A historic seizure of contraband tobacco was announced this Friday March 29 by customs. In total, 27 tons were intercepted during a vast operation called “Colbert II” carried out in several cities across France. According to customs officials, these large-scale seizures are becoming more and more frequent. Follow the full coverage LE WE 20H 27 … Read more
A 19-year-old young man, a National Education intern, admitted to the rape of a three-year-old girl. The events took place in a nursery school in Villars, in the Loire. The suspect was indicted and imprisoned at the beginning of December. The Saint-Etienne public prosecutor’s office confirmed to AFP this Saturday that a National Education trainee … Read more
INVESTIGATION – Four years after the assassination of the Muller couple at their home in Izon, in Gironde, a suspect is indicted: their former neighbor. A great relief for the daughters of the victims. The lives of Natacha and Margot have been shattered since that evening in December 2019 when they learned of the violent … Read more
Mélodie Mendes Da Silva, aged 34, has been missing for two weeks. On November 3, this mother of two children left her home in Marseille in the early evening and has not been heard from since. In the “total vagueness”, her family and her partner are working to find her. His face is everywhere in … Read more
For eight months, nothing seems to stop the bloody settling of accounts between two rival bands from Marseille. They are called “Yoda” and “DZ Mafia”. Their henchmen, very young, barely 18 years old, would be responsible for thirty-seven deaths this year. The month of August marked a peak in this series of settling of scores, … Read more
This Friday, August 11, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced that it had opened a preliminary investigation for “involuntary homicides and injuries aggravated by the breach of an obligation of safety or prudence provided for by law or regulation” after the fire that killed eleven people in Wintzenheim (Haut-Rhin), Wednesday. The Colmar public prosecutor’s office had … Read more
Closed police stations, impossible to file a complaint for several weeks, fewer police officers on the streets…”Do you understand the feeling of abandonment that there may have been within the population?“, we ask him. “Of course, we understand that. When you miss something, you realize of the absence and usefulness of this thing that you … Read more
A baïne is a basin outside the bathing area. It is fed by the currents, and in recent days they have been particularly strong on the Atlantic coast. The Landes prefecture also advises against swimming, at least until Sunday evening. Vigilance also put in place in Gironde, Pyrénées-Atlantique and Charente-Maritime, the prefecture of Nouvelle-Aquitaine calling … Read more
A EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER ADVOCATES A “REFLECTION” ON THE MAINTENANCE OF ORDER IN FRANCE European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders expressed concern on Wednesday about the “very high level of violence” in France and advocated “a reflection” on the organization of policing, in an interview on Belgian radio La Première (RTBF). “In France, which has been … Read more
The suspects are aged 20, 21, 28 and 36. According to our information, all are already known to the police, in particular for violence against persons holding public authority, theft, drug trafficking, extortion, burglary, death threats or even lack of a driving license. The trace of two of these men had been traced thanks to … Read more