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Attacks on LGBT people in France spiked in 2012: watchdog
Attacks on gays and homophobic speech spiked last year in the run-up to the French parliament’s approval of a bill allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children, a leading gay rights watchdog said Tuesday. In its annual report, SOS Homophobie said it recorded 1,977 calls on its helpline in…
France reports first case of deadly SARS-like virus
France’s health ministry on Wednesday reported the country’s first case of a SARS-like virus that has killed 18 people so far, mostly in Saudi Arabia. An unidentified person who came back to France from a trip to the United Arab Emirates was diagnosed with the deadly novel coronavirus, the ministry…
French company sells scented underwear for men
A company that specialises in “Made in France” underwear has raised nearly 19,000 euros ($25,000) from enthusiastic investors banking on its next titillating creation — sweet-smelling underpants for men. The so-called “Indomitable” briefs will be manufactured by “Le Slip Francais”, a company set up in 2011 by 27-year-old Guillaume Gibault,…
French marriage equality opponents prepare for last protest before vote
France’s bitter debate over gay marriage is set to reach a potentially explosive climax on Sunday, two days before a bill legalising same-sex unions is due to be finally approved. Opponents of the reform have been urged to take to the streets of Paris in a last-ditch show of their…
Homophobic assaults up in France amid same sex marriage debate
Wilfred de Bruijn’s face is bloated, seeped in blood, his bruised right eye shut tight, his tooth broken — the victim of a brutal attack in Paris while he was “walking arm in arm” with his boyfriend. His is one of the latest cases of homophobia in France, where activists…
France seeks Mali exit, handover to UN peacekeepers
Nearly a month after launching an offensive in Mali to drive out Islamist extremists, France mulled the withdrawal of its troops Thursday after asking the UN to prepare a peacekeeping force to take the baton. France’s 28-day-old intervention has largely driven the Al-Qaeda-linked rebels, who controlled northern Mali for 10…
France adopts words of war by vowing to ‘destroy terrorists’
With its talk of “destroying” enemies and confronting “jihadi terrorists”, France has adopted a language of war for its intervention in Mali that few expected from Socialist President Francois Hollande. As French warplanes carry out airstrikes and French troops clash with Islamist rebels in the West African country, Hollande and…
Weight-loss drug linked to deaths in France shaken by fresh scandal
Drug company boss faces manslaughter investigation as victims complain of delays in compensation A weight-loss drug believed to have killed hundreds in France’s biggest ever pharmaceutical scandal has sparked fresh controversy as victims complain of delays in state compensation and a major drug-company boss has been placed under formal investigation…
France issues first-ever regulations for nano-particles
France has become the first country in Europe to require manufacturers to identify use of nano-particles, the extremely fine grains that are increasingly found in drugs and consumer products. Manufacturers must make a declaration if they used at least 100 grammes (3.52 ounces) of nano-particles in products that were imported,…
France plans to tackle car-torching New Year’s tradition
In France’s rundown suburbs, it has become as much of a New Year tradition as champagne and fireworks in more affluent neighbourhoods. Every year, the night of December 31-January 1 sees more than 1,000 cars set ablaze across the country in an orgy of vandalism to which the authorities have,…
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