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 French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has spoken out against the “normalisation of evil and racism” following verbal attacks against the newly elected hard-left mayor of a Paris suburb. https://www.thelocal.fr/20260401/french-pm-denounces-racism-after-attacks-on-hard-left-mayor Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:07:20 +0200 french-pm-denounces-racism-after-attacks-on-hard-left-mayor Paris's fire brigade has opened an internal investigation into accusations that several firefighters attended a party where revellers dressed in blackface and Ku Klux Klan outfits, the force told AFP on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20251023/paris-firefighters-probe-blackface-and-ku-klux-klan-fancy-dress-party Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:06:17 +0200 paris-firefighters-probe-blackface-and-ku-klux-klan-fancy-dress-party French prosecutors on Monday were probing a terror motive after a man who had posted racist videos shot dead his Tunisian neighbour and badly wounded a Turkish citizen in the south of the country. https://www.thelocal.fr/20250602/france-probes-terror-motive-after-man-shoots-dead-tunisian-neighbour Mon, 02 Jun 2025 18:01:06 +0200 france-probes-terror-motive-after-man-shoots-dead-tunisian-neighbour 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 There can never be a place for racism and hate in France, President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday after the brutal stabbing to death of a Muslim in a mosque in the south of the country. https://www.thelocal.fr/20250427/no-place-for-racism-and-hate-in-france-macron-says-after-murder-of-muslim-in-mosque Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:50:59 +0200 no-place-for-racism-and-hate-in-france-macron-says-after-murder-of-muslim-in-mosque A French association behind a campaign to force officials in the resort city of Biarritz to rename the city's historic "La Negresse" district has received death threats and turned to police, the group said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20250410/french-group-gets-death-threats-over-renaming-of-negresse-district Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:59:49 +0200 french-group-gets-death-threats-over-renaming-of-negresse-district Tens of thousands of people in Paris and other French cities rallied against racism and the rise of the far right on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20250323/in-pictures-tens-of-thousands-in-france-protest-racism-and-far-right Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:08:57 +0100 in-pictures-tens-of-thousands-in-france-protest-racism-and-far-right 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 France's lower house of parliament on Thursday approved a bill forbidding workplace discrimination based on hair texture, which the draft law's backers say targets mostly black women wearing their hair naturally. https://www.thelocal.fr/20240328/french-bill-seeks-to-ban-hair-discrimination-affecting-black-women Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:57:17 +0100 french-bill-seeks-to-ban-hair-discrimination-affecting-black-women French investigators have opened an inquiry over alleged racism against French-Malian pop superstar Aya Nakamura following reports she might perform at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. https://www.thelocal.fr/20240315/france-probes-racist-backlash-against-pop-star-nakamura-over-olympics Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:08:33 +0100 france-probes-racist-backlash-against-pop-star-nakamura-over-olympics A video of police fatally shooting a teenager during a traffic check has put French policing back in the spotlight. https://www.thelocal.fr/20230628/french-police-violence-notorious-cases Wed, 28 Jun 2023 19:44:33 +0200 french-police-violence-notorious-cases Following riots in 2023 that put a spotlight on France's often complicated relationship with race and immigration, a survey has illuminated some attitudes. https://www.thelocal.fr/20230711/in-numbers-what-the-french-really-think-about-race-and-racism Tue, 11 Jul 2023 18:58:59 +0200 in-numbers-what-the-french-really-think-about-race-and-racism More than 90 percent of Black or mixed-race people in France have experienced racial discrimination "often" or "from time to time" according to a new study on anti-Black racism in France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20230214/almost-all-black-french-people-have-experienced-racial-discrimination-study-shows Tue, 14 Feb 2023 18:54:54 +0100 almost-all-black-french-people-have-experienced-racial-discrimination-study-shows On Monday, French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced the French government's plan to tackle racism, antisemitism and other forms of prejudice. Here's what it says. https://www.thelocal.fr/20230130/french-pm-unveils-four-year-plan-to-counter-racism-and-anti-semitism Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:27:02 +0100 french-pm-unveils-four-year-plan-to-counter-racism-and-anti-semitism The French parliament has voted to sanction a far-right MP with a 15-day suspension and pay cut after yelling "back to Africa" at a black colleague, an incident that drew outrage across the political spectrum. https://www.thelocal.fr/20221104/french-parliament-in-uproar-after-far-right-mps-racist-outburst Fri, 04 Nov 2022 09:30:46 +0100 french-parliament-in-uproar-after-far-right-mps-racist-outburst Many political headlines from France in recent months have been about the rise of the far-right, but the latest annual survey into attitudes towards race has found that ordinary French people are more tolerant than ever. https://www.thelocal.fr/20220725/france-is-more-tolerant-than-ever-study-into-racism-finds Mon, 25 Jul 2022 14:20:17 +0200 france-is-more-tolerant-than-ever-study-into-racism-finds France international Kylian Mbappe on Sunday accused the president of the French Football Federation (FFF) of ignoring racist abuse after his penalty miss at Euro 2020. https://www.thelocal.fr/20220620/mbappe-accuses-french-federation-boss-of-ignoring-racist-abuse Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:43:20 +0200 mbappe-accuses-french-federation-boss-of-ignoring-racist-abuse A French court has ordered Twitter to give activists full access to all its documents relating to efforts to combat racism, sexism and other forms of hate speech on the social network. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210707/french-court-orders-twitter-to-reveal-anti-hate-speech-efforts Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:03:15 +0200 french-court-orders-twitter-to-reveal-anti-hate-speech-efforts South African opera star Pretty Yende on Tuesday accused French customs agents of treating her with "outrageous racial discrimination" at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport, a claim strongly contested by police and airport sources. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210623/south-african-opera-star-accuses-paris-airport-staff-of-outrageous-racial-discrimination Wed, 23 Jun 2021 10:21:24 +0200 south-african-opera-star-accuses-paris-airport-staff-of-outrageous-racial-discrimination He's one of the world's most famous Frenchmen, but France is divided over whether the 200th anniversary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte should be marked in any way. Here's why. https://www.thelocal.fr/20210503/hero-or-villain-why-france-is-divided-over-napoleon Mon, 03 May 2021 17:50:05 +0200 hero-or-villain-why-france-is-divided-over-napoleon