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French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday condemned a “senseless wave of violence” after a teaching assistant stabbed by a 15-year-old pupil outside a school in the east of the country succumbed to her wounds. The secondary school student was arrested after attacking the 31-year-old assistant with a knife during a bag search in Nogent in eastern France, officials said. France has, in recent years, seen a series of attacks on teachers and pupils by other schoolchildren. “While protecting our children, a teaching assistant lost her life, the victim of a senseless wave of violence,” Macron wrote on X, commenting on the latest in a spate of such incidents at French schools. “The nation is in mourning and the government is mobilised to reduce crime.” Education Minister Elisabeth Borne was on her way to Nogent “to support the entire school community and the police”. “I commend the composure and dedication of those who acted to subdue the attacker and protect the students and staff,” she said on X. The pupil is 15...

Friday's incident follows another in the town of Deauville in Normandy last week, when Elie Lemmel said he was punched in the stomach by an unknown assailant.

Poissy mayor Sandrine Dos Santos condemned "in the strongest terms the incident that occurred in a synagogue in Poissy."

During a meeting in Paris, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal met with French business representatives and Laurent Saint-Martin, Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade and French Nationals Abroad, to outline key investment opportunities in Ukraine.

French authorities detained 79 people in the second such wave of arrests during celebrations following Paris Saint-Germain’s Champions League win, a police chief said on Monday. The PSG thrashed Inter Milan by a record 5-0 in Saturday evening’s final in Munich, flying back to Paris on Sunday for a triumphal parade along the Champs-Élysées, then celebrations in a packed Parc des Princes stadium on the edge of the French capital. The PSG winning the biggest prize in European club football for the first time sparked delirious festivities in France, but was marred by violence. On Sunday, “we saw a resurgence of individuals driven by malicious intent who were not really PSG supporters”, Paris police chief Laurent Nunez told RTL radio. “We arrested 79 people, some of them in the night,” he said, adding that order had been restored before dawn. Some were detained for taking barriers and briefly blocking the ring road around Paris, while others had tried to vandalise businesses or light fireworks on the Champs-Élysée...

A French prosecutor on Friday requested the maximum 20-year sentence for a former surgeon who admitted to sexually abusing almost 300 mostly child patients. An additional trial will also likely be required for Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, to cover the cases of further victims whose abuse is not part of the current process, said prosecutor Stephane Kellenberger as he outlined the sentencing demands. Le Scouarnec has been on trial since February accused of 111 rapes and 189 sexual assaults on 299 people, mostly of minors under 15, at a dozen hospitals in western France, in one of the country’s largest child sex abuse cases. He admitted in March to sexually abusing all 299 victims between 1989 and 2014, many while they were under anaesthesia or waking up after operations. Le Scouarnec, who is already in prison for a previous conviction for child sex abuse, should receive the maximum possible term of 20 years in jail on the single charge of aggravated rape, said Kellenberger. Warning of the “high risk of re-offending” ...

Revolut plans to invest over $1 billion in France, establish an EU headquarters in Paris and apply for a local banking license as it targets rapid expansion in its largest market. Revolut, a European neobank with crypto support, plans to invest more than 1 billion euro ($1.1 billion) in France and apply for a local banking license. According to a May 19 Fortune report, Revolut representatives announced the initiative during the Choose France business summit hosted by President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. The London-based neobank also plans to set up its new European Union-serving headquarters in Paris, promising to invest 1 billion euro and hire at least 200 people within three years. Revolut spokespeople also said that the firm is in the process of submitting an application to the French banking regulator Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority. According to an anonymous source cited by Fortune, the regulator has been pushing the neobank to get a license to improve supervision due to its popularity in ...

French law enforcement will offer crypto entrepreneurs and their families a police emergency line and conduct house visits to ensure their safety amid a recent spate of attacks. Crypto entrepreneurs and their families in France will receive enhanced security measures amid a recent rise in crypto-related kidnappings in the country, Politico reported. According to the May 16 report, the measures include priority access to police emergency lines, home security assessments, and safety briefings from French law enforcement to ensure best practices are being followed. France’s Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau introduced the security measures as part of a broader effort to counter the recent wave of attacks. Read more

France’s interior minister will reportedly meet with crypto professionals to address rising security concerns after a failed kidnapping targeted the family of Paymium CEO Pierre Noizat. The French interior minister reportedly plans to meet cryptocurrency professionals in the aftermath of a violent kidnapping attempt on the family of a crypto exchange executive in Paris. According to a May 14 France24 report, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has invited crypto professionals to meet him after a brazen attempt to kidnap the daughter and grandson of Pierre Noizat, the co-founder and CEO of French crypto exchange Paymium. ”I will assemble businesspeople working in cryptocurrencies, and we have a few of those in France, at the interior ministry to work with them on their security,” Retailleau reportedly told the Europe 1/CNews broadcaster. On May 13, three masked men attacked Noizat’s daughter while she was walking in Paris’ 11th district with a man and her son. The attackers tried to force Noizat’s daughter and ...

Pro-Ukrainian public activists in France seek to force the Russian sailboat Shtandart, which is under EU sanctions, to permanently leave French waters, despite the connivance of some local officials and event organizers who are still happy to see a copy of the frigate from the time of Peter I.

The French Joint Defense Staff has shared details on how French military instructors are training Ukrainian troops at a military training base in western Poland as part of the EU Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine (EUMAM Ukraine).

A man wearing a Star of David pendant necklace was allegedly attacked by two men on Friday, with one man filing and another striking the victim on the head while calling him a "dirty Jew."

The Chiefs of Staff of the French and British Armed Forces, General Thierry Burkhard and Admiral Antony Radakin, met in Kyiv with President Volodymyr Zelensky and the military leadership of Ukraine.

French businesses are showing strong interest in participating in the reconstruction of Ukraine's critical infrastructure, as evidenced by the large number of project applications received.

The chiefs of the French and British armies will arrive in Ukraine this weekend to engage with the Ukrainian military on the issue of the deployment of deterrence forces.

Without a grandiose statement about French democracy, the judges simply resolved to stand firm in guarding the rule of law. A wily and ruthless politician, far-right Marine Le Pen will undoubtedly seek to make the 'system' pay – possibly starting with an act of gratifying political revenge

In Paris, Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov discussed with representatives of leading French defense companies the localization of production in Ukraine and the creation of joint ventures.

On Friday, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha had a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Jean-Noel Barrot, during which he emphasized the high efficiency of Mirage 2000 fighters.

The majority of French citizens support continued military assistance to Ukraine, 70% of those surveyed support its accession to NATO, and 66% – that to the EU.

Haaretz's Social History Workshop: As Syria builds an uncertain future, a look back at the story of Syrian resistance to the powers that blocked national unity – from French colonial rule to Bashar Assad