“I understand Italy,” French Health Minister Olivier Veran told BFM on Friday, when asked about the Italian export ban. “We could do the same.” Veran also said that Paris supports Brussels’ approach to vaccination campaigns in the EU. Brussels mandated this year that vaccine manufacturers must seek authorization from member …
Read More »Ex-French president Sarkozy sentenced to year in prison for corruption, plus 2 years suspended
Judge Christine Mee, who presided over the case, stated that the 66-year-old former political leader had “used his status as former French president” in a “particularly serious” act of wrongdoing, as she handed down the sentence. Sarkozy was put on trial over accusations of trying to bribe Gilbert Azibert, a French …
Read More »Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell offers to renounce UK & French citizenship in exchange for bail
Maxwell “will renounce her French and British citizenship to eliminate any opportunity for her to seek refuge in those countries, if the Court so requires,” her lawyers wrote in a filing published by the Courthouse News website. The defendant’s legal team argued that by doing so, Maxwell will not be …
Read More »Home addresses, social security numbers & sensitive medical data on 500,000 French patients leaked online after hack – reports
A file containing names and contact details on 491,840 people has made the rounds online since at least earlier this month, according to French cybersecurity journalist Damien Bancal, who runs the Zataz blog. The data includes home addresses, phone numbers, emails, social security numbers and other sensitive medical information pertaining …
Read More »‘Stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,’ French minister says after major city removes meat from school lunches
“Let’s stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,” Denormandie tweeted on Sunday. “Let’s just give them what they need to grow well. Meat is part of it,” he wrote, adding that he had asked the region’s prefect, a state-appointed official, to overrule the move. Officials in Lyon, France’s third-largest city, …
Read More »‘Repertoire of far right’: French academics push for resignation of minister who wants probe into ‘Islamo-leftism’ in education
The proposed inquiry is designed to “defame” the teaching community and will have a “devastating” effect, more than 600 French academics have warned, in an open letter published in Le Monde newspaper. “We can only deplore the indigence of Frederique Vidal, who is using the repertoire of the far right …
Read More »Paris beefs up police patrols and Lyon bans booze as French authorities fear warm weather will spark Covid rule-breaking
Officials in numerous parts of the country fear a combination of pleasant spring weather and the break-up of some schools for holidays could encourage people to gather in groups, thus risking the increased spread of the virus. Police chiefs in the capital will launch a “large-scale” operation involving 4,000 officers …
Read More »French village up in arms against planned satellite ground station for SpaceX’s Starlink (VIDEO)
Saint-Senier-de-Beuvron is a small rural village located in the north-western French province of Normandy. Home to some 350 residents, it attracted some unexpected – and unwelcome – attention earlier this month when it got named one of three locations across the country to get a Starlink ground station. The Starlink …
Read More »‘No violations allowed’: WATCH Russian Su-27 intercept trio of French planes over Black Sea
The Southern Military District deployed the interceptors on Wednesday morning as the trio of foreign aircraft appeared on their radars, the National Defense Control Center (NDCC) said in a statement. The two interceptors “identified the air targets as a group of French Air Force planes that consisted of a KC-135 …
Read More »Macron must end military action in Sahel. A rising French body count is all he has to show for years of fighting terrorist groups
While Emmanuel Macron has put on hold – for now – plans for the withdrawal of his 5,100 troops from battle against jihadis in the Sahel, he should have the courage to admit to himself and the public that France has done all it can in the West African region. …
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