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Alain JEAN-ROBERT

Members of the public stand in front of a photograph depicting French history and geography teacher Samuel Paty as they attend a tribute ceremony in Paris, on October 16, 2021. (Alain Jocard/AFP)
November 26, 2024, 9:42 pm
French teen apologizes at trial for lies that led to her teacher’s beheading
Samuel Paty was murdered in 2020 after teen’s father and an Islamist activist spread her lies about teacher kicking Muslims out of class, showing caricatures of prophet Mohammed
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT
In this file photo taken on July 14, 2016, French police officers stand near a truck drove by a terrorist who plowed into a crowd leaving a fireworks display in the French Riviera town of Nice, killing 86 people. (Valery Hache/AFP)
December 13, 2022, 7:46 pm
French court convicts 8 over 2016 Nice terror ramming that killed 86
Two of the defendants given 18-year prison terms for helping Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel carry out attack claimed by Islamic State
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT
This file video grab taken from a CCTV camera at a petrol station in Ressons, North of Paris, on November 11, 2015, shows Salah Abdeslam (R), a suspect in the Paris attack of November 13, and Mohammed Abrini (C) buying goods (OFF / AFP)
June 10, 2022, 10:12 pm
Prosecutors request life sentence for main suspect in 2015 Paris terror attack
Demand that Salah Abdeslam, 32, not have possibility of parole is extremely rare in France; verdict due on June 29; 19 others also on trial, accused of assisting killers
By Anne-Sophie LASSERRE and Alain JEAN-ROBERT
This file video grab taken from a CCTV camera at a petrol station in Ressons, North of Paris, on November 11, 2015, shows Salah Abdeslam (R), a suspect in the Paris attack of November 13, and Mohammed Abrini (C) buying goods (OFF / AFP)
February 10, 2022, 10:36 am
Suspect on trial for 2015 Paris attacks claims he backed out of suicide bomb plan
Salah Abdeslam says court mistaken in wanting to ‘make an example’ of him, would send a message to future attackers that it’s not worth changing their mind
By Marie DHUMIERES, Alain JEAN-ROBERT and Anne-Sophie LASSERRE
One of Pissarro's first paintings in the Neo-Impressionist or pointillist style, 'La Bergère rentrant des moutons.' (Wikimedia Commons)
March 9, 2021, 8:00 pm
French Holocaust survivor ratchets up battle with US over Nazi-looted painting
1886 artwork by Camille Pissarro was seized from Leone-Noelle Meyer’s adoptive parents during German invasion of France, and is now the subject of a legal battle
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT
In this file photo taken on May 20, 2016 French cartoonist, writer and director Joann Sfar, poses in Paris. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP)
March 10, 2020, 11:14 pm
Hating Jews has become mainstream, warns French writer Sfar
The comic artist and director tackles his fears in his latest book ‘The Last European Jew,’ a satirical novel exploring the reemergence of anti-Semitism in Europe
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT
Boy detective Tintin and his dog Snowy in an animated TV series. (YouTube screenshot)
October 1, 2019, 6:23 am
Scottish kilt helped Tintin come out as more PC comic hero, says expert
Despite this ‘stylistic and ideological change,’ works featuring fictional boy detective often contained anti-Semitic tropes, pro-Nazi viewpoint, researcher says
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT and Fiachra GIBBONS
Posters and pictures of French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Celine, June 17, 2011.(AFP/Lionel Bonaventure)
January 12, 2018, 12:13 am
French publisher shelves reprint of Celine’s anti-Semitic texts
Following public outcry and lawsuit threats, Gallimard says conditions ‘not right’ for publication of virulently anti-Jewish essays
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT and Fiachra GIBBONS
Albert Camus (Public Domain, US Library of Congress/United Press International/Wikimedia Commons)
November 11, 2017, 3:47 am
Camus letters show secret passion for love of his life
Newly published collection details Nobel prize-winning French author’s long-running affair with Spanish actress Maria Casares
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT
A still from 'Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah' (Courtesy: HBO Documentary Films)
March 30, 2017, 1:11 pm
The pain and defiance of ‘Shoah’ maker Lanzmann
Former French Resistance fighter, 91, speaks of his grief at the death of son from cancer, and his unstoppable motivation
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT and Fiachra GIBBONS
Screenshot from a video promoting the new re-issue of 'Tintin in the land of the Soviets' in color. (YouTube/Tintin)
January 12, 2017, 5:51 am
Tintin takes on Russians in new color version of original epic
Publishers defend decision to keep scene making fun of Jewish tailor intact, saying it is not up to them to modify the work
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT and Fiachra GIBBONS
SS captain Alois Brunner (screen capture: YouTube)
January 11, 2017, 11:29 am
Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria basement in 2001 – report
Eichmann’s ‘right-hand man,’ in charge of Drancy camp during WWII, was responsible for the death of an estimated 130,000 Jews
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT and Fiachra GIBBONS
A woman reads the comic book "Mon Bataclan" in Paris on October 20, 2016. (Bertrand Guay/AFP)
October 21, 2016, 10:47 pm
New graphic novel recounts Bataclan horror
Artist Fred Dewilde was among the survivors of Islamic State attack on Paris concert hall, says drawing book was cathartic
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT
Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych addresses the nation in Kiev on February 19, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Presidential Press Service pool/STR)
February 24, 2014, 9:42 am
Ukraine issues arrest warrant for Yanukovych
New government accuses ousted president of crimes against protesters, as Western leaders stress need for unity
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT
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