Israel — The scam had all the trappings of a major con. Working from a dingy office building just a short drive from the glittering Mediterranean Sea, eight immigrants from Europe formed an unlikely team that allegedly conspired to dupe major multinational companies out of millions of dollars.
An Islamic State sleeper cell has plans to carry out attacks targeting English and Russian football fans at Euro 2016 during a match in Marseilles, data retrieved from the main Paris attacks suspect’s laptop reveal, according to the Sun.
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.
Twin terror raids in France and Belgium Thursday resulted in multiple arrests, including one Frenchman who was described as being in the “advanced stages” of a plot to attack the country.
PARIS – Lucien de Hirsch, a Jewish school located on the 19th arrondissement of Paris, looks like a fortress.
Israel is still responding angrily to France’s proposal yesterday to call an international peace conference with Israel and the Palestinians and to unilaterally recognize the state of “Palestine,” should the conference fail to bring peace.
A topless activist from the international women’s rights movement Femen hung from a bridge in Paris on Thursday, in protest over Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to the French capital.
Jewish immigration to Israel from western Europe has reached an all-time high as a result of a rise in anti-Semitic attacks, a leading nonprofit group said Thursday, as France’s beleaguered Jewish community grapples with whether to refrain from donning Jewish skull caps for their own safety.
The chief rabbi of France, Rabbi Haim Corsia, on Tuesday rejected a call by the leader of Marseille’s Jewish community for Jews in the city to stop wearing kippot (skullcaps) to avoid being targeted by extremists.
A Turkish teenager who stabbed a Jewish teacher with a machete on Monday in the southern French city of Marseille told police he was attacking in the name of the Islamic State (ISIS) group, a prosecutor said.