France Wall Street Journal: French Police Make Toulouse Terror Arrests. ‘French police have arrested a man and his former girlfriend as part of an investigation into whether the suspected killer of seven people in and around the southern town of Toulouse in March had accomplices.’ Germany Times Online: Germany to seek ban of far-right party. ‘German security [...]
France France24: ‘Europe’s first gay-friendly mosque’ sparks controversy. ‘A Muslim prayer centre, which has been dubbed Europe’s first gay-friendly mosque, opened in the French capital this week. Its founder described it as the first step in breaking “prejudices in Islam”, but it has been criticised by religious leaders.’ Germany Deutsche Welle: Neo-Nazi inquiry probes intelligence agency. [...]
France Financial Times: Qatar’s flowering relationship with Paris. ‘When plans for Qatar to create a €50m euro fund to invest in some of Paris’s poorest suburbs emerged last month, the French political right and left united in disapproval. Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right National Front, denounced the move as a plot to stoke [...]
France Reuters: French police find explosives in Islamist probe. ‘French anti-terrorist police have found bomb-making materials and weapons while investigating suspected radical Islamists across the country, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said on Wednesday, Molins said a dozen suspects rounded up in raids over the weekend would be held for a further 24 hours after the [...]
It may strike many as bizarre that Israel’s UN ambassador Ron Prossor was pictured in November 2011 with Front National (FN) leader Marine le Pen at a reception at the French Mission in New York, in view of the multiple convictions of her father, previous FN leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, for inciting antisemitism. This episode demonstrates [...]
Comment: ITV News: Venetians and Catalans have had enough – it’ll be the Germans next. ‘The crisis engulfing the European economy is beginning to manifest itself it in unexpected ways, not least the growing demands for independence in the regions of Southern Europe.’ It started with Catalonia, and now with Venice. ‘Rome will, of course, resist [...]
