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In a video posted on November 13, comedian Rémi Gaillard reveals the deception. The story has been put together and driven by him. The curious light beam was in fact a drone equipped with a diode, and the witnesses of the accomplices ready to relay the information. Her hoax was staged with a meteorologist from Gard, attesting to the seriousness of the phenomenon observed in the sky, and a horse breeder from Hérault, telling TF1 journalists her amazement at the unidentified flying object. "I had to tell the worst story of my life," she confided. Rémi Gaillard affirms that he...

France’s Interior Minister has announced that authorities have taken action to close down a mosque on the south coast suspected of promoting a radical form of Islam. The mosque, in the southern French department of Hérault, was ordered closed after a raid uncovered leaflets promoting hate. The Sète mosque, located on Rue de la Révolution, was ordered to be shut down on Wednesday until further notice. A police raid had uncovered leaflets considered to be containing hate speech. Interior Minister Matthias Fekl said the “head of the mosque was preaching a radical ideology that called for discrimination, hatred, and animosity...