A fire in an electrical installation caused major disruption at the French capital Paris. Thus the important Montparnasse train station came without electricity, causing thousands of travelers to get stranded.
The former bodyguard of the French president, who is the center of a political riot, acknowledges that he has made a 'big mistake'. The dismissed security man Alexandre Benalla also said that opponents of Emmanuel Macron exaggerate the magnitude of the incident to damage the president.
Three weeks after his spectacular escape from prison, the first traces of the notorious French criminal Rédoine Faïd were found. Detectives have identified him on images of security camera's of a shopping center in Sarcelles, a suburb of Paris.
The security guard of French President Emmanuel Macron, who was fired for striking a demonstrator, is being prosecuted. He must account for the use of force in the court and pretend to be a policeman while he was not.
A security guard of the French president Emmanuel Macron, who had already been suspended for being a demonstrator in Paris in May, is being fired. The office of the president announced that this happens because 'new facts' have come to light.
An employee of the French president Emmanuel Macron has been suspended for more than two weeks because he has been a demonstrator in Paris. On video images on social media you can see how the man who wears a police helmet, together with agents, overpowers a demonstrator.
The Belgian police have fired an inspector who himself would have made a threatening letter from terrorist group IS. The man would have posted the document two weeks after the attacks in Paris at the gate of the police station.
Paris seems a day after the World Cup finals in a disaster area rather than a place where it is cheerfully celebrated that the country has conquered the world title for the second time in history.
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.
In Paris, rioters plundered a shop on the Champs-Elysées. The wheelchairs, often dressed in hood, took bottles of wine and champagne.
After the final whistle sounded from the finals of the World Cup, the French capital Paris changed into a collective party. Also in the country millions of French people went to celebrate that their country is the best.
France has decided to include 78 refugees who were on the rescue ship Aquarius. That was what the French Ministry of Home Affairs announced. The ship brought the refugees to the Spanish Valencia at the beginning of this month, after it had been refused by Italy.
If you are attending your work day after the World Cup fiasco in Belgium in the Brussels metro, the French hymn suddenly sounds out of the speakers. That lot had to endure hundreds of balding football fans the day after the elimination by France (1-0).
A French judge seized 2 million euros that would be granted on Monday as a subsidy to the Rassemblement National, the new name of the Front National of Marine Le Pen. She therefore accuses the justice department of turning the party around for political reasons. The \u0026 rassemblement \u0026 # x27; (cooperation alliance) would be through his money at the end of August.
The French Air Safety Investigation Board casts doubt on Egypt's conclusions about the incident of the air crash with EgyptAir's aircraft in 2016. According to the research council (BEA), a fire has most likely caused the Airbus to be taken on board in the Mediterranean with 66 people. collapsed.
The Iranian-Belgian couple who planned an attack in the French Villepinte last Saturday at a meeting of the opposition party MEK, which was banned in Iran. That has been determined by the court in Antwerp.
A famous etching by Rembrandt has changed ownership at the Christie's auction house in London for 3 million euros. It is a version of Ecce Homo. Then the Dutch master from the 17th century depicted the biblical story about Pontius Pilate, who lets the people of Jerusalem decide whether Jesus should be executed or spared.
Jawad Bendaoud, who in 2015 made an apartment available to the perpetrators of the bloody attacks in Paris in November 2015, is once again behind bars. According to French media, Bendaoud was arrested Wednesday evening in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. He would have wanted a fight with agents and had marijuana in his pocket.
The man on his way to Paris to commit an attack works in the port of Rotterdam.
France has freed 2900 agents for hunting the infamous criminal Redoine Faïd who escaped from a prison south of Paris. The police outside France were also asked to look out for the man.
The Belgian justice and police have thwarted a terrorist attack in France according to Belgian media. They intercepted a couple of Iranian descent in the Brussels municipality of Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, which would have wanted to strike a meeting of an Iranian opposition party near Paris.
The French president Macron has surprisingly come up with a house and techno party in his official residence, the Elysée.
In Iran, Saturday night protested against the continuing shortage of drinking water. The police used tear gas, there was a wounded person. It has been hot in Iran for days with temperatures of over 45 degrees.
A year after her death, the former French politician and female rights activist Simone Veil was buried together with her Antoine in the Pantheon, the civilian temple in Paris. President Emmanuel Macron said that Simone Veil was a woman who made 'France bigger and stronger'.
One of the most dangerous gangsters in France, the 46-year old Rédoine Faïd, has once again escaped from prison. He was helped by three men, who armed in the visitors' room and took the detainee with him. The helicopter was ready.
The French political family Le Pen has reconciled to celebrate the birthday of Father Jean-Marie. He recently became ninety. According to French media, his daughters Marine and Marie-Caroline accepted an invitation for a big birthday party, Saturday evening, where hundreds of guests are expected.
For months he has been silent, but Salah Abdeslam on Thursday nevertheless talked to a French investigating judge about the attacks in Paris. He spoke the massacre, where he participated but did not detonate his bombguard. That reports RTL France.
Special units of the police and fire brigade got a man from the top of a bell tower in the heart of Paris on Thursday. According to Parisian media, the 'church tower' climber provided 'surrealistic scenes' on top of the Saint-Eustache church, because he had brought a harp and a large kite. With this he installed himself at the top of the building in the first district of the city.
Ten French people are suspected of preparing terrorist attacks against Muslim compatriots. The nine men and a woman aged 32 to 69 were arrested in several parts of the country last weekend. French media report this after their opening for the investigating judge on Thursday.
