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Two teaching staff were shot and wounded at a school in Aubagne near Marseille Monday morning, French Education Minister Édouard Geffray said. A police source said that a 14-year-old boy had been arrested in connection to the incident, adding that there did not seem to be any link to the student protests that have swept across the country in recent weeks.
In France, a primary organised by the opposition Socialists and their centre-left allies held this Sunday has resulted in a clear winner. He is Raphaël Glucksmann, a member of the European Parliament and founder of the “Place Publique” party. He emerges now, at age 46, as a major figure in the election campaign for the French Presidency. That election will be held in April. Story by Nicholas Rushworth.
Student unions in France are hailing what they see as a major concession from the French government after more than two weeks of often violent nationwide student protests: the urgent deployment of some 3,000 supply teachers to schools with the greatest staffing needs. But where exactly are these teachers coming from? And will the move be enough to quell fresh protests, especially amid a renewed debate about overzealous policing tactics?
With just six months to go to presidential polls in France, a coalition of centre left parties have chosen their candidate… It's EU lawmaker, Raphael Glucksmann. The 46 year old tells voters he stands for a break with Macronism, a break with the far left of candidate Jean Luc Melenchon and that he's the candidate who can defeat the far right… though opinion polls suggest that in a second round run off he would not beat far right candidate Marine Le Pen.
The Paris Motor Show opens its doors today, and with it come mounting economic and diplomatic issues. The European Union has just announced that it has secured a commitment from China to moderate the flow of hybrid vehicles into the block's market. It opens the prospect of cutting China's export by more than a half and could prevent millions of Chinese cars from being shipped to Europe. Are European automakers capable of withstanding this competition and their dependence on China? This report from France 2 and Morgan Ayre.
A fire "completely destroyed" Paris's historic Marché Couvert des Enfants Rouges overnight Monday, authorities said. The cause of the fire that swept through the capital's oldest covered food market remains unknown.
TF1 is bringing hit British comedy format “Taskmaster” to France as part of its big push into premium unscripted entertainment. “Taskmaster,” created by British comedian Alex Horne and originally launched in the U.K. in 2015, pits five celebrities against one another in a series of increasingly absurd challenges. Camille Combal, a popular French TV personality […]
Euro MP Raphaël Glucksmann was elected on Saturday as a candidate for the Social Democratic Left President with 66.17% of the vote. At a press conference, he presented himself as "the candidate of the democratic left" who "will beat" the far right" of Marine Le Pen. Follow our direct.
Five candidates are vying to lead France's social-democratic left in the 2027 presidential election, with a cyberattack disrupting the primary vote. Can the left unite behind one candidate? We discuss this with our guest Joseph Downing, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University.
A look at the highlights of the week's news and his most striking images: the blockades and demonstrations of high school students in France, the spationaut Sophie Adenot who returned to Earth after eight months on board the International Space Station, and the commemorations of October 7, three years after Hamas' attacks in Israel.
Disappointed with his performance at the World Championships two weeks ago, French cyclist Paul Seixas quickly made up for it at the final Monument of the season. He won the Tour of Lombardy, setting a new record as the race’s youngest-ever winner in the process.
Pedro Ruiz Iniesta, representative of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party in France, is our guest.
Juliette Beigelman, co-responsible committee for children's rights at the Syndicat Avocats de France, is our guest.
Indian police detained the head of the satirical "cockroach" online movement on Saturday, the group said, ahead of a major protest against the Election Commission that prompted strict security measures. "They seem to have seen that coming," notes France 24's Andrew Hilliar. In a prerecorded video, Abhijeet Dipke, founder of the Cockroach Party, names an interim leader to take over.
The last straight line of the midterm campaign has begun! Strategy, candidates, polls... Every week, France 24 takes stock of what to remember. The democratic advance is being confirmed and expanded to include some unexpected Republican lands so far, such as Kansas. Thursday evening, the contenders of three key races exchanged personal attacks during television debates.
Twenty-four investigations have been opened by French police watchdog IGPN into incidents linked to the ongoing high school protest movement, the interior ministry said. The police response has reignited calls to scrap rubber bullets and launcher-fired riot-control weapons, long denounced by rights groups and UN experts as dangerous and excessive.
This week in Bordeaux, the CNES, the French space agency, launched a microgravity research campaign with scientists from all over the world. It gave them the opportunity to conduct experiments in weightlessness during parabolic flights aboard a specially equipped Airbus, without having to send their equipment into space. Our reporters James André and Sylvain Rousseau joined them on board.
Two Senegalese tirailers will be honoured Saturday in Gigny. It was in this small village of Yonne that Yali Fal and Souleyemane Ly were executed by the German army on 18 June 1940. Eighty-six years after their disappearance, this commemoration highlights the racist massacres committed by the Wehrmacht and recalls the importance of the participation of African soldiers in the French army.
The recovered Renoir paintings, valued at millions, were stolen in a daring heist at Cagnes-sur-Mer last month.
Students taking to the streets have become a focal point in the country's increasingly polarised politics.
