https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed French police fought running battles Saturday night in a poor suburb northwest of Paris with groups of young men who burnt a circus school and wounded two officers, the authorities said Sunday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20191103/police-fight-running-battles-with-youths-outside-paris Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:59:53 +0100 police-fight-running-battles-with-youths-outside-paris French investigators suspect that a fire that killed two people in the ski resort of Courchevel may have been an arson attack, a prosecutor said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190126/deadly-fire-at-french-ski-resort-courchevel-may-have-been-arson Sat, 26 Jan 2019 10:51:48 +0100 deadly-fire-at-french-ski-resort-courchevel-may-have-been-arson A 14-year-old boy was charged on Thursday with starting a string of fires near the French city of Marseille, including one that left thousands of passengers stuck in train stations. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170915/14-year-old-charged-with-starting-nearly-20-wildfires-in-southern-france Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:48:19 +0200 14-year-old-charged-with-starting-nearly-20-wildfires-in-southern-france Police across France were kept busy by a series of 'tricks' on Halloween, with clashes breaking out in Yvelines and Rennes as vandals started fires and attacked officers. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161101/french-police-tackle-night-of-violence-on-halloween Tue, 01 Nov 2016 12:30:29 +0100 french-police-tackle-night-of-violence-on-halloween A Muslim prayer hall in the Frenchisland of Corsica was ravaged by fire on Saturday in what prosecutors said was probably a criminal attack. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160430/fire-ravages-muslim-prayer-hall-in-corsica Sat, 30 Apr 2016 15:19:18 +0200 fire-ravages-muslim-prayer-hall-in-corsica A British mother is believed to have turned in her 21-year-old son to police after he allegedly confessed to her that he deliberately started a fire three years ago in a French village that killed one man and destroyed six apartments. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150910/british-mum-turns-in-son-over-deadly-french-fire Thu, 10 Sep 2015 14:21:47 +0200 british-mum-turns-in-son-over-deadly-french-fire French police on Sunday investigating whether an eight-year-old boy who was caught red-handed about to torch a parked car was also responsible for arson attacks on four other vehicles. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141109/french-police-nab-8-year-old-arson-suspect Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:18:00 +0100 french-police-nab-8-year-old-arson-suspect Menacing letters, one signed by the name ‘Robin Wood’, threatened to bomb and set fire to Ikea locations in France if the Swedish furniture giant did not meet several somewhat bizarre demands, it was revealed this week. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130529/robin-wood-threatens-to-bomb-ikea-in-france-for-ransom Wed, 29 May 2013 15:00:00 +0200 robin-wood-threatens-to-bomb-ikea-in-france-for-ransom A serial arsonist continues to plague a quaint seaside hamlet in Brittany, western France, despite extensive police attempts to snare the culprit. This week he struck for the tenth time. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130412/arsonist-strikes-brittany-village-for-tenth-time Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:08:00 +0200 arsonist-strikes-brittany-village-for-tenth-time The residents of a sleepy Breton village may not have to wait much longer to know the identity of a serial arsonist, who has terrorized them by burning down eight buildings in just over a year. Police are to take DNA samples from local men in the hope they might help snare the culprit. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130207/dna-testing-to-find-serial-arsonist-in-breton-village Thu, 07 Feb 2013 11:29:00 +0100 dna-testing-to-find-serial-arsonist-in-breton-village A picturesque Breton holiday village is being terrorized by an arsonist who has struck eight times over the last year, with the local priest's house being the latest target, officials said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20121203/serial-arsonist-plagues-brittany-village Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:06:00 +0100 serial-arsonist-plagues-brittany-village