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 A knife-wielding man accused of attacking three soldiers outside a Jewish community centre in the south of France was on Saturday charged with attempted murder in connection with a terrorist operation. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150208/terror-charges-after-french-soldier-attack Sun, 08 Feb 2015 11:59:00 +0100 terror-charges-after-french-soldier-attack French police on Saturday shot dead a man who attacked them with a knife in a police station while shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great" in Arabic), a source said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141220/french-police-kill-knife-wielding-man Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:31:00 +0100 french-police-kill-knife-wielding-man A 60-year French champagne producer received a six-month suspended sentence and a €200,000 ($270,000) fine on Friday for stealing ancient objects from archaeological digs and selling them on. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140809/champagne-producer-fined-for-stealing-ancient-objects Sat, 09 Aug 2014 12:11:00 +0200 champagne-producer-fined-for-stealing-ancient-objects A French narcotics police officer was arrested Saturday on suspicion of stealing over 50 kilos of seized cocaine from the Paris police headquarters in a case that has become a major embarrassment for the force. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140803/paris-drugs-cop-arrested-over-missing-cocaine Sun, 03 Aug 2014 11:57:16 +0200 paris-drugs-cop-arrested-over-missing-cocaine A Roma teenager who was left struggling for his life after being brutally beaten by vigilantes in France has emerged from his coma and is talking, his lawyer said Sunday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140720/roma-teen-out-of-coma-weeks-after-vigilante-attack Sun, 20 Jul 2014 18:57:00 +0200 roma-teen-out-of-coma-weeks-after-vigilante-attack A year-old baby left by his mother in a car on a blazing summer day in southern France died on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140719/baby-left-in-sweltering-car-in-france-dies Sat, 19 Jul 2014 12:10:38 +0200 baby-left-in-sweltering-car-in-france-dies The head of US bank Goldman Sachs has warned that guilty pleas from rivals BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse, under legal proceedings in the United States, could hurt the financial system. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140518/goldman-sachs-fears-risk-of-bnp-paribas-guilty-plea Sun, 18 May 2014 13:27:24 +0200 goldman-sachs-fears-risk-of-bnp-paribas-guilty-plea Police in Spain arrested a French-Algerian man suspected of fighting for Al-Qaeda-linked groups in Syria, the Spanish interior ministry said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140501/spain-arrests-french-terror-suspect Thu, 01 May 2014 12:44:00 +0200 spain-arrests-french-terror-suspect One of four Paris policemen accused of raping a Canadian tourist has admitted to having had "consensual sex" with her, a source close to the investigation told AFP on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140427/paris-cop-admits-sex-with-canadian-accuser Sun, 27 Apr 2014 11:18:00 +0200 paris-cop-admits-sex-with-canadian-accuser A woman dubbed the "Black Widow" of the French Alps goes on trial Monday for the murder of her husband, a case with troubling echoes of how four of her previous partners were poisoned, two of them fatally. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140413/frances-black-widow-on-trial-for-murder Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:46:52 +0200 frances-black-widow-on-trial-for-murder A former Riviera lawyer was convicted on Friday of killing a glamorous casino heiress 36 years ago, after a legal battle that has gripped France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140412/french-lawyer-convicted-of-murdering-heiress-after-36-years Sat, 12 Apr 2014 10:18:00 +0200 french-lawyer-convicted-of-murdering-heiress-after-36-years Two masked robbers wielding a gun and an axe burst into the Colette boutique in the heart of Paris Saturday, making off with €600,000 ($800,000) worth of goods from the trendy concept store, officials said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140322/thieves-hit-trendy-colette-concept-store-in-paris Sat, 22 Mar 2014 15:04:43 +0100 thieves-hit-trendy-colette-concept-store-in-paris US authorities are investigating the French banks Societe Generale, BNP Paribas and Credit Agricole for embezzlement and violating American sanctions against other countries, a source close to the matter said Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140308/us-government-probing-three-major-french-banks Sat, 08 Mar 2014 11:15:28 +0100 us-government-probing-three-major-french-banks A French woman and four others detained in Malaysia on suspicion of growing cannabis could face the death penalty after police said Saturday they were "very likely" to be charged with drug trafficking. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140201/french-woman-held-in-malaysia-on-drugs-charges Sat, 01 Feb 2014 20:42:00 +0100 french-woman-held-in-malaysia-on-drugs-charges Two French high school students who ran away to fight in Syria were charged by a special anti-terrorism judge Friday, a rare step for suspects who are minors. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140201/french-teen-jihadists-charged Sat, 01 Feb 2014 08:48:00 +0100 french-teen-jihadists-charged Leading French magazine Le Point was fined €1,500 ($2,000) Friday by a court for slurring the country's ethnic Chinese community as stingy, work-obsessed tax dodgers. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140125/french-mag-fined-for-slandering-stingy-chinese Sat, 25 Jan 2014 09:32:00 +0100 french-mag-fined-for-slandering-stingy-chinese A couple who in 2012 passed by a drunk 19-year-old student who was later found drowned is now being sued in France by his mother -- an ex-policewoman -- for failing to provide assistance. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140105/french-couple-sued-for-not-helping-drunk-student Sun, 05 Jan 2014 09:27:13 +0100 french-couple-sued-for-not-helping-drunk-student A Frenchman convicted of carbon trading fraud that cost the state some €1.6 billion ($2.2 billion) has gone on the run, a judicial source said Saturday, admitting that his electronic tracking bracelet had stopped working. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131215/french-carbon-crook-on-run-after-bracelet-fails Sun, 15 Dec 2013 11:01:31 +0100 french-carbon-crook-on-run-after-bracelet-fails Twenty Romanian police officers are working in Paris to help their French colleagues tackle crime in the capital during the holiday season, Paris police said Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131207/romanian-police-help-tackle-crime-in-paris Sat, 07 Dec 2013 12:43:01 +0100 romanian-police-help-tackle-crime-in-paris A woman arrested in France on Friday was being detained as part of a murder investigation into the death of a toddler identified as her daughter, prosecutors said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131130/woman-arrested-in-france-suspected-of-daughters-death Sat, 30 Nov 2013 13:26:00 +0100 woman-arrested-in-france-suspected-of-daughters-death