EDITORIAL. A decade after the January 2015 attacks, radical left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon's about-face on the question of secularism poses a serious problem for the left, both in terms of its extreme ...

and prompted an impassioned debate about freedom of expression and religion in secular France. "There were scenes I will never forget," former French President Francois Hollande told Reuters.

Verdicts are set to be delivered in the cases of eight people accused of helping the man who murdered French teacher Samuel Paty.