Henry Samuel

Paris

Paris Correspondent at The Telegraph

Paris correspondent, The Daily Telegraph. All views expressed are mine only.

Articles

People smugglers deploy new tactics to evade French police

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Henry Samuel |Charles Hymas

People smugglers are using lorries to transport migrants to beaches in an attempt to outwit French border police and gendarmes. The gangs are putting dozens of migrants into the lorries along with a dinghy so that they can avoid detection by police spotters, drones and night-vision cameras when they are driven to the beaches for launch.
France scraps mandatory low-emission zones in major cities

1 week ago | msn.com | Henry Samuel

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France scraps mandatory low-emission zones in major cities

1 week ago | msn.com | Henry Samuel

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France scraps plans for low-emission zones in major cities

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Henry Samuel

France’s parliament has scrapped its equivalent of low-emission traffic zones as part of a wider Bill on “simplifying” the economy. The Bill, which split MPs loyal to Emmanuel Macron, the French president, came after critics argued that such zones unfairly punish poorer motorists unable to change to less polluting vehicles. Under French laws passed in 2019 and 2021, local authorities whose urban areas exceed regulatory air-quality thresholds must set up low-emission zones (ZFE).
France scraps plans for low-emission zones in major cities

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Henry Samuel

However, shortly before Tuesday's debate, ex-prime minister Gabriel Attal, leader of Mr Macron's Ensemble Pour la République group, came out against shelving ZFEs, sparking predictions it would not pass. Still, in a vote on Tuesday evening, a sufficient number of pro-Macron MPs voted in favour of the text, which was adopted by 275 votes to 252, meaning ZFEs will not become compulsory; it will be up to municipalities to impose them if they wish.
France scraps mandatory low-emission zones in major cities

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Henry Samuel

France’s parliament has dropped a mandatory requirement for towns to have low-emission traffic zones, as part of a Bill “simplifying” the economy. The Bill, which split MPs loyal to Emmanuel Macron, the French president, came after critics argued that such zones unfairly punish poorer motorists unable to change to less polluting vehicles. Under French laws passed in 2019 and 2021, local authorities whose urban areas exceed regulatory air-quality thresholds must set up low-emission zones (ZFEs).
The Waikato Times

1 week ago | waikatotimes.co.nz | Henry Samuel
Louvre visitors forced to go through 'Mona Lisa journey' before seeing painting

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Henry Samuel

Laurence des Cars, the Louvre's director, revealed fresh details of how it would be exhibited as part of a massive overhaul of the world's most visited museum. She told Le Figaro, a French newspaper: "An entire 'Mona Lisa journey' covering 3,000 square metres (32,000sq ft) will be offered to the public, which the architects will have to imagine and design.
Two dead in migrant camp shootings

1 week ago | msn.com | Henry Samuel

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Two dead in migrant camp shootings

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Henry Samuel

Two people died and at least seven were wounded in two separate shoot-outs over the weekend at a migrant camp in northern France. Both shootings took place near the Loon-Plage camp outside Dunkirk, where more than 1,500 people reside, as charities warned that rising migrant numbers and greater police pressure had led to increased tensions. Gunfire first erupted on Saturday, after authorities rescued almost 100 people trying to cross the Channel to the UK in previous two days.