With some 7,000 COVID-19 patients still in ICU while France remains in a complete lockdown, its ‘Health’ Minister seems more concerned about “feedback” he’s received “showing that there is an alarming decrease in abortion procedures:” Olivier Véran, the Minister for Solidarities and Health, was asked April 1 in the French Senate to clarify whether measures would be taken to facilitate... 

This is insane…. a law to ban the criticism of one single country? Not only this is a violation of free speech rights but ok…. maybe a law to ban criticism of ALL countries would be more normal and logical. This is simply insane and unacceptable. Members of the French Senate have introduced a bill to criminalize criticism of the state of Israel punishable by up to 5 years in prison and... 

According to a report of the French senate, 2.800 churches across the country, many of them centuries old, will be demolished as restoration costs exceed the cost of demolitions over the next years. This church, Église Saint-Jacques d’Abbeville, a Neo-Gothic masterpiece in Abbeville, Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie dating back to 1868, was demolished for a total cost of 350,000€ in 2013. The reasoning:... 

The French Senate has passed a bill which makes it a crime to publicly deny that the Ottoman Empire’s 1915 killings of Armenians was a genocide. The move sparked fresh condemnation from Turkey, and could lead to further tension. The upper house of parliament voted 127-86 in favor of the legislation on Monday, after it had been passed by the National Assembly, France’s lower house, last... 

French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks during a media conference at an EU summit in Brussels. Nicolas Sarkozy’s plans to strip certain foreign-born criminals of their French nationality has been thrown out by politicians – with one likening it to the Vichy regime in France that collaborated with the Nazis. The proposal intended to deny nationality to people naturalised as French citizens...