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Algeria lashes out at France after failed deportation of TikTok influencer Algeria’s defiant rejection of France’s complaints reveals a regime desperately trying to deflect attention from its diplomatic failures by blaming 'far-right' French officials.

January 11, 2025 Adil Faouzi

(Morocco World News) In a combative response that further strains diplomatic relations, Algeria rejected French accusations of “escalation” and “humiliation” on Saturday, January 11, after refusing to accept a deported Algerian social media influencer. The latest diplomatic row erupted when Algerian authorities […]

Franco-Algerian influencer to stand trial in March

January 11, 2025 Unlisted Author

(AFP) A Franco-Algerian influencer, arrested as part of an investigation into online hate videos, appeared before French prosecutors on Saturday and will stand trial in March, authorities said. A diplomatic row between France and Algeria has flared up over the arrests of […]

France warns Algeria against escalation of influencers showdown

January 10, 2025 Laetitia Drevet and Tiphaine Le Liboux

(AFP) France threatened on Friday to “retaliate” if Algeria escalates a diplomatic row that has flared up over the arrests of Algerian social media influencers accused of inciting violence. Tensions between France and its former colony mounted after Algeria on Thursday sent […]

France’s Education Ministry reports drop in breaches of secularism rules

October 14, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Radio France) France saw a drop in cases of students flouting France’s strict secularism rules, or laicite, at the start of this school year, according to the new education minister Anne Genetet, who also called for more training for teachers in how […]

The suspect in a French synagogue attack said he wanted to change Israel’s actions, prosecutors say

August 28, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AP) A 33-year-old man was handed preliminary terrorism charges over an arson attack on a French synagogue last weekend that he said was aimed at defending Palestinians and changing Israeli policy, prosecutors said Wednesday. The attack revived concerns about antisemitism in France, […]

French police arrest man suspected of attempted arson against synagogue

August 24, 2024 Manon Cruz, Ingrid Melander, Corentin Chappron and Gilles Guillaume

(Reuters) French police have arrested a man suspected of trying to set a synagogue ablaze in the southern French city of la Grande-Motte on Saturday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. About 200 police officers had been hunting for the suspect, Prime Minister […]

Police open terror probe after explosion outside synagogue in southern France

August 24, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Radio France) French authorities have stepped up security at Jewish institutions and opened a terror investigation after a blazing car exploded outside a synagogue on Saturday in the southern town of La Grande-Motte, injuring a police officer. Local media said two cars, […]

France bans extreme right and radical Islamic groups ahead of polarizing elections

June 26, 2024 Diane Jeantet and Angela Charlton

(AP) France’s government on Wednesday ordered the dissolution of multiple extreme right and radical Muslim groups, four days before the first round of high-stakes legislative elections that may see a surge in support for political extremes. Snap national elections called by pro-business […]

As France reels from alleged rape of a Jewish girl, antisemitism comes to fore in election campaign

June 20, 2024 Oleg Cetinic and Elise Morton

(AP) The alleged rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl in a suspected antisemitic attack has sent shockwaves throughout France and thrust concerns about antisemitism to the forefront of campaigning for the country’s legislative elections. The anti-immigration National Rally party, which has tried […]

2 French boys are accused of raping a 12-year-old Jewish girl in an act of antisemitism

June 19, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AP) Two adolescent boys in a Paris suburb have been given preliminary charges of raping a 12-year-old girl and religion-motivated violence, French authorities said Wednesday. A Jewish leader said the girl is Jewish. The attack elicited widespread shock and concern, notably after […]

French police fatally shoot a man suspected of setting fire to a synagogue

May 17, 2024 Jeffrey Schaeffer and John Leicester

(AP) French police shot and killed a man armed with a knife and a metal bar who is suspected of having started a fire that charred and blackened the insides of a synagogue in the Normandy city of Rouen early Friday, an […]

Samuel Paty was murdered, and teaching in France has never been the same

April 26, 2024 Colette Davidson

(Christian Science Monitor) It was a Friday afternoon in October 2020, and Coralie, a junior high school French teacher at Collège du Bois d’Aulne, had just gone for a walk in the nearby woods with her dog to clear her mind before […]

Quebec ‘not alone’ in commitment to secularism, says French Prime Minister Attal French PM gives warm support for Quebec secularism

April 12, 2024 Thomas MacDonald

(Canadian Press) French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal used his visit to Quebec this week to express strong support for the province’s model of state secularism even as he claimed to abstain from weighing in on debates over the controversial policy. And despite […]

ISIS-linked Egyptian arrested over terror plot on Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris

March 30, 2024 Kurt Zindulka

(Breitbart) An allegedly ISIS-tied Egyptian man was arrested in France in connection to a suspected terrorist plot against the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. French officers of the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) arrested a 62-year-old Egyptian with reported links to […]

Paris officials rally in support of school headmaster in hijab row

March 29, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French lawmakers and officials joined dozens of people who gathered in Paris on Friday in a show of support for a school principal who resigned after receiving death threats in a hijab row. This week the headmaster at the Maurice-Ravel senior […]

Netherlands issues travel warning for France amid highest terror threat level

March 28, 2024 Unlisted Author

(NL Times) The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a new warning for people traveling to France after the French government raised its domestic security threat level to its most heightened position. The assessment of “Emergency: Attack” was issued by Prime Minister […]

France’s PM stands with teachers after school chief quits in hijab row

March 27, 2024 Sophie Laubie

(AFP) Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Wednesday defended French secularism following the resignation of a Paris school principal who received death threats after asking a student to remove her Muslim veil on the premises. Attal, a former education minister, said the state […]

Moscow attack raise[s] fresh concerns for Paris Olympics

March 25, 2024 Francesco Fontemaggi and Adam Plowright

(AFP) The attack on a Moscow concert hall that killed more than 130 people has raised fresh security fears for the Paris Olympics, leading France’s interior minister to promise Monday that police and intelligence services would be “ready.” The government upgraded the […]

Macron says Islamists who hit Russia had tried to attack France

March 25, 2024 Ingrid Melander

(Reuters) President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that the gunmen who killed 137 people in a concert hall outside Moscow were part of an Islamic State branch that was behind foiled attempts to attack France over the past few months. This explains […]

France raises terror alert level after Moscow attack claimed by IS group

March 24, 2024 Unlisted Author

(France 24) France’s government increased its security alert warning to the highest level Sunday after the deadly attack at a Russian concert hall and the Islamic State (IS) group’s claim of responsibility. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said in a post on X […]

French PM vows to ‘hunt down’ senders of school attack threats

March 21, 2024 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Thursday pledged to “hunt down” the people responsible for sending threats to at least 30 schools in the Paris region this week. The schools received threatening messages accompanied by “shocking” footage of beheadings, according to France’s […]

‘Best weapon’ against terrorism is education, says French PM

March 11, 2024 Unlisted Author

(Radio France) Prime Minister Gabriel Attal paid tribute to victims of terrorism at a ceremony in the northern French town of Arras this Monday, where a teacher, Dominique Bernard, was killed five months ago by a former pupil with a record of […]

Solemn Spaniards mark 20 years since deadly train bombings

March 11, 2024 Christian Chaise

(AFP) There were tears and emotional tributes Monday as Spain and the European Union paid tribute to the 192 victims of March 11, 2004, Madrid train bombings that marked the start of mass Islamist attacks in Europe. Heads were bowed across the […]

Renaissance nudes spark crisis at French school

December 11, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Teachers at a school outside Paris refused to work on Monday as the establishment grappled with a crisis sparked by the showing in class of a painting by a Renaissance master containing several nude women. Education Minister Gabriel Attal visited the […]

France bans 85 pupils from school for disrupting tributes to slain teachers

November 24, 2023 Unlisted Author

(Radio France) Disciplinary councils within France’s Education Ministry have sanctioned 605 pupils following incidents that marred tributes last month to teachers Dominique Bernard and Samuel Paty. 85 students, permanently excluded from their schools, will have to find alternative establishments. Some 179 incidents […]

France looks to remove radicalised students from schools

October 29, 2023 Sarah Elzas

(Radio France) Teachers at the Gambetta-Carnot school in Arras in northern France had twice reported Mohammed Mogouchkov to authorities when he was a student there. But he remained at the school and graduated, and on 13 October he stabbed to death a […]

France’s Macron holds security meeting amid heightened alert after deadly school stabbing

October 16, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) French President Emmanuel Macron held a special security meeting on Monday amid heightened alert against feared terror threats, as a high school where a teacher was fatally stabbed in an attack last week has been evacuated over a bomb threat. Several […]

French imam calls for expulsion of Islamists from France as country reels after knife attack

October 14, 2023 Unlisted Author

(TVP World) Hassen Chalghoumi, an imam from the Parisian suburb of Drancy, called on Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Saturday to expel all individuals connected to radical Islam who are not French citizens from the country. The appeal came after a young […]

France reports dozens of antisemitic acts since Hamas attack

October 11, 2023 Zhifan Liu

(Reuters) French police have arrested more than 20 people over dozens of antisemitic acts carried out since Saturday, including harassment of Jewish children by fellow pupils at school, the government said on Wednesday. France is home to some of Europe’s largest Muslim […]

Paris Olympics 2024: France bans own athletes from wearing veil Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera made the statement amid an ongoing controversy over a ban on abayas in school

September 25, 2023 Nadda Osman

(Middle East Eye) French athletes will not be allowed to wear veils during the Paris Olympic Games set to be held next year, the country’s sports minister announced on Sunday. Appearing as a guest on the show Sunday in Politics, airing on the […]

Muslim girl turned away from school in France for wearing hijab files complaint with UN 15-year-old student in Lyon was sent back home on Sept. 5 for wearing Japanese garment kimono

September 22, 2023 Esra Taskin and Feiza Ben Mohamed

(Anadolu) A Muslim student, who had been turned away from school for wearing a kimono, a Japanese garment, in France, has filed a complaint with the UN over being “discriminated against” due to her religious affiliation. The controversy over the French government’s […]

French police reject Muslim man’s application because of prayer mark on forehead Karim’s boyhood dream of serving in the French police force has been shattered because of his visible devotion to his faith.

September 21, 2023 Safaa Kasraoui

(Morocco World News) The Paris police prefecture rejected a Muslim’s man application to join the police academy because of a prayer mark on his forehead, French news outlet MediaPart reported last week. Karim, the 24-year-old Muslim man whose application was rejected, spoke […]

Father held in France for making death threats over abaya ban

September 8, 2023 Céline Castella

(AFP) French police said they were holding a man on Friday for threatening a school principal who turned away his daughter for wearing a traditional Muslim abaya robe. President Emmanuel Macron’s government announced last month it was banning the abaya — a […]

Court backs French abaya Muslim dress ban in schools

September 7, 2023 Claire Gallen

(AFP) France’s top administrative court on Thursday upheld a government ban on traditional over-garments worn by some Muslim women in schools and rejected complaints it was discriminatory and could incite hatred. President Emmanuel Macron’s government announced last month it was banning the […]

French schools refuse dozens of girls wearing Muslim robe

September 5, 2023 Jürgen Hecker

(AFP) French schools sent dozens of girls home for refusing to remove their abayas — an over-garment from the shoulders to the feet worn by Muslim women — on the first day of the school year, a government minister said Tuesday. Defying […]

France imposes abaya ban on first day of school

September 4, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French authorities were on Monday imposing a newly-announced ban on the abaya Muslim dress for women in schools, with over 500 establishments under scrutiny as children across the country returned to class. The government announced last month it was banning the […]

France’s public schools will enforce a dress code banning robes worn by some Muslims, president says

September 1, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AP) French students won’t get past the door if they show up for school wearing long robes, President Emmanuel Macron made clear Friday, saying authorities would be “intractable” in enforcing a new rule when classes resume next week. French Education Minister Gabriel […]

Macron’s abaya ban nods to the right, splits the left But the prohibition on the Islamic garment in schools enters tricky legal territory.

August 30, 2023 Clea Caulcutt

(Politico) With the ban on abayas in schools, French President Emmanuel Macron is killing two birds with one stone: He sends a signal to the right and divides the left. But he also risks opening a Pandora’s box. The decision to forbid […]

French ban of abaya robes in schools draws applause, criticism

August 28, 2023 Juliette Jabkhiro

(Reuters) The French government’s decision to ban children from wearing the abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in state-run schools drew applause on Monday from the right, but also criticism. France has enforced a ban on religious symbols […]

French school abaya ban opens fresh secularism row

August 28, 2023 Adam Plowright and Claire Gallen

(AFP) The French government’s decision to ban schoolgirls wearing abayas — long, flowing dresses of Middle Eastern origin — has opened a fresh debate about the country’s secular laws and the treatment of Muslim minorities. Education Minister Gabriel Attal said Sunday that […]

France to ban wearing Islamic abayas in schools: minister

August 27, 2023 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French authorities are to ban the wearing in school of abaya dresses worn by some Muslim women, the education minister said Sunday, arguing the garment violated France’s strict secular laws in education. “It will no longer be possible to wear an […]

Macron slams ‘not serious’ Johnson after migrant tragedy

November 26, 2021 Adam Plowright and Stuart Williams

(AFP) French President Emmanuel Macron hit out at British Prime [Minister] Boris Johnson on Friday over a tweeted letter, accusing him of being “not serious” after 27 migrants died crossing the Channel. Johnson sparked fury in France after writing a private letter […]

French police evacuate migrants from makeshift camp

November 16, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AP) French police on Tuesday have evacuated migrants from a makeshift camp near Dunkirk, in northern France, where at least 1,500 people gathered in hopes of making it across the English Channel to Britain. The prefecture of the region said more than […]

Council of Europe removes hijab diversity campaign tweets amid backlash

November 3, 2021 Unlisted Author

(Euronews) The Council of Europe has withdrawn images from a social media campaign promoting diversity among women and their freedom to wear the hijab. Posters featuring young women wearing Islamic headscarves were removed from Twitter just days after the project’s launch. The […]

France to shut down another mosque linked to Islamist extremism

October 14, 2021 Unlisted Author

(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 […]

France detains Afghan evacuee in Taliban probe: government

August 24, 2021 Unlisted Author

(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 […]

Suspect Afghan evacuees put focus on European security screening

August 24, 2021 Adam Plowright and Germain Moyon

(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 […]

Notre-Dame for Muslims or ‘foreign interference’? New mega mosque stirs controversy in France (LINK ONLY)

May 30, 2021 EoI News

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Candidate’s headscarf causes rift in Macron’s party

May 11, 2021 Anne Pascale Reboul and Adam Plowright

(AFP) The head of French President Emmanuel Macron’s political party has threatened to withdraw support for one of their own candidates in regional elections after she wore a headscarf for a campaign poster. The warning from Stanislas Guerini, who helped found Macron’s […]

Le Pen’s comments criticized following terror attack

April 26, 2021 Unlisted Author

(Arab News) French far-right politician Marine Le Pen has been criticized for demanding tighter immigration controls after a police employee was murdered by an Islamist who had arrived in the country illegally. President Emmanuel Macron’s government said she had behaved like a […]