It is a daring venture: at the low point of its popularity, Emmanuel Macron travels through 'hostile' territory for a week to commemorate the First World War. 'I have no desire to meet the president.'
On Friday, Belgium handed a suspect in the case of the thwarted attack on the Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris in 2015 to France, reports the federal prosecutor. Youssef Siraj was arrested in Belgium at the end of October. He would have sheltered the perpetrator, Ayoub el Khazzani, the days before the attack in his home in the Brussels municipality of Laeken.
Approximately 180 train passengers had to spend the night from Thursday to Friday in a TGV which stranded by a burst overhead in the northern French Albert. The bad stormy weather hampered relief to the stranded train was en route from Paris to Brussels.
The 27-year-old man living in a high-speed Thalys wanted to carry out an attack, has at last published in August 2015. Ayoub El Khazzani recognized in front of a French investigating judge that he is a jihadist and wanted to carry out an attack on the train from Amsterdam to Paris. However, he argued certainly never intended to have been wreaking carnage among civilians.
War threatened treasures from countries such as Syria and Iraq can have a safe haven in a few years in northern France. In the town of Liévin, between Lille and Arras, opened in 2019 a brand new depot building of the Louvre. President Francois Hollande announced Tuesday that this property which he is concerned is open to cultural heritage that is in danger because 'terrorists, barbarians want to destroy it.'
The Belgian police on Monday arrested six people in connection with the foiled attack on the Thalys train from Amsterdam to Paris last summer. They are captured after police six houses in and around Brussels was invaded, according to the federal prosecutor.
An elderly man is Tuesday due to torrential rains in the north of France died. The man rode a partly flooded road between Arras and Doullens and drowned in his car when the water level at the height of the village Mondicourt suddenly increased rapidly. Reported this to the local authorities Tuesday afternoon.
The number of refugees staying in a refugee camp near the French port of Calais , doubled to 6000. That's the prefect of the region said Friday.
