Paris Notre Dame cathedral where a man committed suicide on Tuesday. Photo: Paul Beattie
Notre Dame cathedral in the heart of Paris had to be evacuated on Tuesday when 78-year-old writer and far right figure Dominique Venner, a firm opponent of gay marriage, shot himself in the head by the church's altar.
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Police try to interene as Frennch football hooligans fight running battles at a motorway toll plaza. Photo: Screenshot:France TV
VIDEO: French police have charged a minibus driver carrying a group of Marseille football supporters who were involved in a mass brawl with fans of fierce rivals Lyon at a motorway toll plaza in the south of France at the weekend.
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The French government may still be celebrating the victory of seeing its divisive gay marriage bill finally signed into law but the battle over the issue of same-sex unions in France now looks set to move from a national to a local level.
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French police outside the Novotel where €1 million worth of jewellery was stolen last week. Photo: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP
An angry Chinese film producer had some harsh words to say about France this week, suggesting the country had a problem with public safety and arrogance after being the victim of a burglary at the Cannes Film Festival.
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French actor and newly-minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu on Saturday compared President Vladimir Putin to the late Pope John Paul II and said the ex-KGB agent is what Russia needs as a leader.
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France's highest court the Constitutional Council cleared the divisive gay marriage bill on Friday, paving the way for same sex unions to become legal. Francois Hollande said he would sign the bill into law as soon as Saturday.
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Policemen stand guard at the entrance to a nursery school where a man committed suicide in front of pupils on May 16. Photo: Martin Bureau/AFP
Around 750 police have been stationed at schools across the French city of Strasbourg after an anonymous person, believed to be a teenager, posted a message online threatening to commit suicide and kill several pupils at a school on Friday.
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A common sight on the streets of Paris. Photo: Andy Smith
Paris authorities will soon have a new weapon to employ in their daily battle to clean up the capital's notoriously dirty streets - a specially designed smartphone app.
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Rue de Cler in the VII arrondissement of Paris where a man shot himself in front of nursery school children on Thursday. Photo: Google steetview
A man in his fifties, with a history of family problems shot himself in the head on Thursday in front of a dozen young children in the hall of a Catholic primary school in Paris.
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CRS riot police square off against rioting PSG fans on May 13th. Far right leader Marine LePen has blamed the disturbances on "a failure of immigration policy." Photo: Thomas Samson/AFP
Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front party, blamed this week's riots by PSG fans in Paris on "a failure of immigration policy," amid widespread claims from the extreme right that ethnic minorities were to blame for the trouble.
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Pickpocket ringleader Fehim Hamidovic, a Bosnian national, was given a seven-year jail term by a French court on Wednesday. File photo: Matt Baume
France handed down a seven-year jail sentence on Wednesday to the notorious Bosnian ringleader of a gang of young pickpockets, who were abused and tortured if they failed to steal at least €300 a day from unwitting targets in Paris.
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A 15-year-old, burqa-wearing Muslim convert fled her home in Mulhouse, near Strasbourg, to join her 28 year-old husband, whom she married 'over the phone.' File photo: Erict19/Flickr
French police have charged seven men with removing a child from her parents’ care, after a 15-year-old convert to Islam, whose father is British, left home after "marrying" a 28-year-old Muslim man “over the phone".
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An online "appeal for witnesses" to the disappearance of five-year-old Fiona from a park in Clermont-Ferrand, central France, on May 12th. Photo: Solidaire Alerte/Youtube
Police in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand now believe missing five-year-old girl, Fiona is likely to have been abducted, after an appeal for witnesses and two days of fruitless searches.
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Wilfred de Bruijn (left), a gay man beaten in Paris in April. Raphael le Clerc (right), a gay man beaten on leaving a bar in Nice two weeks later. Photos: W. DeBruijn/R. LeClerc
Assaults on members of the gay community and incidents of homophobic hate speech have risen sharply in France over the last year, according to the annual report by a leading gay rights group, released on Tuesday.
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French pig farmers began stopping and checking passing trucks for foreign pork on May 13th. They are seeking an increase in the price of their pigs. File photo: J. Marsh
French pig farmers, up in arms against the influx of foreign pork into France, have taken matters into their own hands this week and set up road blocks to inspect trucks carrying meat. The farmers say they are losing €10,000 per month.
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