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.
In the spring of 2024 reports that Malian-born French singer Aya Nakamura would perform at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics later that summer attracted controversy and opposition. More than a year later, thirteen members of the extreme-right group Les Natifs are set to stand trial in a Paris court over a banner they wrote attacking her planned participation in that ceremony. Among those appearing in court on June 4th is a young woman who, at the time of the banner incident, was a parliamentary assistant to MPs from the far-right Rassemblement National party. Matthieu Suc reports.
On May 22nd the city of Strasbourg in north-east France announced that it was planning to twin with the Aida refugee camp for Palestinians in the West Bank. But this declaration, though it led to criticism of the city's mayor, is not an isolated act. Across France major towns and smaller councils alike are establishing or strengthening partnerships with Palestinians. However, this form of grassroots diplomacy has not gone down well with the Israeli authorities: two delegations of local elected representatives from France were banned from entering the country in April. Clothilde Mraffko reports.
Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National and motoring groups cheered a vote to remove low-emission zones which ban the most polluting vehicles from city centres.
