The pair are said to have staged a dramatic protest at the Russian consulate in Marseille this week, reportedly motivated by the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Jim P., a French citizen employed as a butler, was given a suspended 18-month prison sentence by a French court on Friday for stealing from his former employer Sergei Pugachev, a former Russian oligarch turned critic of Vladimir Putin. In reality, Jim P. had been spying on his boss with the help of a London-based private intelligence-gathering company called Diligence who were themselves apparently working on behalf of a Russian state organisation. Gabrielle Leroyer reports on this intriguing saga.
The actor is suspected of falsely declaring his tax residency to be in Belgium since 2013, a source close to the case said on Monday; his trial for allegedly sexually assaulting two women during a 2021 film shoot is due to begin in March.
French President Emmanuel Macron met with his US counterpart Donald Trump in Washington on Monday to discuss the war in Ukraine, after which the pair, speaking during a 40-minute press conference, offered different views about how a cease-fire and broader peace deal could be reached.
Luc Besson, the French film director of cinema hits including Nikita, The Fifth Element and The Big Blue, has filed a complaint after hunters pursued a stag into his property in Normandy and stabbed the animal to death after it was savaged by dogs, all of which was filmed by his protesting 85-year-old mother.
A canvas by the 19th-century French artist Édouard Manet depicting the patrons of the Reichshoffen café in the Paris neighbourhood of Montmartre and which Manet inexplicably cut into two halves, has been brought back together as one for exhibition at the National Gallery in London.
The trial in Paris of five jihadists accused of the kidnappings and detention of four French journalists in Syria in 2013, and the perpetration of “acts of torture and barbarity” against their captives, which now enters its second week, has been hearing harrowing accounts of the survivors’ experiences at the hands of the Islamic State group. It also heard the moving accounts by the wife and two daughters of British aid worker David Haines, who was held alongside the French hostages and finally beheaded by his Islamic State captors. Matthieu Suc reports.
The trial opens on Monday of French surgeon Joël Le Scouarnec, 74, accused of, variously, the rape and sexual assault of 299 of his patients between 1986 and 2014, mostly young boys and girls, and which were recorded in notebooks found at his home.
Mohamed Amra, 30, who was freed from a prison van in May last year when heavily armed accomplices attacked the vehicle at a motorway toll booth in Normandy, killing two guards and wounding three others, has been arrested in the Romanian capital Bucharest.
The body of British man, who has not been identified but who was reportedly aged 23, has been found at the bottom of a cliff at the popular Avoriaz ski resort in the French Alps, after what local media describe as a likely accidental fall.
After Palestine, Ukraine has become the second victim of a pact of oligarchs established between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, writes Mediapart co-founder Edwy Plenel, who argues that by promoting and imposing a law of the strongest versus the principle of an equality of rights, their alliance amounts, at a global level, to the domination of a Mafia-like capitalism.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday hosted a rapidly convened summit with a number of European leaders on the future of the war in Ukraine, and above all a European representative presence alongside Ukraine in what Donald Trump has designated as exclusive peace talks between him and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
The trial opened in Paris on Monday of five jihadists accused of the kidnapping and detention of four French journalists in Syria in 2013 and the perpetration of “acts of torture and barbarity” at a hospital in Aleppo taken over by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant group. Relatives of British aid worker David Haines, who was held alongside the French hostages before he was later decapitated, are present at the month-long trial as civil parties to the case, as is also his Italian colleague and fellow captive Federico Motka. Matthieu Suc reports on the background of the case and the evidence that emerged from almost ten years of investigations.
