Strasbourg (AFP) – Around 80 graves have been daubed with swastikas at a Jewish cemetery in eastern France, local officials said, hours ahead of nationwide marches on Tuesday against a rise in anti-Semitic attacks. The damage was discovered on Tuesday morning at a cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim, close to the border with Germany […]
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France
Why isn’t anyone Asking *Why* the French Yellow Vest Protesters are Rallying?
The tax on diesel followed a whole series of tax gifts to the most wealthy French citizens and businesses
Trump Lashes out at France’s Macron over ‘Nationalism’ as Bromance Dies
“Stop tweeting! America needs some friends” – John Kerry
French President Admits Colonial System in Algeria Deployed Torture
Paris (AFP) – France admitted Thursday that it instigated a “system” that led to torture during Algeria’s independence war, a conflict that remains hugely sensitive six decades on. President Emmanuel Macron is set to acknowledge that mathematician Maurice Audin, a Communist pro-independence activist who disappeared in 1957, “died under torture stemming from the system instigated […]
Human Zoos in the Age of Trump
Current policies echo an era when millions of Europeans and Americans considered it perfectly natural to treat fellow humans as beasts
France Charges 10 White Nationalist Terrorists in Plot to Blow up Muslims
French authorities have charged 10 suspected far-right extremists in connection with an alleged plot to attack Muslims
Muslim Undocumented Immigrant, Spiderman of Paris, Saves Toddler from Balcony (Video)
Mamoudou Gassama has been hailed a hero after he scaled the front of a building in Paris to save a child hanging from a fourth-floor balcony
Macron on way to see Trump: “There is no ‘Plan B’ re: Iran Nuclear Deal”
Macron to urge his US counterpart to stay in the Iran nuclear deal.
French Ex-President Sarkozy arrested over Libya Campaign money Charges
TeleSur | – – Sarkozy has categorically denied receiving any campaign funding from the North African country. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was detained by police officers early Tuesday, Reuters reported. The ex head of state was being questioned by magistrates in relation to allegations he received US$61 million in funding for his 2007 election […]