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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | James Reynolds |Peter Allen |Peter Van Allen
Detectives investigating the death of French toddler Émile Soleil have revealed horrific details today of how they believe the toddler died as they issued a series of bombshell developments in the case. Prosecutor Jean-Luc Bachon told reporters that his team was still exploring the likelihood Émile was attacked by a 'third party' when he vanished in July 2023. He said scars found on the skull recovered last March were 'suggestive of violent facial trauma'.
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1 month ago | 
dailymail.co.uk | Peter Allen |Peter Van Allen |Martin Robinson
Internet trolls have accused Meghan Markle of being 'incredibly rude' to her own close friend Mindy Kaling on her new Netflix show. Social media users accused the Duchess of Sussex of pretending not to understand what comedian Ms Kaling was saying after she pronounced the word ‘look’ as ‘lewk’. But her fans have dismissed the claims, saying that Mindy was using slang and both women were just having fun. 'Meghan was teasing her saying I'm not as cool as you are I don't know that term.
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2 months ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Peter Allen |Peter Van Allen |Taryn Pedler
Left-wing managers of a Paris theatre occupied by hundreds of homeless African migrants are set to abandon the building because of sex-related violence. They say the crisis at the Gaîté Lyrique – one of the French capital’s most historic arts venues – is now ‘so explosive’ that retreat by this Friday is their only option. Some 200 mainly young men moved in last December when the management gave them free tickets to a ‘Refugees Welcome in France’ conference.
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2 months ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Shannon McGuigan |Peter Allen |Peter Van Allen
A police officer has died and four more have been injured in a suspected knife terror attack in France. The bloodbath unfolded at a market in the eastern city of Mulhouse, on the border of Germany, on Saturday afternoon when witnesses heard the cry ‘Allahu Akbar’ – Arabic for ‘God is the Greatest’. Police were among those slashed repeatedly by the man – an Algerian aged 37 who was on a terrorist watch list and faced deportation.
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2 months ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Nick Pisa |Elena Salvoni |James Reynolds |Peter Allen |Peter Van Allen
French prosecutors have revealed how a British couple died in violent circumstances days after they were found dead at their home in rural France. Andrew and Dawn Searle, in their sixties, were found by a neighbour at their property in Les Pesquies on Thursday. The mayor told French television the deaths were 'clearly a homicide'.
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Jan 26, 2025 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Peter Allen |Peter Van Allen
The family of multiple rape victim Gisele Pelicot has been 'torn apart' by the trial that saw her husband jailed for two decades, it emerged today. Ms Pelicot, 72, was surrounded by her three adult children when she first appeared as the main prosecution witness against Dominique Pelicot, also 72. The Frenchman was accused of drugging his wife for almost 10 years, and then allowing scores of men he met online to defile her.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
extra.ie | Peter Allen |Peter Van Allen
A bailiff has accused a billionaire business partner of Bono of attacking her in his £30million Paris apartment. Heavily pregnant Anna Cohen-Bacri, 33, told a court on Wednesday in the French capital how she was set upon by Irish businessman Paddy McKillen, 70, on June 25th last year. McKillen – a property tycoon who owns a whisky distillery with the U2 frontman – had just returned from a business trip to Japan.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Taryn Pedler |Peter Allen |Peter Van Allen
Fury has erupted in Paris after alleged anti-Semitic graffiti was scrawled around the city on the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo jihadist attacks. Stars of David appeared on Jewish homes and businesses as the nation remembered the slaughter of staff of the satirical magazine by two Al-Qaeda gunmen. The French President and his wife joined Charlie Hebdo's editor for a solemn memorial in Paris to mark the tenth anniversary of a jihadist terror attack on the newspaper's offices.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
dailymail.co.uk | Peter Allen |Peter Van Allen
French prosecutors today claimed to have irrefutable proof that former president Nicolas Sarkozy arranged a ‘corruption pact’ with the late Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi. It was worth around £42million to Sarkozy, 69, prosecutors claim while Gaddafi wanted to see his oil-rich country rehabilitated after it was blamed for terrorist atrocities including the Lockerbie Bombing.
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Dec 15, 2024 | 
metro.co.uk | Luke Alsford |Peter Allen |Peter Van Allen
A former security guard who 'had a grudge against migrants' is in custody after five men were shot dead near migrant camp in Dunkirk. The 22-year-old French national, identified as Paul D., admitted murdering five people after two UK-bound migrants, two port security guards and a fifth man were shot dead on Saturday afternoon, police said. All five murders were committed within less than two hours in the Dunkirk area.
