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Issued on: 20/03/2021 - 14:32 The Paris metropolitan area is one of 16 French regions that went into a partial lockdown Saturday that will last for at least a month. The new restrictions seek to limit trips outside the home except for work or essential activities. FRANCE 24 takes a look at the new lockdown rules. Advertising Read more The new partial lockdown attempts to stem the spread o, ...ادامه مطلب

Issued on: 17/04/2020 - 20:24Modified: 17/04/2020 - 20:23 France registered 761 more deaths from coronavirus infections on Friday, bringi, ...ادامه مطلب

Issued on: 02/04/2020 - 20:33Modified: 02/04/2020 - 21:07 France recorded 471 new coronavirus hospital deaths and 884 deaths in retiremen, ...ادامه مطلب

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Eight months after France’s notorious “Jungle” camp in Calais was dismantled, migrants desperate to make it to Britain are once again flocking to the northe port town. But this time, they do not even have the basics such as water or tents. On Friday, France’s new Interior Minister Gérard Collomb h, ...ادامه مطلب

A young black man who claims he was raped by police with a baton in a Paris suburb has left hospital and thanked supporters in France and abroad for rallying around him.The 22-year-old man, identified publicly only by his first name, Théo, said in a Facebook video on Thursday that the notes and visits from supporters "helped me hang on ... made it possible for me to be here among you today."He said he was still not healed after the alleged rape on February 2, which occurred during an identity check in his hometown of Aulnay-sous-Bois, north of Paris.Paris suburbs rage over 'police rape'Théo suffered such severe injuries to his rectum that he needed major emergency surgery and was prescribed 60 days of total incapacity to work.One officer has been charged with rape and three others with “aggravated violence”. They deny intentional wrongdoing.Theo's ordeal prompted widespread anger and several nights of violence in some of the French capital’s most deprived suburbs, where police are rout, ...ادامه مطلب

A group of 80 refugees from France’s “Jungle” camp in the northe port city of Calais have been selected to attend university as part of an initiative to help them ea a degree in preparation for life in their new host country.They were chosen from a pool of 200 applicants from the “Jungle” – a sprawling camp that was home to as many as 10,000 people before it was demolished in October 2016 – to take intensive French language lessons and, eventually follow other coursework at the University of Lille in northe France."I spent two months in the Jungle, and was only able to lea the alphabet," said Abdul-Raouf Hussein-Fadul, a 26-year-old Sudanese man in a baseball cap and white sneakers. "I hope that one day I'll be able to become an engineer in France, like I was in Sudan... It's not easy, I'm going to have to work hard."Prospective students were recruited by university officials with the help of volunteer organisations at the camp. To qualify for the programme, applicants were req, ...ادامه مطلب

Fresh fires bued inside the Calais 'Jungle' Wednesday as French authorities said they were wrapping up a major operation to evacuate and demolish the notorious shantytown. The operation passed off peacefully for the most part, though some migrants torched tents and shelters in a last act of defiance as their hopes of a new life in Britain evaporated. Fabienne Buccio, the regional prefect, said it was "mission accomplished" for the operation to evacuate the thousands of migrants living in the squalid shantytown. “This is the end of the Jungle,” she added. But charities said many unaccompanied minors had not been processed and FRANCE 24’s reporter at the scene said many migrants remained in the camp. “There are definitely still people in the Jungle tonight,” said Catherine Norris-Trent, after walking through the camp on Wednesday afteoon. “I spoke to some of the migrants and they said they intended to stay there until the bitter end.” A total of 5,596 adults and childr,video fire burning,video fire burning on the dance floor,video log fire burning,video clip fire burning,free video fire burning fireplace,video this fire burns ...ادامه مطلب

Dozens of migrants stranded in the Calais "Jungle", some of them children, desperately sought a way out Thursday as diggers begin tearing down the last remaining shelters in the but-out camp in northe France. To view this video on your mobie device, click here. A day after the official operation to evict the migrants came to a dramatic end, with fires ripping through the shantytown, around 100 people were still waiting to know their fate. The interior ministry said Wednesday that nearly 5,600 migrants had been taken into shelters around France or accepted into Britain – out of the 6,400 estimated by authorities to have been living in the camp up until this week. Officials hailed the operation as a success, saying the informal part of the camp was now empty. But scores of migrants were left behind, some of whom slept in the biting cold, huddled together in sleeping bags. Others camped out in the hangar where migrants were registered this week for relocation. “There are still ple, ...ادامه مطلب

Charities working with refugees and migrants in the camp in Calais are objecting to the govement's plan to dismantle the camp and disperse the occupants. Although no date has been announced for the closure of the slum-like camp, known as the "jungle," the French govement has announced it will happen by the end of the year. The first group of migrants is expected to be moved as soon as next week. Ahead of a meeting Tuesday at France's Interior Ministry, homelessness charity Emmaus asked for postponing the closure because it says "all conditions are not met for an efficient humanitarian operation to take place." A church organization, Secours Catholique, says it's also opposed to cleaning up the area, where up to 10,000 migrants are living in squalid conditions. "The govement is heading straight into a wall," said Thierry Kuhn, president of Emmaus France. "We should not bury our heads in the sand; people will come back as long as we won't be able to offer them a solution adapted to, ...ادامه مطلب

Paris demanded on Monday that Britain honour promises to take in migrant children from the notorious Jungle camp in the French port city of Calais, adding to pressure following accusations by the Red Cross that London is dragging its heels. Interior Minister Beard Cazeneuve said he would press the case at a lunchtime meeting in London with his opposite number in the British govement, Amber Rudd. “There are several hundred isolated minors with family in Britain,” Cazeneuve said. “I solemnly ask Britain to live up to its moral duty,” he told RTL radio ahead of his London meeting. The notoriously overcrowded Jungle camp is home to nearly 10,000 people who have mostly fled war and strife in countries such as Syria, Afghanistan and Africa with the ultimate goal of reaching Britain. ‘I'm going to tell British officials that the United Kingdom has to take responsibility’, says Cazeneuve The Red Cross charity accused Britain on Sunday of leaving hundreds of young children , ...ادامه مطلب

Hoping to be nominated by his centre-right party for next year’s presidential election, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy visited Calais this week, where he decried the current govement’s “absence of authority” over the migrant situation. But did Sarkozy, who is campaigning for the Les Républicains's (formerly UMP) party nomination in next year's election, do any better when he was in office, first as interior minister from 2002 to 2007, then as president from 2007 to 2012? The situation in Calais, where the squalid “Jungle” migrant camp has made inteational headlines, is a top subject for politicians of all stripes ahead of party primaries and next year's presidential election.  Most of them have been guilty, to some degree, of hypocrisy and of bending the truth to suit their political aims. Sarkozy was no exception. Here’s what he said: “The Calais situation demonstrates a complete surrender of the French state” In the run-up to November’s primary, Sar,fact checking sarkozy ...ادامه مطلب

The wife of former French president Jacques Chirac was admitted to hospital Wednesday “to rest and recuperate” on the same day a prominent French politician falsely announced on Twitter that her husband had died. Beadette Chirac, 83, was said to be “exhausted” following her husband’s hospitalisation for a lung infection, the couple’s son-in-law Frédéric Salat-Baroux told AFP. The news follows the Twitter announcement by former French housing minister Christine Boutin that Jacques Chirac, also 83, had died on Wednesday. His family denied the rumour. "President Chirac is being treated for a lung infection and I want to pay homage to the exceptional quality of the medical teams," Salat-Baroux, who was the former president’s chief of staff from 2005 to 2007, said in response to Boutin’s tweet – “Mort de #Chirac” – that caused widespread outrage on the social network. Chirac was hospitalised Sunday. Salat-Baroux, husband of Chirac's daughter Claude, asked for t,former french president,former french president coty crossword clue,former french president crossword,former french president wife,former french president crossword clue,former french president beginning with p,former french president arrested,former french president charles de gaulle,former french president faces corruption charges,former french president affair ...ادامه مطلب

Former French president Jacques Chirac, 83, was admitted to hospital on Sunday with a lung infection, his son-in-law said. Chirac, who led France from 1995 to 2007, was “hospitalised this moing at Pitie-Salpetriere (hospital in Paris) to be treated for a lung infection,” Frederic Salat-Baroux told AFP, adding he would remain there “in the coming days.” The popular ex-president had just retued from a visit to Morocco, Salat-Baroux added. A source close to the former president confirmed that he was conscious. Chirac, who served two terms as head of state, is probably best remembered inteationally for his opposition to the US military intervention in Iraq in 2003. A small stroke while in office in 2005 weakened him, and he is now rarely seen in public. In December 2015, he spent two weeks in hospital, suffering from what his family described as fatigue. In recent weeks, his entourage said his health had improved. Chirac has reportedly suffered from a degenerative neurologica,former french president,former french president wife,former french president coty crossword clue,former french president crossword,former french president crossword clue,former french president beginning with p,former french president arrested,former french president charles de gaulle,former french president faces corruption charges,former french president affair ...ادامه مطلب

Work on building a wall along the approach road to the French port of Calais to try to stop migrants from jumping aboard trucks bound for Britain will begin this month, British officials said Wednesday. UK Immigration Minister Robert Goodwill told lawmakers that security was being stepped up in Calais, home to the “Jungle” camp, where thousands of migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa hope to cross the English Channel to Britain. The camp and a Franco-British border control deal that effectively pushes the British frontier onto mainland France have been hotly debated since Britons voted in a June referendum to leave the European Union. Goodwill said the wall was part of a £17 million (20 million euros) package of security measures agreed by Britain and France in March. “We are going to start building this big new wall as part of the £17 million package that we are doing with the French... We’ve done the fence and now we’re doing the wall,” Goodwil, ...ادامه مطلب