The now closed online chat forum Coco, where Dominique Pelicot recruited men to rape his wife Gisèle after he secretly administered her drugs that rendered her unconcious, was cited in more than 23,000 reports of criminal activity while more than 480 victims had been involved in judicial proceedings involving the website, according to French prosecutors.
The body of a young woman who fell from a cruise ship near the UK island of Alderney, off the coast of Normandy, was retrieved from the sea early Saturday morning by a French search and rescue team helicopter.
Members of the organising committee of the Paris Olympics have denied accusations that Céline Dion mimed a pre-recorded performance of Édith Piaf’s Hymne à l’amour, and that it had been tweaked in a studio to improve her pitch.
The warrant was issued after a French court on Friday handed former Australian rugby star Rocky Elsom, 41, a five-year jail sentence for forgery and embezzlement of around 700,000 euros during his time as chairman of rugby club RC Narbonne, in southern France, from 2015 to 2016.
France's president Emmanuel Macron recently called for an embargo on the sale of any weapons to Israel that could be used in Gaza. His statement, aimed at the international community, has drawn criticism from within his own political camp, angered Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and led to him being booed during a tribute in Paris to the victims of October 7th. Politicians on the Left, meanwhile, have welcomed his words but are now expecting action. Justine Brabant and lyes Ramdani report.
Vidadi Isgandarli, a fierce critic of the regime in Baku and a refugee in France since 2017, was stabbed fifteen times at his home in Mulhouse last month and died of his injuries two days later. Despite this attack bearing the possible hallmarks of what might have been a political assassination on French soil ordered by a foreign power, the authorities in Paris have remained mysteriously quiet. However, as Justine Brabant reports, the French government will have to take a stance on the killing of the exiled blogger before next month's COP29 climate conference – which is being hosted by Azerbaijan.
The Renault factory at Cléon in north-west France specialises in engines and engine components. However, it has been revealed that the engine for the upcoming electric Twingo car – a vehicle on which the giant manufacturer is pinning great hopes - is to be produced in China. Trade unions representing workers at the French factory are concerned that the recent decline in workforce numbers will become even worse as the group offshores ever more of its production. Manuel Sanson reports.
Two weeks after taking office, administration gets over the first hurdle placed by left-wing MPs to bring down new conservative prime minister Michel Barnier.
Interior minister Bruno Retailleau said he had signed an order banning Omar Binladin and barring him from returning after the latter posted comments on social media deemed to have glorified terrorism.
One year after the Hamas attack on Israel, the resulting war in the Middle East now spreads from the Gaza Strip to Lebanon. The populations of Western countries have remained largely passive before the massacre of Palestinian civilians, writes Mediapart’s publishing editor Carine Fouteau in this op-ed article, and that inertia has left their governments free to refuse to sanction the Netanyahu government. It is, she argues, as if sections of our societies don't want to recognise their own crimes in the mirror image of colonization that is reflected by Israel.
