Switzerland’s supreme court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, upholding his conviction for rape and sexual coercion. Ramadan, the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, had been sentenced by a Geneva appeals court in 2023 to three years in prison, two of which were suspended, for assaulting a woman in a Geneva hotel nearly two decades ago.
A Moroccan migrant in France is facing deportation and potential jail time after desecrating the country’s most sacred war memorial. The individual, identified as “Hamdi H.,” was filmed lighting a cigarette using the eternal flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad openly celebrated that fruits of October 7—the terrorist attack that murdered over 1,200 Israelis—are now producing political gains in the West.
France has halted all evacuations from Gaza after a scandal involving a student visa rocked its higher education system and exposed deep flaws in its immigration policy.
France has suspended its Gaza evacuation programme following revelations that a Gazan student admitted to a prestigious French university shared antisemitic content online. The decision halts further arrivals and triggers a full review of the vetting process after the 25-year-old woman was found to have posted pro-Hitler images and content calling for the death of Jews.
French Prime Minister François Bayrou denounced the European Union’s newly signed trade deal with the United States, blasting the agreement as an act of “submission” and warning that it signaled a loss of European sovereignty.
A man died on Friday after attempting to cross the English Channel from a beach in northern France, local authorities reported on Saturday, raising the death toll in the dangerous waterway to at least 18 this year.
Several major American Jewish organizations declined a meeting with representatives of the French government after President Emmanuel Macron announced that France would formally recognize Palestine as a state.
