There were rowdy scenes at the opening of the Paris agricultural fair on Saturday, when angry farmers protesting over their low incomes and what they regard as excessive environmental norms and bureaucracy wrestled with police and loudly jeered President Emmanuel Macron during his day-long visit visit to the stands.
French President Emmanuel Macron faces a potentially angry reception by farmers at the major annual Paris agricultural fair this weekend, following nationwide protests by the profession and a major faux pas with the forced annulment of an officially announced debate at the popular event.
French actress Judith Godrèche, who has acussed two French directors of rape, was given a standing ovation at the annual French cinema awards, the Césars, the country's equivalent of the Oscars, after delivering a speech denouncing the 'illicit trafficking of young women' in the cinema industry, which she said was 'this art that we love so much'.
Mahjoub Mahjoubi, 52, a Tunisian imam living in southern France, was arrested earlier this week and deported to Tunis on Thursday on an expulsion order that alleged he described the French flag as ‘satanic’ in an online video, referred to Jewish people as ‘the enemy’, and that his teachings encouraged ‘discrimination against women’, and ‘jihadist radicalisation’.
Actress Judith Godrèche, who has accused film directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon of rape and sexual assault when she was a teenager, is to speak out against the silence over sexual abuse in France's cinema industry at its annual awards ceremony on Friday.
The remains of wartime Resistance members Missak Manouchian, executed in 1944 in occupied France, and his wife Mélinée, both of Armenian origin, were transferred on Wednesday into the Paris Panthéon building in an official ceremony that highlighted the roll of foreign and stateless immigrants who fought for the liberation of France.
Far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen has insisted she will attend a ceremony on Wednesday honouring two WW2 Communist Resistance members – a couple of Armenian origin – when their remains will be transferred into the Paris Panthéon building, while President Emmanuel Macron has called for the far-right to stay away from the event.
Nicknamed Max le Suisse (Max the Swiss), Matteo Schaub from Switzerland, distinguished-looking and thought to be aged about 70, is back on French roads after a ten-year hiatus, hitchhiking around the country and telling those who pick him up that he is a doctor, or businessman, and penniless and struggling to get home following a robbery.
French football star Kylian Mbappé, 25, a striker for the Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) football club and the national team, is to join Real Madrid this summer, earning 15 million euros a season, plus a world-record 150-million-euro signing-on bonus to be paid over five years.
The French-Senegalese actress and filmmaker, whose documentary 'Dahomey', about the official return by France of 26 treasures looted from the royal palace of Dahomey, part of modern-day Benin, premiered at the weekend, said the returned artworks were 'way too few compared with the 7,000 works held captive in these museums'.
