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Five people were injured, including one critically, during a knife attack in the center of Marseille on Tuesday. The suspect, a 35-year-old Tunisian man legally residing in France, was shot and killed by police after a series of violent assaults. The incident began when the man, recently expelled from......
A 17-year-old boy was injured by gunfire on Tuesday evening in the Moulins district, a sensitive neighborhood in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes. The incident occurred around 10 p.m. near the central Amaryllis square. According to police sources, the victim was hit in the thigh by a small-caliber bullet, causing......
Former French lawmaker Eva Son Forget, previously known as Joachim Son Forget, faces a potential ten-month suspended prison sentence and a €6,000 fine. Prosecutors accuse the ex-Macronist MP of refusing to comply with police orders and driving under the influence of cocaine during an incident in......
A Russian-linked oil tanker from the so-called "ghost fleet," suspected of circumventing international sanctions, has been anchored for several days near French territorial waters off the coast of Saint-Nazaire. The vessel, known as the Boracaybut also operating under the names Pushpa and Kiwala,......
Halima Ben Ali, one of the daughters of former Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, was arrested in France on Tuesday at the request of Tunisian authorities, judicial sources reported. She is scheduled to appear before the general prosecutor on Wednesday for the formal notification of the provisional......
An anonymous letter containing racist insults and death threats — including hostile references to both Palestinians and Jewish people and a Star of David — was deposited in a municipal annex in eastern Nice between September 22 and 23,. The city has filed a complaint and the local judicial......
A Paris criminal court sentenced six members of the far-right group Action des Forces Opérationnelles (AFO) to two years in prison on Tuesday, September 30. The men, aged between 39 and 76, were found guilty of criminal terrorist association after planning violent......
French prosecutors are investigating a possible femicide after a woman in her thirties was found dead at her home in Salbris, Loir-et-Cher. The discovery was made one day after her husband died in a motorcycle accident, raising the possibility of a domestic homicide followed by suicide, according......
On October 2, the Court of Appeal in Lyon will host a public auction of luxury goods seized by French justice as part of criminal proceedings. The sale, organized by the Agency for the Management and Recovery of Seized and Confiscated Assets (AGRASC), is part of the Nuit du Droit initiative. Among......
According to a new report published by the French charity Les Petits Frères des Pauvres, around 750,000 seniors over the age of 60 are living in a state of “social death,” cut off from family, friends, and neighbors. This figure represents 4% of the country’s elderly population......
The mayor of Nice, Christian Estrosi, has announced his intention to name the square in front of the city’s future police headquarters after former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The proposal comes only days after Sarkozy was sentenced to five years in prison for his involvement in the Libyan......
Former Prime Minister Michel Barnier has secured a decisive victory in the by-election for Paris’s 2nd constituency, marking his return to the National Assembly 32 years after leaving it. Barnier, who obtained more than 62% of the vote, defeated Socialist candidate Frédérique Bredin......
Perreux-sur-Marne – A quiet residential neighborhood in Val-de-Marne was once again shaken by a violent home-jacking. In the early hours of Sunday morning, around 4:30 a.m., four masked individuals broke into a house located on Quai de l’Artois, forcing open a window to enter. The intruders......
