Author: By John Lichfield in Paris
The Algerian government has formally protested to Paris about a poster which associates its flag with Islamisme, or radical forms of Islam. The poster shows France covered by an Algerian flag and a forest of mosque minarets. The slogan reads: “Non à l’Islamisme”.
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Author: By John Lichfield in Paris
The film, which has won glowing tributes from advance viewers, tells the story of the arrest of 13,000 Parisian Jews, including 4,000 children, by French police and gendarmes in July 1942. The Jews, mostly French-born and deeply integrated into Parisian life, were herded into a giant cycling stadium, the Vélodrome d’Hiver, or Vél d’Hiv, close to the Eiffel Tower. Almost all of them died in Nazi death or concentration camps.
Author: By John Lichfield in Paris
The film, which has won glowing tributes from advance viewers, tells the story of the arrest of 13,000 Parisian Jews, including 4,000 children, by French police and gendarmes in July 1942. The Jews, mostly French-born and deeply integrated into Parisian life, were herded into a giant cycling stadium, the Vélodrome d’Hiver, or Vél d’Hiv, close to the Eiffel Tower. Almost all of them died in Nazi death or concentration camps.
Author: By John Lichfield in Paris
On the first visit by a French leader to Rwanda for 25 years, Mr Sarkozy did not formally apologise. Nor did he accept allegations that France had played an active role in training and arming the Hutu militias and troops who led massacres of Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
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Author: By John Lichfield in Paris
A campaign to discourage young people from smoking shows male and female teenagers kneeling in front of a man, as if being forced to have oral sex. A cigarette takes the place of the man’s sexual organ. The caption reads: “Smoking is to be a slave to tobacco.”
Read more on French in uproar over oral sex anti-smoking posters…
Author: By John Lichfield in Paris
The French actress and performer on Channel 4’s Eurotrash, Lolo Ferrari, best known for her artificially enlarged 52in bust, has died of “natural causes”, her lawyer said yesterday.
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Author: By John Lichfield in Paris
In the midst of a debate about whether the full-length veil should be worn in France, the “marketing exercise” by the Quick hamburger chain has generated new complaints ? some sincere, some electorally motivated ? about the alleged “Islamisation” of French society.
Author: By John Lichfield in Paris
The discovery of the bodies of four newborn babies, apparently strangled, in woodland in eastern France has baffled investigators and generated a series of macabre rumours and allegations.
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Author: By John Lichfield in Paris
An official report leaked to a French newspaper said that, within an hour of the test in southern Algeria, some conscripts were ordered to advance to within 275 metres of the point where the bomb exploded.
Author: By John Lichfield in Paris
From today, the people of Montpellier will be able to pay for public transport journeys by waving a memory stick as they enter a bus or tram. The special USB sticks, on sale in the city for ?5, can be topped up on line from any computer.
