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 A French teenager who was filmed threatening his teacher with a fake gun in a tough Paris suburb was charged Sunday with aggravated violence, prosecutors said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20181022/outrage-in-france-after-teen-threatens-teacher-with-fake-gun Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:09:18 +0200 outrage-in-france-after-teen-threatens-teacher-with-fake-gun French football federation president Noel Le Graet said he was adopting a "very careful" approach after a photoshopped image of national team coach Didier Deschamps emerged accompanied by threats from Islamic State sympathisers. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171101/french-football-chief-very-careful-over-deschamps-threat Wed, 01 Nov 2017 10:21:08 +0100 french-football-chief-very-careful-over-deschamps-threat France was informed of a planned terror attack on its team at the Rio Olympics, according to the head of military intelligence cited in an official document. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160714/france-informed-of-planned-terror-attack-on-rio-olympics-team Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:14:15 +0200 france-informed-of-planned-terror-attack-on-rio-olympics-team The number of passengers using the high-speed Eurostar rail link slumped following terror attacks in Paris and Brussels, with US and Asian travellers in particular shunning the service, the company said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160520/fewer-passengers-ride-the-eurostar-due-to-terror-fears Fri, 20 May 2016 17:07:50 +0200 fewer-passengers-ride-the-eurostar-due-to-terror-fears France will create centres in each region of the country to de-radicalize people or prevent them becoming involved in jihadist groups, the prime minister said Monday as he laid out new anti-terror measures. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160509/how-france-plans-to-fight-radicalization Mon, 09 May 2016 14:53:00 +0200 how-france-plans-to-fight-radicalization Paris authorities have been stepping up their security in the capital. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160425/paris-police-will-soon-get-surveillance-drones-cctv-security-state-emergency Mon, 25 Apr 2016 18:25:37 +0200 paris-police-will-soon-get-surveillance-drones-cctv-security-state-emergency Authorities have given the all-clear to two Paris-bound Air France flights from the United States that were diverted on Tuesday after anonymous bomb threats, officials and media reported. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151118/bomb-scare-diverts-us-air-france-flights-paris Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:04:35 +0100 bomb-scare-diverts-us-air-france-flights-paris A regional pétanque (boules) championship in south western France was marred earlier this month when one of the matches descended into a mass brawl, that saw seven people arrested and the referee suffer a blow to the head. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150507/boules-match-descends-into-violent-brawl Thu, 07 May 2015 11:29:54 +0200 boules-match-descends-into-violent-brawl Pétanque is a game many in France might associate with daytime boozing and elderly men, but some take this quintessential Gallic pastime quite seriously, it seems. In fact one team dropped out of this year’s world championship after reportedly receiving death threats. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140708/death-threats-mar-french-petanque-championship Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:46:00 +0200 death-threats-mar-french-petanque-championship Around 750 police have been stationed at schools across the French city of Strasbourg after an anonymous person, believed to be a teenager, posted a message online threatening to commit suicide and kill several pupils at a school on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130517/french-police-on-alert-after-school-massacre-threat Fri, 17 May 2013 14:00:00 +0200 french-police-on-alert-after-school-massacre-threat Nigerian extremists have issued direct threats to France in retaliation for military action in Mali, the French consulate here said Monday, while warning its citizens against travel to northern Nigeria. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130128/nigerian-extremists-issue-threats-against-france Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:24:00 +0100 nigerian-extremists-issue-threats-against-france