A convicted paedophile in his sixties has been jailed a third time for sexually assaulting a neighbour’s six-year-old granddaughter. The unnamed defendant, previously convicted of raping and sexually assaulting two minors, was sentenced to eight years in prison by the criminal court of Reims in the northern French department of…
A French soldier stationed in Senegal has died at the age of 35 during a boxing sparring session. According to local media, Captain Francois Sangiovanni of the 19th Engineer Regiment of Besancon died after losing consciousness during boxing training. Sangiovanni, who had been stationed at Dakar air base 160 in…
A dad who allegedly held a knife to his daughter's throat and tried to throw one his kids out of the window for not wearing an Islamic headscarf has defended himself in court as a traditionalist. The unnamed 35-year-old man from Cavaillon in the south-eastern French department of Vaucluse is…
A woman French police believe was a prostitute has survived a fall from a third-floor block of flats while apparently trying to escape during a police raid. The incident took place in the city of Lyon in the French department of Rhone while the unnamed victim was in her flat.…
A mum was left desperately clinging onto her son after he slipped off a ski chairlift, and they travelled more than 1,000 feet before she finally had to let him go. The incident took place at the Titlis Ski Resort, in Engelberg in central Switzerland when the boy was taking…
