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One policeman has been killed and another has been critically injured after a man opened fire at police officers at the Champs-Élysées in central Paris. The gunman was killed while attempting to escape, and a bystander has been injured. ISIL claims responsibility for the attack although the claim is doubted. The President of France Francois Hollande says that all leads indicate that the attack was of a "terrorist nature".
2017-04-20

A police sniper accidentally fires his weapon while changing position and injures two people during a speech by French President François Hollande in Villognon.
2017-02-28

François Hollande, the President of France, announces that he will not run in next year's presidential election. This leaves the selection of a candidate for the French Socialist Party wide open.
2016-12-1

European Union leaders advise the United Kingdom that, after their EU exit, to retain access to the bloc's lucrative single market, the UK must allow free movement for EU workers. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande reiterated that freedom of movement of EU citizens is non-negotiable.
2016-06-29

The President of France François Hollande agrees to take 24,000 refugees out of the estimated 100,000 per month expected to arrive.
2015-09-7

The President of France, François Hollande, presents the Légion d'honneur to four people, three of them Americans, Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler; and Briton Chris Norman, for foiling a suspected terrorist act last Friday.
2015-08-24

François Hollande's photo with actress Julie Gayet is removed from the tabloid magazine "Closer" after an injuction by Gayet's lawyer.
2014-01-10

French President François Hollande says France is "ready to punish" those responsible for the chemical attacks.
2013-08-27

The French National Assembly passes an amended bill legalizing same-sex marriage, paving the way for President François Hollande to promulgate it.
2013-04-23

An Arabian camel gifted to President of France François Hollande for liberating Mali is killed and stewed by a family in Timbuktu, in whose care Hollande had left it.
2013-04-10