Crime

Cannes becomes the first city in France to arm municipal police with laughing gas detectors, as national rules on the substance are set to tighten.

A €120,000 Patek Philippe, a diplomat and a 30-minute manhunt on the Croisette — three men now await an October trial.

A 17 year old was found dead in his bed at the family's Cap d'Antibes home early Wednesday morning, allegedly stabbed by his mother during an argument with his father amid the couple's ongoing divorce. She was later recovered from the sea and hospitalized; the father was questioned and released.

Yuri Lebedev restrained the attacker and stayed with the badly injured woman until police arrived, after hearing cries for help from the courtyard of his building early Sunday morning.

Three men armed with a handgun and knives forced their way into a rented holiday villa around 3am on August 9, making off with luxury watches, phones and a laptop worth an estimated 100,000 euros while the terrified group sheltered in a bathroom.

The man who fled by motorbike after his accomplice was shot and arrested during the August 2 burglary has now been apprehended by judicial police. Grasse's criminal court has ordered both suspects held in custody until their trial.

A suspect used flammable liquid to try to set vegetation alight on the forest road before fleeing, mayor Éric Ciotti said, with municipal and national police apprehending two suspects overnight.

Owen Cenazandotti received two years suspended and a 15,000 euro fine, while Safine Hamadi was handed eighteen months, after Nice's criminal court found both guilty of group violence against Pormanove and fellow streamer Stéphane Guy during livestreams filmed at a studio in Contes.

The 59 year old confessed to investigators that he killed his 17 year old son to punish his wife, who had left him earlier that same morning. RAID special forces stormed the family's apartment on boulevard de la Madeleine after the father called police himself to report the killing.

Citing the deaths of two young women in four months, including the Nice case BCN reported last week, thousands of doctors have published an open letter to France's health minister demanding tougher sanctions against unqualified practitioners.

Two municipal police officers were injured by tear gas during Sunday's intervention, with one opening fire and wounding a suspect in the hip. The officer was placed in custody under standard procedure, a move the town's mayor has publicly criticised.

Police searched the Halle Spada, one of two workshops where the city's famous parade floats are built, as part of a preliminary investigation opened in 2024 into how contracts worth up to 100,000 euros per float have been awarded.