A judicial official says a French far-right activist has been released from prison seven years after attempting to assassinate then-President Jacques Chirac in a Bastille Day attack.

Prosecutors asked a court today to sentence a man accused of trying to shoot President Jacques Chirac in 2002 to six to eight years in prison as jurors began deliberating on a verdict.

A man accused of trying to gun down President Jacques Chirac at a national holiday parade two years ago goes on trial today facing a life sentence.

THE young neo-Nazi who tried to assassinate the French president warned of his plans to cohorts on a British extremist Internet site.

A man who made a failed attempt to assassinate French president Jacques Chirac has spent the night in a secure psychiatric ward after claiming he wanted to "save France".