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This photograph shows firefighter (L) and police vehicles near the site of a bladed weapon attack where a man is suspected of killing one person and wounding two municipal police officers in Mulhouse, eastern France on February 22, 2025. (Sebastien Bozon/AFP)
February 23, 2025, 4:59 pm
French authorities arrest four after terror stabbing in country’s east
Portuguese man killed in Saturday attack in city of Mulhouse; France tried 10 times to expel main suspect in Islamic extremist attack to Algeria
By AP
Demonstrators stand next to and on the statue The Triumph of the Republic on Place de la Nation as they take part in an anti far-right rally in Paris on June 15, 2024 (Sameer Al-Doumy / AFP)
June 16, 2024, 3:52 am
French protesters denounce far right ahead of elections; some chant ‘Free Palestine’
250,000 people turn out to demonstrate amid fears the vote will produce France’s first far-right government since World War II
By jade le deley and Elise Morton
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) on French TV network TF1 on May 30, 2024. (Screenshot/YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 6, 2024, 6:10 am
How Netanyahu’s interview with France’s TF1 widened the Jerusalem-Paris divide
PM’s use of hard-right rhetoric on the eve of EU Parliament elections made some French viewers wince, adding to ire that saw Israeli companies banned from Eurosatory arms fair
By Tal Schneider
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin (2nd R) and Police Prefect of the French Val d'Oise department, Philippe Court (L) arrive at the Saint-Maclou Cathedral in Pontoise, north of Paris, on March 31, 2024. (GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP)
March 31, 2024, 1:49 pm
France decries ‘unacceptable acts’ after boar head placed at mosque
Interior minister announces probe into ‘incitement to racial hatred’ at site, says two other mosques in northern France ‘degraded’ amid Ramadan festivities
By AFP and ToI Staff
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives to inaugurate an exhibition on the theme of "Made in France" at the Elysee Palace, in Paris on June 30, 2023. (Michel Euler / POOL / AFP)
July 4, 2023, 12:33 pm
France’s Macron emerges weakened from unrest over teen’s shooting
Governing his already-polarized country has become close to impossible for French leader, who is heavily dependent on political allies
By Sylvie Corbet
French Minister of Higher Education Frederique Vidal delivers a speech after the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, July 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool)
February 17, 2021, 7:31 pm
French minister warns against ‘Islamo-leftism’ in universities
Comments by Frederique Vidal come as Macron faces accusations of pandering to far-right with talk of ‘Islamist separatism’ ahead of presidential elections
By Adam PLOWRIGHT
A French soldier stands guard in front of the Great Mosque in Strasbourg, eastern France, during the Friday prayer, November 20, 2015. Muslims gathered here to pay tribute to the victims of the November 13 attacks. (AFP Photo/Partrick Hertzog)
January 21, 2021, 6:15 pm
French Muslim groups reject Macron’s anti-extremism charter
Three organizations representing community say they won’t back text condemning the use of Islam for political ends and affirming equality between men and women
By AFP
Illustrative: Shiite Muslim women march toward the French Consulate during a rally against French President Emmanuel Macron and the republishing of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad they deem blasphemous, in Karachi, Pakistan, Nov. 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
November 25, 2020, 8:02 pm
French court backs closure of Muslim group for ‘inciting hatred’
BarakaCity denies allegations; judge also upholds shuttering of mosque north of Paris over imam’s comments, as France cracks down on Islamic extremism
By AFP
Anti-terrorism state prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard wearing a face mask speaks during a press conference on September 29, 2020, after a man armed with a knife seriously wounded two people on September 25, 2020, in a suspected terror attack outside the former offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP)
September 30, 2020, 3:22 pm
Paris meat cleaver attacker charged with attempted terrorist killings
Suspect in attack near former Charlie Hebdo offices named as Pakistan-born Zaheer Hassan Mehmood, 25; he admits to initially lying about his identity
By AFP
Graffiti at a mosque in the town of Agen in southwestern France. (screenshot: YouTube)
July 27, 2020, 8:37 am
Swastika daubed on mosque in southwest France
French interior minister denounces ‘odious’ act, affirms his support for Muslim community of Agen
By AFP
Claude Sinke (R), the octogenarian accused of wounding two men in a shooting at a mosque in southern France and his lawyer Benoit Briffe (L) enter a police car before leaving the Bayonne courthouse on October 30, 2019 where Sinke was charged and ordered held in detention. (Gaizka Iroz/AFP)
October 30, 2019, 10:13 pm
Frenchman, 84, charged for shooting two in mosque attack
Claude Sinke, a former candidate for far-right National Rally, also tried to set fire to house of worship in Bayonne
By AFP
Alain Finkielkraut mulls the answer to a question at an appearance in Brussels, Belgium, April 3, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz/JTA)
June 12, 2019, 3:15 am
A famed French-Jewish philosopher is afraid to leave his home
Despite unwritten law that spares French intellectuals public harassment, Alain Finkielkraut is accosted repeatedly by street protesters because he is a Jewish supporter of Israel
By Cnaan Liphshiz
This frame from video that was livestreamed on March 15, 2019, shows gunman Brenton Tarrant in a car before the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Shooter's Video via AP)
March 25, 2019, 5:47 pm
French Muslim group sues Facebook, YouTube over New Zealand attack video
Tech giants accused in France of broadcasting ‘violent content abetting terrorism, or of a nature likely to seriously violate human dignity and liable to be seen by a minor’
By AFP
This Monday Aug. 20, 2001, file photo shows French Holocaust survivors gathering at the site of the former Drancy detention camp, north of Paris, France. From Aug. 20, 1941 until the end of World War II, more than 70,000 Jewish men, women and children passed through Drancy on their way to Nazi extermination camps, particularly Auschwitz. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
December 28, 2018, 11:04 pm
1 in 5 non-Christians in France has never heard of the Holocaust, survey finds
Ignorance about the Holocaust and revisionism appear strongest among far-right and far-left voters
By JTA
Police officers drive a car on June 25, 2018 in Tonnay-Charente near the house of Guy S., the alleged leader of a group linked with the ultra right 'AFO' (Action of Operational Forces) who was arrested along with 9 other people in France for allegedly planning attacks against Muslims in France. (AFP PHOTO / XAVIER LEOTY)
June 28, 2018, 12:15 pm
France charges 10 far-right suspects over plot to attack Muslims
Detainees linked to group that urges French people to combat Islam, which it calls ‘the enemy within’
By AFP
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