On September 20, a 48-year-old woman denounced an assault she claimed to have been a victim. She recounted cycling near the Galamé Park in Loon-Plage when she was attacked by a group of seven to eight people. She said she had two cuts on the legs, and a blow to the head. She had been stitched up with eight stitches. …
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French President Emmanuel Macron has told a young unemployed gardener that there are lots of employers seeking staff. “I can find you a job just by crossing the road,” said Mr Macron, after the man brought up his concerns during a street encounter in Paris. The jobseeker replied that employers did not respond to his …
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France acknowledged for the first time it was responsible for systematic torture during the Algerian war of independence in the mid-1950s. President Emmanuel Macron said on September 13 that Maurice Audin, a communist pro-independence activist who disappeared in 1957, “died under torture stemming from the system instigated while Algeria was part of France.” Macron, who paid a …
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Cathy Rehner, also known as Sara (her name taken during her conversion to Islam), disappeared on May 9, 2016. The young woman had to go to a professional meeting in Largentière, Ardeche. But then she did not give any sign of life. Two years later, in May 2018, her ex-partner finally admitted to having killed her …
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“I sleep here.” 21-year-old Ahmad points to a grubby blanket on a patch of soil beneath an apartment block in northern Paris. It’s 3am in October but the Afghan national wears only a T-shirt. His arm bears a small bullet wound, and a cluster of self-inflicted slashes cover both wrists. “I got a letter saying …
The UN Human Rights Committee on October 22 criticised France’s so-called burqa ban, saying the law “violated” the rights of two women who were fined for wearing full-face veils in public. The committee called for the women to be compensated and for a review of the 2010 law that forbids people from publicly wearing clothing that …
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A French man and his guide dog being kicked out of a supermarket has sparked outrage on social media in France. “Sir, I have hygiene standards to respect, I cannot accept any animals in the store.” This is what a supermarket employee told Arthur Aumoite, a visually impaired man, when he tried to enter a …
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France’s “yellow vest” protests over the last three days have been marred by demonstrators being killed and injured, but also by incidents at road blocks that saw some drivers targeted by racist or homophobic abuse. In some cases protesters fought among themselves. The movement has been under fire after videos were broadcast showing protesters shouting …
French conservative Republican MP Julien Aubert has put his name behind a series of migrant integration proposals that would include banning the Islamic headscarf in public institutions and make Muslims adopt French names to become citizens. The proposals come from a new 50-page booklet entitled the “Tricolore Booklet on the Islam(s) of France,” which lists 18 …
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In Dijon, France, municipal authorities demanded the annulment of the name by mobilizing a mother’s newborn child to call the ‘Jihad’. According to local media reports, unknown mother, who gave birth last week, tried to give her child name to the ‘Jihad’ during the registration process. The prosecutor’s office in the court of Dijon stated …
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