Sources: BBC
At least 45 people are arrested and 12 police officers are injured at May Day protests in Paris. French police use tear gas and batons to disperse several protests. 2024-05-1
Prosecutors announce that police are investigating bomb threats at the Eiffel Tower in Paris that resulted in two evacuations on Saturday. 2023-08-14
A Paris court indicts Eric Bagale, a former presidential guard of former Central African Republic President François Bozizé and head of an anti-balaka militia, for "complicity in crimes against humanity" and "criminal association for the preparation of a war crime" on acts his militia committed between 2007 and 2014. 2020-09-19
Twelve Portuguese nationals, who were residents of Fribourg, Switzerland, are killed in a head-on collision between their minibus and a truck, on a highway 300 kilometers (185 miles) south of Paris, France. The only survivor from the bus is the driver; the two Italian occupants of the truck are slightly injured. 2016-03-25
Around 150 world leaders attend the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, aiming for a global deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions. 2015-11-30
Authorities search for Belgium-born French national Salah Abdeslam, one of three brothers suspected of involvement in the attacks. Raids are reported to have taken place in Grenoble, Toulouse, Jeumont and the Paris suburb of Bobigny. This contradicts previously published official information that all the perpetrators of the attacks were dead. 2015-11-16
Paris prosecutor François Molins says three jihadist cells, apparently multinational teams with links to the Middle East, Belgium, and possibly Germany, as well as France, staged coordinated attacks at bars, a concert hall, and a soccer stadium, killing 132 people and injuring 350, including around 90 who are in a serious condition. 2015-11-15
A commuter train derails in the Paris suburb of Brétigny-sur-Orge with at least eight people dead. 2013-07-12
French police arrest a man, said to be a radical Islamist, for allegedly stabbing Cédric Cordier, a soldier in the La Défense business district near Paris. 2013-05-29
France's interior minister Manuel Valls is embroiled in controversy amid reports he ordered police to clear his Paris neighbourhood of homeless so his wife could go about her shopping "in peace". [https:--ottawacitizen.com-news-French+minister+shoos+away+homeless+wife+shop+peace-7442824-story.html ("Ottawa Citizen")]date=August 2019 2012-10-25