[ad_1] Paris: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen insisted Tuesday that her movement could still win 2027 presidential elections after she was banned from standing for office as part of an embezzlement conviction. She was given a prison term and fine on Monday after being convicted of a fake jobs scheme at the EU parliament,…
[ad_1] Paris: A French appeals court said Tuesday it would examine Marine Le Pen’s case within a timeframe that could potentially allow the far-right leader to contest the 2027 presidential election if her conviction is overturned. In a court ruling many commentators called a political earthquake, Le Pen on Monday was given a prison term…
[ad_1] Marseille: A months-long investigation into the mysterious death of a French toddler took a surprise turn on Tuesday when police arrested four people, including the boy’s grandparents, on suspicion of murder and concealment of a body. The death of Emile Soleil, a boy of two-and-a-half who went missing in a French Alpine village in…
[ad_1] Paris: French star actor Gerard Depardieu, on trial for sexual assault, told the Paris court on Tuesday that he was not in the habit of “groping” women, and called the #MeToo movement a “reign of terror.” “I don’t see why I would go around groping a woman, her buttocks, her breasts,” Depardieu said in…
[ad_1] Melinda French Gates has reacted to her ex-husband Bill Gates’ statement that their divorce was the “mistake” he regrets the most. Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates announced their split in May 2021 following 27 years of marriage. They were officially divorced three months later. Now, in a recent interview with Elle Magazine, the…
[ad_1] France should take back the Statue of Liberty because the US no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue, a French Euro-deputy said Sunday. “Give us back the Statue of Liberty”, centre-left politician Raphael Glucksmann said at a convention of his Place Publique centre-left movement. “We’re going to say to…
[ad_1] Paris: France’s Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said Thursday that EU countries “will not yield” to US President Donald Trump’s “threats” of steep tariffs on wine and champagne imports. “It is important for us Europeans to show who we are and that we will not yield to these kinds of threats,” Bayrou said in an…
[ad_1] Paris: A prominent French journalist on Sunday announced he was stepping down from his role as an expert analyst for broadcaster RTL after provoking an uproar by comparing French actions during colonial rule in Algeria to a World War II massacre committed by Nazi forces in France. Jean-Michel Aphatie, a veteran reporter and broadcaster,…
[ad_1] Paris: The daughter of convicted French rapist Dominique Pelicot said Thursday she had filed a complaint against her father accusing him of sexual abuse, after he was jailed for repeatedly sedating and raping her mother Gisele Pelicot along with dozens of strangers. Caroline Darian, whose parents are now divorced, filed the complaint on Wednesday,…
