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 When a 67-year-old French grandma was approached by two men asking her for a cigarette on a cold night in Toulouse, she declined. But instead of accepting her knock back, the pair of thugs picked her up and threw her into the freezing waters of the Garonne river, reports say. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131122/french-granny-thrown-in-river-after-cigarette-refusal Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:50:00 +0100 french-granny-thrown-in-river-after-cigarette-refusal It could easily be the script of a grisly horror movie. Police arrested a man in Nice this week, suspected of chopping up his 95-year-old grandmother. According to sources the suspect admitted to having eaten part of the body. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130524/man-held-suspected-of-eating-his-grandmother Fri, 24 May 2013 11:37:00 +0200 man-held-suspected-of-eating-his-grandmother A 66-year-old grandmother was found dead in her car in St Quentin, near Amiens, after being shot 13 times while waiting for her granddaughter outside a pizza restaurant on Sunday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.fr/20120924/grandmother-shot-13-times-while-waiting-for-graddaughter-to-collect-pizzas Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:11:00 +0200 grandmother-shot-13-times-while-waiting-for-graddaughter-to-collect-pizzas