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May 31, 2026

Over 780 Arrested in France After PSG Champions League Victory Turns Violent

French police detained more than 780 people across the country, including 283 in Paris, after violent clashes erupted when Paris Saint-Germain won the Champions League title, with 219 people injured including dozens of police officers.

May 31, 2026·8 sources
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May 21, 2026

Air France and Airbus Found Guilty of Manslaughter Over 2009 Atlantic Crash That Killed 228

A Paris appeals court has convicted Air France and Airbus of corporate manslaughter over the 2009 crash of Flight AF447, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean while traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, killing all 228 people on board.

May 21, 2026·3 sources
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May 12, 2026

White Circle Raises $11M Seed Round from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind and Hugging Face Leaders

Paris-based AI safety startup White Circle secured $11 million in seed funding from leaders at major AI companies to scale its real-time AI control and monitoring platform designed to prevent deployed AI models from going rogue.

May 12, 2026·2 sources
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May 11, 2026

US Evacuates Hantavirus Cruise Ship Passengers, Two Test Positive

An American and French national evacuated from a cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak have tested positive for the virus. Evacuations began Sunday with passengers arriving in Paris, Madrid, and the US.

May 11, 2026·7 sources
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Apr 18, 2026

Suspect in 1982 Paris Jewish Restaurant Attack Extradited to France After 44 Years

Hicham Harb, 72, was extradited to France by Palestinian authorities and detained on arrival in Paris over the 1982 attack on a Jewish restaurant in Rue des Rosiers that killed six people. He had been sought for over four decades.

Apr 18, 2026·4 sources
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Apr 14, 2026

French Court Convicts Lafarge of Financing ISIS in Syria

A French court found cement giant Lafarge guilty of paying protection money to ISIS and other jihadist groups to keep a plant operating in northern Syria during the civil war. The company was fined over $1.3 million and its former CEO sentenced to six years in prison.

Apr 14, 2026·5 sources
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Apr 12, 2026

European Central Bank Backs EU Plan to Centralize Crypto Supervision Under ESMA

The ECB endorsed the EU's proposal to centralize cryptocurrency supervision under the Paris-based ESMA watchdog, warning that ESMA must receive adequate staffing and funding with a phased transition to avoid disruption.

Apr 12, 2026·1 source
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Mar 30, 2026

Mistral AI Secures $830M Loan to Build Paris Data Center with 14,000 NVIDIA GPUs

French AI startup Mistral AI borrowed $830 million to construct a data center near Paris equipped with nearly 14,000 NVIDIA GPUs, representing a significant infrastructure investment for the European AI company.

Mar 30, 2026·1 source
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Mar 28, 2026

French Police Foil Bomb Attack Outside Bank of America in Paris

French authorities arrested suspects in connection with an attempted bomb attack outside Bank of America's Paris headquarters. Anti-terrorism prosecutors opened an investigation into what officials described as a terrorist criminal conspiracy.

Mar 28, 2026·8 sources
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Top claims

  • ▪French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez called the unrest following Paris Saint-Germain's Champions League final victory on May 31, 2026 "absolutely unacceptable".
  • ▪Tens of thousands gathered inside Paris Saint-Germain's Parc des Princes stadium on May 31, 2026 to watch the Champions League final, while 4,000 to 5,000 people loitered outside with projectiles which were thrown at officers.
  • ▪Shops boarded up their windows ahead of the Paris Saint-Germain Champions League final on May 31, 2026 to avoid a repeat of disturbances from the previous year when youths ransacked shops on the Champs-Élysées.

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