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Operation Ronces: France Prepares For “Civil War” Against Muslims
French authorities are preparing for “civil war” against Muslims in order to “clean up” the country, according to prominent author Éric Zemmour, who claims a high placed government source told him of the plan.
Franco-Algerian Zemmour gave an interview with French radio station RTL during which he revealed details of a program called “Operation Ronces,” developed in coordination with the...
Crowds Boo French PM at Nice Memorial, Demand His Resignation
Crowds jeered the French Prime Minister as he arrived for a minute’s silence to remember victims of the attack in Nice.
Boos rang out as it emerged that confidence in the capacity of the government to combat terrorism had plummeted to an all time low.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls joined thousands packing the seafront, scene of the Bastille day carnage.
With flowers in their hands, crowds stood on...
Le Pen praises France's National Front party's result at local elections
France’s National Front party has won a sizeable number of council seats in Sunday’s second round of local elections. Though the party didn’t do as well as was predicted in polls, its leader Marine Le Pen calls the results a “magnificent success.”
The National Front is “becoming a powerful political force in numerous regions,” Le Pen tweeted, adding that that the party...
Jihadist driver deliberately hits crowds of pedestrians in France
Scene in France where driver shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ run over 11 pedestrians.
At least 2 people have been seriously injured after a Muslim Jihadist driver shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ has deliberately run into crowds of pedestrians in several separate locations in the French city of Dijon
In total, 11 people have been injured in the run-over incidents on Sunday evening, AFP reports.
“Nine...
Hundreds of thousands rally in France against surrogacy for same-sex families
Over 500,000 opponents of same-sex marriage have flooded the streets of Paris and Bordeaux to protest against medically-assisted reproduction for gay couples, rally organizers said. A previous protest for “traditional family values” gathered 100,000.
Streets of Paris and Bordeaux have been smothered in pink, blue and white as scores of demonstrators have been waving flags of the “Manif pour...
French PM shocked by Euro Election Results
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has described the French patriotic and Eurosceptic party’s triumph in the European Parliament elections “a shock” and “an earthquake”.
Valls made the remark on Monday, a day after the EP elections were held in France.
The French prime minister’s ruling Socialist party suffered a humiliating defeat by falling to the third place with 14 percent...
Thousands protest in France against austerity measures
Demonstrators hold a banner that reads “No to the austerity, yes to the social Europe” during a rally in Paris on September 30, 2012.
Thousands of civil servants in France have held a one-day strike over pay and work conditions.
The demonstrators marched in several cities on Thursday to protest against the government’s planned spending cuts.
The strike came after the government last month...
France dismantles Roma camp, evicts 800 immigrants
French authorities have evicted some 800 Roma immigrants from a campground in northern France, as the controversial treatment of the Roma population in the European country continues.
Around 300 police forces attacked the Roma camp in Saint-Ouen in the northern suburbs of Paris early on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of Roma people, including women and children, to leave the place.
The cleared shantytown...
France demands explanation for NSA spying
France has summoned the US ambassador after reports emerged that the National Security Agency (NSA) has recorded millions of French telephone calls.
The French daily Le Monde recently published a report which showed that the NSA spy agency secretly taped more than 70 million phone conversations in France over a 30-day period this year.
Paris summoned US Ambassador Charles Hammerman Rivkin for explanation...
Criticism hits France after Interior Minister disowns Gypsy migrants
France has come under fire from the European Commission after Interior Minister Manuel Valls said Roma migrants “are due to return to their motherlands” because of their lifestyle, which is “in confrontation” with the French way of living.
“They should return to Romania or Bulgaria and for that the European Union, with the Bulgarian and Romanian authorities, must ensure these populations...
Interior Minister: 'Islam destroys democracy in France'
France’s Interior Minister Manuel Valls said that there was a need to review the country’s migration policy in relation to Africans and questioned the compatibility of Islam and democracy. France has long been assimilating immigrants, but in recent years the situation has changed, and the locals are now the ones that are asked to adjust.
At a government meeting dedicated to the major challenges...
French police clashes with hundreds of Muslim protesters in Trappes
Muslim women are not allowed to wear the face veil in France.
At least five people have been injured in France after clashes broke out between police forces and hundreds of Muslim protesters in a town west of the capital, Paris.
Clashes broke out in the town of Trappes late Friday, resulting in the arrest of at least six people.
The nearly 300 demonstrators were protesting the arrest of a man whose...
French secret services spy on citizens just like PRISM
The logo of France’s Directorate-General for External Security
France’s secret services illegally have been spying on the citizens by monitoring their telephone and internet communications as well as internet searches, a report says.
On Thursday, French daily Le Monde reported that the country’s security services had stored the data from communications on a supercomputer at the headquarters of...
French government cuts immigrants welfare by 83%
It seems that migration policies of a leading country in Europe, France, are seriously changing. The country is no longer able to hold back the crowd of migrants, many of whom do not want to integrate into the social and economic life of their new home country. The upcoming radical changes for migrants were announced by French Interior Minister Manuel Valls.
After a meeting on the National Immigration...
France Interior Ministry threatens to expel Muslims
French demonstrators condemned an anti-Islam movie made in the US at a demo near the US Embassy in Paris on September 15, 2012.
France’s Interior Ministry has threatened to expel any Muslim who, as Paris claims, undermines security and poses “a threat to the country”.
France’s Interior Minister Manuel Valls announced on Thursday that Paris will not hesitate to expel those Muslims who...