Angelique Chrisafis

Paris

Paris Correspondent at The Guardian

Paris correspondent @guardian [email protected]

Articles

Need to use nuclear weapons has not arisen in Ukraine, says Putin

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Angelique Chrisafis

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said in comments broadcast on Sunday said that the need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine had not arisen, and that he hoped it would not. Speaking in a film by Russian state television about his 25 years in power, Putin said that Russia has the strength and the means to bring the conflict in Ukraine to what he called a “logical conclusion”.
France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Angelique Chrisafis

France and the EU are to step up their efforts to attract US-based scientists hit by Donald Trump’s crackdown on academia, as they prepare announcements on incentives for researchers to settle in Europe.
Paris-based thriller offers fresh inside take on French-Tamil community

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Angelique Chrisafis

It has been hailed as one of the most innovative and surprising French gangster films this year: a suspense movie that tears through Paris’s Tamil neighbourhood.
French police investigate spate of cryptocurrency millionaire kidnappings

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Angelique Chrisafis

French police are investigating a series of kidnappings of investors linked to cryptocurrency after a 60-year-old man had a finger chopped off by attackers who demanded his crypto-millionaire son pay a ransom. In the latest of several kidnappings of cryptocurrency figures in France and western Europe, the man, who owned a cryptocurrency marketing company with his son, was freed from a house south of Paris on Saturday night. He had been held for more than two days.
‘Grandpa robber’ admits involvement in Kim Kardashian jewel heist

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Angelique Chrisafis

A retired restaurant-owner alleged to have been the ringleader of an armed robbery of American reality TV star Kim Kardashian in Paris, has told a court he was in part driven by a taste for easy money. Aomar Aït Khedache, 68, known as “Old Omar”, has admitted to police that he took part in the robbery in which Kardashian was tied up and held hostage at gunpoint in her Paris hotel bedroom during Paris fashion week in 2016.
France says Russian hackers behind attack on Macron’s 2017 presidential campaign

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Angelique Chrisafis

France has accused Russian military intelligence of carrying out a massive cyber-attack on Emmanuel Macron’s first presidential campaign in 2017 as well as several other recent major hacks, including on a TV station and an organisation involved in the Paris Olympics.
French Muslims decry religious hatred as mosque stabbing suspect arrested

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Angelique Chrisafis

French Muslim leaders have said more must be done to counter anti-Muslim hatred in France after a man was arrested on suspicion of stabbing a young worshipper to death inside a mosque in a southern village. Olivier A, 21, a French national born in Lyon, surrendered to police in Italy on Sunday after three days on the run, French prosecutors announced on Monday morning.
Kim Kardashian robbery suspects to appear in Paris court as trial begins

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Angelique Chrisafis

Ten people nicknamed the “grandpa robbers” by French media are to go on trial charged with stealing jewellery worth millions of euros from the American reality TV star Kim Kardashian when she attended Paris fashion week in 2016. The suspects, whose ages range from 35 to 78, will appear in a court in the French capital on Monday afternoon at the start of a month-long trial in which Kardashian, 44, will testify in May.
French PM’s daughter says she was brutally beaten at scandal-hit school

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Angelique Chrisafis

The daughter of the French prime minister, François Bayrou, has said she was brutally beaten at a private Catholic school at the centre of a growing sexual abuse scandal that has shocked France. Hélène Perlant, 53, told Paris Match that a senior priest at Notre-Dame de Bétharram beat her in front of her peers during a summer camp in the 1980s, when she was 14, but said she had never told Bayrou.
‘Grandpa robbers’ accused of Kim Kardashian jewel heist to face Paris trial

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Angelique Chrisafis

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