National Front

One officer killed, one wounded in Champs Elysees shooting

Paris - Arab Today

One police officer was killed and another wounded Thursday in a shooting on Paris's Champs Elysees, police said, just days ahead of France's presidential election. France's interior ministry said the attacker was killed in the incident in the early evening on the world-famous boulevard. The famous shopping street in the heart of the city, which is usually teaming with touristsRead more

Arson attempt at Le Pen campaign HQ causes minor damage

Paris - Arab today

An arson attempt left very minor damage at the Paris building where French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has her headquarters, a police source said, and Le Pen accused leftist groups of the attack. The police source said the ground floor of the central Paris building was targeted and graffiti mentioning Le Pen's National Front was found nearby. The sourceRead more

Arson bid hits campaign HQ of France's Le Pen

Paris - Arab Today

A building housing French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's campaign headquarters was hit by an arson attempt on Thursday, firefighters and police said, with only minor damage caused. Firefighters were called around 2:40 am (0040 GMT) to the ground floor offices of an insurance company on the upmarket Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore in central Paris. A fire service spokesman saidRead more

Le Pen plan to jettison euro spooks French business

Paris - Arab Today

The euro -- and her fervent wish to withdraw from it -- is a central theme of every stump speech by French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, topping her list of 144 election pledges. Le Pen calls the single European currency a "a knife that you stick in a country's ribs to force it to do what its peopleRead more

Le Pen holds first head of state meeting

Beirut - Arab Today

France's far-right leader and presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Monday met a foreign head of state for the first time, holding talks in Beirut with Lebanon's President Michel Aoun. "We discussed the long and fruitful friendship between our two countries," the National Front (FN) leader said after her 30-minute encounter at the presidential palace in the hilltop suburb ofRead more

Government source: France's Le Pen to visit Lebanon

Beirut - Arab Today

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen will visit Lebanon next week for talks with leaders of Paris's former mandate territory, a Lebanese government source said Wednesday. "Madame Le Pen will be in Beirut on the 19th and 20th, and will meet (President Michel) Aoun and (Prime Minister Saad) Hariri on Monday," the source told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.Read more