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A driver screaming 'Allahu Akbar' has ploughed into a crowd of pedestrians on a French holiday island, leaving at least ten people injured. The car veered towards walkers and cyclists at about 8.45am today as the 35-year-old attacker attempted to hit 'everyone he encountered' on the island of Oléron off the West coast of France, officials say. After the ramming, he tried to set fire to his vehicle. which contained gas canisters, before he was tasered by police and arrested.

A 38-year-old woman has been charged with complicity in organised theft and criminal conspiracy with a view to committing a crime. Separately, a man, aged 37, was charged with theft and criminal conspiracy. Both denied any involvement.Two men who had previously been arrested were already charged with theft and criminal conspiracy after officials said they had "partially recognised" their involvement in the heist...Four men carried out the lightning-quick daylight theft.Two of the alleged thieves -- who had been arrested earlier -- later admitted their involvement...The magistrate later ruled that the woman -- who has not been named -- must stay...

This week Justice Minister Gerald Darmanin visited former President Nicolas Sarkozy being held at the Sante prison in Paris... New taxes for France's 2026 Budget considered in the National Assembly yesterday a limited tax on holding companies approved. But a major tax on... Four Bulgarians convicted for spraying graffiti on a Holocaust memorial in Paris. The 'red handprint' defacing of the memorial said to have been a Russian action to sow division in France... And video from a Yellow Vests protest this afternoon... On Friday National Rally presidential candidate for 2027 Jordan Bardella at a book signing... This week by...

The retreat from Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Grande Armée in 1812 was a cataclysmic event that marked the beginning of the end for his empire and personal dominance in Europe, with about 300,000 soldiers perishing in a force that originally numbered roughly a half million. A new study involving DNA extracted from the teeth of 13 French soldiers who were buried in a mass grave in Lithuania's capital Vilnius along the route of the retreat is offering a deeper understanding of the misery the Grande Armée experienced, detecting two pathogens not previously documented in this event. "Vilnius...

This may offer some insight into why the UK government is inviting in so many Muslims, and doing everything it can to appease and accommodate them, even to the extent of letting Muslim rape gangs run wild for years, with British authorities too afraid of being called “racist” and “Islamophobic” to do anything about: key members of the British political elite, including Prince Charles, don’t find the Islamic supremacist world view, particularly in its hatred of and paranoia toward Jews, all that different from its own.“Prince Charles blames ‘foreign Jews’ for Middle East turmoil in 1986 letter,” by Chantal Da...

PARIS, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Suspects have been arrested over the brazen jewellery heist at the Louvre, just as one of them was about to fly out of France, the Paris prosecutor said on Sunday.

Europe’s inability and unwillingness to protect its incorporeal cultural cornerstones has now extended to its tangible cultural icons.I write from a quiet, mountainous part of Central Europe. The scenery is idyllic, and the fall air is crisp. But much as the case has been in my other recent trips to the European continent, the sights I see and the conversations I hear are all underscored by a similar haunting concern: Will there even be a Europe, in any cognizable sense of the term, a century from now?All across the continent, fertility rates have plummeted, and the Christianity that defined the...

Dad ‘died of grief’ after daughter, 12, was raped and beheaded by migrant in France, her mom reveals The father of a 12-year-old girl “died of grief” after his daughter was kidnapped, raped, tortured and then beheaded in France by a sadistic Algerian migrant, the girl’s mother told a court. Lola Daviet’s body was found horrifically mutilated and partially decapitated in a suitcase after she was murdered in 2022 — in a case that shocked the nation and sparked protests over lax immigration enforcement. Dhabia Benkired, 27, a prostitute who overstayed her visa in France, was convicted of the killing.

A French court on Friday sentenced an Algerian woman to life imprisonment without parole for raping, torturing and murdering a girl in Paris, making her the first woman to receive this maximum sentence. Dahbia Benkired was handed an “irreducible life sentence” for killing 12-year-old Lola Daviet in the French capital in 2022, in a case that horrified the country and sparked anti-immigration fervour because the woman did not have the right to be in France. The sentence is the harshest under the French penal code. “We believed in justice and we got it,” said Lola’s mother, Delphine Daviet, following the...

Two men who allegedly stole $100 million worth of France’s crown jewels during a daring daytime heist at the Louvre Museum were arrested on Saturday night — as one suspect was captured trying to flee the country. One of the suspects, who has not been identified, was busted as he was boarding a flight bound for Algeria at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris newspaper Le Parisien reported. The men, from Seine-Saint-Denis, a suburb north of Paris, were detained by police as part of the investigation of “organized gang robbery” and “conspiracy to commit a crime.” Police were tipped off on...

A media spectacle unfolded in Paris on Tuesday when former President Nicolas Sarkozy left his home for prison. This followed his latest corruption conviction one for involvement in a criminal organization. The charges revolved around Libyan President Moammar Qadaffi's financial support for Sarkozy's 2007... Last Sunday in broad daylight the robbery of 'priceless' jewelry from the Louvre in Paris... BBC News reported this week that French authorities were backing away from stricter enforcement of migrant crossings on the English Channel. The former Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau credited with that more aggressive... French support for Ukraine reaffirmed Friday at a mass...

Detectives investigating the £76m heist at the Louvre have uncovered evidence of an inside job, The Telegraph understands. Sources close to the investigation claim that digital forensic evidence shows a member of security was in contact before the heist with individuals thought to be the perpetrators.

Is he even real? The internet had many questions after a photo began to circulate.It was, in nearly every way, an ordinary photo distributed by The Associated Press to news media outlets. It showed three policemen leaning against a silver car parked in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum in Paris just hours after the brazen theft of a collection of French crown jewels on Sunday.But then there was the dapper man standing jauntily on the right side of the photo.The officers, the A.P. caption said, were there to block the entrance to the museum. But the man, dressed in...

France is backing away from a recent commitment to intervene more forcefully at sea to stop small boats from crossing the English Channel, according to multiple sources contacted by the BBC. There is evidence that France's current political turmoil is partly to blame, but it will come as a blow to the UK government's attempts to tackle the issue. In the meantime, dangerously overcrowded inflatable boats continue to leave the coast on an almost daily basis, from a shallow tidal canal near the port of Dunkirk. While the man in charge of border security in the UK, Martin Hewitt, has...

The Louvre’s first female museum director hired the first female security chief and less than a year later Napoleon’s crown jewels were stolen in broad daylight while the museum was open. NEW – Louvre security chief Dominique Buffin, the museum’s first female security head, hired last September by the museum’s first female director, accused of being a “diversity hire” — Telegraph From corporate meltdowns like Bud Light, target, Disney et al to mid-air collisions that cost lives, DEI is operationally catastrophic and systemically destructive.

The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT

A Chinese woman has been arrested and charged over the theft of gold from the Natural History Museum in Paris, in one of several recent high-profile break-ins targeting French cultural institutions, a prosecutor said Tuesday. The theft — by what the museum's director at the time said was an "extremely professional team" — took place on Sept. 16, a little over a month before an audacious jewelry heist at the world-famous Louvre museum on Sunday. A 24-year-old Chinese woman was arrested in Barcelona on Sept. 30 over the Natural History Museum break-in and theft of gold worth more than $1...

PARIS — Following Sunday's theft of artifacts valued at $102 million, the Louvre updated its security system to include a second generation indoor Ring camera. "It automatically records when it detects motion and I can access all the footage from the app. It's a huge step forward for our security," said Louvre President-Director Gerard des Carre. "It's so cool." At the time of the theft, the Louvre had relied on an old lock from the 1700s and a French bulldog named Terry for security. Sadly, it didn't have a Ring camera, which experts believe would have prevented the theft...

The Louvre failed to spot a gang of thieves early enough to stop the theft of €88m (£76m) worth of French crown jewels, the museum's director has revealed. Laurence des Cars, speaking publicly for the first time since the heist on Sunday, told French senators that CCTV around the Louvre's perimeter was weak and "aging". The only camera monitoring the exterior wall of the Louvre where they broke in was pointing away from the first-floor balcony that led to Gallery of Apollo housing the jewels, she said. "We failed these jewels," she said, adding that no-one was protected from...

Welcome back to Saving Castles! Join us for an exclusive private tour of Château de Gizeux, one of the Loire Valley's most remarkable survival stories. When the French Revolution threatened to destroy this 600-year-old castle, one brave woman's ingenious plan saved priceless Renaissance treasures that remained hidden for over a century. 600 Year Old Castle's Secret: How Fake Walls Saved Priceless Art | Part 1 | 21:20 Saving Castles | 15.3K subscribers | 83,441 views | May 26, 2025 The incredible survival story of the François I Gallery's 400-year-old painted walls How false walls and ceilings protected Renaissance art from...