Marseille, once a celebrated port city, is now a symbol of urban decay, state failure, and the collapse of France’s internal borders. Today known as the capital of heroin trafficking of Europe, it has transformed into the epicenter of a gang war that is drenching its working-class neighborhoods in blood. Narco is the boss; bullets are its language.
A legal loophole stops officers intervening once a vessel is afloat. The Times visits a beach where police play cat and mouse with migrants trying to reach the UK
As dawn broke over the dunes at Gravelines, northeast of Calais, officers from the Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité, a special mobile French police force, were already on the beach.
Overhead, a surveillance plane circled, monitoring movement along the 3km stretch of beach and on the dune system behind it, which offers cover to smugglers and to asylum seekers trying to get past police to board boats.
The delicacy is being sold on the black market in France. Some think the ban is an attempt to ‘keep down’ the country’s Muslim immigrants
Customs agents in Marseilles were jubilant when they pried open a shipping container to find nine tonnes of contraband substance.
The illicit goods were not, however, drugs or cigarettes, but 15,300 jars of sticky hazelnut spread.
The port seizure in May was part of a campaign by the authorities to bar El Mordjene, a sweet Algerian spread that enjoyed explosive success last year thanks to a craze propelled by TikTok and Instagram.
A child aged two has been injured in a shooting at the Loon-Plage camp near Dunkirk in northern France.
A migrant has been killed and five others injured in a shooting in France. The incident happened at about 10am on Saturday (June 14). A child, aged two, is among those injured at the Loon-Plage camp near Dunkirk. Two teams of paramedics, firefighters and a helicopter have been at the scene. The victims are believed to be from Africa, according to regional daily La Voix Du Nord.
Trump is showing that borders can be secured and illegal alien migrants deported. It takes political will.
President Donald Trump needled France Tuesday saying ‘you would be speaking German right now’ had it not been for the U.S.’s involvement in World War II, as he again touted Saturday’s Army parade.
‘We’re going to celebrate our country for a change,’ Trump said, expressing frustration that the U.S. hasn’t held military-centric celebrations to mark significant milestones.
Trump then told reporters how he had recently called up France as they were celebrating the World War II victory.
TRUMP: "We won World War II. France is celebrating, we helped them a lot. We're the only country that's not celebrating. If it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking German right now. You might be speaking Japanese too. You might be speaking a combination of both." pic.twitter.com/gT53R6sOqQ
— Autism Capital (@AutismCapital) June 10, 2025
French prosecutors are investigating the murder of a Tunisian man by his white neighbour in the south of France, treating it as a suspected racially-motivated terrorist attack.
It is the first time that counterterrorism prosecutors have taken charge of an investigation into a killing allegedly committed by a far-right supporter. It came amid growing concern over hate crimes against Muslims in France after a Malian man was stabbed to death in a mosque in April.
The Tunisian man, Hichem Miraoui, was a 46-year-old hairdresser who had lived in France for 14 years. He was shot five times on Saturday by a 53-year-old boilermaker named as Christophe B in the southern town of Puget-sur-Argens, near the Riviera resort of Saint-Raphaël, prosecutors said. A 25-year-old Turkish man was also shot in the hand.
Amid a rise in militant Muslim fundamentalism, French facilities for vulnerable children appear to be deliberately targeted by Islamist recruiters, who see them as perfect candidates for radicalisation.
This concern comes after reports highlighting other numerous shortcomings of the child welfare services: children are abused, addicted to drugs, or involved in prostitution rings.
Yes, the French capital has culture. It also has stabbings, riots, and a rising body count.
Culture is more than galleries and symphonies. It’s not just what hangs on a wall or flickers on a stage — it’s what pulses through the streets. How people live. How they treat each other. What they tolerate, and what they won’t. Culture is everything from high art to street-level ethics. From cathedrals to crime scenes.
That’s why the word itself is so slippery. You can interpret it a hundred ways. A canvas. A riot. A prayer. A protest. Paris is a masterclass in that ambiguity.
I present France, mon ami pic.twitter.com/DxhACyiF2f
— Michael McCarthy (@punishablepress) May 29, 2025
Deterring a suffering loved one from receiving a lethal injection could earn you up to two years in prison and a €30,000 fine.
French MPs are preparing to vote on a law that would legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide. In the final days of the parliamentary debate, as the proposal’s provisions were reviewed, some of the most outrageous articles were discussed and, unfortunately, many were adopted.
For several days, the voices denouncing the text have been growing. The proposal that MPs are preparing to vote on will make France one of the most permissive countries in this area, alongside countries that have sunk into increasingly serious abuses of ‘assisted dying,’ such as Canada and Belgium.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and the leaders of France and Canada – saying that they had “effectively said they want Hamas to remain in power”.
He also accused Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney of siding with “mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers”.
Carney is probably trying to monetize Hamas support rally’s.
Islamists are infiltrating France’s republican institutions and are a threat to national cohesion, according to a report presented to President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday.
The report, drawn up by two senior civil servants, claims to find evidence for a policy of “entryism” by the Muslim Brotherhood into public bodies like schools and local government.
After a meeting of his security cabinet, Macron asked the government to come up with “new proposals” by early next month in light of the seriousness of the report’s conclusions.
The same is happening in Canada and our elites don’t seem to mind in the least. Just ask PM Carney.
French plans to build a maximum-security prison wing for drug traffickers and Islamic militants near a former penal colony in French Guiana have sparked an outcry among local people and officials.
The wing would form part of a $450m (£337m) prison announced in 2017 that is expected to be completed by 2028 and hold 500 inmates. The prison would be built in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, a town bordering Suriname that once received prisoners shipped by Napoleon III in the 1800s, some of whom were sent to the notorious Devil’s Island off the coast of French Guiana.
The French justice minister, Gérald Darmanin, announced plans to build the high-security wing during an official visit to French Guiana on Saturday. He said in a Facebook post that 15 of the wing’s 60 spaces would be reserved for Islamic militants.
A recent left-wing report argues that France needs more immigration and a strong state propaganda campaign to counter widespread feelings of national alienation.
Immigration is vital for Europe’s old nations: this is the well-known refrain of the Left. In France, it has just been reiterated in a report by the progressive think tank Terra Nova, which recommends welcoming hundreds of thousands of migrants every year to ensure the “sustainability of the French social model.” The Observatory of Immigration and Demography (OID) responded by vigorously defending the exact opposite conclusion, backed by statistics. The battle is not only ideological; it is also economic.
The Théâtre de la Gaîté Lyrique in central Paris is on the brink of bankruptcy after a nearly 100-day illegal occupation by migrants—many of them falsely claiming to be minors—left the historic venue with over €3 million in financial losses. Despite co-funding the theatre and owning the property, Paris’ Socialist-run city council has now said it will not provide any additional economic support to help it recover.
French police are investigating a series of kidnappings of investors linked to cryptocurrency after a 60-year-old man had a finger chopped off by attackers who demanded his crypto-millionaire son pay a ransom.
In the latest of several kidnappings of cryptocurrency figures in France and western Europe, the man, who owned a cryptocurrency marketing company with his son, was freed from a house south of Paris on Saturday night. He had been held for more than two days.
One of the man’s fingers had been chopped off and investigators feared further mutilations could have happened if he had not been rescued.
