BBC Verify has been investigating some of these. The riot image from a French film A striking image showing a group of young men driving a French police van, with one hanging out of the window ...

Riots erupted on Monday over a constitutional ... The proposed changes would allow French residents who have lived in New ...

Forty thousand police officers have been deployed as violent protests spread to major cities in France. In the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, where a 17-year-old was fatally shot during a traffic ...

The elite riot police, known as the Companies for Republican Security, were banned in the French territory following bloody riots in December 1959. The unit had been accused of using ...

Rising prices in Paris brought bread riots. By 1789 France was broke ... of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where ...

"I will invite, this January, (New Caledonia's) political forces to come to Paris and open those negotiations." ...