People standing in front of the Paris special criminal court, on December 20, 2024, ahead of the verdict against eight people linked to the murder…
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Paty was killed near Paris on October 16, 2020, days after showing his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad during a debate on free expression. The assailant, an 18-year-old Russian of Chechen origin, was shot to death by police.
The French Police had to pander to public opinion, and echoes of the French revolution still ring through Court in Paris. In a case of such global media exposure, the French had to deliver prosecutions. The killer was already dead, so they had to find some other perpetrators.
France began withdrawing soldiers from Chad on Friday, Chad’s ministry of the armed forces said, after N’Djamena last month abruptly ended military cooperation with the…
Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando, in Bernardo Bertolucci’s “Last Tango in Paris.” CINEMATHEQUE On Friday, December 20, as part of the 100th anniversary of Marlon…
France’s anti-terrorism court on Friday convicted eight people of involvement in the beheading of teacher Samuel Paty four years ago. Paty was killed outside his…
Mathias Pogba, brother of Paul Pogba, arrives to attend the verdict in his trial with 5 others in extortion case targeting French soccer player Paul…
On Wednesday, December 18, the Cour de Cassation, France’s highest court of appeals, upheld the sentence to which former president Nicolas Sarkozy had been condemned…
French President Emmanuel Macron extended his visit to cyclone-devastated Mayotte on Friday, December 19, after angry residents vented exasperation and despair over the scale of…
On Monday, December 16, at 9:55 am, the very first direct Paris-Berlin high-speed train departed from the Gare de l’Est station in the French capital…
The fruit of a singular history of emancipation of the State from the Catholic Church, the French understanding of secularism, known as secularismis difficult for…
France’s highest appeals court on Wednesday, December 18, confirmed a verdict against former president Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling, ordering him to wear…
The key task for the new European Commission is to advance the green energy transition in a way that fosters unity and reduces social inequalities,…
Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at the Bygmalion appeal trial in Paris on November 24, 2023. GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP For the first time in the history…
On November 16, 2016, a couple, she in sunglasses and leather pants, he in a slim-fitting black suit and thin matching tie, slipped incognito under…
French-Algerian novelist Boualem Sansal, imprisoned by Algerian authorities on national security charges, was again hospitalized on Monday, December 16, according to his French editor, raising…
Survivors wandered through streets littered with debris, searching for water and shelter, after Cyclone Chido leveled entire neighborhoods on December 14, 2024. AP France said…
Agnès Fichot will never forget that day in 1977 when, just a few years out of law school, she picked up the phone to call…
A watch worn by French war-time hero and president Charles de Gaulle fetched more than half a million euros as part of an auction of…
The Cinémathèque française, Paris, February 15, 2013. JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP There was no screening as planned of Last Tango in Paris (1972), by Italian director Bernardo…
Francis visits the French island. The president gives him a book on the Paris cathedral and “Thank you for being here”. Macron flies to the…
This undated photo provided by NGO Medecins du Monde on Sunday, December 15, 2024, shows a devastated hill on the French territory of Mayotte in…
France’s new PM Bayrou faces budgetary challenges as Moody’s downgrades credit rating No grace period whatsoever. It was 25 minutes past midnight on Saturday, December…
Knights of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre surround the Holy Crown of Thorns during a procession for its return at Notre-Dame de Paris…
It was just past 5:00 pm on Friday, December 13, when France’s new prime minister, François Bayrou, walked alone across the courtyard of the Hôtel…
Over a year after he visited Marseille, Pope Francis returns to the Mediterranean shores. Whereas his predecessor , on September 12, 2008, inaugurated the Collège…