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 memorial to French World War II soldiers and Resistance fighters has been vandalised with an anti-health pass slogan, authorities said, an act that President Emmanuel Macron branded an "insult" to the nation's memory. https://www.thelocal.fr/20211214/french-world-war-two-memorial-vandalised-with-anti-health-pass-slogan Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:45:46 +0100 french-world-war-two-memorial-vandalised-with-anti-health-pass-slogan The very French tradition of burning cars on the national July 14th holiday is very much alive and well with some 850 vehicles torched at the weekend, but where does this tradition come from? https://www.thelocal.fr/20180716/850-cars-torched-across-france-on-bastille-day-weekend Mon, 16 Jul 2018 15:36:25 +0200 850-cars-torched-across-france-on-bastille-day-weekend A French village priest who smashed a statue of Jesus in his church has blamed the "stress and fatigue" of his job for the act, which shocked his congregation. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151111/stressed-french-priest-smashes-jesus-statue Wed, 11 Nov 2015 11:38:10 +0100 stressed-french-priest-smashes-jesus-statue UPDATED: Around 40 Christian tombs were desecrated in a cemetery in eastern France on Monday, with headstones uprooted or broken, the interior ministry said in a statement. Three youths have been arrested. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150804/dozens-of-christian-tombs-desecrated-in-france Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:20:37 +0200 dozens-of-christian-tombs-desecrated-in-france Dozens of graves were vandalised at a cemetery in Normandy on Tuesday, just days after France was left outraged when hundreds of Jewish tombs were defaced in the east of the country. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150218/graves-vandalised-at-normandy-cemetery Wed, 18 Feb 2015 09:38:00 +0100 graves-vandalised-at-normandy-cemetery