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    • Saturday, 18 November, 2023
      News in-depth
      Paris quayside booksellers dig in for Olympics battle

      Police order traders to temporarily vacate hundreds of historic stalls for opening ceremony on river Seine

    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      France
      France investigates possible Russian link to Stars of David graffiti

      Foreign ministry accuses pro-Moscow website of highlighting incidents that have been portrayed as antisemitic

      People walk by Stars of David tagged on a wall in Paris
    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Terrorism in France
      Police shoot veiled woman in Paris train station

      France on high alert for terror attacks as authorities fear contagion from Israel-Hamas war

      Police gather at a Paris metro station after passengers reported a woman wearing a full-body veil allegedly shouting ‘Allahu akbar’ and threatening to detonate a bomb
    • Tuesday, 24 October, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      Parlez-vous Parisian? How to speak like a local in the French capital

      A crash course in an ever-shifting dialect that expresses the city’s cosmopolitan cool. Wesh!

      Cartoon of people speaking French words
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      FT Magazine
      The theme park where France rewrites its history

      Deep in the woods of La Vendée, something patriotic is stirring

      Knights, horses and maidens in a medieval show at Puy Du Fou
    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Israel-Hamas war hits close to home for Europe’s Muslims

      Communities fear Islamophobic backlash, while conflict and recent Islamist attacks empower the far right

      A protester holds Palestinian and Syrian flags during a demonstration in Toulouse, France on October 12
    • Sunday, 15 October, 2023
      News in-depthIsrael-Hamas war
      Israel-Hamas war unleashes wave of antisemitism in Europe

      Jews on the continent fear they could become a target of Muslim anger

      A demonstrator holding a placard saying ‘Free Palestine’
    • Saturday, 9 September, 2023
      News in-depth
      Notorious French robber blames ‘ennui’ for helicopter jailbreak

      Rédoine Faïd is on trial for masterminding his second prison escape in a decade

      A collage consisting images of Rédoine Faïd, a helicopter, a security guard and the damaged door of Sequedin prison after Faid’s escape
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Rugby
      France aims to put on a show as Rugby World Cup kicks off

      Ahead of the 2024 Olympics, officials strive to banish doubts over security following last year’s Champions League final

      French President Emmanuel Macron, centre, huddles with players fromteh French national rugby team ‘les Bleus’
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      France
      Police officers charged over death of man in France riots

      Prosecutors say further investigation needed to determine if use of force was proportionate

      Protesters clash with police in July following the death of Nahel Merzouk in Nanterre
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      France
      France cracks down on fireworks used in clashes with police

      Action taken following nationwide unrest sparked by fatal shooting of teenager during traffic stop

      Fireworks explode near French police during clashes with rioters in the Paris suburb of Nanterre last week
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
      French riots show how entrenched inequalities have become

      The gulf between immigrants and those born in the country is larger than in almost any other developed nation

      Rear view of a French policeman in riot gear with graph lines showing disparity between immigrant and native-born employment
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      FT MagazineSimon Kuper
      Hope for the Parisian suburbs

      The banlieues have seen riots in recent weeks but there are reasons for optimism

    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      France
      ‘Where is the justice?’: French rioters jailed in fast-track trials 

      Courts work overtime as the government demands firm response to unrest

      A man is detained by police in the Champs Élysées area of Paris on Sunday after days of rioting
    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      French politics
      Macron walks tightrope with French police after teenager’s death

      Law enforcement tactics under scrutiny after shooting of 17-year-old and the rioting that followed

      French riot police walk next to an overturned vehicle in Nanterre during the fifth day of protests
    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      French businesses start rebuilding after riot ‘nightmare’

      Macron says will push through emergency law to accelerate reconstruction for damaged property

      A municipal employee helps with the clear-up outside a looted shop in Lyon
    • Tuesday, 4 July, 2023
      Shahin Vallée
      France’s policing needs profound and immediate reform

      The recent unrest shows the extent to which empowerment of a flawed force has failed

      Riot police stand next to a burning bin in Marseille. Fear of public disorder and the reality of terrorist threats have pressured successive governments to expand the police arsenal, increase the number of officers and weaken their accountability
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      France
      French unrest eases after six nights of protests

      Violence after police shooting of Nahel Merzouk wanes but minister says continued disorder ‘will be met with strength’

      French soldiers patrol around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Monday morning
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      Europe Express
      What the French riots mean for the Franco-German relationship Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Spain’s culture war over bicycle lanes

      A burning motorbike is seen during the fifth day of protests following the death of Nahel, a 17-year-old teenager killed by a French police officer in Nanterre during a traffic stop, in Paris, France
    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      French politics
      Macron meets ministers to thrash out response to unrest

      Parisian authorities set to deploy 7,000 extra police officers in French capital

      Riot police in Nanterre on Saturday, whto siere Nahel’s family buried him in a private funeral at a hilltop cemetery
    • Sunday, 2 July, 2023
      News in-depthFrench politics
      Police killing of teenager reopens old wounds for France’s minorities

      Residents of the ‘banlieues’ say the 17-year-old’s death showed that little had changed since the serious disturbances of 2005

    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      Instant InsightBen Hall
      Riots underscore depth of France’s social tensions

      The death of a teenager at the hands of the police presents Emmanuel Macron with a new challenge

      A protester throws an object at police in Nanterre. The latest protests demonstrate that France’s impoverished, ethnically-mixed neighbourhoods remain a powder keg
    • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
      France
      France deploys extra police as anger grows over teenager’s death

      Clashes erupt across country for a second night after fatal shooting

      Riot police walk near burnt cars
    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      France
      Protests break out in France after police shoot teenage driver

      President Emmanuel Macron calls killing ‘inexplicable and inexcusable’

      A vehicle set alight by protesters in Nanterre, Paris, on Tuesday night following the shooting of a 17-year-old driver
    • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
      French politics
      French unions keep up pressure on Macron over pensions

      President stands firm on unpopular reform, betting resistance from opposition parties and unions will fade

      French police officers charge against protesters during clashes at the annual May Day march in Paris on Monday
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