Free Republic

Dozens of protests by French farmers this week seeking to shut down a planned European Union 'free trade' deal with the MERCOSEUR nations of South America. Cheaper South American agricultural products a direct threat to the livelihood of French farmers already feeling the impact of imported food items in grocery stores... Protest signs and flags as the band of demonstrators made their way through the streets... Saturday is almost always a day for all kinds of protest across France. The loudest and most vocal demonstrations today the feminist ones of outrage regarding the "Mazan Rapes" case. It's the story of...

A former partner of a co-defendant in a mass rape trial that has sparked horror and protests in France broke down in tears on Monday (Sep 23), telling the court she had "lived a lie" and might herself have been sexually assaulted. "I don't know if I was raped," Emilie O, told a criminal court in the southeastern French city of Avignon. "It's terrible, I will always have doubts." Emilie O is a former partner of Hugues M, one among dozens of men accused of participating in the mass rape over a decade of Gisele Pelicot. Gisele's then-husband Dominique Pelicot...