There has been widespread condemnation by the French government, medical professionals and local politicians after more than 6,000 mostly young people, many unmasked, flouted lockdown measures in Marseille to join an illegal carnival through the streets of the southern port city.
The trial began on Monday in Versailles of former executives of the French arm of Swedish retailer IKEA, as well as the corporate entity itself, on charges of spying on the private lives of hundreds of staff, in a scandal first revealed by Mediapart eight years ago.
Members of French anti-racist organisation SOS Racisme have painted over a street sign in Paris on the Avenue Bugeaud, named after the first French governor-general of Algeria, so that it reads 'Avenue of the Butcher Bugeaud', a reference to the brutality of France's 19th-Century military campaign in the north African country.
In a symbolic action against light pollution, a French parkour group are using their gymnastic talents to climb Paris store facades to switch off the signs that are left illuminated overnight.
After a raid on a property in a Paris suburb police aannounced finding ecstacy tablets with a street value of one million euros, but laboratory tests found that the 'drugs' were in fact composed of crushed strawberry-flavoured sweets.
French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Thursday evening annnounced an initial one-month lockdown on public movement in Paris and 15 other regions as of midnight Friday to stem a resurgence of the Covid-19 epidemic that is already challenging hospital capacity.
None of twenty-one firefighters accused of raping a girl when she was aged between 13 and 15 can be charged with rape, France's highest court has ruled, but some could face lesser charges of sexual assault.
French members of France's lower house, the National Assembly, have voted in favour of draft legislation that fixes the minimum age at which a minor can be regarded as giving consent to sexual relations at 15, in the first stage of its parliamentary examination.
France on Monday joined a raft of other European countries who have suspended administration of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine over concerns of reported side effects, and which President Emmanuel Macron said was a 'precaution' while waiting for the findings of the European Medicines Agency, which are expected on Tuesday.
Football club PSG announced it was reinforcing security around the homes of its players after intruders broke into the house of the father of team captain Marquinhos and the apartment of winger Angel Di Maria while the two were playing a match on Sunday.
