Former prime-time news presenter Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, 76, was in December placed under investigation over the purported rape of writer Florence Porcel in 2009.
Speaking after hosting a meeting of two dozen European leaders to discuss Ukraine, the French president painted a grim picture of a Russia whose positions he said were "hardening" both at home and on the battlefield.
French is accused of grabbing a 53-year-old movie decorator, and kneading her waist, stomach and breasts during filming for the movie 'Les Volets Verts'.
Four schools in the southern town of Béziers are experimenting the wearing of uniforms by their pupils before a possible future rollout to schools across France, where schoolchildren have until now been free to dress as they please.
Honduran footballer Alberth Elis, 28, who plays as a striker for Bordeaux, has been placed in an induced coma after he clashed heads with a Guingamp defender during their Ligue 2 match on Saturday.
Following a five-day closure due to a strike by staff protesting the 'dilapidated' state of the 135-year-old monument, the Eiffel Tower is to reopen to the public as of Sunday after its management reached agreement with unions 'under which the parties will regularly monitor the company’s business model, investment in works, and revenue through a body that will meet every six months'.
There were rowdy scenes at the opening of the Paris agricultural fair on Saturday, when angry farmers protesting over their low incomes and what they regard as excessive environmental norms and bureaucracy wrestled with police and loudly jeered President Emmanuel Macron during his day-long visit visit to the stands.
French President Emmanuel Macron faces a potentially angry reception by farmers at the major annual Paris agricultural fair this weekend, following nationwide protests by the profession and a major faux pas with the forced annulment of an officially announced debate at the popular event.
French actress Judith Godrèche, who has acussed two French directors of rape, was given a standing ovation at the annual French cinema awards, the Césars, the country's equivalent of the Oscars, after delivering a speech denouncing the 'illicit trafficking of young women' in the cinema industry, which she said was 'this art that we love so much'.
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