#French police

#French police

French police searching for fugitives who ambushed a prison van, killing guards and freeing an inmate.

France launching a major manhunt with hundreds of officers deployed. [ more ]

French police shot and killed a man suspected of starting a fire at a synagogue in Rouen in an antisemitic attack. [ more ]

Around 200 people gathered in Paris to remember the synagogue attack in Rouen at the beginning of Jewish Shabbat. [ more ]

Elite French police are searching for gunmen who attacked a prison van, killing two officers, and freeing the inmate during the high-security transport. [ more ]

French police neutralized a man armed with a knife aiming to set fire to a synagogue, amid increasing tensions over the Israel-Hamas conflict. [ more ]

French police conducted a "massive" number of identity checks in 2021 without clear objectives or guidelines.

The number of ID checks carried out annually by police was 47 million, according to a report by France's public audit office. [ more ]