French police investigating the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier will today begin taking statements from up to 30 people previously interviewed regarding her killing.

A TEAM of detectives and forensic scientists arrived in Cork yesterday afternoon to interview a number of witnesses in connection with the murder, 15 years ago, of French documentary filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

FRENCH police will travel to Ireland next month to carry out DNA tests on bloodied clothing gathered at the scene in West Cork where Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered.

FRENCH police investigating the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier hope to glean fresh clues in new statements from 30 witnesses in west Cork next month.

French police have exhumed five bodies from a freshly dug grave at a house in the north-western city of Nantes – believed to be a family who went missing almost three weeks ago.

FRENCH police are due in Ireland next month to carry out forensic tests as part of their investigation into the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier in west Cork almost 15 years ago.

FRENCH police yesterday freed five nursery school pupils and their teacher taken hostage by a suicidal sword-wielding teenager.

French police today ended a siege at a nursery, arresting a youth armed with two swords and freeing unharmed all the children he held.

French police have forced open a pivotal fuel depot blockaded by strikers opposing major pension reforms, as the country’s Senate prepares to vote on the measure today.

French Police are today investigating the death of a Limerick man near Paris.

FRENCH police probing a party financing scandal linked to L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt have searched the headquarters of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s majority UMP, the party said yesterday.

French police today banned a street party whose organisers planned to serve alcohol and pork sausage in a heavily Muslim neighbourhood of Paris.

A woman driving while wearing an Islamic veil has been fined by French police for not having a clear field of vision.

FRENCH police cleared out, then bulldozed, a squalid forest camp near the northern city of Calais yesterday, detaining hundreds of illegal immigrants who had hoped to slip across the English Channel into Britain.

French police today cleared a controversial immigrant camp in Calais known as ’the jungle’.

FRENCH police are expected to move in today to clear the immigrant camp in Calais known as “the jungle”, and detain about 1,500 mainly Afghan asylum seekers.

French police fired tear gas at teachers rioting over planned school reforms today.

Madeleine McCann’s parents called on French police to let them view video footage of a reported sighting of their little girl.

A paparazzo rang a British newspaper from the tunnel where Diana, Princess of Wales’s Mercedes crashed to offer exclusive pictures for £300,000 (€430,000), her inquest heard today.

French police found an arms cache allegedly belonging to the armed Basque separatist group Eta, officials said.

FRENCH police were yesterday hunting burglars who used gas to knock out soccer star Patrick Vieira and his wife and daughter during a raid on the family home near Cannes.

French police say the gunman who held a classroom of high school students hostage has surrendered.

French police are confident a 42-year-old Dublin man, who disappeared in Paris four days ago, has been spotted, it emerged tonight.

FRENCH police have arrested a suspected military commander of the armed Basque separatist group ETA who escaped from custody in France almost a year ago.

French police have arrested five people suspected of aiding the Real IRA.

French police have found suspected detonator parts in a flat used by four alleged Islamic militants who it is feared were planning an attack.