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MARSEILLE, March 31, 2024 (AFP) – French investigators have found and identified the “bones” of a toddler whose disappearance last summer in a tiny village in the French Alps shocked the nation, a prosecutor said Sunday. Emile, two-and-a-half years old, was staying with his grandparents for the first day of the summer holidays when he vanished on July 8 last year. Two neighbours last saw him in the late afternoon walking alone on a […]
By Nick Gammon EDE, Netherlands, March 30, 2024 (AFP) – A hostage drama in the Netherlands that lasted several hours ended without bloodshed on Saturday as all four hostages were freed and police took the suspect into custody. Authorities said there was no reason to suspect a “terrorist motive” for the ordeal, which took place at a night spot popular with young people in the central Dutch town of Ede. Police said they received reports […]
By Richard CARTER THE HAGUE, March 30, 2024 (AFP) – Three of the hostages being held in a cafe in central Netherlands Saturday have been released, police said, but did not yet sound the all-clear. Authorities have evacuated the centre of the town of Ede since early morning, after several people were held at the Cafe Petticoat. “Three hostages have just been released. The situation is not over yet,” police said in a statement on […]
THE HAGUE, March 30, 2024 (AFP) – Several people have been taken hostage in a town in central Netherlands Saturday, according to police, with houses evacuated and the town centre closed down. Police said there was currently no reason to suspect a “terrorist motive” for the incident in Ede. “A hostage situation involving several people is underway in a building in the centre” of the town of Ede, police said in a statement on X, […]
LIMA, March 30, 2024 (AFP) – Peruvian authorities raided President Dina Boluarte’s home on Saturday as part of an ongoing corruption investigation related to undisclosed luxury watches. According to a police document obtained by AFP, about 40 officials were involved in the raid, which was searching for Rolex watches that Boluarte had not publicly declared. The raid “is for the purpose of search and seizure,” police said. The embattled president did not appear to be […]
LONDON, March 29, 2024 (AFP) – Counter-terrorism officers are investigating the stabbing Friday of a journalist working for UK-based independent Iranian media, following previous hostile threats by Iran against perceived opponents in Britain, London police said. Officers found the victim — a man in his 30s — at an address in Wimbledon, in the southwest of the British capital, with injuries to his leg from an attack, the Metropolitan Police said. He was taken […]
BOBIGNY, France, March 21, 2024 (AFP) – Several hundred marched peacefully in a Paris suburb Thursday to demand justice for a teenager killed last week in a collision with a police car. The death of Wanys R. has sparked tensions in the town of La Courneuve near major venues for this summer’s Paris Olympics. Police on March 13 chased a moped that the 18-year-old was driving in the nearby town of Aubervilliers after it said […]
WASHINGTON, March 19, 2024 (AFP) – A former Mississippi policeman who carried out a brutal attack on two Black men with fellow white officers who called themselves the “Goon Squad” was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison. Hunter Elward, four other former members of the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department and a former member of the Richland Police Department pleaded guilty in August to multiple offenses. Elward, 31, who shot one of the men in […]
By Wafaa ESSALHI, Alexandre HIELARD PARIS, March 18, 2024 (AFP) – Security forces deployed in numbers in a Paris suburb on Monday following an attack on a police station near major venues for this summer’s Paris Olympics. The Sunday evening attack in the northern suburb of La Courneuve came days after a teenager riding a moped was killed in a car chase with police, echoing a June killing that triggered days-long riots. “Around 50 people […]
By Joe Lamberti TRENTON, United States, March 17, 2024 (AFP) – An “extremely dangerous” suspect was taken into custody in New Jersey on Saturday after allegedly shooting dead three family members, authorities said, following an hours-long effort to detain him. Andre Gordon, 26, “surrendered peacefully,” Trenton Police Department spokesperson Lisette Rios told AFP, after a trail of violence that triggered shelter-in-place orders in two states. Authorities said Gordon, who is believed to be homeless, began […]
SYDNEY, March 11, 2024 (AFP) – Australian police detained and charged on Monday a well-known cult leader known as “Little Pebble” for allegedly grooming a child while in jail. William Costellia Kamm, 73, and his partner Sandra Costellia, 58, were arrested after a six-month investigation, and were refused bail to appear in court on Tuesday. Costellia Kamm founded the “Order of Saint Charbel” in the rural town of Nowra in the 1980s and preached a […]
LONDON, March 10, 2024 (AFP) – Officers arrested a man who crashed a car into the gates of London’s Buckingham Palace over the weekend, police said on Sunday. The Metropolitan Police said the car “collided with the gates” of the royal residence at 02:30 GMT on Saturday. Armed officers arrested the man at the scene on suspicion of criminal damage and he was taken to hospital, a spokesperson for the force said. They added that […]
