General news articles from France, from a French perspective, covering France and Europe and the impact on life in France.
LULL: The system of the previous days, i.e. a maximum staff of 45,000 police and gendarmes, was thus maintained overnight from Monday to Tuesday without major incidents recorded. The de-escalation seems to be confirmed. Monday evening was calm on the front , on the eve of a political takeover where Emmanuel Macron of some 220 municipalities “victims of abuse” […]
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MEDIA: Called Tempo, this reform of the news on France 3 is supposed to come into force on September 4th. It raises many fears among employees Two months before the abolition of the national news on France 3, the unions of France Télévisions are calling for a three-day strike from Tuesday to protest against this disputed reform from the […]
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URBAN VIOLENCE: Marseille and the whole of the Lyon area are the two cities most affected by the riots from the death of Nahel Another troubled night. In France, 719 people were arrested overnight from Saturday to Sunday during the fifth evening of violence after the death of a teenager, killed Tuesday by a police officer, said the Ministry […]
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GASTRONOMY: The two-star chef, Serge Vieira was only 46 years old A cooking lover is gone. The two-starred chef Serge Vieira, based in Cantal, died on Saturday following a long illness, announced the Twitter account of the Bocuse d’Or, a competition he won in 2005, and his relatives. Aged 46, he had chaired the French Bocuse d’Or team for […]
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THE WEIGHT OF WORDS: Alliance, majority union of peacekeepers, and Unsa police say they are “at war” and want to “restore republican order” in the face of “savage hordes” A press release that comes to blow on the embers? Several left-wing leaders, including Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Tondelier, denounced a press release from the police unions Alliance and Unsa police on […]
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END OF SERVICE: Due to the violence after Nahel’s death, the Minister of the Interior ordered the interruption of buses and trams from 9 p.m. Users of public transport, you will have to make your arrangements to return home tonight. The French Ministry of the Interior ordered this Friday the prefects to interrupt buses and trams throughout the territory from 9 p.m., […]
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RECAP: Following the meeting of the interministerial cell on violence in France, the President of the Republic announced the establishment of “additional means” Emmanuel Macron denounced Friday “an unacceptable instrumentalization of the death of a teenager” following the death of young Nahel during a police check in Nanterre. The president also announced that “additional means” would […]
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ANGER: Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Lille, but also Strasbourg, Tours or Poitiers… Many cities have been affected by damage and sporadic clashes between the police and young people Despite the mobilisation of 40,000 police and gendarmes, many neighbourhoods experienced sporadic violence throughout France overnight from Thursday to Friday. In total, more than 400 people, mainly minors, were […]
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INVESTIGATION: This 38-year-old police brigadier was indicted for intentional homicide and remanded in custody The policeman who shot the young Nahel on Tuesday during a traffic check in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) asked for forgiveness from the family of the teenager while in police custody, his lawyer reported on Thursday. , Me Laurent-Franck Liénard, on BFMTV. “The first words he spoke […]
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The police brigadier suspected of having killed Nahel, 17, on Tuesday in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), is presented as “an exemplary civil servant” who has distinguished himself several times during his career Judicial information was opened on Thursday against the policeman who fired the shot during a roadside check that led to the death of Nahel, in […]
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