Val-d'Oise

“Deschamps has a Ferrari in his hands and never breaks the speed limit!” said Icham, a nurse from Val-d’Oise who called into French radio to bemoan Les Bleus after they beat Belgium.

A 28-year-old man was acquitted when he was tried for having sex with an 11-year-old girl from Val-d'Oise, north of Paris.

Alain Richard, a Socialist senator who represents the department of Val-d’Oise, which contains Beaumont, said that aside from the inadequate early statements of the local prosecutor, who has since been transferred, the system was working as intended.

Yvan Agac, the owner of the Pepper Grill restaurant in Saint-Ouen-l’Aumone, in Val-d’Oise, described how on Saturday night at least 30 police with automatic weapons and riot shields burst into the restaurant while customers were eating.

A former economics professor, Strauss-Kahn joined the Socialist party in 1976 and was elected to parliament in 1986 from the Val-d'Oise district, north of Paris.