Topic: France 🇫🇷

A French appeals court this week upheld Marine Le Pen's conviction for embezzling funds from the European Parliament and sentenced her to house arrest – something the far-right leader previously said would rule her out of France's 2027 presidential race. Yet Le Pen still has one last legal recour...

The leader of France's far-right National Rally, Marine Le Pen, said on Tuesday she would run for president next year after an embezzlement conviction was confirmed on appeal, a ruling she said she would challenge before the country's highest court.

The European Commission has warned that a French bill that would ban children under the age of 15 from social media would infringe the European Union’s online content law by giving French regulators powers that go beyond the bloc’s legal framework.

The Paris court of appeal is to rule Tuesday afternoon in far right leader Marine Le Pen’s embezzlement case, in a decision that could determine whether she can run for president for a fourth time, or if she will step aside. Several scenarios are possible, and her political opponents are preparin...

A French doctor who was the first-ever diagnosed case of Ebola in the country has made a full recovery and has been discharged from hospital.

Bernard Arnault, head of the luxury goods group LVMH, has been ordered to pay nearly €22.5 million in back taxes after a Paris appeals court overturned earlier rulings in his favour in a long-running dispute with the tax authorities.

A mother who filed a complaint alleging the sexual assault of her young son said she was mocked by magistrates at a court in Bobigny, just outside Paris, after judges wrote that she had "overreacted". As Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin calls for an inquiry into the case, RFI spoke to the boy's pa...