A French police disciplinary hearing has recommended that two officers who were involved in the 2017 arrest of a 22-year-old black man in a Paris suburb when he was allegedly deliberately attacked with a truncheon intoduced into his anus, causing life-changing injuries, should be given no more than a reprimand, according to French media reports.
A 12-hour curfew beginning at 6pm that was recently introduced in regions of eastern France where the return of the coronavirus epidemic took a significant hold has now been extended to all of France, beginning on Saturday and for a renewable two weeks, while visitors to the country from outside the EU face new restrictions including a seven-day isolation period even if they recently tested negative for the virus.
French investigative and satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné reports that no obvious evidence of work exists to justify the employment as a well-paid parliamentary assistant in 2002-2003 of Nicolas Sarkozy's then wife Cécilia, who was hired by Sarkozy's stand-in as Member of Parliament after he was appointed interior minister.
French economy and finance minister Bruno le Maire hinted on Wednesday that his government would block the proposed takeover by Canadian group Couche-Tard of France's supermarket chain Carrefour, the country's largest private sector employer, citing its required approval of such moves concerning strategic sectors.
Amid the third epidemic of bird flu in France in the space of five years, and which has already resulted in the killing of around 700,000 birds since the outbreak was first discovered in December, a new cull of hundreds of thousands, mostly ducks,is to begin within days.
Jeanne Pouchain, 58, was declared dead after a former employee who was suing her for unfair dismissal told a court that she had passed away, and without providing any proof.
Marseille mayorsaid seven to eight people had tested positive for the new variant in the city, while tests were underway on 30 others who may also have been exposed to it.
Weeks before his appointment, Éric Dupond-Moretti alleged prosecutors at the financial crimes unit (PNF) had abused their powers by accessing his phone records, and those of other lawyers, as part of an investigation into alleged corruption by former President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Health ministry has told French rugby bodies that the government wanted short-term measures introduced to stop European club matches against British clubs going ahead.
It is not the first time that South Korean-born MP Joachim Son-Forget has got into trouble for impersonating a politician on the social media platform.
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