Laurent Vinatier, who worked for a Switzerland-based conflict mediation NGO, was arrested in June while gathering what prosecutors say was information on Russia's military.
On Monday French middle and high schools will be observing a minute of silence to commemorate Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, two teachers murdered during jihadist attacks in 2020 and 2023.
An already weakened Emmanuel Macron risks outrage from farmers as the rest of the EU races to get deal with Mercosur bloc of South American nations deal done.
The now closed online chat forum Coco, where Dominique Pelicot recruited men to rape his wife Gisèle after he secretly administered her drugs that rendered her unconcious, was cited in more than 23,000 reports of criminal activity while more than 480 victims had been involved in judicial proceedings involving the website, according to French prosecutors.
The body of a young woman who fell from a cruise ship near the UK island of Alderney, off the coast of Normandy, was retrieved from the sea early Saturday morning by a French search and rescue team helicopter.
Members of the organising committee of the Paris Olympics have denied accusations that Céline Dion mimed a pre-recorded performance of Édith Piaf’s Hymne à l’amour, and that it had been tweaked in a studio to improve her pitch.
The warrant was issued after a French court on Friday handed former Australian rugby star Rocky Elsom, 41, a five-year jail sentence for forgery and embezzlement of around 700,000 euros during his time as chairman of rugby club RC Narbonne, in southern France, from 2015 to 2016.
The remnants of Hurricane Kirk swept into western Europe on Wednesday, dumping heavy rains on France and leaving at least one person dead.
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