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As the Summer Olympics continue in Paris phone line sabotage in France followed the earlier railroad sabotage on the day the games opened (July 26th). Six acts of vandalism across the country... "people who do not agree with the values of France" Disc Jockey and lesbian activist Barbara Butch slamming her critics after that controversial scene that was part of the Olympics opening ceremony. The "Festivity" scene denounced widely even by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei... Live video coming from Paris...in the video protesters gathering a small group... The French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin citing declines in violent robberies...

An MP for the radical-left France Unbowed party has sparked outrage after saying Israeli athletes are not welcome at the Paris Olympics and calling for protests against their presence. Citing Israel’s war in Gaza, Thomas Portes told a pro-Palestinian gathering in Paris on Saturday: “We are just a few days away from an international event to be held in Paris, the Olympic Games. And I’m here to say that no, the Israeli delegation is not welcome in Paris. Israeli athletes are not welcome at the Olympic Games in Paris. We have to use this deadline and all the levers we...

The delicate balance of President Emmanuel Macron's "Centrist" government maintaining power without a majority in the National Assembly was upset Monday. The vote 270-265 against the government with 13 abstentions. The modified legislation on immigration from the Senate shot down on a motion brought by France's Left upset over the strictness of the proposed law... Cultural conflict involving a French school led to a teacher walkout. The story not clearly state by Mainstream Media but it began with Muslim students aged 11 and 12 averting their eyes from a classic painting of naked women... Today's protest event seen here is...

The death of Thomas, a 16-year-old stabbed after a dance party in southeastern France on November 19th triggered protests with the "Far-Right" blamed by the government. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin saying the government is seeking to ban small "Far-Right" organizations following those protests... The government of President Emmanuel Macron casting a wider net amid the controversy with a direct attack on the National Rally in France's National Assembly. Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti accusing the RN of seeking to divide France between its Catholic rural parts and urban Muslim parts. He claimed the RN needs to expel Racists and Nazis in...

Reacting to last weekend's attack on Israel President Emmanuel Macron condemning the attacks on civilians and the taking of hostages. The president of France's leading opposition force the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, expressing "totalist solidarity" with Israel stating that "crimes against humanity" took place last weekend.... On Thursday, Mr. Darmanin, suggested as a Presidential candidate in 2027, ordered all Pro-Palestinian protests in France banned. He also ordered arrests of those organizing such protests and "troublemakers" associated with the protests. Several thousand Pro-Palestinian demonstrators came out at the Place de la Republique in Paris on Thursday evening anyway. Police using tear...

The Minister of the Interior also ordered the arrest of the organizers and "troublemakers" of these pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin, in a telegram addressed to the prefects, orders the systematic banning of Palestinian demonstrations and the arrest of the organizers and "troublemakers" of these demonstrations following the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel. "Pro-Palestinian demonstrations, because they are likely to generate disturbances to public order, must be prohibited," writes the Minister of the Interior, adding that "the organization of these prohibited demonstrations must give rise to arrests"...

President Emmanuel Macron talking about the violence on French streets in recent month and the police killing of "Nahel" in Marseille. Speaking to "Le Point" Macron said most of those arrested were born in France (90 percent) and that they often came from single-parent families or... On the big issue of "Climate" that has played in France this week... Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin denied that immigration would be a deciding issue in the 2027 presidential election. In an interview with the "La Voix Du Nord" newspaper Darmanin said it was possible that Marine Le Pen would win the Presidential Election...

On May 20, 2023, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported that France's Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin stated during his recent visit to the U.S.: "We have come to remind them that for Europeans, and for France, the primary risk is Sunni Islamist terrorism and that anti-terrorist collaboration between intelligence services is absolutely essential." This anodyne statement by Mr. Darmanin, whose maternal grandfather was an Algerian Muslim soldier in the French Army, has generated significant condemnation from various Islamist organizations, Islamists, and prominent figures, uniting criticism from Qatari-funded Islamists with those connected to the regime in Cairo. Their responses reflect deep concerns about...

It's been called the "health passport" but the French government is now moving to bring in a "vaccine passport". The health passport allowed vaccination, recent recovery from COVID and a recent negative test to be valid. But the vaccine passport will only allow for vaccination or recent recovery to be valid. The government's plan is to have the new system in place two weeks from today on January 15th. Outdoor mask rules imposed including the region in and around Paris. An intensification of the vaccine conflict in the French Caribbean. December 31st was the new vaccine mandate deadline there. This...

A policeman survived a knife attack in the French Riviera city of Cannes on Monday, according to the country's interior minister. The incident took place early Monday morning as four police officers outside Cannes police station were preparing to go on patrol, Gerald Darmanin told reporters. The assailant approached the officers asking for information before opening the door of the vehicle they were in and stabbing one of the officers in the chest with a knife, the minister said. The attacker then attempted to stab a second officer before he was neutralized. Darmanin said the officer emerged from the incident...

A group of serving French soldiers have published a new open letter warning Emmanuel Macron that the 'survival' of France is at stake after the President made 'concessions' to Islamism. The letter published in the right-wing magazine Valeurs Actuelles (Today's Values) late on Sunday echoes the tone of a similar letter printed in the same magazine last month which also warned a civil war was brewing and called for military action against 'Islamists'. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, a close ally of Macron, slammed the letter as a 'crude maneouvre' and accused its anonymous signatories of lacking 'courage'. The previous...