The Parents of Joanna Parrish, a 20-year-old student raped and murdered by Michel Fourniret, have sharply criticised the competence of French police investigations into the late serial killer during a press conference they gave after returning home from the trial in Fance of Fourniret's ex-wife Monique Olivier, who was this week found guilty taking part in the murders of two women, including Joanna, and a nine-year-old girl.
Far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen claimed the parliamentary approval of the French government's new legislation cracking down on immigration, and which depended upon her party's support, was an "ideological victory" partly because for the first time an immigration law would recognise the principle of "national preference" which she has long called for.
At the end of a three-week trial, Monique Olivier, 75, was handed a life sentence for her part in the murders of British student Joanna Parrish, 20, Marie-Angele Domece, 18, and nine-year-old Estelle Mouzin by her late former husband and prolific serial killer Michel Fourniret.
Health minister Aurélien Rousseau announced his resignation after draft legislation on immigration, hardened by rightwing MPs and senators, was approved by a vote in parliament on Tuesday, thanks notably to the far-right.
The Grévin waxwork museum in Paris has removed a life-size representation of Gérard Depardieu, which had been on display since 1981, amid a growing scandal of sexual assault allegations against the 74-year-old French actor.
In a statement issued shortly before French foreign minister Catherine Colonna arrived in Tel Aviv on Sunday for talks with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen, her ministry announced she would call for a truce in the Israel-Hamas war and for 'a lasting ceasefire with the aim of releasing all hostages and delivering aid to Gaza'.
More than 400 US citizens of Yazidi origin have filed a civil suit in a New York court against French concrete maker Lafarge over its dealings with the Islamic State group to keep a cement plant open during the Syrian civil war.
As restoration work on the Paris landmark, which was severely damaged by fire in April 2019, continues apace ahead of its planned re-opening next year, a new phoenix-like sculpture of a cock was this weekend hoisted on top of the cathedral's equally new spire.
The former French tennis champion, who was ranked world number three at the height of his career in the 1980s, and who has skippered his country's Fed Cup and Davis Cup teams to victory, has been appointed captain of France's men's wheelchair tenis team ahead of next summer's Paralympic games in Paris.
French prosecutors have opened an investigation into the circumstances of the recent apparent suicide of Emmanuelle Debever, a former actress who accused French actor Gérard Depardieu, currently facing multiple sexual abuse claims, of sexually assaulting her during the making of the feature film Danton.
Alex Batty, from the English town of Oldham, who was allegedly abducted in 2017 at the age of 11 by his mother and grandfather, has reportedly been found in south-west France.
The planned naming of a metro station after the late singer-songwriter, a major figure of France's post-war musical scene, has prompted an online petition against the move which cites his alleged "violence towards women and his paedophile criminal and even incestuous tendencies".
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