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Paris Olympics area secured following attack on police station

Paris Olympics area secured following attack on police station

PARIS authorities strengthened the police presence in the northern suburb of La Courneuve near the Paris 2024 Olympics Village following an attack on a police station late on Sunday. Paris police chief Laurent Nunez told reporters that nine people had been arrested after some 50 youths clashed with police and attacked the La Courneuve police station with fireworks launchers on Sunday. The attack was in protest at the death of a young man from La Courneuve who died in the nearby town of Aubervilliers during a police chase last week, after he had refused to stop his motorbike when police…
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Angry French farmers storm into agriculture fair in Paris

Angry French farmers storm into agriculture fair in Paris

A group of French farmers stormed into a major Paris farm fair ahead of a planned visit by President Emmanuel Macron amid anger over costs, red tape and green regulations. Facing dozens of police officers inside the trade fair, the farmers were shouting and booing, calling for the resignation of Macron and using expletives aimed at the French leader. "This is our home!", they shouted, as lines of French CRS riot police sought to contain the demonstration. There were some clashes with demonstrators and the police arrested at least one of them, a Reuters witness saw. Pascal Beteille, one of…
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Knife attack wounds three in Paris, police rule out terrorism

Knife attack wounds three in Paris, police rule out terrorism

A knife attack in the Gare de Lyon rail station in Paris left three people wounded, police said, ruling out terrorism at this stage. Police arrested the suspected attacker, who showed signs of mental disorders, Paris police chief Laurent Nunes told reporters. "We found medicine on him which suggests he was undergoing treatment." Two of the victims suffered light wounds while the third was more seriously hurt but was not in a life-threatening situation, police said. The attacker, who carried Italian residence permits and was in France legally, attacked travellers with a knife and hammer. French media said he was…
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Stowaway found in airplane undercarriage at Paris airport in critical condition

Stowaway found in airplane undercarriage at Paris airport in critical condition

A stowaway was found alive but in critical condition in the undercarriage bay of an Air Algeria aeroplane at Paris Orly airport, a security source briefed on the matter told Reuters. The person was in a life-threatening condition and was being treated at a nearby hospital, the source said. The plane was coming from the Western Algerian town of Oran, a two-and-a-half-hour flight from Paris. Stowaways in the unpressurised wheel-houses and cargo holds of planes can face temperatures of between minus 50 Celsius and 60 Celsius as well as a lack of oxygen. In 2019, the body of a suspected…
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Hundreds defy Paris protest ban a week after riots

Hundreds defy Paris protest ban a week after riots

HUNDREDS of protesters defied a ban to march in central Paris against police violence, a week after riots sparked by the killing of a teenager in a Parisian suburb. Police dispersed the crowd from Paris's huge Place de la Republique, sending several hundred people towards the wide Boulevard Magenta, where they were seen marching peacefully. Two people were arrested, Paris police said after the demonstration. The Paris police department said in a decision published on its website that it had banned the planned demonstration, citing a "context of tensions". "We still enjoy freedom of expression in France, but freedom of assembly,…
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Paris police shooting:  Macron deplores ‘inexcusable’  killing of teenager

Paris police shooting:  Macron deplores ‘inexcusable’  killing of teenager

FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron called the shooting dead of a 17-year-old by police during a traffic stop near Paris "inexcusable" in a rare criticism of law-enforcement hours after the incident triggered unrest. A police officer is being investigated for voluntary homicide for shooting the youth, who was of North African origin. Prosecutors say he failed to comply with an order to stop his car early on Monday. The interior ministry called for calm after at least 31 were arrested in overnight clashes, mainly in the Paris suburb of Nanterre where the victim lived, with youths burning cars and shooting fireworks at police,…
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Man wounds six people at Paris Gare du Nord station

Man wounds six people at Paris Gare du Nord station

A man attacked and wounded six people at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris, leaving one with serious injuries, before being shot by off-duty police officers, authorities said. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told reporters the man attacked travellers with what looked like a home-made weapon at 0642 CET (0542 GMT) at the entrance and inside the station. Police had earlier said the man had used a knife or blade. Within a minute, off-duty police officers returning home after a night shift shot the attacker three times, Darmanin said. Gare du Nord, one of the busiest stations in Europe,…
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Clashes erupt in Paris after gunman kills three at Kurdish cultural center

Clashes erupt in Paris after gunman kills three at Kurdish cultural center

JULIETTE JABKHIRO A gunman shot dead three people at a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby Kurdish cafe in central Paris, prompting scores of protesters to take to nearby streets. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the suspected assailant had clearly wanted to target foreigners, but there was no evidence yet that he had picked out Kurds specifically. Multiple gunshots were fired on Rue d'Enghien at about midday, sowing panic on a street lined with small shops and cafes in the French capital's busy 10th district. All three of the deceased victims were Kurdish, a lawyer for the Kurdish cultural centre…
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Hamilton expresses support for Naomi Osaka

Hamilton expresses support for Naomi Osaka

AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER LEWIS Hamilton has expressed his support for Naomi Osaka, following her publicised withdrawal from the Roland Garros tournament.  At a press conference ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku, Hamilton says that from experience, he understands how hard it is for young people to cope with the pressures of professional sport.  “I think she’s an incredible athlete and human being,” he said. “Her activism has been just so impactful and at such a young age there’s so much weight on her shoulders. “It’s inevitable, the fact is, when you’re young you’re thrown into the limelight and…
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‘Tunisian attacker watched jihadist videos’

‘Tunisian attacker watched jihadist videos’

THE Tunisian national who killed a police administrative worker last near Paris had watched religious videos glorifying acts of jihad just before carrying out his attack, said France's anti-terrorism prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard. The murder has shocked France, which faces a presidential election next year at which issues such as fears over terrorist attacks, immigration and violent crime will dominate the agenda. Ricard told a news conference on Sunday that the official investigation had shown that the assailant, identified as "Jamel G", looked at the videos on his phone just before his knife attack on the police worker, a mother-of-two called…
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