The Latest Breaking News from Gérald Darmanin

Prime Minister François Bayrou has called for a national debate on immigration and what it means to be French, days after stirring controversy with comments about immigrants 'flooding' France.

France will open its first prison dedicated to isolating the country's top 100 drug lords in July as part of efforts to stop inmates from running criminal networks from behind bars. However some unions and advocates of prison reform have expressed doubts over the initiative.

The alleged leader of the "Yoda" clan, one of the biggest drug gangs in Marseille, has been extradited from Morocco to France, following his arrest last year. This comes as lawmakers prepare to debate a bill to tighten measures against drug trafficking.

Prime Minister François Bayrou and two senior ministers will travel to Mayotte on Sunday to assess the devastating impact of Cyclone Chido, which struck the French Indian Ocean territory on 14 December.

Staunch conservative Bruno Retailleau has quickly shown his hardliner credentials as France’s new interior minister by taking a tough stance on immigration, crime and defending secularism.

Letter sent to EU said Brexit had gravely affected ‘the coherence of policies’ on asylum and migration

France’s budgetary crisis is "very serious", Prime Minister Michel Barnier warned on Wednesday in his first public statement since taking office – emphasising the need for a clearer picture of the country's financial health.

France's Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin called for a treaty on migration between the EU and Britain Tuesday, after 12 migrants died trying to cross the Channel in the worst such incident this year.

An explosion outside a synagogue in the southern French town of La Grande-Motte on Saturday morning injured a policeman and damaged at least two vehicles, according to local officials.

Some three thousand holidaymakers were evacuated from a campsite in Canet-en-Roussillon, in the south of France, overnight Sunday due to a fire that was later brought under control. Firefighters were still tackling two other blazes in the southern Hérault area on Monday.

Amid rising tensions over the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, threats from the Islamic State group, and France’s history of homegrown Islamist terror plots as well as far-right extremism, there were real concerns about France’s ability to ensure adequate security during the 2024 Paris Olympics. However, French security services managed…