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Teenage girl to be sued by the French state - France's prime minister Gabriel Attal has announced that a teenage girl who falsely accused her headteacher of striking her in a heated exchange over her wearing an Islamic head-covering will be sued by the French state. The headteacher insisted that the pupil remove her head-covering inside the school, in accordance with French law. Since the incident in February and as reported on Wednesday the teacher has resigned after death threats circulated on social media. The Islamist threat to French schools is taken extremely seriously since the murder of two teachers. Samuel Paty was decapitated on the street in a Paris suburb in 2020 and Dominique Bernard was killed at his school in Arras five months ago.
French President call s proposed trade agreement “a very bad deal” - French President Emmanuel Macron has called a proposed trade agreement between the EU and South America’s Mercosur bloc a “very bad deal”. Macron made the comments to Brazilian businessmen on Wednesday while on a three-day trip to Brazil. The comments come amid troubled talks over a free trade deal between the two economic blocs. While Brazil has said it is ready to sign a
