Four adults were killed and more than 20 others were injured, several seriously, after a coach carrying Ukrainian teenagers home after an exchange trip crashed on a motorway in north-west France on Friday.
Mediapart is publishing a series of reports regularly sent to it from inside the Gaza Strip by two young Palestinians. Nour Elassy, a 22-year-old journalist, who is also a poet and writer, and Ibrahim Badra, a 23-year-old journalist and human rights activist, chronicle the grim reality of life and death in Gaza as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to wage a genocidal war against the population of about 2.1 million. “Israel’s goal is no longer hidden, it wants Gaza emptied of Palestinians,” writes Nour Elassy in her first contributions presented here, “and we are beginning to let go of our belief that we can live here, grow here, raise our children here.”
A Paris appeals court has released from detention in mainland France Christian Tein, a leader of the Knak independence movement on France's Pacific Ocean territory of New Caledonia, along with three other Kanak militants, who were all transferred to the mainland after pro-independence revolts shook the archipelago in May 2024.
Georges 'Bill' Pallot and Bruno Desnoues were given four months behind bars along with suspended sentences for selling fake 18th-Century chairs to collectors including the Palace of Versailles and a member of the Qatari royal family.
The number of suicides among prisoners in France is steadily increasing, while overcrowding of prisons is soaring. Often, the families and close entourage of the deceased face a lengthy legal battle to establish the circumstances of their deaths and the eventual responsibility of the prison authorities who, some complain, treat them with insensitivity and even disdain. Feriel Alouti reports on their distressing experiences.
A 31-year-old teaching assistant died on Tuesday moring after she was repeatedly stabbed by a 14-year-old boy during a routine search for weapons in pupils' bags as they arrived at their secondary school in Nogent, north-east France, on Tuesday morning.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of Spain's Vox party and former Czech premier Andrej Babis attended a rally in countryside south of Paris organised by France's far-right RN party, where its figurehead Marine Le Pen was feted amid stinging attacks on the EU and what Salvini called 'an invasion of illegal immigrants, mainly Islamists'.
In what is the first legal move of its kind in France, a woman has filed a formal complaint for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide over the deaths in Gaza of two of her grandchildren, and the wounding of another, all French nationals, during Israeli airstrikes in October 2023. Meanwhile, similar moves are being launched in other countries against named Israeli military personnel accused of committing war crimes. Gwenaelle Lenoir reports.
The approval by the French lower house, the National Assembly, of a posthumous promotion to brigadier general for Alfred Dreyfus, a French army captain who was wrongly convicted in 1894 of giving secrets to the Germans in an infamous case of anti-Semitism, may be followed by his transfer to the Panthéon mausoleum in Paris.
One of France's leading antiques experts, Georges "Bill" Pallot, and award-winning cabinetmaker, Bruno Desnoues, who in March stood trial on charges of fraud and money laundering, and who admitted hoodwinking experts from the Palais de Versailles, will be sentenced on June 11th.
Elizaveta Krivonogikh, aka Elizaveta Rudnova, 22, rumoured to be a daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has allegedly worked as an intern at a gallery in the French capital where artists opposed to Russia's war against Ukraine are showcased.
The macabre and seemingly weekly occurrence of bodies washed ashore on France’s northern Channel coast bears witness to the recurrent tragedies that befall migrants attempting the dangerous clandestine passage to southern England in overcrowded, unseaworthy dinghies. When the small boats sink, the exact numbers of passengers who originally embarked on them is mostly unknown, as are the numbers who disappear in the incidents. Maïa Courtois, Maël Galisson and Simon Mauvieux report on the difficult and often mismanaged process of identifying the corpses of victims returned by the sea, and the angst of the families who remain uncertain of their fate.
Aylo, the parent company of pornographic websites Pornhub, Youporn and RedTube, has suspended access in France to their content in protest at new laws requiring adult websites to verify that visitors are aged 18 or more.
If passed new law would poshumously promote Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish French army captain wrongly convicted of treason in 1894, to the rank of brigadier general, an act of reparation for one of the most notorious acts of antisemitism in France's history.
The shooting late on Saturday in the southern town of Puget-sur-Argens came after a Malian man was stabbed to death in April in a mosque, also in southern France.
