'If you accept what is happening, it will not go too badly. If you resist, you will hurt yourself,' Sophie Pétronin said after nearly four years in captivity.
French president Emmanuel Macron welcomed news of Sophie Pétronin's release as well as that of Soumaïla Cissé – a prominent Malian politician who was abducted in Mali on March 25.
One of the officers was in critical condition after being shot four times, while the other was shot twice after the pair were dragged out of their unmarked car and beaten late yesterday in a Paris suburb.
President Emmanual Macron on Wednesday visited villages close to the Riviera in south-east France which were hit by exceptionally heavy rainfall last weekend when flash floods left four people dead and around 20 others still missing, with many homes and much of the local transport infrastructure destroyed.
The French parliament has approved new legislation regulating the activities of under-16s who earn income as so-called “influencers” on social media, limiting the number of hours they dedicate to the role, protecting their earnings and enshrining their right to eventually remove their presence from online platforms.
Flood waters caused by the exceptionally violent rainstorms that hit south-east France at the weekend, in which four people have been confirmed to have died while many more are reported missing, unearthed corpses from local cemeteries, some of which have since been discovered on Italian beaches.
French parliamentarians on Tuesday voted in favour of giving sugar beet farmers, whose crops were diminished this year, a special derogation to use neonicotinoids, a form of pesticide, against rampant aphids and which environmentalists say disrupts bees' reproduction modes and sense of orientation.
The ten-episode Netflix series Emily in Paris, which tells the story of a young woman sent to the French capital to work at a marketing agency bought by her US employer, has left France's entertainment critics largely outraged, with one slamming its portrayal of the French as 'all mean and all lazy and [who] never arrive at the office before late morning'.
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