Joël Le Scouarnec, 74, has been dubbed France's most prolific paedophile. He is already in jail after being sentenced in 2020 to 15 years for raping and sexually assaulting four children, including two of his nieces.
More than a thousand doctors, scientists, and healthcare professionals have signed an open letter denouncing a proposed French law that could weaken the authority of the country’s independent health regulator and allow the return of long-banned pesticides.
French documentary-maker Marcel Ophuls, whose 1969 four-and-a-half hour, no-holds-barred masterpiece 'The Sorrow and the Pity' about wartime France was nominated for an Oscar, which he later won with 'Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie', a portrait of the former head of the Gestapo in Lyon, has died at the age of 97.
The French president's office sought to downplay the incident, which happened as he prepared to disembark from his plane after touching down in Vietnam.
Iranian director Jafar Panahi has claimed the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for his powerful revenge drama It Was Just an Accident, capping a politically charged celebration of global cinema.
Nine men and a woman were on trial for a heist during the Paris Fashion Week in 2016, when the thieves, dressed as police, forced their way into the glamorous Hôtel de Pourtalès, bound the US star with zip ties and escaped with $6 million in jewels.
