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A major wildfire that destroyed around 1,700 hectares of forest in France’s Landes department has been brought under control, allowing part of the evacuated population to return home, local authorities announced on Monday. The fire, which broke out in the heart of the Landes forest, caused no......
A 49-year-old British man has been placed in police custody in Nice on suspicion of attempted murder after a woman in her sixties was repeatedly stabbed during the night, according to the Nice prosecutor’s office. The attack took place shortly after midnight on Sunday on Georges Clemenceau Avenue,......
A lightning strike triggered a fire at the Sainte-Marie-Madeleine church in Saint-Salvadou, Aveyron, on Saturday evening, severely damaging the upper section of the Neo-Gothic building and causing its steeple to collapse. The incident occurred as powerful thunderstorms swept across the area on August......
A 40-year-old man is being sought by police in Marseille after allegedly attacking his former partner with a knife in what investigators are treating as an attempted killing. The incident occurred on Saturday morning in the 15th arrondissement of the southern French city. The woman survived the attack,......
Three fireworks technicians were injured in an explosion during preparations for a scheduled August 15 fireworks display in Gruissan, in southern France, on Saturday, prompting authorities to cancel the evening event. One of the injured workers, a woman, was reported to be in serious condition following......
A 17-year-old boy was critically injured in a shooting in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, during the early hours of Saturday, prompting an investigation into attempted murder in an organized criminal context. The teenager was shot shortly after 1 a.m. on a public road in the Rhône commune, according......
French authorities have opened a gendarmerie investigation after a video showing a heated exchange at a café in the Alpine resort of Les Deux Alpes sparked widespread condemnation over alleged antisemitic remarks. The incident, which was filmed by a Jewish man and subsequently circulated widely......
French authorities evacuated a makeshift camp housing hundreds of homeless people from the grounds of the Samu social in Paris on Thursday, highlighting the mounting pressure on the capital’s emergency accommodation system. The camp, located inside and in front of the Samu social facility in Paris’s......
French authorities have opened a murder investigation after the partially burned body of a woman was discovered Wednesday morning in a vineyard in Saint-Gilles, in the Gard department. The discovery was made by an agricultural worker who was carrying out his duties in the vineyard, approximately 20......
A campsite accommodating between 1,000 and 2,000 people was evacuated Wednesday afternoon in Camiers, in the Pas-de-Calais department, after several fires broke out in the coastal dunes. Firefighters confirmed that the flames were burning close to the campsite, prompting authorities and campsite management......
French customs officers have seized 241.7 kilograms of cocaine from the trailer of a truck stopped on the A10 motorway in the Loiret department, according to the Orléans prosecutor's office. The seizure was made on Saturday morning during a customs inspection a few kilometres north of Orléans.......
Two young men have been convicted in France after being accused of making Nazi salutes near a synagogue in Sarcelles, in the Val-d’Oise department, in a case that has drawn renewed attention to the criminal consequences of extremist gestures in public spaces. One of the defendants, a 19-year-old......
A 17-year-old boy has died in Marseille after being treated at hospital following the consumption of nitrous oxide, with authorities investigating the circumstances surrounding his death. The teenager was admitted to an emergency department in the southern French city over the weekend after inhaling......
