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The trial of eight people accused of various roles in the October 2020 stabbing murder and beheading of school teacher Samuel Paty began this week in Paris. The killer, an 18-year-old Chechen, was shot dead by police at the scene of the attack, in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. (…)
France Insoumise election candidate Rima Hassan has received a police summons over possible “apology for terrorism” charges. She’s the latest of a string of pro-Palestine activists to face inquiries, in a blatant judicial offensive against Israel’s critics.
It’s a major escalation in France’s (…)
Ariane Lavrilleux, who reported on leaked documents alleging French intelligence used to target civilians in Egypt, is in custody
France has been accused of an unacceptable attack on press freedom after the arrest of an investigative journalist who reported on leaked documents that alleged (…)
In France, Macron’s government has just taken an unprecedented step in the repression of the social and environmental movements. On the 21st of June, the government decreed the disbanding of the movement (The Uprisings of the Earth) , which claims over 140,000 supporters and more than 150 local (…)
France’s interior minister has threatened to ban environmentalist groups said to represent a risk of “violence against property.” It’s part of a worrying clampdown on civil liberties that belies Emmanuel Macron’s supposedly “liberal” politics.
In the era of anti-“wokisme,” it’s been easy to (…)
Since mid-April, there has been a real change of pace in the social mobilization, which is exerting less pressure on Macron and his government. But hostility to pension reform, hostility to Macron and his government, has hardly diminished and all polls indicate a growing decline in public (…)
Recent years have seen growing calls for more accountable law enforcement in France — and an intense backlash from police unions. As the country votes in parliamentary elections, police leaders are openly refusing to accept the Left’s legitimacy.
There will be immense protests within the (…)
The Champions League final is one of the biggest events in world sports. UEFA and the French police turned it into a brutal, dangerous fiasco — and Emmanuel Macron’s ministers are lying through their teeth about what happened.
The Champions League final is meant to be the pinnacle of European (…)
The showcase event of European football, the final of the Champions League, was marred by numerous incidents at the Stade de France in the northern suburbs of Paris on Saturday night. Hundreds of Liverpool fans were ’kettled’, blocked at the entrance to the stadium, and then tear or pepper (…)
GENEVA (15 October 2021) – On the first anniversary of the murder of French school teacher Samuel Paty, UN experts paid tribute to his commitment to teaching human rights values and said the best way to honour him is to defy fundamentalism and defend human rights.
Mr. Paty was beheaded by an (…)
In the wake of recent terrorist attacks, France’s Macron government has announced a string of authoritarian measures which stigmatise Muslims and further undermine the country’s fragile civil liberties.
Last month, the horrific assassination of the teacher Samuel Paty by a young jihadist (…)
Two years since the start of France’s gilets jaunes movement, hundreds of arrested protesters are languishing in prison, and dozens are still coping with the loss of an eye or a limb. The Macron administration’s brutal crackdown brought a level of police violence not seen in decades — and (…)
The French president’s response to Islam is shot through with hypocrisy and illiberalism.
Letters complaining about newspaper articles are unexceptional. Not so letters from the Élysée Palace. Last week, the Financial Times published, after the killing of teacher Samuel Paty in Paris and of (…)
Well over a hundred prominent Indians from diverse backgrounds have today issued a statement condemning the Paris beheadings and deploring the outrageous statements by Muslim religious and political leaders. Among other things the statement read: “No God, gods, goddesses, prophets or saints may (…)
The attack on a church in the French Riviera city of Nice on Thursday, which left three people dead from knife wounds, was the third in the space of a month in a long series of terrorist attacks in France perpetrated by lone knifemen who have often escaped the attention of intelligence services. (…)
Less than two weeks after the beheading of a teacher in France, another horrific attack has left three dead in a church in Nice by a man reportedly of Tunisian descent. In response, President Emmanuel Macron claimed that France “is under attack” and, according to The Guardian, ordered the (…)
Muslim intellectuals and activists speaking at a webinar on Sunday condemned the Paris beheading of a school teacher, Samuel Paty, by an 18-year-old Muslim fanatic, Abdullakh Anzorov.
The webinar was organised by the Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD). Moderated by its convener, (…)
Religion struck another blow against freedom of thought with the vicious murder of a man whose mission was to civilise.
Since that fateful morning of 7 January 2015, and the Charlie Hebdo massacre, it sometimes feels as if we French are living our lives between terrorist assaults, each as (…)
Horror, shock, dread : this is what we feel faced with the assassination of Samuel Paty, who taught of history and geography at the Collège du Bois d’Aulne in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, by a fanatical murderer. This death is atrocious. It is atrocious in absolute terms, the death of a man killed (…)
On January 3rd 2020 deliveryman Cédric Chouviat, aged 42, was stopped on his scooter as part of a routine roadside police check in Paris, arrested, put in a chokehold then held face down on the pavement. His own mobile phone reveals that seven times he repeated the words “I’m suffocating” (…)
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