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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

'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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Over the past two years, independent bookshops across France have faced both physical attacks and other forms of intimidation from far-right groups. With the sector already in a very precarious fina…

Itself partly responsible for the climate crisis, tourism is also falling victim to its effects, from huge wildfires to dwindling water supplies. Yet as anthropologist and essayist Aude Vidal explai…

Former Air France stewardess and purser Sophie Lainault has become the first person among her profession in France to obtain a legal ruling that recognises that her breast cancer, which was diagnosed…

Charles Hernu (1923-1990), a loyal political ally of the late French president François Mitterrand, is for most known only for his role in the deadly bombing attack on the Greenpeace flagship Rainbo…

Older women victims of domestic violence suffer largely in silence, isolated and with few means of escaping lifelong abuse. For many that can be because of an instilled sense of ‘duty’ within the ho…

Unanswered questions are piling up over a massive hack earlier this summer of the French tax administration’s data concerning 678,000 private individuals and businesses, and which was officially rev…

Travelling to interview families left bereaved by the recent tragedy in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, our journalist was banned from entering Morocco. Mediapart firmly denounces this infringement of …

This weekend marked the fifth year since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, sealed by the fundamentalist Islamic movement’s capture of the capital Kabul on August 15th 2001. The military …

In the fight against the propagation of wildfires, which have this summer wreaked record levels of devastation in France, goats are emerging as effective and inexpensive ‘weapons’. Mediapart joined …

Three likely candidates in France's 2027 presidential election have been victims of Russian-linked disinformation campaigns in recent weeks. Both centre-left politician Raphaël Glucksmann and Presid…

Water levels in France’s longest river have fallen to a record low over the summer. Many campaigners, scientists and politicians are now backing legislation that would recognise the Loire as a legal…

On Wednesday a criminal court in Nice sentenced influencers Owen C. and Safine H. to suspended prison terms for violence and incitement to hatred committed on the 'JeanPormanove' streaming channel. …

Up to 60,000 migrants crossed from Morocco into Ceuta late last month, an event which triggered headlines around the world. Among them were people from sub-Saharan countries such as Sudan and Ivory …

Surveillance software developed by an Israeli company which is capable of tracking the location of millions of mobile phones is being marketed confidentially to major French companies, according to …

Migrants in northern France seeking to cross the English Channel are now setting off from beaches south of Calais, in a bid to avoid police patrols. Meanwhile, British influencers have travelled ove…

Rapper and filmmaker El Mahdi Lyoubi, better known by his stage name Mehdi Black Wind, has been held in custody by the authorities in Morocco after making a brief return to the country of his birth …

France was this week hit by a fourth heatwave in the space of less than two months, with temperatures hitting 40°C on Thursday in some parts and further outbreaks of wildfires. Is this extraordinary…

As the wildfires in south-west France and their dire consequences dominate headlines in the country, president Macron and his government have been highly present in the media over the past fortnight…

The vast wildfire that has destroyed more than 42,000 hectares over five days in the Gironde département in south-west France, leading to the evacuation of 220,000 people, has been “stabilised, annou…

Renaud Muselier, president of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regional council, who played an active part in securing the awarding of the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games to the region, is a…

A decree published on January 1st this year announced the end of lifelong privileges granted to former French prime ministers (PMs), which include the indefinite use of a chauffeur-driven car and pro…

Largely absent from the increasingly politicised and polarised debates in France over the use of pesticides in agriculture, seasonal farm workers, many of them foreign nationals, are among the most …

The fast-moving wildfires that had ripped through the forest of Fontainebleau, 60 kilometres south-east of Paris, since Sunday evening were finally contained, if not extinguished, late on Tuesday. Mo…

Recent scenes of shoppers scrambling to buy cut-price air conditioners at a supermarket prompted an outpouring of class contempt on French social media. Yet, writes Mediapart's Faïza Zerouala in thi…

Even before her possible election, the leader of the far-right Rassemblement National and presidential candidate is seeking to bully France’s institutions, just like far-right governments around the…

The Le Touquet Treaty between the United Kingdom and France was signed in 2003 as part of a continuing bid to resolve the refugee and migrant crisis on the French side of the Channel. Last year Fren…

After the Paris Court of Appeal removed the threat of her being ineligible for public office, far-right leader Marine Le Pen went on television news within hours to declare that she would stand in t…

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen has announced she will stand as a candidate in France's presidential election in 2027.  Her decision came after the Paris Court of Appeal confirmed her conviction for e…

The Paris Court of Appeal has confirmed the conviction of far-right leader Marine Le Pen for embezzling public funds from the European Parliament. However, in its sentencing the court has – potential…

Two influencers from the JeanPormanove channel, where streamer Raphaël Graven died live on air in 2025, stood trial on Monday on charges including assault, abuse of vulnerability and incitement to h…