President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday that he would look into stripping French citizenship from anyone of foreign origin who "threatened the life of a police officer" following a spate of riots around Grenoble earlier this month.
French politicians as well as advocates for immigrants and housing rights are reacting strongly to a video shot last week of police forcibly removing women and children of African descent from a makeshift tent housing camp in a poor Paris suburb.
The French woman who admitted killing eight of her newborns in the village of Villers-au-Tertre says she is relieved that her secret is finally out, her lawyer said Friday. Dominique Cottrez was charged with multiple murders on Thursday.
A French woman (pictured) has admitted to killing eight of her newborn babies because "she did not want any more children", the local prosecutor said on Thursday. Her husband, who was also accused, has been released without charge.