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Two arrested in relation to Paris Louvre jewels raid
One of suspects was detained at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport as he attempted to board a flight to Algeria
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Plane near-collision at Nice: aircraft were just ‘three metres away’ from disaster
Pilot confusion over landing runway likely to be cause says preliminary report
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New law proposal aims to ease renewal process for foreign residents in France
MP Fatiha Keloua-Hachi lodged proposed new law backed by a large number of fellow socialists
Bathtub posters call for whales to go back in sea
Rights groups have launched poster campaigns across the country to stop aquarium attractions using whales and dolphins.
The C’est Assez protests, on Paris Métro and buses in Nantes and Nice, show a dolphin and a whale in a bathtub.
They target dolphinariums in Port-Saint-Père near Nantes and Antibes near Nice demanding the mammals be freed and that reproduction in captivity be banned.
The ecology ministry started a rethink on zoos, circuses, mink farms and dolphinariums last year. Rights groups want the mammals released back into the sea in special sanctuaries.
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