After a distorted terrorist attack, the security measures in France have increased further to the presidential elections. France goes to the polls on Sunday to choose a new president. A second and decisive round is on May 7th. Minister of the Interior Matthias Fekl has announced that 50,000 police officers and soldiers stand ready for the polling session.
The Belgian federal prosecutor's office confirmed Wednesday that there was an investigation against Clément B. in Belgium. B. is one of two men who were arrested Tuesday in Marseille because in the run up to the French presidential elections 'in the coming days would carry out an attack,' said the Paris prosecutor.
Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, better known as Carlos the Jackal (Jackal) is sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for an attack in 1974.
The French army is concerned about the theft of an army truck and earthmover. The theft was somewhere between 13 and 17 January in the southern French town of Istres, French media reported Tuesday. The stolen vehicles were not parked on a military base.
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.
The five men who last weekend were arrested in France were controlled by Islamic State from Iraq and Syria. That said, the French public prosecutor Friday.
Five terror suspects last weekend were arrested in France, had plans to commit on 1 December attacks in and around Paris. They include the headquarters of the French domestic intelligence in Levallois-Perret, the headquarters of the criminal investigation department, a courthouse and the Champs-Elysées on the eye, reported sources in the police in Paris and Disneyland in Marne-la-Vallée.
One of the three suspects in the attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels on May 24, 2014, the 26-year-old Nacer B., can go home. A court in Brussels, the Frenchman Tuesday freed on the condition that he is available, surrenders his passport and pay a deposit of 50,000 euros. Which upheld the federal prosecutor.
With the arrest of seven people last weekend, the French authorities have been able to thwart a terrorist attack. This was announced by the French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve on Monday.
The main suspect in the attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels two years ago, Mehdi Nemmouche, said for the first time about the case and announced that he was 'to some extent' was involved. That Belgian media reported. The 31-year-old suspect remains deny that he was the gunman in the attack which killed four deaths.
"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."
The large wildfire north of Marseille is under control, the fire department reported in the southern French port city Thursday. More than 2500 hectares went up in flames. West of Marseille, Fos-sur-Mer, burned 800 hectares of nature off.
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 passenger plane which was en route from Algiers to Marseille broadcast a distress signal over the Mediterranean and soon after disappeared from the radar. It is a Boeing 737-600. It is still unclear what exactly happened.
The main suspect in the attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels two years ago, Mehdi Nemmouche (30) remains in custody. Brussels chambers extended his arrest Thursday by two months, reports the federal prosecutor.
Salah Abdeslam goes to war against the French government because he does not want to be filmed 24 hours a day in the prison of Fleury-Merogis. The Belgian is the main suspect in the investigation into the deadly attacks in Paris on 13 November.
Vacationers this summer driving through France, faced with widely varying tolls on motorways. To the north is the levy on the highway than in the south and the toll per kilometer ranges from less than 3 to 53 cents, the French newspaper Le Figaro reported.
French police on Tuesday in Marseille put an end to a fight among Polish football fans before the match between Poland and Ukraine. Two Poles were arrested.
Soccer seems to be overshadowed during the European Championships in France by the many clashes between different groups of supporters. Also today it was time again. This time it was between supporters of Hungary and the police in the stadium before the match Iceland- Hungary at the Stade Velodrome in Marseille.
France certainly put twenty Russian hooligans of the country and among them is also the head of the official Russian fanorganisatie.
The far-right leader of the Association of Russian football fans France is thrown out violence during the European Championship match England- Russia in Marseille.
It continues until late Wednesday unrest in European Championship host city Lille. Groups English and Russian football fans pass through the French town. Dozens of hooligans throwing deck chairs, stones and fences.
Riots around the Stade Philip Mauroy Lille, where Russia and Slovakia today played their European Championship clash, are (as yet) materialized. Both before and after the game the atmosphere was especially cozy.
The morning of EURO city of Lille is quietly expired. After a few skirmishes yesterday and into the night, the atmosphere is today being conversational.
Problems remain provisionally Tuesday mostly in Euro-city of Lille, where the police late fees. A scuffle between English fans and a handful of Russians was nipped in the bud by heavily armored officers.
Problems still remain Tuesday in Euro-city of Lille, where the police late fees. Football fans seem to have left the center for the most part quiet.
French police have arrested 43 Russian football fans who were possibly involved in riots in Marseille.
While the violence is condemned worldwide by Russian hooligans in France, a leading member of the Russian Football aggressive football fans stabbed a shot in the arm.
Two English men Monday in Marseille to prison sentences of two and three months, convicted of their role in the violence in the French port around the opening of the European Football Championship. Both are not in France long after their imprisonment for two years.
The French government has decided to use alcohol and to ban the European Championship host cities for football fans. This decision was taken after violent riots around the match between England and Russia in Marseille last night.
