Gisele Pelicot, a survivor of mass rapes organised by her husband at their home in southern France, reveals her shock and trauma but also her resilience in an intimate book that will hit shelves next week.
France's General Inspectorate of Justice (IGJ) has exposed failings in an investigation into Dominique Pelicot, convicted in a high-profile rape case, for not acting on DNA evidence against him for a dozen years, in a report seen by AFP.
A repeat offender has confessed to raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl in the eastern French city of Nantes, sparking outrage and calls for tougher release rules.
A former French economy minister, Thierry Breton, was robbed and beaten in his Paris home along with his wife and live-in chauffeur, sources close to the police investigation told AFP on Tuesday.
A French teacher was handed a suspended jail sentence Monday for having sex with a 14-year-old pupil, the latest of several cases fuelling debate over the age of consent.
UPDATED: France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls announced new measures to appease protesting police on Wednesday, who said they were fed up with a lack of resources and an ineffective justice system.
France’s Justice Minister Christiane Taubira came under fire on Tuesday after a radicalized inmate on the run after not returning to prison following temporary leave shot a policemen in the head during a botched robbery and car chase.
France’s justice minister was fending off calls for her resignation on Monday after not singing the country's national anthem, the Marseillaise, at a public event and then comparing singing along with the hymn to “karaoke”.
Patrick Dils, our French face of the week, spent 15 years in jail after being wrongly convicted of murdering two children. This week he came a step closer to redemption when prosecutors revealed another man would be tried for the killings.
France announced this week it is to abandon jury trials in certain criminal courts, calling time on former President Nicolas Sarkozy's flagship attempt to ‘democratize’ the French justice system.
Police officers in France were left fuming after a blundering judge got in a muddle with his calendar and accidentally released ten alleged members of a notorious drug ring.
Leading food aid charities in France have declared they would be ready to hand out tonnes of recalled ready meals containing horsemeat, saying it would be "scandalous" to waste such a huge quantity of food.
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité – except when it comes to a night out at the movies, it would seem. A cinema in Paris has caused a very French scandal by charging extra for ‘premium’ seats. One outraged politician called it "segregation" on Thursday.
Two former employees of Ikea France were questioned by a magistrate Tuesday over their alleged involvement in a spying scandal that threatened to tarnish the squeaky-clean Swedish furniture giant's image when it emerged last year.
A man judged "a danger to himself and others" has been sentenced to jail for posting bullets to several prominent French politicians, including Nicolas Sarkozy.
A man suspected of shooting his girlfriend's three-year-old daughter in a violent rage over the cleanliness of their flat has been charged with the toddler's murder, police said Thursday.
<p>Two Algerian volleyball players were caught shoplifting in the northern city of Lisieux, where the women were training for the 2012 Olympic Games.</p>
<p>A young French man has filed a suit saying he was exluded from officer training when he failed to turn up for his exams after allegedly being raped. </p>
<p><span id="internal-source-marker_0.5378276423052898">A judge has thrown out a case of a 9-year-old boy insulting two of his teachers and kicking one of them, just the day before he was to have his hearing.</span></p>
<p>A French lawyer has asked a judge in a courthouse in Marseille to ask Madonna to testify as a witness. Two technicians died when a stage collapsed before one of her concert in 2009.</p>
<p>A man from the south of France has declared himself satisfied after a court banned him from seeing his mother-in-law. The two fell out due to a fight over a can of beer. </p>
