PARIS—In a banlieue of northern Paris, he first made his name as “Doudou Cross Bitume,” the social media handle he used to post videos of himself performing stunts on a red-and-white Honda motorbike ...

He had been best known as a daring urban dirt-bike rider who had pulled off stunts at iconic sites in Paris, according to several friends. By Catherine Porter Reported from Paris and Aubervilliers, ...

The financial loss from France’s most dramatic heist in decades has been put at nearly €90m. He was known across parts of Paris long before his name appeared in headlines about a $100 million museum ...

A former ‘motocross legend’ and bodybuilding social media star has been named as one of the suspects in the Louvre heist. Abdoulaye N, 39, nicknamed ‘Doudou Cross Bitume’, is thought to be part of the ...

PARIS — As far as his friends at the outdoor gym knew, the always cheerful 39-year-old man from a hardscrabble suburb of Paris had left his past behind. He no longer talked much about his years as a ...