Former UEFA boss Michel Platini was held in custody by anti-corruption police in Paris on Tuesday questioning, along with a former advisor to ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and Sarkozy's close aide and former minister Claude Guéant, as part of investigations into the controversial attribution to Qatar of the 2022 football World Cup in a vote by FIFA officials in 2010.
Swiss-based French-Israeli multi-billionaire Patrick Drahi, the founder and boss of telecommunications group Altice, has bought a controlling stake in the art auction house Sotheby's, a 3.7-billion dollar purchase made via his US company BidFair USA.
About 2,000 youngsters, including 50 disabled teenagers, were chosen out of 4,000 volunteers for the first trial of a new national civic service, imbued with a military ethos, which was first proposed by President Emmanuel Macron during his election campaign.
French agriculture minister Didier Guillaume said a state of 'natural disaster' would be declared to help insurance relief for French farmers, notably in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alps region of central and south-east France where violent storms, including hailfalls, ravaged fruit crops.
Carole Ghosn, wife of Carlos Ghosn who was arrested in Japan last November on accusations of financial misconduct, has appealed to US President Donald Trump to help end his continued detention in Tokyo by lobbying the Japanese prime minister at the forthcoming G20 summit.
Despite making headline pledges to hand hundreds of millions of euros for the rebuilding of Notre-Dame after a fire that severely damaged the Paris cathedral in April, luxury goods groups LVMH and Kering, the cosmetics giant L'Oréal and oil company Total have still to honour their promises, while reconstruction work involving up to 150 workers is being paid for by small donors.
French police on Thursday raided the residence near Paris of former Renault and Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, who is currently detained in Japan on alllegations of financial irregularity, as part of their investigation into a party he threw at the Palace of Versailles in October 2016 to celebrate his marriage, a benefit estimated as being worth 50,000 euros and which was in exchange for a philanthropy deal between the state-owned property and Renault.
A march by around 1,000 people was held on Thursday in the port of Lorient, north-west France, in homage to a nine-year-old boy who was killed when a car fleeing a gendarmerie checkpoint in the town mounted a pavement and hit the child and his seven-year-old cousin, who remains critically ill, while a major search continues to find the fugitive driver whose passenger has now handed herself in to police.
Presenting the second stage of legislative reform of his goverment after two years in power, French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe has told parliament that environmental issues and 'social justice' will be at the forefront of future policy-making over the remaining three years of its mandate, and also announced that it will end a ban on IVF for lesbian couples and single women.
Five alleged members of a neo-Nazi cell in France, two of them minors, have been arrested on suspicion of planning to attack a place of worship, a source close to the investigation told French media.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right Rassemblement national party (formerly the Front national), has been sent for trial for posting images of atrocities carried out by the so-called Islamic State group, under the charge of spreading “violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity”, which carries a maximum three-year jail sentence.
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