The revolution produced some of the most brilliant fighters in world history: Toussaint Louverture, who led the revolt until his capture in 1802 and subsequent death in a French prison ...

Multiple French prisons have been attacked in recent nights, including with automatic weapons, in what the justice minister said on Tuesday was a response to a government clamp-down on a drug ...

Anti-organized crime specialist investigators probing a wave of attacks on prisons and prison staff in France are looking at ...

PARIS — French movie star Gérard Depardieu ’s fall from grace is now complete.

The fires broke out around 5.20am on a fenced car park reserved for staff, Tarascon prosecutor Laurent Gumbau told the French news agency AFP. “One of the vehicles belonged to a prison officer ...

Read more Macron vows French prison attackers will be 'found, tried and punished' Despite heightened surveillance measures, the crime wave continued on the night of April 15 in Tarascon (in the ...