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On Sunday October 19, criminals managed to steal eight pieces of extremely valuable jewellery from the Louvre Museum’s Gallery of Apollo, in Paris. The robbery highlights long-standing issues for criminology in the field of cultural heritage, as museum security has to address traditional and emerging threats as well as a…

The unprecedented jailing of a former head of state exposed deep divisions over justice and the legacy of Nicolas Sarkozy’s years in power.

Officials said the rare weather event struck in the Val d’Oise area with a ‘sudden and rare intensity’

A powerful storm struck the Val-d’Oise region, northwest of Paris, on Monday evening, leaving one person dead and nine others injured after violent winds caused three cranes to collapse in the town of Ermont.

A Chinese woman has been arrested and charged over the September theft of gold worth more than €1.5 million from the Natural History Museum in Paris, one of several recent break-ins targeting high-profile French cultural institutions, a prosecutor said on Tuesday.

It sounds like the plot of a heist movie. On October 19, priceless items of jewellery and royal regalia were stolen, in broad daylight and in a matter of minutes, from the Louvre’s gilded Gallery of Apollo in Paris. The theft of these items from one of the world’s most…

France's ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy became the first former head of an EU state to be jailed Tuesday, proclaiming his innocence as he entered a Paris prison. Sarkozy's lawyer said a request had been immediately filed for parole but he will remain incarcerated for at least a month.

A daring seven-minute heist at Paris's Louvre Museum left France reeling as thieves escaped with royal jewels worth millions. Experts now fear the priceless loot could vanish forever. Here's what might happen to the stolen treasures.