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A Malian Muslim who hid shoppers from an Islamist gunman during the attack on a Jewish supermarket in Paris fully deserves French nationality, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve says. Jillian Kitchener reports.
A young Malian man who saved a four-year-old child hanging from a fourth-floor Paris balcony after scaling the facade with his bare hands meets with Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee. The French president announced shortly after the meeting that Mamoudou Gassama will get French citizenship and be offered a place in the fire brigade. IMAGES
Images from the "Les Sablons" school where a 15-year-old teenager was beaten up by several people on Thursday afternoon as he left his secondary school in Viry-Chatillon, south of Paris, and has since been hospitalised with a life-threatening condition. IMAGES
France's Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne accuses Marine Le Pen and her far-righ party National Rally of "fuelling polemics" after Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, which has put the executive under pressure in the face of the jihadist threat. SOUNDBITE
In the wake of Saturday's fatal knife attack in Paris, French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has come out in favour of "psychiatric care orders that could be granted to police prefects" for "a those involved in radical Islam and who suffer from mental illness. A German tourist was fatally stabbed cloes to the Eiffel tower on Saturday and two other people wounded in the attack. The attacker was a Frenchman in his mid-20s born to a non-religious Iranian family but who had already done prison time for planning an attack and was known to the authorities as an Islamist radical with mental issues. SOUNDBITE