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Date created : 09/01/2019 - 13:22 Belgian authorities have arrested another suspect in connection with the Paris terror attacks of November 2015, charging him with participating in the activities of , ...ادامه مطلب

President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he was open to adding a specific mention of Corsica in the French Constitution but rejected several other demands for autonomy made by the island's nationalist leaders. Corsica's relationship with mainland France has long troubled French presidents. For 40 years, separatists waged a militant campaign, blowing up police stations and mansions owned by mainlanders and carrying out assassinations, before laying down their arms in 2014. The head of the regional govement, Gilles Simeoni, said that Macron had "missed an opportunity" to forge a new relationship with the island. During his first visit to Corsica since his election last year, Macron attempted to tread a middle ground, condemning in strong terms past acts of militancy while playing up the need for better cooperation between the island and the mainland. "I want us to open a new chapter of our history," Macron told Corsican officials. "I want everyone in the (French) Republic to be able to claim their identity, their specificity. But if this specificity is to be the Republic's enemy, then it's an error and I cannot accept it." Why do , ...ادامه مطلب

A Belgian court must acquit Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam over a shootout with police because of a legal language mix-up between Dutch and French, his defence lawyer said Thursday. Abdeslam, 28, refused to come to court in Brussels on Thursday, after accusing judges on the first day of the trial on Monday of being anti-Muslim and proclaiming he would only put his "trust in Allah". In Abdeslam's absence, lawyer Sven Mary sought the case's dismissal over a technicality in how the judges were named to investigate the gunbattle in Brussels in March 2016, in which three police offers were wounded. "It's a very Belgian story," said Mary, explaining that the top counter-terror judge should have issued the document naming the judges in Dutch, and not in French, because he serves in a Dutch-speaking court in Brussels. The "whole case" against Abdeslam and his Tunisian co-defendant, Sofiane Ayari, "must be thrown out," Mary said. Belgium's deep divisions between Dutch and French-speakers were often cited as a factor in the country's widely criticised investigations into the cell behind attacks in 2015 in Paris and 2016 in Brussels. Mary also said the case has been "pollute, ...ادامه مطلب

Police in the northe Belgian city of Antwerp detained a French national on Thursday after he tried to drive a car into a major pedestrian shopping street at high speed.“At about 11am this moing a vehicle entered De Meir at high speed due to which pedestrians had to jump away,” a police spokesman, ...ادامه مطلب

Monday, March 20 is Jouée Inteationale de la Francophonie (Inteational French Language Day) and a French high school in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a 100 percent graduation success rate is a showcase for promoting the language abroad.The Lycée Pasteur is a Francophone island in the heart of primar, ...ادامه مطلب

Belgian police missed 13 opportunities to unmask the participants of the deadly Paris November attacks before the events, according to an inteal report leaked to a newspaper on Saturday. The police report in the De Tijd daily shows that as early as February 2015, the force were in possession of phone records linking known terrorist suspects with Salah Abdeslam, allegedly the sole surviving member of the jihadist team that attacked Paris in November 2015. The information however was not handled, due to lack of investigators, De Tijd cites the report as saying. Of the 13 missed chances for Belgian police to catch some of the Paris attackers, six were due to staffing shortages, the secret report said. Also left ignored by police until after the tragedy was a request from Spanish authorities for more information on Salah's older brother Brahim Abdeslam after he joueyed to Spain in March 2015. Eight months after that visit, Brahim would blow himself up in a Paris cafe on the night of th,belgium,belgium flag,belgium language,belgium waffles,belgium map,belgium vs bosnia score,belgium 1831,belgium bosnia live stream,belgium beer,belgium soccer ...ادامه مطلب