Marseille

Anti-Macron activists were arrested in Marseille after an explosion was set off outside a police station, injuring one officer.

A residential building in Marseille collapsed in a loud explosion early Sunday followed by a fire deep within the rubble that hindered rescue.

A 25-year-old illegal migrant from Senegal was arrested in Marseilles after allegedly raping a 64-year-old woman who had allowed him to come into her home from the street.

The family of a 22-year-old American college student reported him missing after not hearing from him while he was studying at the University Grenoble Alpes in France.

Two North African migrants, one already subject to a deportation order, were arrested this week after ramming a French police vehicle and injuring four officers.

A man on the French terrorist watchlist was arrested in Marseille after brandishing a large knife and threatening passers-by in the street.

The French city of Arles near Marseille has constructed a concrete block wall outside of a local school in an effort to protect students from stray gunfire after a 15-year-old was fatally shot last month. The wall, which is being

In an effort to become more inclusive and welcoming to LGBT people, the French city of Marseille is moving to scrap mother and father from civil documents and replace the terms with “parent 1” and “parent 2”. The city of

An Algerian illegal who shouted “Allah is great!” in a cathedral while carrying a knife already had multiple orders to leave the country.

Twelve Nigerian men and two women were sentenced between two and nine years by a French court for trafficking at least forty women for sex, often using witchcraft and voodoo beliefs to control their victims.

Police officers in Marseille, France, were targetted by alleged Kalashnikov rifle fire over the weekend as a union official described part of the city as being like a warzone.

Despite being shot in gang-related violence, a man was caught and arrested for dealing drugs from his hospital bed by police. 

Three men in the city of Marseille have been taken into custody by police after allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in the middle of the street earlier this month.

The movement against vaccine passports in France grew to over 150 cities on Saturday, with with 150,000 protesting against health passes.

A high-speed train was targeted by gunfire in Marseille, France, shortly before entering the Marseille-Saint-Charles railway station.

Two men, one a migrant with a deportation order, sexually assaulted a teenage female lifeguard on a French beach while bystanders reportedly did nothing to help.

A mosque in Marseille has been ordered to close several times over the last five years by authorities but continues to refuse to obey orders. 

PARIS (AP) – Police in the French city of Marseille detained a man Friday who was wielding a knife outside a Jewish school and kosher market. Surveillance of Jewish sites in the city has been increased while they investigate his motives, according to local authorities.

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”.

PARIS (AP) — The head of France’s national health service says Paris and Marseilles have been declared at-risk zones for the coronavirus as authorities observe a sharp increase in infections.

PARIS (AP) – Fires fueled by strong Mediterranean winds have raced across multiple towns in the Marseilles region of France, leaving at least 22 people injured, destroying several businesses and forcing the evacuation of 2,700 tourists, nursing home residents and others.

Doctors have blamed a surge in new coronavirus cases in the southern city of Marseilles on people coming to France from North Africa.

The assailant who stabbed several people in a frenzied knife attack in central Marseille this week chose his victims on the basis of their nationality, according to reports.

Over one hundred high schools across France have been blocked or otherwise disrupted, with a fire seriously damaging one school in Toulouse, as students protest education reforms.

An 80-year-old woman has died after she was hit in the face with tear gas grenade pellets during Yellow Vest protests in Marseille, France.

MARSEILLE, France (AP) – Two buildings collapsed into a giant pile of rubble and beams Monday in the southern French city of Marseille, leaving two people lightly hurt and authorities speaking of a race against time to find survivors possibly

A French court in Marseille has convicted 19 people belonging to a drug selling network that was led by a man who specialised in educating people about drug addiction. The 19 members of the network were handed down sentences of between

A self-confessed Muslim male was arrested on terror charges in Marseille after climbing onto a promontory by the coast and declaring the area solely for Muslims, threatening to kill police who later arrived on the scene.

French police responding to the sound of gunshots in the “sensitive” Marseille neighbourhood of Busserine Monday afternoon were confronted by a number of gun-carrying men who fired their weapons before fleeing, triggering a manhunt in the city. 

The deportation of notorious radical Islamic Salafist hate preacher Imam El Hadi Doudi from France to his native Algeria was halted at the last minute this week by an intervention from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

Two American women were rushed to hospital on Sunday after a woman sprayed hydrochloric acid in their faces.

Large numbers of French police officers and soldiers have been deployed to the port of Marseille in the south of France after a truck crashed into two separate bus stops within the course of an hour, killing one.

MARSEILLE (AFP) – A synagogue in Marseille is to be converted into a mosque, reflecting demographic shifts in the southern French city, a Jewish leader has told AFP.

France’s chief rabbi was among Jewish leaders who rejected a call for men and boys to stop wearing skullcaps, after a string of anti-Semitic attacks in the southern city of Marseille. Zvi Ammar, the leader of Marseille’s Jewish community, earlier

French-born actor Gerard Depardieu seemingly has no plans to return to live in his former home country.