Security around all mosques in France will be reinforced, announced Bruno Retailleau, Minister of the Interior, on Sunday. A measure taken after the murder of a young Malian, stabbed to death on Friday in a mosque in Gard.
In pre-trial detention awaiting his trial scheduled for June, Driss, accused of drug trafficking, requested his release on Friday to treat a cancer relapse. The Montauban court rejected his request.
Nadia El Bouroumi, the criminal defense lawyer from the Avignon bar who is defending two men out of 51 in the Mazan rape trial, will no longer be able to be part of the bar association or the national bar council.
While maintaining that it was the Jew Arié Engelberg who had assaulted him and that he had simply defended himself, a 16-year-old Moroccan teenager was sentenced to prison and risks being deported to Morocco.
The multi-mission frigate (FREMM) Mohammed VI conducted maneuvers in the Mediterranean with the French Navy’s carrier strike group (GAN) led by the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. This combat vessel is currently docked at the naval base in Toulon.
Youssef El Gatou, owner of Maison Héloïse, a bakery-pastry shop on Avenue Gabriel-Péri in Argenteuil, Val-d’Oise, assisted by a team of 25 pastry chefs, created a strawberry cake measuring 121.88 m long. The longest cake in the world, certified by a Guinness World Records judge.
On Wednesday, the Administrative Court of Lille overturned the decision of the Nord Prefecture that deprived the Muslim high school Averroes of its association contract with the State. Examining the merits of the case for the first time, the judges ruled that the "serious breaches of the fundamental principles of the Republic" alleged by the prefecture were not sufficiently proven and noted irregularities in the procedure.
Moroccan-born businessman Patrick Drahi, owner of SFR, has been trying for years to get rid of the telecom operator in France whose results have been declining year after year.
Following the suicide of Yanis, 17, on March 30, after the release of his attacker, the Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence Against Children (Ciivise) has called for changes to the law and strengthened support for victims.
The Retailleau circular pushes some prefects to compete in ingenuity to reduce the number of residence permits issued and increase expulsions. After the prefect of Isère accused of being "a factory of undocumented immigrants" , it’s now the turn of the prefect of Hauts-de-Seine to complicate the lives of undocumented foreigners applying for exceptional admission to stay (AES).
The legal battle between the State and the Muslims of Noisy-le-Grand (MNLG) association takes a new turn. On Friday, April 18, the Council of State annulled the prefectural decision that had withdrawn the association’s religious status in 2021, thus allowing the organization to retain its status.
Doctors of Maghrebi origin are targeted by a racist tweet whose author is an unsuccessful candidate in the legislative elections. They do not rule out the idea of filing a complaint.