(AFP) The chief suspect in the fatal stabbings of three people in a church in the French city of Nice was charged on Monday with their murder, anti-terrorism prosecutors said. Brahim Aouissaoui, a 21-year-old Tunisian national, was shot and seriously injured by […]
(Breitbart) Nearly 400 incidents relating to the praising of terrorism or provocations relating to terrorism have been reported in schools across France from November 4th to the 30th. The French Ministry of National Education reported 393 such incidents, stating that most were […]
(Radio France) Valérie Pécresse, the president of the Ile-de-France region, which includes Paris, has denounced what she called “urban separatism” and said eradicating Islamism was impossible without breaking up France’s urban ghettos. “We can’t eradicate Islamism if we do not break up […]
(Deutsche Welle) France’s latest steps in combating Islamist extremism at home have been closely monitored in Arab countries. The brutal killing of French teacher Samuel Paty, who had shown his pupils cartoons of the prophet Muhammad in class, prompted French President Emmanuel […]
(AFP) A suspect in a 1982 attack on a Jewish neighbourhood in Paris that killed six people was on Saturday charged and remanded in custody by French authorities after his extradition from Norway, judicial sources said. Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed was charged […]
(Anadolu) Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned Friday a decision by France to shut down a leading anti-discrimination group. The US-based rights advocacy NGO said the move threatens basic human rights and liberties including freedom of expression, association, religion and the principle of […]
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(BBC) One of three Americans hailed as heroes for overcoming a gunman on a train travelling to Paris has told a French court his main aim was to survive. Spencer Stone, a 28-year-old ex-serviceman, described via video from the US how he […]
(AFP) A suspect in a deadly 1982 attack at a Jewish neighbourhood in Paris arrived in France late Friday after being extradited from Norway, airport officials said. Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed, 62, landed at around 8:00 pm (1900 GMT) at Paris’ Charles […]
(AFP) A Belgian court will deliver its verdict on January 22 in the trial of an Iranian diplomat accused of plotting to bomb an exiled opposition group’s rally, his lawyer told AFP. Assadollah Assadi, a 48-year-old diplomat formerly based in Vienna, faces […]
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(BBC) A suspected people-smuggling gang accused of bringing hundreds of people to the UK in small boats has been broken up, the Home Office says. A 36-year-old British Syrian man was detained at his flat in north-west London on Thursday morning, bringing […]
(AFP) French authorities will inspect dozens of mosques and prayer halls suspected of radical teachings starting Thursday as part of a crackdown on Islamist extremists following a spate of attacks, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. Darmanin told RTL radio that if any […]
(Anadolu) French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Wednesday announced the dissolution of anti-racist group Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF). “In accordance with the instructions of the President of the Republic, the CCIF was dissolved in the Council of Ministers. For several […]
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(BBC) Sixteen migrants in a small boat were intercepted by Border Force officials in the English Channel on Monday, the Home Office has confirmed. French authorities managed to prevent “more than 200 people” from making the journey on the same day, it […]
(BBC) France’s Muslim Council is due to meet President Emmanuel Macron this week, to confirm the text of a new “charter of republican values” for imams in the country to sign. The Council (CFCM), which represents nine separate Muslim associations, has reportedly […]
(Arab News) Young people of Arab origin in France are less likely to hold secular values and are more distrustful of national symbols than their elders, an Arab News en Francais survey conducted in partnership with British polling agency YouGov has found. […]
(Arab News) The opinion poll carried out jointly by Arab News and YouGov provides detailed data on the relationship of French people of Arab origin to secularism in France and reveals a generally benevolent view of the French model. Indeed, 65 percent […]
(AFP) Sixty-four migrants including a pregnant woman and several children were rescued in the English Channel in the past 24 hours as they were seeking to reach Britain aboard rickety vessels, French maritime authorities said Sunday. A first group of 45 migrants […]
(Radio France) A 19-year-old man from the south-eastern French city of Nice has been sentenced to 18 months’ prison for threatening a teacher that he will “die like Samuel Paty,” who was beheaded in October north-east of Paris, the Nice prosecutor’s office […]
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(BBC) Migrants, bundled in blankets and foil, have arrived in Dover after journeying across the Channel. Temperatures at the Kent port hovered around 7C while a woman and a group of men were seen being helped ashore by Border Force officials. The […]
(AFP) An Iranian diplomat went on trial in Belgium on Friday accused of plotting to bomb an Iranian opposition rally outside Paris, in a case that has stoked tensions with Tehran. Assadollah Assadi, formerly based in Vienna, faces a 20-year prison term […]
(AFP) Four teenage students have been charged in France over the killing of Samuel Paty, including three for allegedly pointing out the teacher to his murderer, a judical source said Thursday. Three other pupils were charged with complicity earlier this month over […]
(Reuters) France is split over plans to ban virginity testing, with some campaigners calling the procedure barbaric and others warning of violent repercussions for some Muslim women. Women in at least 20 countries are subjected to virginity tests, sometimes by force, as […]
(Reuters) French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Wednesday expressed support for the Paris chief of police after clashes broke out during the dismantling of a new migrant camp in the French capital this week. French police opened a probe after photos and […]
(Radio France) France’s top administrative court has confirmed the six-month closure of the Grand Mosque of Pantin after it published a video denouncing history teacher Samuel Paty for showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, which [led] to his decapitation in a street […]
(AFP) The Moroccan gunman on trial for an attempted terror attack on a Paris-bound train five years ago said Wednesday he had aimed at the heads of American soldiers but could not shoot. On August 21, 2015, after drinking a coffee at […]
(BBC) Four small boats carrying 54 migrants have crossed the English Channel this week, the Home Office said. Eleven people reached the UK in one boat earlier, with 43 entering British waters in three vessels on Monday. A further 200 people were […]
(AFP) French authorities on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the “brutal” removal by police of a camp of migrants in central Paris, as parliament gave initial approval to a new security law condemned by activists as eroding press freedom. Interior Minister Gerald […]
(AFP) Police used tear gas as they dismantled a new migrant camp in the centre of Paris set up to house hundreds of refugees evacuated from makeshift suburban shelters without being relocated. Volunteers had helped set up around 500 blue tents at […]
(AP) One of three Americans acclaimed as heroes for tackling an alleged Islamic State gunman aboard a Paris-bound train testified Friday that he tried to kill the man who stormed into their passenger car with an arsenal of weapons. Alek Skarlatos, 28, […]
(Breitbart) In the aftermath of the Islamist murder of Samuel Paty, a teacher in the Paris no-go suburbs has claimed up to one-third of her pupils openly question freedom of expression and say it is “not normal” to criticise Islam. The teacher […]
(Middle East Eye) The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned French President Emmanuel Macron’s “attempt to dictate the principles of the Islamic faith” to French Muslim leaders, and his demand they “falsely state that Islam is an ‘apolitical religion.’” Macron on Wednesday […]
(BBC) French President Emmanuel Macron has asked Muslim leaders to agree a “charter of republican values” as part of a broad clampdown on radical Islam. On Wednesday he gave the French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) 15 days to work with […]
(Reuters) Two French citizens described to a court in Paris on Thursday how they used their bare hands to disarm and immobilise an Islamist gunman in an attack on a high-speed train in France in 2015. The testimony was given in the […]
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(Reuters) A French court has ruled that Clint Eastwood cannot testify during the trial of a suspected Islamist gunman, whose attack on a high-speed train was thwarted by three Americans, who later played themselves in a movie by the U.S. actor and […]
(AFP) French police on Tuesday cleared a migrant street camp outside the Stade de France stadium north of Paris where around 2,000 people, mainly Afghan and African, had been living in cramped tents. Dozens of police were deployed to carry out the […]
(AFP) A Moroccan man and three alleged accomplices went on trial in France Monday for an attempted terror attack on an Amsterdam-Paris train five years ago that was foiled by passengers whose heroic actions were turned into a Hollywood film. Hollywood legend […]
(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron has called the New York Times media correspondent to criticize English-language coverage of France’s stance on Islamic extremism after recent attacks, arguing it amounts to “legitimizing” violence. “When France was attacked five years ago, every nation in […]
(Politico) The French government’s migration policy is “anything but lax,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said, adding that “no president has done as much as Emmanuel Macron” when it comes to being tough on asylum and migration. Speaking to Le Parisien, Darmanin said […]
(AFP) A Moroccan man goes on trial in France on Monday accused of an attempted terror attack on an Amsterdam-Paris train five years ago which was foiled by passengers whose heroic actions were turned into a Hollywood film. Director Clint Eastwood, 90, […]
(AFP) The Tunisian migrant who killed three people at a French church last month had a picture on his phone of the man who beheaded a teacher two weeks earlier, anti-terror prosecutors said Friday. In addition to the photograph of 18-year-old Abdullakh Anzorov […]
(Reuters) Five years after Islamist killers struck in postwar France’s deadliest attack, its prime minister on Friday paid tribute to the victims, with the country again on high alert following a new wave of ideologically driven violence. The Nov. 13, 2015, rampage […]
(Politico) The rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris has described European Council President Charles Michel’s proposal to create a European imam training institute as “not feasible.” Visiting Austria earlier this week after the terror attack in Vienna, Michel suggested establishing an […]
(BBC) The Home Office failed to stop a rise in migrant boats crossing the English Channel before it was too late, an independent inspector has said. Decisive action in late 2018 could have prevented crossings becoming “established,” David Bolt, the independent chief […]
(AFP) Five years after a squad of jihadist killers carried out France’s deadliest peacetime atrocity, the country is again on its highest security alert following a spate of attacks blamed on Islamist radicals. The night of carnage on November 13, 2015, saw […]
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