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A court sketch made on January 22, 2019 at the Brussels Justice Palace, shows people watching video images during the trial of French jihadist Mehdi Nemmouche, accused of shooting four people dead at a Jewish museum in Brussels on May 24, 2014, allegedly the first Syria jihad veteran to stage a terror attack in Europe. (Igor Preys/BELGA/AFP)
January 30, 2019, 5:55 pm
Lawyer for victim in Belgian Jewish museum terror attack threatened
Prosecutors say someone broke into the office of Vincent Lurquin, who represents a woman present at the jihadist shooting, stole a computer and left a fake Kalashnikov rifle
By AP
French national Peter Cherif, right, alleged associate of the Kouachi brothers, perpetrators of 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack, is extradited to France at Djibouti International Airport in Djibouti on December 22, 2018. (Houssein Hersi/AFP)
December 27, 2018, 9:44 pm
Key French jihadist Peter Cherif set to return to prison
High-ranking member of Al-Qaeda’s most dangerous branch, now in French custody, linked to perpetrators of Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher terror attacks
By Mehdi CHERIFIA
Illustrative photo of a phone scammer (Photo credit: lolostock/iStock)
November 7, 2018, 9:03 am
Victims of €20m French-Israeli ads scam to get some money back, not from Israel
Most funds stolen from French small business owners in ‘directory scam’ ended up in Israel, but Israeli authorities have not helped with the probe or frozen suspects’ bank accounts
By Pierre Assouline and Simona Weinglass
Jewish French historian Georges Bensoussan, January 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 8, 2017, 7:43 pm
French Jewish historian cleared of hate speech charges
Court acquits Georges Bensoussan of anti-Islamism for saying Arabs receive anti-Semitism with their ‘mothers’ milk’
By JTA
View of Paris suburb Créteil. (CC BY Christophe Pinard/Flickr)
February 23, 2017, 4:18 am
Hate crime charge dropped in rape-robbery of French Jewish couple
Anti-Semitism watchdog ‘indignant’ over decision by ‘novice judge’; French leaders had called 2014 attack in Creteil glaringly anti-Semitic
By JTA
Ilan Halimi, kidnapped and murdered by an anti-Semitic gang in Paris in 2006, (Courtesy of Stephanie Yin/JTA)
January 12, 2017, 10:52 pm
Ilan Halimi’s killer handed 10 extra years in prison
Gang leader serving life for torturing Parisian Jew to death in 2009 receives extended sentence for previous extortions
By JTA
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls makes a statement following a security meeting with French President Francois Hollande on July 15, 2016 at the Elysee Palace in Paris, a day after a gunman smashed a truck into a crowd of revelers celebrating Bastille Day in the city of Nice. (AFP Photo/Thomas Samson)
September 12, 2016, 4:43 am
France warns of threats as boy arrested in feared attack
Some 15,000 people in the terror-afflicted country could be in the process of being radicalized, PM says
By Elaine Ganley
Liberty Leading the People, by Eugène Delacroix
August 31, 2016, 1:04 pm
Bare breasts ‘symbolize freedom,’ French PM declares in latest burkini twist
Manuel Valls rekindles Muslim clothing controversy, saying topless revolutionary icon Marianne ‘is not veiled because she is free’
By Sue Surkes
French police officers work at the crime scene the day after a knife-wielding attacker stabbed a senior police officer to death Monday evening outside his home in Magnanville, west of Paris, France, Tuesday, June 14, 2016. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
July 5, 2016, 2:56 pm
France terror probe recommends intelligence overhaul
Parliamentary inquiry into 2015’s attacks finds ‘global intelligence failure,’ miscommunication among agencies
By Claire DOYEN
A picture taken on June 15, 2016 at the Ministry of Interior in Paris during a memorial ceremony shows a photograph of French policeman Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his partner Jessica Schneider, who were killed on June 13 by a man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State group. (AFP Photo/Pool/Kamil Zihnioglu)
June 19, 2016, 6:06 am
Two men linked to jihadist’s murder of French police charged
Charaf-Din Aberouz and Saad Rajraji were previously convicted in 2013 for their roles in a jihadi network, allegiance to IS
By AFP
Rescue workers tend to victims of a jihadi terror attack in the 10th district of Paris, November 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, File)
May 31, 2016, 1:53 am
French jihadi network linked to Bataclan killer on trial
All seven defendants tell court they were duped into traveling to Syria and joining Islamic State
By Lori Hinnant
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