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A nation of unearned income: why France should increase inheritance tax for the rich This Tuesday French MPs are taking part in a vote on a crucial part of the 2026 budget. One measure that has already been ruled out is a major increase in inheritance tax. Yet as Mediapart here repo…

A nation of unearned income: why France should increase inheritance tax for the rich
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Legal actions challenge French state's massive use of surveillance drones at protests The French state signed more than 250 orders authorising the widespread use of surveillance drones to monitor the many demonstrations that took place around the country during the autumn. These decr…

Legal actions challenge French state's massive use of surveillance drones at protests
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The jailing of Christophe Gleizes: why a journalist should never be behind bars An appeal court in Algeria has just upheld a seven-year prison sentence that had been given to French journalist Christophe Gleizes. The sports reporter had been convicted of, among other offences, …

The jailing of Christophe Gleizes: why a journalist should never be behind bars
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Documents prove Kremlin role in destabilising operations targeting Jews and Muslims in France French intelligence services have obtained evidence that Russia's presidential office approved a plan to target both the Jewish and Muslim communities in this country. The aim of these “active measu…

Documents prove Kremlin role in destabilising operations targeting Jews and Muslims in France
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Why Saint-Étienne sex-tape blackmail case highlights the importance of journalism After cases involving far-right leader Marine Le Pen and ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy, now it is Gaël Perdriau, the mayor of Saint-Étienne, who has been handed a prison sentence and an immediate ban…

Why Saint-Étienne sex-tape blackmail case highlights the importance of journalism
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French mayor Gaël Perdriau jailed for four years over sex-tape blackmail plot The mayor of Saint-Étienne in south-east France was on Monday given a five-year jail term, one year of which is suspended, along with an immediate five-year ban from holding public office. This foll…

French mayor Gaël Perdriau jailed for four years over sex-tape blackmail plot
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President Macron, national service and a strategy of militarisation National conscription was abolished in France in 1997. But President Emmanuel Macron has just announced that a “purely military” - and voluntary - national service will be introduced for young adult…

President Macron, national service and a strategy of militarisation
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Anti-Semitism questionnaire sparks anger at French universities France's Ministry of Higher Education has commissioned a survey to assess the attitude of university staff to anti-Semitism. Some trade unionists have attacked the move as a political “census”. Acco…

Anti-Semitism questionnaire sparks anger at French universities
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Top French appeal court upholds Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction over 2012 election funding On November 26th France's top appeal court, the Cour de Cassation, rejected the former president's appeal against his conviction over the illegal financing of his unsuccessful 2012 re-election campa…

Top French appeal court upholds Nicolas Sarkozy's conviction over 2012 election funding
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Marseille cracks down on boom in illegal short-term tourist rentals The Mediterranean port city of Marseille faces a serious housing crisis, with demand for rented accommodation largely outstripping supply, and unmaintained buildings falling into dilapidation. Height…

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The chronicles of a genocide in Gaza (part seven) Mediapart in May began publishing a series of reports sent to it from inside the Gaza Strip by two young Palestinians, Nour Elassy and Ibrahim Badra, who chronicled the everyday events of life and d…

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'Capitulation and betrayal': the US peace plan seen from Ukraine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that his country faced "one of the most difficult moments in our history" after US President Donald Trump announced that Kyiv has until next Thursda…

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Extractivism and why energy transition 'is driving new forms of colonialism' in Brazil In Brazil, the Movement for Popular Sovereignty in Mining (MAM) is active in opposing what it regards as the unbridled exploitation of indigenous populations and their land by private mining compani…

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France's EDF again sends spent uranium to state-owned Russian firm for recycling A shipment of reprocessed uranium from French nuclear power plants has left the Channel port of Dunkirk to be enriched at a specialised Russian industrial plant run by the country’s nuclear energy g…

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The chronicles of a genocide in Gaza (part six) Mediapart in May began publishing a series of reports regularly sent to it from inside the Gaza Strip by two young Palestinians who chronicled the everyday events of life and death, displacement and…

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A survivor of the Bataclan terrorist massacre reflects on the purpose of remembrance Emmanuel Domenach, 38, survived the shooting massacre at the Bataclan music hall in Paris on November 13th 2015, when terrorists belonging to the so-called Islamic State group led a series of attack…

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'No children, no Christmas bonus': how the childless are treated as political scapegoats in France A French minister recently suggested that people on welfare benefits who do not have children should no longer get the traditional Christmas bonus payment provided by the state. In doing so, report …

'No children, no Christmas bonus': how the childless are treated as political scapegoats in France
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Ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy released from jail but barred from contacting justice minister After serving 21 days behind bars, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been freed from custody. The ex-head of state was released from La Santé prison in Paris where he had been starting a f…

Ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy released from jail but barred from contacting justice minister
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Police violence at French environmental protest was 'deliberate strategy' says UN rapporteur Mediapart and Liberation newspaper last week published videos showing how gendarmes policed a protest at a controversial irrigation reservoir at Sainte-Soline in western France in 2023. Footage from…

Police violence at French environmental protest was 'deliberate strategy' says UN rapporteur
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The anti-colonial revolution for which France has never forgiven Algeria Achieved on the back of a breakdown in Franco-Algerian relations, Rassemblement National's first parliamentary victory late last month underlines the extent to which the far-right's rise to power is…

The anti-colonial revolution for which France has never forgiven Algeria
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French minister orders probe after revelations about gendarmes' conduct at Sainte-Soline irrigation protest Mediapart and Libération have published worrying evidence about the policing of a protest at the site of a controversial crop irrigation reservoir at Sainte-Soline in western France in 2023 which le…

French minister orders probe after revelations about gendarmes' conduct at Sainte-Soline irrigation protest
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How economic model of France's controversial reservoir irrigation system is starting to crumble Large artificial reservoirs, built for farmers and filled from underground water sources in winter to irrigate crops during the summer, are bitterly opposed by environmentalists and have been a sour…

How economic model of France's controversial reservoir irrigation system is starting to crumble
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How the massive unrest of 2005 shaped urban design across France's deprived districts On October 27th 2005 teenagers Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré were electrocuted while hiding from the police in an electrical substation in a northern suburb of Paris. Their deaths led to three weeks o…

How the massive unrest of 2005 shaped urban design across France's deprived districts
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Why Macron bears responsibility for MPs' vengeful vote against 1968 Franco-Algerian accord On October 30th October MPs in the National Assembly voted for a non-binding motion criticising the 1968 accord between France and its former colony Algeria. It was thanks to its active allies on th…

Why Macron bears responsibility for MPs' vengeful vote against 1968 Franco-Algerian accord
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Excavations on Martinique highlight island’s Amerindian roots The extraordinary discovery of a large, 1,500-year-old Amerindian site on France’s Caribbean island of Martinique has delighted archaeologists and further fuelled arguments that the rich and ancient …

Excavations on Martinique highlight island’s Amerindian roots
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First trial begins over alleged Russian dirty tricks campaign in France In May 2024 red hand symbols were daubed on the Holocaust memorial in Paris, vandalism that was quickly blamed on Russia. On October 29th four Bulgarian nationals will face trial – one in abstentia …

First trial begins over alleged Russian dirty tricks campaign in France
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The migrants who disappeared in the Channel, and why the corpses were never identified In October last year, an inflatable dinghy carrying an estimated total of 60-70 migrants left the north-east French coast hoping to cross the Channel to England. But shortly after leaving it took on…

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Prison staff unions slam in-jail armed police protection for Sarkozy Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who on Tuesday began serving a five-year prison term for criminal conspiracy to gain funding for his 2007 election campaign from the regime of Libyan dictato…

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Sarkozy behind bars: how a powerful elite seeks to portray the ex-president as a victim At just before 9.40am on October 21st Nicolas Sarkozy entered the gates of La Santé prison in Paris to begin the five-year jail term he was given after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy in th…

Sarkozy behind bars: how a powerful elite seeks to portray the ex-president as a victim
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The study that estimates the numbers of Russian dead in Ukraine at 219,000 A meticulous study into Russian losses in Ukraine published this month by exiled Russian media outlets reports that since the Kremlin launched what it called a “special military operation” against i…

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