PARIS (AP) – Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions are scheduled to take place in it during the Paris Olympics, according to test results published Friday.
Contamination levels in the first eight days of June, after persistent heavy rain in Paris, showed bacteria such as E. coli and enterococci beyond limits judged safe for athletes.
The European Parliament elections saw over six in ten Muslims in France back the far-left party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who like other leading leftists in Europe has faced accusations of antisemitism and of cozying up to radical Islamists.
Only 16% of Britons would fight in a war to defend France, according to new UnHerd polling.
The survey, conducted by FocalData, polled 1,012 UK voters about foreign policy and defence, asking them which nations they would be willing to defend in an armed conflict. As Second World War veterans travel to Normandy to mark today’s 80th anniversary of D-Day, the UnHerd findings reveal that British gratitude is in short supply.
At least two French prison guards were shot dead and three others seriously injured on Tuesday after heavily armed men ambushed a prison van to free an inmate, French police said, triggering a major manhunt.
The orchestrated attack, which comes amid rising drug-linked violence across Europe, took place Tuesday morning at a toll booth in Incarville in northern France. The inmate and the attackers escaped, police said.
🔴 Vidéo de l'attaque du fourgon au péage d'Incarville (Eure), ce matin. Plusieurs agents pénitentiaires ont été tués par balles. Le détenu, Mohamed A., connu pour trafic de stupéfiants, s'est évadé. @Valeurs pic.twitter.com/UuQQKBy2QI
— Amaury Brelet (@AmauryBrelet) May 14, 2024
Wow! He’s named Mohammed!
Incarville : l'évadé serait Mohamed Amra. pic.twitter.com/yKJ7yed0PK
— Laurent Obertone (@LaurentObertone) May 14, 2024
Horrifying knifepoint sex attack is latest incident in neighbourhood where ‘attacks and rapes are part of daily life’
A knifepoint sex attack a short distance from where the Paris Olympics is set to take place this summer is the latest in a series of horrific assaults in an area where locals say they fear for their safety on a daily basis.
Place Auguste Baron in the north-east of the French capital has seen two women attacked and threatened with rape in the past two days, according to French media. The suspects in each case are said to have been crack addicts.
Last night, a woman who was walking home in the neighbourhood was pounced on by a man who she said had been tailing her for 500 yards, Le Parisien reports.
In Marseilles’s quartiers nord, teenage drug dealers have one decision to make: wait or run. The boys seem to languish in this perpetual state of flux.
Seventeen-year-old Benze is a chouf — French for lookout. Dressed head to toe in black, hood pulled up, with rainbow-reflective ski glasses hiding half of his face, he looks as if he should be in the Alps. Instead, Benze cuts a small figure dwarfed by a 15-storey tower block. The building looms monstrous and frightening above the plastic and gravel debris at ground level. He describes his role as though reading out a contract: “You can do either half-time or full-time. Part-time is from 11am to 5pm and full-time is from 11am until 2am.”
French police have used a knife to puncture an inflatable boat as it prepared to leave Dunkirk with dozens of migrants across the Channel to Britain.
One officer was photographed brandishing a knife, after slicing the boat to prevent the group of people from leaving.
The attempted crossing was thwarted at the beach of Graveline, near Dunkirk in northern France on Friday.
The southern French cities of Nice and Béziers are imposing night-time curfews for children under 13 amid rising public concern over youth violence, which has become a national political issue.
There have been a series of recent assaults involving minors. Two teenagers were charged with beating a 22-year-old man to death last week in Grande-Synthe, a suburb of the northern city of Dunkirk. Three weeks ago a 15-year-old boy died after being attacked by youths on his way home from school in Viry-Châtillon, a Paris suburb.
It’s a mystery who deez yutes is.
On Friday, April 20th, the French capital was the scene of street violence from the Afghan community. While the trouble went unnoticed by the mainstream press, the nation’s Right condemned the wilful blindness of the national media.
Afghan immigrants spent two days over the weekend destroying Paris and causing an estimated loss of millions.
Not a single French politician has spoken out and condemned.
The biggest news companies did not cover or report on the story.
There were no police interventions. pic.twitter.com/rsxgKxS2fl
— Klaus Arminius (@Klaus_Arminius) April 22, 2024
With the much anticipated Summer Olympic Games fast approaching, and with Macron’s deeply unpopular government scrambling both to ensure the security of international guests and conceal Paris’s visible degeneration, new crime figures show the capital city in a less-than-favorable light and call into question authorities’ ability to keep women safe.
The figures, recorded by Paris Police Headquarters, revealed that 77% of rape cases in the capital solved in 2023 had been committed by perpetrators who do not hold French passports, with the majority of sexual crimes transpiring in and around tourist areas like Champs de Mars—soon to be packed with visitors to the games.
A French teenager died from a heart attack during a lock-in to protect students from a knifeman attacking children outside their school.
The 14-year-old went into cardiac arrest early on Thursday afternoon as the attack unfolded in the town of Souffelweyersheim, in France’s northeastern Alsace region. She was taken to hospital but died later on Thursday.
The knifeman, who launched his assault outside the school about 2pm on Thursday, targeting two girls aged 11 and 7 before fleeing. The pair suffered minor injuries.
From Fdesouche Perp is a known loon … Google translate
The attacker was arrested shortly after 2:15 p.m. in the square. The man no longer had the knife in his hand and allowed himself to be questioned. According to the gendarmerie, Antoine M. is “not known to the services” , and his motivations “do not seem to be linked to radicalization” . Furthermore, the suspect, born in Strasbourg, presents a certain “mental fragility” , indicates a source close to the case who adds that the individual spent three stays in psychiatry and was followed by a psychiatrist.
The majority of French people aged between 18 and 25 are prepared to enlist in the armed forces to support Ukraine if the need arises, a new survey has revealed.
Some 62 per cent of young people are in favour of the establishment of a new compulsory military service, while 53 per cent back an increase of the French military’s resources.
Various factors are said to contribute to this apparent surge in the young’s willingness to sign up.
Knife attack in Bordeaux: an Algerian in a djellaba allegedly reproached a group of people of North African origin for “having a drink”; the assailant shot dead by the police
Red on red!
Stabbing attack reported in Bordeaux, France; suspect eliminated. pic.twitter.com/Th44SwDtBY
— hiiຖ໐iˢ (@chiIIum) April 10, 2024
h/t kiki9
A young woman was arrested in the eastern French city of Besançon and taken into custody for holding up a sign calling for the deportation of foreign rapists. She faces up to a year in prison. Her lawyer has stated that she intends to lodge a complaint for “infringement of personal freedom.”
Notre participation au défilé du carnaval de #besancon 👯♀️🪧🥳
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Pour nous soutenir : https://t.co/n276LgUgvt pic.twitter.com/nkvtdzb7y0— Enfant De France (@yona_nms) April 8, 2024
France’s schools are once again under shock. The principal of Maurice Ravel high school in eastern Paris resigned from his position following online threats subsequent to a confrontation with a student who refused to remove her hijabs while on school grounds, as required by the law.
The French have read this script before. In 2020, a young Chechen individual tragically took the life of the teacher Samuel Paty after the former had shared a cartoon of Muhammad during a discussion on freedom of speech. Previously, one of his students provided a highly provocative version of events to her parents, who then informed their neighbours, fellow believers, and local provocateurs. They labelled Paty an “Islamophobe,” putting a target on his back. The young Chechen came across the controversy and decided to take the matter into his own hands.
