As France prepares to mark the date when 130 people were killed by jihadist terrorists in gun and suicide bomb attacks in and around Paris on November 13th 2015, the survivors have spoken of their continuing battle to overcome the physical and mental wounds they incurred.
Nathalie Boy De La Tour, 48, was elected president of the French Professional Football League, the governing body of professional football in France, in a surprise result that was hailed by sport and political figures.
Front National party leader Marine Le Pen's hopes in next year's French presidential elections were given a clear boost by the victory of Donald Trump, whose anti-immigrant, xenophobic and protectionist rhetoric she shares.
The drive-by attack by two people on a motorbike against the French embassy in Athens left a policeman wounded and ocuured just days before an official visit to Greece by outgoing US president Barack Obama.
Manchester-born Chris Wright, 44, who runs the Epicerie de Dienne, which doubles up as a local food store, café and bistro in a remote village in the mountainous Cantal region of central France with a population of less than 200.
Front National leader Marine Le Pen, who opinion polls predict will garner strong support in next year's French presidential elections, hailed Donald Trump's as that of a 'free' US, while her party's vice-president announced 'their world is collapsing, ours is being built'.
Foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said that after Donald Trump's election as US president, and following the British referendum majority vote to leave the European Union, 'Europe must stand together more, be more active and go more on the offensive even if it is just to protect itself'.
François Hollande, who has been outspoken in his criticism of Donlad Trump during the US presidential election campaign, said the billionaire's victory 'opens a period of uncertainty' in the world.
Syria-based Oussama Atar, 32, believed to be a member of the Islamic State group, was already a suspect in the March 22nd attacks on Brussels in which his brothers participated as suicide bombers, but has now been named as the coordinator for the November 13th atrocities in Paris last year which left 130 people dead.
All 1,000 tickets for the November 12th concert by the British singer at the Bataclan, which reopens this Saturday for the first time since 90 people died when jihadist gunmen stormed a concert there last November, sold out within 30 minutes.
The British clothes and food retailer announced it is to close seven of its stores in and around Paris which employ about 500 people, just five years after returning to France where it had already closed down its entire retail network in 2001.
Lawyers of victims of the November 13th 2015 terrorist attacks in the French capital, which left 130 people dead and hundreds more wounded, say their clients should receive additional compensation for the “very considerable distress” they suffered and victims’ families be compensated for the hardship endured while waiting for news of their loved ones.
All his blog posts
The Mediapart Club
Join the discussion
Mediapart’s journalists also use their blogs, and participate in their own name to this space of debates, by confiding behind the scenes of investigations or reports, doubts or personal reactions to the news.
Le journaliste français est mort vendredi 3 octobre en Ukraine, victime d’un tir de drone. Il couvrait cette guerre depuis le début de l’invasion russe et avait collaboré avec Mediapart à de nombreuses reprises.
Depuis l’annonce de la condamnation à cinq ans de prison ferme avec mandat de dépôt différé de Nicolas Sarkozy, l’ancien président de la République et ce qu’il lui reste de proches multiplient les attaques contre notre journal, à l’origine des premières révélations dans cette affaire. Mise au point de la direction éditoriale.
Pour oublier les vicissitudes de la vie politique française comme les désordres climatiques et géopolitiques du monde, rien de tel que de plonger dans nos séries d’été, compagnonnes idéales du farniente au bord de l’eau ou des pauses rando, ou complices de survie quand on est bloqué au bureau ou dans son appart’ trop chaud. Une série d’histoires, enquêtes et portraits qui sauront renouveler à merveille les discussions de l’apéro.
Mediapart a décidé d’étoffer son offre de podcasts en achetant cette année plusieurs séries d’épisodes. Nous lançons un appel à projets sur le thème de l’addiction.
