Mahjoub Mahjoubi, 52, a Tunisian imam living in southern France, was arrested earlier this week and deported to Tunis on Thursday on an expulsion order that alleged he described the French flag as ‘satanic’ in an online video, referred to Jewish people as ‘the enemy’, and that his teachings encouraged ‘discrimination against women’, and ‘jihadist radicalisation’.
Actress Judith Godrèche, who has accused film directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon of rape and sexual assault when she was a teenager, is to speak out against the silence over sexual abuse in France's cinema industry at its annual awards ceremony on Friday.
The remains of wartime Resistance members Missak Manouchian, executed in 1944 in occupied France, and his wife Mélinée, both of Armenian origin, were transferred on Wednesday into the Paris Panthéon building in an official ceremony that highlighted the roll of foreign and stateless immigrants who fought for the liberation of France.
Far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has insisted she will attend a ceremony on Wednesday honouring two WW2 Communist Resistance members – a couple of Armenian origin – when their remains will be transferred into the Paris Panthéon building, while President Emmanuel Macron has called for the far-right to stay away from the event.
Nicknamed Max le Suisse (Max the Swiss), Matteo Schaub from Switzerland, distinguished-looking and thought to be aged about 70, is back on French roads after a ten-year hiatus, hitchhiking around the country and telling those who pick him up that he is a doctor, or businessman, and penniless and struggling to get home following a robbery.
French football star Kylian Mbappé, 25, a striker for the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football club and the national team, is to join Real Madrid this summer, earning 15 million euros a season, plus a world-record 150-million-euro signing-on bonus to be paid over five years.
The French-Senegalese actress and filmmaker, whose documentary 'Dahomey', about the official return by France of 26 treasures looted from the royal palace of Dahomey, part of modern-day Benin, premiered at the weekend, said the returned artworks were 'way too few compared with the 7,000 works held captive in these museums'.
French President Emmanuel Macron has sharpened his criticism of the regime of Vladimir Putin, saying it had 'accumulated and hardened its aggressiveness – not just against Ukraine, but against all of us', in comments made on Friday, when he welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Paris for the signing of a ten-year bilateral security pact.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Paris on Friday evening where he is due to sign a ten-year security pact with France, including the supply of funds and weapons, similar to one he earlier agreed with Germany.
French President Emmanuel Macron joined with other leaders in the West on Friday to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin's regime following the announcement that Alexei Navalny, the principal opposition figure in Russia, has died in an Arctic penal colony.
Kylian Mbappé, 25, who plays as a striker for the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football club and the national team, has announced he is to leave PSG at the end of the current season, but has not said which club, rumoured to be Real Madrid, he will join.
The French government has anounced it is banning 28 'extremist' Israeli settlers from entering the country for what it said was perpetration of 'violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank'.
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