Credit: TOI PARIS: A gunman suspected of killing seven people in the name of al-Qaida, including three children at a Jewish school, said on Wednesday he would hand himself over to police to end an hours-long siege in southwestern France. About 300 police, some in bullet-proof body armour, cordoned off […]
BRUSSELS, March 20 (KUNA) — The Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe (FIOE) has strongly condemned the shooting of four people including three children at a Jewish school in the French city of Toulouse on Monday. “It is in an appalling incident that represents a despicable and shocking act,” said […]
TOULOUSE, France, March 19 (Reuters) – A gunman shot dead three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse on Monday, days after killing three soldiers nearby, prompting French President Nicolas Sarkozy to put the region on its highest terrorism alert. With the attacker, who escaped on a […]
Si Kaddour Benghabrit Imams from their pulpits instructed Muslim congregations to refuse taking part in the injustices against Jews. In Paris, a grand mosque built in honour of the 100,000 Muslim soldiers who died fighting for France in the First World War, became a sanctuary for Jews escaping persecution less […]
Rfi France. A Muslim man who attacked worshippers at a French mosque with a bat in the northern city of Arras near the Belgian border on Friday, killing one person and seriously wounding another, is under psychiatric observation, a prosecutor said. The 32-year-old was placed in a psychiatric hospital shortly […]
ArabNews. BRUSSELS: A mosque near Brussels was the target Monday evening of an arson attack in which the imam died, Belgian authorities said late Monday. One man was arrested — a Muslim who said he was born in 1978 — in the attack on the mosque in Anderlecht, a suburb […]
France 24. AFP – The Socialist tipped to become France’s next president took aim at the wealthy Tuesday with plans to slap a 75 percent tax rate on top earners. Francois Hollande said it was simply a case of “patriotism to accept to pay extra tax to get the country back […]
France 24. REUTERS – French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday he would fight with everything he has to win a second term but will bow out of politics if he loses an April-May election. Sarkozy, who is badly lagging Socialist challenger Francois Hollande in opinion polls six weeks before the […]
Credit: Spiegel International-Germany. Nicolas Sarkozy is unpopular because he has behaved more like an upstart than a president. He’s trying to get re-elected,claiming to have changed, but it’s probably too late. The French people prefer his Socialist opponent François Hollande,who would bring change to France and upheaval to Europe. By Mathieu […]
AFP – President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday that there are too many immigrants in France,defending his re-election campaign promise to cut the number of new arrivals in half.”Our system of integration is working more and more badly, because we have too many foreigners on our territory and we can no longer manage […]
y RFI The debate in France over halal meat, which has become a major issue of the presidential election campaign, once again reared its head on Tuesday when the president of theFrench Council of the Muslim Faith, Mohammed Moussaoui, condemned the use of Muslims as ‘scapegoats’ in the row. More: http://www.english.rfi.fr/france/20120306-dont-use-us-scapegoats-halal-meat-row-say-frances-muslims
Source: REUTERS By: Tom Heneghan. PARIS, March 5 (Reuters)- France’s prime minister urged Muslims and Jews to consider scrapping their halal and kosher slaughter laws on Monday as President Nicolas Sarkozy […]
The issue of France’s Muslims moved front and center into the presidential campaign with the incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, excluding on Saturday any special indulgences for halal meat or separate […]
By RFI There will be no new French law on Turkey’s alleged genocide of Armenians until after France’s presidential election, President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party announced Wednesday. France’s Armenian lobby group has demanded that candidates promise to redraft the bill after it was declared unconstitutional. No sooner had the Constitutional Council […]
By RFI French Socialist presidential candidate François Hollande arrived in London Wednesday for a brief visit where he had lunch with Labour leader Ed Miliband and address expats. He says he wants to discuss reorientating Europe with fellow “progressives” and will defend his plans to rein in high finance. Hollande’s team hope […]
President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered his government to draft a new law punishing denial of the Armenian genocide after France’s top court struck it down as unconstitutional. Armenians say up […]
France and Germany are following the US and Britain in withdrawing civilian staff from Afghan government institutions in the wake of the killing of two senior US Nato officers. […]
Rfi France. Taliban infiltrators have been responsible for very few of the attacks on foreign troops by Afghan soldiers, a Nato official says. The deaths of four French soldiers last month led President Nicolas Sarkozy to announce that France’s troops would pull out early because its supposed allies were unreliable. More: […]
Rfi France. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his far-right election rival Marine Le Pen traded blows on Tuesday over claims that all meat in the Paris region is halal, prepared according to Islamic law. The National Front’s Le Pen, trailing both Sarkozy and Socialist frontrunner François Hollande ahead of the […]
France24 After months of “will he” or “won’t he”, French President Nicolas Sarkozy officially announced his intention to run for a second term in the country’s upcoming presidential elections during an appearance on prime-time television Wednesday. When asked point-blank if he planned to run for the presidency, Sarkozy responded bluntly, […]