A French Jewish student body has launched legal action against Twitter to force the social media site to hand over names of people who posted scores of anti-Semitic tweets last month, lawyers announced on Tuesday.
French papers focus on Netanyahu's visit to France. The French President François Hollande joined the Israeli Prime Minister for a memorial service for the victims of gunman Mohammed Merah in Toulouse on Thursday. Hollande, meanwhile, is not getting any momentum in domestic politics, with people close to him in the ruling Socialists calling on him to show leadership. That's the focus for this look at the French press on Friday 2nd November, 2012.
Ahead of the Israeli prime minister's visit to the scene of last March’s Toulouse shooting spree, François Picard’s panel looks at how a homegrown jihadist’s rampage has exposed the failings of French domestic intelligence and why hate crimes have spiked against both Jews and Muslims.
Ahead of the Israeli prime minister's visit to the scene of last March’s Toulouse shooting spree, François Picard’s panel looks at how a homegrown jihadist’s rampage has exposed the failings of French domestic intelligence and why hate crimes have spiked against both Jews and Muslims.
Following a wave of anti-Semitic posts on Twitter, anti-racism groups in France say they were looking at all legal options to target the authors of thousands of offensive tweets - and possibly Twitter itself.
We take a look at Felix Baumgartner's parachute jump from space, a zenith in Red Bull's marketing strategy. Also, an anti-Semitic hashtag trends on Twitter in France, and there's yet another debate over legalising cannabis.
The Paris prosecutor said Thursday that he will be seeking “attempted murder” and “terrorism charges” against seven of the suspects arrested Saturday. He also said the cell was potentially the most dangerous established in France in over a decade.
French newspapers are dominated by the aftermath of a series of arrests of terrorist suspects this weekend. Also, France's first lady is back in the papers.
Last July, one of the world's most wanted war crime suspects, Laszlo Csatary, was arrested in Hungary. He is accused of sending more than 15,000 Jews to their deaths at Auschwitz. But Hungarian police did not arrest the 97-year-old until a British newspaper, The Sun, made his location public. That has led some to say the authorities were dragging their feet. Most worryingly, those who complained have been the target of anti-Semitic hatred.
France's far right National Front is to sue Madonna after the singer screened a video showing party leader Marine Le Pen with a swastika superimposed on her face at a Saturday night concert in Paris, a party official said Sunday.
