French police probed in riot case
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Two French police officers are under formal investigation  over two deaths which prompted rioting in 2005.
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Around 30 youths pelted a riot police vehicle and a bus with stones and smashed windows in a McDonald's store on Wednesday evening in a Paris suburb that was the scene of riots in November, police said.
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French police on Saturday questioned a junior trader blamed for a $7 billion loss at Societe Generale after keeping his superiors in the dark for months about thousands of illicit deals.
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PARIS The police have arrested a Jewish man in connection with an arson attack on a Jewish community center here last week, suggesting that the attack was not the neo-Nazi act it was originally believed to have been.
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The Paris prosecutor's office opened a preliminary investigation into a legal complaint brought by newly married French President Nicolas Sarkozy over a media report about his love life, a judicial official said Friday.
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AN investigation has been opened into crowd trouble at Chelsea&#39;s League Cup match with West Ham at Stamford Bridge overnight. Police in riot gear were confronted by a section of the West Ham supporters after the match which Chelsea won 1-0.
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French police question a businessman at the centre of an alleged smear campaign targeting politicians.
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A son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was at the center of a commotion in Paris before dawn Saturday, after police stopped him for speeding and the Libyan's bodyguards attacked the officers, police said.
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Police have arrested a number of suspects in the slayings of four French nationals last week, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday.
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French detectives interrogate trader who could have dealt with JÃ©rÃ´me Kerviel
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French police widened an investigation  into a trading scandal at Societe Generale  as a court  prepared to rule on Friday whether Jerome Kerviel, the trader  blamed for huge losses, should be held in custody.
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Prosecutors in France begin investigating whether French citizens are joining the ranks of insurgents in Iraq.
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French police widened an investigation into a trading scandal at Societe Generale  as a court prepared to rule on Friday whether Jerome Kerviel, the trader blamed for huge losses, should be held in custody.
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Authorities were investigating Tuesday whether a Taser stun gun police used to try to subdue a man who doused himself in gasoline caused him to ignite in flames.
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French police have carried out dawn raids to arrest 13 suspected Basque separatists for their involvement in an attack last year on a luxury hotel in southern France. Some 200 gendarmes took part in Monday's arrests, the French news agency AFP reported. Seven of the suspects are French and six are Spanish, officials said. Investigators suspect last year's attack was carried out by the Basque separatist group Eta or a French group sympathizing with Eta, a judicial source told Reuters news agency. Eta has waged a violent campaign since the 1960s for an independent state in north Spain and south-west France and called off a 15-month truce in June.
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An immigrant whose deportation for petty crimes was blocked by Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy was involved in a shootout with police in a town the French prime minister was visiting, authorities said.
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French police have arrested 13 people believed to be members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on suspicion of money laundering and "financing terrorism", police said on Monday.