French mass rape suspect among ‘worst sexual criminals’, says daughter

AVIGNON, FRANCE (AFP): The daughter of a Frenchman on trial for enlisting strangers to rape his drugged wife described him as "likely one of the worst sexual criminals in past 20 years". Dominique Pelicot, a 71-year-old retiree, has admitted to abusing his wife without her knowledge between 2011 and 2020, drugging her with sleeping pills and...

French actor Gerard Depardieu to be tried in October over alleged sexual assaults

French actor Gerard Depardieu will be tried next October for alleged sexual assaults against two women during a 2021 film shoot, the Paris public prosecutor said on Monday (April 29). Depardieu, one of France's top movie stars, has been at the centre of a growing number of sexual assault allegations in recent years that have tarnished...

French granny has Malaysians in stitches with her attempts to pronounce local place names on TikTok

KUALA LUMPUR: Emphasising on the vowels to get the pronunciation right, a French grandmother's take on Malaysian states and words has locals amused. The videos uploaded on TikTok by a content creator and multi-media artist who goes by @malay_frenchie_explorer, shows the French grandmother and his family members attempt to pronounce the names of local delights including...

French police checked IDs on ‘massive’ scale in 2021, no objectives defined -report says

PARIS (Reuters) - The French police conducted ID checks on a "massive" scale in 2021, despite not having a doctrine to define their objectives or good practice during such checks, France's public audit office, the Cour des comptes, said in a report on Wednesday. The report detailed for the first time the number of ID checks...

Explainer-What Macron means when he says he wants to ‘take back control’ of French power prices

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said last week his government would "take back control" of electricity prices by the end of the year, without spelling out what steps he would take. His comments come as European Union countries are negotiating a reform of how power prices are calculated across the bloc of 27 countries,...

French minister Darmanin warns of risk of Marine Le Pen victory in next election

PARIS (Reuters) - French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin - whom President Nicolas Sarkozy said would be a good future head of state - warned on Friday of the risk that far-right politician Marine Le Pen could win the next presidential election in 2027. Darmanin gave interviews to both La Voix du Nord paper and RTL radio...