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French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on Thursday announced that a unit from the elite CRS 8 police force that specialises in fighting urban violence is to be deployed to Marseille. The southern port has been plagued by gang violence over control of the city's drug trade.

Saint-André is ‘burned on both sides’, mayor says as ‘mini hurricane’ ploughed towards town

More than 3,000 holidaymakers were on Tuesday picking up the pieces of disrupted summer breaks after they were evacuated from campsites following fires near the French border with Spain.

French judges on Friday gave the all clear for an environmental action group to continue its activities after the government banned it for encouraging sabotage and damage to property.

France's Interior Minister on Monday said he had ordered the dissolution of Civitas, a far-right party and organisation made up mostly of ultra-traditional Catholics, because of its anti-Semitism.

French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has been criticised for "undermining republican values" after supporting comments that officers under investigation should be treated differently when brought before the courts.

French President Emmanuel Macron has declined to condemn the country’s top police chiefs for appearing to suggest officers were above the law, seeking to stave off unrest among security forces wearied by repeated bouts of street violence. Critics, however, lament a missed opportunity to reassert the state’s authority over an…

Recent riots have cast a shadow over France's Bastille Day national holiday, with an "exceptionnal" large-scale security operation planned for 13 and 14 July. In total, some 130,000 law enforcement officers will be mobilised over the weekend.

French authorities have launched an investigation into the death of a man who may have been killed by a police rubber bullet during protests in Marseille. It comes as France counts the cost of its most intense urban violence in nearly two decades.

The events that have shaken France since the June 27 death of young Nahel M., shot by the police during a traffic stop, come during the “100 days” of appeasement announced on April 17 by President Emmanual Macron after his government forced through his controversial pension-reform law.

Since the 2018 gilets jaunes crisis, the French president seems to have accepted brutal police tactics. Is it fear or indifference? says Paris-based journalist Pauline Bock