Another person has been charged over the
suspected kidnapping of a millionaire French hotel magnate, who was found tied
up in the back of a van in 2016, the prosecutor in Nice said on Friday.
A month after an eight-year-old girl went missing from a wedding party in the French Alps, her fate remains unknown in a case that has gripped the nation.
Authorities searching for a nine-year-old girl who went missing from a wedding in the French Alps plan to scale back their efforts, having found no sign of her since her disappearance last month, a source close to the inquiry said Tuesday.
A man has been charged with kidnapping and placed in provisional detention in connection with the disappearance of a nine-year-old girl during a wedding in the Alps, a French public prosecutor
said.
UPDATE: French special forces on Monday rescued a Dutch national kidnapped nearly four years ago in northern Mali by AQIM Islamists. The operation killed a number of suspected jihadists, officials said.
A French Catholic priest has been kidnapped in Cameroon by Islamist militants, France's foreign ministry said on Thursday. France's President François Hollande has warned French nationals "not to put their lives in danger by exposing themselves to kidnappings".
A doctor from Algeria was sentenced to 12 years behind bars for his role in kidnapping Algerian children born to single mothers and putting them up for sale in France.
French police fear a gang of robbers is specifically targeting wealthy women in Paris after the second victim in a matter of weeks was kidnapped and forced to hand over tens of thousands of euros worth of valuables.
The French family kidnapped in Cameroon on February 19th has been released Cameroon authorities announced on Friday. The release has been confirmed by the French president's office the Elysée Palace.
A man identified as the father of a kidnapped French family has spoken on a video obtained by AFP on Monday, which claimed to be a recording made by Nigeria's Islamist rebels Boko Haram.
A young American student kidnapped in Geneva upon leaving a nightclub was robbed and abandoned close to Lyon, east-central France, a detailed report revealed on Wednesday.
France's defence minister on Tuesday ruled out entering into negotiations with the abductors of a French family seized in Cameroon, after a video of the hostages appeared on YouTube.
France said on Monday that a video of a kidnapped French family with their abductors, who claimed to be from Islamist extremist group Boko Haram, was a "shocking" display of the kidnappers' cruelty.
France's Foreign Ministry has denied earlier reports from military sources that the French family kidnapped in the north of the country has been released. The ministry warned against "spreading premature information".
Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday that France would not give in to "terrorists" after the kidnapping of seven members of a French family in northern Cameroon. France has told its citizens not to leave the north of the country.
Kidnappers who seized seven members of a French family, including four young children, in Cameroon, have taken them across the border into Nigeria, Cameroon's government has said.
Seven members of one French family, including four children, were kidnapped on Tuesday in northern Cameroon by men suspected of belonging to a terrorist group in Nigeria, French President Francois Hollande said.
A Frenchwoman freed from Mexican jail after a court said police violated her rights by staging her arrest for kidnapping on national television arrived in Paris Thursday to a hero's welcome.
At least one French soldier died and 17 Islamists were killed in a failed bid to free a French hostage held in southern Somalia since 2009, the French defence minister said Saturday.
A three-day-old French baby who was abducted from a maternity ward has been found safe and well and his alleged kidnapper detained for questioning, authorities said on Wednesday.
French authorities on Wednesday launched a nationwide hunt for a young woman disguised as a hospital worker who abducted a two-day-old baby from a maternity ward.
A German doctor who was convicted of killing his step-daughter after being kidnapped and forcibly brought back to France began an appeal Tuesday that will hinge on whether French law can tolerate vigilante action.
A Mauritanian news website on Monday published images of a French citizen kidnapped last week by one of the armed Islamist groups controlling the north of neighbouring Mali.
Irina Belenkaya, a Russian who kidnapped her seven-year-old daughter from the girl's French father in 2009, went on trial on Tuesday in southern France.
