Sources: BBC
Frédéric Péchier, an anesthesiologist who was found guilty of poisoning 30 patients and killing twelve with anesthetic infusion bags in Besançon, Doubs, France, is sentenced to life in prison. 2025-12-18
At least two people are killed and another is severely injured in northern France as Storm Amy makes landfall. 2025-10-4
French defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu says France will continue sharing military intelligence to Ukraine regarding the Russian invasion. 2025-03-6
A female police administrative officer is killed in a stabbing attack at a police station in Rambouillet, France. The attacker is then shot dead at the scene. It is being investigated as a terrorist attack. 2021-04-23
A French nun is found decapitated in a village in the Central African Republic. 2019-05-22
Two additional bodies are found in the rubble of the two buildings that collapsed four days ago in Marseille, France, bringing the final death toll to eight. 2018-11-9
82 paintings at a museum dedicated to Étienne Terrus in Elne, France, are revealed as forgeries. 2018-04-28
Italian and French rescue crews recover the bodies of two climbers on Mont Blanc in the Alps, two days following an avalanche that swept away nine climbers. 2012-07-14
Thousands are evacuated from the French pilgrimage site of Lourdes due to a bomb threat; it later reopens. 2010-08-15
French fishermen off the coast of Malta repel an attempt by Greenpeace to obstruct their operations, sinking several Greenpeace Zodiac boats and injuring a Greenpeace activist. 2010-06-6