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 Five bare-breasted protesters dressed as Marianne, the symbol of the French Republic confronted a phalanx of CRS riot police in Paris on Saturday, bringing an unexpected turn to a fifth weekend of “yellow-vest” protests. https://www.thelocal.fr/20181215/bare-breasted-mariannes-confront-police-at-paris-protest Sat, 15 Dec 2018 14:06:23 +0100 bare-breasted-mariannes-confront-police-at-paris-protest French police on Sunday arrested three topless rights protesters who approached the motorcade of US President Donald Trump on the Champs-Elysees in Paris heading to a ceremony marking 100 years since the end of World War I. https://www.thelocal.fr/20181111/topless-protesters-held-in-bid-to-welcome-trump-to-paris Sun, 11 Nov 2018 16:14:02 +0100 topless-protesters-held-in-bid-to-welcome-trump-to-paris Oksana Shachko, one of the founders of the Femen feminist protest movement, has been found dead in her Paris apartment, the group said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180724/co-founder-of-femen-feminist-group-found-dead-in-paris Tue, 24 Jul 2018 15:43:36 +0200 co-founder-of-femen-feminist-group-found-dead-in-paris A topless protester burst into a hall where French far-right leader Marine Le Pen had just begun delivering a foreign policy speech on Thursday, shouting "Marine, Pretend Feminist". https://www.thelocal.fr/20170224/topless-woman-disrupts-marine-le-pen-speech Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:23:51 +0100 topless-woman-disrupts-marine-le-pen-speech Femen's topless protest against Dominique Strauss-Kahn was not https://www.thelocal.fr/20160324/dsk-femen-earn-victory-in-right-to-protest-topless Thu, 24 Mar 2016 08:41:13 +0100 dsk-femen-earn-victory-in-right-to-protest-topless The Paris-based topless feminist group Femen is fighting for its right to protest bare-chested, saying the laws preventing its members from displaying their upper bodies to get their messages across are nothing short of discrimination against women. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160322/femen-fights-for-right-to-protest-topless-in-france Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:13:07 +0100 femen-fights-for-right-to-protest-topless-in-france Topless feminists from Femen planned their own special welcome for Iranian president Hassan Rouhani on Thursday by staging a mock hanging from a Paris bridge in protest over the country’s human rights abuses. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160128/femen-welcome-rouhani-with-a-hanging-on-paris-bridge Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:10:03 +0100 femen-welcome-rouhani-with-a-hanging-on-paris-bridge Two topless activists from the self-proclaimed "sextremist" group Femen were violently dragged away after storming the stage at a conference on women and Islam near Paris. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150914/video-femen-dragged-off-stage-at-islam-event Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:24:51 +0200 video-femen-dragged-off-stage-at-islam-event Topless protesters from the radical feminist group Femen turned up outside the Paris courthouse on Sunday afternoon, calling for an end to the court proceedings against two members of their group charged with indecent exposure. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141027/femen-in-topless-protest-against-anti-nudity-rules Mon, 27 Oct 2014 11:48:00 +0100 femen-in-topless-protest-against-anti-nudity-rules A 'sextremist' Femen activist was fined over €6,000 for stabbing a wax statue of Russian president Vladimir Putin during one of the topless protests in Paris that her group has become famous for. https://www.thelocal.fr/20141015/topless-sextremist-fined-for-stabbing-wax-putin Wed, 15 Oct 2014 14:31:00 +0200 topless-sextremist-fined-for-stabbing-wax-putin Topless Femen protesters brandishing plastic Kalashnikov rifles marched in Paris on Wednesday urging 'infidels' to rise up against the Islamic militants who've seized large parts of Syria and Iraq. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140924/topless-feminists-protest-isis-militants-france Wed, 24 Sep 2014 15:49:00 +0200 topless-feminists-protest-isis-militants-france Radical feminists were acquitted of all charges related to their topless protest at Paris's landmark Notre Dame Cathedral, which drew worldwide attention. However, some security guards accaused of manthandling the Femen activists didn't get off so easy. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140910/femen-acquitted-notre-dame-protest Wed, 10 Sep 2014 13:58:00 +0200 femen-acquitted-notre-dame-protest The same day President Vladimir Putin was to arrive in France for D-Day anniversary events, radical feminist protest group Femen destroyed the Russian leader's statue in a Paris wax museum. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140605/femen-stab-beat-putin-wax-statute-in-france Thu, 05 Jun 2014 17:24:00 +0200 femen-stab-beat-putin-wax-statute-in-france Nine members of the radical feminist group Femen are due to appear in court in Paris on Friday, charged with desecrating Notre Dame cathedral with a topless celebration of the resignation of Pope Benedict.(SEE VIDEO) https://www.thelocal.fr/20130913/femen-head-to-court-over-notre-dame-demo Fri, 13 Sep 2013 11:59:00 +0200 femen-head-to-court-over-notre-dame-demo Militant feminist organisation Femen, is once again causing a stir in France. But this time it's not one of their topless protests that has provoked outrage, but a new postage stamp, which honours Marianne, the face of the French revolution. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130715/femen-inspired-french-stamp-causes-uproar Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:18:00 +0200 femen-inspired-french-stamp-causes-uproar France might not have been keen on granting political asylum to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden but it emerged on Monday that Paris has agreed to take in Inna Shevchenko, the Ukranian leader of militant feminist organization Femen. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130708/france-grants-political-asylum-to-femen-leader Mon, 08 Jul 2013 17:37:00 +0200 france-grants-political-asylum-to-femen-leader The appeals trial of three European activists with women's protest group Femen, jailed for baring their breasts in Tunis, was adjourned on Friday, their lawyer said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130622/french-feminists-face-tunisia-appeals-trial-delay Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:11:00 +0200 french-feminists-face-tunisia-appeals-trial-delay VIDEO: Topless feminist activists from the militant group Femen tried to accost the French President François Hollande as he visited the Paris airshow on Friday. Hollande's security guards were quick to intervene to protect the president. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130621/videotopless-femen-accost-hollande-at-paris-air-show Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0200 videotopless-femen-accost-hollande-at-paris-air-show Two French members of radical feminist group Femen, along with one German, have been given four-month prison sentences in Tunisia for "an attack on public morals" and "indecency", after bearing their breasts in a protest last month. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130613/french-feminists-get-jail-term-for-topless-tunisia-demo Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:49:00 +0200 french-feminists-get-jail-term-for-topless-tunisia-demo Two French women and one German, members of activist group Femen, were arrested in Tunisia on Wednesday, after baring their breasts outside a courthouse in Tunis. Their leader in Paris told The Local, "We are ready for any reaction." https://www.thelocal.fr/20130529/french-femen-members-held-after-baring-all-in-tunisia Wed, 29 May 2013 21:03:00 +0200 french-femen-members-held-after-baring-all-in-tunisia