For decades the crimes of a notorious serial killer have haunted the Paris crime squad. But now a former military police officer is said to have confessed to being the murderer known as Le Grêlé – the […]
A police car crashed in northern France after an officer in the passenger seat fired her Taser in the direction of the driver, prosecutors say. Six officers were in the vehicle when the driver lost […]
Google has been hit with a €500m (£427m) fine by France’s competition authority for failing to negotiate “in good faith” with news organisations over the use of their content. The authority accused Google of not […]
France’s former PM Édouard Balladur has been acquitted in a corruption trial over a submarine deal with Pakistan in the mid-1990s. Mr Balladur, 91, had faced charges of using commissions from the deal to fund […]
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and two former associates have been sentenced to three years in jail – two of them suspended – for corruption. Sarkozy, 66, was found guilty of trying to bribe a […]
British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has offered to give up her UK and French citizenship in exchange for bail. Ms Maxwell is accused of helping the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein groom young girls, which she […]
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has gone on trial near Paris, accused of breaking hate speech laws when she posted pictures of murders carried out by jihadist group Islamic State. As she arrived in […]
In 2015, authorities in Spain launched an investigation into pirate site Descargasmix.com and around 15 associated domains. At the time the sites were considered to be the most important platforms targeting Spanish-speaking audiences. Two men, […]
A former associate of deceased US financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been detained in France. Prominent French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel is being held on suspicion of rape, sexual assault and human trafficking, […]
An Iranian diplomat and a Belgian couple are due to go on trial in Belgium on Friday in connection with an alleged plot to bomb a rally held by an exiled Iranian opposition group in […]
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