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A 63-year-old Congolese migrant was arrested by police after allegedly raping a 92-year-old resident in a nursing home where he was employed.

Residents in the no-go Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis have received three times the number of fines for breaking Wuhan coronavirus lockdown measures than the French national average.

French police arrested a journalist in Paris aboard the Eurostar train from London after the man exhibited erratic behaviour and threatened officers with scissors.

The heavily migrant-populated 18th arrondissement is seeing 200+ violations of anti-coronavirus lockdown measures daily as authorities struggle to keep residents off the streets.

Police in Paris no-go zones are becoming overwhelmed trying to maintain the nationwide quarantine and have handed out record numbers of fines.

Despite orders from French President Emmanuel Macron to remain in their homes, members of the public in various parts of Paris were observed gathering in large crowds on Tuesday.

The Chinese embassy in Paris has lodged complaints, stating that Chinese nationals have been scammed with fake fines by fraudsters pretending to be enforcing Islamic veil laws on those wearing masks.

Paris – US rapper Kanye West was at the centre of a storm Monday after a Paris show by an acclaimed transgender performer was cancelled at the last minute to make way for one of his religious services.

The Louvre Museum closedMonday as management met with staff worried about the spread of the new virus in the world’s most-visited museum.

Police and crime figures obtained by French media suggest that within the Paris region, around 40 per cent of suspects involved in crimes are born overseas.

Macron’s Paris mayoral candidate has withdrawn from the race after “compromising videos”, reportedly of a sexual nature, emerged online. 

An Algerian migrant has been arrested by police in Paris after breaking into a house owned by Julie Gayet, the partner of former French President Francois Hollande. Police were alerted to a break-in at the home of the couple at

The Democrats have opened the Iowa caucuses to include voters living overseas in cities like Glasgow, Scotland and Paris, France.

Police cleared 1,436 migrants from a makeshift migrant camp in northern Paris this week in what marks the 60th ejection of migrants from the area since 2015.

Donald Trump has expressed faith in Notre Dame, stating its completion would give “glory to God” and fill millions of people with wonder.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Paris on Sunday, protesting a proposed law on artificial insemination and surrogate motherhood.

Dozens of protesters blocked the entrance to the Louvre museum and forced the famous Paris landmark to close Friday while they denounced the French government’s plans to overhaul the pension system.

Schools in the Paris suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis are increasing meditation workshops in an effort to help reduce violence on campus. 

France commemorates the fifth anniversary of the attack that killed nine of its editorial staff, a guard, a visitor, and a patrol officer.

Government and unions appeared far apart after talks resumed Tuesday over proposed pension reforms that have triggered record-setting strikes.

PARIS (AP) – The French general overseeing the reconstruction of fire-devastated Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is not saved yet because there’s still a risk its vaulted ceilings might collapse.

According to newly released statistics, the multicultural no-go suburbs of Paris have become the second-most populous department in the capital region as of January 1st, 2020.

A knifeman who injured two police officers and stabbed three members of the public, killing one was shot by French police Friday afternoon.

Rail strikes against govt plans to reform France’s retirement system marked a new milestone Thursday, surpassing even the strikes of the 1980s

PARIS (AP) — The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is still so fragile that there’s a “50% chance” the structure might not be saved, because scaffolding installed before this year’s fire is threatening the vaults of the Gothic monument.

A 16-year-old illegal Moroccan migrant who was arrested at Orly airport in the cockpit of an aeroplane by police as he was on LSD and claiming he wanted to fly the plane to Morocco now faces trial.

A group of 25 illegal Malian migrants have won over a million euros after taking their employer to court for “systematic racial discrimination”.

The French President is ready to make changes to his pension reform plans after hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets.

French transport strikes against a planned overhaul of the pension system entered their twelfth day Monday.

A Missouri church did its best to honor the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris by creating a 7-foot tall gingerbread replica of the church.

A 16-year-old girl was held captive for five days in an apartment by a group of men who forced her to have sex 200 times for money.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met in Paris on Monday in an attempt to restart stalled peace talks on the conflict in eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatist forces have been waging a deadly insurgency for the past five years.

Paris commuters inched to work Monday through massive traffic jams as strikes against retirement plan changes halted trains and subways.

PARIS (AP) – France’s prime minister is holding special meetings Sunday about the government’s divisive redesign of the national retirement system, amid warnings that strike-related transport troubles will get even worse in the coming days.

French parliamentarians have voted through an amendment to ban publicity campaigns for “Black Friday” sales as protestors stormed dozens of businesses across the country.

An anti-mass migration feminist group was forcibly removed from a protest against violence towards women, claiming it was because they denounced migrant sex attackers.