Tag: France

On December 30, 2022, French authorities were conducting a security checkpoint outside of the Strasbourg Saint-Denis metro station in Paris when they stopped a vehicle for a routine check. Upon inspecting the vehicle, officers discovered a suitcase in the trunk that contained wires and antennas, according to the French...

Update (0938 EST): French government officials are postulating that this morning's attack which has now killed three and injured five, one critically, is an act of terror. The suspect was released from prison eleven days ago. The suspect was detained in December 2021 for attacking Bercy migrant camp with...

On December 10th, at around 6 p.m., 200 environmental activists suddenly stormed and "invaded" a Lafarge company cement factory of La Malle in Bouc-Bel-Air in the Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southern France. Infrastructure at the plant was reportedly attacked using a variety of methods, including: sabotage of incinerators...

French Presidential election polls have conclusively projected French President Emmanuel Macron as winning against his opponent Marine Le Pen, turnout on Sunday was 2 percentage points lower than the 2017 election, according to the Interior Ministry, with an abstention rate of 28%, the highest since 1969 said Reuters. Macron's...

France has announced that senior Al-Qaeda Emir Yahia Djouadi was killed during an overnight operation last month north of Timbuktu, Mali, that was carried out by ground forces backed by a Tiger attack helicopter and two drones. Djouadi has a prominent figure in Algerian Jihad back in the 1990s,...