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Thousands of people took to the streets Lyon in France on Saturday to protest against the alleged Antifa mob killing of a conservative Catholic student earlier this month.

A man who should have been deported in 2022 was arrested, critics of the government pointed to failure by the state to protect the public. 

A Jewish woman was stabbed in her home in Lyon, France and had a Swastika engraved on her front door in a potential antisemitic attack.

In a sign that the protests against Macron do not appear to be going away, some 782,000 people poured onto the streets of France on Monday.

Four young teenagers were arrested in Lyon this week after allegedly sexually abusing and robbing two women in a local park as the women were out jogging at the time.

A French church in the commune of Champagne-au-Mont-d’Or in the suburbs of Lyon was vandalised this week, with paintings and statues smashed.

Following the French loss in the World Cup on Sunday, riots broke out across parts of the country, leading to 227 arrests. 

A Moroccan man was arrested by French police while carrying the head of his father, who he is believed to have decapitated with a knife. 

A 46-year-old man was shot dead at a nude beach near Lyon by a 76-year-old nudist after the victim allegedly masturbated in front of a woman.

Far-left extremists protested and rioted in multiple French cities following the election victory of President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday.

French prosecutors opened an investigation following riots involving far-left extremists after the first round of the presidential election. 

The French government has moved to dissolve an Antifa group over calls for violence against police and violent actions.

A French teen who was subjected to a torrent of death threats for her criticism of Islam was allegedly sexually assaulted by a migrant. 

After weeks of death threats, a member of populist Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) was shot by unknown assailants in a suburb of the city of Lyon. National Rally member Enzo Dubois, a supporter of French presidential candidate Marine Le

Two men have been sentenced to several years in prison after taking part in the lynching of an off-duty police officer.

Authorities say 874 cars were burned and 441 people were arrested on New Year’s Eve, a time traditionally associated with violence in France.

Seven far-left extremist Antifa militants have been taken arrested in the city of Lyon for allegedly physically assaulting a man at a protest against vaccine passports late last month.

A French Uber delivery driver was stabbed in the stomach and hospitalised last week in the department of the Rhône after a man attempted to steal his scooter.

French police are investigating a far-left Antifa extremist after he praised the Nigerian Islamist terror group Boko Haram.

Despite coronavirus lockdown restrictions on New Year’s Eve, cities across France saw urban violence, dozens of cars set on fire, and one man killed after being decapitated by fireworks.

LYON, France (AP) – French police on Sunday released an initial suspect in the shooting of a Greek Orthodox priest and widened their search for the gunman who critically wounded the priest as he closed the door to his official residence at a church in the city of Lyon.

LYON — An Armenian association in France expressed outrage Sunday after a memorial centre to the mass killings of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire was defaced with pro-Turkish slogans.

LYON, France (AP) – French police interrogated one suspect and searched for others Sunday after a Greek Orthodox priest was shot and critically wounded while closing the door to his church in the French city of Lyon.

Nigel Farage has reacted to the shooting of a Greek Orthodox priest at a church in Lyon, France, by saying that “Every terror attack in France is another reason to vote Trump.”

A gunman is on the run after a Greek Orthodox priest was shot at a church in Lyon, France, according to reports.

A town mayor is receiving protection from the national government after threats to behead him were painted on walls, the menacing messages coming just days after a teacher was decapitated in a Paris suburb.

Residents in so-called “vulnerable” neighbourhoods in French cities are organising to put pressure on the government to act against urban violence and disruption from local “youths”.

VILLEURBANNE, France (AP) – Police detained an Afghan man seeking asylum in France after one person was fatally stabbed and nine others injured Saturday outside a subway station in a suburb of Lyon, authorities said. The reason for the attack was unclear.

A French homosexual couple in the city of Lyon was hospitalised after a mob of around 20 people attacked them in what is being considered a homophobic incident.

Lyon bombing suspect Mohamed Hichem M. has confessed to the terror bombing that injured 13 on Friday, and according to French television, has pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State. 

French media reports that the suspect in the Lyon, France, package bombing is an illegal immigrant from Algeria.

(AFP) — French police were pulling out all the stops on Saturday to locate a suspect following a blast in the heart of Lyon that wounded 13 people.

At least eight are reported injured after a blast ripped through a street in Lyon, France Friday afternoon. French President Emmanuel Macron has called the incident an “attack”.

Police in the French commune of Vaulx-en-Velin near Lyon made a shocking discovery over the weekend when they found a military-grade rocket launcher in the boot of a car.

Police arrested a 32-year-old suspect in the early hours of Friday morning after a vehicle struck anti-terror barriers in the French city of Nimes, injuring two.

French celebrations over the national football team’s World Cup victory on Sunday quickly turned to violence, with street clashes, vandalism, attacks on police, and scenes of looting in cities across the country.