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.
A new municipal police post has curbed dealing at the neighbourhood's notorious "three towers," according to a local tenants' advocate, but he says the drug trade has simply shifted elsewhere while housing conditions remain the district's biggest failure.
Nice's public prosecutor said the 25 year old suspect admitted partial involvement, which he attributed to threats he had received, nearly two years after the fire that devastated a Comorian family with no ties to the drug trafficking dispute believed to have motivated it.
Albert Spaggiari's gang spent a full weekend inside the vault of Nice's Société Générale, emptying 371 safe deposit boxes of 46 million francs that were never recovered, in a case that still fascinates the city half a century later.
Mayor David Lisnard hosted senior anti-fraud officials as the Union des Fabricants unveiled its 18th annual push to teach holidaymakers how to spot fake goods, from magnetic jewellery to counterfeit toys.
A 16 year old was placed under formal investigation and remanded in custody after a 15 year old passenger reported being assaulted in a train toilet, according to the Paris prosecutor's office.
The 18 year old was taken into custody five days after the attack, as prosecutors upgraded the case to attempted murder.
Fourteen participants were found consuming hallucinogenic mushrooms and psychotropic plant preparations when investigators raided a property following a nine month inquiry.
Place d’Armes and the Condamine Market were temporarily evacuated on Wednesday after an unattended bag prompted a second bomb-disposal operation in Monaco in as many days.