Police in Paris have detained a man who stood up and started shouting “Allahu akbar!” during a screening of the film “Joker,” sending moviegoers into a panic, witnesses say. The 34-year-old individual, who has not yet been identified, is now being observed in the psychiatric ward of police headquarters following the incident Sunday night at the massive Grand Rex …
Man with rightwing links tries to burn French mosque, shoots two
An 84-year-old former candidate for France’s ultra-right party shot and wounded two men in their seventies Monday as he attacked a mosque, prompting the government to express “solidarity” with Muslims hours after railing against Islamic “separatism”. The octogenarian attacked the mosque as two men were preparing it for afternoon prayers, Bayonne mayor Jean-Rene Etchegaray told …
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French cement firm Lafarge plant in Syria a breeding bed for terror groups
he French cement maker Lafarge’s dealings with terror groups including Daesh and the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the Syrian offshoot of the PKK, have been not been secret since company officials were charged but not sentenced over their payments and engagement with terror groups. Turkey’s ongoing anti-terror operation in northeastern Syria have once again revealed …
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Questionnaire on the religious practice of Muslim students provokes a scandal
The University of Cergy-Pontoise (Paris region) aroused the excitement, after an internal questionnaire, questioning the practice of Muslim students and for the fight against terrorism was made public on social networks. The establishment apologized in a statement, and was forced to remove the questionnaire from circulation. The incriminated document raises various questions related to the …
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Members of Political Party in France Create Controversy After Asking Hijabi Woman to Remove Veil
Julien Odoul, a member of France’s National Rally (RN) is at the center of a controversy after asking a Muslim woman to remove her viel at a plenary meeting of the Regional Council of Burgundy Franche Comte on Friday, October 11. The Muslim woman was accompanying her son and his class on a school trip to explore the mission …
Macron under fire in blistering attack from Turkey after French President provoked outrage
Turkısh Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Tuesday accused Emmanuel Macron of overstepping his bounds after the French leader denounced the erosion of the rule of law under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. EU leaders have repeatedly expressed concern over the gradual breakdown of the rule of law in Turkey after a failed coup in 2016 prompted …
French nun misses out on retirement home place over veil ban
A French nun was forced to turn down a place in a state retirement home because she was told she would have to stop wearing her religious habit and headscarf. The case has reopened the row over secularism in France just weeks after a Muslim woman was asked to remove her headscarf while accompanying a …
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‘Surgeon with pefodile’ scandal in France: more than 180 children were harassed and raped under anesthesia
It turns out that a surgeon in France has harassed and raped hundreds of children for thirty years. While some cases of harassment were made while patients were under the influence of anesthesia, the incident was referred to as the ‘biggest pedophilia scandal in France’. The 68-year-old Gastroenterology surgeon, Joel Le Scouarnec, from the Jonzac …
A mosque of Gap targeted by Islamophobic tags
Islamophobic tags were found Sunday, November 17 on the walls of a Muslim prayer room Gap, whose leader received a letter of threatening claims. The head of the Muslim and Cultural Association of Gap (AMCG) discovered November 17 on the walls of his prayer room a series of inscriptions Islamophobic, announced Monday the Prefecture of …
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French police begin clearing makeshift migrant camp in Paris
Around 600 French police took part in the evacuation which began in the early hours of Thursday morning. Between 1,500 to 3,000 migrants, including 250 women and children, had been living in the camps that had sprung up alongside major roads, underneath motorway flyovers and bridges around the Porte de la Chapelle area of northern …
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