PARIS (Reuters) -A French court on Thursday ruled for the release from prison of Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, after serving almost 40 years in prison for attacks on American and Israeli ...

As France's plan to isolate its 100 most dangerous drug traffickers at a high-security prison progresses, the first 17 of the inmates arrived at the facility in Vendin-le-Vieil in the north of the ...

A French court on Thursday ruled in favour of the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant ...

France's justice minister is transferring 100 of the country’s most dangerous inmates to a high-security prison to prevent ...

A French court on Thursday ruled in favour of releasing Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah from prison, after he ...

France is transferring 100 of its most dangerous inmates, described as drug kingpins, to a high-security prison to halt their ...

France says it will track down and arrest those trying to 'destabilise' it with prison attacks By Juliette Jabkhiro and Elizabeth Pineau April 16, 20254:15 PM PDTUpdated April 16, 2025 ...

A man has escaped from a prison in France by hiding in a laundry bag belonging to his cellmate who was being released after finishing his sentence, an official told local media.

Bullet holes in a wall of the Toulon-La Farlède prison on Tuesday. Miguel Medina/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Mr. Darmanin suggested that drug traffickers had organized the attacks.

France is planning to build a brand new high-security prison in the Amazon rainforest, near the site of the notorious Devil’s Island penal colony that inspired the 1973 movie “Papillon ...

Drug violence in France is on the rise, with record cocaine imported from South America and drug seizures at an all-time high, and the attacks have come just as a new anti-drug law is on the ...