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 The only surviving suspect in the 2015 Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, refused to answer questions on Monday as he went on trial in Brussels over a bloody shootout with police that led to his capture. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180205/paris-attacks-suspect-abdeslam-arrives-for-belgian-trial Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:54:45 +0100 paris-attacks-suspect-abdeslam-arrives-for-belgian-trial France on Friday charged terror suspect Mohamed Bakkali over his alleged key role in the 2015 Paris attacks, a judicial source said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180127/france-charges-key-suspect-bakkali-over-paris-attacks Sat, 27 Jan 2018 09:27:42 +0100 france-charges-key-suspect-bakkali-over-paris-attacks Belgium on Tuesday charged two men over the 2015 attack on a high-speed train bound for Paris in which an Islamic State group extremist shot and seriously wounded a passenger before being overpowered. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171101/belgium-charges-two-over-2015-thalys-train-attack Wed, 01 Nov 2017 10:31:43 +0100 belgium-charges-two-over-2015-thalys-train-attack This week’s counter-terrorist raids in northern France and Belgium were carried out at the request of French authorities who feared another terror attack on the annual July 14th national holiday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170707/france-ordered-belgium-anti-terror-raids-over-fear-of-july-14th-attack Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:01:36 +0200 france-ordered-belgium-anti-terror-raids-over-fear-of-july-14th-attack In a sign of how complicated the migrant crisis has become for European countries, Belgian police officers who were returning a group of migrants to France were then arrested by their French counterparts on suspicion of “aiding illegal immigration”. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160922/belgian-police-return-migrants-to-france-and-are-arrested Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:15:24 +0200 belgian-police-return-migrants-to-france-and-are-arrested Tensions between France and Belgium caused by the extent of the threat from Islamist extremists in Brussels were raised once again this week, as they were in the aftermath of the Paris attacks. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160324/naive-slur-opens-up-franco-belgian-tensions-over-terror Thu, 24 Mar 2016 09:03:22 +0100 naive-slur-opens-up-franco-belgian-tensions-over-terror Belgium has turned back more than 600 migrants at the French border since reinstating border checks over fears about the destruction of part of the Calais "Jungle" camp, police said Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160301/belgium-pushes-600-migrants-back-to-france-police Tue, 01 Mar 2016 11:37:14 +0100 belgium-pushes-600-migrants-back-to-france-police A film about gangs set in the tough Brussels suburb where a jihadi cell planned the Paris terror attacks, has been pulled from French cinemas. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160219/gang-film-pulled-from-french-cinemas-over-paris-attacks Fri, 19 Feb 2016 18:11:38 +0100 gang-film-pulled-from-french-cinemas-over-paris-attacks The Belgian and French prime ministers hold talks in Brussels on Monday aimed at bolstering counter-terror cooperation after Belgium came under fire for failing to help prevent the Paris attacks. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160201/france-and-belgium-to-team-up-to-fight-terror Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:16:42 +0100 france-and-belgium-to-team-up-to-fight-terror A Belgian judge on Friday charged an 11th person with terrorism-related offenses over the deadly Paris attacks, two days after the suspect was arrested in a raid in Brussels, prosecutors said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160122/belgium-charges-11th-suspect-over-paris-attacks Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:05:58 +0100 belgium-charges-11th-suspect-over-paris-attacks The three teams who carried out attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis on November 13th were co-ordinated from Belgium by at least one person, investigations show. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151230/paris-attackers-co-ordinated-from-belgium Wed, 30 Dec 2015 11:33:02 +0100 paris-attackers-co-ordinated-from-belgium Did a ban on night time raids in Belgium allow Salah Abdeslam, the most wanted man in Europe to get away? That's the question being asked after Belgium Justice Minister made a worrying revelation this week. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151217/abdeslam-belgium-raids-rules-night-brussels Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:07:28 +0100 abdeslam-belgium-raids-rules-night-brussels A Frenchman detained in connection with the Paris attacks drove key suspect Salah Abdeslam across Brussels the day after the atrocities without knowing he had been involved, the man's lawyer said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151127/belgian-unwittingly-drove-paris-suspect-lawyer Fri, 27 Nov 2015 17:26:20 +0100 belgian-unwittingly-drove-paris-suspect-lawyer Belgian police staged six raids on Thursday in the Brussels area linked to a suicide bomber who blew himself up outside the French national stadium last week during the Paris attacks, prosecutors said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151119/new-raids-in-belgium-linked-to-paris-stadium-bomber-prosecutors Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:44:18 +0100 new-raids-in-belgium-linked-to-paris-stadium-bomber-prosecutors Prosecutors have charged a Frenchman with "murder in a terrorist context" for the attack on a Jewish museum in Belgium that left four people dead. The suspect spent a year fighting alongside Islamist militants in Syria before returning to Europe. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140730/jewish-museum-frenchman-charged-with-terror-tied-murders Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:21:00 +0200 jewish-museum-frenchman-charged-with-terror-tied-murders A Frenchman who spent a year with islamists in Syria has allegedly admitted, in a recording, to the deadly shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels. Without saying if there's a connection, French authorities revealed on Monday a spate of new jihadist arrests. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140602/frenchman-admits-to-brussels-shooting-in-video Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:56:00 +0200 frenchman-admits-to-brussels-shooting-in-video French film star Gerard Depardieu on Saturday hosted a housewarming barbecue at his new home in Nechin, Belgium, just across the border from his native France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130825/depardieu-hosts-bash-in-belgian-tax-haven Sun, 25 Aug 2013 10:12:00 +0200 depardieu-hosts-bash-in-belgian-tax-haven France's richest man, Bernard Arnault, head of the LVMH luxury goods empire, has renounced his controversial bid to become a Belgian citizen, he told Le Monde newspaper on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130410/frances-richest-man-ends-bid-to-become-belgian Wed, 10 Apr 2013 14:44:00 +0200 frances-richest-man-ends-bid-to-become-belgian France's Interior Minister praised Belgian police on Wednesday for its cooperation after officers shot dead a suspected terrorist after a tip off from France. Separately, a man was arrested near Lyon after reportedly being found with bomb making equipment in his flat. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130327/suspected-terrorist-shot-dead-after-french-probe Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:26:40 +0100 suspected-terrorist-shot-dead-after-french-probe France's richest man, the billionaire Bernard Arnault, whose quest for Belgian nationality has caused uproar in his native country, has already transferred ‘almost all his wealth’ to Belgium, it was revealed on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130124/french-tycoon-sent-almost-all-his-wealth-to-belgium Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:23:00 +0100 french-tycoon-sent-almost-all-his-wealth-to-belgium