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 "Foreign nationals who immediately left the country" were behind pigs' heads left outside mosques in the Paris region, the city's prosecutor's office told AFP on Wednesday, citing a "clear desire to cause unrest" in France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20250911/pigs-heads-at-french-mosques-left-by-foreign-nationals Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:21:34 +0200 pigs-heads-at-french-mosques-left-by-foreign-nationals French police launched an investigation on Tuesday after nine pig heads were found outside several mosques in the Paris region, the city's police chief said, saying further findings were possible. https://www.thelocal.fr/20250909/pig-heads-left-outside-french-mosques Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:15:19 +0200 pig-heads-left-outside-french-mosques French lawmakers on Tuesday observed a minute's silence to honour Aboubakar Cisse, a young Malian man who was stabbed to death in a mosque, while a cousin of the victim said the family did not feel safe in the country. https://www.thelocal.fr/20250429/french-lawmakers-honour-memory-of-slain-malian-worshipper Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:36:17 +0200 french-lawmakers-honour-memory-of-slain-malian-worshipper A man was jailed for six months by a court in northeastern France for shooting at the car of a Muslim family who he racially abused. https://www.thelocal.fr/20240712/frenchman-jailed-for-racially-assaulting-muslim-family Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:37:25 +0200 frenchman-jailed-for-racially-assaulting-muslim-family The pan European rights body the Council of Europe has pulled a campaign promoting diversity among women and their freedom to wear the Muslim headscarf after it sparked an outcry in fiercely secular France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20211103/european-rights-body-pulls-pro-hijab-campaign-after-french-outcry Wed, 03 Nov 2021 13:48:59 +0100 european-rights-body-pulls-pro-hijab-campaign-after-french-outcry More than 10,000 people marched against Islamophobia north of Paris. But the rally drew criticism from both the government and the far right. https://www.thelocal.fr/20191111/thousands-march-in-paris-against-islamophobia Mon, 11 Nov 2019 09:08:23 +0100 thousands-march-in-paris-against-islamophobia Islamophobia has increased in both Paris and London in recent years but anti-Islam behaviour shows itself very differently in the two capital cities, as this article from The Conversation explains. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180509/islamophobia-in-paris-and-london-how-it-differs-and-why Wed, 09 May 2018 13:27:39 +0200 islamophobia-in-paris-and-london-how-it-differs-and-why Conservative Muslims should do more to integrate into mainstream French society says the Frenchman who was controversially chosen to head France's new Foundation for Islam. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161107/french-muslims-must-make-more-effort-to-adapt-to-france Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:27:43 +0100 french-muslims-must-make-more-effort-to-adapt-to-france A restaurant owner in a Paris suburb is facing an investigation after chasing two veiled Muslim women out of his premises on Saturday in the latest incident of intercultural tensions in France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160829/paris-restaurant-owner-refuses-to-serve-muslim-women Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:21:43 +0200 paris-restaurant-owner-refuses-to-serve-muslim-women While the government and religious leaders are preaching unity between communities the country is still witnessing several acts of Islamophobia with mosques targeted. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160805/france-sees-more-anti-muslim-acts-after-terror-attacks Fri, 05 Aug 2016 12:18:53 +0200 france-sees-more-anti-muslim-acts-after-terror-attacks France has seen a massive drop in the number of anti-Islam acts, according to the National Observatory against Islamophobia, although Muslim leaders sounded a note of caution. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160422/france-sees-huge-drop-in-islamophobic-acts Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:10:39 +0200 france-sees-huge-drop-in-islamophobic-acts The shop front of a Muslim butchers on the French island of Corsica was sprayed by machine gun fire on Tuesday night, as communal tensions on the island remained high. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160203/muslim-butcher-sprayed-by-machine-gun-fire-in-france Wed, 03 Feb 2016 12:13:08 +0100 muslim-butcher-sprayed-by-machine-gun-fire-in-france Hate crimes against Muslims in France tripled last year, anti-Semitic assaults remained at an already "high level" and attacks on Christian sites rose by a fifth, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160120/france-sees-scores-of-attacks-against-jews-muslims-and-churches Wed, 20 Jan 2016 09:54:11 +0100 france-sees-scores-of-attacks-against-jews-muslims-and-churches There has been an enormous spike in hate crimes against France's Muslim community this year, according to new figures. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151231/france-sees-threefold-hike-in-anti-islam-crimes Thu, 31 Dec 2015 11:35:50 +0100 france-sees-threefold-hike-in-anti-islam-crimes Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing opposition party held an internal meeting on Thursday on the "question of Islam" in France, boycotted by Muslim groups who warned of "stigmatising" the religion. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150604/sarkozy-partys-islam-meeting-sparks-criticism Thu, 04 Jun 2015 16:57:15 +0200 sarkozy-partys-islam-meeting-sparks-criticism France saw a sixfold rise in anti-Muslim acts in the first quarter of the year, fuelled by the Paris jihadist attacks, the National Observatory against Islamophobia said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150416/france-sees-sixfold-rise-in-islamophobic-acts Thu, 16 Apr 2015 18:21:45 +0200 france-sees-sixfold-rise-in-islamophobic-acts Muslims at over 2,000 mosques in France will gather at 1:30pm on Friday to pray for France and its future. Meanwhile, there have been more anti-Muslim incidents recorded in the last two weeks in France than in the whole of 2014. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150123/frances-muslim-community-to-pray-for-france-terror-paris Fri, 23 Jan 2015 18:50:00 +0100 frances-muslim-community-to-pray-for-france-terror-paris A leading French organization which combats anti-Muslim behaviour and speech launched a new smartphone and tablet app on Monday, allowing users to report incidents of Islamophobia by sending photos and videos to the group. https://www.thelocal.fr/20131104/french-smartphone-app-targets-islamophobia Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:44:27 +0100 french-smartphone-app-targets-islamophobia A pregnant Muslim woman who was allegedly attacked in the suburbs of Paris by two ‘skinheads’ for wearing an Islamic face veil has suffered a miscarriage, it was reported on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130618/muslim-woman-miscarries-after-veil-attack Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:58:00 +0200 muslim-woman-miscarries-after-veil-attack Racist, anti-Semitic and Islamophobic acts and threats have risen steeply in France, according to a report published on Thursday by the country’s racism watchdog. Levels of intolerance in the country were a real "concern", the watchdog concluded. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130321/steep-rise-in-racism-and-intolerance-in-france Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:05:00 +0100 steep-rise-in-racism-and-intolerance-in-france