Illicit drug trade, now estimated to generate between €3.5 and €6 billion annually, has provoked brutal turf wars between rival criminal networks in France.
Interior minister Bruno Retailleau spoke out after fans at the Paris club unfurled the banner at a Champions League match in the French capital on Wednesday.
The group - which prosecutors described as "merchants of death" - comprised mostly of Iraqi Kurds and were prosecuted after a Europe-wide operation in 2022.
Four people were wounded, including one whose hand was cut off, in a fight reportedly between rival teenage gangs on an RER Paris commuter train at the Ozoir-la-Ferrière station in the south-east suburbs of the capital.
Algerian-French author and journalist Kamel Daoud, 54, has won France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, for his novel Houris set in the 1990s war in Algeria between Islamists and the government.
Seven men and a woman stand trial in Paris on Monday accused variously of aiding and abetting a murder and terrorist conspiracy over the beheading in 2020 of Samuel Paty, a school teacher in a Paris suburb who was attacked by an Islamist of Chechen origin following a post of outrage on social media by a Muslim father, one of the accused, whose daughter lied that Paty had discriminated against Muslim classmates.
The death was announced Saturday of a 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head during a drive-by shooting on Thursday in Poitiers, north-west France, which left four others wounded and which was described by the authorities as related to drugs dealing, while French interior minister said the number of similar shootings across the country has left it at a 'tipping point'.
Five people were wounded, including three minors, in a drive-by shooting against a bar in Poitiers, north-west France, and which was followed by a mass brawl involving up to 600 people, according to local authorities who said the incidents were related to drug trafficking.
Abou Sangaré, who plays the lead role of illegal immigrant in the recent French film L’Histoire de Souleymane, for which he won a best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival, has seen his applications for a residency permit in France rejected on three occasions, leading to a deportation order, but since his stardom the government has invited him to apply again.
In Mazan, southern France, where Gisèle Pelicot and her ex-husband lived together until it was discovered he spent years sedating her into a comatose state and inviting more than 80 men to rape her on separate occasions, Dominique Pelicot's trial in nearby Avignon has sent shockwaves through the normally tranquil village.
On the second day of his three-day official visit to Morocco, French President Emmanuel Macron ended ambiguity over his approach to the issue of independence for the territory of Western Sahara, telling the Moroccan parliament that French companies 'will support the development' of the former Spanish colony whose 'present and future' belong under 'Moroccan sovereignty'.
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