Sacré Bleu! France Aims To Enshrine Emergency Anti-Terror Law In Constitution
Posted: December 23, 2015 Filed under: France, Global, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Aéroports de Paris, Agence France-Presse, Charles De Gaulle, Charlie Hebdo, François Hollande, France, French people, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamism, Paris 2 CommentsPresident Francois Hollande called for the emergency powers to be protected from litigation by placing them in the constitution.
(AFP) – The French cabinet backed reform proposals Wednesday that could see the state of emergency called after last month’s Paris attacks enshrined in the constitution.
“The threat has never been higher. We must face up to a war, a war against terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam.”
— Prime Minister Manuel Valls
Special policing powers used under the state of emergency — such as house arrests and the right to raid houses without judicial oversight — are currently based on an ordinary law which can be challenged at the constitutional court.
In the wake of the Paris attacks that left 130 dead, President Francois Hollande called for the emergency powers to be protected from litigation by placing them in the constitution.
“The threat has never been higher,” Prime Minister Manuel Valls told reporters following a meeting of government ministers on Wednesday.
“We must face up to a war, a war against terrorism, against jihadism, against radical Islam,” he said.
The constitutional reforms must now be passed by a three-fifths majority in the upper and lower houses of parliament, where debates will start on February 3.
Valls said the latest figures showed more than 1,000 people had left France to join the jihad in Syria and Iraq, of which an estimated 148 had died and 250 returned.
“Radicalised individuals from numerous countries join Daesh (the Arab acronym for the Islamic State group). There are many French speakers and we know that fighters group themselves according to language, to train and prepare terrorist actions on our soil,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »
Paris Attacks: Actualité à la Une Le Monde Front Page, 11-13-2015
Posted: November 13, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere | Tags: 9-11, France, French people, Jihadism, Le Monde, media, Newspapers, One World Trade Center, Paris, Paris Attacks, Terrorism, Twitter Leave a commentSource: Le Monde.fr – Actualité à la Une
After 9/11 this French newspaper said, “We are all American.” Today “We are all French.
source: Katie Love @KLOVEREPORTER via Twitter
One World Trade lit in blue, white and red in solidarity with the people of France.
Sacré Bleu! French Man Jailed for Texting and Calling his Ex-Girlfriend 21,807 Times
Posted: September 5, 2014 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Humor, Law & Justice, Mediasphere | Tags: Agence France-Presse, France, French people, iPhone, Lyon, Psychiatry, Rhone, Text messaging, Texting, Washington Post Leave a commentFrench man jailed for texting and calling his ex-girlfriend 21,807 times http://t.co/St8Pp0FQLT
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 5, 2014
Sacré Bleu! McDonalds: Vive la France!
Posted: August 29, 2014 Filed under: Food & Drink, Global | Tags: Business Insider, France, French cuisine, French people, McDonald, Moscow, RUSSIA, United States 1 Comment
A customer enters a McDonald’s in Chicago, Illinois. (Getty images/Tim Boyle)
Michael Barone reports: I have never eaten at a McDonald’s in France. But evidently a lot of French men and women do. Business Insider reports that France is McDonald’s most profitable country after the United States. So much for all the French cuisine snobs who lament the presence of McDonald’s in la belle France…(read more)
[PHOTO] Ooh La La! French Teenagers on a Boat on the Seine, Paris 1988
Posted: June 19, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Food & Drink, Mediasphere | Tags: Eiffel Tower, France, French people, Paris, Pont des Arts, Rive Gauche, Rome, Seine Leave a commentFrench teenagers on a boat on the Seine river. Paris. 1988. Photograph by David Alan Harvey. pic.twitter.com/f1dSGh9QYM
— Historical Pics (@HistoricalPics) June 20, 2014
Sacré Bleu! French Study Shows a Majority of Men and a Third of Women Cheat
Posted: January 22, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Global | Tags: Cheating, François Hollande, France, French people, Gleeden, Hollande, infidelity, Julie Gayet, les liaisons dangereuses, Marriage, Paris, Sex 1 Comment
The majority of French men and a third of French women cheat on their partners, a new poll has found Photo: ALAMY
Poll finds that 55 per cent of French men and 32 per cent of French women are unfaithful and that infidelity is on the rise but that the French are champions of forgiveness
From Paris, Henry Samuel reports: A majority of French men and a third of French women cheat on their partners, a new poll, has found indicating that infidelity is on the rise in France among both sexes.
The study also found that Left-wing French are more likely to cheat on their partners than those who identify themselves as on the Right
In figures that could help explain why so many French are unfazed by the dalliances of their president, François Hollande, the Ifop study found that some 55 per cent of French men and 32 per cent of French women admit to cheating on their other halves.