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The Archbishop of Lyon, cardinal Philippe Barbarin, was sentenced to six months in prison by a judge for negligence in a child abuse case.

In a fire in a building in the French city of Lyon, two people were killed on Saturday night. Four others were injured in the fire that was preceded by an explosion. Below the…

On the roof of a university building in Lyon, France, several explosions took place on Thursday morning. This is what University Lyon 1 reports via Twitter. According to that same source, the situation is...

No hand, no fingers, no forearm. In the meantime, 25 cases of babies born between 2000 and 2014 with deformed limbs have been reported. The French Ministry of Health announced yesterday an investigation.

The French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson died in Vichy at the age of 89. According to the French media, his publisher Akribeia confirmed this after news agency AFP had heard the news from his sister. The former professor of literature at the University of Lyon came into contact with the law several times because of his controversial views, which caused disgust all over Europe.

A 34-year-old Briton was shot dead with his mountain bike during a trip to the French Alps, presumably by a hunter, reports the French police on Sunday. The police assume that there is no intent in the game.

Interpol director Meng Hongwei was arrested after arrival in China and taken for interrogation. The Chinese watchdog against corruption said on Sunday evening that the authorities have initiated a judicial investigation of him because they suspect him of a violation of law.

The Chinese Meng Hongwei has resigned with immediate effect as director of Interpol. The international police organization has announced this on its website. The South Korean Kim Jong-yang will replace him for the time being. At the general meeting in Dubai in November, the countries that are members of Interpol will choose a new boss for the period until 2020.

After the enigmatic disappearance of Interpol boss Meng Hongwei, the international police organization has now asked China through the official channels to give a definite answer about his whereabouts and health. Jürgen Stock has announced this to the general secretary Jürgen Stock on Saturday at the Interpol site and via Twitter. 'We are waiting for the response from the Chinese authorities to our unease about the welfare of our director,' said Stock.

Where is Hongwei Meng, the CEO of Interpol? He has been missing since the end of September. That made the wife of the first and only Chinese chairman known in the history of the international police organization. Meng lives with her in Lyon, where the Interpol headquarters is located and, at the time of his missing, visited his homeland.

French President Emmanuel Macron has agreed to the departure of his Minister of the Interior Gérard Collomb. The minister had previously resigned because he wanted to become the mayor of Lyon again, but Macron refused to cooperate at first.

The French President Emmanuel Macron nevertheless takes into account the departure of his Minister of the Interior Gérard Collomb. On Tuesday, in an interview with the newspaper Le Figaro, he repeated his wish to say goodbye as soon as possible in order to become the mayor of Lyon again. The election is in 2020.

The French Minister of the Interior Gérard Collomb has offered Emmanuel Macron his resignation on Monday. The president refused to agree. He does not want to lose one of his most important allies, writes the newspaper Le Figaro.

A French art school has apologized for the manipulation of a class photo with which American students had to be lured. In the photo, white students were colored in black.

Air traffic at Lyon airport is stopped after a person in a car tried to reach the runway. On images that come out via social media, you can see that the driver is leaving the car and is fleeing on foot. Agents know how to grasp the intruder in the collar.

In the night after the World Cup victory of France and the festive night of July 14, 845 vehicles went up in flames. Approximately 508 people arrested. The festivities degenerated into riots and the police in Paris, Lyon and Nantes, among other places, had to use tear gas to drive the screaming crowd apart. In Nancy, two children were injured when an engine entered the party crowd.

A hat that the French emperor Napoleon left behind on the battlefield of Waterloo will be auctioned in Lyon on Monday. The so-called stitch was taken away by the Dutch Baron Arnout Jacques Van Zuijlen Van Nijevelt after the defeat of Napoleon in Waterloo.

The Front National (FN) of the French politician Marine Le Pen is now officially named Rassemblement National, National Cooperation, after a vote among the members. Le Pen said on Friday in Lyon that 80 percent of the members who voted for the new name.

Three people died due to an accident with a bus with supporters of a rugby club. Eleven people were seriously injured, according to French media. The accident was on the A7 motorway at Chantemerle-les-Blés on the night from Saturday to Sunday, just north of the city of Valence.

Calculating criminals have captured millions in the Swiss-French border area with a carefully planned action, a combination of hostage and robbery. They forced the driver of a cash car to stop by telephone near Chavornay, north of Lausanne. The man cooperated because his daughter, who is studying in Lyon, had been kidnapped. In the parking lot where he braked, three armed men were ready.

A French businessman sat down at a weekend auction in Lyon almost 550,000 euros for a complete skeleton of a huge woolly mammoth. According to French media, that was a ton more than the auction house Aguttes had counted.

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The man who had killed two women on Sunday in Marseilles on Sunday was released a day before. He was picked up in Lyon on Friday for a shoplift, but returned to free feet on Saturday.

The police in France resumed a 34-year-old suspect of the kidnapping of the nine-year-old Maelys on Sunday. In his car, DNA from the girl would be found. The man was released on Friday.

The French police arrested a second man on Friday suspected of involvement in the disappearance of the nine-year-old Maëlys de Araujo. The French transmitter RTL reported that it was a 34-year-old man. Thursday was another 34-year-old man for trial. He's still stuck.

The French police arrested a man on Thursday suspected of involvement in the disappearance of the nine-year-old Maëlys de Araujo.

A full Roman-Roman district was discovered on a construction site in the French city of Vienne. The archaeologists believe that in the year 100 the inhabitants fled away by fire and thereby left their furniture. Many objects have remained in good condition, and archaeologists speak of a 'mini-pumpkin'.

The second 'black saturday' is coming. Especially in France, Germany and Italy, it is busy on the roads, the ANWB predicts.

A passenger car with gas cylinders near a chemical plant has caused major unrest in the south French Chasse-sur-Rhône. An enormous police force has gone to the place where alarm was struck south of Lyon.

The French environmental vignette Crit'Air is mandatory from 1 July for anyone who wants to drive around the country in the mileuzones. If you do not have a vignette, you can apply for a quicker one. That can take up to ten days.