A French court has overturned the Paris police department's ban on a four-day Muslim gathering, which authorities had argued posed a security threat due to potential terrorism targeting.

Police in Paris have issued a ban on a planned gathering of French Muslims, citing public order concerns.

Shortly after the death of El Hacen Diarra on January 15 in Paris, the officers gave conflicting accounts of the circumstances surrounding a search carried out at the police station during interviews conducted by investigators.

A recently released terror convict was shot dead by Paris police after allegedly attempting to attack an officer with a knife near the Arc de Triomphe.

Two members of the Paris narcotics brigade were sentenced to four and five years in prison for diverting seized cocaine and replacing it with plaster or sugar paste.

Police authorities in Paris have banned an annual French Muslim festival in the northern part of the city, citing a high risk of a large-scale terrorist attack, with state prosecutors believing an Iran-backed group had planned an assault.

Paris police have arrested three men in separate cases involving the alleged sexual assault of 12 children across three schools in the French capital. Read More:…

French police searched the headquarters of the Arab World Institute in Paris on Monday in connection with an ongoing investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.