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The Louvre Museum was closed when its workers took part in the wave of French protest strikes against the govt’s pension reform plans.

The Macron government narrowly survived two parliament confidence votes after forcing through highly controversial retirement reforms. 

Opposition parties in France are to make an attempt to remove the Emmanuel Macron government from power via a vote on Monday

France has yet to see real violence amid the ongoing anti-Macron riots happening in the country, France’s answer to Bernie Sanders has told journalists.

Paris saw its third straight night of violent chaos, with clashes breaking out between the police and the people and fires being set across the French capital, as President Macron claimed he “has no regrets” about sparking the largest mass mobilisation since the Yellow Vests after he used a loophole to pass through his retirement age raise without a vote.

Hundreds of arrests were made in Paris as riots sprung up after the government invoked a loophole to pass its controversial pension reform.

The French government was thrown into chaos after it used a constitutional loophole to pass a rise to the retirement age without a vote.

The malodorous perfume of rotting food has begun escaping from some rubbish bags and overflowing bins as the strike goes on.

The seventh trade union-organised nationwide protest in France against President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the French retirement age saw “angry” confrontations with police in Paris, as the legislation cleared a key hurdle in the Senate.

An Africa-born French customs official alleged to have recently bought a huge home in his native Senegal is one of a dozen arrested as part of a cocaine trafficking bust by police.

An 18-year-old young man was kidnapped, beaten and thrown in the Seine river after being lured to an area by the brother of his girlfriend.

Demonstrators marched across France on Tuesday in a new round of protests against the government’s plan to raise the retirement age to 64.

Police in Paris are searching for an “African type” man accused of vandalising and desecrating a Roman Catholic church in central Paris, who they say has a prior history of church attacks.

A man was killed at a railway station in a Paris suburb this week after being crushed by a train while he and an accomplice were trying to rob a resisting victim.

France’s César Awards — the country’s equivalent of the Oscars — was disrupted Friday evening by a climate change protestor who crashed the stage in the middle of the live national broadcast.

Prosecutors dropped their case over supplying automatic weapons to Islamic State extremists who went on a bloody rampage in Paris in 2015.

Two Brazilian tourists were subjected to sexual assault and rape near Paris’ iconic Eiffel Tower as police are searching for suspects. 

A woman living in Paris who allegedly set a fire to “annoy” her neighbour is on trial this week after the fire spread, killing ten people. 

Thousands of French farmers descended upon Paris in response to the government’s quiescence to the latest EU green agenda diktat.

Two churches in the city of Paris have been subjected to arson attacks over several days as police have yet to arrest any suspects. 

A considerable minority of French, and a full half of Parisians, claim they do not feel safe while travelling on public transit.

Investigators said the suspect presents himself as a 31-year-old Algerian national and was known to French authorities under several identities for home invasion, theft, and rebellion in 2019 and 2021. He received orders to leave French territory in 2020 and in September of last year, the statement detailed.

An Algerian was arrested by police in Paris Wednesday after allegedly stabbing six people at a railway station while yelling “Allahu Akbar”. 

A knife-wielding man has been hospitalised by police gunfire after going on a stabbing spree in the Gare du Nord railway station in Paris, France. 

Paris police are concerned over the growing problems with allegedly underage migrants, who account for a significant source of many crimes. 

The elderly suspect in a Paris mass shooting that sparked violent riots before Christmas developed a “hatred of foreigners” after a home invasion in 2016, according to reports. 

Riots in Paris continued into their second day in the wake of a mass shooting at a Kurdish community centre on Friday.

Riots broke out in Paris following a deadly shooting at a Kurdish Cultural Centre on Friday, with Kurdish demonstrators clashing with police.

Paris Police arrested a man in his 60s after at least two people were killed in a shooting at a Kurdish Cultural Centre in central Paris.

Two churches in the cities of Bordeaux and Paris were attacked, with the latter seeing the vandals write far-left slogans on the doors.

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

A teenage boy was killed after being run over by a car as riots broke out following France’s victory over Morocco in the World Cup.

In an area in Paris’ 18th arrondissement (district) police are forced to escort small children to school due to the dangers posed by local crack addicts and dealers encamped near a local kindergarten.

France praised itself as a green “pioneer” after it got permission from Brussels to ban some short-haul flights, preferring trains instead. 

Drug traffickers in the no-go zone suburbs of Paris are allegedly offering illegals 200 euros per day to violently attack local police who try and interfere with their drug-selling operations.

A Libyan refugee faces trial in Paris this week after allegedly raping a woman at knifepoint after she hosted him in her home for several weeks.