France

Foreigners account for a massive share of thefts, sexual violence, and robberies on Paris public transport in 2025, according to new government data.

According to compilations from the SSMSI data files, foreigners accounted in 2025 for 87 percent of simple thefts on Île-de-France public transport, 60 percent of robberies, and 38 percent of physical assault.

A Frenchwoman has described how migrants have made her terrified to stay in her home on the front line of the small-boat crisis, as she released CCTV of crowds swarming past in life jackets to catch dinghies bound for Britain.

Mother-of-two Héloïse Longuet, 44, said her 19th-century family farmhouse on the English Channel coast near Neufchâtel-Hardelot, south of Boulogne-sur-Mer, was now surrounded by young men living in illegal squats.

All have been drawn to the once quiet corner of northern France by criminals charging them around £1,000 a head for a place on an overcrowded inflatable heading for England.

Google translate from Fdesouche : Caen: Ibrahim I., a Chechen man, drove his car into a bus shelter, killing two people and injuring several others before fleeing the scene. A fight between two groups is believed to be the cause. The victims are reportedly from Egypt, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh.

From DW – France: Car rams crowd at bus stop in Caen

At least two people died and nine others were injured, six of them in life-threatening condition, after a car drove into a crowd in the northwestern French city of Caen on Wednesday.

“At this point we are not assuming a terrorist motive, but the investigation has only just begun,” deputy prosecutor Philippe Leonardo told journalists in the early hours of Thursday.

When I moved into Paris’s seventh arrondissement, I was not expecting to find myself living in one of the city’s dreaded no-go zones.

My neighbourhood, admittedly, is not one of the notorious districts on lists of forbidding no-go zones in the French capital’s bleak north end, plagued with crack houses and criminal gangs. I live in one of Paris’s poshest areas. The seventh arrondissement is known for its burnished boulevards and grand monuments. Every morning, I walk my two dogs on the Champ de Mars in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.

There was a time when the fate of Paris was inextricably linked to that of Gavroche, the street urchin imagined by Victor Hugo in his masterpiece Les Misérables–mischievous, irreverent, yet driven by an instinctive generosity that made him a paradoxical embodiment of the French people. The popular hero of our time is a certain Hamza, a slightly plump teenager who walks about bare-chested and sprays passers-by with a water pistol, demands a ‘toll’ from them to cross the Canal Saint-Martin–a branch of the Seine in the north-east of the capital–insults women with obscene vulgarity, provokes the police, films each of his provocations and turns his own delinquency into a daily soap opera on TikTok.

A French homeowner who opened his door to a family of illegal migrants out of compassion has been left with no access to his property after a year-long ordeal involving alleged threats, property damage, and a legal battle.

In the summer of 2025, a Mauritian couple with two young daughters approached 56-year-old Hervé from France’s Côtes-d’Armor region, asking if they could pitch a tent in the garden of the guest house he had spent years renovating. Moved by the children’s situation, Hervé decided to help.

The demographic rise of migrants, overwhelmingly Muslims from North Africa, continues apace in France, and instead of alarm over this “great replacement,” the far-left party of La France Insoumise (LFI), which the Communist Jean-Luc Mélenchon leads, celebrates this change. More on this horror can be found here: “‘You Lost!’ Leftist French Lawmaker Celebrates Demographic Decline of White Population,” by Kurt Zindulka, Breitbart, June 27, 2026…