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.
The French government has called for calm after riots broke out in the city of Nantes. Protesters clashed there with the police after a young motorist was shot by an agent.
Approximately 2500 gendarmes started Monday with the evacuation of a large site near Nantes where a new airport was planned. An estimated 250 squatters are still entrenched on the site in Notre-Dame-des-Landes. French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb has said that this lawless zone is now being lifted.
The French government has drawn a line through controversial plans to build a new airport near the village of Notre-Dame-des-Landes in the west of France. According to Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, there was no support for the approximately 580 million euro project.
Heavy rains have led to floods and many damage in parts of France. French media reported Monday that since 1880 in Paris no so much rain has fallen in such a short period of time. About 50 millimeters dropped down in the city on Sunday evening.
Bus drivers in French Nantes go massively in a skirt for their work this week. This to protest against the ban on shorts imposed by their boss. Due to the tropical temperatures it is impossible for the drivers to wear long pants.
French police on Wednesday at a farm in Brittany mortal remains of members of a French family murdered four people. The remains and jewelry were at the farm of the brother of the father. Who has confessed that he killed the family.
A family member is known to have killed a French family of four people. A lingering conflict over an inheritance within the family would underlie the killings, French media reported Monday. The family of Orvault in Nantes since February 16 was missing. Only surfaced in the west of Brittany are some tracks, such as the car of the son, trouser daughter and a book by the father.
French police across the country in search of a vanished family. Since 16 or 17 February, there was no trace of the 49-year-old father Pascal Troadec, his wife Brigitte (56) and their son Sébastien (21) and daughter Charlotte (18). The children studied elsewhere and no longer lived with their parents in a village on the outskirts of Nantes, but also disappeared.
In the center of the French city of Nantes demonstrations Saturday afternoon against Marine Le Pen led to violent riots. According to French media, there were about 2,000 to 3,000 demonstrators in the leg. Storefronts were pelted with paint bombs and missiles. The police dropped tear gas to disperse the rioters.
A woman is Friday afternoon in Nantes, died in the west of France when she was hit on the sidewalk by a collapsing wall. The spacious three-meter-high building collapsed in a violent gust of wind, evidenced by an initial police investigation.
The fuel shortage at petrol stations in France will continue for days noticeable after buckling of the most fuel depots. AA reports that in response to the removal of barriers raised by protesters Friday.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has suggested Thursday on the eighth day of fierce protests against his Labour amendments to that bill. It is still possible to change the text of the bill and improve Valls said in an interview on TV. But he added that there,, the spirit of the law '' should not be affected.
Wednesday in the series of protests against the renewal of the French labor manifests a group that rarely goes to the streets: the police. Agents have enough of the anti-flic'-violence in the increasingly violent demonstrations.
French road, this week conducted by the trade union action against the new labor law.
A ring that's been in all probability the legendary Joan of Arc, is the subject of legal battles between France and England.
Protesting farmers Monday blocked the highway from Nantes to Brest in Brittany place Lorient. French police have negotiated with protesters and so far they had to promise that after lunch, at 14:00 lift the blockade, French media reported.
