revealed (LINK ONLY)
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Christians
Suspect arrested over Easter linked to French church plot
(AP) French anti-terrorism investigators said Thursday that an 18-year-old woman arrested over the Easter weekend was suspected of planning an attack on a church. New details have emerged about the teen, who was living in a housing project in Beziers, in southern […]
Academics & Education
French Senate OKs proposal to ban prayers at universities Senate approves adding proposal to ban religious practices in university corridors to bill against 'Islamist separatism'
(Anadolu) France’s Senate approved the addition of a ban on religious practices in university corridors to a controversial bill to fight “Islamist separatism” late Wednesday. Discussing the draft bill, which has been criticized for alienating Muslims, the center-right Republicans (LR) party proposed […]
Christians
Morocco’s intelligence enabled France to prevent terrorist attack in church The data enabled France to prevent a serious terrorist attack that a national planned in a church in France.
(Morocco World News) Morocco’s General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) handed France essential information about a French woman of Moroccan origin, who was plotting a terrorist attack in a church. The data enabled France to prevent the attack, a statement from the […]
Children & Teens
French senate votes to ban the hijab for Muslim women under the age of 18
(Vogue) Less than a month after voters in Switzerland supported a ban on the burqa and niqab, its neighboring nation, France, has taken a more severe stance against “religious” clothing and symbols with its move to outlaw the hijab on women under […]
Law Enforcement
5 women arrested in southern France in suspected attack plot
(AP) Police in southern France have arrested four women and a girl as part of an anti-terrorist investigation into a suspected attack plot targeting the city of Montpellier. A police official in the Herault region confirmed the overnight arrests in the city […]
Crime
People smugglers sending fleets of migrant boats at the same time to overwhelm patrols (LINK ONLY)
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Immigration
France rescues 159 migrants as they bid to make it to the UK
(Euronews) French authorities rescued 159 migrants as they attempted to cross the English Channel and make it to the UK. Among the migrants saved were 10 children and a pregnant woman. Several suffered from hypothermia. The French Maritime Prefecture said they were […]
Immigration
Wheelchair-bound man and young children among latest wave of cross-Channel migrants (LINK ONLY)
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Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
French govt rejects ‘Islamophobia’ term, says Islamists use it as a ‘weapon’ against freedoms
(Breitbart) The French government has rejected the use of the term “Islamophobia,” saying Islamists use it to silence criticism of radical Islam. The French Interministerial Committee for the Prevention of Delinquency and Radicalisation rejected the term earlier this week, stating: “To speak of […]
Government & Politics
France says no place for Turkish group which spurned charter
(AFP) An influential Turkish religious association founded by the mentor of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has no place in France as it goes against French values, the government spokesman said Thursday. The Milli Gorus association has courted controversy in France in recent […]
Immigration
Channel crossings: Border Force intercepts more than 200 migrants
(BBC) More than 200 migrants have been intercepted while attempting to cross the English Channel over recent days. The Home Office said 148 people in six incidents had tried to enter the UK on Tuesday. A further 81 people had been intercepted […]
Academics & Education
French ministry bashes religious symbols proposals Lawmakers adopt measures against religious symbols on parents accompanying children on school trips
(Anadolu) France’s interior minister on Wednesday criticized two legal amendments adopted by lawmakers prohibiting parents from wearing visible religious symbols while accompanying their children on school trips and allowing public swimming pools to ban “burkini” swimwear. Gerald Darmanin said the measures, approved […]
News: Europe
French IS widow in Syria camp, veil-free, wants to ‘go home’
(AFP) In a Syrian detention camp for people linked to the Islamic State group, French mother-of-five Emilie Konig has swapped her all-engulfing black robe for a sweatshirt and baseball cap. The 36-year-old widow — who is on UN and US blacklists of […]
Discrimination & “Islamophobia”
French ‘separatism’ bill risks discriminating Muslims: Amnesty Rights group says ‘many problematic provisions’ of the draft law, which heads to the Senate on Tuesday, should be scrapped or amended.
(Al-Jazeera) As the French Senate prepares to debate the so-called “anti-separatism” bill, human rights group Amnesty International has made a last-minute appeal for “many problematic provisions” of the draft law to be scrapped or amended. The Senate debate on Tuesday comes after […]
Clerics & Preachers
Muslim scholars slam French call on same-sex marriage IUMS secretary-general describes call as double standard against Islam
(Anadolu) The International Union [of] Muslim Scholars (IUMS) on Saturday decried a French government request for mosque imams to recommend same-sex marriage as a double standard against Islam. In a Facebook post addressed to French Minister of Citizenship Marlène Schiappa, IUMS Secretary-General […]
Immigration
Channel crossings: Three boats with 77 migrants on board cross Channel
(BBC) Three small boats with 77 people on board reached the UK after crossing the English Channel on Thursday, the Home Office said. At least one boat landed on the beach at Dungeness, Kent, but the Home Office has not divulged further […]
Immigration
1,000 people cross Channel on small boats so far this year (LINK ONLY)
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Animals
France did not ban halal slaughter of poultry
(AFP) Social media posts and online articles claim France will ban the halal slaughter of chicken. This is false; the Ministry of Agriculture said there is no ban, but a November 2020 directive clarified the rules around the religious exemption from European […]
Arts & Entertainment
Charlie Hebdo office attacker ‘radicalised by Pakistani groups’
(AFP) A Pakistani man who attacked the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine last September was radicalised by videos of preachers in his home country and anti-France demonstrations at the time, a report said Wednesday. The 26-year-old had spent the days […]
Government & Politics
Turkey decries Macron’s ‘unacceptable’ remarks Foreign Ministry says ‘unjust, inconsistent' statements made about Turkey, Turkish president during TV program
(Anadolu) Ankara on Wednesday denounced recent remarks by the French president about Turkey and its leader, calling them “unacceptable.” “We find the statements by French President [Emmanuel] Macron, which he gave in response to the deliberate questions asked in the program and […]
Immigration
Channel crossings: Six boats with 183 migrants on board intercepted
(BBC) Six boats with 183 migrants on board reached the UK after crossing the English Channel on Tuesday. The figure is the highest daily number so far this year, and is just under the total in the whole of March 2020 when […]
Government & Politics
Row erupts in France over state funding for mosque
(AFP) A row has erupted in France over plans to build a mosque in Strasbourg, with the interior ministry on Wednesday accusing the municipal authorities there of using public money to fund “foreign meddling” on French soil. While President Emmanuel Macron wants […]
Government & Politics
Macron warns Turkey might meddle in future French elections
(Radio France) French President Emmanuel Macron has said that Turkey could interfere in France’s elections. The comments come as the two countries appear to be trying to ease tensions that have built up over the last several months. “Clearly there will be […]
Books
Claire Koc: Poster girl for integration tells of death threats (LINK ONLY)
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Demonstrations
France: Protests against controversial bill continue 'Separatist' bill slammed because it targets Muslim community, imposes restrictions on almost every aspect of their lives
(Anadolu) Protests continued across France on Sunday against Islamophobia and a controversial bill that has been criticized for targeting Muslims. Demonstrators took to streets in the capital Paris, Marseille, Lille, Strasbourg, Bordeaux and Lyon. Chanting slogans against Islamophobia, the crowd marched from […]
Immigration
France rescues 72 migrants in Channel on way to UK
(AFP) French maritime authorities said they had rescued 72 migrants in the English Channel on Sunday whose vessels ran into difficulties as they tried to reach the UK. Early Sunday, the coastguard was alerted that several boats were in trouble off the […]
Government & Politics
Turkey: 2,764 foreign terrorists deported since 2019 66 French, 57 German, 22 Dutch, 14 Swedish and 7 Swiss nationals among those deported back to countries of origin
(Anadolu) Turkey has deported a total of 2,764 foreign [terrorist] fighters (FTFs) of 67 different nationalities since 2019, the country’s Interior Ministry announced on Sunday. In a statement, the ministry said the FTFs had left their home countries to join ranks of […]
Academics & Education
French Jews mark anniversary of 2012 attack that killed rabbi, three children at Toulouse Jewish school
(Algemeiner) French Jews commemorated on Friday victims of the horrific 2012 shooting attack at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, which took place during a days-long killing spree that claimed the lives of seven people. On March 19, 2012, Islamist terrorist Mohamed […]
Children & Teens
94 per cent of foreign ‘minors’ identified by Paris police are adults
(Breitbart) After setting up a fingerprint database in cooperation with North African countries, the Paris police prefecture positively identified 229 “minor” migrants, of which 216 were revealed to be adults. The Directorate of Security of the Paris Metropolitan Area (DSPAP) implemented the […]
Academics & Education
German professor under police protection for stance on Islamophobia A German professor at a university in Grenoble, France, has become the target of a hate campaign for not wanting to compare anti-Semitism with Islamophobia.
(Deutsche Welle) “Fascists in our lecture halls! Dismiss Professor Kinzler! Islamophobia kills,” read the large banners hanging at the University of Grenoble. Activists from the French student union Unef also posted the slogans online. Five months after the brutal murder of history […]
Government & Politics
French interior minister calls for reopening of mosque implicated in Paty murder
(Radio France) In the wake of the resignation of M’hammed Henniche from his position as rector of the north Paris Pantin mosque, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has called for the reopening of the establishment, closed for the past six months following the […]
Children & Teens
Twitter under fire after suspending account of French teen targeted for Islam comments
(Euronews) Twitter briefly suspended on Sunday the Twitter account of Mila, a French teenager who has faced online harassment and death threats since she posted a viral video criticising Islam last year. The social network initially claimed Mila had violated its harassment […]
Children & Teens
Two youths indicted by Paris court for planning attacks on French military
(Radio France) Two young men suspected of planning violent attacks, specifically against the French military, have been arrested and indicted under anti-terrorism legislation following two separate investigations. Judicial sources revealed Saturday that the two youths, aged 17 and 18 respectively, were arrested […]
Crime
Founder of banned Islamist NGO gets 10-month suspended sentence for cyberbullying
(Radio France) The founder of the NGO Barakacity, which was recently dismantled by the French government, has been found guilty of the online harassment of a columnist with RMC radio. Idriss Sihamedi was handed a 10-month suspended prison sentence by the court […]
Government & Politics
Marine Le Pen reckons she’ll be president of France next year
(Bloomberg) Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said she’s going to win next year’s presidential elections in France and that she’s going to spend the months leading up to the ballot showing voters why she deserves to be in the Elysee palace. “I […]
Academics & Education
French Jews remember anniversary of 2012 terror attacks that culminated in massacre at Jewish school
(Algemeiner) France on Thursday began commemorations for the ninth anniversary of a devastating Islamist terror spree that claimed the lives of seven people, including three children at a Jewish school and two soldiers in the French army. The tributes to the victims […]