Sources: Reuters
At least 50 people are injured when two trams collide in a tunnel in Strasbourg, France. 2025-01-11
The Judicial Court in Avignon, France, finds Dominique Pelicot guilty of the aggravated rape of his ex-wife Gisèle Pelicot, and imposes the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. The 50 other defendants in the case are also convicted of crimes ranging from attempted rape to aggravated rape, and receive prison sentences ranging from three to 15 years. 2024-12-19
France delivers the first shipment of its SCALP-EG air-launched cruise missiles to Ukraine. 2023-08-22
Denmark's public service broadcaster DR reveals that the Danish Defence Intelligence Service helped the American National Security Agency spy on European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2012 to 2014. Intelligence was also collected on other officials from Germany, France, Sweden and Norway. 2021-05-31
Iraq sentences seven foreign women for links to Islamic State. Three Azerbaijanis and one Kergyz receive death sentences while two Russians and a French women receive life sentences. 2018-04-17
Two gunmen open fire near a mosque in Avignon, France, injuring eight people. Two of the victims were hospitalised. 2017-07-2
Christiane Taubira, differing with President François Hollande concerning pending terrorist-citizenship legislation, resigns as the Minister of Justice in France. 2016-01-27
Former International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is acquitted of pimping charges in France. 2015-06-12
An Algerian C-295 military transport plane with six people on board crashes near Avignon in southern France. Rescuers locate the remains of four of the passengers, while two others remain missing. [https:--www.reuters.com-article-2012-11-09-us-france-plane-idUSBRE8A816K20121109 (Reuters)] [http:--www.trust.org-alertnet-news-algerian-military-plane-crashes-in-france-four-dead- (Trust.org)]date=August 2019 2012-11-9
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