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French authorities discovered Friday a lion cub in a car garage in Marseille. A lion cub was found a few days earlier in an apartment in Paris.

A Polish businessman was sentenced to life in Aix-en-Provence on Wednesday by the murder of his wealthy mother-in-law, Hélène Pastor. According to the French media, the judge found that he had ordered the removal of the billionaire from Monaco to secure the legacy.

A colossal amount of Spanish rosé is sold as French rosé. This has been discovered by a French anti-fraud institution in a survey conducted in the years 2016 and 2017 by producers, importers, traders and sellers, reported French and Spanish media.

Russian billionaire Soeleiman Kerimov has been cleared of money laundering in France and is allowed to leave the country. That is a big disappointment for the French Public Prosecution Service in this politically sensitive case. 'This puts an end to the accusations against Kerimov. This is very good news for him and a great legal victory. ', Jacqueline Laffont, one of his lawyers, responded.

In the southern French city of Marseille, masked men shot from three cars with Kalashnikovs on a group of young people on Sunday afternoon. One light injured would have fallen, writes the French newspaper La Provence.

Disappointing harvests in France threaten to cause a shortage of rosé this summer. The popular type of wine can, according to reports from French media, increase prices by 20 to 30 percent. France, by far the largest producer, exporter and consumer of this wine, saw the yield of the year 2017 fall by more than 10 percent.

His novels and travel stories from Provence made him world famous: the British bestselling author Peter Mayle is dead. Mayle died on Thursday at the age of 78 after a brief illness in a Southern French hospital, publisher Alfred A. Knopf reported on Twitter.

In the French city of Avignon, eight people were injured on Sunday after being shot when they left Arrahmamoskee, the French newspaper La Provence said. According to the police, it is not a terror, but a settlement in the criminal circuit or arguments between young people.

Teachers and pupils of a school in Marseille may not and must continue their classes or offices where they are because the school was shelled. French media reported that Monday's shot with bow and arrow in the schoolyard.

"A week after a car was intercepted by gas bottles, intended to commit an attack in the French capital, also intercepted a car with gas cylinders in Marseille in Paris."

In their efforts to subdue some fierce wildfires in southern France, four French firemen were injured Wednesday. Three of them suffered severe injuries, told the French Ministry of the Interior.

A day before the opening of the European Championship in France were the first problems with supporters. Two hundred English football supporters Thursday night caused riots in the French port of Marseilles.

A fire came in the night of Friday to Saturday two people dead at a hotel in downtown Marseille.

France will be held Sunday in the second round of regional elections. All eyes will be redirected to the nationalist National Front of Marine Le Pen. The question is whether the party will achieve the same result as in the first round a week ago.

The anti- EU and anti- immigration Front National (FN) is the largest in France. In the first round of regional elections gained the nationalist front of Marine Le Pen Sunday nearly 30 percent of the vote. Several French media Monday about " le choc (Shock) after the FN Sunday had achieved a historic breakthrough.