On the inauguration day of the 33rd “Restos du Coeur” winter campaign, the president of the republic was firm on the question of his policy of right of asylum. Speaking to the woman who was trying to claim French papers, Macron took his time to explain to her that France cannot hand out citizenship to …
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Muslims in the northern multiethnic Parisian suburb of Clichy-la-Garenne will not be permitted to pray on the streets, the French interior minister said. “They [Muslims] will not have prayers on the street, we will prevent street praying,” Interior Minister Gerard Collomb told Questions Politics on Sunday. Muslims have held Friday prayers on the streets since …
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France is to consider a change to its laws around sexual consent, according to the minister for gender equality. Marlene Schiappa said the government was considering setting a fixed age below which sex was automatically a serious offence. It comes after two cases where men were acquitted of raping two 11 year old girls. In …
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A French court on Saturday issued orders to close down a mosque in Marseille city in southern France for allegedly “encouraging radicalism and violence”. An administrative court in Marseille acted on a petition by Governor Pierre Dartout who asked the As-Sunna Mosque to be closed for six months. The court ruled that the religious official …
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Residents in one Paris suburb have threatened to go on hunger strike unless President Macron deals with the African migrants ‘living in squalor’ outside their homes, with women being reportedly being harassed. Locals in the 10th and 19th arrondissements have written to Macron to demand that a migrant centre in the district, one of the …
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A French court has ordered a halal grocery store in Paris to shut down because it did not sell pork and alcohol, and failed to cater for the needs of the customers. The Court of Nanterre ruled on Monday that the “Good Price” mini-market in Colombes failed to comply with the conditions of its lease, …
French investigators are treating the killing of an 85-year-old Jewish woman in Paris as an antisemitic murder, after it emerged that she had survived France’s most notorious second world war round up of Jews in 1942. Mireille Knoll lived alone and was found dead after a fire broke out in her flat in Paris’s 11th …
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PKK supporters’ attacks on Turks in France have taken a new dimension, Turkish embassy in Paris warned on Friday, condemning the recent arson attacks. In a written statement, the embassy said the Turkish diplomats are in close cooperation with the French officials to investigate the attacks and bring perpetrators to justice. The statement said vehicles …
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A pregnant passenger on the Paris metro has been hit with a €60 fine for walking the wrong way, sparking outrage on social media. The woman, who wanted to save some time on her journey, was given the ticket last Tuesday by inspectors at Concorde station near the Louvre art gallery. “Bravo for this racket,” …
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A French lawmaker Laetitia Avia has filed a formal complaint after receiving a letter with racist insults and death threats. She is a member of France’s National Assembly from President Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche movement. The letter said: “We’re not going to let a fat black swine from Africa meddle in the lives of the French. The …
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