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Arab News
3 hours ago
- General
- Arab News
Tunisian national shot dead by neighbor in the south of France
PARIS: A Tunisian national was shot dead by his neighbor in the south of France, the Draguignan prosecutor said in a statement, adding that the incident was being investigated as a racially-motivated victim, who was said to be 'possibly 35,' but has not been officially identified, was killed late on Saturday night in the town of Puget-sur-Argens. A 25-year-old Turkish national was also shot in the hand by the man and taken to incident comes one month after the fatal stabbing of Aboubakar Cisse, a 22-year-old man from Mali, in a mosque in the southern town of La Grand-Combe, amid rising racism in year French police recorded an 11 percent rise in racist, xenophobic or anti-religious crimes, according to official data published in a statement released late on Sunday, the prosecutor said the suspect in the weekend shooting was a 53-year-old who practices sports shooting. He had published hateful and racist content on his social media account before and after killing his neighbor, the prosecutor has the largest Muslim population in Europe, numbering more than 6 million and making up about 10 percent of the country's across the political spectrum, including President Emmanuel Macron, have attacked what they describe as Islamist separatism in a way that rights groups have said stigmatizes Muslims and amounts to discrimination.
The Sun
25-05-2025
- Politics
- The Sun
France launch probe after ‘ultra left anarchist gang' claim responsibility for blackout that left 160k without power
AN 'ultra-left anarchist gang' has claimed responsibility for a blackout that plunged 160,000 homes into darkness on the Côte d'Azur – just hours before the Cannes Film Festival awards show. French prosecutors in Grasse and Draguignan have now launched a probe into suspected sabotage after a shadowy statement was posted online by the group. 1 In the anonymous release the group said: 'We sabotaged the main electrical substation supplying the Cannes metropolitan area and cut down the 225 kV line coming from Nice.' They claimed the dramatic blackout was a deliberate attempt to cripple key infrastructure including research centres, start-ups, an aerospace factory, the local airport, and military and technological hubs. Thousands of homes in the iconic French Riviera were left in darkness from around 10am on Saturday until the blackout was resolved at 4.30pm local time. The suspected saboteurs wrote they targeted the region 'on the eve of the Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony and gala evening' in what appeared to be a political statement, BFM TV reports. Authorities have yet to verify the authenticity of the claims. An initial arson attack struck an electrical substation in Tanneron, in the Var region, at around 2.45am on Saturday, weakening the power grid. Hours later, a high-voltage pylon in Villeneuve-Loubet was discovered sawed through – further destabilising the network and triggering widespread outages. .
