Around 40 people staged an hour-long fireworks attack against a police station outside Paris early Sunday, authorities said, the latest in a string of incidents targeting security forces in recent months.
President Emmanuel Macron announced on Tuesday that France's biggest companies will be tested in the next three years to see if they discriminate against ethnic minorities as one of the measures to tackle the problem of France's under-privileged and marginalized banlieues (suburbs).
While French president François Hollande appealed for justice and calm, the alleged rape of a young man with a police baton and the ensuing anti-police violence has quickly become a hot campaign issue for presidential election candidates.
The suburbs around Paris do not have a great reputation, it has to be said, but you'd be foolish to dismiss the idea of leaving the City of Light to live on the other side of the Périphérique.
It's time for a "radical change in planning policy", says one French charity, after its latest study found a growing inequality across the wider Paris region.
Condemning racism and police heavy-handedness, thousands of people attended a "march of dignity" rally in Paris at the weekend
to mark a decade since the deaths of two youths sparked nationwide riots.
A decade has passed since thousands of youths rioted for weeks through the suburbs of Paris and other French cities. In Clichy-sous-Bois, where the violence began after the death of two teenagers, residents tell The Local that little has changed.
Ten years on from the riots that shook France's suburbs, many residents say almost nothing in their lives has changed, and they feel excluded from the country's narrative and abandoned by politicians.
French PM Manuel Valls caused a storm in the aftermath of the January terror attacks saying France must face the reality of "social and ethnic apartheid". One MP has done just that and listed 24 measures for how France could tackle the problem of its suburban ghettos.
French President Francois Hollande has set his sights on tackling inequality in France by confirming his government will stump up €5 billion to revamp the country’s most disadvantaged neighbourhoods. It's alongside a new bill to prioritize funds for struggling schools.
After a new poll suggested French people had less and less sympathy for the poor, an expert in the field considers whether poverty in France, where there is a noticeable homeless population and record unemployment, is as bad as it's made out to be.
Would you consider living in the suburbs of Paris? For the first in our series of tête-à-têtes, The Local France's Josh Melvin (left) and Ben McPartland (right) square up to each other on the issue of whether life is better inside or outside the Périphérique. Who do you side with?
France is facing its highest rates of poverty since 1997 as unemployment climbs to record levels. However, hard times are clearly not spread evenly across the country with some towns avoiding the worst and others clearly hit hard. Find out where is worst affected.
France witnessed another apparent incident of violent Islamophobia on Tuesday, after it was reported that a 16-year-old girl in the suburbs of Paris was attacked and had her Islamic veil torn off her face.
An appeals court prosecutor has argued that two French policemen implicated in the fatal electrocution of two fleeing teens be freed of charges. The incident sparked social unrest across France in 2005,
French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault was set to unveil the government's ‘Grand Paris’ (Greater Paris) project on Wednesday – an ambitious transport and housing master-plan for the Paris region, which will include an all new automatic 'supermetro'.
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sales of petrol and other combustibles will be limited on New Year's Eve in a bid to curb what has become an annual tradition of revellers torching hundreds of cars, police said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Twelve women from the Paris suburb of Sarcelles have been awarded cooking qualifications in a scheme sponsored by Michelin-starred chef Alain Ducasse.</span></p>
<p>Local communities in France's immigrant suburbs increasingly organise themselves on Islamic lines rather than following the values of the secular republic, according to a major new sociological study.</p>
