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CNN — France has been rocked by a wave of protests after a 17-year-old youth was shot by police near Paris on Tuesday, sparking a ban on demonstrations in some cities, travel warnings and...
France riots: Fuelled by everyday discrimination. 6 July 2023. Share. Getty Images. In our series of letters from African journalists, France-based Maher Mezahi writes how racism and...
NANTERRE, France (AP) — Hushed and visibly anguished, hundreds of mourners from France’s Islamic community formed a solemn procession from a mosque to a hillside cemetery on Saturday to bury a 17-year-old whose killing by police has triggered days of rioting and looting across the nation.
A series of riots in France began on 27 June 2023 following the fatal shooting of Nahel Merzouk in an encounter with two police officers in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris. Residents started a protest outside the police headquarters on the 27 June, which later escalated into rioting as demonstrators set cars alight, destroyed bus stops, and shot ...
PARIS, April 21 (Reuters) - A crowd of around 2,000 people protested in Paris against racism, Islamophobia and violence against children on Sunday after a court allowed their demonstration to go...
30 October 2020. EPA. Some Muslims are furious about President Macron's defence of the right to publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed. Thousands of conservative Muslims in countries around...
29 Oct 2020. A rift between the Muslim world and France is widening, as leaders and the public in several Muslim countries respond to a speech on October 2 in which President Emmanuel Macron...
