Prosecutors have urged a trial for the ex-head of France’s domestic intelligence agency in a sprawling probe into murky ties between the security services and private firms including luxury giant LVMH, a source close to the case said Tuesday. Bernard Squarcini, until 2012 head of the DGSI spy agency, and 10 others are targeted on…
DetailsHSBC could face trial for alleged tax fraud in France over the activities of its Swiss subsidiary.
Prosecutors in the Paris trial of Arnaud Mimran and 11 other men accused of carbon VAT fraud in a case referred to in France as the “heist of the century” made their closing arguments last Thursday.
Francois Fillon, a leading contender in the upcoming French presidential election, suggested Jews do not respect French law.
City prosecutors in southern France are investigating a local politician for his Twitter account, which was marked “forbidden to dogs and Jews” and featured tweets mocking and denying the Holocaust.
French police put out a photo of a fugitive in the Paris attacks on Sunday, saying the suspect is on the run and too dangerous for anyone outside law enforcement to engage directly.
French security services have prevented an “imminent” terrorist attack in Paris and arrested a suspected Islamic extremist, according to the interior minister.
French police arrested Monday two suspects in the murder of a French Jewish politician in a suburb of Paris.
French authorities reportedly rounded up at least 16 people suspected in the brazen Kim Kardashian heist that left the reality star bound and gagged at gunpoint last year in Paris.
Arnaud Mimran, the main suspect in the great theft dubbed “the sting of the century,” testified on Thursday at a Paris court that he funded expenses of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in France, as well as directly funding election campaign expenses amounting to one million Euros. Netnahyahu vehemently denied the report.
