The pair are said to have staged a dramatic protest at the Russian consulate in Marseille this week, reportedly motivated by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
The actor is suspected of falsely declaring his tax residency to be in Belgium since 2013, a source close to the case said on Monday; his trial for allegedly sexually assaulting two women during a 2021 film shoot is due to begin in March.
French President Emmanuel Macron met with his US counterpart Donald Trump in Washington on Monday to discuss the war in Ukraine, after which the pair, speaking during a 40-minute press conference, offered different views about how a cease-fire and broader peace deal could be reached.
Luc Besson, the French film director of cinema hits including Nikita, The Fifth Element and The Big Blue, has filed a complaint after hunters pursued a stag into his property in Normandy and stabbed the animal to death after it was savaged by dogs, all of which was filmed by his protesting 85-year-old mother.
A canvas by the 19th-century French artist Édouard Manet depicting the patrons of the Reichshoffen café in the Paris neighbourhood of Montmartre and which Manet inexplicably cut into two halves, has been brought back together as one for exhibition at the National Gallery in London.
The trial opens on Monday of French surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, 74, accused of, variously, the rape and sexual assault of 299 of his patients between 1986 and 2014, mostly young boys and girls, and which were recorded in notebooks found at his home.
Mohamed Amra, 30, who was freed from a prison van in May last year when heavily armed accomplices attacked the vehicle at a motorway toll booth in Normandy, killing two guards and wounding three others, has been arrested in the Romanian capital Bucharest.
The body of British man, who has not been identified but who was reportedly aged 23, has been found at the bottom of a cliff at the popular Avoriaz ski resort in the French Alps, after what local media describe as a likely accidental fall.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday hosted a rapidly convened summit with a number of European leaders on the future of the war in Ukraine, and above all a European representative presence alongside Ukraine in what Donald Trump has designated as exclusive peace talks between him and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
'The Mature Age', a bronze sculpture by French artist Camille Claudel, who led a troubled love affair with Auguste Rodin, was discovered under a sheet in an empty Paris apartment and has now fetched 3.1 million euros at an auction in Orléans.
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