France24 (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
French Minister of the Interior Brice Hortefeux (pictured) heads to Poitiers on Monday following violent anti-prison demonstrations that erupted on Saturday near a street performance festival in the city centre.
Black Horizon (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Posted on: Saturday, 10 October 2009, 10:21 CDT France has captured a worker at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) for alleged connections with al-Qaeda, officials announced. The 32-year-old man was one of two brothers apprehended in the town of Vienne on Thursday. Police think that the suspect communicated on the Internet with the al-Qaeda, and had been contemplating attacks on...
PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
Times: French agents have arrested a researcher from Europe's top atomic lab on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda, fuelling fears that terrorists could be targeting the nuclear industry. The 32-year-old man, who was detained along with his brother, works for the prestigious European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva, Switzerland, according to French police sources. ''The inquiry will...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
"An extraordinary article appears in today’s Le Monde revealing the extent to which racism is still a major problem in French society. Mustapha Kessous is a thirty year old journalist at Le Monde. He is of Arabic orgin as his first name clearly implies, yet for years now he does not identify himself as Mustapha over the phone. He simply calls himself “Mr. Kessous”. The response...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
The meaning of the trial of Dominique de Villepin, once President Jacques Chirac’s prime minister “I AM here because of the dogged relentlessness of one man: Nicolas Sarkozy.” With those words, uttered this week outside a Paris courtroom before he appeared in the dock, Dominique de Villepin, a former prime minister, doubtless hoped to portray himself as the victim rather than the...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
A trial in Paris will illuminate the murky workings of French politics THE courtroom doors opened on Monday September 21st for the start of a judicial drama that is set to expose the murky dealings at the heart of French political power. On paper, the “Clearstream trial”, as the court case is known, concerns five suspects accused of involvement in a smear campaign, and some 40 civil plaintiffs,...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
""There always has to be one. When there's one, it's OK. It's when there are a lot of them that there are problems." These words spoken by France's interior minister, Brice Hortefeux, were caught on camera last week during the ruling UMP party’s summer gathering in Seignosse in south-west France. The comments appear to be in reference to a young UMP member of Algerian origin, and...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
The French interior minister Brice Hortefeux faced calls for his resignation on Friday after a video surfaced of comments he made at a political retreat.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/12/2009
Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux faced calls for his resignation on Friday after a video surfaced in which he made comments that critics said were anti-Arab.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The French interior minister Brice Hortefeux faced calls for his resignation on Friday after a video surfaced of comments he made at a political retreat.
Tongue Tied 3 (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Naughty French politician We read: "The French Interior Minister faced calls for his resignation last night after he was caught on camera making apparently racist remarks directed at Arabs. As outrage greeted the video clip on the internet Brice Hortefeux claimed that critics had misinterpreted his quip: “When there’s one that’s all right. It’s when there's a lot of them...
France24 (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
France's interior minister Brice Hortefeux is facing calls to step down after on camera remarks about the Arab population that the opposition have denounced as racist. The former immigration minister says the comments were taken out of context.
Charles Bremner (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The video below has just blown up in the face of Brice Hortefeux, the French Interior Minister and close friend of President Sarkozy. In it, Hortefeux is bantering with Amin, a young party activist of Algerian origin from Sarkozy's UMP...
France24 (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Some critics of French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux (centre of photo) have said he should resign after he made a joke, which they say was racist, about a young Arab. He and his defenders, however, say he was misinterpreted.
AgoraVox (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
In what was hardly the best-kept political secret of the week, the interior minister, Brice Hortfeux, has confirmed that he will not stand as a candidate for the president of the council of Auvergne in next year's regional elections. He had been slated to head the country's (...)
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