The Local France 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 Family of man 'too big for tomb' warn overweight French A 115kg man from the French Riviera and his coffin were found to be too big for a crematorium and the family tomb. His relatives are warning others to take steps to avoid the trauma. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160413/nice-riviera-obese-frenchman-too-big-to-be-cremated Wed, 13 Apr 2016 12:34:07 +0200 nice-riviera-obese-frenchman-too-big-to-be-cremated Paris attacker buried in Saint Denis suburb Samy Amimour, one of the men that massacred 90 people at the Bataclan music venue in Paris, was buried north of the city, local officials said Sunday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151227/paris-attacker-buried-in-saint-denis-suburb Sun, 27 Dec 2015 14:53:45 +0100 paris-attacker-buried-in-saint-denis-suburb French teens charged for defacing Jewish graves Five teenagers were charged on Wednesday with vandalising hundreds of Jewish graves in a suspected anti-Semitic act that has shocked France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150219/teen-vandals-charged-over-jewish Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:43:00 +0100 teen-vandals-charged-over-jewish Woman sees herself dead in funeral home A Franco-American journalist was stunned when she spotted a grave marker hologram with her face on it - inscribed with a fake name, date of birth and death - in the window of a funeral parlour. Here's how it happened. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141030/living-womans-face-end-up-on-french-gravemarker Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:43:00 +0100 living-womans-face-end-up-on-french-gravemarker Widow convicted for keeping hubby's ashes A grief-stricken French widow missed her dead husband so much she brought his ashes home from the family crypt, but she found out the hard way that in doing do she was actually breaking a law in France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141023/frenchwoman-guilt-of-pilfering-hubbys-ashes Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:16:00 +0200 frenchwoman-guilt-of-pilfering-hubbys-ashes Widow fined for drink at husband's graveside A French widow, who says she was simply honouring her husband's dying wish by sharing a few glasses of champagne with family and friends at his graveside for his birthday, was fined by unsympathetic police for disturbing the peace, according to reports on Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140317/husbands-last-wish-nets-fine-for-wife Mon, 17 Mar 2014 12:00:00 +0100 husbands-last-wish-nets-fine-for-wife