The French government has suspended plans to introduce an eco-fuel tax after three weeks of increasingly violent protests across the country. Bowing to pressure from the street, the prime minister, Édouard Philippe, also announced an immediate freez...
‘Casse-toi, pauv’ con!’ was a phrase that went viral after being uttered by the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008, to a man who refused to shake his hand. An exact translation is difficult, but the sense is something along the lines o...
When the French president, Emmanuel Macron, surveyed the damage at the Arc de Triomphe after the worst violence in central Paris for over a decade, street-cleaners had tried to diligently scrub away graffiti saying: “Macron resign.” They needn’t hav...
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Vandalised cars and graffiti on the streets of central Paris, after a day of clashes between riot police and gilets jaunes protesters, who are demonstrating against rising oil prices and living costs • Paris riots: Macron to hold emergency meeting...
More than 90 people have been injured in the French capital after police used teargas and stun grenades on thousands of protesters who converged on the Champs Élysées, in the latest eruption of anti-government sentiment. The gilets jaunes (yellow ve...
Hospitals are rarely places of cheer and creativity, but the former Saint-Vincent-de-Paul hospital in Paris’s 14th district is one of the most exciting places on the left bank. Former ambulance bays and car parks now house allotments, a boules court...
Police fired teargas and used water cannon to disperse protesters in Paris who are angry over rising fuel costs and President Emmanuel Macron's economic policies, the second weekend of 'yellow vest' protests that have caused disruption across France...
Clashes broke out between crowds and police on the Champs Élysées in the second weekend of demonstrations Violence erupted on the Champs Élysées on Saturday as police clashed with “gilets jaunes” (yellow vests) protesters reportedly infiltr...
It’s Halloween, and a group of young Parisians, in various forms of fancy dress, are sitting around drinking beer. Nothing unusual about that, you might think – and you’d be right. Except for the fact that they’re 20 metres underground, in a candeli...
The people of the French and Belgian cities enjoy a rare traffic-free day Main image: Cyclists and pedestrians in front of the Arc de Triomphe Photograph: Francois Guillot/AFP/Getty Images Sun 16 Sep 2018 12.06 EDTLast modified on Mon 17 Sep 20...
Man claiming to have handgun and bomb asked to be put in contact with Iranian embassy A four-hour stand-off between an armed man who took hostages at a building in a northern district of Paris and police has ended without bloodshed. French...
A knifeman, identified as Khamzat Azimov, killed one man and injured four other people on Saturday in Paris, before being shot dead by police. Azimov lunged at people at random crying 'Allahu Akbar' according to witnesses Paris knifeman shot dead af...
French officials said the knife-wielding attacker who killed a passerby and injured four others in Paris on Saturday evening had been previously been flagged as a possible security risk and interviewed by counter-terrorist police. The attacker, name...
French police said 109 people were in custody on Wednesday after violent May Day protests in Paris, correcting an earlier figure of 209. Police used water cannon and teargas against masked protesters who smashed shop windows and hurled petrol bombs...