Algerian football fans in Paris, Marseille, Lyon and other cities celebrated their soccer team’s Africa Cup of Nations win by rioting, looting stores and wielding chainsaws in a night of chaos. Algerians poured out onto the streets following their team’s victory over Ivory Coast last night. Police were deployed to the center of Paris to keep order as vandals threw fireworks. One video even shows... 

A local police station in the department of Eure in northern France was attacked by a group of 15 young hooded muslims who launched projectiles and fireworks while shouting the two words ‘Allahu Akbar’. According to the French newspaper Le Figaro, the attack happened around 2 AM last Friday at the Val-de-Reuil-Louviers police station with the 15 hooded ‘youths’ firing and hurling projectiles... 

The US defense secretary is trying to “internationalize” the US stand-off with Iran by convincing NATO allies to help. France reportedly rebuked his advances, saying the alliance shouldn’t be dragged into war in the Gulf, RT.com reports. Mark Esper is meeting his NATO counterparts in Brussels this week, attempting to bring NATO members onto Washington’s side as its confrontation with Tehran... 

Noteworthy gains were made by Europe’s nationalist-populist, eurosceptic parties in this weekend’s European Parliament elections as support for centrist parties which had previously dominated the European Union for decades drastically fell. The enormous success enjoyed by Italy’s League party, France’s National Rally, and the UK’s five-week-old Brexit party are glaring signs that Europe... 

French authorities say they have arrested four Algerian nationals, including a father, mother, and son following a bombing in Lyon that injured 13 and is being treated as a terror attack. A 24-year-old IT student is the primary suspect, while his parents and a related Algerian student are alleged accomplices in the detonation of a “homemade nail bomb” on Friday, according to the French... 

Last year, “French” rapper Nick Conrad published a song called “Hang the Whites”. In the accompanying video, he killed a white man and uttered the words “I go to the nurseries. I kill white babies.” Surprisingly, this provoked a reaction from the French ruling class. He was denounced by politicians and charged with incitement to violence. Last month, the French justice system cracked down... 

President Erdogan does not hide his views on the French school. In a recent article, Le Point revealed that the Head of State plans to open Turkish schools in France. In April, the heads of the French high school in Turkey received several “moderately polite” visits from Ankara officials. The French high school in Turkey not only welcomes children of foreign parents, but also those who are leaders... 

A bus driver in Paris described as an “Islamist” refused to pick up the daughter of a famous Algerian poet because her skirt was too short. According to a report by Italian newspaper Il Giornale, the incident occurred last Tuesday at the Botzaris stop near the Buttes Chaumont park in the 19th arrondissement. In a Facebook post (which was subsequently censored), Algerian poet Kamel Bencheikh revealed... 

French police arrested four people suspected of plotting an “extremely violent” attack on security forces, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. Three men and a teenage minor had reportedly been working to accumulate weapons for the attack, which would have targeted security personnel. The minor was already serving a three year probation sentence for attempting to travel to Syria to join... 

The Schengen agreement and the current migrant-sharing mechanism are deeply flawed and need urgent fixing, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. Europe must “have borders” even if it means a smaller Schengen zone, he said. In the first major press conference since the Yellow Vest movement took off in November, Macron unveiled a range of policy measures to placate the protesters, including... 

An architecture expert has called for Notre Dame’s fallen spire to be replaced with an Islamic minaret as an apology to Algerian Muslims killed by French police. Writing in Domus, Tom Wilkinson, history editor of the Architectural Review, argues that the rebuild is an opportunity to communicate a message of political correctness. “I can’t say I ever thought it the most beautiful cathedral in... 

France’s Marine Le Pen, one of the leading right-wing voices in the European Union, is throwing her political weight behind Italian hard-line Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to set up a major populist group in the EU legislature after next month’s elections. The head of France’s National Rally party said that “we have mandated Matteo Salvini… to try to build this very big group of the Defense... 

Macron’s initial promise to restore the magnificent cathedral to its former glory has been shoved aside. Now he says it will be rebuilt “consistent with our modern, diverse nation”, and at the same time the French Government has announced an international competition to redesign the Notre Dame spire. After the announcement designers haven’t missed the opportunity to respond with their ideas,... 

La Dauphine (The Dolphin) has reported that a fire of unknown origin occurs in a church in Eyguières. Around 16:30, this Sunday, a fire broke out in a church in the center of the village of Eyguières, in the north of the Bouches-du-Rhone confirmed a source at the departmental service fire and rescue Bouches-du-Rhône. The fire damaged furniture without doing any injury. About 25 firefighters have... 

The French unit will be deployed in Estonia, just 140 kilometres away from Russia. The deployment is Paris’ contribution to the increased NATO presence in the Baltic States and Poland. Russia has long voiced alarm over the alliance’s activities near its borders. A unit of 300 soldiers from the French Army and the Foreign Legion is expected to arrive in the Estonian town of Tapa, just 140 kilometres...