‘Nonsense’: French PM blasts Paris City Hall’s proposal to open EVERYTHING after three-week Covid lockdown
A proposal to plunge Paris into a hard three-week Covid-19 lockdown and then fully reopen the French capital’s entire economy was slammed by the country’s Prime Minister Jean Castex on Friday. The PM More...
‘Why are we waiting?’ French PM’s Covid-19 inaction questioned as government set to review plans for 3-week Paris lockdown
The French government has said it will review plans, submitted by Paris’s deputy mayor on Thursday, to lock down the capital for three weeks, after the PM placed the city and 19 other departments under “reinforced More...
Mafia-type gangs, not foreign powers, hacked French hospitals, says minister, as some doctors continue to work with pen and paper
The French minister for digital transformation has said mafia-type gangs from Eastern Europe are probably behind a spate of attacks on French hospitals and laboratories during the pandemic, rather than foreign state More...
Personal Data of Some Half a Million French Patients Reportedly Leaked Online
According to French cybersecurity journalist Damien Bancal, the digital folder containing confidential and sensitive information of French patients was initially planned to be sold by the hackers, but they had an More...
Home addresses, social security numbers & sensitive medical data on 500,000 French patients leaked online after hack – reports
Sensitive medical records on nearly 500,000 patients in France have been stolen in a major cyber attack on dozens of healthcare labs, landing online after an alleged dispute between the hackers, according to media More...
2nd French region set for new Covid-19 restrictions as PM worried by ‘sharp deterioration of health indicators’ in Dunkirk
The French prime minister has called for “additional braking measures” in the northern city of Dunkirk amid a rapidly deteriorating situation with case rates soaring to almost five times above the national average. On More...
‘Stop putting ideology on our children’s plates,’ French minister says after major city removes meat from school lunches
French Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie has argued against injecting “ideology” into school lunches after the city of Lyon removed meat from the menus. Local officials said it would help them follow Covid-19 More...
‘Repertoire of far right’: French academics push for resignation of minister who wants probe into ‘Islamo-leftism’ in education
Hundreds of French academics have demanded that Minister of Higher Education Frederique Vidal leave her post. She said that ‘Islamo-leftism’ is eroding French society and has proposed to study its effects on More...
French refugee center manager stabbed to death by asylum seeker – police
The manager of a refugee center in the French city of Pau has died of his injuries, after allegedly being stabbed multiple times by a Sudanese asylum seeker, police said on Friday. The suspect, a 38-year-old man More...
Paris beefs up police patrols and Lyon bans booze as French authorities fear warm weather will spark Covid rule-breaking
The French government has announced it will strengthen its police patrols ahead of predicted warm weather this weekend in a bid to make sure the rise in temperatures isn’t matched by a surge in Covid-19 cases. Officials More...
