A walk thorough the Paris satellite town of Mantes-la-Ville reveals why many disgruntled voters in France are willing to pin their hopes on Marine Le Pen in next year's presidential election in France.
Locals in the northern city of Lille are fighting back in a bid to stop a far-right group from opening a bar in the centre of Lille in northern France.
French police arrested 14 people on Saturday after a far-right group took to the streets for an anti-immigrant rally in the port town of Calais, where thousands of migrants are living in improvised camps.
France is in a spin over the prospect of the National Front taking control in some of France’s super regions, but what damage can the far right party actually do and will they even risk it?
Is France becoming more intolerant and xenophobic? How can the record score of the extreme-right National Front party in Sunday’s regional elections be explained?
A town in France could host an international kebab festival just to spite the far right mayor after he claimed there were too many immigrants in the town, and that he didn't want it to become the "kebab capital".
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Front, has been ordered to stand trial in October on charges of
inciting racial hatred after comparing Muslim street prayers to the Nazi occupation, legal sources said Tuesday.
The controversial far right mayor of a French town has once again caused a storm after a video emerged of him trying to evict Syrian refugees from their lodging, telling them “they are not welcome”. Watch the clip here.
While France’s mainstream parties differ wildly over what to do with Greece, the country’s more extreme political groups on the far left and the far right have both hailed the referendum result.
The recently inaugurated Museum of the History of Immigration has been vandalised twice by far-right groups, a sign of the rise in hate and extremism in France, according to the museum chief.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned Sunday that the far-right Front National (FN) party could win the next presidential election in 2017, saying their policies were a "disaster" for the country.
After France was hit by a series of terror attacks carried out by homegrown Muslim extremists, The Local examines whether or not Marine Le Pen's National Front party will see a boost in support in the coming months.
French far-right politician Marine Le Pen had her driver’s license revoked after picking up one too many speeding tickets, it was revealed this week. It's also been claimed she recently moved house after one of her dad's dogs killed one of her beloved Bengal cats.
There was more election misery for François Hollande and his Socialist party on Sunday when the left lost control of the Senate. And there was more evidence of the growing influence of the far-right National Front party, which won seats for the first time.
The emergence of a video posted on the website of a notorious French far-right activist, showing commando training camps in a forest near Paris has caused a fair bit of concern among France's Socialist Party.
Marine Le Pen’s hard work in trying to soften the image of her National Front party was dealt a blow this week when a court rejected her bid to prevent opponents from calling her a “fascist”.
The leaders of two British towns say they have no plans to cut ties with the French towns they are twinned with despite the fact they were captured by the anti-EU far-right in recent local elections. That stance was in contrast to the position taken by towns in Belgium.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the French far-right National Front, joined notorious anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders in The Hague on Wednesday to announce a "historic" Europe-wide alliance of far-right parties ahead of next year's European elections.
French movie star Alain Delon launched a tirade at the Miss France beauty committee on Friday after members had attacked him for supporting the far-right National Front. Delon then announced he was quitting as honory president of the committee.
Police arrested dozens of anti-fascist militants in Paris on Thursday night as they tried to confront far-right rivals in a bar in the capital. The far-left protestors had come from a rally in honour of a Greek rapper who was killed by a suspected neo-nazi on Wednesday.
Police have charged a second far-right skinhead over the death of far-left activist and student Clément Méric during a brawl in Paris in June, it emerged on Tuesday.
Two French far-right militant groups announced on Tuesday they were voluntarily disbanding after the French government had vowed to ban them. Supporters of the groups were implicated in the recent killing of anti-fascist activist Clément Méric.
As France tries to make sense of the shocking death of anti-fascist activist Clément Méric, the government has announced plans to outlaw at least one far-right militant group. The Local asks leading experts – could it work?
An 18-year-old left-wing activist died on Thursday after being left brain dead in an attack by far-right skinheads in Paris. There has been widespread horror and condemnation in France, and several arrests were made earlier on Thursday.
