Pigs’ heads dumped outside French mosque
Muslims attending morning prayers Wednesday were confronted by two pigs' heads in the entrance to their mosque in a French town where an Islamist gunman killed two paratroopers in March.
Day: August 1, 2012
Parisians warned off sex on the beach
French police have warned Parisians to keep their clothes on or face fines and even imprisonment as residents began flocking to parks and the banks of the River Seine to bask in the summer sun.
Fake paraplegic slaps women’s bottoms
A man pretended to be paraplegic, using a wheelchair to slap women on their behinds and expose himself to others near Toulouse.
Senator ‘plots child sex scandal’ against rival
A French Senator has been caught on tape plotting to set up his rival Senator Jean-Louis Masson with an underage girl in Morocco.
French Muslim summer camp leaders fired for fasting
Tensions between French authorities and the country's Islamic community resurfaced on Tuesday after it emerged that four summer camp instructors had been sacked for fasting during Ramadan.