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French police organisation

Named in 9 reports across 4 stories - 5 Aug – 12 Sept
5 Aug 202612 Sept 2026

The record - coverage naming French police that changed after publication

2 edits2 entries
  1. The Guardian Worldseen 8 Sept, 18:46description editedthe story
  2. The Guardian Worldseen 8 Sept, 13:54description editedthe story

The web around French police

Closest companions, sized by how often they share a report with French police. Lines between the outer names are their own relationships - names that appear together even without French police.

Caen and Rouen share 2 reportsAbdelatif Mehdi Laribi and Algeria share 1 reportFrance and UK share 1 reportAbdelatif Mehdi Laribi and France share 1 reportBryan Masson and Cagnes-sur-Mer share 1 reportChannel and northern France share 1 reportAlgeria and France share 1 reportnorthern France and UK share 1 reportFrench policeCaenCaen - 2 shared reports (place)ChannelChannel - 2 shared reports (place)FranceFrance - 2 shared reports (place)northern Fr…northern France - 2 shared reports (place)RouenRouen - 2 shared reports (place)UKUK - 2 shared reports (place)Abdelatif M…Abdelatif Mehdi Laribi - 1 shared report (person)AlgeriaAlgeria - 1 shared report (place)Bryan MassonBryan Masson - 1 shared report (person)Cagnes-sur-…Cagnes-sur-Mer - 1 shared report (place)

The stories

Renoir Museum robbery: Three paintings missing

43 outlets1 report names French police8 Sept – 13 Sept

Record 230 people cross Channel to UK as smugglers turn to ‘mega-dinghies’

18 outlets4 reports name French police10 Aug – 13 Sept

France: About 20 injured in train derailment

29 outlets3 reports name French police11 Sept – 13 Sept

Algeria arrests suspected drug lord at France's request

5 outlets1 report names French police5 Aug – 10 Aug

People they appear with

Abdelatif Mehdi Laribi1Bryan Masson1Men1Migrants1

Places in the same coverage

Caen2Channel2France2northern France2Rouen2UK2Algeria1Cagnes-sur-Mer1French Riviera1Nice1northwest France1

Organisations in the same coverage

DZ Mafia group1French border police1Home Office1Investigators1NGO1

Who keeps naming them

The Guardian World3Le Monde English2Bloomberg Politics1Al Jazeera English1South China Morning Post1Channel News Asia1

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