I'm from the bottom half of the world and we have AF as a staff travel partner, used them LHR-CDG a couple of months ago. No major issues at the LHR end. Flew them in 2010 TLS-CDG and same, no major issue. Service in flight was better on the more recent flight.
As for flight safety there are plenty of carriers to be concerned about that do fly to the EU, AF isn't one of them