Nicolas Sarkozy’s links with Muammar Gaddafi have come under fresh scrutiny after a businessman admitted delivering three cash-stuffed suitcases from the late Libyan leader towards the Frenchman’s first presidential bid. In an interview with the Mediapart investigative news site, Franco-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine has said he made three trips from[…]
The state of emergency in France will most likely be extended because of the ongoing terrorists threat. The country is entering the presidential election campaign period, the French PM said on the anniversary of Paris attacks which claimed the lives of 130 people. “It is difficult today to end the[…]
The “Jungle” migrant camp near Calais woke up to a third day of a government operation to empty and clear it on Wednesday following a night of ritual tent and shelter-burning and some gas-bottle explosions. A Calais prefecture official told France Info radio on Wednesday morning that one person had[…]
Migrants and refugees have begun arriving at official meeting points set by French authorities as part of the full evacuation of the so-called Jungle camp in Calais. Men and women carrying suitcases and bundles of possessions gathered early on Monday in front of a warehouse which is serving as the[…]
Fifty-five years ago today, hundreds of Algerians were massacred by French police and had their bodies thrown in the Seine River. What: Paris Massacre When: 17 October 1961 Where: Paris, France What Happened? On 5 October 1961, a curfew from was imposed from 20:30 to 05.30 on Paris for “Algerian Muslim workers”, “French[…]
President Francois Hollande told the authors of a book just published that France has “a problem with Islam” and there are too many immigrants arriving in the country who “shouldn’t be here”. Hollande made the controversial remarks to the authors of A President Shouldn’t Say That… in December 2015, a[…]
OPINION by Thakira Desai So spring entered with a bang – an Islamophobic, sexist, and misogynistic bang! On Tuesday 24th August, French police indignantly strolled onto a beach in the seaside town of Nice to ‘institute’ French law and ensure that all beach goers were reasonably naked. More astonishingly, the[…]
Images of a Muslim woman being forced to remove some of her clothing by armed male police officers at a beach in Nice went viral last week, sparking global outrage. The officers were enforcing a French ban on the “burkini” – a full-body swimsuit that allows women to swim with[…]
Social media users have expressed anger after a video posted online appeared to show two Muslim women in France being told to leave a restaurant by a man, reportedly the eatery’s boss, who called all Muslims “terrorists”. “Terrorists are Muslims, and all Muslims are terrorists. This sentence says it all,[…]
This week, the ‘burkini’ was thrown into spot light once again when a Muslim woman was forced to undress by French police as she enjoyed the beach with other beach goers in Nice. Using language similar to the bans imposed in a string of other resorts on the French Riviera,[…]
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