A new French government ad campaign features mourning families to discourage young people from joining extremists in Syria – an attempt at a counter-narrative against an Islamic State publicity machine that churns out huge amounts of propaganda. More than 500 people have left France to join Islamic State and other jihadi groups in the war…
France’s far-right National Front will launch a campaign to woo Muslim voters in Paris’ depressed suburbs in December regional elections, according to its lead candidate in the Ile-de-France region which includes the capital. The National Front (FN), which polls say could win around 20 percent of the region’s votes, up from 9 percent in 2010,…
Spencer Stone, one of the American heroes who thwarted a terrorist attack on a French train in August, was stabbed multiple times early Thursday in downtown Sacramento following an altercation in a bar, police said. Stone, a 23-year-old airman, received several significant — but non-life-threatening —stab wounds to his upper torso, Sacramento deputy police chief Ken Bernard told reporters. He was…
“Our son lived in a very privileged atmosphere. He liked music, he liked sports, he did sketch comedy,” said Veronique, a blonde white woman, speaking from her apartment in Paris. “And then one morning he leaves for Germany, and then from Germany he never came back.” Veronique, identified only by her first name in a video…
The prefect of Hérault called on the government prosecutor after Islamophobic tags were found near the mosque of Béziers. On a traffic sign indicating directions to the mosque, the word “mosque” was crossed out and swastikas were drawn over it, according to an AFP journalist, who also saw a second tag: “Long live the FN,…
