French government uses anti-terror laws to keep activists away from demonstrations

'Mediapart' can reveal that the French government is using anti-terrorism powers to restrict the movements of political activists, some with no criminal record, to prevent them from attending demons…

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Aya Nakamura, the unapologetic voice of working-class, multicultural France

Last month critic Christelle Bakima Poundza published 'Aya pour l’exemple. Portrait d’une France aux rêves illimités', a book about singer Aya Nakamura. In this review, Mediapart's Faïza Zerouala sa…

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How Armenia opened a controversial gold mine ahead of hosting UN biodiversity summit

The COP17 biodiversity summit, which is scheduled to end this Friday, has been taking place in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. Yet just days before it began, prime minister Nikol Pashinyan formally i…

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The hate speech on French TV news channels in run-up to racist shooting attack

The role of certain French media, notably rolling TV news channels, in stoking racial hatred and Islamophobia has come under scrutiny since the drive-by shooting rampage last Friday in Trappes, an o…

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Mediapart denounces brutal treatment of its journalists by far-right party guards

On Saturday, four Mediapart journalists were physically maltreated by security guards from the far-right Rassemblement National party (RN) while covering its congress in the town of Orléans. Togethe…

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A girl's story of rape: 'If women have changed, men have changed very little'

A film adaptation of Mémoire de fille, the 2016 book by Nobel Prize-winning French writer Annie Ernaux recounting the rape of a 17-year-old girl and the devastating trauma that followed, was release…

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French protests: he who sows the seeds of violence harvests the revolt

With six months to go before France’s presidential elections, outgoing Emmanuel Macron faces a stern appraisal of his two terms in office. For he has placed the country at the edge of a precipice, b…

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French protests: the post-insurrection 'hangover' in Paris

There were unprecedented scenes of violence and rioting surrounding nationwide protests in France on Saturday, when up to 800,000 demonstrators voiced a variety of grievances, from students denounci…

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The French debt crisis: reinventing ‘Pigs’ as ‘Frogs’

During the European sovereign debt crisis of the 2010s, the southern countries most affected were dubbed “PIGS” by northern financial circles, an insulting acronym designating Portugal, Italy, Greece…

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Raphaël Glucksmann chosen as French social democrats' presidential candidate

Centre-left MEP Raphaël Glucksmann has been chosen as the candidate for the French social democrat camp in next year’s presidential elections after his landslide victory in a centre-left primary poll…

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When French police use speeding cars to disperse student protestors

French student unions have called for another day of national demonstrations next week to denounce the poor teaching conditions of the country’s high schools, called lycées, many of which have been …

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The Gaza chronicles: 'We don't wish for a future, we wish for the present to end'

Nour Elassy is a Gazan writer, journalist and poet who in the spring of 2025 began writing for Mediapart on the grim reality of life and death in the Gaza Strip. She arrived in France in July last y…

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The AI threat to print media jobs in France

The roll-out of generative artificial intelligence tools is being used as a pretext to cut jobs in a sector of the media already weakened by the shift online. While subediting, fact-checking and pag…

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French ministers send mixed messages as school student anger rises and new protests loom

Hundreds of secondary schools across France have been hit by protests and blockades as students protest against crumbling buildings, poorly equipped classrooms, overcrowded classes and a lack of tea…

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Jordan Bardella’s anti-Semitic writings: the proof he lied

Mediapart came under fierce attack this week from Marine Le Pen, her Rassemblement National party (RN) and its chairman, Jordan Bardella, following its revelations of Bardella’s anti-Semitic writing…

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The far-right is threatening Mediapart - defending the right to know is everyone’s business

The day after Mediapart's revelations about the anti-Semitic writings of Rassemblement National chairman Jordan Bardella, the party's presidential candidate Marine Le Pen made extremely serious thre…

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'All the banks are owned by Jews': the anti-Semitic writings of France's far-right party boss Jordan Bardella

Mediapart has obtained exchanges involving the current president of France's far-right Rassemblement National (RN) party, Jordan Bardella, from the early days of his political career. They reveal th…

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Murder of Argentine rugby star in Paris: two far-right attackers convicted and jailed

On Friday evening a criminal court in Paris sentenced Loïk Le Priol and Romain Bouvier to 26 and 19 years in prison respectively over the shooting of France-based Argentine rugby player Federico Mar…

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French companies clash over commissions in Barcelona-DR Congo football marketing deal

A commercial dispute between two French companies - one of them championed by President Emmanuel Macron - has lifted the lid on the negotiations behind a major marketing contract signed between the …

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French bishop and WWII hero, one of the ‘Righteous’, accused in Catholic school sexual abuse scandal

Over at least six decades, successive pupils at a prestigious Catholic boarding school in south-west France were subjected to physical, psychological and sexual violence by clergy and lay staff acti…

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'NAZA', or the carnage in Gaza as told by those who perpetrate it

'NAZA', a new documentary by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is an astonishing investigation into the so-called “collateral” killings of civilians in the Gaza Strip in Israeli stri…

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European Parliament demands 170,000 euros from Le Pen over 'unjustified' expenses

Just two months after she lost her appeal against a conviction for the misappropriation of European Parliament funds, the parliament’s directorate-general for financial affairs has now called on Mar…

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Ex-French minister Rachida Dati stands trial over 'corruption' pact with Renault boss Carlos Ghosn

The trial on corruption charges of Rachida Dati, a high-profile figure among French conservatives since her early political association with Nicolas Sarkozy, under whose presidency she served as jus…

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French market gardeners seek survival after blanket heatwaves and drought

The catastrophic consequences for France’s agricultural sector of this summer’s relentless series of heatwaves and drought have left many farmers facing a highly uncertain future, and an emergency p…

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France's 2027 presidential election: facing the real prospect of catastrophe

“The social conditions for fascism continue to exist,” declared the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno in a prophetic 1967 lecture entitled 'Aspects of the new Right-Wing Extremism'. Its republica…

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One family's desperate search for a roof over their heads as France's pupils go back to school

More than 2,300 children in France were still without emergency accommodation on the first day of the new school year last week - almost twice as many as four years ago. At Villeurbanne in south-eas…

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‘Victims twice over’: How French press removes anonymity from women who accuse public figures

A French magazine and radio station have revealed the identity of a Belgian singer who has accused singer and actor Patrick Bruel of sexual assault. This is just the latest example of the French pre…

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How the French far-right’s proposed headscarf ban is part of a ‘pattern’ of repressing Muslim women

The far-right Rassemblement National has declared that if it wins power in next year’s presidential election in France it will hold a referendum on banning the hijab or headscarf in public, and enfo…

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Barcola and Dembélé football agent has UK company wound up over unpaid taxes

Franco-Malian Moussa Sissoko, the football agent representing Ballon d’Or winner Ousmane Dembélé, new Liverpool signing Bradley Barcola and Paris Saint-Germain stars Désiré Doué and Khvicha Kvaratsk…

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