French police fought running battles Saturday night in a poor suburb northwest of Paris with groups of young men who burnt a circus school and wounded two officers, the authorities said Sunday.
French investigators suspect that a fire that killed two people in the ski resort of Courchevel may have been an arson attack, a prosecutor said on Friday.
A 14-year-old boy was charged on Thursday with starting a string of fires near the French city of Marseille, including one that left thousands of passengers stuck in train stations.
Police across France were kept busy by a series of 'tricks' on Halloween, with clashes breaking out in Yvelines and Rennes as vandals started fires and attacked officers.
A British mother is believed to have turned in her 21-year-old son to police after he allegedly confessed to her that he deliberately started a fire three years ago in a French village that killed one man and destroyed six apartments.
French police on Sunday investigating whether an eight-year-old boy who was caught red-handed about to torch a parked car was also responsible for arson attacks on four other vehicles.
Menacing letters, one signed by the name ‘Robin Wood’, threatened to bomb and set fire to Ikea locations in France if the Swedish furniture giant did not meet several somewhat bizarre demands, it was revealed this week.
A serial arsonist continues to plague a quaint seaside hamlet in Brittany, western France, despite extensive police attempts to snare the culprit. This week he struck for the tenth time.
The residents of a sleepy Breton village may not have to wait much longer to know the identity of a serial arsonist, who has terrorized them by burning down eight buildings in just over a year. Police are to take DNA samples from local men in the hope they might help snare the culprit.
A picturesque Breton holiday village is being terrorized by an arsonist who has struck eight times over the last year, with the local priest's house being the latest target, officials said on Monday.
