News about Anne Hidalgo

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo's war on motorists has shifted up a gear this month with fresh steps introduced to force drivers to ditch their cars. The Socialist MP, who has been mayor since 2014 and inflicted a number of punitive policies on drivers, has banned the sale of diesel fuel at four busy filling stations on the capital's ring road which had previously accounted for half of all diesel receipts in the city. Hidalgo this month also slashed the speed limit on the Périphérique - the capital's eight-lane motorway around the city - to just 31mph, a move that has made journeys into Paris increasingly arduous for the thousands of commuters travelling by car. Her extreme measures have previously garnered admiration from London Mayor Sadiq Khan who has implemented anti-car restrictions of his own - namely the Ultra Low Emission Zone - in a bid to kerb air pollution levels.

Queen Mathilde glowed in green as she arrived at Paris City Hall on Tuesday to attend a meeting with mayor of the capital. Alongside King Phillippe, 64, Mathilde, 51, greeted Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo before entering the city hall where they attended a meeting as part of their state visit to France . The Belgian royals are currently on a state visit to France, following an invitation to celebrate Franco-Belgian cultural ties and the shared views on European issues. The mother-of-four looked radiant in bright green ensemble, as she stepped out into the Parisian streets.

Cheptegei, 33, suffered multiple organ failure last week and tragically passed away in a hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, days after she sustained 80% burns when ex-boyfriend Dickson Ndiema threw petrol on her and set her alight amid a bitter argument. Ndiema also received considerable burns and was rushed to the same hospital, where Kenyan police said he would be detained once he had recovered enough from his injuries. But officials at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital confirmed this morning that Ndiema also succumbed to his injuries late last night. 'Dickson Ndiema Marangach has died from 30 per cent burns he sustained when he set his girlfriend Rebecca Cheptegei ablaze last week,' the statement read. 'The police believe he was burnt by the same petrol he used in setting Rebecca ablaze following a dispute over ownership of land one of them had bought.'

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Cheptegei, 33 (left), tragically died of multiple organ failure last week in a hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, days after she suffered 80% burns when a man reported to be her ex-boyfriend (right) threw petrol on her and set her alight amid a bitter argument. Neighbours who heard the commotion came running to discover the Olympian engulfed in flames and tried to extinguish them, to no avail. But now an eyewitness has recounted in gruesome detail how Cheptegei was ruthlessly set upon by her former partner, named by Kenyan press as Dickson Ndiema. Agnes Barabara, who lives adjacent to Cheptegei's home, told the BBC: 'When I came out, I saw Rebecca running towards my house on fire, shouting: help me. As I went to look for water and started calling out for help, her assailant appeared again and doused more petrol on her.' (Cheptegei's heartbroken father Joseph pictured inset)

A Paris sports site has been renamed after Ugandan marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei after she was burned alive by her partner. On Thursday, the athlete succumbed to horrendous injuries sustained after she was doused in petrol and set alight in her home. The 33-year-old suffered burns to 80 per cent of her body in Sunday's brutal attack that was allegedly carried out by her ex-boyfriend, according to medical officials. She was rushed to the intensive care unit at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, in the hopes doctors could stabilise her. But yesterday the facility's acting director Dr Owen Menach confirmed Cheptegei had died.

The Eiffel Tower will permanently display the Olympic rings because the Games made the French fall 'in love' with the capital again, the city mayor announced. Anne Hidalgo said the current rings are too heavy and will be taken down but they will be replaced with lighter versions. She said Paris fell in love with the Olympics and she wants the two to 'remain married'. But the city must also be able to hide the rings when the monument pays tribute to causes that don't adhere to the Olympic Committee's policy of neutrality. Ms Hidalgo said: 'Paris will never be the same again' but some Parisians joked that keeping the rings is like to keeping Christmas decorations up all year. One person accused her of 'clinging to the good vibes of the games'.

Controversial Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who has been at the centre of a gender row, was apparently switched out from carrying her nation's flag at the Olympics Closing Ceremony. It had been reported earlier that Khelif, who won gold in women's boxing, had been selected to carry the flag of Algeria at the glittering final ceremony at the Stade de France in Paris. However the honour went to gold medal gymnast Kaylia Nemour instead, as Khelif still made an appearance as part of the wider team. The Algerian Olympic Committee simply claimed such a decision was 'normal' and there was no need for further speculation.

The women's Olympic triathlon saw chaotic scenes with multiple crashes during the cycling section of the event in Paris. The build-up to the race had been dominated by concerns over water quality in the River Seine. Organisers gave both the men's and women's races the green light on Wednesday morning, avoiding the 'last resort' possibility for the events to become duathlons.

Olympic organiers confirmed the Paris 2024 triathlon could be changed into a duathlon as a 'last resort' should water quality fail to improve in the River Seine. The potential move follows the postponement of the men's triathlon event this morning. Both the men's and women's triathlon races are now scheduled to take place on Wednesday, with a further contingency day available on August 2.

Parisians are still hesitant to take a dip in the city's famous river despite the massive €1billion clean-up operation organised for the Olympics, MailOnline has learned. Locals said they still believed the river to be dirty and dismissed the idea of a swim as 'crazy s**t' when asked, amid concerns about the water quality in the capital. It came as the men's triathlon event was postponed due to poor water quality, after tests in the river 'did not provide sufficient guarantees' for the event to go ahead.

The men's triathlon at the Paris Olympics has been postponed because of concerns over water quality in the River Seine. Swimming training for the triathletes was cancelled on Sunday and Monday and the decision has been taken to move the men's race, which had been due to start at 8am local time on Tuesday, to Wednesday. It has been rescheduled to take place at 10.45am local time, after the women's race which is scheduled to take place at 8am.

MIKE KEEGAN: Triathletes - including GB's gold chasing Alex Yee - are set to go to bed on Monday night not knowing if their competition will take place in the morning. Continued water quality issues in the Seine saw the men's practice swimming session, scheduled for Sunday, cancelled, and early on Monday, the women's test run was also called off. Officials will make a call on whether the famous river, part of a £1bn clean-up, will be fit to enter at around 3.30am local time, four-and-a-half hours ahead of the planned 8am start.

With just hours to go before the grand procession on the River Seine, fires were started at key facilities, bringing trains to a halt and affecting around 800,000 passengers - including athletes and spectators heading to the Games. Preliminary evidence in the investigation showed that strategic points of the network were targeted, indicating that the perpetrators had a detailed knowledge of the network, according to investigators. France 's intelligence services and police have been scrambling to determine the perpetrators of the sabotage - until several French and international media outlets received an email on Saturday by a far-left collective calling itself 'an unknown delegation', which claimed responsibility for the attacks, according to Le Parisien. The anonymous activists said in the email: 'They call it a party? We see it as a celebration of nationalism, a gigantic staging of the subjugation of populations by states.'

Triathletes were set to take to the river this morning for a familiarisation session but World Triathlon and the organisation responsible for carrying out water quality tests deemed the standard had dipped below acceptable levels. The Seine was declared clean enough for swimming after inspections in July but heavy rain in the French capital over the past 48 hours diminished the quality. However, organisers are hopeful there will be no further delays. Water quality can be affected by weather and levels of E. coli, a faecal bacteria. Tests are carried out in the Seine daily with the latest held on Saturday.

There has been no claim of responsibility for the 'coordinated arson attack' which damaged infrastructure along key lines connecting to Paris where the opening ceremony was staged on Friday night. The methods used by the arsonists, who set multiple fires at cabling boxes close to junctions on the North, Brittany and South-West lines, resemble those used by far-left or environmentalist protesters in the past, a security source claimed Although analysts also fear Moscow may be responsible with some suggesting a correlation between acts of sabotage and Russian fury over their national team being excluded from the games. France's intelligence services have been scrambling to find the arsonists, whose attacks were described as 'premeditated' and 'calculated', although officials have so far refused to publicly name any suspects.

With just hours to go before the grand opening ceremony on the River Seine, vandals lit fires at key facilities, bringing trains to a halt and affecting around 800,000 passengers - including athletes and spectators heading to the games. Railway executive Patrick Mercier, 51, told how he and his family (bottom right) had been looking forward to watching the opening ceremony at home after returning from holiday. But now they are stranded in Paris, with all trains to Bordeaux, where they live, cancelled. He said: 'This is not the way we want the rest of the world to see France.' Guillaume Conversert, 35, (top left) said the disruption is particularly bad for his country as 'the whole world is watching.' His girlfriend, charity worker Solene Van Wassenhove, 25, (also pictured) said: 'The people of Paris have paid a high price to host the Olympic Games.'

The methods used to launch the massive 'coordinated arson attack' on rail installations across France resemble those used by such radical groups in the past, a security source claimed. With just hours to go before the grand procession on the River Seine, fires were started at key facilities, bringing trains to a halt and affecting around 800,000 passengers - including athletes and spectators heading to the Games. Preliminary evidence in the investigation shows that strategic points of the network were targeted, indicating that the perpetrators had a detailed knowledge of the network, according to investigators. France's intelligence services and police have been scrambling to determine the perpetrators of the sabotage, with no claim of responsibility having yet been made and French authorities so far refusing to officially name any suspects.

Sunrise's Katie Brown took a dip in the Seine to see if athletes are right to be worried about swimming in it at the Olympics - before revealing something else they should be concerned about.

The Mayor of Paris has been mocked online and likened to Gollum after swimming in the French capital's notoriously polluted river in a bid to prove the waters are safe ahead of the Olympics . Anne Hidalgo, 65, fulfilled her pledge of being one of the first to step into the grimy Seine following a massive £1.2billion cleanup operation that has made the river's water quality safe enough to swim in for the first time in a century. In front of a huge crowd, Hidalgo plunged in to the still-murky waters in what has been dubbed a 'PR stunt', but her swim has sparked a flurry of jokes and memes on social media, with one viral AI-generated image depicting the Paris Mayor as Gollum from Lord of the Rings. The edited photo shared on X, formerly Twitter , shows Hidalgo as the wrinkled, alien-like fantasy character with grey skin, crooked teeth, and bulging eyes, emerging from the brown waters to speak to a BFM reporter. Social media users were quick to join the chorus mocking the mayor for her dip with some suggesting she 'gets her bloods done', and others saying 'lets check back in a day or two and see how this goes'.

The majority of Russians competing at the Olympic Games support the invasion of Ukraine, it has been claimed, as more than 450 Ukrainian athletes have now been killed in the war. Russian tennis player Elena Vesnina, Russian cyclist Alena Ivanchenko, swimmer Anastasiya Shkurdai from Belarus and Russian tennis plater Pavel Kotov have expressed their support for Putin on social media. The revelation came as Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo (inset) took a dip in the Seine to try to prove the polluted river was fit to host swimming events.

A hundred years have passed since the city last hosted the Games and organisers - who have lavished a reported ­£8billion on preparations - are predicting an influx of 15million visitors, with eight million spectators' tickets sold at the fastest rate in history. But for the 2.1 million who live here, discontent - and public negativity about the Olympics - is at an all-time high. A recent opinion poll found that 52 per cent of Parisians were considering leaving the city for the summer, joining the mass exodus from what many have taken to calling 'L'enfer' or 'Hell'.

Results on Friday showed that the river feted for its romantic views is still failing water quality tests. It is scheduled to host part of the opening ceremony, the open-water swimming competition, and as the swimming leg of the triathlon. Parisians had threatened to defecate in the river in protest against the French government on June 23 but it is unclear if any such delinquencies were performed. They are angry so much money has been spent on cleaning it, seemingly to little effect.

Voters in the 27 EU states have delivered a stinging rebuke to the bloc's centrist and Left-wing politicians.  Elections to the 720-member European Parliament have seen hard-Right parties triumph, with voters expressing frustration with mass migration. So where have Right-wing parties fared well? Victory for the Right-wing, populist Freedom Party in Austria - which won 25.7 per cent of the vote - sums up the nightmare facing the EU elite. While the party doesn't want Austria to leave the bloc, it wants the EU's budget slashed by half and powers returned to member states. It also opposes EU intervention in Ukraine and sanctions against Russia.