French authorities have arrested a man suspected of setting fires and causing an explosion at a synagogue in a southern Mediterranean town on August 24th that injured a police officer in what officials suspect was a terrorist attack.
As France prepares to kick off and welcome the world to the upcoming Olympics and Paralympics Summer Games of 2024, which will take place from July 26th to August 11th, French secularism (also called laïcité in French) is in the spotlight once more after a human rights organization published a report condemning the French government's decision to bar its athletes from wearing the hijab while competing in the Olympics.
Two adolescent boys in France were arrested and charged after allegedly raping and committing violence against a 12-year-old girl who was identified as Jewish, sparking outrage throughout the country as it prepares for snap parliamentary elections at the end of June and the beginning of July.
A man in France was arrested and will be put on trial for allegedly kidnapping, raping, and making death threats against a French Jewish woman, with the suspect reportedly seeking revenge for Palestinians, local French media reported.
France: Man suspected of abducting, raping Jewish woman 'to avenge Palestine' https://t.co/mtgswvjnqE
The French government is seeking to file charges against a high school student after she falsely accused her former principal of assaulting her after he made her remove her headscarf on school premises, according to the French prime minister.
France to sue student it says falsely accused principal of forcibly removing headscarf https://t.co/rIdCJJsKht
After a “radical” Tunisian imam made insulting comments against the tricolor, the French national flag, France’s interior ministry announced that they expelled the imam from the country.
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter) on February 22nd that he asked for an expulsion order to be issued for 53-year-old Mahjoub Mahjoubi after the imam appeared in a viral video where he seemed to have referred to the French flag as "satanic.”
Teachers at a school in a town near Paris went on strike amid fears for their lives after one of their colleagues sparked outrage over a 17th-century painting that she showed to Muslim students during class.
Teachers strike amid safety fears as 'Muslim children and parents angry over nude painting at French school' @LBChttps://t.co/4Kl2bqQT19
More than three years after a French secondary school teacher was killed and beheaded by a Chechen Muslim refugee for showing cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad during a class, a court in France has convicted six teenagers connected with the 2020 murder of Samuel Paty.
Six French teenagers convicted in connection to beheading of school teacher https://t.co/28xo2bbswh
A French man was arrested after stabbing a German tourist and injuring two others with a hammer in central Paris near the Eiffel Tower.
A man armed with a knife and a hammer killed a German tourist and left two people, including a British man, wounded near the Eiffel Tower in Paris in what President Emmanuel Macron called 'a terrorist attack' https://t.co/JaIInoH3CFpic.twitter.com/0C7H11n3lQ
Ahead of the upcoming return of students to their classrooms, France’s education minister announced that the country will ban pupils from wearing the abaya, a loose-fitting, full-length robe worn by some Muslim women, in state schools.
Move comes after months of debate over wearing of abayas in French schools, where women have long been banned from wearing hijab. https://t.co/zeLsyFvl9y
