Philippe Vedovini and his wife, Anne, were among four people detained earlier this week on suspicion of the murder of Émile Soleil and concealment of a corpse.
President Macron made announcement after a summit in Paris on Thursday of more than two dozen allies of Ukraine – the so-called Coalition of the Willing.
Prosecution's demands were over allegations that Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign was illegally financed by former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi’s government.
Former president Nicilas Sarkozy is accused of entering a ‘corruption pact’ with the dictator by accepting millions of euros to fund his election campaign.
The trial of Nicolas Sarkozy and 11 others on corruption charges relating to the alleged funding of the former French president’s 2007 election campaign by the regime of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi is now entering its final stages after prosecutors on Thursday called for Sarkozy to be handed a seven-year jail sentence and a 300,000-euro fine. Mediapart looks back at the significant moments of the trial so far, before the court hears the arguments for the defence of Sarkozy and his co-accused, who include three former ministers. Fabrice Arfi and Karl Laske report.
Beer drinkers have launched an online name-and-shame campaign to combat a trend in bars of serving less than the 500ml that equates in France to a "pinte" by using thick glasses that hide the fact that they contain a quarter less.
French actor Gérard Depardieu appeared in a Paris court on Monday afternoon at the start of his three-day trial on charges of sexually assaulting two women during filming in 2021 of the feature film Les Volets Verts (The Green Shutters), which he denies.
In a lively and to-the-point essay published this month in France, historian Sophie Bessis analyses the notion and roots of the phrase “Judeo-Christian civilisation”, a now commonly employed expression that is also an ideology. In her book, reviewed here by Joseph Confavreux, she argues that “this extraordinary semantic and ideological invention" is a concept that is fundamentally flawed, and a deception employed as a political weapon.
Rabbi Arié Engelberg was verbally insulted, punched and bitten by a 16-year-old boy on Saturday afternoon as he and his young son left a synagogue in the north-central French town of Orléans.
A pile up involving three police vehicles and a car they were chasing through Paris streets early on Saturday morning was caught on CCTV in scenes that resembled a Hollywood blockbuster, when ten police officers and three people from the fleeing car were slightly injured.
The power and influence of the owner of the Hachette publishing group, Vincent Bolloré, whose TV, radio and print media are used to propagate conservative and hard-right views, has prompted the ire of some independent booksellers in France who have taken to placing Hachette books on low shelves and limiting orders for them.
