
PARIS (AFP) – France plans to change the constitution to allow it to extend a state of emergency “to a maximum of six months”, government sources said Thursday. They said the legal framework to extend special powers beyond the current three-month
by AFP3 Dec 2015, 1:59 AM PST0

Authorities in France have arrested a man with links to an Islamic State (IS) jihadist in Syria over a plot to attack military personnel at a major naval base, police and judicial sources said Tuesday. The 25-year-old, whom sources said
by AFP11 Nov 2015, 1:47 AM PST0

A gunman who was overpowered by passengers during a shooting incident on a train had been under French police surveillance after foreign security services identified him as dangerous, a source with knowledge of the case and local media said. The
by Reuters22 Aug 2015, 3:20 AM PST0

The Air Products factory near Grenoble was attacked by two Islamists who rammed it with a car before detonating explosives. A decapitated body was found at the scene along with an Islamist flag. The body had a message written on
by Breitbart News26 Jun 2015, 5:40 AM PST0

Despite maintaining the deployment of legions of soldiers on the streets of French cities, a senior defence official has admitted the threat hasn’t diminished – and isn’t going away anytime soon. Speaking to English-language news service theLocal.fr, an anonymous official has
by Oliver Lane23 Mar 2015, 7:18 AM PST0

On Sunday, at the Grand Synagogue in Paris, some of the loudest applause at a memorial for four Jews killed by Islamic terrorists in a kosher supermarket came when one of the speakers reminded President François Hollande that there is no difference between “Death to the Jews!” and “Death to Israel!” For years, the French elite has pretended it can tolerate the latter without encouraging the former. That attitude is what allowed French antisemitism to flourish like an evil weed.
by Joel B. Pollak12 Jan 2015, 8:26 AM PST0