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 Eric Zemmour came under fire on Sunday for delivering a blistering attack on ex-president François Hollande's migration policy during commemorations marking the November 2015 Paris attacks. https://www.thelocal.fr/20211114/french-far-right-presidential-hopeful-zemmour-under-fire-over-bataclan-tirade Sun, 14 Nov 2021 20:02:49 +0100 french-far-right-presidential-hopeful-zemmour-under-fire-over-bataclan-tirade The biggest trial in France's modern legal history begins on Wednesday over the November 2015 attacks on Paris that saw 130 people killed at bars, restaurants, the Stade de France and the Bataclan concert hall. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210908/trial-begins-in-paris-over-2015-terror-attacks-at-bataclan-and-stade-de-france Wed, 08 Sep 2021 10:34:39 +0200 trial-begins-in-paris-over-2015-terror-attacks-at-bataclan-and-stade-de-france The biggest trial in France's modern legal history begins on Wednesday over the November 2015 attacks on Paris that saw 130 people slaughtered at bars, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210905/frances-biggest-trial-to-open-over-november-2015-attacks Sun, 05 Sep 2021 12:03:53 +0200 frances-biggest-trial-to-open-over-november-2015-attacks The trial of 20 people charged over the November 13, 2015 jihadist attacks in Paris that were France's deadliest peacetime atrocity will get underway in late 2021, sources close to the case and prosecutors said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20201212/paris-attacker-trial-to-begin-late-2021-prosecutors Sat, 12 Dec 2020 08:15:47 +0100 paris-attacker-trial-to-begin-late-2021-prosecutors France on Friday marked five years since a squad of jihadist attackers went on a killing rampage in Paris in its worst peacetime atrocity, with the psychological wounds still raw and the country shaken by a string of new attacks https://www.thelocal.fr/20201114/it-comes-back-survivors-remember-paris-attacks Sat, 14 Nov 2020 09:57:48 +0100 it-comes-back-survivors-remember-paris-attacks A stolen cutter, CCTV footage, phone taps, loose-tongued suspects... this is how an artwork by famed street artist Banksy painted on the door of the Bataclan club in Paris was discovered in Italy 18 months after being stolen. https://www.thelocal.fr/20200801/how-police-reclaimed-a-stolen-bataclan-banksy-in-italy Sat, 01 Aug 2020 14:08:13 +0200 how-police-reclaimed-a-stolen-bataclan-banksy-in-italy A painting in homage to terror victims by famous street artist Banksy has been stolen from the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, where 90 people were killed in 2015 in a jihadist attack. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190127/banksy-work-stolen-from-paris-terror-attack-venue Sun, 27 Jan 2019 10:22:26 +0100 banksy-work-stolen-from-paris-terror-attack-venue A group of survivors and families of victims of the 2015 Paris terrorist attack at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris has filed a lawsuit against the French state over its response during the police operation that night. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180608/bataclan-victims-sue-french-state-for-not-allowing-soldiers-to-intervene Fri, 08 Jun 2018 17:47:55 +0200 bataclan-victims-sue-french-state-for-not-allowing-soldiers-to-intervene France on Saturday condemned remarks by US President Donald Trump about the 2015 attacks in Paris and called on him to show respect for the victims of the bloodshed that saw jihadists attack the Bataclan concert hall and other targets. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180506/anger-in-france-over-trump-comments-on-bataclan-attacks Sun, 06 May 2018 11:13:29 +0200 anger-in-france-over-trump-comments-on-bataclan-attacks A woman who claimed €25,000 in compensation after posing as a victim of the 2015 Paris terror attacks was sentenced Thursday to four and a half years in prison. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180323/fake-french-terror-attacks-victim-gets-fours-years-behind-bars Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:09:08 +0100 fake-french-terror-attacks-victim-gets-fours-years-behind-bars French police on Tuesday arrested a woman who claimed 25,000 euros in compensation after posing as a victim of the 2015 Paris terror attacks. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180214/fake-paris-attacks-victim-arrested-for-claiming-compensation Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:49:36 +0100 fake-paris-attacks-victim-arrested-for-claiming-compensation A Berlin art installation dedicated to "martyrs" has prompted outrage by including one of the Paris jihadist attackers alongside the likes of Martin Luther King and Socrates, with the French embassy calling the display "deeply shocking". https://www.thelocal.fr/20171205/france-shocked-over-berlin-martyrs-art-show-with-image-of-bataclan-attacker Tue, 05 Dec 2017 10:05:55 +0100 france-shocked-over-berlin-martyrs-art-show-with-image-of-bataclan-attacker A man who claimed to have survived the 2015 massacre at the Bataclan theatre in Paris, describing his brush with death in vivid detail, was tried for fraud Friday after it emerged he was nowhere near the scene. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171201/suspected-fake-paris-attacks-victim-tried-for-fraud Fri, 01 Dec 2017 18:35:16 +0100 suspected-fake-paris-attacks-victim-tried-for-fraud A charity that supports victims of the Paris terror attacks has sounded the alarm after it revealed that a Frenchman who survived the Bataclan had taken his own life shortly after the second anniversary of the horror. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171127/paris-bataclan-survivor-commits-suicide-two-years-after-terror-attack Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:28:51 +0100 paris-bataclan-survivor-commits-suicide-two-years-after-terror-attack Two years after the terror attacks on Paris nightspots that left 130 people dead, seven people are in custody in France while key figures remain at large and may be dead. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171113/paris-terror-attacks-two-years-on-what-we-know Mon, 13 Nov 2017 10:06:34 +0100 paris-terror-attacks-two-years-on-what-we-know Some said it should never open again - and others doubted whether the public would ever return. But two years after 90 people were massacred by jihadists at the Bataclan, the Paris concert hall has got much of its old mojo back. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171110/bataclan-gets-its-mojo-back-after-pain-and-grief-of-paris-attacks Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:47:55 +0100 bataclan-gets-its-mojo-back-after-pain-and-grief-of-paris-attacks Since she was "buried" under the dead and dying at the Bataclan concert hall, Laura Leveque has "carried 130 corpses" on her shoulders. "So I may as well mark it," she said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171105/bataclan-survivors-tattoos-show-their-pain-and-defiance Sun, 05 Nov 2017 15:34:13 +0100 bataclan-survivors-tattoos-show-their-pain-and-defiance The president of France's Metz football team has compared a two-point reduction for flare-throwing to blaming the Bataclan management for 2015's deadly terror attack. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170107/metz-chief-likens-flare-punishment-to-bataclan-outrage Sat, 07 Jan 2017 12:23:02 +0100 metz-chief-likens-flare-punishment-to-bataclan-outrage British singer and 60s icon Marianne Faithfull paid homage to the victims of last year's Paris attacks in a concert at the Bataclan Friday, singing a song she wrote about the tragedy. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161126/marianne-faithfull-mourns-paris-attack-victims-at-bataclan Sat, 26 Nov 2016 08:09:13 +0100 marianne-faithfull-mourns-paris-attack-victims-at-bataclan Members of Eagles of Death Metal, the US group who were playing when jihadists attacked Paris' Bataclan concert hall last year, were turned away from the venue's reopening show on Saturday over controversial remarks by their lead singer. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161113/eagles-of-death-metal-thrown-out-of-bataclan-reopening Sun, 13 Nov 2016 09:23:48 +0100 eagles-of-death-metal-thrown-out-of-bataclan-reopening