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 The only surviving suspect in the 2015 Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, refused to answer questions on Monday as he went on trial in Brussels over a bloody shootout with police that led to his capture. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180205/paris-attacks-suspect-abdeslam-arrives-for-belgian-trial Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:54:45 +0100 paris-attacks-suspect-abdeslam-arrives-for-belgian-trial The owner of a Paris restaurant who sold shocking video footage to Britain's Daily Mail newspaper of the moment jihadists targeted his bar during the Paris terror attacks, has been convicted and fined by a French court. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170531/paris-bar-owner-fined-for-selling-terror-attacks-video-to-daily-mail-newspaper Wed, 31 May 2017 18:02:11 +0200 paris-bar-owner-fined-for-selling-terror-attacks-video-to-daily-mail-newspaper Has the mass murder one year ago of 130 people in bars, a concert hall and at a football stadium in Paris changed life in the City of Light? Tell us what you think. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161109/has-life-in-paris-changed-since-the-terror-attacks Wed, 09 Nov 2016 01:28:23 +0100 has-life-in-paris-changed-since-the-terror-attacks French investigators probing last November's terror attacks in Paris have told AFP a man named Oussama Atar was the individual coordinating the Paris terror attacks. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161108/french-investigators-name-alleged-coordinator-of-paris-brussels-attacks Tue, 08 Nov 2016 13:51:34 +0100 french-investigators-name-alleged-coordinator-of-paris-brussels-attacks A Montenegrin man was handed a four-year jail sentence in Germany on Thursday for heading to Paris with assault rifles and explosives hidden in his car shortly before the November attacks. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160929/man-jailed-in-germany-for-trying-to-smuggle-arms-to-paris Thu, 29 Sep 2016 16:04:41 +0200 man-jailed-in-germany-for-trying-to-smuggle-arms-to-paris German police on Tuesday arrested three men with forged Syrian passports accused of being Isis militants and labelled a possible "sleeper cell" with links to the Paris attackers. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160913/german-police-arrest-isis-suspects-with-link-to-paris-attacks Tue, 13 Sep 2016 17:48:28 +0200 german-police-arrest-isis-suspects-with-link-to-paris-attacks A French parliamentary inquiry has concluded the Bataclan attack could not have been avoided and demands an overhaul of France's intelligence services to better fight the threat posed by terrorism. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160705/france-needs-to-overhaul-intelligence-service-inquiry Tue, 05 Jul 2016 10:42:19 +0200 france-needs-to-overhaul-intelligence-service-inquiry A Moroccan court has sentenced the younger brother of suspected Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud to two years in prison on charges including justifying terrorism, state media reported. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160507/morocco-jails-brother-of-presumed-paris-attacks-ringleader Sat, 07 May 2016 19:06:28 +0200 morocco-jails-brother-of-presumed-paris-attacks-ringleader Two UK nationals have been charged with handing over to cash to a suspect in the Paris terror attacks. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160429/uk-pair-charged-with-funding-paris-attacks-suspect Fri, 29 Apr 2016 15:13:40 +0200 uk-pair-charged-with-funding-paris-attacks-suspect Chilling CCTV Footage of one of the Paris terrorists blowing himself up in a bar has been broadcast for the first time in France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160426/video-the-moment-a-paris-terrorist-blew-himself-up Tue, 26 Apr 2016 12:32:55 +0200 video-the-moment-a-paris-terrorist-blew-himself-up A suspected French arms trafficker who was arrested in Malaga last week will be extradited to France in 10 days, a Spanish court said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160418/arms-trafficker-behind-paris-supermarket-attack-to-be-sent-to-france Mon, 18 Apr 2016 17:40:35 +0200 arms-trafficker-behind-paris-supermarket-attack-to-be-sent-to-france Three suspected suicide bombers involved in the Brussels attacks have been named and it's emerged they had clear links to the Paris attackers. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160323/brussels-suicide-bombers-had-links-to-paris-attacks Wed, 23 Mar 2016 09:30:54 +0100 brussels-suicide-bombers-had-links-to-paris-attacks The lawyer to Paris attacks fugitive Salah Abdeslam said he would mount a legal challenge to the French prosecutor and would also launch a legal fight to avoid his client being extradited from Belgium to France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160320/paris-terror-suspect-wanted-to-blow-himself-up Sun, 20 Mar 2016 10:07:48 +0100 paris-terror-suspect-wanted-to-blow-himself-up UPDATED: Key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was formally charged Saturday with "terrorist murder" and being part of a terrorist group, the Belgian federal prosecutors office said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160319/paris-attacks-suspect-leaves-brussels-hospital Sat, 19 Mar 2016 10:38:58 +0100 paris-attacks-suspect-leaves-brussels-hospital Victims of the November attacks in Paris and their relatives have expressed relief over the arrest of top fugitive Salah Abdeslam, saying they were glad he was captured alive to face justice. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160319/victims-of-paris-attacks-glad-suspect-was-captured-alive Sat, 19 Mar 2016 13:43:30 +0100 victims-of-paris-attacks-glad-suspect-was-captured-alive One gunman was killed and four officers, including a French policewoman were injured, but who were counter-terrorism investigators looking for in Tuesday's raid? https://www.thelocal.fr/20160316/paris-terror-attacks-who-was-targeted-in-brussels-raid Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:22:50 +0100 paris-terror-attacks-who-was-targeted-in-brussels-raid One gunman was killed by police in Brussels on Tuesday and two others are believed to be on the run after a raid by French and Belgian officers investigating the Paris terror attacks. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160315/police-fired-on-during-raid-linked-to-paris-attacks Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:27:49 +0100 police-fired-on-during-raid-linked-to-paris-attacks The frontman of the band whose concert was targeted in the Paris attacks apologized at the weekend for alleging that the club's security guards were involved, saying he was struggling with trauma. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160313/singer-in-paris-attack-apologizes-for-alleging-inside-job Sun, 13 Mar 2016 09:49:25 +0100 singer-in-paris-attack-apologizes-for-alleging-inside-job Police investigating the Paris terror attacks feared a fourth commando cell was still at large, but the suspected jihadists turned out to be a Belgian call-girl and her Parisian lover. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160223/fourth-paris-terror-cell-turns-to-be-call-girl-and-lover Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:23:42 +0100 fourth-paris-terror-cell-turns-to-be-call-girl-and-lover Last year's deadly attacks in Paris "would not have happened" without the use of encrypted communications to enable the perpetrators to avoid detection, the NSA chief said in an interview. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160218/encrypted-messages-allowed-paris-attacks-to-escape-detection Thu, 18 Feb 2016 08:32:49 +0100 encrypted-messages-allowed-paris-attacks-to-escape-detection