My visit to the death scene at the Bataclan
The evidence of Friday night’s horror is still plain to see at the back door of the Bataclan concert hall. For local residents, the Paris terror attacks left psychological scars too.
We spoke to Austrian MEP, Andreas Schieder, who is a member of the UK Contact Group in the European Parliament.
The Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has ended his series of international meetings in Paris with what he called “very constructive and positive” talks with the French president Emmanuel Macron.
Demonstrators set fire to cars and barricades in the middle of the Champs-Elysées, with police firing tear gas and water cannons in response. President Macron has refused to back down over the tax increases, insisting it’s part of his strategy to combat climate change.
A procession across Paris, a eulogy from the President and a day-long national homage: France has bestowed its highest honour on the police officer who died after he exchanged himself for a hostage during an extremist attack in south west France. Colonel Arnaud Bertrand, declared President Macron, symbolised “the spirit of French resistance”.
Paris came to halt today as hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets of the French capital for the funeral of rock star Jonny Hallyday. President Emmanuel Macron led tributes to the singer at a special service in the city’s Madeleine church. Ed Howker reports.
Tens of thousands of police officers and elite special forces are being deployed across France after last night’s shooting, the authorities determined not to let Sunday’s Presidential elections be disrupted.
President François Hollande has marked the first anniversary of the terror attacks of 2015 by unveiling plaques commemorating the 130 victims. And the state of emergency imposed since then looks likely to be extended.
The evidence of Friday night’s horror is still plain to see at the back door of the Bataclan concert hall. For local residents, the Paris terror attacks left psychological scars too.
On Friday, as Jewish shoppers were being held or murdered in a Paris Supermarket, Raif Badawi, a Saudi blogger, was being lashed fifty times in a public flogging in Saudi Arabia.
The horrific beating of a Roma teenager last month in a Paris suburb has shocked all of France. But so far no-one has been arrested or charged.
I’m part of the Channel 4 News team which just embarked on a 300km cycle ride to Paris to raise money for my friend Emiliy Reuben’s Duchenne Children’s Trust.
Matt Frei visits an exhibition of art normally confined to the offices and homes of British officials around the world with its curator the historian Simon Schama.