Lawyer says arrest is unjustified as his client was interviewed and cleared in 2015 French investigators have extended the police custody of a man being questioned over the unsolved murder of three members of a British-Iraqi family and a French cyclist…
French far right’s new face: the meteoric rise of Éric Zemmour
The controversial TV pundit recently overtook Marine Le Pen in presidential election opinion pollsHe has been convicted for inciting racial hatred, attacked by historians for claiming the Nazi collaborator Marshal Philippe Pétain saved French Jews rath…
French Catholic church expresses ‘shame’ after report finds 330,000 children were abused
Church asks for forgiveness as it accepts findings of ‘appalling’ abuse by clergy and lay members over 70 yearsThe French Catholic church has expressed “shame” and pleaded for forgiveness, after a devastating report found that at least 330,000 children…
Nicolas Sarkozy given jail sentence for illegal campaign financing
Former French president to appeal against one-year term that could be served at home with electronic tagThe former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to a second jail term after being found guilty of illegal campaign financing for the …
‘Eco-feminist’ shocks French politics in bid for Greens’ presidency
Sandrine Rousseau says people want politicians to be braver when it comes to tackling the climate crisisHer radical “punk ecology” has won support among activists on the left and been attacked by the far right as dangerous to the French nation. But San…
Far-right journalist quits French TV show amid election rumours
Éric Zemmour is about to begin a book tour, but has not yet announced his candidacy for presidentThe French far-right journalist and commentator Éric Zemmour has stepped down from his nightly TV show, heightening speculation that he could make an outsi…