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Arson is suspected by investigators after a fire broke out at the cathedral of Saint-Pol-de-Léon on Thursday evening in what could be just the latest arson attack on a Roman Catholic church in France. The fire is believed to have broken

A group of migrants are alleged to have set a detention facility on fire this week after what was claimed to be a coordinated action.

The head of the national electricity grid in France has warned that power cuts are still likely during the winter months.

A Calais fisherman claims to have witnessed people smugglers pushing migrants into the waters of the English Channel.

France has released 343 convicted terrorists from prison, with those still considered threats placed under supervision. 

The Mayor of Calais, a French gateway for illegal migration to Britain, says the crisis will not improve because the British refuse to make themselves less “welcoming”.

The British government will hand the French government tens of millions to stop boat migrants yet again, but has attached no target for a reduction in crossings and is refusing to say whether it thinks the policy will even work.

Migrants were filmed clashing with French police, throwing rocks at officers as they were apparently preparing to try cross the Channel.

Despite promising to take in 3,500 migrants from other European Union countries, France has received just 38 people since June — and will not take any more after Italy rejected port access to an NGO’s migrant “taxi” ship.

An Afghan migrant was arrested over the fatal stabbing of a young 19-year-old woman after he allegedly confessed to his victim’s father.

The ongoing war in Ukraine is “not in the interest” of Europe, a French General has claimed, saying that the continent has aligned itself too much with American interests on the issue.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday formally announced the “end of the Barkhane operation,” France’s decade-long mission against jihadis in the Sahel region of Africa.

The number of murders and attempted murders in France between known criminals is up 25% this year, with violence linked to drug trafficking.

A terrorist watchlist Tunisian migrant banned from entering Europe was arrested in the no-go Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis on Sunday. 

The NGO migrant “taxi” ship Ocean Viking has called on France, Spain, and Greece – but apparently no African or Middle Eastern countries – to find them a port to drop off over 200 migrants after Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi refused access to Italian ports.

Salah Abdeslam the only surviving member of the terrorist cell that carried out the 2015 Bataclan massacre in Paris and has been sentenced to life in prison was married this week by telephone.

A Congolese migrant with a deportation order from France who has been convicted of rape multiple times since 2000 has again been arrested for sexual assault, just two months after leaving prison.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin is considering removing social benefits from illegals who have been ordered to leave France. 

Spain and France were forced to shut down flights at several airports as an out of control 24 tonne Chinese rocket hurtled back towards Earth. 

Interior Minister Darmanin said those given deportation orders should also go on the criminal wanted list to better facilitate their removal.

Riots broke out in several cities in Scotland, Germany, Austria and several cities and towns in France on Halloween.

The number of inmates in French prisons has reached a record high as crime continues to surge.

61 officers were injured, 22 of them seriously, after clashes with ‘eco-terrorists’ demonstrating against the building of a new reservoir. 

Leftist leaders of free governments and authoritarian regimes around the world rapidly sent messages of congratulations and support to socialist convicted felon Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for narrowly winning Brazil’s presidential election against incumbent conservative Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday.

During a speech to the French parliament, President Emmanuel Macron admitted that around half of the delinquency in Paris involves illegal immigrants.

Over a year after his arrest for the murder of a French priest, Rwandan migrant Emmanuel Abayisenga has been indicted by a French prosecutor.

Prosecutors are investigating after the father of a six-year-old girl allegedly assaulted a 16-year-old migrant male.

A teen accused of stabbing a 39-year-old man to death had already been arrested for another stabbing in May but was released pending trial. 

Two fibre optic cables have been severed in the last week, disrupting phone networks and internet data, fuelling speculation of sabotage.

An attack by a mob of alleged far-left extremists in the no-go Paris suburbs left officers injured after they were pelted with projectiles.

As American medical officials are encouraging gender transitions for children, British doctors are placing heavy restrictions on transition drugs and procedures for all persons under 18 years old.

A man subject to a deportation order from France was arrested after he publicly yelled “Allahu akbar” in the street while carrying a knife. 

French media have fact-checked claims by conservative and populist politicians that 88 to 90 per cent of deportations in France are not carried out and found that the true figure is actually even worse.

As many as six in ten people would support placing every single illegal immigrant into a detention facility, potentially 700,000 migrants.

A government bill attempting to enshrine the right to an abortion within the French constitution has been rejected by the country’s Senate.

Mayhem broke out at cost of living protests in Paris on Tuesday, with rioters clashing with police and smashing windows.