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France: Tens Of Thousands Take To The Streets To Protest Against Macron's Vaccine Passports
The streets of France were filled again on Saturday for the ninth straight week with protesters against President Emmanuel Macron’s vaccine passport scheme.
Authorities estimated that around 170,000 protesters took part in towns across France, with roughly 30,000 in Paris.
The protests came the day after prosecutors charged the former Health Minister Agnes Buzyn in a special court in Paris for “endangering...
Encrypted email website ProtonMail passes user's IP address to French authorities, leading to arrest of climate activist
A French climate activist has been arrested after the private email service ProtonMail cooperated with authorities after a court ruling, logging details of a user before providing it to the police to identify a French citizen.
On Monday, Andy Yen, the founder and CEO of Proton, the company behind the Swiss email provider ProtonMail, published a statement saying that he deplored the way legal tools...
22-year-old French man Dead 9 Hours after first Pfizer dose
Frenchman Maxime Beltra died last July, hours after receiving his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. In a video clip circulating on the Internet in recent days, a woman claims that the 22-year-old’s autopsy reveals that the young man’s death was not related to an allergy but to pericarditis cause by the vaccine. This extract is massively shared as proof of the responsibility of the anti-Covid...
Heavily Armed ‘Commandos’ Storm French Neighborhood, Take Residents Hostage
A large group of heavily armed suspects stormed a neighborhood in the commune of Cavaillon, France, during the weekend, according to reports.
The terrifying attack unfolded on Saturday evening as families, including children and senior citizens, were reveling outdoors in the Docteur Ayme residential district.
Around 15 combatants dressed in black and wearing hoods piled out of two vehicles and unleashed...
France slaps Google with 'biggest fine ever' of €500 Million
US internet giant Google is facing its largest fine ever, €500 million euros from the French competition authority, which has ruled that the company had not respected the copyright rules surrounding licensing fees.
The country’s competition authority hit Google with the half-a-billion-euro fine on Tuesday for its failure to comply “in good faith” with media outlets under a European Union copyright...
'Knifeman' arrested after stabbing 2 French sellers in Mall
A disgruntled customer has stabbed two cell phone store clerks in a shopping mall in the city of Claye-Souilly, near Paris. The suspect was arrested shortly after the attack.
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter that the assailant was detained by an off-duty police officer and an off-duty corrections officer who were at the store when the attack happened.
News channel LCI reported...
Man Stabbed to Death by African Migrant at Paris Metro Station
A migrant from Sudan was arrested for allegedly stabbing another man to death during an altercation at a metro station in Paris, France, according to reports.
The 29-year-old suspect was apprehended under suspicion of intentional homicide following the incident, which unfolded at around 10:20 p.m. on Saturday night.
A fight broke out between two men for unknown reasons on a platform at Bercy metro...
French General Investigated For Inciting Hate And Violence For Asking 'Who Controls The Media?' On Live TV
Dominique Delawarde, a retired French army general, is facing possible criminal charges following a June 18th appearance on Morandini Live — a popular French TV CNews show — in which he visibly shocked the Jewish interviewer by asking, “Who controls the media?”
Here is a transcript of the exchange — you can watch the video below:
Claude Posternak: So we “La Tribune Diplomatique Internationale”...
Vatican and Pope Francis want to make the Founder of EU a SAINT
Pope Francis has approved a decree recognizing the “heroic virtues” of French politician Robert Schuman, known as an ‘architect’ of the EU. The official decision is one of the first steps to Schuman potentially becoming a saint.
Having served as France’s finance, foreign and prime minister after World War II, the statesman became best known for proposing economic unity among European nations...
Google slapped with 220 Million EURO fine following French probe into anti-competitive behavior
Tech giant Google has been fined 220 million euros ($268 million) by the French regulator following a probe into allegations that the company’s web services were unfairly sending business to its advertising server.
“The decision to fine Google is particularly significant as it is the first throughout the world to tackle complex algorithmic auction processes used for online display-advertising,”...
Antifa Terrorists Attack Catholics Commemorating Martyrs in Paris
Far-left Antifa militants physically attacked a group of Roman Catholic believers commemorating the martyrdom of Catholics by leftist extremists during the Paris commune in 1871, leaving one man hospitalised.
On Saturday a group of around three hundred Catholics gathered to honour those shot and killed by the revolutionary socialists who murdered 49 “hostages” in 1871 during the Paris commune,...
France Threatens US with 'Extremely Serious Consequences' over Continuous Espionage on Europeans
Reports that the US National Intelligence Agency, aided by Denmark, spied on top European politicians including Angela Merkel are “extremely serious” if true, the French secretary of state for European affairs has said.
“It is extremely serious, we must verify if our EU partners, Danes, have committed errors or mistakes in their cooperation with the American services… And then on the American...
Le Pen Warns Macron: 'Danger of Civil War' Unless Islamist Problem Tackled
Populist leader Marine Le Pen has echoed the sentiments of a letter written by active duty military personnel by warning President Macron that there’s a danger of “civil war” unless he solves the country’s Islamist problem.
Le Pen made the comments following the publication of the letter, which outlined how the soldiers had been “fighting Islamism” in dangerous countries abroad only for...
Migrant Rival Groups Clash in Broad Daylight in Paris Suburbs
A wild altercation between rival factions unfolded in broad daylight on Saturday in the suburbs of Paris, France, according to reports.
Around twenty combatants attacked each other with projectiles and sticks in the commune of Noisy-le-Sec. One suspect was reportedly armed with a tear gas canister.
Men can be seen throwing objects, including construction materials, at each other and multiple vehicles...
100,000 French sign Petition Urging Military Coup Against Macron
A group of active French military personnel has published a new open letter to the country’s president Emmanuel Macron, warning him of a “civil war” brewing in the country after all the “concessions” he’s made to Islamism.
The letter, published in the conservative Valeurs Actuelles magazine late on Sunday, strikes a similar tone to the message published by the same...