France/u2019s fourth-largest ski area, of which Saint-Colomban-des-Villards had been part since 2003. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//10//31//soaring-ski-pass-prices-are-making-europes-slopes-unaffordable-for-many-holidaymakers/">Soaring ski pass prices are making Europe\u2019s slopes unaffordable for many holidaymakers<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//11//05//bulgaria-georgia-andorra-where-are-europes-best-value-ski-destinations/">Bulgaria, Georgia, Andorra: Where are Europe\u2019s best value ski destinations? <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Charging for lift passes would actually cost more<\/h2>\n<p>Despite attempts to find a solution with lift operators and external companies, no viable economic model could be found. Rather than shutting down <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//10//09//italian-ski-resort-caps-visitor-numbers-for-the-first-time-as-dolomites-continue-overtouri/">skiing altogether, the municipality opted for a compromise: drastically reducing the ski area, while keeping a limited section alive for residents and visitors. \u201cGoing from a connected ski area to nothing at all would have been too brutal,\u201d the mayor tells Euronews Travel, particularly for local businesses.<\/p>\n<p>This is how the idea of making part of the ski area free of charge was born, and the numbers explain why. Selling lift passes would require staffing ticket offices and running a ticketing system, costing between \u20ac36,000 and \u20ac41,000 for the season. Yet projected revenue from beginner passes would reach only \u20ac18,000. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt actually costs us less not to charge,\u201d Bonnivard admits. \u201cIt may sound like an economic absurdity, but financially, it makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the municipality estimates the cost of offering free skiing this season to be \u20ac150,000 to \u20ac200,000, around five times less than last <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//11//15//festivals-wildlife-and-stunning-landscapes-why-you-should-explore-europe-in-winter/">winter. The deficit is still present, but manageable.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//59//11//14//808x454_cmsv2_9a843bd5-e2a4-525a-a087-00b32f6d43d0-9591114.jpg/" alt=\"The ski area that remains open is suited to families and beginners.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/59\/11\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_9a843bd5-e2a4-525a-a087-00b32f6d43d0-9591114.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/59\/11\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_9a843bd5-e2a4-525a-a087-00b32f6d43d0-9591114.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/59\/11\/14\/750x422_cmsv2_9a843bd5-e2a4-525a-a087-00b32f6d43d0-9591114.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/59\/11\/14\/828x466_cmsv2_9a843bd5-e2a4-525a-a087-00b32f6d43d0-9591114.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/59\/11\/14\/1080x608_cmsv2_9a843bd5-e2a4-525a-a087-00b32f6d43d0-9591114.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/59\/11\/14\/1200x675_cmsv2_9a843bd5-e2a4-525a-a087-00b32f6d43d0-9591114.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/59\/11\/14\/1920x1080_cmsv2_9a843bd5-e2a4-525a-a087-00b32f6d43d0-9591114.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The ski area that remains open is suited to families and beginners.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Mairie de Saint-Colomban-des-Villards<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>A smaller ski area focused on families and beginners<\/h2>\n<p>In practical terms, the resort will operate a mini ski area: two drag lifts and a children\u2019s belt, mainly aimed at <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2024//02//17//i-tried-skiing-for-the-first-time-in-my-30s-after-two-days-on-the-slopes-my-fear-turned-to/">beginners and families. Whether the experiment will attract more visitors remains uncertain, particularly as snow conditions at this altitude are increasingly unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>For the mayor, this winter marks a transition rather than a long-term solution. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt 1,100 metres, alpine skiing is ultimately doomed to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2024//04//08//austrian-alpine-club-warns-countrys-glaciers-will-be-gone-in-45-years/">disappear,/u201d he says, noting that \u201c<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//09//how-ski-resorts-threatened-by-climate-change-are-being-supported/">climate change<\/strong><\/a> is progressing faster than anticipated, especially in the Alps. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge now is to reinvent the future of medium-altitude mountain villages by diversifying their tourism offer, a painful but necessary shift for communities long dependent on skiing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//12//17//would-you-sleep-on-ice-inside-the-winter-hotels-that-melt-away-each-spring/">Would you sleep on ice? Inside the winter hotels that melt away each spring<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Diversifying beyond skiing: Winter and summer alternatives<\/h2>\n<p>Alongside free beginner skiing, the municipality is working to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//09//climate-change-how-alpine-ski-resorts-are-adapting-to-the-end-of-the-white-gold-era/">diversify its tourism offer, both in winter and beyond. Snowshoeing and winter walking routes are already available, particularly on the sunnier slopes where snow tends to melt quickly. <\/p>\n<p>According to the mayor, the village\u2019s geography - with large south-facing areas and limited snow retention - makes it increasingly difficult to rely only on alpine skiing.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Saint-Colomban-des-Villards is looking to build on its strengths as an authentic, unspoilt alpine valley. <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//05//08//mountain-hikes-canyoning-and-diving-why-madeira-could-be-your-next-adventure-holiday-desti/">Hiking, walking trails and nature-based activities are expected to play a growing role, while summer tourism already attracts a steady number of visitors. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUntil now, we have invested almost all our energy, time and money into a ski activity that was losing money,\u201d Bonnivard explains. \u201cThis decision frees up resources to imagine something else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shift, however, will take time. Structuring a genuine four-season tourism model requires both public investment and the support of local businesses, something the mayor acknowledges will not happen overnight.<\/p>\n<h2>A transitional winter and a test for the future<\/h2>\n<p>For now, the free-ski experiment remains just that: an experiment. The municipality plans to assess the results at the end of the season, with a full financial and visitor review scheduled for April. Then local authorities will decide whether the model can be repeated or adapted in future winters.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Saint-Colomban-des-Villards offers something increasingly rare in the Alps: a chance to discover skiing without the financial pressure that comes with most resorts. <\/p>\n<p>For beginners, families and curious first-timers, it\u2019s an opportunity to step on the snow without committing to an expensive ski pass, while for the village itself, it may mark the first step toward a more sustainable future beyond alpine skiing.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1766415479,"updatedAt":1766516787,"publishedAt":1766480718,"firstPublishedAt":1766480718,"lastPublishedAt":1766516785,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Mairie de Saint-Colomban-des-Villards","altText":"Saint-Colomban-des-Villards is making skiing free for families and beginners this 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attack.","keySentence":"","url":"cyberattack-knocks-frances-postal-service-and-its-banking-arm-offline","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/22\/cyberattack-knocks-frances-postal-service-and-its-banking-arm-offline","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"France's national postal operator and its banking division suffered a suspected cyberattack on Monday, disrupting package deliveries and online payments during the peak Christmas period.\n\nLa Poste said in a statement that a distributed denial of service (DDoS) incident made its online services unavailable. The postal service said customer data remained secure but deliveries of packages and mail were affected.\n\nAt a Paris post office decorated with Christmas garlands, staff turned away customers queuing to send or collect parcels, including holiday gifts.\n\nUsers of the company's banking subsidiary, La Banque Postale, were unable to access the mobile application to authorise payments or carry out other banking transactions. The bank redirected payment approvals to text messages as a temporary measure.\n\n\"Our teams are mobilised to resolve the situation quickly,\" the bank said on social media.\n\nNo group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.\n\nLa Poste has been targeted by cyberattacks before. In February 2024, the Turkish hacking group Turk Hack Team claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack that knocked the postal service's website offline for several hours.\n\nThe same services affected on Monday \u2014 Colissimo parcel tracking and the Digiposte digital vault \u2014 were already disrupted on Saturday, though La Poste did not immediately confirm whether that incident was also an attack.\n\nMajor incidents continue\n\nThe disruption came days after France's government said it suffered a cyberattack that affected the Interior Ministry, which oversees national security.\n\nIn that breach, a suspected hacker extracted several dozen sensitive documents and gained access to information on police records and wanted individuals, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told broadcaster Franceinfo.\n\nHe attributed the incident to \"imprudence\" and poor \"digital hygiene\" within the ministry, including passwords shared in plain text via email.\n\nA hacker claiming responsibility posted on breach forums alleging access to data on 16.4 million French citizens, though authorities disputed this figure, saying only dozens of files were confirmed stolen. French media reported a 22-year-old was detained in connection with the attack.\n\nLast week, prosecutors said France's counterintelligence agency is investigating a suspected cyberattack conspiracy involving software that would have enabled remote control of computer systems on an international passenger ferry.\n\nA Latvian crew member is being held on charges of acting for an unidentified foreign power, officials said.\n\nThe ferry investigation is being led by France's General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), the country's counterintelligence agency, indicating the seriousness of the suspected plot.\n\nThe malware discovered aboard the GNV Fantastic, which operates between France, Italy and North Africa, was a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) capable of remotely controlling the vessel's operating systems.\n\nNunez strongly hinted at Russian involvement, saying \"foreign interference very often comes from same country,\" though no official attribution has been made. The ferry was temporarily sealed for security checks before being cleared to resume operations.\n\nFrance and other European countries supporting Ukraine have accused Russia of conducting \"hybrid warfare\" against them through sabotage, assassinations, cyberattacks, disinformation and other hostile actions.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>France's national postal operator and its banking division suffered a suspected cyberattack on Monday, disrupting package deliveries and online payments during the peak Christmas period.<\/p>\n<p>La Poste said in a statement that a distributed denial of service (DDoS) incident made its online services unavailable. The postal service said customer data remained secure but deliveries of packages and mail were affected.<\/p>\n<p>At a Paris post office decorated with Christmas garlands, staff turned away customers queuing to send or collect parcels, including holiday gifts.<\/p>\n<p>Users of the company's banking subsidiary, La Banque Postale, were unable to access the mobile application to authorise payments or carry out other banking transactions. The bank redirected payment approvals to text messages as a temporary measure.<\/p>\n<p>\"Our teams are mobilised to resolve the situation quickly,\" the bank said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>La Poste has been targeted by cyberattacks before. In February 2024, the Turkish hacking group Turk Hack Team claimed responsibility for a DDoS attack that knocked the postal service's website offline for several hours. <\/p>\n<p>The same services affected on Monday \u2014 Colissimo parcel tracking and the Digiposte digital vault \u2014 were already disrupted on Saturday, though La Poste did not immediately confirm whether that incident was also an attack.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Major incidents continue<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The disruption came days after France's government said it suffered a cyberattack that affected the Interior Ministry, which oversees national security.<\/p>\n<p>In that breach, a suspected hacker extracted several dozen sensitive documents and gained access to information on police records and wanted individuals, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez told broadcaster Franceinfo. <\/p>\n<p>He attributed the incident to \"imprudence\" and poor \"digital hygiene\" within the ministry, including passwords shared in plain text via email. <\/p>\n<p>A hacker claiming responsibility posted on breach forums alleging access to data on 16.4 million French citizens, though authorities disputed this figure, saying only dozens of files were confirmed stolen. French media reported a 22-year-old was detained in connection with the attack.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//17//french-interior-ministry-targeted-in-massive-cyberattack-minister-confirms/">French interior ministry targeted in massive cyberattack, minister confirms<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//12//18//france-investigates-foreign-interference-after-remote-control-malware-found-on-passenger-f/">France investigates 'foreign interference' after remote control malware found on passenger ferry<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Last week, prosecutors said France's counterintelligence agency is investigating a suspected cyberattack conspiracy involving software that would have enabled remote control of computer systems on an international passenger ferry. <\/p>\n<p>A Latvian crew member is being held on charges of acting for an unidentified foreign power, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The ferry investigation is being led by France's General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), the country's counterintelligence agency, indicating the seriousness of the suspected plot. <\/p>\n<p>The malware discovered aboard the GNV Fantastic, which operates between France, Italy and North Africa, was a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) capable of remotely controlling the vessel's operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez strongly hinted at Russian involvement, saying \"foreign interference very often comes from same country,\" though no official attribution has been made. The ferry was temporarily sealed for security checks before being cleared to resume operations.<\/p>\n<p>France and other European countries supporting Ukraine have accused Russia of conducting \"hybrid warfare\" against them through sabotage, assassinations, cyberattacks, disinformation and other hostile actions.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1766417742,"updatedAt":1766418460,"publishedAt":1766418419,"firstPublishedAt":1766418419,"lastPublishedAt":1766418419,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/59\/11\/50\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d605e67f-1b22-584c-bce5-23d737067161-9591150.jpg","altText":"FILE: A man walks past an office of France's national postal service, La Poste in Paris, 26 August 2025","caption":"FILE: A man walks past an office of France's national postal service, La Poste in Paris, 26 August 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":576}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":13716,"slug":"post-office","urlSafeValue":"post-office","title":"post office","titleRaw":"post office"},{"id":117,"slug":"france","urlSafeValue":"france","title":"France","titleRaw":"France"},{"id":10775,"slug":"cyber-attack","urlSafeValue":"cyber-attack","title":"Cyber attack","titleRaw":"Cyber attack"},{"id":239,"slug":"russia","urlSafeValue":"russia","title":"Russia","titleRaw":"Russia"}],"widgets":[{"slug":"related","count":1}],"related":[],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":"AP","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"world","urlSafeValue":"world","title":"World News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/programs\/world"},"season":"","episode":"","episodeId":"","vertical":"news","verticals":[{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":1,"slug":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"News"},"themes":[{"id":"news","urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World","url":"\/news\/international"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":1,"urlSafeValue":"news","title":"World"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":117,"urlSafeValue":"france","title":"France","url":"\/news\/europe\/france"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":[],"slugs":[]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"article-video","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":0,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2025\/12\/22\/cyberattack-knocks-frances-postal-service-and-its-banking-arm-offline","lastModified":1766418419},{"id":2856523,"cid":9590712,"versionId":3,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"FRANCE NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER","daletPyramidId":3675579,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"France to build new nuclear carrier replacing flagship Charles de Gaulle","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"France to build new nuclear carrier replacing Charles de Gaulle","titleListing2":"France to build new nuclear carrier to replace Charles de Gaulle","leadin":"France's president confirmed the construction of a 78,000-tonne nuclear carrier capable of carrying 30 jets, with delivery projected for 2038. The PA-NG will cost \u20ac10bn and be Europe's largest warship, backed by 800 firms.","summary":"France's president confirmed the construction of a 78,000-tonne nuclear carrier capable of carrying 30 jets, with delivery projected for 2038. The PA-NG will cost \u20ac10bn and be Europe's largest warship, backed by 800 firms.","keySentence":"","url":"france-to-build-new-nuclear-carrier-replacing-flagship-charles-de-gaulle","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/22\/france-to-build-new-nuclear-carrier-replacing-flagship-charles-de-gaulle","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"President Emmanuel Macron confirmed Sunday that France will proceed with the construction of a new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, a major addition to the country's naval capabilities despite strained public finances.\n\nSpeaking to French troops in Abu Dhabi, Macron said the decision to launch construction of the Porte-Avions Nouvelle G\u00e9n\u00e9ration (PA-NG) was taken this week.\n\n\"In an age of predators, we must be strong in order to be feared, and especially strong at sea,\" Macron said.\n\n\"This is why, in line with the last two military programming laws, and after a thorough and careful review, I have decided to equip France with a new aircraft carrier.\"\n\nWhat we know about the new nuclear carrier\n\nThe vessel, known as Porte-Avions Nouvelle G\u00e9n\u00e9ration (PA-NG), is scheduled for completion in 2038 and will replace the ageing French flagship, the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, which entered service in 2001.\n\nIt will have a displacement of approximately 78,000 tonnes and a length of 310 metres, compared to 42,000 tonnes and 261 metres for the Charles de Gaulle.\n\nThe new carrier would still be smaller than the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest warship, which displaces more than 100,000 tonnes and measures 334 metres.\n\nLike its predecessor, France's new aircraft carrier will be nuclear-powered and equipped with French Rafale M fighter jets.\n\nThe vessel will feature two or three electromagnetic aircraft launch systems (EMALS), enabling rapid aircraft launches.\n\nMacron said the project will benefit 800 suppliers, 80% of whom are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).\n\n\"I will personally guarantee this commitment in support of our companies, and I will visit the shipyard next February to meet them,\" he said.\n\nArmy Minister Catherine Vautrin said the new carrier would be able to engage in heavily armed, long-range deployments at short notice, repeatedly and for extended periods.\n\nThe programme is predicted to cost around \u20ac10.25 billion. Work on nuclear propulsion components began last year, and the final order must be placed under the 2025 budget.\n\nSome French lawmakers from the centre and moderate left have recently suggested the project be postponed due to France's strained state finances.\n\nIncreased defence spending\n\nMacron has announced \u20ac6.5 billion in extra military spending in the next two years. He said France will aim to spend \u20ac64 billion on defence in 2027, the last year of his second term, double the \u20ac32 billion spent when he became president in 2017.\n\nFrance's military currently comprises around 200,000 active personnel and over 40,000 reservists, making it the second-largest in the European Union, just behind Poland. France wants to increase the number of reservists to 80,000 by 2030.\n\nFrance is among the few European nations operating an aircraft carrier alongside the UK, Italy and Spain. The PA-NG will be the largest warship ever built in Europe.\n\nEuropean capabilities remain limited compared with the United States' fleet of 11 carriers and China's three. France is the EU's only nuclear power and the only European nation operating a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.\n\nMacron originally touted plans for the new carrier in 2020. The Charles de Gaulle, commissioned in 2001 after 15 years of planning and construction, is France's only aircraft carrier and the sole nuclear-powered carrier outside the US Navy.\n\nThe vessel has been central to French NATO operations, participating in missions from Afghanistan to operations against the so-called Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.\n\nHowever, the carrier has faced recurring technical issues throughout its service life, including propeller problems that required multiple refits, and has spent significant periods in dry dock for maintenance.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>President Emmanuel Macron confirmed Sunday that France will proceed with the construction of a new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, a major addition to the country's naval capabilities despite strained public finances.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to French troops in Abu Dhabi, Macron said the decision to launch construction of the Porte-Avions Nouvelle G\u00e9n\u00e9ration (PA-NG) was taken this week.<\/p>\n<p>\"In an age of predators, we must be strong in order to be feared, and especially strong at sea,\" Macron said. <\/p>\n<p>\"This is why, in line with the last two military programming laws, and after a thorough and careful review, I have decided to equip France with a new aircraft carrier.\"<\/p>\n<h2>What we know about the new nuclear carrier<\/h2>\n<p>The vessel, known as Porte-Avions Nouvelle G\u00e9n\u00e9ration (PA-NG), is scheduled for completion in 2038 and will replace the ageing French flagship, the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, which entered service in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>It will have a displacement of approximately 78,000 tonnes and a length of 310 metres, compared to 42,000 tonnes and 261 metres for the Charles de Gaulle. <\/p>\n<p>The new carrier would still be smaller than the USS Gerald R. 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Work on nuclear propulsion components began last year, and the final order must be placed under the 2025 budget.<\/p>\n<p>Some French lawmakers from the centre and moderate left have recently suggested the project be postponed due to France's strained state finances.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Increased defence spending<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Macron has announced \u20ac6.5 billion in extra military spending in the next two years. He said France will aim to spend \u20ac64 billion on defence in 2027, the last year of his second term, double the \u20ac32 billion spent when he became president in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>France's military currently comprises around 200,000 active personnel and over 40,000 reservists, making it the second-largest in the European Union, just behind Poland. France wants to increase the number of reservists to 80,000 by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>France is among the few European nations operating an aircraft carrier alongside the UK, Italy and Spain. 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a message of concern, along with a link to a Facebook video.\n\n\"On Sunday (14 December) one of my African counterparts got in touch, writing 'Dear president, what's happening to you? I'm very worried,'\u201d Macron told readers of French local newspaper La Provence on 16 December.\n\nAlongside the message, a compelling video showcasing a swirling helicopter, military personnel, crowds and \u2014 what appears to be \u2014 a news anchor delivering a piece to camera.\n\n\"Unofficial reports suggest that there has been a coup in France, led by a colonel whose identity has not been revealed, along with the possible fall of Emmanuel Macron. However, the authorities have not issued a clear statement,\" she says.\n\nExcept, nothing about this video is authentic: it was created with AI.\n\nAfter discovering the video, Macron asked Pharos \u2014 France's official portal for signalling online illicit content \u2014 to call Facebook's parent company Meta, to get the fake video removed.\n\nBut that request was turned down, as the platform claimed it did not violate its \u201crules of use.\"\n\nThe French president then decided to take it upon himself to secure its removal.\n\n\"I tend to think that I have more power to apply pressure than other people,\" Macron said. \"Or rather, that it's easier to say something is serious if I am the one calling, but it doesn't work.\"\n\n\"These people are mocking us,\" he added. \"They don't care about the serenity of public debates, they don't care about democracy, and therefore they are putting us in danger.\"\n\nWho is behind these fake videos?\u00a0\n\nThe original video, which rapidly racked up more than 12 million views was originally posted by a Facebook account called \"Islam\", which despite its name, does not post religious content.\u00a0\n\nThe teenager running the account is based in Burkina Faso and makes money running courses focusing on how to monetise AI.\n\nHe eventually took the video down more than a week after its initial publication, due to political \u2014 and public \u2014 controversy.\n\nEuronews' fact-checking team, The Cube, tried to reach out to him through the number listed on his Facebook account on multiple occasions, but so far, our calls have gone unanswered.\n\nIn some videos, AI-generated news anchors can be seen holding a microphone bearing the logo of Radio France Internationale (RFI), the international arm of the French public radio.\u00a0\n\nSome videos bear the \"Sora\" watermark, suggesting that much of this content was likely produced using this technology.\n\nSora 2, a technology created by OpenAI \u2014 the same company that founded Chat GPT \u2014 allows users to generate 10-second-long hyper-realistic videos from text prompts.\n\nAlthough other videos don't display this logo, it is possible to remove it during post-production.\n\nSince its launch in October, the technology has provoked controversy, leading to a proliferation of highly sophisticated and difficult-to-discern AI videos on social media.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>France's President Emmanuel Macron discovered news of his own supposed overthrow, after he received a message of concern, along with a link to a Facebook video.<\/p>\n<p>\"On Sunday (14 December) one of my African counterparts got in touch, writing 'Dear president, what's happening to you? I'm very worried,'\u201d Macron told readers of French local newspaper La Provence on 16 December. <\/p>\n<p>Alongside the message, a compelling video showcasing a swirling helicopter, military personnel, crowds and \u2014 what appears to be \u2014 a news anchor delivering a piece to camera.<\/p>\n<p>\"Unofficial reports suggest that there has been a coup in France, led by a colonel whose identity has not been revealed, along with the possible fall of Emmanuel Macron. However, the authorities have not issued a clear statement,\" she says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//84//74//808x454_cmsv2_a01ab567-097f-5b6f-b1b9-d59e873048de-9588474.jpg/" alt=\"Screenshot of the video\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/84\/74\/384x216_cmsv2_a01ab567-097f-5b6f-b1b9-d59e873048de-9588474.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/84\/74\/640x360_cmsv2_a01ab567-097f-5b6f-b1b9-d59e873048de-9588474.jpg 640w, 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<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Except, nothing about this video is authentic: it was created with AI. <\/p>\n<p>After discovering the video, Macron asked Pharos \u2014 France's official portal for signalling online illicit content \u2014 to call Facebook's parent company Meta, to get the fake video removed. <\/p>\n<p>But that request was turned down, as the platform claimed it did not violate its \u201crules of use.\"<\/p>\n<p>The French president then decided to take it upon himself to secure its removal. <\/p>\n<p>\"I tend to think that I have more power to apply pressure than other people,\" Macron said. \"Or rather, that it's easier to say something is serious if I am the one calling, but it doesn't work.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"These people are mocking us,\" he added. \"They don't care about the serenity of public debates, they don't care about democracy, and therefore they are putting us in danger.\"<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Who is behind these fake 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technology. <\/p>\n<p>Sora 2, a technology created by OpenAI \u2014 the same company that founded Chat GPT \u2014 allows users to generate 10-second-long hyper-realistic videos from text prompts.<\/p>\n<p>Although other videos don't display this logo, it is possible to remove it during post-production. <\/p>\n<p>Since its launch in October, the technology has provoked controversy, leading to a proliferation of highly sophisticated and difficult-to-discern AI videos on social media. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1766137127,"updatedAt":1766479522,"publishedAt":1766158412,"firstPublishedAt":1766158412,"lastPublishedAt":1766479521,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","altText":"France's President Emmanuel Macron reacts as he listening during the inauguration of a new police station in Marseille, southern France, 16 December 2025.","callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"caption":"France's President Emmanuel 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From early morning, around fifty responded to a union call, parking tractors along the seafront under police watch.\n\nSome protesters arrived with full trailers and dumped farm waste near the property, a symbolic gesture aimed at keeping pressure on the government.\n\nThe protest followed demonstrations in Brussels against the EU Mercosur trade deal. Although the European Commission has delayed the signing until January, unions say this is not enough and continue to demand the agreement be dropped.\n\nFarm groups are also protesting possible cuts to EU farm subsidies and planned climate measures they fear will raise costs. Le Touquet mayor Daniel Fasquelle publicly voiced support, saying farmers still lack clear guarantees.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Dozens of farmers gathered outside President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s second home in the seaside town of Le Touquet. From early morning, around fifty responded to a union call, parking tractors along the seafront under police watch.<\/p>\n<p>Some protesters arrived with full trailers and dumped farm waste near the property, a symbolic gesture aimed at keeping pressure on the government. <\/p>\n<p>The protest followed demonstrations in Brussels against the EU Mercosur trade deal. Although the European Commission has delayed the signing until January, unions say this is not enough and continue to demand the agreement be dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Farm groups are also protesting possible cuts to EU farm subsidies and planned climate measures they fear will raise costs. Le Touquet mayor Daniel Fasquelle publicly voiced support, saying farmers still lack clear guarantees.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1766149631,"updatedAt":1766155607,"publishedAt":1766155246,"firstPublishedAt":1766155246,"lastPublishedAt":1766155246,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/87\/25\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_6fbe30d5-2c25-5247-9144-4f7a67f8563b-9588725.jpg","altText":"Farmers protest outside Emmanuel Macron`'s second residence ","caption":"Farmers protest outside Emmanuel Macron`'s second residence ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"France T\u00e9l\u00e9vision","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":176,"urlSafeValue":"caraco","title":"Alexis Caraco","twitter":null}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":12357,"slug":"emmanuel-macron","urlSafeValue":"emmanuel-macron","title":"Emmanuel 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budget.","keySentence":"","url":"france-to-miss-2026-budget-deadline-as-lawmakers-fail-to-reach-deal","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/19\/france-to-miss-2026-budget-deadline-as-lawmakers-fail-to-reach-deal","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"French lawmakers failed to reach a compromise on the 2026 state budget on Friday, leaving France without a new budget approved before the end of the year.\n\nThe joint committee of seven senators and seven deputies broke down in less than an hour, with disagreements so pronounced that discussions never properly began.\n\nPhilippe Juvin, the Senate budget rapporteur, acknowledged \"the absence of agreement on a common version\" that could be adopted by both chambers within the required timeframe.\n\nPrime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu said he regretted that parliament would be unable to vote on a budget before 31 December.\n\nHis cabinet noted \"the failure of the joint committee in which deputies and senators sat, without the 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Villeroy added that France would put itself in danger if its deficit exceeded 5% of GDP.\n\nFrance's deficit is currently running at 5.4% of output this year, the eurozone's highest. The minority government had insisted the 2026 budget must keep the fiscal deficit below 5%, having already abandoned its original 4.7% target through costly concessions to Socialist lawmakers.\n\nThe Senate's budget proposal, the only version voted on, reached 5.3% with spending \u20ac9bn above the target. Differences between the government camp, which favours lower spending and taxes, and the Socialists, who want higher budgets, proved insurmountable.\n\nParliamentary deadlock\n\nLecornu was appointed prime minister in September and reappointed in October after his two predecessors were both toppled by parliament over cost-cutting measures.\n\nHe had pledged to pass a budget by year-end without using constitutional powers to force it through without a vote, as done in previous years.\n\nEric Coquerel, president of the joint committee and a member of the far-left France Unbowed party, said \"there is no reason to begin examining the articles\" since the rapporteurs could not present a compromise text.\n\nThe budget impasse comes days after final adoption of the Social Security budget, which also proved contentious. Investors and ratings agencies are closely monitoring France's fiscal position amid soaring debt.\n\nA special law was last used to temporarily extend France's 2025 budget into early this year, with a full spending plan approved in February after then-prime minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou forced it through the lower house.\n\nPolitical crisis continues\n\nFrance has been in a political crisis since President Emmanuel Macron called snap elections in 2024, which were intended to consolidate his power but instead resulted in a hung parliament and gains for the far right.\n\nThe parliamentary shuttle is expected to resume with the Senate's version of the budget, the last text voted on.\n\nHowever, all political players acknowledge that a special law would be inadequate, as it would prevent necessary adjustments, such as increased defence spending amid volatile international conditions.\n\nFrance's debt stood at 117.4% of GDP in the third quarter of 2025, up from previous quarters. Villeroy has warned that France's bond yields have moved dangerously away from Germany's and toward Italy's, significantly increasing borrowing costs.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>French lawmakers failed to reach a compromise on the 2026 state budget on Friday, leaving France without a new budget approved before the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The joint committee of seven senators and seven deputies broke down in less than an hour, with disagreements so pronounced that discussions never properly began. <\/p>\n<p>Philippe Juvin, the Senate budget rapporteur, acknowledged \"the absence of agreement on a common version\" that could be adopted by both chambers within the required timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu said he regretted that parliament would be unable to vote on a budget before 31 December.<\/p>\n<p>His cabinet noted \"the failure of the joint committee in which deputies and senators sat, without the government,\" and \"regrets the lack of will on the part of parliamentarians,\" Lecornu said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>He announced he would meet political leaders from Monday to discuss how to protect French citizens and find conditions for a solution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"2001947921147699279\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The government is now expected to seek a special law that would temporarily roll over the 2025 budget into the new year while debates continue. <\/p>\n<p>Such legislation would allow the state to continue collecting taxes and paying civil servants after 1 January.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Central bank warning<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Fran\u00e7ois Villeroy de Galhau, governor of the Banque de France, warned on France Inter that a special law would be only a short-term solution and would lead to a deficit \"far higher than desired.\"<\/p>\n<p>The special law would not include any savings measures and would prevent necessary spending increases, such as for defence, he said. Villeroy added that France would put itself in danger if its deficit exceeded 5% of GDP.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"2001944899638210982\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>France's deficit is currently running at 5.4% of output this year, the eurozone's highest. The minority government had insisted the 2026 budget must keep the fiscal deficit below 5%, having already abandoned its original 4.7% target through costly concessions to Socialist lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate's budget proposal, the only version voted on, reached 5.3% with spending \u20ac9bn above the target. Differences between the government camp, which favours lower spending and taxes, and the Socialists, who want higher budgets, proved insurmountable.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Parliamentary deadlock<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Lecornu was appointed prime minister in September and reappointed in October after his two predecessors were both toppled by parliament over cost-cutting measures. <\/p>\n<p>He had pledged to pass a budget by year-end without using constitutional powers to force it through without a vote, as done in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Coquerel, president of the joint committee and a member of the far-left France Unbowed party, said \"there is no reason to begin examining the articles\" since the rapporteurs could not present a compromise text.<\/p>\n<p>The budget impasse comes days after final adoption of the Social Security budget, which also proved contentious. Investors and ratings agencies are closely monitoring France's fiscal position amid soaring debt.<\/p>\n<p>A special law was last used to temporarily extend France's 2025 budget into early this year, with a full spending plan approved in February after then-prime minister Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou forced it through the lower house.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Political crisis continues<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>France has been in a political crisis since President Emmanuel Macron called snap elections in 2024, which were intended to consolidate his power but instead resulted in a hung parliament and gains for the far right.<\/p>\n<p>The parliamentary shuttle is expected to resume with the Senate's version of the budget, the last text voted on. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//12//18//frances-economic-outlook-for-2026-how-heavy-is-the-debt-burden/">France's economic outlook for 2026: How heavy is the debt burden?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//12//02//french-unions-stage-new-strikes-against-budget-plan-as-nationwide-turnout-dwindles/">French unions stage new strikes against budget plan as nationwide turnout dwindles<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>However, all political players acknowledge that a special law would be inadequate, as it would prevent necessary adjustments, such as increased defence spending amid volatile international conditions.<\/p>\n<p>France's debt stood at 117.4% of GDP in the third quarter of 2025, up from previous quarters. Villeroy has warned that France's bond yields have moved dangerously away from Germany's and toward Italy's, significantly increasing borrowing costs.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1766136483,"updatedAt":1766167904,"publishedAt":1766145131,"firstPublishedAt":1766145131,"lastPublishedAt":1766145131,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/84\/44\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_27f43b21-17f0-5b59-ba63-5cb9665529e7-9588444.jpg","altText":"The National Assembly, Paris, France, Tuesday 9 December 2025. (AP Photo\/Michel Euler)","caption":"The National Assembly, Paris, France, Tuesday 9 December 2025. 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She said she plans to file a formal complaint in the coming weeks.\n\nAccording to the mother, the incident occurred shortly after a juvenile court judge ordered the children's temporary placement in care, a decision that was reportedly taken to protect the boys during a difficult parental separation.\n\nThe mother claims that when she first visited the facility, she was shocked to discover that both children had no hair, adding that she felt \"stripped\" of her role as a parent.\n\nAccording to the explanations given to her by the foster home director, the radical haircut was due to lice in the facility. However, the mother claims that she only authorised a simple haircut.\n\nThe OVE foundation, which runs the home in question, acknowledges that a haircut was indeed given.\n\nOVE Director General Christian Berthuy explained to Franceinfo that this decision was taken \"after discussions between professionals and with the mother's agreement,\" to make the treatment more effective and prevent the spread of head lice among the other children.\n\nHowever, Berthuy conceded that \"cutting hair is not a routine task for the caregivers.\"\n\nIn response to this incident, the Paris City Council announced that it had referred the matter to the courts.\n\nIt also said that it had summoned the director of the association running the home and planned to meet the family in the next few days.\n\nConcerning the other case, that of the eight-year-old child who was shaved in February in a different Paris home, the city's public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation for \"deliberate violence\". The City of Paris has described the incident as \"extremely serious\".\n\n","htmlText":"<p>After the case of an eight-year-old boy having his hair <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//10//paris-care-home-staff-shaving-childs-head-in-punishment-sparks-outrage/">forcibly shaved<\/strong> <\/a>as \"punishment\"in a Paris foster home shocked the country, a second mother has come forward to say her two sons, aged three and four, underwent a similar ordeal in a different Paris foster home.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to public broadcaster Franceinfo on Thursday, the woman said the boys had their heads completely shaved in July while living in a care home in Paris' 18th district. She said she plans to file a formal complaint in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>According to the mother, the incident occurred shortly after a juvenile court judge ordered the children's temporary placement in care, a decision that was reportedly taken to protect the boys during a difficult parental separation. <\/p>\n<p>The mother claims that when she first visited the facility, she was shocked to discover that both children had no hair, adding that she felt \"stripped\" of her role as a parent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//77//46//808x539_cmsv2_12a6aaa2-ba60-5ffa-8925-2364753ec4c8-9587746.jpg/" alt=\"Schoolchildren and educators at the College Gaston Defferre in Marseille, 16 October, 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/77\/46\/384x256_cmsv2_12a6aaa2-ba60-5ffa-8925-2364753ec4c8-9587746.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/77\/46\/640x427_cmsv2_12a6aaa2-ba60-5ffa-8925-2364753ec4c8-9587746.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/77\/46\/750x500_cmsv2_12a6aaa2-ba60-5ffa-8925-2364753ec4c8-9587746.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/77\/46\/828x552_cmsv2_12a6aaa2-ba60-5ffa-8925-2364753ec4c8-9587746.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/77\/46\/1080x720_cmsv2_12a6aaa2-ba60-5ffa-8925-2364753ec4c8-9587746.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/77\/46\/1200x800_cmsv2_12a6aaa2-ba60-5ffa-8925-2364753ec4c8-9587746.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/77\/46\/1920x1280_cmsv2_12a6aaa2-ba60-5ffa-8925-2364753ec4c8-9587746.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Schoolchildren and educators at the College Gaston Defferre in Marseille, 16 October, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>According to the explanations given to her by the foster home director, the radical haircut was due to lice in the facility. However, the mother claims that she only authorised a simple haircut.<\/p>\n<p>The OVE foundation, which runs the home in question, acknowledges that a haircut was indeed given. <\/p>\n<p>OVE Director General Christian Berthuy explained to Franceinfo that this decision was taken \"after discussions between professionals and with the mother's agreement,\" to make the treatment more effective and prevent the spread of head lice among the other children.<\/p>\n<p>However, Berthuy conceded that \"cutting hair is not a routine task for the caregivers.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//04//25//warnings-issued-as-rising-amount-of-child-sexual-abuse-material-hosted-on-websites-in-eu-c/">Warnings issued as rising amount of child sexual abuse material hosted on websites in EU countries<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//03//13//tech-companies-urge-eu-to-preserve-voluntary-detection-of-child-abuse-content-in-online-pl/">Tech companies urge EU to preserve voluntary detection of child abuse content in online platforms<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In response to this incident, the Paris City Council announced that it had referred the matter to the courts. <\/p>\n<p>It also said that it had summoned the director of the association running the home and planned to meet the family in the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Concerning the other case, that of the eight-year-old child who was shaved in February in a different Paris home, the city's public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation for \"deliberate violence\". The City of Paris has described the incident as \"extremely serious\".<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1766070495,"updatedAt":1766073161,"publishedAt":1766073157,"firstPublishedAt":1766073157,"lastPublishedAt":1766073157,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/77\/46\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ac2a869f-4b64-5ea7-80cf-173a600a1dbe-9587746.jpg","altText":"A child goes to school in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 18 January, 2024 ","caption":"A child goes to school in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 18 January, 2024 ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1620,"height":911},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/77\/46\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_12a6aaa2-ba60-5ffa-8925-2364753ec4c8-9587746.jpg","altText":"Schoolchildren and educators at the College Gaston Defferre in Marseille, 16 October, 2023","caption":"Schoolchildren 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colleagues.","keySentence":"","url":"french-anaesthetist-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-poisoning-30-patients-killing-12","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/18\/french-anaesthetist-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-poisoning-30-patients-killing-12","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A court in eastern France sentenced a former anaesthetist to life imprisonment on Thursday after he was found guilty of poisoning 30 patients, 12 of them fatally.\n\nThe verdict against 53-year-old Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric P\u00e9chier came after 15 weeks of hearings, and the court had been deliberating the sentence since Monday.\n\nSentencing took three days as the court had to rule individually on each of the 30 cases of poisoning, which saw 12 people die and 18 others survive.\n\nThe acts were committed between 2008 and 2017 in two private clinics in Besan\u00e7on, on patients aged between four and 89.\n\nAccording to the prosecution, P\u00e9chier contaminated infusion bags with potassium, local 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the sentence.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A court in eastern France sentenced a former anaesthetist to life imprisonment on Thursday after he was found guilty of poisoning 30 patients, 12 of them fatally.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict against 53-year-old Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric P\u00e9chier came after 15 weeks of hearings, and the court had been deliberating the sentence since Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing took three days as the court had to rule individually on each of the 30 cases of poisoning, which saw 12 people die and 18 others survive. <\/p>\n<p>The acts were committed between 2008 and 2017 in two private clinics in Besan\u00e7on, on patients aged between four and 89. <\/p>\n<p>According to the prosecution, P\u00e9chier contaminated infusion bags with potassium, local anaesthetics, adrenaline and heparin to induce cardiac arrest or haemorrhage in patients treated by colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>After refuting this theory during an investigation that was launched in 2017, P\u00e9chier finally admitted at the start of the trial that a poisoner had indeed been active in one of the two private clinics where he worked, but maintained it had not been him. <\/p>\n<p>P\u00e9chier reportedly showed little emotion during cross-examination but broke down on 5 December when speaking about his 2021 suicide attempt. <\/p>\n<p>\"That's the way he is, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric P\u00e9chier is someone who has always been in control, he doesn't like to show his emotions,\" his defence lawyer Randall Schwerdorffer said. <\/p>\n<p>The anaesthetist \"had underestimated the difficulty of this trial; he was convinced that the jurors would very quickly be convinced of his innocence,\" Schwerdorffer added. <\/p>\n<p>P\u00e9chier's lawyer said he was convinced of his client's innocence and confirmed he would appeal against the 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agency is investigating a suspected cyberattack plot targeting an international passenger ferry that could allow the vessel to be remotely controlled.\n\nA Latvian crew member is in custody facing charges of having acted for an unidentified foreign power, French officials said on Wednesday.\n\nInterior Minister Laurent Nunez said, \u201cat the moment, foreign interference very often comes from same [the] country.\"\n\nWhile Russia was not named in the case, France and other European allies of Ukraine allege that Russia is waging \u201chybrid warfare\u201d against them, using sabotage, assassinations, cyberattacks, disinformation and other hostile acts that are often hard to quickly trace back to Moscow.\n\nIntelligence shared by Italian authorities tipped off the General Directorate of Internal Security \u2014 France's special counterespionage and counterterror intelligence service \u2014 that software sometimes used by cybercriminals may have infected computer systems aboard a ferry docked in the French Mediterranean port of S\u00e8te, the Paris prosecutor\u2019s office said.\n\nThe so-called RAT software \u2014 which allows users to control computer systems remotely \u2014 could have been used to take control of the ferry's computers, the prosecutor\u2019s office said. Its statement did not name the ferry.\n\nNunez told public broadcaster France Info that \u201cindividuals tried to gain access to a ship\u2019s data-processing system.\" He described it as \"a very serious affair.\" Asked if the suspected intention was to hijack the vessel, he said: \u201cWe don\u2019t know.\"\n\nHe added: \"The investigators appear to be following a trail of interference ... foreign interference.\u201d\n\nPolice on Friday arrested two of the ferry's crew members \u2014 one Latvian, the other Bulgarian \u2014 who Italian authorities had identified as suspects, the prosecutor\u2019s office said. The Bulgarian was subsequently released without charge after questioning.\n\nThe Latvian national is being held on a preliminary criminal conspiracy charge and two preliminary charges of hacking-related offences to serve the interests of an unnamed foreign power, the prosecutor\u2019s office said.\n\nIt said search raids were also carried out in Latvia. Latvian state police said they had no comment.\n\nThe ferry is now back in operation after being held in port for security checks on its computer system, the prosecutor\u2019s office said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>France's counterespionage agency is investigating a suspected cyberattack plot targeting an international passenger ferry that could allow the vessel to be remotely controlled.<\/p>\n<p>A Latvian crew member is in custody facing charges of having acted for an unidentified foreign power, French officials said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said, \u201cat the moment, foreign interference very often comes from same [the] country.\"<\/p>\n<p>While Russia was not named in the case, France and other European allies of Ukraine allege that Russia is waging \u201chybrid warfare\u201d against them, using sabotage, assassinations, cyberattacks, disinformation and other hostile acts that are often hard to quickly trace back to Moscow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//10//17//russian-cyberattacks-against-nato-members-up-25-in-a-year-analysis-shows/">Russian cyberattacks against NATO members up 25% in a year, analysis shows<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Intelligence shared by Italian authorities tipped off the General Directorate of Internal Security \u2014 France's special counterespionage and counterterror intelligence service \u2014 that software sometimes used by cybercriminals may have infected computer systems aboard a ferry docked in the French Mediterranean port of S\u00e8te, the Paris prosecutor\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called RAT software \u2014 which allows users to control computer systems remotely \u2014 could have been used to take control of the ferry's computers, the prosecutor\u2019s office said. Its statement did not name the ferry.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez told public broadcaster France Info that \u201cindividuals tried to gain access to a ship\u2019s data-processing system.\" He described it as \"a very serious affair.\" Asked if the suspected intention was to hijack the vessel, he said: \u201cWe don\u2019t know.\"<\/p>\n<p>He added: \"The investigators appear to be following a trail of interference ... foreign interference.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police on Friday arrested two of the ferry's crew members \u2014 one Latvian, the other Bulgarian \u2014 who Italian authorities had identified as suspects, the prosecutor\u2019s office said. The Bulgarian was subsequently released without charge after questioning.<\/p>\n<p>The Latvian national is being held on a preliminary criminal conspiracy charge and two preliminary charges of hacking-related offences to serve the interests of an unnamed foreign power, the prosecutor\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>It said search raids were also carried out in Latvia. Latvian state police said they had no comment.<\/p>\n<p>The ferry is now back in operation after being held in port for security checks on its computer system, the prosecutor\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1766035535,"updatedAt":1766036998,"publishedAt":1766036419,"firstPublishedAt":1766036419,"lastPublishedAt":1766036419,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Stephane de Sakutin, Pool photo via AP, File","altText":"The logo of the French General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) is pictured in Paris, Monday Aug. 31, 2020.","callToActionText":null,"width":1620,"caption":"The logo of the French General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) is pictured in Paris, Monday Aug. 31, 2020.","url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/69\/57\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_0dabcc42-4794-5c71-8bf1-09fbb1decd2d-9586957.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":911}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"cyber-attack","titleRaw":"Cyber attack","id":10775,"title":"Cyber attack","slug":"cyber-attack"},{"urlSafeValue":"russia-ukraine-invasion","titleRaw":"Russia's invasion of Ukraine","id":26698,"title":"Russia's invasion of 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CYBERATTACK","daletPyramidId":3634058,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"French interior ministry targeted in massive cyberattack, minister confirms","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"French interior ministry targeted in cyberattack, minister confirms","titleListing2":"Cyber attack against the Ministry of the Interior: Laurent Nu\u00f1ez announces the opening of two investigations","leadin":"The attack, which lasted \"several days,\" targeted email accounts at the Place Beauvau ministry, which employs nearly 300,000 people, Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez said.","summary":"The attack, which lasted \"several days,\" targeted email accounts at the Place Beauvau ministry, which employs nearly 300,000 people, Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez said.","keySentence":"","url":"french-interior-ministry-targeted-in-massive-cyberattack-minister-confirms","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/17\/french-interior-ministry-targeted-in-massive-cyberattack-minister-confirms","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"France's Interior Ministry was targeted by a cyberattack several days ago that compromised email accounts and allowed hackers to access sensitive police files, Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez confirmed Wednesday.\n\n\"We were the target of a malicious intrusion a few days ago,\" Nu\u00f1ez said in an interview on Franceinfo outlet. A judicial investigation is under way \"to find the perpetrator very quickly.\"\n\nThe intrusion occurred when attackers accessed \"certain professional email inboxes\" and \"recovered access codes,\" the minister said.\n\nThe hackers \"were able to consult a number of important files,\" including the Criminal Records Processing System (TAJ) and the Wanted Persons File (FPR), Nu\u00f1ez said.\n\n\"We don't yet know the extent of the compromise. To date, a few dozen files may have been removed from the system.\"\n\nNu\u00f1ez said he could \"absolutely not say whether this will compromise investigations or not,\" but insisted \"it does not endanger the lives of our compatriots.\" No ransom demand had been received, the minister said.\n\nThe minister attributed the intrusion to \"carelessness\" despite regular reminders about security procedures. \"All it takes is a few individuals who don't respect these rules,\" he said.\n\nThe attack, which lasted \"several days,\" targeted email accounts at the Place Beauvau ministry, which employs nearly 300,000 people.\n\nLast week, BFMTV revealed the ministry had discovered suspicious activity targeting its email servers. A group of hackers subsequently claimed without providing proof to have accessed data from more than 16 million people in police files.\n\n\"This is false,\" Nu\u00f1ez said Wednesday. \"We also referred the matter to the CNIL, the National Commission on Informatics and Liberty, as we are required to do by law. And then there was an administrative investigation that I requested.\"\n\nFrance's Anti-Cybercrime Office (OFAC) is leading the investigation.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>France's Interior Ministry was targeted by a cyberattack several days ago that compromised email accounts and allowed hackers to access sensitive police files, Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez confirmed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\"We were the target of a malicious intrusion a few days ago,\" Nu\u00f1ez said in an interview on Franceinfo outlet. A judicial investigation is under way \"to find the perpetrator very quickly.\"<\/p>\n<p>The intrusion occurred when attackers accessed \"certain professional email inboxes\" and \"recovered access codes,\" the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>The hackers \"were able to consult a number of important files,\" including the Criminal Records Processing System (TAJ) and the Wanted Persons File (FPR), Nu\u00f1ez said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//61//09//808x539_cmsv2_babfd50c-6946-529a-8236-759666e04a52-9586109.jpg/" alt=\"Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris, 14 October, 2025 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/61\/09\/384x256_cmsv2_babfd50c-6946-529a-8236-759666e04a52-9586109.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/61\/09\/640x427_cmsv2_babfd50c-6946-529a-8236-759666e04a52-9586109.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/61\/09\/750x500_cmsv2_babfd50c-6946-529a-8236-759666e04a52-9586109.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/61\/09\/828x552_cmsv2_babfd50c-6946-529a-8236-759666e04a52-9586109.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/61\/09\/1080x720_cmsv2_babfd50c-6946-529a-8236-759666e04a52-9586109.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/61\/09\/1200x800_cmsv2_babfd50c-6946-529a-8236-759666e04a52-9586109.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/61\/09\/1920x1280_cmsv2_babfd50c-6946-529a-8236-759666e04a52-9586109.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris, 14 October, 2025 <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"We don't yet know the extent of the compromise. To date, a few dozen files may have been removed from the system.\"<\/p>\n<p>Nu\u00f1ez said he could \"absolutely not say whether this will compromise investigations or not,\" but insisted \"it does not endanger the lives of our compatriots.\" No ransom demand had been received, the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister attributed the intrusion to \"carelessness\" despite regular reminders about security procedures. \"All it takes is a few individuals who don't respect these rules,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>The attack, which lasted \"several days,\" targeted email accounts at the Place Beauvau ministry, which employs nearly 300,000 people.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2025//10//17//russian-cyberattacks-against-nato-members-up-25-in-a-year-analysis-shows/">Russian cyberattacks against NATO members up 25% in a year, analysis shows<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//10//03//europes-position-on-russia-hardens-as-drone-incursions-cyberattacks-and-sabotage-incidents/">Europe's position on Russia hardens as drone incursions, cyberattacks and sabotage incidents mount<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Last week, BFMTV revealed the ministry had discovered suspicious activity targeting its email servers. A group of hackers subsequently claimed without providing proof to have accessed data from more than 16 million people in police files.<\/p>\n<p>\"This is false,\" Nu\u00f1ez said Wednesday. \"We also referred the matter to the CNIL, the National Commission on Informatics and Liberty, as we are required to do by law. And then there was an administrative investigation that I requested.\"<\/p>\n<p>France's Anti-Cybercrime Office (OFAC) is leading the investigation.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765969863,"updatedAt":1765973025,"publishedAt":1765973021,"firstPublishedAt":1765973021,"lastPublishedAt":1765973021,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/61\/09\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b8a5576d-d8cc-55b9-bea0-9b6a94b75648-9586109.jpg","altText":"Soldiers train during the annual DEFNET military exercise aimed at fighting cyberattacks and strengthening cybersecurity in France, 25 March, 2025 ","caption":"Soldiers train during the annual DEFNET military exercise aimed at fighting cyberattacks and strengthening cybersecurity in France, 25 March, 2025 ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP 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the public on Wednesday, even as employees voted to extend a strike protesting what unions describe as increasingly \"untenable conditions\" at the world\u2019s most visited museum.\n\nThe action comes at a particularly sensitive moment for the Paris landmark, which is still reeling from the high-profile jewel heist on 19 October.\n\nStaff representatives cited a growing list of concerns, including chronic understaffing, deteriorating infrastructure, worsening working conditions and plans to raise ticket prices for visitors from outside the European Union.\n\n\"Dear visitors, the mus\u00e9e du Louvre opened a little late this morning. Due to a strike, some rooms in the Louvre Museum are exceptionally closed this Wednesday, December 17,\" explained the museum in a tweet around noon Paris time.\n\nThe Culture Ministry had sought to ease tensions by announcing several measures, including the cancellation of a planned \u20ac5.7 million cut to the museum\u2019s funding in 2026, the launch of targeted recruitment for visitor services and security staff, and a pay adjustment.\n\nUnions, however, argue that these commitments fall short, calling instead for long-term guarantees on staffing levels and compensation.\n\nEarlier this week, around 400 employees had already voted unanimously in favour of strike action.\n\nOn Monday, the museum closed its doors, leaving visitors, some of whom had travelled long distances during the busy end-of-year period, to learn of the disruption upon arrival. The museum was shuttered on Tuesday for its weekly closed day.\n\nThe ongoing strike has further weakened the museum\u2019s leadership at a time of intense scrutiny.\n\nLouvre president Laurence des Cars appeared once again before the Senate\u2019s culture committee on Wednesday afternoon, as lawmakers examined security failings exposed by October\u2019s theft.\n\nShortly after the robbery, des Cars acknowledged a \u201cfailure\u201d in security during a Senate hearing, while defending her record and stating that work on the museum\u2019s security master plan had been accelerated.\n\nEarlier this month, France's Court of Auditors urged the Louvre to rethink its investment priorities, arguing that modernisation of equipment had been consistently underfunded compared with other projects.\n\nThe administrative investigation launched after the 19 October theft found that the robbery was made easier by the absence of protective bars on the windows.\n\nRemoved during renovation work in 2003, they had never been reinstalled. Des Cars told senators on Wednesday that the metal bars will be put back in place \"within days.\"\n\nShe also stressed that the display cases housing the crown jewels, installed in 2018 and 2019, were more robust than previous versions.\n\nDes Cars also announced that the appointment of a new security coordinator was imminent. The role, she said, would be filled by an experienced security professional reporting directly to her, with the task of improving information-sharing across departments, a weakness repeatedly identified by investigators.\n\nDetailing the measures taken since the theft, des Cars said security had been reinforced both inside and around the museum.\n\nThese steps include new crowd-control barriers along the Seine, a mobile police unit near the Carrousel, and the planned deployment of 100 additional perimeter cameras in the coming months.\n\nMore broadly, des Cars warned of mounting structural challenges facing the Louvre, citing ageing technical infrastructure, the fragility of a site that is both a historic palace and a museum, unbalanced visitor flows concentrated in a handful of galleries, and increasingly difficult working conditions for staff.\n\nShe also defended the museum's large-scale expansion project, dubbed the \"New Renaissance of the Louvre,\" launched earlier this year by President Emmanuel Macron.\n\nWhile the Court of Auditors has raised serious concerns about its financing, des Cars described the plan as \"necessary, realistic and responsible,\" adding that she was determined to see it through.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Louvre Museum said it would remain partially open to the public on Wednesday, even as employees voted to extend a strike protesting what unions describe as increasingly \"untenable conditions\" at the world\u2019s most visited museum.<\/p>\n<p>The action comes at a particularly sensitive moment for the Paris landmark, which is still reeling from the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//11//25//four-more-suspects-arrested-over-louvre-jewellery-heist-paris-prosecutors-say/">high-profile jewel heist<\/strong> <\/a>on 19 October. <\/p>\n<p>Staff representatives cited a growing list of concerns, including chronic understaffing, deteriorating infrastructure, worsening working conditions and plans to raise ticket prices for visitors from outside the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>\"Dear visitors, the mus\u00e9e du Louvre opened a little late this morning. Due to a strike, some rooms in the Louvre Museum are exceptionally closed this Wednesday, December 17,\" explained the museum in a tweet around noon Paris time. <\/p>\n<p>The Culture Ministry had sought to ease tensions by announcing several measures, including the cancellation of a planned \u20ac5.7 million cut to the museum\u2019s funding in 2026, the launch of targeted recruitment for visitor services and security staff, and a pay adjustment. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//60//49//808x539_cmsv2_212f393c-e8ef-58ce-99ec-eefe389b00be-9586049.jpg/" alt=\"Unionists display a banner and union flags outside the Louvre museum in Paris, 17 December, 2025 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/60\/49\/384x256_cmsv2_212f393c-e8ef-58ce-99ec-eefe389b00be-9586049.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/60\/49\/640x427_cmsv2_212f393c-e8ef-58ce-99ec-eefe389b00be-9586049.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/60\/49\/750x500_cmsv2_212f393c-e8ef-58ce-99ec-eefe389b00be-9586049.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/60\/49\/828x552_cmsv2_212f393c-e8ef-58ce-99ec-eefe389b00be-9586049.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/60\/49\/1080x720_cmsv2_212f393c-e8ef-58ce-99ec-eefe389b00be-9586049.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/60\/49\/1200x800_cmsv2_212f393c-e8ef-58ce-99ec-eefe389b00be-9586049.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/60\/49\/1920x1280_cmsv2_212f393c-e8ef-58ce-99ec-eefe389b00be-9586049.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Unionists display a banner and union flags outside the Louvre museum in Paris, 17 December, 2025 <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Unions, however, argue that these commitments fall short, calling instead for long-term guarantees on staffing levels and compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, around 400 employees had already voted unanimously in favour of strike action. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the museum <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//12//15//louvre-closed-as-staff-strike-over-working-conditions-weeks-after-88m-jewel-heist/">closed its doors<\/strong><\/a>, leaving visitors, some of whom had travelled long distances during the busy end-of-year period, to learn of the disruption upon arrival. The museum was shuttered on Tuesday for its weekly closed day.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing strike has further weakened the museum\u2019s leadership at a time of intense scrutiny. <\/p>\n<p>Louvre president Laurence des Cars appeared once again before the Senate\u2019s culture committee on Wednesday afternoon, as lawmakers examined security failings exposed by October\u2019s theft. <\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the robbery, des Cars <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//10//23//louvre-museum-director-wants-in-house-police-station-to-prevent-smash-and-grab-raids/">acknowledged a \u201cfailure\u201d<\/strong><\/a> in security during a Senate hearing, while defending her record and stating that work on the museum\u2019s security master plan had been accelerated. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"2001245120973168770\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Earlier this month, France's Court of Auditors urged the Louvre to rethink its investment priorities, arguing that modernisation of equipment had been consistently underfunded compared with other projects.<\/p>\n<p>The administrative investigation launched after the 19 October theft found that the robbery was made easier by the absence of protective bars on the windows. <\/p>\n<p>Removed during renovation work in 2003, they had never been reinstalled. Des Cars told senators on Wednesday that the metal bars will be put back in place \"within days.\" <\/p>\n<p>She also stressed that the display cases housing the crown jewels, installed in 2018 and 2019, were more robust than previous versions. <\/p>\n<p>Des Cars also announced that the appointment of a new security coordinator was imminent. The role, she said, would be filled by an experienced security professional reporting directly to her, with the task of improving information-sharing across departments, a weakness repeatedly identified by investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Detailing the measures taken since the theft, des Cars said security had been reinforced both inside and around the museum. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//60//49//808x539_cmsv2_3e9b4ece-1321-5ee5-9a15-41f0f432f2c3-9586049.jpg/" alt=\"People wait at the entrance of the Louvre museum as employees were set to vote on whether to extend a strike, 17 December, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/60\/49\/384x256_cmsv2_3e9b4ece-1321-5ee5-9a15-41f0f432f2c3-9586049.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/60\/49\/640x427_cmsv2_3e9b4ece-1321-5ee5-9a15-41f0f432f2c3-9586049.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/60\/49\/750x500_cmsv2_3e9b4ece-1321-5ee5-9a15-41f0f432f2c3-9586049.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/60\/49\/828x552_cmsv2_3e9b4ece-1321-5ee5-9a15-41f0f432f2c3-9586049.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/60\/49\/1080x720_cmsv2_3e9b4ece-1321-5ee5-9a15-41f0f432f2c3-9586049.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/60\/49\/1200x800_cmsv2_3e9b4ece-1321-5ee5-9a15-41f0f432f2c3-9586049.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/60\/49\/1920x1280_cmsv2_3e9b4ece-1321-5ee5-9a15-41f0f432f2c3-9586049.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People wait at the entrance of the Louvre museum as employees were set to vote on whether to extend a strike, 17 December, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>These steps include new crowd-control barriers along the Seine, a mobile police unit near the Carrousel, and the planned deployment of 100 additional perimeter cameras in the coming months. <\/p>\n<p>More broadly, des Cars warned of mounting structural challenges facing the Louvre, citing ageing technical infrastructure, the fragility of a site that is both a historic palace and a museum, unbalanced visitor flows concentrated in a handful of galleries, and increasingly difficult working conditions for staff.<\/p>\n<p>She also 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VS MOULIN ROUGE CONTROVERSY","daletPyramidId":3627048,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Jacques Pr\u00e9vert: A battle to save the poet's former apartment from Moulin-Rouge expansion","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's legacy: A battle to save the poet's apartment-museum","titleListing2":"Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's legacy: A battle to save the poet's apartment-museum in Paris","leadin":"The Montmartre flat where one of the most important French poets lived is threatened by a project to extend the adjoining Moulin-Rouge cabaret.","summary":"The Montmartre flat where one of the most important French poets lived is threatened by a project to extend the adjoining Moulin-Rouge cabaret.","keySentence":"","url":"jacques-prevert-a-battle-to-save-the-poets-former-apartment-from-moulin-rouge-expansion","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/12\/17\/jacques-prevert-a-battle-to-save-the-poets-former-apartment-from-moulin-rouge-expansion","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Whitewashed walls carved with niches, curved corners, floors covered with parquet and Proven\u00e7al floor tiles, right in the middle of Montmartre. Inside, a desk, countless paintings and books, an advertisement for a convenience store television, hung with a drawing pin, pencils, scattered portraits of Brigitte Bardot and General Charles de Gaulle.\n\nJacques Pr\u00e9vert's flat at 6bis Cit\u00e9 V\u00e9ron, in the backyard of the famous Moulin-Rouge cabaret, bright but not luxurious, which had previously always been open to the poet's famous contemporaries and anonymous friends, could soon cease to exist.\n\nA battle for memory\n\nThe owner of the premises, the Moulin-Rouge cabaret, wants to reclaim this space, as well as the flat opposite, where the French music writer Boris Vian lived, for an expansion project that is causing ripples in the cultural world.\n\n\"I don't think this is respecting history,\" Eug\u00e9nie Bachelot-Pr\u00e9vert, the poet's granddaughter, told Euronews. She is preserving his archives and is mobilising support to ensure that the flat does not end up \"in a pile of rubble\" but instead \"can be visited and protected.\"\n\nA petition to this effect, launched by her association \"Chez Jacques Pr\u00e9vert,\" has already attracted more than 36,000 signatures.\n\nAt the same time, an open letter calling for the building to be listed as a historic monument was sent to the French Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati. The letter was signed by Nobel literature laureate Patrick Modiano, film-maker Costa-Gavras and singer Patti Smith.\n\n\"At a time when Parisians, and particularly the residents of Montmartre, are deploring the loss of authenticity of a public space given over to over-tourism, the disappearance of Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's flat, like that of his neighbour Boris Vian, which is the subject of the same project, would be utterly incomprehensible,\" the letter reads.\n\nIn France, the term \"museum\" can be used freely. Even without state recognition, it is still possible to discover the poet's Montmartre lair by booking a group visit via the HelloAsso platform.\n\nEug\u00e9nie Bachelot-Pr\u00e9vert receives around two visitors a week and appointments are occasionally made by researchers working on Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's work, she explains.\n\nNo destruction, Moulin-Rouge says\n\nThe Pr\u00e9vert family have rented the premises since 1955. Last September, in a letter delivered by a bailiff, Eug\u00e9nie Bachelot-Pr\u00e9vert was informed that the lease, which expired at the end of 2024, would not be renewed. The deadline for vacating the flat is 31 March 2026.\n\nAccording to the president of the \"Chez Jacques Pr\u00e9vert\" association, the Moulin-Rouge company has not explained to the parties involved what it really intends to do with these square metres, even though there is talk of renovating the hall where Mistinguett, star of the Roaring Twenties, used to perform.\n\nContacted by Euronews, the Montmartre cabaret confirms that it is \"considering a renovation project that would - among other things - enhance the legacy of Mistinguett, [...] a woman who is too often overlooked despite being a major figure in Parisian cultural life.\"\n\n\"We have never mentioned the destruction of the flats of Messrs Pr\u00e9vert and Vian,\" the Moulin-Rouge added.\n\nEug\u00e9nie Bachelot-Pr\u00e9vert also refutes any idea of \"moving\" her grandfather's flat or reconstructing its interior elsewhere.\n\n\"That would be wrong,\" she insists. \"We'd like to preserve the authenticity of the flat.\"\n\n\"Everyone's annoyed, because these are three French monuments\"\n\nThe poet's heiress says she has no contact with the Minister of Culture, who she says is \"close\" to the Moulin-Rouge.\n\nClaiming to be the spokesperson for \"popular culture,\" Rachida Dati launched a \"cabaret plan\" this year to \"support creation...increase the visibility and knowledge\" of this world and promote its heritage.\n\nThe plan's flagship measure is a season dedicated to cabaret, which, according to the Ministry, will take place in autumn 2026, with \"regional and national highlights.\"\n\nAlthough she believes this policy is legitimate, Eug\u00e9nie Bachelot-Pr\u00e9vert is also asking to be heard in the context where, according to her, the public authorities - from the arrondissement to the State, via the central town hall - would not wish to offend the mecca of the \"French can-can.\"\n\n\"A strong economic player\", she says.\n\n\"Let her protect the place, let her act as an intermediary [with the Moulin-Rouge],\" she says in comments directed to Rachida Dati.\n\n\"Moulin-Rouge, Pr\u00e9vert, Vian...Everyone's in trouble, because these are three French monuments,\" admits the president of the association.\n\nIn a motion passed by the Paris City Council on a proposal from a Communist group last November, the capital's elected representatives called on the State to intervene \"rapidly so that Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's flat is recognised and protected, in situ, in order to ensure its integral conservation, its protection against any damaging transformation and its opening to visitors, with respect for its memory, its cultural heritage and the history of Montmartre.\"\n\nIn a response to Euronews, the Ministry of Culture said that an application for protection as a historic monument submitted for Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's flat would be examined by the \u00cele-de-France Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs (DRAC).\n\n\"The Ministry [...] is closely monitoring this matter: it is currently in discussion with the heirs of Jacques Pr\u00e9vert, those of Boris Vian and the owners of the Moulin Rouge to find a solution that will allow the cabaret project to develop, while at the same time safeguarding the heritage associated with these two emblematic writers,\" it was stated on rue de Valois.\n\nFor its part, the Moulin-Rouge claims to be in \"regular contactwith government departments,\" adding that a meeting is scheduled \"very shortly\" with Eug\u00e9nie Bachelot-Pr\u00e9vert.\n\nPr\u00e9vert never fell into purgatory\n\nAnti-clerical and anarchistic, close to the communists, and long resistant to the idea of becoming a property owner, Jacques Pr\u00e9vert is world-famous for his poems \u2013 \u2018Le cancre\u2019, \u2018Les feuilles mortes\u2019, \u2018Paris at night\u2019, \u2018D\u00e9jeuner du matin\u2019 \u2013 and for the screenplay of Marcel Carn\u00e9's cult film, \u2018Les enfants du paradis\u2019.\n\n\"Pr\u00e9vert is a national poet, on a par with \u00c9luard and Char,\" Alban Cerisier, secretary general of \u00c9ditions Gallimard, told Euronews. \"However, he enjoys a special status due to the widespread popularity of his first collection of poems, 'Paroles', which, with cumulative sales since 1946, must now exceed 4.5 million copies.\"\n\n\"This is a very unusual phenomenon, which in itself testifies to the place Pr\u00e9vert occupies in family libraries\", said the heritage collection curator.\n\nAccording to Alban Cerisier, annual sales of the poet's collections and albums are around 50,000 copies, \"mostly consisting of sales of Paroles.\"\n\nThe publisher and historian also notes Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's \u2018presence\u2019 \u2018through the number of libraries, cultural centres and schools that bear his name\u2019 \u2013 Euronews has counted nearly 500.\n\n\"Pr\u00e9vert's poems circulate and live on through the voices of children,\" added Cerisier. \"\u2018Le Cancre\u2019, \u2018En sortant de l'\u00e9cole\u2019, \u2018Page d'\u00e9criture\u2019. As do the poet's legendary lines for cinema.\"\u00a0\u00a0\n\nWhat Jacques Pr\u00e9vert was sometimes criticised for \u2013 the simplicity of his verses, his overly direct engagement \u2013 is precisely what makes him modern and important today.\n\n\"I believe that Pr\u00e9vert owes his enduring fame to the fact that his poetry, while being very finely composed and linked to the French poetic tradition (surrealism in particular), offers a simple, free and musical expression of human feelings,\" explained Cerisier.\n\nBeyond his status as \u2018schoolchildren's favourite poet\u2019, Eug\u00e9nie Bachelot-Pr\u00e9vert talks about a man, born in 1900, who \u2018denounced war\u2019 and \u2018saw all the madness of the 20th century\u2019. She praises the \u201cliveliness\u201d of his thinking, \u2018which resonates very strongly\u2019, and calls for \u2018freedom and a different world\u2019.\n\nFor the guardian of Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's memory, her grandfather \"never fell into purgatory.\" Translated into 40 languages, he is \"important beyond France,\" she says.\n\n\"With his simple, direct language, [Pr\u00e9vert] touched the hearts of a large number of Italians, especially when it came to his love poems,\" explained Paolo Levi, the Paris correspondent for the Italian news agency Ansa, interviewed by Euronews.\n\n\"I don't know if it's still true for the younger generations, but for decades it was common to meet people in Italy who quoted lines, if not whole poems of Pr\u00e9vert by heart,\" he said.\n\n\u2018An ode to the eternal Parisian\u2019\n\n\u2018He is a poet of enduring significance, a classic who embodies something of the French spirit,\u2019 said Cerisier, citing \"an inalienable taste for freedom and social justice, mistrust of authority, a spirit of protest and, of course, the role of imagination and words in expressing human sensitivity and melancholy\".\n\nFor him, Pr\u00e9vert also embodies the spirit of places \u2013 \u2018those of Paris in particular\u2019.\n\n\"His poetry speaks to the heart. It is neither scholarly nor complacent. It brings colour to intoxication. And his poetry is to Paris what Doisneau's photography is to the capital... an ode to the eternal Parisian, imbued with immense humanity.\"\n\n\"Paris would not be exactly Paris without what Pr\u00e9vert said about it,\" he concludes.\n\nSophia Khatsenkova contributed to this article.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Whitewashed walls carved with niches, curved corners, floors covered with parquet and Proven\u00e7al floor tiles, right in the middle of Montmartre. Inside, a desk, countless paintings and books, an advertisement for a convenience store television, hung with a drawing pin, pencils, scattered portraits of Brigitte Bardot and General Charles de Gaulle.<\/p>\n<p>Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's flat at 6bis Cit\u00e9 V\u00e9ron, in the backyard of the famous Moulin-Rouge cabaret, bright but not luxurious, which had previously always been open to the poet's famous contemporaries and anonymous friends, could soon cease to exist.<\/p>\n<h2>A battle for memory<\/h2>\n<p>The owner of the premises, the Moulin-Rouge cabaret, wants to reclaim this space, as well as the flat opposite, where the French music writer Boris Vian lived, for an expansion project that is causing ripples in the cultural world.<\/p>\n<p>\"I don't think this is respecting history,\" Eug\u00e9nie Bachelot-Pr\u00e9vert, the poet's granddaughter, told Euronews. She is preserving his archives and is mobilising support to ensure that the flat does not end up \"in a pile of rubble\" but instead \"can be visited and protected.\"<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.change.org//p//il-faut-sauver-l-appartement-de-jacques-prévert/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">petition<\/a> to this effect, launched by her association \"Chez Jacques Pr\u00e9vert,\" has already attracted more than 36,000 signatures.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, an open letter calling for the building to be listed as a historic monument was sent to the French Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati. The letter was signed by Nobel literature laureate Patrick Modiano, film-maker Costa-Gavras and singer Patti Smith.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.273074474856779\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//27//74//808x1023_cmsv2_4cfc5a91-6695-540c-9a82-e6d17a86df2b-9582774.jpg/" alt=\"The "crow" in the flat.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/384x489_cmsv2_4cfc5a91-6695-540c-9a82-e6d17a86df2b-9582774.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/640x815_cmsv2_4cfc5a91-6695-540c-9a82-e6d17a86df2b-9582774.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/750x955_cmsv2_4cfc5a91-6695-540c-9a82-e6d17a86df2b-9582774.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/828x1054_cmsv2_4cfc5a91-6695-540c-9a82-e6d17a86df2b-9582774.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/1080x1375_cmsv2_4cfc5a91-6695-540c-9a82-e6d17a86df2b-9582774.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/1200x1528_cmsv2_4cfc5a91-6695-540c-9a82-e6d17a86df2b-9582774.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/1920x2444_cmsv2_4cfc5a91-6695-540c-9a82-e6d17a86df2b-9582774.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The flat's "crow".<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Association "Chez Jacques Prévert"<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"At a time when Parisians, and particularly the residents of Montmartre, are deploring the loss of authenticity of a public space given over to over-tourism, the disappearance of Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's flat, like that of his neighbour Boris Vian, which is the subject of the same project, would be utterly incomprehensible,\" the letter reads.<\/p>\n<p>In France, the term \"museum\" can be used freely. Even without state recognition, it is still possible to discover the poet's Montmartre lair by booking a group visit via the HelloAsso platform. <\/p>\n<p>Eug\u00e9nie Bachelot-Pr\u00e9vert receives around two visitors a week and appointments are occasionally made by researchers working on Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's work, she explains.<\/p>\n<h2>No destruction, Moulin-Rouge says<\/h2>\n<p>The Pr\u00e9vert family have rented the premises since 1955. Last September, in a letter delivered by a bailiff, Eug\u00e9nie Bachelot-Pr\u00e9vert was informed that the lease, which expired at the end of 2024, would not be renewed. The deadline for vacating the flat is 31 March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>According to the president of the \"Chez Jacques Pr\u00e9vert\" association, the Moulin-Rouge company has not explained to the parties involved what it really intends to do with these square metres, even though there is talk of renovating the hall where Mistinguett, star of the Roaring Twenties, used to perform.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//54//52//808x539_cmsv2_4cbc8ae3-ba07-5a47-8eba-6a44c5f53346-9585452.jpg/" alt=\"Dancers perform in front of the Moulin Rouge cabaret during the inauguration of the theatre's windmill in Paris, 5 July, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/54\/52\/384x256_cmsv2_4cbc8ae3-ba07-5a47-8eba-6a44c5f53346-9585452.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/54\/52\/640x427_cmsv2_4cbc8ae3-ba07-5a47-8eba-6a44c5f53346-9585452.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/54\/52\/750x500_cmsv2_4cbc8ae3-ba07-5a47-8eba-6a44c5f53346-9585452.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/54\/52\/828x552_cmsv2_4cbc8ae3-ba07-5a47-8eba-6a44c5f53346-9585452.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/54\/52\/1080x720_cmsv2_4cbc8ae3-ba07-5a47-8eba-6a44c5f53346-9585452.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/54\/52\/1200x800_cmsv2_4cbc8ae3-ba07-5a47-8eba-6a44c5f53346-9585452.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/54\/52\/1920x1280_cmsv2_4cbc8ae3-ba07-5a47-8eba-6a44c5f53346-9585452.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Dancers perform in front of the Moulin Rouge cabaret during the inauguration of the theatre's windmill in Paris, 5 July, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Contacted by Euronews, the Montmartre cabaret confirms that it is \"considering a renovation project that would - among other things - enhance the legacy of Mistinguett, [...] a woman who is too often overlooked despite being a major figure in Parisian cultural life.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"We have never mentioned the destruction of the flats of Messrs Pr\u00e9vert and Vian,\" the Moulin-Rouge added.<\/p>\n<p>Eug\u00e9nie Bachelot-Pr\u00e9vert also refutes any idea of \"moving\" her grandfather's flat or reconstructing its interior elsewhere. <\/p>\n<p>\"That would be wrong,\" she insists. \"We'd like to preserve the authenticity of the flat.\"<\/p>\n<h2>\"Everyone's annoyed, because these are three French monuments\"<\/h2>\n<p>The poet's heiress says she has no contact with the Minister of Culture, who she says is \"close\" to the Moulin-Rouge.<\/p>\n<p>Claiming to be the spokesperson for \"popular culture,\" Rachida Dati launched a \"cabaret plan\" this year to \"support creation...increase the visibility and knowledge\" of this world and promote its heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The plan's flagship measure is a season dedicated to cabaret, which, according to the Ministry, will take place in autumn 2026, with \"regional and national highlights.\"<\/p>\n<p>Although she believes this policy is legitimate, Eug\u00e9nie Bachelot-Pr\u00e9vert is also asking to be heard in the context where, according to her, the public authorities - from the arrondissement to the State, via the central town hall - would not wish to offend the mecca of the \"French can-can.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"A strong economic player\", she says.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.2547051442910917\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//27//74//808x1010_cmsv2_1cad2ea3-f6bc-598d-b3d0-ea671c3bceae-9582774.jpg/" alt=\"Behind the wings of the Moulin-Rouge.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/384x482_cmsv2_1cad2ea3-f6bc-598d-b3d0-ea671c3bceae-9582774.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/640x803_cmsv2_1cad2ea3-f6bc-598d-b3d0-ea671c3bceae-9582774.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/750x941_cmsv2_1cad2ea3-f6bc-598d-b3d0-ea671c3bceae-9582774.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/828x1039_cmsv2_1cad2ea3-f6bc-598d-b3d0-ea671c3bceae-9582774.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/1080x1355_cmsv2_1cad2ea3-f6bc-598d-b3d0-ea671c3bceae-9582774.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/1200x1506_cmsv2_1cad2ea3-f6bc-598d-b3d0-ea671c3bceae-9582774.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/1920x2409_cmsv2_1cad2ea3-f6bc-598d-b3d0-ea671c3bceae-9582774.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Behind the wings of the Moulin-Rouge.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">André Villers, avec l'autorisation de la famille de Jacques Prévert<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\"Let her protect the place, let her act as an intermediary [with the Moulin-Rouge],\" she says in comments directed to Rachida Dati.<\/p>\n<p>\"Moulin-Rouge, Pr\u00e9vert, Vian...Everyone's in trouble, because these are three French monuments,\" admits the president of the association.<\/p>\n<p>In a motion passed by the Paris City Council on a proposal from a Communist group last November, the capital's elected representatives called on the State to intervene \"rapidly so that Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's flat is recognised and protected, in situ, in order to ensure its integral conservation, its protection against any damaging transformation and its opening to visitors, with respect for its memory, its cultural heritage and the history of Montmartre.\"<\/p>\n<p>In a response to Euronews, the Ministry of Culture said that an application for protection as a historic monument submitted for Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's flat would be examined by the \u00cele-de-France Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs (DRAC).<\/p>\n<p>\"The Ministry [...] is closely monitoring this matter: it is currently in discussion with the heirs of Jacques Pr\u00e9vert, those of Boris Vian and the owners of the Moulin Rouge to find a solution that will allow the cabaret project to develop, while at the same time safeguarding the heritage associated with these two emblematic writers,\" it was stated on rue de Valois.<\/p>\n<p>For its part, the Moulin-Rouge claims to be in \"regular contactwith government departments,\" adding that a meeting is scheduled \"very shortly\" with Eug\u00e9nie Bachelot-Pr\u00e9vert.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//04//25//moulin-rouges-iconic-windmill-sails-collapse-overnight/">Moulin Rouge's iconic windmill sails collapse overnight<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//07//11//moulin-rouge-celebrates-as-blades-of-famous-windmill-turn-again/">Moulin Rouge celebrates as blades of famous windmill turn again <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Pr\u00e9vert never fell into purgatory<\/h2>\n<p>Anti-clerical and anarchistic, close to the communists, and long resistant to the idea of becoming a property owner, Jacques Pr\u00e9vert is world-famous for his poems \u2013 \u2018Le cancre\u2019, \u2018Les feuilles mortes\u2019, \u2018Paris at night\u2019, \u2018D\u00e9jeuner du matin\u2019 \u2013 and for the screenplay of Marcel Carn\u00e9's cult film, \u2018Les enfants du paradis\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\"Pr\u00e9vert is a national poet, on a par with \u00c9luard and Char,\" Alban Cerisier, secretary general of \u00c9ditions Gallimard, told Euronews. \"However, he enjoys a special status due to the widespread popularity of his first collection of poems, 'Paroles', which, with cumulative sales since 1946, must now exceed 4.5 million copies.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"This is a very unusual phenomenon, which in itself testifies to the place Pr\u00e9vert occupies in family libraries\", said the heritage collection curator.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alban Cerisier, annual sales of the poet's collections and albums are around 50,000 copies, \"mostly consisting of sales of Paroles.\"<\/p>\n<p>The publisher and historian also notes Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's \u2018presence\u2019 \u2018through the number of libraries, cultural centres and schools that bear his name\u2019 \u2013 Euronews has counted nearly 500.<\/p>\n<p>\"Pr\u00e9vert's poems circulate and live on through the voices of children,\" added Cerisier. \"\u2018Le Cancre\u2019, \u2018En sortant de l'\u00e9cole\u2019, \u2018Page d'\u00e9criture\u2019. As do the poet's legendary lines for cinema.\" <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.674\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//27//74//808x546_cmsv2_cc76e6aa-f336-56c2-97fc-825dd53a7629-9582774.jpg/" alt=\"Jacques Prévert\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/384x259_cmsv2_cc76e6aa-f336-56c2-97fc-825dd53a7629-9582774.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/640x431_cmsv2_cc76e6aa-f336-56c2-97fc-825dd53a7629-9582774.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/750x506_cmsv2_cc76e6aa-f336-56c2-97fc-825dd53a7629-9582774.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/828x558_cmsv2_cc76e6aa-f336-56c2-97fc-825dd53a7629-9582774.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/1080x728_cmsv2_cc76e6aa-f336-56c2-97fc-825dd53a7629-9582774.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/1200x809_cmsv2_cc76e6aa-f336-56c2-97fc-825dd53a7629-9582774.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/1920x1294_cmsv2_cc76e6aa-f336-56c2-97fc-825dd53a7629-9582774.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Jacques Prévert<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Credit: Giacomo Pozzi-Bellini with authorisation from the family of Jacques Prévert<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>What Jacques Pr\u00e9vert was sometimes criticised for \u2013 the simplicity of his verses, his overly direct engagement \u2013 is precisely what makes him modern and important today.<\/p>\n<p>\"I believe that Pr\u00e9vert owes his enduring fame to the fact that his poetry, while being very finely composed and linked to the French poetic tradition (surrealism in particular), offers a simple, free and musical expression of human feelings,\" explained Cerisier. <\/p>\n<p>Beyond his status as \u2018schoolchildren's favourite poet\u2019, Eug\u00e9nie Bachelot-Pr\u00e9vert talks about a man, born in 1900, who \u2018denounced war\u2019 and \u2018saw all the madness of the 20th century\u2019. She praises the \u201cliveliness\u201d of his thinking, \u2018which resonates very strongly\u2019, and calls for \u2018freedom and a different world\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>For the guardian of Jacques Pr\u00e9vert's memory, her grandfather \"never fell into purgatory.\" Translated into 40 languages, he is \"important beyond France,\" she says. <\/p>\n<p>\"With his simple, direct language, [Pr\u00e9vert] touched the hearts of a large number of Italians, especially when it came to his love poems,\" explained Paolo Levi, the Paris correspondent for the Italian news agency Ansa, interviewed by Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>\"I don't know if it's still true for the younger generations, but for decades it was common to meet people in Italy who quoted lines, if not whole poems of Pr\u00e9vert by heart,\" he said. <\/p>\n<h2>\u2018An ode to the eternal Parisian\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u2018He is a poet of enduring significance, a classic who embodies something of the French spirit,\u2019 said Cerisier, citing \"an inalienable taste for freedom and social justice, mistrust of authority, a spirit of protest and, of course, the role of imagination and words in expressing human sensitivity and melancholy\".<\/p>\n<p>For him, Pr\u00e9vert also embodies the spirit of places \u2013 \u2018those of Paris in particular\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\"His poetry speaks to the heart. It is neither scholarly nor complacent. It brings colour to intoxication. And his poetry is to Paris what Doisneau's photography is to the capital... an ode to the eternal Parisian, imbued with immense humanity.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Paris would not be exactly Paris without what Pr\u00e9vert said about it,\" he concludes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sophia Khatsenkova contributed to this article.<\/em><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765909600,"updatedAt":1765978184,"publishedAt":1765949455,"firstPublishedAt":1765949455,"lastPublishedAt":1765978183,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/27\/74\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_42f471ef-86b4-5225-a57a-4e5fc91007e3-9582774.jpg","altText":"View of the office.","caption":"View of the office.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Association \"Chez Jacques 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MBAPPE UNPAID WAGES","daletPyramidId":3620564,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Paris labour court rules PSG must pay over \u20ac60m to Mbapp\u00e9 in dispute over unpaid wages","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"French court rules PSG to pay over \u20ac60m to Mbapp\u00e9 in wage dispute","titleListing2":"Paris labour court rules PSG must pay more than \u20ac60m to Mbapp\u00e9 in dispute over unpaid wages","leadin":"The relationship between the 2018 World Cup winner and the reigning European champion turned bitter when Mbapp\u00e9 decided in 2023 not to extend his contract, which was set to expire in summer 2024.","summary":"The relationship between the 2018 World Cup winner and the reigning European champion turned bitter when Mbapp\u00e9 decided in 2023 not to extend his contract, which was set to expire in summer 2024.","keySentence":"","url":"paris-labour-court-rules-psg-must-pay-over-60m-to-mbappe-in-dispute-over-unpaid-wages","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/16\/paris-labour-court-rules-psg-must-pay-over-60m-to-mbappe-in-dispute-over-unpaid-wages","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A Paris labour court has ruled that the football club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) must pay more than \u20ac60 million to Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 in a dispute over unpaid wages and bonuses linked to the end of his contract before his 2024 move to Real Madrid.\n\nLawyers argued last month before the Conseil de prud\u2019hommes de Paris in a judicial saga involving colossal sums.\n\nOn Tuesday, the court sided with Mbapp\u00e9 amid accusations of betrayal and harassment surrounding the breakdown of his relationship with PSG.\n\nMbapp\u00e9\u2019s lawyers claimed PSG owed him more than \u20ac260 million and PSG was seeking \u20ac440 million euros from Mbapp\u00e9, citing damages and a \"loss of opportunity\" after he left on a free transfer.\n\nThe court's ruling can be appealed and is unlikely to end the dispute.\n\nMbapp\u00e9's representatives said the ruling \"confirms that commitments must be honoured. It restores a simple truth: Even in the professional football industry labour law applies to everyone.\"\n\nThere was no immediate reaction from PSG.\n\nDeteriorating relationship\n\nThe relationship between the 2018 World Cup winner\u00a0and the reigning European champion turned bitter when Mbapp\u00e9 decided in 2023 not to extend his contract, which was set to expire in summer 2024.\n\nThis deprived the club of a juicy transfer fee despite having offered him the most lucrative contract in club history when he signed a\u00a0new deal in 2022.\n\nHe was\u00a0sidelined\u00a0from a pre-season tour and forced to train with fringe players. He missed the opening league game but returned to the lineup for a final season after discussions with the club, talks that are central to the dispute.\n\nThe club accused Mbapp\u00e9 of backing out of an August 2023 agreement that allegedly included a pay reduction should he leave on a free transfer, an arrangement PSG said was meant to protect its financial stability.\n\nPSG claimed that Mbapp\u00e9 hid his decision not to extend his contract for nearly 11 months, from July 2022 to June 2023, preventing the club from arranging a transfer and causing major financial harm.\n\nIt accused him of violating contractual obligations and the principles of good faith and loyalty.\n\nMbapp\u00e9's camp insisted PSG has never produced evidence that the striker agreed to forego any payment. His lawyers claimed the club failed to pay wages and bonuses for April, May, and June 2024.\n\n\"Mbapp\u00e9 scrupulously fulfilled his sporting and contractual obligations for seven years and right up to the final day,\" his advisers said on Tuesday.\n\n\"He did everything possible to avoid litigation, even going so far as to withdraw a harassment complaint in a spirit of conciliation. In total, he had been seeking payment of his salaries and bonuses for more than 18 months.\"\n\nPSG rejected all accusations of harassment, highlighting that Mbapp\u00e9 took part in over 94% of matches in 2023\u201324 and always worked under conditions compliant with the Professional Football Charter.\n\nPSG was seeking a total of \u20ac440 million in damages, including \u20ac180 million for the lost opportunity to transfer Mbapp\u00e9 because he left as a free agent after declining a\u00a0\u20ac300 million offer\u00a0from Saudi club Al-Hilal in July 2023.\n\nMbapp\u00e9 joined Real Madrid in the summer of 2024 on a free transfer after scoring a club-record 256 goals in seven years at PSG, which won the Champions League this year without him.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A Paris labour court has ruled that the football club Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) must pay more than \u20ac60 million to Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 in a dispute over unpaid wages and bonuses linked to the end of his contract before his 2024 move to Real Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers argued last month before the Conseil de prud\u2019hommes de Paris in a judicial saga involving colossal sums.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the court sided with Mbapp\u00e9 amid accusations of betrayal and harassment surrounding the breakdown of his relationship with PSG.<\/p>\n<p>Mbapp\u00e9\u2019s lawyers claimed PSG owed him more than \u20ac260 million and PSG was seeking \u20ac440 million euros from Mbapp\u00e9, citing damages and a \"loss of opportunity\" after he left on a free transfer.<\/p>\n<p>The court's ruling can be appealed and is unlikely to end the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>Mbapp\u00e9's representatives said the ruling \"confirms that commitments must be honoured. It restores a simple truth: Even in the professional football industry labour law applies to everyone.\"<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate reaction from PSG.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//47//11//808x539_cmsv2_a61b7cc6-8fe6-5f21-a4f6-8039335be758-9584711.jpg/" alt=\"PSG striker Kylian Mbappé and PSG president Nasser Al-Al-Khelaifi attend a press conference in Paris, 23 May, 2022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/11\/384x256_cmsv2_a61b7cc6-8fe6-5f21-a4f6-8039335be758-9584711.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/11\/640x427_cmsv2_a61b7cc6-8fe6-5f21-a4f6-8039335be758-9584711.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/11\/750x500_cmsv2_a61b7cc6-8fe6-5f21-a4f6-8039335be758-9584711.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/11\/828x552_cmsv2_a61b7cc6-8fe6-5f21-a4f6-8039335be758-9584711.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/11\/1080x720_cmsv2_a61b7cc6-8fe6-5f21-a4f6-8039335be758-9584711.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/11\/1200x800_cmsv2_a61b7cc6-8fe6-5f21-a4f6-8039335be758-9584711.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/11\/1920x1280_cmsv2_a61b7cc6-8fe6-5f21-a4f6-8039335be758-9584711.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">PSG striker Kylian Mbappé and PSG president Nasser Al-Al-Khelaifi attend a press conference in Paris, 23 May, 2022<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Deteriorating relationship<\/h2>\n<p>The relationship between the 2018 World Cup winner and the reigning European champion turned bitter when Mbapp\u00e9 decided in 2023 not to extend his contract, which was set to expire in summer 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This deprived the club of a juicy transfer fee despite having offered him the most lucrative contract in club history when he signed a new deal in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He was sidelined from a pre-season tour and forced to train with fringe players. He missed the opening league game but returned to the lineup for a final season after discussions with the club, talks that are central to the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>The club accused Mbapp\u00e9 of backing out of an August 2023 agreement that allegedly included a pay reduction should he leave on a free transfer, an arrangement PSG said was meant to protect its financial stability.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//47//91//808x539_cmsv2_7d09a37b-b5c1-50e4-80fb-3edd26744996-9584791.jpg/" alt=\"PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi speaks to Kylian Mbappé as it is announced he has signed a three year extension to his contract, 21 May, 2022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/91\/384x256_cmsv2_7d09a37b-b5c1-50e4-80fb-3edd26744996-9584791.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/91\/640x427_cmsv2_7d09a37b-b5c1-50e4-80fb-3edd26744996-9584791.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/91\/750x500_cmsv2_7d09a37b-b5c1-50e4-80fb-3edd26744996-9584791.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/91\/828x552_cmsv2_7d09a37b-b5c1-50e4-80fb-3edd26744996-9584791.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/91\/1080x720_cmsv2_7d09a37b-b5c1-50e4-80fb-3edd26744996-9584791.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/91\/1200x800_cmsv2_7d09a37b-b5c1-50e4-80fb-3edd26744996-9584791.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/91\/1920x1280_cmsv2_7d09a37b-b5c1-50e4-80fb-3edd26744996-9584791.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi speaks to Kylian Mbappé as it is announced he has signed a three year extension to his contract, 21 May, 2022<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>PSG claimed that Mbapp\u00e9 hid his decision not to extend his contract for nearly 11 months, from July 2022 to June 2023, preventing the club from arranging a transfer and causing major financial harm.<\/p>\n<p>It accused him of violating contractual obligations and the principles of good faith and loyalty.<\/p>\n<p>Mbapp\u00e9's camp insisted PSG has never produced evidence that the striker agreed to forego any payment. His lawyers claimed the club failed to pay wages and bonuses for April, May, and June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\"Mbapp\u00e9 scrupulously fulfilled his sporting and contractual obligations for seven years and right up to the final day,\" his advisers said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\"He did everything possible to avoid litigation, even going so far as to withdraw a harassment complaint in a spirit of conciliation. In total, he had been seeking payment of his salaries and bonuses for more than 18 months.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//08//28//champions-league-draw-psg-get-tough-opponents-and-real-madrid-head-to-almaty/">Champions League draw: PSG get tough opponents and Real Madrid head to Almaty<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//09//23//psgs-dembele-beats-out-lamine-yamal-in-ballon-dor-race-as-barcelonas-aitana-bonmati-makes-/">PSG's Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 beats out Lamine Yamal in Ballon d'Or race as Barcelona's Aitana Bonmat\u00ed makes history<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>PSG rejected all accusations of harassment, highlighting that Mbapp\u00e9 took part in over 94% of matches in 2023\u201324 and always worked under conditions compliant with the Professional Football Charter.<\/p>\n<p>PSG was seeking a total of \u20ac440 million in damages, including \u20ac180 million for the lost opportunity to transfer Mbapp\u00e9 because he left as a free agent after declining a \u20ac300 million offer from Saudi club Al-Hilal in July 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Mbapp\u00e9 joined Real Madrid in the summer of 2024 on a free transfer after scoring a club-record 256 goals in seven years at PSG, which won the Champions League this year without him.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765890831,"updatedAt":1765908574,"publishedAt":1765892795,"firstPublishedAt":1765892795,"lastPublishedAt":1765892795,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/91\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c6b76001-01eb-54f6-9a1d-f85117954935-9584791.jpg","altText":"Real Madrid's Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Alaves and Real Madrid, 14 December, 2025","caption":"Real Madrid's Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the Spanish La Liga soccer match between Alaves and Real Madrid, 14 December, 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1622,"height":912},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/91\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_7d09a37b-b5c1-50e4-80fb-3edd26744996-9584791.jpg","altText":"PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi speaks to Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 as it is announced he has signed a three year extension to his contract, 21 May, 2022","caption":"PSG President Nasser Al-Khelaifi speaks to Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 as it is announced he has signed a three year extension to his contract, 21 May, 2022","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1333},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/47\/11\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_a61b7cc6-8fe6-5f21-a4f6-8039335be758-9584711.jpg","altText":"PSG striker Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and PSG president Nasser Al-Al-Khelaifi attend a press conference in Paris, 23 May, 2022","caption":"PSG striker Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 and PSG president Nasser Al-Al-Khelaifi attend a press conference in Paris, 23 May, 2022","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. 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MACRON APOLOGY FOR FEMINISTS SLUR","daletPyramidId":3619221,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Brigitte Macron half-apologises after calling French feminists 'stupid b****es'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Brigitte Macron half-apologises after 'stupid b****es' slur scandal","titleListing2":"Brigitte Macron half-apologises after calling French feminists 'stupid b****es'","leadin":"France\u2019s First Lady said she was sorry if her words \"hurt victims\" but insisted that her remarks were private.","summary":"France\u2019s First Lady said she was sorry if her words \"hurt victims\" but insisted that her remarks were private.","keySentence":"","url":"brigitte-macron-half-apologises-after-calling-french-feminists-stupid-bes","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/16\/brigitte-macron-half-apologises-after-calling-french-feminists-stupid-bes","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"French First Lady Brigitte Macron has half-apologised after she was filmed calling feminist protesters \"dirty b****s\", an incident that sparked backlash.\n\nMacron used the slur earlier this month while attending a show in Paris by comedian Ary Abittan, who was previously accused of rape.\n\nIn an interview with the media outlet Brut, the 72-year-old said: \"I am sorry if I hurt women victims (of sexual assault).\"\n\nHowever, she insisted that the comments were \"private\" and said she \"can't regret them\".\n\n\"True, I'm the president's wife, but I\u2019m also myself. And so, when I am in private, I can let myself go in a way that is not totally appropriate,\" she added.\n\nIn now-deleted footage published last week by French magazine Public, Abittan told Macron he was \"scared\" following protests the previous night.\n\nShe responded laughingly: \"If there are any stupid b****es, we'll kick them out.\"\n\nFeminist activists from the #NousToutes collective had disrupted Abittan's performance on 7 December, wearing masks bearing his face with the word \"rapist\" and chanting \"Abittan rapist\".\n\nAbittan was accused of rape in late 2021 by a woman he had been dating. After a three-year investigation, prosecutors dismissed the case, and an appeals court upheld that decision in January. Abittan has denied wrongdoing and said the act was consensual.\n\nThe video of Macron's comments sparked considerable backlash and prompted criticism from several French lawmakers, feminist groups and film industry heavyweights.\n\nThe hashtags #SalesConnes (#StupidB****es) and #JeSuisUneSaleConne (#IAmAStupidB****) have been trending on social media and were shared by actors including Judith Godr\u00e8che and Marion Cotillard.\n\nMarine Tondelier, leader of the Greens party, called the remarks \"gravely offensive\" in an interview with BFM-TV. \"A first lady shouldn't say that,\" she added.\n\nMacron's office had presented the exchange as a \"criticism of the radical method\" used by the feminist protesters, but that did little to quell the anger towards the first lady.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>French First Lady Brigitte Macron has half-apologised after she was filmed calling feminist protesters \"dirty b****s\", an incident that sparked backlash.<\/p>\n<p>Macron used the slur earlier this month while attending a show in Paris by comedian Ary Abittan, who was previously accused of rape.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the media outlet Brut, the 72-year-old said: \"I am sorry if I hurt women victims (of sexual assault).\"<\/p>\n<p>However, she insisted that the comments were \"private\" and said she \"can't regret them\".<\/p>\n<p>\"True, I'm the president's wife, but I\u2019m also myself. And so, when I am in private, I can let myself go in a way that is not totally appropriate,\" she added.<\/p>\n<p>In now-deleted footage published last week by French magazine Public, Abittan told Macron he was \"scared\" following protests the previous night. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//46//25//808x539_cmsv2_7525982b-eaeb-52cf-b1d0-6049dda1831f-9584625.jpg/" alt=\"French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron wait to welcome Croatia's Prime Minister in Paris, 8 December, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/25\/384x256_cmsv2_7525982b-eaeb-52cf-b1d0-6049dda1831f-9584625.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/25\/640x427_cmsv2_7525982b-eaeb-52cf-b1d0-6049dda1831f-9584625.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/25\/750x500_cmsv2_7525982b-eaeb-52cf-b1d0-6049dda1831f-9584625.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/25\/828x552_cmsv2_7525982b-eaeb-52cf-b1d0-6049dda1831f-9584625.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/25\/1080x720_cmsv2_7525982b-eaeb-52cf-b1d0-6049dda1831f-9584625.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/25\/1200x800_cmsv2_7525982b-eaeb-52cf-b1d0-6049dda1831f-9584625.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/46\/25\/1920x1280_cmsv2_7525982b-eaeb-52cf-b1d0-6049dda1831f-9584625.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron wait to welcome Croatia's Prime Minister in Paris, 8 December, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>She responded laughingly: \"If there are any stupid b****es, we'll kick them out.\"<\/p>\n<p>Feminist activists from the #NousToutes collective had disrupted Abittan's performance on 7 December, wearing masks bearing his face with the word \"rapist\" and chanting \"Abittan rapist\". <\/p>\n<p>Abittan was accused of rape in late 2021 by a woman he had been dating. After a three-year investigation, prosecutors dismissed the case, and an appeals court upheld that decision in January. Abittan has denied wrongdoing and said the act was consensual.<\/p>\n<p>The video of Macron's comments sparked considerable backlash and prompted criticism from several French lawmakers, feminist groups and film industry heavyweights.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//09//frances-national-assembly-narrowly-approves-contentious-2026-social-security-budget/">France's National Assembly narrowly approves contentious 2026 social security budget<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//11//26//frances-top-court-upholds-ex-president-sarkozys-conviction-for-illegal-campaign-financing/">France's top court upholds ex-President Sarkozy's conviction for illegal campaign financing<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The hashtags #SalesConnes (#StupidB****es) and #JeSuisUneSaleConne (#IAmAStupidB****) have been trending on social media and were shared by actors including Judith Godr\u00e8che and Marion Cotillard.<\/p>\n<p>Marine Tondelier, leader of the Greens party, called the remarks \"gravely offensive\" in an interview with BFM-TV. \"A first lady shouldn't say that,\" she added.<\/p>\n<p>Macron's office had presented the exchange as a \"criticism of the radical method\" used by the feminist protesters, but that did little to quell the anger towards the first 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Jane Austen 250th anniversary","daletPyramidId":3606822,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Happy Birthday Jane Austen: French fans share 'Pride and Prejudice' fantasy for 250th anniversary","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Jane Austen's 250th birthday: Having a ball at a Regency-era fantasy ","titleListing2":"Jane Austen at 250: Living the 'Pride and Prejudice' fantasy for a day","leadin":"Fans of English novelist Jane Austen are celebrating her birth 250 years ago, on 16 December 1775. Nowadays, she's a pop culture phenomenon and, with 'Austenmania' spreading, French \"Janeites\" have been gathering for a Regency-themed ball to re-enact dancing scenes from her beloved books.","summary":"Fans of English novelist Jane Austen are celebrating her birth 250 years ago, on 16 December 1775. Nowadays, she's a pop culture phenomenon and, with 'Austenmania' spreading, French \"Janeites\" have been gathering for a Regency-themed ball to re-enact dancing scenes from her beloved books.","keySentence":"","url":"happy-birthday-jane-austen-french-fans-share-pride-and-prejudice-fantasy-for-250th-anniver","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/12\/16\/happy-birthday-jane-austen-french-fans-share-pride-and-prejudice-fantasy-for-250th-anniver","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A group of ladies and a few gentlemen in Regency-era formalwear stand in two lines facing each other. They perform bows and curtsies before engaging in a precise choreography.\n\nThe hushed noise of dresses and ballet shoes on the floor stands out faintly over a classical air of pianoforte, strings and flute.\n\nOne would almost expect \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d characters Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy to join the party.\n\nThis is not an assembly room in early 19th century Bath, but a Parisian community centre in 2025.\n\nSome 50 people gathered in the French capital last weekend for a fancy-dress ball in honour of the late English writer Jane Austen. The event was organised by dance teacher C\u00e9cile Laye, who specialises in English country dances with her company Chestnut.\n\n\u201cI have been dancing for five years now, performing various historical dance styles. What I enjoy about Regency-era dances is that I feel as though I am reliving a scene from one of Jane Austen's novels,\u201d said 47-year-old participant Virginie Ussi.\n\nThe ball came ahead of the 250th anniversary of Austen\u2019s birth this Tuesday. Over the centuries, the pioneering novelist has become a pop culture phenomenon and has gained a community of dedicated fans in the United Kingdom and beyond.\n\nSome of these \u2018Janeites\u2019 \u2014 mostly women \u2014 have found a way to express their love for the famous author through historical dancing.\n\n\u201cJane Austen loved to dance. [\u2026] At that time, dancing was a skill that wellborn people, and everyone else for that matter, needed to have,\u201d C\u00e9cile Laye told Euronews Culture.\n\n\u201cShe loved dancing so much that all of her novels include very long dance sequences, with dialogue that really moves the plot forward.\u201d\n\nBalls in Regency costumes are now well-established in Austen\u2019s native England, but the phenomenon has gained particular resonance in France during this anniversary year.\n\nEvents like the Chestnut ball allow Austen fans to immerse themselves in her world and to adopt codes of the late 18th century English gentry.\n\nSteppin' out\n\nAs the choreography takes shape on the floor, the demeanour of the Chestnut dancers changes.\n\nThey adjust their posture, and offer gracious smiles and polite tilts of the head to their partners, as if bewitched by the spirits of Emma Woodhouse and Anne Elliot.\n\nAfter being dragged along into a dance, we can confirm that performing turns and twirls does make one feel particularly ladylike.\n\nWearing a high-waisted dress or a tailcoat only helps that feeling.\n\n\u201cDancing in costume really allows you to perform the movements as if you were a woman of the Regency era, with all its restrictions and advantages,\u201d 42-year-old Vanessa Bertho told Euronews Culture while waiting for her time to dance.\n\nThis primary school teacher and \u201cSense and Sensibility\u201d devotee purchased her long blue dress at the Jane Austen Festival, which gathers Janeites from around the world each September in the south-western English city of Bath.\n\nSome fans even use the thread and needle themselves, like Virginie Ussi, who sported her hand-sewn purple Empire-style garment for the Chestnut ball. \u201cI based my design on a period illustration. I had the fabric, so I worked from a historical pattern, trying to reproduce the reference,\u201d she explained.\n\n\u201cWearing a costume makes you feel even more like you're travelling back in time for the duration of a weekend,\u201d she added.\n\n'Austen Power'\n\nThe structure of C\u00e9cile Laye\u2019s ball also mirrors the formality of Regency events, where respecting social norms took priority over enjoying oneself. At the time, participants were invited to regularly change partners, as dancing more than twice with the same person signalled marital commitment.\n\n\u201cIt really was the moment when matters of marriage were being dealt with,\u201d said Laye.\n\nJane Austen herself never married and remained committed to both her family and her craft.\n\nShe burst onto the literary scene in 1811 with her first anonymously published book, \u201cSense and Sensibility.\u201d\n\nShe went on to complete six novels, all of which have become beloved classics. \u201cIt\u2019s like with comfort movies. Jane Austen\u2019s world is safe and comforting,\u201d said Claire Saim, who co-wrote the book \u201cJane Austen: Visual Encyclopedia.\u201d\n\n\u201cShe found her own literary voice, which is still understandable today.\u201d\n\nBut it was the 1995 BBC adaptation of \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d that truly \u201cmarked the beginning of \u2018Austenmania\u2019 as we know it,\u201d journalist Constance Jamet writes in the manifesto \u201cAusten Power.\u201d\n\nThe TV series famously featured Colin Firth as Mr Darcy emerging out of a pond in a wet shirt. About 11 million people watched its original UK broadcast. Austen-inspired dance groups emerged soon after.\n\n\u201cPeople really love that feeling of connecting to what they\u2019ve seen in the films,\u201d said Charlotte Cumper from the UK-based Jane Austen Dancers of Bath. \u201cThey watch the adaptations and think \u2018I want to dance like that.\u2019\u201d\n\nBalls, Bridgerton and Bridget Jones\n\nIn the past 30 years, Jane Austen has become an object of pop culture. Her work has been adapted many times for the screen, sometimes very loosely, from the 1995 teen movie Clueless to the Bridget Jones saga or the 2016 Pride and Prejudice and Zombie.\n\nIn 2020, the release of the Netflix series Bridgerton spurred a renewed appeal for Austen\u2019s regency era.\n\nThe author is also a social media favourite. The hashtag #JaneAusten has hundreds of millions of views on TikTok, with users sharing book reviews, video edits from their favourite film scenes or even memes.\n\n\u201cYou don't have to get into Jane Austen through academia, by doing an English degree or a PhD about her. No, you can enter her world through Bridgerton,\u201d said Claire Saim.\n\nParticipants in Regency balls also reflect this diversity. \u201cWe've got some members who probably haven't even read one of her books,\u201d said Charlotte Cumper.\n\n\u201cI came to it through a love of Jane Austen [\u2026]. We have people who come through the historical dance route. [\u2026] A lot of people come through costume. [\u2026] Some people just want to find a hobby, and this is what they stumbled across and that looks like fun,\u201d she went on.\n\nFrance is only recently catching up with \u2018Austenmania.\u2019 As classics professor Marie-Alix Hediard explains in \u201cAusten Power\u201d, the novelist\u2019s reputation on that side of the Channel suffered from early translations that diminished the complexity of her work in favour of enhancing romance plots.\n\nBut the tide is starting to turn, with French fans working to build a structured community. Claire Saim co-created the Jane Austen Society of France in April.\n\nRegency balls are spreading throughout the country, to great success. In Ligueil, a town with 2,200 residents in central France, the public library organised a first weekend \u201cin the footsteps of Jane Austen\u201d last January.\n\nThe centrepiece of the event was once again a ball. Organisers expected 30 people and eventually welcomed 120 dancers, prompting the library to plan a repeat of the experience in 2026.\n\n\u201cWe didn't think the event would be this popular,\u201d said dance enthusiast Fred Delrieux, who volunteers at the Ligueil library. As dancers, \u201cwe're playing a role, and I think that's what people appreciated last year, and why they're coming back.\u201d\n\n\u201cPerhaps people want to escape reality too,\u201d he added.\n\nBack in Paris, as the Chestnut ball concluded, participants were already looking forward to their next Regency event.\n\nJane Austen might be 250 years old but her readers' love for her world and her characters is as vibrant as ever.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A group of ladies and a few gentlemen in Regency-era formalwear stand in two lines facing each other. They perform bows and curtsies before engaging in a precise choreography.<\/p>\n<p>The hushed noise of dresses and ballet shoes on the floor stands out faintly over a classical air of pianoforte, strings and flute.<\/p>\n<p>One would almost expect \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d characters Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy to join the party.<\/p>\n<p>This is not an assembly room in early 19th century Bath, but a Parisian community centre in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Some 50 people gathered in the French capital last weekend for a fancy-dress ball in honour of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//04//26//jane-austens-house-museum-enlists-the-publics-help-to-transcribe-her-brothers-memoir/">the late English writer Jane Austen<\/strong><\/a>. The event was organised by dance teacher C\u00e9cile Laye, who specialises in English country dances with her company Chestnut.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//32//59//808x454_cmsv2_638549b1-20da-5baa-9584-ea8d0729bce2-9583259.jpg/" alt=\"Over the years, Jane Austen has become a pop culture phenomenon.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/384x216_cmsv2_638549b1-20da-5baa-9584-ea8d0729bce2-9583259.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/640x360_cmsv2_638549b1-20da-5baa-9584-ea8d0729bce2-9583259.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/750x422_cmsv2_638549b1-20da-5baa-9584-ea8d0729bce2-9583259.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/828x466_cmsv2_638549b1-20da-5baa-9584-ea8d0729bce2-9583259.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1080x608_cmsv2_638549b1-20da-5baa-9584-ea8d0729bce2-9583259.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1200x675_cmsv2_638549b1-20da-5baa-9584-ea8d0729bce2-9583259.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1920x1080_cmsv2_638549b1-20da-5baa-9584-ea8d0729bce2-9583259.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Over the years, Jane Austen has become a pop culture phenomenon.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Cristina Coellen<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cI have been dancing for five years now, performing various historical dance styles. What I enjoy about Regency-era dances is that I feel as though I am reliving a scene from one of Jane Austen's novels,\u201d said 47-year-old participant Virginie Ussi.<\/p>\n<p>The ball came ahead of the 250th anniversary of Austen\u2019s birth this Tuesday. Over the centuries, the pioneering novelist has become a pop culture phenomenon and has gained a community of dedicated fans in the United Kingdom and beyond. <\/p>\n<p>Some of these \u2018Janeites\u2019 \u2014 mostly women \u2014 have found a way to express their love for the famous author through historical dancing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJane Austen loved to dance. [\u2026] At that time, dancing was a skill that wellborn people, and everyone else for that matter, needed to have,\u201d C\u00e9cile Laye told Euronews Culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe loved dancing so much that all of her novels include very long dance sequences, with dialogue that really moves the plot forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2021//10//20//london-s-theatre-royal-is-bringing-sticky-decadent-regency-era-afternoon-tea-back-to-the-w/">London's Theatre Royal is bringing sticky, decadent Regency-era afternoon tea back to the West End<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Balls in Regency costumes are now well-established in Austen\u2019s native England, but the phenomenon has gained particular resonance in France during this anniversary year.<\/p>\n<p>Events like the Chestnut ball allow Austen fans to immerse themselves in her world and to adopt codes of the late 18th century English gentry. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//32//59//808x539_cmsv2_fb17055e-123f-54cd-8b52-4f4125f9c593-9583259.jpg/" alt=\"Many participants of the event in Paris were dressed in Regency-era period costumes.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/384x256_cmsv2_fb17055e-123f-54cd-8b52-4f4125f9c593-9583259.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/640x427_cmsv2_fb17055e-123f-54cd-8b52-4f4125f9c593-9583259.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/750x500_cmsv2_fb17055e-123f-54cd-8b52-4f4125f9c593-9583259.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/828x552_cmsv2_fb17055e-123f-54cd-8b52-4f4125f9c593-9583259.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1080x720_cmsv2_fb17055e-123f-54cd-8b52-4f4125f9c593-9583259.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1200x800_cmsv2_fb17055e-123f-54cd-8b52-4f4125f9c593-9583259.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1920x1280_cmsv2_fb17055e-123f-54cd-8b52-4f4125f9c593-9583259.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Many participants of the event in Paris were dressed in Regency-era period costumes.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Cristina Coellen<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Steppin' out<\/h2>\n<p>As the choreography takes shape on the floor, the demeanour of the Chestnut dancers changes.<\/p>\n<p>They adjust their posture, and offer gracious smiles and polite tilts of the head to their partners, as if bewitched by the spirits of Emma Woodhouse and Anne Elliot.<\/p>\n<p>After being dragged along into a dance, we can confirm that performing turns and twirls does make one feel particularly ladylike. <\/p>\n<p>Wearing a high-waisted dress or a tailcoat only helps that feeling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDancing in costume really allows you to perform the movements as if you were a woman of the Regency era, with all its restrictions and advantages,\u201d 42-year-old Vanessa Bertho told Euronews Culture while waiting for her time to dance. <\/p>\n<p>This primary school teacher and \u201cSense and Sensibility\u201d devotee purchased her long blue dress at the Jane Austen Festival, which gathers Janeites from around the world each September in the south-western English city of Bath.<\/p>\n<p>Some fans even use the thread and needle themselves, like Virginie Ussi, who sported her hand-sewn purple Empire-style garment for the Chestnut ball. \u201cI based my design on a period illustration. I had the fabric, so I worked from a historical pattern, trying to reproduce the reference,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWearing a costume makes you feel even more like you're travelling back in time for the duration of a weekend,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//32//59//808x539_cmsv2_538c33a6-29f8-59aa-96bf-4dd0885c3763-9583259.jpg/" alt=\"Virginie Ussi, a fan of Jane Austen, made her own period costume.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/384x256_cmsv2_538c33a6-29f8-59aa-96bf-4dd0885c3763-9583259.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/640x427_cmsv2_538c33a6-29f8-59aa-96bf-4dd0885c3763-9583259.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/750x500_cmsv2_538c33a6-29f8-59aa-96bf-4dd0885c3763-9583259.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/828x552_cmsv2_538c33a6-29f8-59aa-96bf-4dd0885c3763-9583259.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1080x720_cmsv2_538c33a6-29f8-59aa-96bf-4dd0885c3763-9583259.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1200x800_cmsv2_538c33a6-29f8-59aa-96bf-4dd0885c3763-9583259.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1920x1280_cmsv2_538c33a6-29f8-59aa-96bf-4dd0885c3763-9583259.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Virginie Ussi, a fan of Jane Austen, made her own period costume.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Cristina Coellen<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>'Austen Power'<\/h2>\n<p>The structure of C\u00e9cile Laye\u2019s ball also mirrors the formality of Regency events, where respecting social norms took priority over enjoying oneself. At the time, participants were invited to regularly change partners, as dancing more than twice with the same person signalled marital commitment. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really was the moment when matters of marriage were being dealt with,\u201d said Laye.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Austen herself never married and remained committed to both her family and her craft. <\/p>\n<p>She burst onto the literary scene in 1811 with her first anonymously published book, \u201cSense and Sensibility.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//32//59//808x539_cmsv2_adeb467c-48c1-5435-a06f-f8cc6d0a0367-9583259.jpg/" alt=\"Cécile Laye, dance teacher and director of the dance company Chestnut, led the dances throughout the afternoon.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/384x256_cmsv2_adeb467c-48c1-5435-a06f-f8cc6d0a0367-9583259.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/640x427_cmsv2_adeb467c-48c1-5435-a06f-f8cc6d0a0367-9583259.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/750x500_cmsv2_adeb467c-48c1-5435-a06f-f8cc6d0a0367-9583259.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/828x552_cmsv2_adeb467c-48c1-5435-a06f-f8cc6d0a0367-9583259.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1080x720_cmsv2_adeb467c-48c1-5435-a06f-f8cc6d0a0367-9583259.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1200x800_cmsv2_adeb467c-48c1-5435-a06f-f8cc6d0a0367-9583259.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1920x1280_cmsv2_adeb467c-48c1-5435-a06f-f8cc6d0a0367-9583259.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Cécile Laye, dance teacher and director of the dance company Chestnut, led the dances throughout the afternoon.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Cristina Coellen<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>She went on to complete six novels, all of which have become beloved classics. \u201cIt\u2019s like with comfort movies. Jane Austen\u2019s world is <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//04//23//unesco-world-book-day-the-books-that-made-us/">safe and comforting<\/strong><\/a>,\u201d said Claire Saim, who co-wrote the book \u201cJane Austen: Visual Encyclopedia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe found her own literary voice, which is still understandable today.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But it was the 1995 BBC adaptation of \u201cPride and Prejudice\u201d that truly \u201cmarked the beginning of \u2018Austenmania\u2019 as we know it,\u201d journalist Constance Jamet writes in the manifesto \u201cAusten Power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//03//28//nostalgia-tv-why-are-we-only-watching-old-shows/">TV series<\/strong><\/a> famously featured Colin Firth as Mr Darcy emerging out of a pond in a wet shirt. About 11 million people watched its original UK broadcast. Austen-inspired dance groups emerged soon after. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople really love that feeling of connecting to what they\u2019ve seen in the films,\u201d said Charlotte Cumper from the UK-based Jane Austen Dancers of Bath. \u201cThey watch the adaptations and think \u2018I want to dance like that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Balls, Bridgerton and Bridget Jones<\/h2>\n<p>In the past 30 years, Jane Austen has become an object of pop culture. Her work has been adapted many times for the screen, sometimes very loosely, from the 1995 teen movie <em>Clueless<\/em> to the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//02//27//bridget-jones-is-returning-to-the-big-screen-heres-why-wed-rather-she-didnt/">Bridget Jones<\/em><\/strong><\/a>saga or the 2016 <em>Pride and Prejudice and Zombie<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the release of the Netflix series <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//05//27//black-queens-in-bridgerton-and-cleopatra-why-does-colour-blind-casting-matter/">Bridgerton spurred a renewed appeal for Austen\u2019s regency era.<\/p>\n<p>The author is also a social media favourite. The hashtag #JaneAusten has hundreds of millions of views on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//05//24//booktok-decides-tiktok-launches-its-first-ever-book-awards/">TikTok, with users sharing book reviews, video edits from their favourite film scenes or even memes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don't have to get into Jane Austen through academia, by doing an English degree or a PhD about her. No, you can enter her world through Bridgerton,\u201d said Claire Saim.<\/p>\n<p>Participants in Regency balls also reflect this diversity. \u201cWe've got some members who probably haven't even read one of her books,\u201d said Charlotte Cumper. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came to it through a love of Jane Austen [\u2026]. We have people who come through the historical dance route. [\u2026] A lot of people come through costume. [\u2026] Some people just want to find a hobby, and this is what they stumbled across and that looks like fun,\u201d she went on.<\/p>\n<p>France is only recently catching up with \u2018Austenmania.\u2019 As classics professor Marie-Alix Hediard explains in \u201cAusten Power\u201d, the novelist\u2019s reputation on that side of the Channel suffered from early translations that diminished the complexity of her work in favour of enhancing romance plots.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//32//59//808x539_cmsv2_6b94df04-1816-5c24-9675-c4dcc917cd15-9583259.jpg/" alt=\"Around 50 people participated in the ball featuring Regency era dances, the first of its kind in Paris.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/384x256_cmsv2_6b94df04-1816-5c24-9675-c4dcc917cd15-9583259.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/640x427_cmsv2_6b94df04-1816-5c24-9675-c4dcc917cd15-9583259.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/750x500_cmsv2_6b94df04-1816-5c24-9675-c4dcc917cd15-9583259.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/828x552_cmsv2_6b94df04-1816-5c24-9675-c4dcc917cd15-9583259.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1080x720_cmsv2_6b94df04-1816-5c24-9675-c4dcc917cd15-9583259.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1200x800_cmsv2_6b94df04-1816-5c24-9675-c4dcc917cd15-9583259.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/1920x1280_cmsv2_6b94df04-1816-5c24-9675-c4dcc917cd15-9583259.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Around 50 people participated in the ball featuring Regency era dances, the first of its kind in Paris.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Cristina Coellen<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>But the tide is starting to turn, with French fans working to build a structured community. Claire Saim co-created the Jane Austen Society of France in April. <\/p>\n<p>Regency balls are spreading throughout the country, to great success. In Ligueil, a town with 2,200 residents in central France, the public library organised a first weekend \u201cin the footsteps of Jane Austen\u201d last January. <\/p>\n<p>The centrepiece of the event was once again a ball. Organisers expected 30 people and eventually welcomed 120 dancers, prompting the library to plan a repeat of the experience in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn't think the event would be this popular,\u201d said dance enthusiast Fred Delrieux, who volunteers at the Ligueil library. As dancers, \u201cwe're playing a role, and I think that's what people appreciated last year, and why they're coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps people want to escape reality too,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Paris, as the Chestnut ball concluded, participants were already looking forward to their next Regency event.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Austen might be 250 years old but her readers' love for her world and her characters is as vibrant as ever. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765796214,"updatedAt":1765892853,"publishedAt":1765885338,"firstPublishedAt":1765885338,"lastPublishedAt":1765885338,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/32\/59\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ccbecf42-c4d5-5f4c-a6cf-51669d91326e-9583259.jpg","altText":"Participants of the ball organised in honour of Jane Austen's 250th anniversary in Paris, 14 December 2025.","caption":"Participants of the ball organised in honour of Jane Austen's 250th anniversary in Paris, 14 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WORKERS STRIKE","daletPyramidId":3607820,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Louvre closed as staff strike over working conditions, weeks after \u20ac88m jewel heist","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Louvre shuttered as staff go on strike over working conditions","titleListing2":"Louvre staff go on strike, museum closed all day Monday","leadin":"Labour leaders said the strike vote was unanimous and it was not immediately clear whether the work stoppage will last longer than one day.","summary":"Labour leaders said the strike vote was unanimous and it was not immediately clear whether the work stoppage will last longer than one day.","keySentence":"","url":"louvre-closed-as-staff-strike-over-working-conditions-weeks-after-88m-jewel-heist","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/2025\/12\/15\/louvre-closed-as-staff-strike-over-working-conditions-weeks-after-88m-jewel-heist","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The Louvre in Paris, the world's most-visited museum, was closed on Monday after workers walked out on strike in protest against working conditions and other complaints, dealing another blow to the landmark after an embarrassing jewellery heist in October.\n\nThe CFDT union said the vote was taken at a meeting of 400 workers on Monday morning and that they decided to strike for the day.\n\nStriking workers with flags, banners and placards blocked the museum\u2019s iconic glass pyramid entrance.\n\nAn updated notice on the Louvre's website said it was \"exceptionally\" closed for the day and that ticket holders would be reimbursed.\n\nLabour leaders said the strike vote was unanimous. It was not immediately clear whether the work stoppage will last longer than one day.\n\nThe Louvre is closed on Tuesdays. Employees could meet again on Wednesday to decide whether to stay out or go back to work.\n\n\"It's really sad, because I was really looking forward to this,\" said Lindsey Hall, a disappointed would-be visitor from Sacramento, California.\n\nShe had been planning to enjoy the museum's huge collection of art and artefacts with a friend, describing it as \"one of those life experiences you crave.\"\n\n\"This is just an epic collection of art and something that every human should see,\" she said. \"I can see the other side of it, like if you are the person that works in the museum and how that can be, like day after day after day.\"\n\nAn obstacle course\n\nThe strike vote followed\u00a0talks last week\u00a0between labour unions and government officials including France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati. Labour leaders said the talks had not alleviated their concerns about staffing and financing for the museum that welcomes millions of visitors each year.\n\n\"Visiting the museum has become an obstacle course,\" said Alexis Fritche, general secretary of the culture wing of the CFDT union.\n\nFor employees, the brazen\u00a0daylight jewel heist\u00a0crystallised long-standing concerns that crowding and thin staffing are undermining security and working conditions at the Louvre.\n\nPolice arrests subsequently snared the\u00a0entire four-man team\u00a0alleged to made off with\u00a0\u20ac88 million worth of jewels.\n\nThe gang used a basket lift to reach the Louvre's facade, forced a window open, smashed display cases and fled with pieces of the French crown jewels.\n\nA Senate inquiry released last week said the thieves escaped by barely 30 seconds and blamed broken cameras, outdated equipment, understaffed control rooms and poor coordination that initially sent police to the wrong location.\n\nIn a statement, the CFDT said employees want more security staff and a welcoming visitor experience, improved working conditions, stable, long-term budgets for the Louvre and leadership that \"truly listens to staff\".\n\nYvan Navarro of the CGT union complained that staff numbers have continued to decline while visitor numbers have increased.\n\n\"People come to Paris to visit the museums. So the visitor numbers go up, the tariffs and the prices go up, because everything is becoming more expensive but the salaries and the numbers of staffers don't go up so obviously you reach a point like today, a day of anger,\" he said.\n\nIn their notice of open-ended strike action\u00a0to Dati last week, the CFDT, CGT and Sud unions said the Louvre was in \"crisis,\" with insufficient resources and \"increasingly deteriorated working conditions.\"\n\nThe French Culture Ministry said on Sunday that it had tasked Philippe Jost, who oversaw reconstruction of\u00a0Notre Dame Cathedral\u00a0after the 2019 fire, with a mission to propose a deep reorganisation of the Louvre following the findings of an administrative inquiry.\n\nIt said Jost will offer recommendations by the end of February. He will work with Louvre director Laurence des Cars, who previously described the heist as\u00a0a \"terrible failure\".\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The Louvre in Paris, the world's most-visited museum, was closed on Monday after workers walked out on strike in protest against working conditions and other complaints, dealing another blow to the landmark after an embarrassing jewellery heist in October.<\/p>\n<p>The CFDT union said the vote was taken at a meeting of 400 workers on Monday morning and that they decided to strike for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Striking workers with flags, banners and placards blocked the museum\u2019s iconic glass pyramid entrance.<\/p>\n<p>An updated notice on the Louvre's website said it was \"exceptionally\" closed for the day and that ticket holders would be reimbursed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//33//63//808x539_cmsv2_4cb8ee8c-9462-51ac-9cd6-2266cf240ac2-9583363.jpg/" alt=\"Workers display banners outside the Louvre museum after they voted to strike for the day in Paris, 15 December, 2025 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/384x256_cmsv2_4cb8ee8c-9462-51ac-9cd6-2266cf240ac2-9583363.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/640x427_cmsv2_4cb8ee8c-9462-51ac-9cd6-2266cf240ac2-9583363.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/750x500_cmsv2_4cb8ee8c-9462-51ac-9cd6-2266cf240ac2-9583363.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/828x552_cmsv2_4cb8ee8c-9462-51ac-9cd6-2266cf240ac2-9583363.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/1080x720_cmsv2_4cb8ee8c-9462-51ac-9cd6-2266cf240ac2-9583363.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/1200x800_cmsv2_4cb8ee8c-9462-51ac-9cd6-2266cf240ac2-9583363.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/1920x1280_cmsv2_4cb8ee8c-9462-51ac-9cd6-2266cf240ac2-9583363.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Workers display banners outside the Louvre museum after they voted to strike for the day in Paris, 15 December, 2025 <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Labour leaders said the strike vote was unanimous. It was not immediately clear whether the work stoppage will last longer than one day.<\/p>\n<p>The Louvre is closed on Tuesdays. Employees could meet again on Wednesday to decide whether to stay out or go back to work.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's really sad, because I was really looking forward to this,\" said Lindsey Hall, a disappointed would-be visitor from Sacramento, California.<\/p>\n<p>She had been planning to enjoy the museum's huge collection of art and artefacts with a friend, describing it as \"one of those life experiences you crave.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"This is just an epic collection of art and something that every human should see,\" she said. \"I can see the other side of it, like if you are the person that works in the museum and how that can be, like day after day after day.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//33//63//808x539_cmsv2_020a8777-5145-5470-b6cb-b96bf0f5ef11-9583363.jpg/" alt=\"Visitors leave the Louvre museum shortly before workers voted to strike for the day over working conditions and other complaints, 15 December, 2025 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/384x256_cmsv2_020a8777-5145-5470-b6cb-b96bf0f5ef11-9583363.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/640x427_cmsv2_020a8777-5145-5470-b6cb-b96bf0f5ef11-9583363.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/750x500_cmsv2_020a8777-5145-5470-b6cb-b96bf0f5ef11-9583363.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/828x552_cmsv2_020a8777-5145-5470-b6cb-b96bf0f5ef11-9583363.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/1080x720_cmsv2_020a8777-5145-5470-b6cb-b96bf0f5ef11-9583363.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/1200x800_cmsv2_020a8777-5145-5470-b6cb-b96bf0f5ef11-9583363.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/1920x1280_cmsv2_020a8777-5145-5470-b6cb-b96bf0f5ef11-9583363.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Visitors leave the Louvre museum shortly before workers voted to strike for the day over working conditions and other complaints, 15 December, 2025 <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>An obstacle course<\/h2>\n<p>The strike vote followed talks last week between labour unions and government officials including France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati. Labour leaders said the talks had not alleviated their concerns about staffing and financing for the museum that welcomes millions of visitors each year.<\/p>\n<p>\"Visiting the museum has become an obstacle course,\" said Alexis Fritche, general secretary of the culture wing of the CFDT union.<\/p>\n<p>For employees, the brazen daylight jewel heist crystallised long-standing concerns that crowding and thin staffing are undermining security and working conditions at the Louvre.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrests subsequently snared the entire four-man team alleged to made off with \u20ac88 million worth of jewels.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"2000512445933289880\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The gang used a basket lift to reach the Louvre's facade, forced a window open, smashed display cases and fled with pieces of the French crown jewels.<\/p>\n<p>A Senate inquiry released last week said the thieves escaped by barely 30 seconds and blamed broken cameras, outdated equipment, understaffed control rooms and poor coordination that initially sent police to the wrong location.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the CFDT said employees want more security staff and a welcoming visitor experience, improved working conditions, stable, long-term budgets for the Louvre and leadership that \"truly listens to staff\".<\/p>\n<p>Yvan Navarro of the CGT union complained that staff numbers have continued to decline while visitor numbers have increased.<\/p>\n<p>\"People come to Paris to visit the museums. So the visitor numbers go up, the tariffs and the prices go up, because everything is becoming more expensive but the salaries and the numbers of staffers don't go up so obviously you reach a point like today, a day of anger,\" he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//33//63//808x539_cmsv2_a1355a3a-7c3f-586c-a564-c185a8ad77b6-9583363.jpg/" alt=\"Workers display an union flag outside the Louvre museum after they voted to strike for the day in Paris, 15 December, 2025 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/384x256_cmsv2_a1355a3a-7c3f-586c-a564-c185a8ad77b6-9583363.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/640x427_cmsv2_a1355a3a-7c3f-586c-a564-c185a8ad77b6-9583363.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/750x500_cmsv2_a1355a3a-7c3f-586c-a564-c185a8ad77b6-9583363.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/828x552_cmsv2_a1355a3a-7c3f-586c-a564-c185a8ad77b6-9583363.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/1080x720_cmsv2_a1355a3a-7c3f-586c-a564-c185a8ad77b6-9583363.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/1200x800_cmsv2_a1355a3a-7c3f-586c-a564-c185a8ad77b6-9583363.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/33\/63\/1920x1280_cmsv2_a1355a3a-7c3f-586c-a564-c185a8ad77b6-9583363.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Workers display an union flag outside the Louvre museum after they voted to strike for the day in Paris, 15 December, 2025 <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In their notice of open-ended strike action to Dati last week, the CFDT, CGT and Sud unions said the Louvre was in \"crisis,\" with insufficient resources and \"increasingly deteriorated working conditions.\"<\/p>\n<p>The French Culture Ministry said on Sunday that it had tasked Philippe Jost, who oversaw reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral after the 2019 fire, with a mission to propose a deep reorganisation of the Louvre following the findings of an administrative inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>It said Jost will offer recommendations by the end of February. 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ATTACK FRENCH VICTIM","daletPyramidId":3605868,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"'We are all devastated': French victim of Bondi Beach attack described as 'bursting with talent'","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"French victim of Australia attack described as 'bursting with talent'","titleListing2":"'We are all devastated': French victim of Bondi Beach attack described as 'bursting with talent'","leadin":"Dan Elkayam, a 27-year-old French engineer, was among 15 people killed in the antisemitic attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday. His former engineering school in Paris described him as talented and kind, while France opened a terrorism investigation and increased security at Jewish sites.","summary":"Dan Elkayam, a 27-year-old French engineer, was among 15 people killed in the antisemitic attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday. His former engineering school in Paris described him as talented and kind, while France opened a terrorism investigation and increased security at Jewish sites.","keySentence":"","url":"we-are-all-devastated-french-victim-of-bondi-beach-attack-described-as-bursting-with-talen","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/15\/we-are-all-devastated-french-victim-of-bondi-beach-attack-described-as-bursting-with-talen","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Dan Elkayam, a 27-year-old French national from the Paris region, was one of the 15 people killed in an attack on a Jewish Hanukkah festival at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday.\n\nElkayam held a master's degree in computer engineering and had been working in Sydney since December 2024.\n\nThe director of his former engineering school in Paris, the \u00c9cole Sup\u00e9rieure de G\u00e9nie Informatique (ESGI). Kamal Hennou described the former student as \"bursting with talent\" and someone \"who enlightened those around him with kindness and goodness.\"\n\n\"We are all devastated,\" Hennou told Euronews.\n\nThe teacher praised Elkayam's commitment to his studies, adding that \"a great career\" was opening up for the man who had graduated from the institution in 2022.\n\n\"He was a colleague to his fellow students, a promising future was tragically shattered by a cowardly act of antisemitic hatred and violence. His memory will remain honoured at our school,\" Hennou said.\n\nA minute's silence in his memory was held at ESGI on Monday morning.\n\nA football fan, Elkayam had spent several years travelling the world and worked in Sydney as a network engineer since 2024, according to his LinkedIn profile.\n\nAccording to media reports, he tried to protect a young girl during the Bondi attack before he was killed.\n\nElkayam's death was announced on Sunday evening by French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot.\n\n\"It is with immense sadness that we have learned that our compatriot Dan Elkayam was among the victims of the despicable terrorist attack that struck Jewish families gathered on Bondi beach in Sydney on the first day of Hanukkah,\" Barrot wrote in a post on X.\n\n\"This despicable act is yet another example of the terrible suffering that has been inflicted on Jewish families.\"\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron also expressed his \"profound sadness\" and said \"the full solidarity of the nation\" was with the Elkayam's family.\n\nDetails begin to emerge\n\nAustralian authorities, who classified the shooting as a terrorist attack targeting the Jewish community, have not yet released an official list of victims.\n\nHowever, a day after one of the deadliest mass shootings in Australia, the identities of several victims emerged through social media posts, news reports, and the official website of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, whose Bondi Beach chapter hosted Sunday\u2019s Hanukkah event.\n\nThe Harmony Russian School of Sydney confirmed in a Facebook post that 10-year-old Matilda, \"a former student of our school,\" had died \"in hospital due to injuries sustained from a gunshot.\"\n\nAccording to Chabad.org, another victim of the mass shooting was Rabbi Eli Schlanger, a 41-year-old assistant rabbi at Chabad-Lubavitch of Bondi. Schlanger was on stage leading the Hanukkah ceremony when the two gunmen opened fire.\n\nThe website described him as an \"irreplaceable leader of the community\" who had become \"a vocal advocate for protecting Jewish communities against rising antisemitism.\"\n\nEarlier this year, Schlanger had written to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, urging him to \"act firmly\" against terrorism and antisemitism, the website said.\n\nAround 1,000 people flocked to Bondi Beach on Sunday for \"Chanukah by the Sea,\" an annual event marking the first night of Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish festival of lights.\n\nThe attackers, a father and son, opened fire on the crowd, killing 15 people and wounding at least 40 others, including three children.\n\nOne of the gunmen was shot dead by police, while the other remains in critical condition.\n\nAnti-terrorist investigation opened in France\n\nThe French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) announced on Monday that it had opened an investigation into the anti-Semitic shooting at Bondi Beach, in parallel with the probe being conducted by Australian authorities.\n\nThe Public Prosecutor's Office said that the investigation included \"murder in connection with a terrorist undertaking.\"\n\nInterior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez has asked prefects to \"reinforce the presence\" of law enforcement officers to protect Jewish places of worship across France.\n\nA few days earlier, he had already asked them to \"maintain maximum vigilance\" and \"step up security arrangements for services\" and gatherings ahead of the Christian Christmas and Jewish Hanukkah celebrations.\n\nThe Minister emphasised \"the very high level of the terrorist threat\" and \"recent events in several places of worship (fires, damage, vandalism).\"\n\nAt the beginning of December, Nu\u00f1ez called on prefects to step up security at Christmas markets, which have been the target of deadly attacks in recent years, notably in Germany in 2016 and 2024 and in Strasbourg in 2018.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Dan Elkayam, a 27-year-old French national from the Paris region, was one of the 15 people killed in an attack on a Jewish Hanukkah festival at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Elkayam held a master's degree in computer engineering and had been working in Sydney since December 2024. <\/p>\n<p>The director of his former engineering school in Paris, the \u00c9cole Sup\u00e9rieure de G\u00e9nie Informatique (ESGI). Kamal Hennou described the former student as \"bursting with talent\" and someone \"who enlightened those around him with kindness and goodness.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"We are all devastated,\" Hennou told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>The teacher praised Elkayam's commitment to his studies, adding that \"a great career\" was opening up for the man who had graduated from the institution in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\"He was a colleague to his fellow students, a promising future was tragically shattered by a cowardly act of antisemitic hatred and violence. His memory will remain honoured at our school,\" Hennou said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.2338062924120914\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//29//65//808x998_cmsv2_1254b55a-d3bb-55f1-8165-7b330b4b5037-9582965.jpg/" alt=\"Photo of Dan Elkayam's student file.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/29\/65\/384x474_cmsv2_1254b55a-d3bb-55f1-8165-7b330b4b5037-9582965.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/29\/65\/640x790_cmsv2_1254b55a-d3bb-55f1-8165-7b330b4b5037-9582965.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/29\/65\/750x925_cmsv2_1254b55a-d3bb-55f1-8165-7b330b4b5037-9582965.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/29\/65\/828x1022_cmsv2_1254b55a-d3bb-55f1-8165-7b330b4b5037-9582965.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/29\/65\/1080x1333_cmsv2_1254b55a-d3bb-55f1-8165-7b330b4b5037-9582965.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/29\/65\/1200x1481_cmsv2_1254b55a-d3bb-55f1-8165-7b330b4b5037-9582965.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/29\/65\/1920x2369_cmsv2_1254b55a-d3bb-55f1-8165-7b330b4b5037-9582965.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Photo of Dan Elkayam's student file.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Archives de l'ESGI<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>A minute's silence in his memory was held at ESGI on Monday morning. <\/p>\n<p>A football fan, Elkayam had spent several years travelling the world and worked in Sydney as a network engineer since 2024, according to his <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////au.linkedin.com//in//danelkayam/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>LinkedIn profile<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, he tried to protect a young girl during the Bondi attack before he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>Elkayam's death was announced on Sunday evening by French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is with immense sadness that we have learned that our compatriot Dan Elkayam was among the victims of the despicable terrorist attack that struck Jewish families gathered on Bondi beach in Sydney on the first day of Hanukkah,\" Barrot wrote in a post on X. <\/p>\n<p>\"This despicable act is yet another example of the terrible suffering that has been inflicted on Jewish families.\"<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron also expressed his \"profound sadness\" and said \"the full solidarity of the nation\" was with the Elkayam's family.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"2000278649891631596\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Details begin to emerge<\/h2>\n<p>Australian authorities, who classified the shooting as a terrorist attack targeting the Jewish community, have not yet released an official list of victims.<\/p>\n<p>However, a day after one of the deadliest mass shootings in Australia, the identities of several victims emerged through social media posts, news reports, and the official <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.chabad.org///" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>website<\/strong> <\/a>of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, whose Bondi Beach chapter hosted Sunday\u2019s Hanukkah event.<\/p>\n<p>The Harmony Russian School of Sydney confirmed in <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.facebook.com//sydneyrussianschool.com.au#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>a Facebook<\/strong> <\/a>post that 10-year-old Matilda, \"a former student of our school,\" had died \"in hospital due to injuries sustained from a gunshot.\"<\/p>\n<p>According to Chabad.org, another victim of the mass shooting was Rabbi Eli Schlanger, a 41-year-old assistant rabbi at Chabad-Lubavitch of Bondi. Schlanger was on stage leading the Hanukkah ceremony when the two gunmen opened fire.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//31//49//808x539_cmsv2_f9173301-7d8d-5499-849d-9b34c6b7314d-9583149.jpg/" alt=\"People gather around a tribute for shooting victims outside the Bondi Pavilion at Sydney's Bondi Beach, 15 December, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/31\/49\/384x256_cmsv2_f9173301-7d8d-5499-849d-9b34c6b7314d-9583149.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/31\/49\/640x427_cmsv2_f9173301-7d8d-5499-849d-9b34c6b7314d-9583149.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/31\/49\/750x500_cmsv2_f9173301-7d8d-5499-849d-9b34c6b7314d-9583149.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/31\/49\/828x552_cmsv2_f9173301-7d8d-5499-849d-9b34c6b7314d-9583149.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/31\/49\/1080x720_cmsv2_f9173301-7d8d-5499-849d-9b34c6b7314d-9583149.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/31\/49\/1200x800_cmsv2_f9173301-7d8d-5499-849d-9b34c6b7314d-9583149.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/31\/49\/1920x1280_cmsv2_f9173301-7d8d-5499-849d-9b34c6b7314d-9583149.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People gather around a tribute for shooting victims outside the Bondi Pavilion at Sydney's Bondi Beach, 15 December, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The website described him as an \"irreplaceable leader of the community\" who had become \"a vocal advocate for protecting Jewish communities against rising antisemitism.\"<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Schlanger had written to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, urging him to \"act firmly\" against terrorism and antisemitism, the website said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1,000 people flocked to Bondi Beach on Sunday for \"Chanukah by the Sea,\" an annual event marking the first night of Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish festival of lights. <\/p>\n<p>The attackers, a father and son, opened fire on the crowd, killing 15 people and wounding at least 40 others, including three children. <\/p>\n<p>One of the gunmen was shot dead by police, while the other remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//14//sydney-fruit-seller-is-hero-who-disarmed-one-of-the-bondi-beach-shooters/">Fruit shop owner hailed as hero after disarming Bondi Beach gunman<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//14//world-leaders-condemn-antisemitic-terror-after-deadly-bondi-beach-shooting/">World leaders condemn 'antisemitic terror' after deadly Bondi Beach shooting<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Anti-terrorist investigation opened in France<\/h2>\n<p>The French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT) announced on Monday that it had opened an investigation into the anti-Semitic shooting at Bondi Beach, in parallel with the probe being conducted by Australian authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Prosecutor's Office said that the investigation included \"murder in connection with a terrorist undertaking.\"<\/p>\n<p>Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez has asked prefects to \"reinforce the presence\" of law enforcement officers to protect Jewish places of worship across France.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//31//49//808x539_cmsv2_8cb31f44-19ee-569a-b527-c35b555474c4-9583149.jpg/" alt=\"A worker cleans the Synagogue des Tournelles that had been defaced with green paint in Paris, 31 May, 2025 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/31\/49\/384x256_cmsv2_8cb31f44-19ee-569a-b527-c35b555474c4-9583149.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/31\/49\/640x427_cmsv2_8cb31f44-19ee-569a-b527-c35b555474c4-9583149.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/31\/49\/750x500_cmsv2_8cb31f44-19ee-569a-b527-c35b555474c4-9583149.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/31\/49\/828x552_cmsv2_8cb31f44-19ee-569a-b527-c35b555474c4-9583149.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/31\/49\/1080x720_cmsv2_8cb31f44-19ee-569a-b527-c35b555474c4-9583149.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/31\/49\/1200x800_cmsv2_8cb31f44-19ee-569a-b527-c35b555474c4-9583149.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/31\/49\/1920x1280_cmsv2_8cb31f44-19ee-569a-b527-c35b555474c4-9583149.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A worker cleans the Synagogue des Tournelles that had been defaced with green paint in Paris, 31 May, 2025 <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>A few days earlier, he had already asked them to \"maintain maximum vigilance\" and \"step up security arrangements for services\" and gatherings ahead of the Christian Christmas and Jewish Hanukkah celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister emphasised \"the very high level of the terrorist threat\" and \"recent events in several places of worship (fires, damage, vandalism).\"<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of December, Nu\u00f1ez called on prefects to step up security at Christmas markets, which have been the target of deadly attacks in recent years, notably in Germany in 2016 and 2024 and in Strasbourg in 2018.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765789942,"updatedAt":1765818213,"publishedAt":1765810892,"firstPublishedAt":1765810892,"lastPublishedAt":1765818212,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/29\/65\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b979c097-9824-531e-927e-70035d5ac381-9582965.jpg","altText":"The Frenchman killed was involved in the Sydney Jewish community. 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","titleListing2":"Real magic: Why is French supermarket Intermarch\u00e9's Christmas advert going viral worldwide?","leadin":"A French supermarket\u2019s Christmas advert is going against the AI trend and it's a hit with millions of people around the world.","summary":"A French supermarket\u2019s Christmas advert is going against the AI trend and it's a hit with millions of people around the world.","keySentence":"","url":"real-magic-why-is-french-supermarket-intermarches-christmas-advert-going-viral-worldwide","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/12\/15\/real-magic-why-is-french-supermarket-intermarches-christmas-advert-going-viral-worldwide","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A French supermarket\u2019s Christmas advert\u00a0has become a viral sensation and is being praised worldwide for doing something other companies simply can\u2019t get right anymore: connecting with people, all without a single frame of generative AI. \u00a0\n\nThe ad, \u201cLe mal aim\u00e9\u201d (\u201cUnloved\u201d), for Intermarch\u00e9, opens with a young boy who is scared of a toy wolf. His father tells him the simple story of a lonely wolf who is feared by other animals. Transition to animation. We see how the wolf tries hard to connect with his forest neighbours but fails to assuage their fears. He then decides to change and starts to cook vegetables. The story ends when the reformed lupine shows up to a Christmas feast with a homemade dish. \u00a0\n\nSet to a 70s French hit, \u2018Le Mal Aim\u00e9\u2019 by Claude Fran\u00e7ois, the ad has racked up hundreds of millions of views beyond France.\u00a0Understandably: it\u2019s warm, it\u2019s big-hearted, and it\u2019s all about the value of belonging, acceptance and looking beyond appearances. It\u2019s everything a Christmas ad should be. \u00a0\n\nCheck it out for yourself: \u00a0\n\nThe advert was conceived and produced by the Romance advertising agency. It took a year to make by a team of 80 people, led by the Montpellier-based animation company Illogic Studios and produced by the Wizz studio in Paris.\u00a0\n\nFrom Europe to the US, viewers are sharing versions with subtitles, posting praise and, in some cases, saying they wish \u201cUnloved\u201d were a full feature rather than a two-minute advert.\u00a0\n\nFans have praised the painterly, animated world of this children\u2019s fable, cheering the fact that it doesn\u2019t rely on soulless AI shortcuts but instead promotes traditional artistry in order to tell a story with an emotional core.\n\nQuite the contrast compared to Coca-Cola's yuletide slop of an advert, which garnered critism for its \u201ccreepy\u201d use of AI.\u00a0\n\nVictor Chevalier, Romance\u2019s senior copywriter, said: \u201cAI cannot create stories. We create stories.\u201d He added that \u201cwhat makes the success of our commercial is that we took time.\u201d\u00a0\n\nThierry Cotillard, the chairman of Les Mousquetaires, Intermarch\u00e9\u2019s parent company, said the chain had shown that human intelligence can create \u201ca different emotion than a robot\u201d.\u00a0\n\nIndeed, at a time when more companies and brands resort to AI to deliver the sort of eye-assaulting slop that has people voting with their anxieties for Words of the Year, Intermarch\u00e9 has proven the value of human-made animation.\n\nThe positive reactions to the ad also prove that audiences are not as dumb as companies think they are; we may be confronted with low-quality AI-generated garbage online, but that doesn\u2019t mean we have to like it. Much less be moved by it. \u00a0\n\nThe ad sends a clear message: in troubled times for creatives faced with the existential crisis AI represents when it comes to employment and copyrights, there are still companies out there who recognise the power of actual creation.\n\nOf course, some viewers were quick to complain that the advert is about promoting vegetarianism and decided to go on the warpath. Woke this, woke that. You know the drill.\n\nBut Cotillard gave the best comeback to those who will never pass up an opportunity to whine about... well, anything and everything. \u00a0\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s not about encouraging people to stop eating meat,\u201d said Cotillard. \u201cThe idea is that no one should be excluded, not the wolf, who is not going to eat his new friends.\u201d\u00a0\n\nMoral of the story: anyone can change and real connection is possible. Unlike with algorithms, which tend to promote division. Viewers are increasingly savvy when it comes to visuals and the message companies send out with their advertisements. Even when you\u2019re selling something, if you want to generate a sense of empathy, humans just do it better. \u00a0\n\nAs Merriam-Webster put it when announcing their Word of the Year: The word (\"slop\") sends a little message to AI: when it comes to replacing human creativity, sometimes you don\u2019t seem too superintelligent.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A French supermarket\u2019s Christmas advert has become a viral sensation and is being praised worldwide for doing something other companies simply can\u2019t get right anymore: connecting with people, all without a single frame of generative AI. <\/p>\n<p>The ad, \u201cLe mal aim\u00e9\u201d (\u201cUnloved\u201d), for Intermarch\u00e9, opens with a young boy who is scared of a toy wolf. His father tells him the simple story of a lonely wolf who is feared by other animals. Transition to animation. We see how the wolf tries hard to connect with his forest neighbours but fails to assuage their fears. He then decides to change and starts to cook vegetables. The story ends when the reformed lupine shows up to a Christmas feast with a homemade dish. <\/p>\n<p>Set to a 70s French hit, \u2018Le Mal Aim\u00e9\u2019 by Claude Fran\u00e7ois, the ad has racked up hundreds of millions of views beyond France. Understandably: it\u2019s warm, it\u2019s big-hearted, and it\u2019s all about the value of belonging, acceptance and looking beyond appearances. It\u2019s everything a Christmas ad should be. <\/p>\n<p>Check it out for yourself: <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-youtube-embed\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//Na9VmMNJvsA/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The advert was conceived and produced by the Romance advertising agency. It took a year to make by a team of 80 people, led by the Montpellier-based animation company Illogic Studios and produced by the Wizz studio in Paris. <\/p>\n<p>From Europe to the US, viewers are sharing versions with subtitles, posting praise and, in some cases, saying they wish \u201cUnloved\u201d were a full feature rather than a two-minute advert. <\/p>\n<p>Fans have praised the painterly, animated world of this children\u2019s fable, cheering the fact that it doesn\u2019t rely on soulless AI shortcuts but instead promotes traditional artistry in order to tell a story with an emotional core. <\/p>\n<p>Quite the contrast compared to Coca-Cola's yuletide slop of an advert, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//11//05//real-magic-coca-colas-ai-generated-christmas-ad-sparks-widespread-backlash-again/">which garnered critism for its \u201ccreepy\u201d use of AI<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//35//33//808x454_cmsv2_ac995ef8-c7be-5455-9c85-0d3540893288-9583533.jpg/" alt=\""Unloved"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/384x216_cmsv2_ac995ef8-c7be-5455-9c85-0d3540893288-9583533.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/640x360_cmsv2_ac995ef8-c7be-5455-9c85-0d3540893288-9583533.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/750x422_cmsv2_ac995ef8-c7be-5455-9c85-0d3540893288-9583533.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/828x466_cmsv2_ac995ef8-c7be-5455-9c85-0d3540893288-9583533.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/1080x608_cmsv2_ac995ef8-c7be-5455-9c85-0d3540893288-9583533.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/1200x675_cmsv2_ac995ef8-c7be-5455-9c85-0d3540893288-9583533.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/1920x1080_cmsv2_ac995ef8-c7be-5455-9c85-0d3540893288-9583533.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">"Unloved"<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Romance\/Illogic Studios (Wizz)\/Nadège Loiseau\/Wibke Rauers via AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//11//05//real-magic-coca-colas-ai-generated-christmas-ad-sparks-widespread-backlash-again/">'Real magic'? Coca-Cola's AI-generated Christmas ad sparks widespread backlash (again)<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//11//26//ai-slop-macquarie-dictionarys-word-of-the-year-is-a-sad-reflection-of-modern-anxieties/">/u2018AI slop\u2019: Macquarie Dictionary\u2019s Word of the Year is a sad reflection of modern anxieties<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Victor Chevalier, Romance\u2019s senior copywriter, said: \u201cAI cannot create stories. We create stories.\u201d He added that \u201cwhat makes the success of our commercial is that we took time.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Thierry Cotillard, the chairman of Les Mousquetaires, Intermarch\u00e9\u2019s parent company, said the chain had shown that human intelligence can create \u201ca different emotion than a robot\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Indeed, at a time when more companies and brands resort to AI to deliver the sort of eye-assaulting slop that has people <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//tag//word-of-the-year/">voting with their anxieties for Words of the Year<\/strong><\/a>, Intermarch\u00e9 has proven the value of human-made animation. <\/p>\n<p>The positive reactions to the ad also prove that audiences are not as dumb as companies think they are; we may be confronted with low-quality AI-generated garbage online, but that doesn\u2019t mean we have to like it. Much less be moved by it. <\/p>\n<p>The ad sends a clear message: in troubled times for creatives faced with the existential crisis AI represents when it comes to employment and copyrights, there are still companies out there who recognise the power of actual creation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//58//35//33//808x454_cmsv2_58b65b9d-b299-5448-937e-4780d3096d40-9583533.jpg/" alt=\""Unloved"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/384x216_cmsv2_58b65b9d-b299-5448-937e-4780d3096d40-9583533.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/640x360_cmsv2_58b65b9d-b299-5448-937e-4780d3096d40-9583533.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/750x422_cmsv2_58b65b9d-b299-5448-937e-4780d3096d40-9583533.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/828x466_cmsv2_58b65b9d-b299-5448-937e-4780d3096d40-9583533.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/1080x608_cmsv2_58b65b9d-b299-5448-937e-4780d3096d40-9583533.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/1200x675_cmsv2_58b65b9d-b299-5448-937e-4780d3096d40-9583533.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/1920x1080_cmsv2_58b65b9d-b299-5448-937e-4780d3096d40-9583533.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">"Unloved"<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Romance\/Illogic Studios (Wizz)\/Nadège Loiseau\/Wibke Rauers via AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//12//01//rage-bait-crowned-oxfords-word-of-the-year-for-2025/">'Rage bait' crowned Oxford's Word of the Year for 2025<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Of course, some viewers were quick to complain that the advert is about promoting vegetarianism and decided to go on the warpath. Woke this, woke that. You know the drill. <\/p>\n<p>But Cotillard gave the best comeback to those who will never pass up an opportunity to whine about... well, anything and everything. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about encouraging people to stop eating meat,\u201d said Cotillard. \u201cThe idea is that no one should be excluded, not the wolf, who is not going to eat his new friends.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Moral of the story: anyone can change and real connection is possible. Unlike with algorithms, which tend to promote division. Viewers are increasingly savvy when it comes to visuals and the message companies send out with their advertisements. Even when you\u2019re selling something, if you want to generate a sense of empathy, humans just do it better. <\/p>\n<p>As Merriam-Webster put it when announcing <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//12//15//merriam-websters-2025-word-of-the-year-is-slop/">their Word of the Year<\/strong><\/a>: The word (\"slop\") sends a little message to AI: when it comes to replacing human creativity, sometimes you don\u2019t seem too superintelligent.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765807480,"updatedAt":1765910604,"publishedAt":1765809033,"firstPublishedAt":1765809033,"lastPublishedAt":1765809033,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/35\/33\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ef5fcb71-65b2-5f32-bf54-216c93961f42-9583533.jpg","altText":"Why is this French Christmas ad going viral worldwide? ","caption":"Why is this French Christmas ad going viral worldwide? 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WWII BEATIFICATION MASS","daletPyramidId":3594280,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"The Catholic Church beatified nearly 200 martyrs in major ceremonies in Spain and France","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"","titleListing2":"The Catholic Church beatified nearly 200 martyrs in major ceremonies in Spain and France","leadin":"Three different groups of martyrs are beatified in this way.","summary":"Three different groups of martyrs are beatified in this way.","keySentence":"","url":"the-catholic-church-beatified-nearly-200-martyrs-in-major-ceremonies-in-spain-and-france","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/13\/the-catholic-church-beatified-nearly-200-martyrs-in-major-ceremonies-in-spain-and-france","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"On Saturday, 13 December, two Masses were celebrated respectively in the Cathedral of Jaen in Spain and at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris for the beatification of men and women who gave their lives to remain faithful to Christ in times of persecution.\n\nIn the first instance, 124 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War were beatified. Choosing the martyrs has involved a research process that dates back to the 1990s and early 2000s. They were killed in various places and at different times during the Spanish Civil War, which featured elements of cruel anti-Catholic persecution.\n\nThe beatifications celebrated in Spain concerned the martyrdom of diocesan priest Manuel Izquierdo Izquierdo and 58 companions; and the martyrdom of his colleague Antonio Monta\u00f1\u00e9s Chiquero and 64 associates, all killed between 1936 and 1937. The two groups were the subject of separate \u201ccauses\u201d for canonisation.\n\nMeanwhile, in Paris, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame was closed for this special occasion.\n\n50 young priests, religious, seminarians, scouts and lay activists who had responded in 1943 to the call from Abb\u00e9 Jean Rodhain, the future founder of Secours Catholique, and the Archbishop of Paris, Emmanuel Suhard, were beatified.\n\n\"Most of them were between twenty and thirty-five years old, and along with so many other anonymous apostles, they understood the spiritual and moral distress of one million five hundred thousand young French workers deported to Germany*, who were now without any religious reference point, since German priests were forbidden to minister to them,\" remarked Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg, during his homily.\n\n*Research suggests that 1,500,000 French people - prisoners, STO requisitioners and volunteers - worked in Germany between 1942 and 1945.\n\n2,500 people gathered in the nave to attend the largest collective beatification ever organised in France. Of these 2,500 participants, 1,500 were family members of the martyrs. French and German bishops were also present, placing this beatification under the banner of reconciliation. The cardinal addressed the faithful \"in French and also in German,\" as noted in Le Parisien.\n\nBefore their beatification, in June 2025, Pope Leo XIV signed a decree from the Dicastery of the Causes of Saints recognising the martyrdom of these 50 Frenchmen.\n\nBut far from being a purely \"historical\" ceremony, this beatification was presented as firmly rooted in the present and even the future.\n\nCardinal Hollerich said that \"this beatification invites us to look at the present and prepare for the future\" because \"we are not immune to war or violence.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>On Saturday, 13 December, two Masses were celebrated respectively in the Cathedral of Jaen in Spain and at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris for the beatification of men and women who gave their lives to remain faithful to Christ in times of persecution.<\/p>\n<p>In the first instance, 124 martyrs of the Spanish Civil War were beatified. Choosing the martyrs has involved a research process that dates back to the 1990s and early 2000s. They were killed in various places and at different times during the Spanish Civil War, which featured elements of cruel anti-Catholic persecution.<\/p>\n<p>The beatifications celebrated in Spain concerned the martyrdom of diocesan priest Manuel Izquierdo Izquierdo and 58 companions; and the martyrdom of his colleague Antonio Monta\u00f1\u00e9s Chiquero and 64 associates, all killed between 1936 and 1937. The two groups were the subject of separate \u201ccauses\u201d for canonisation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Paris, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame was closed for this special occasion.<\/p>\n<p>50 young priests, religious, seminarians, scouts and lay activists who had responded in 1943 to the call from Abb\u00e9 Jean Rodhain, the future founder of Secours Catholique, and the Archbishop of Paris, Emmanuel Suhard, were beatified.<\/p>\n<p>\"Most of them were between twenty and thirty-five years old, and along with so many other anonymous apostles, they understood the spiritual and moral distress of one million five hundred thousand young French workers deported to Germany*, who were now without any religious reference point, since German priests were forbidden to minister to them,\" remarked Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, Archbishop of Luxembourg, during his homily.<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Research suggests that 1,500,000 French people - prisoners, STO requisitioners and volunteers - worked in Germany between 1942 and 1945.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-youtube-embed\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//J84PttYMh1k/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>2,500 people gathered in the nave to attend the largest collective beatification ever organised in France. Of these 2,500 participants, 1,500 were family members of the martyrs. French and German bishops were also present, placing this beatification under the banner of reconciliation. The cardinal addressed the faithful \"in French and also in German,\" as noted in Le Parisien.<\/p>\n<p>Before their beatification, in June 2025, Pope Leo XIV signed a decree from the Dicastery of the Causes of Saints recognising the martyrdom of these 50 Frenchmen.<\/p>\n<p>But far from being a purely \"historical\" ceremony, this beatification was presented as firmly rooted in the present and even the future.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinal Hollerich<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.vaticannews.va//fr//eglise//news//2025-12//messe-beatification-50-martyrs-nazisme-france-cardinal-hollerich.html/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"> <\/a>said that \"this beatification invites us to look at the present and prepare for the future\" because \"we are not immune to war or violence.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765643196,"updatedAt":1765653695,"publishedAt":1765653662,"firstPublishedAt":1765653662,"lastPublishedAt":1765653694,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/58\/21\/17\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_96559233-9abd-53bc-bcee-c842307b98b9-9582117.jpg","altText":"ARCHIVE - 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","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Why is Nicolas Sarkozy's prison memoir already a big hit?","titleListing2":"'Diary of a Prisoner': Why is Nicolas Sarkozy's prison memoir already a big hit? ","leadin":"Rushed to print to take control of the narrative, the book has become a powerful political tool for the former head of state.","summary":"Rushed to print to take control of the narrative, the book has become a powerful political tool for the former head of state.","keySentence":"","url":"diary-of-a-prisoner-why-is-nicolas-sarkozys-prison-memoir-already-a-big-hit","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/12\/10\/diary-of-a-prisoner-why-is-nicolas-sarkozys-prison-memoir-already-a-big-hit","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's new memoir of his time behing bars, \"Diary of a Prisoner,\" was only published on Wednesday and is already number one in pre-order sales on Amazon.\n\nIn Paris' upscale 16th arrondissement, hundreds of Sarkozy\u2019s supporters queued for hours outside the Lamartine bookshop for a launch event so contentious it triggered a Femen protest and the shutdown of an entire street.\n\nBehind this immediate success lies a carefully orchestrated communications strategy from the former president.\n\nThe goal with this memoir is to control the narrative and take advantage of a situation unprecedented in modern French history; that of a president who served 20 days in prison.\n\nSarkozy was sentenced to five years in prison in September for accepting illegal campaign financing from the regime of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to secure his 2007 election victory.\n\nThe sentencing also includes a ban from holding office. Sarkozy is contesting the charges and the appeal trial is scheduled for next March.\n\nFor Arnaud Benedetti, editor-in-chief of the \"Political and Parliamentary Review,\" the book is much more than just a narrative of Sarkozy's stint in prison.\n\n\"It's a hybrid work as it sends out a number of political messages. Whatever his convictions, his words continue to carry weight in public debate,\" he told Euronews.\n\nAccording to Philippe Moreau-Chevrolet, professor of political communication at Sciences Po Paris, the objective was clear: immediately regain the upper hand in shaping public opinion.\n\n\"They had to release this book at record speed because the idea was to frame the debate as quickly as possible to prevent others from building their own narrative,\" he explained to Euronews.\n\nThis required total control of his image: rallying support before entering prison, deploying symbolic gestures such as bringing a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo to his cell and launching an aggressive communications campaign the moment he was released.\n\nIn the French book market, works written by politicians usually sell poorly but Sarkozy's is the exception.\n\n\"Sarkozy is a politician who never leaves anyone indifferent. Despite his detractors, he retains a loyal following that appreciates his personality. His character, his story, and his direct way of speaking make him someone who can succeed in publishing,\" explains Benedetti.\n\nBut the extraordinary interest in this book also stems from the unprecedented situation: never before has a French president, or a president of the European Union, described what it is like to be incarcerated.\n\nReaders, Moreau-Chevrolet notes, are responding to a form of curiosity: \"There is a kind of voyeurism, a desire to peek through the keyhole and see what life is like for a leader in prison.\"\n\nBenedetti also highlights the commercial strength of such a book: \"All the ingredients for a publishing success are here [\u2026] the situation is so unusual that it inevitably sparks curiosity, even interest. From a marketing point of view, the product is exceptionally effective.\"\n\nFor Moreau-Chevrolet, however, Sarkozy's top priority remains judicial.\n\n\"His number one goal is to win the media battle surrounding the trial,\" he said.\n\nWhile he describes the strategy as \"very aggressive,\" its actual impact remains uncertain: \"Is it effective? Time will tell.\"\n\nAnd as Benedetti points out, \"A publishing success does not guarantee a political one.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's new memoir of his time behing bars, \"Diary of a Prisoner,\" was only published on Wednesday and is already number one in pre-order sales on Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>In Paris' upscale 16th arrondissement, hundreds of Sarkozy\u2019s supporters queued for hours outside the Lamartine bookshop for a launch event so contentious it triggered a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//video//2024//12//13//femen-campaign-against-the-war-in-ukraine/">Femen protest<\/strong><\/a> and the shutdown of an entire street.<\/p>\n<p>Behind this immediate success lies a carefully orchestrated communications strategy from the former president. <\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//12//10//welcome-to-hell-nicolas-sarkozys-prison-memoir-published/">The goal with this memoir<\/strong><\/a> is to control the narrative and take advantage of a situation unprecedented in modern French history; that of a president who served 20 days in prison. <\/p>\n<p>Sarkozy was sentenced to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//09//25//former-french-president-sarkozy-found-guilty-of-criminal-conspiracy-in-illegal-financing-c/">five years in prison<\/strong><\/a> in Septemberforaccepting illegal campaign financing from the regime of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to secure his 2007 election victory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//77//60//808x539_cmsv2_a9b94857-3582-5cf9-b5e2-4702adc4d8cc-9577760.jpg/" alt=\"A queue formed as customers arrived to buy the book by former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/77\/60\/384x256_cmsv2_a9b94857-3582-5cf9-b5e2-4702adc4d8cc-9577760.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/77\/60\/640x427_cmsv2_a9b94857-3582-5cf9-b5e2-4702adc4d8cc-9577760.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/77\/60\/750x500_cmsv2_a9b94857-3582-5cf9-b5e2-4702adc4d8cc-9577760.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/77\/60\/828x552_cmsv2_a9b94857-3582-5cf9-b5e2-4702adc4d8cc-9577760.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/77\/60\/1080x720_cmsv2_a9b94857-3582-5cf9-b5e2-4702adc4d8cc-9577760.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/77\/60\/1200x800_cmsv2_a9b94857-3582-5cf9-b5e2-4702adc4d8cc-9577760.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/77\/60\/1920x1281_cmsv2_a9b94857-3582-5cf9-b5e2-4702adc4d8cc-9577760.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A queue formed as customers arrived to buy the book by former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Michel Euler\/Copyright 2025 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The sentencing also includes a ban from holding office. Sarkozy is contesting the charges and the appeal trial is scheduled for next March. <\/p>\n<p>For Arnaud Benedetti, editor-in-chief of the \"Political and Parliamentary Review,\" the book is much more than just a narrative of Sarkozy's stint in prison. <\/p>\n<p>\"It's a hybrid work as it sends out a number of political messages. Whatever his convictions, his words continue to carry weight in public debate,\" he told Euronews. <\/p>\n<p>According to Philippe Moreau-Chevrolet, professor of political communication at Sciences Po Paris, the objective was clear: immediately regain the upper hand in shaping public opinion. <\/p>\n<p>\"They had to release this book at record speed because the idea was to frame the debate as quickly as possible to prevent others from building their own narrative,\" he explained to Euronews. <\/p>\n<p>This required total control of his image: rallying support before entering prison, deploying symbolic gestures such as bringing a copy of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//10//21//which-highly-symbolic-books-has-nicolas-sarkozy-taken-to-prison/">The Count of Monte Cristo to his cell<\/strong><\/a>and launching an aggressive communications campaign the moment he was released.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//88//03//808x539_cmsv2_bce92d87-6dfd-5f76-a6c4-a5c0395b052b-9578803.jpg/" alt=\"Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives to sign his book "Diary of a Prisoner" in a Paris bookshop, 10 December, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/88\/03\/384x256_cmsv2_bce92d87-6dfd-5f76-a6c4-a5c0395b052b-9578803.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/88\/03\/640x427_cmsv2_bce92d87-6dfd-5f76-a6c4-a5c0395b052b-9578803.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/88\/03\/750x500_cmsv2_bce92d87-6dfd-5f76-a6c4-a5c0395b052b-9578803.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/88\/03\/828x552_cmsv2_bce92d87-6dfd-5f76-a6c4-a5c0395b052b-9578803.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/88\/03\/1080x720_cmsv2_bce92d87-6dfd-5f76-a6c4-a5c0395b052b-9578803.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/88\/03\/1200x800_cmsv2_bce92d87-6dfd-5f76-a6c4-a5c0395b052b-9578803.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/88\/03\/1920x1280_cmsv2_bce92d87-6dfd-5f76-a6c4-a5c0395b052b-9578803.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrives to sign his book "Diary of a Prisoner" in a Paris bookshop, 10 December, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In the French book market, works written by politicians usually sell poorly but Sarkozy's is the exception.<\/p>\n<p>\"Sarkozy is a politician who never leaves anyone indifferent. Despite his detractors, he retains a loyal following that appreciates his personality. His character, his story, and his direct way of speaking make him someone who can succeed in publishing,\" explains Benedetti.<\/p>\n<p>But the extraordinary interest in this book also stems from the unprecedented situation: never before has a French president, or a president of the European Union, described what it is like to be incarcerated.<\/p>\n<p>Readers, Moreau-Chevrolet notes, are responding to a form of curiosity: \"There is a kind of voyeurism, a desire to peek through the keyhole and see what life is like for a leader in prison.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//88//03//808x539_cmsv2_e8fdf633-5d27-508f-8322-6e5cafea98fd-9578803.jpg/" alt=\"A woman holds a book of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy "Diary of a Prisoner" in Paris, 10 December, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/88\/03\/384x256_cmsv2_e8fdf633-5d27-508f-8322-6e5cafea98fd-9578803.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/88\/03\/640x427_cmsv2_e8fdf633-5d27-508f-8322-6e5cafea98fd-9578803.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/88\/03\/750x500_cmsv2_e8fdf633-5d27-508f-8322-6e5cafea98fd-9578803.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/88\/03\/828x552_cmsv2_e8fdf633-5d27-508f-8322-6e5cafea98fd-9578803.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/88\/03\/1080x720_cmsv2_e8fdf633-5d27-508f-8322-6e5cafea98fd-9578803.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/88\/03\/1200x800_cmsv2_e8fdf633-5d27-508f-8322-6e5cafea98fd-9578803.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/88\/03\/1920x1280_cmsv2_e8fdf633-5d27-508f-8322-6e5cafea98fd-9578803.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A woman holds a book of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy "Diary of a Prisoner" in Paris, 10 December, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Benedetti also highlights the commercial strength of such a book: \"All the ingredients for a publishing success are here [\u2026] the situation is so unusual that it inevitably sparks curiosity, even interest. From a marketing point of view, the product is exceptionally effective.\"<\/p>\n<p>For Moreau-Chevrolet, however, Sarkozy's top priority remains judicial.<\/p>\n<p>\"His number one goal is to win the media battle surrounding the trial,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>While he describes the strategy as \"very aggressive,\" its actual impact remains uncertain: \"Is it effective? 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SENATE INQUIRY","daletPyramidId":3562643,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Louvre jewel thieves escaped with 30 seconds to spare, Senate inquiry finds","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Louvre thieves escaped with 30 seconds to spare, Senate inquiry finds","titleListing2":"Louvre thieves escaped with just 30 seconds to spare, Senate inquiry in Paris told","leadin":"All four suspected members of the motorbike-mounted crew have been arrested, but the missing jewels, valued at around \u20ac88 million, have not yet been recovered.","summary":"All four suspected members of the motorbike-mounted crew have been arrested, but the missing jewels, valued at around \u20ac88 million, have not yet been recovered.","keySentence":"","url":"louvre-jewel-thieves-escaped-with-30-seconds-to-spare-senate-inquiry-finds","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/10\/louvre-jewel-thieves-escaped-with-30-seconds-to-spare-senate-inquiry-finds","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Thieves who stole more than\u00a0\u20ac88 million in crown jewels from Paris' Louvre Museum in October escaped with barely 30 seconds to spare, a French Senate inquiry said on Wednesday, as lawmakers detailed a cascade of security failures that allowed the gang to slip away in broad daylight.\n\nThe parliamentary probe, ordered after the embarrassing 19 October daylight heist, found that only one of two cameras covering the break-in point was functioning and that security staff lacked enough screens to monitor footage in real time.\n\nWhen the alarm finally sounded, police were initially dispatched to the wrong location, investigators told senators.\n\n\"Give or take 30 seconds, guards or police could have intercepted them,\" No\u00ebl Corbin, head of the inquiry, told the Senate's culture committee.\n\nThe report also cited outdated equipment, unaddressed vulnerabilities flagged in earlier audits and poor coordination between the Louvre and its supervisory authorities.\n\nIt said the balcony used by the thieves had been identified years earlier as a weak point but never reinforced.\n\nThe findings increase pressure on Louvre director Laurence des Cars, who is due to be questioned by lawmakers next week.\n\nAll four suspected members of the motorbike-mounted crew have been arrested, but the missing jewels, valued at around \u20ac88 million, have not yet been recovered.\n\nStaff strike\n\nThe comments to the Senate inquiry come just two days after Louvre workers voted on Monday to go on strike in protest over their working conditions, a ticket price hike for non-European visitors, and security weaknesses that led to the brazen theft of France's Crown Jewels.\n\nIn a letter announcing the strike action next Monday and addressed to France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati, the CGT, CFDT and Sud unions said that \"visiting the Louvre has become a real obstacle course\" for the millions of people who come to admire its vast collections of art and artefacts.\n\nThe museum, the world's most visited, is in \"crisis,\" with insufficient resources and \"increasingly deteriorated working conditions,\" said the unions' strike notice to Dati.\n\n\"The theft of 19 October 2025 highlighted shortcomings in priorities that had long been reported,\" the unions alleged.\n\nThe gang took less than eight minutes to force their way into the museum and leave, using a freight lift to reach one of the building\u2019s windows, angle grinders to cut into jewellery display cases, and motorbikes to make their escape.\n\nThe haul has not been recovered and includes a diamond-and-emerald necklace Napoleon gave to Empress Marie-Louise, jewels tied to two 19th-century queens, and Empress Eug\u00e9nie\u2019s 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of the inquiry, told the Senate's culture committee.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//85//63//808x539_cmsv2_950880d4-2c99-5dcc-90eb-0977f3cc2c2e-9578563.jpg/" alt=\"Visitors in the Sully wing of the Louvre museum in Paris, 19 November, 2025 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/85\/63\/384x256_cmsv2_950880d4-2c99-5dcc-90eb-0977f3cc2c2e-9578563.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/85\/63\/640x427_cmsv2_950880d4-2c99-5dcc-90eb-0977f3cc2c2e-9578563.jpg 640w, 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class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The report also cited outdated equipment, unaddressed vulnerabilities flagged in earlier audits and poor coordination between the Louvre and its supervisory authorities.<\/p>\n<p>It said the balcony used by the thieves had been identified years earlier as a weak point but never reinforced.<\/p>\n<p>The findings increase pressure on Louvre director Laurence des Cars, who is due to be questioned by lawmakers next week.<\/p>\n<p>All four suspected members of the motorbike-mounted crew have been arrested, but the missing jewels, valued at around \u20ac88 million, have not yet been recovered.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2025//11//07//louvre-museum-director-defends-security-plan-after-audit-slams-spends-on-new-art-and-exhib/">Louvre museum director defends security plan after audit slams spends on new art and exhibitions<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//11//19//louvre-to-set-up-new-cameras-and-anti-intrusion-systems-after-october-crown-jewels-heist/">Louvre to set up new cameras and anti-intrusion systems after October crown jewels heist<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2><strong>Staff strike<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The comments to the Senate inquiry come just two days after Louvre workers voted on Monday <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//12//08//louvre-workers-announce-strike-over-work-conditions-and-security-after-88m-heist/">to go on strike in protest over their working conditions<\/a>, a ticket price hike for non-European visitors, and security weaknesses that led to the brazen theft of France's Crown Jewels.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter announcing the strike action next Monday and addressed to France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati, the CGT, CFDT and Sud unions said that \"visiting the Louvre has become a real obstacle course\" for the millions of people who come to admire its vast collections of art and artefacts.<\/p>\n<p>The museum, the world's most visited, is in \"crisis,\" with insufficient resources and \"increasingly deteriorated working conditions,\" said the unions' strike notice to Dati.<\/p>\n<p>\"The theft of 19 October 2025 highlighted shortcomings in priorities that had long been reported,\" the unions alleged.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//55//45//09//808x539_cmsv2_9fe853b6-adff-5599-ae24-1687bbe5c6b6-9554509.jpg/" alt=\"People queue to enter the Louvre museum in Paris, 19 November, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/45\/09\/384x256_cmsv2_9fe853b6-adff-5599-ae24-1687bbe5c6b6-9554509.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/45\/09\/640x427_cmsv2_9fe853b6-adff-5599-ae24-1687bbe5c6b6-9554509.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/55\/45\/09\/750x500_cmsv2_9fe853b6-adff-5599-ae24-1687bbe5c6b6-9554509.jpg 750w, 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SHAVEN BOY CASE","daletPyramidId":3558598,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Paris care home staff shaving child's head in 'punishment' sparks outrage","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Paris care home staff shaving child's head in 'punishment' sparks fury","titleListing2":"French child in Paris care home having hair forcibly shaved by staff sparks outrage","leadin":"The City of Paris, which is ultimately responsible for the home run by the Association Jean Cotxet, said on Tuesday that it was taking the case to court.","summary":"The City of Paris, which is ultimately responsible for the home run by the Association Jean Cotxet, said on Tuesday that it was taking the case to court.","keySentence":"","url":"paris-care-home-staff-shaving-childs-head-in-punishment-sparks-outrage","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/10\/paris-care-home-staff-shaving-childs-head-in-punishment-sparks-outrage","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A video of a young boy in a child protection home in France having his head shaved by staff has sparked outrage after it was leaked online.\n\nThe video, which was recorded in February at the Jenner Educational Home in central Paris, shows a topless eight-year-old boy having his hair shaved off with one of the educators present indicating it was a \u201cpunishment\u201d.\n\nAccording to public broadcaster Franceinfo, neither the child, named only as Elliot to protect his identity, nor his mother nor the institution\u2019s head had authorised the haircut.\n\nThe France 3 Paris \u00cele-de-France television station said it had spoken to a lawyer for the boy\u2019s mother and that she had discovered his head had been shaved during a visit to the home.\n\nShe reportedly asked the home for an explanation, and they claimed that the hairdresser had made a mistake.\n\nFor several months afterwards, Elliot was permitted to wear a cap in class but was reportedly teased by his classmates.\n\nBut in September, his mother discovered the video, which had initially been shared only in a WhatsApp group for educators.\n\nThe home then told Elliot\u2019s mother that his hair had to be cut because he had lice, prompting her to refer the case to a family lawyer.\n\nCity of Paris refers case to court\n\nThe City of Paris, which is ultimately responsible for the home run by the Association Jean Cotxet, said on Tuesday that it was taking the case to court.\n\n\"None of the justifications put forward - be it the child's alleged consent, his mother's possible authorisation, or the attempts, which were in any case unverified, to get rid of lice - can legitimise the violence inflicted on him. In view of these unacceptable failings, the City of Paris has decided to refer the matter immediately to the judicial authorities and will also bring a civil action if necessary,\" a press release read.\n\nMinister of Health, Families, Autonomy and Disabled People, St\u00e9phanie Rist, said in a post on X that she was also referring the matter to the public prosecutor.\n\nShe denounced what she called \"unacceptable acts\" that \"seriously undermine the dignity\" of the child.\n\nThe Paris Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation into \"deliberate violence,\" and Human Rights Ombudsman Claire H\u00e9don said she was personally handling the case.\n\nAccused educator suspended\n\nThe Paris City Council said that \"special attention has been paid to the young victim,\" who reportedly wishes to remain at the Jenner Educational Home because he feels comfortable there.\n\nThe staff member who initiated the hair-shaving incident has been suspended by the association that runs the home, which said that the educational team had been \"largely overhauled.\"\n\nFranceinfo also reports that an administrative inspection, requested by the City of Paris, will be conducted at the home on Wednesday.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A video of a young boy in a child protection home in France having his head shaved by staff has sparked outrage after it was leaked online.<\/p>\n<p>The video, which was recorded in February at the Jenner Educational Home in central Paris, shows a topless eight-year-old boy having his hair shaved off with one of the educators present indicating it was a \u201cpunishment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to public broadcaster Franceinfo, neither the child, named only as Elliot to protect his identity, nor his mother nor the institution\u2019s head had authorised the haircut.<\/p>\n<p>The France 3 Paris \u00cele-de-France television station said it had spoken to a lawyer for the boy\u2019s mother and that she had discovered his head had been shaved during a visit to the home.<\/p>\n<p>She reportedly asked the home for an explanation, and they claimed that the hairdresser had made a mistake.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//80//84//808x539_cmsv2_17903026-0f55-54a8-a88a-d927f85f2609-9578084.jpg/" alt=\"Schoolchildren and educators at a school in Marseille, 16 October, 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/384x256_cmsv2_17903026-0f55-54a8-a88a-d927f85f2609-9578084.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/640x427_cmsv2_17903026-0f55-54a8-a88a-d927f85f2609-9578084.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/750x500_cmsv2_17903026-0f55-54a8-a88a-d927f85f2609-9578084.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/828x552_cmsv2_17903026-0f55-54a8-a88a-d927f85f2609-9578084.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/1080x720_cmsv2_17903026-0f55-54a8-a88a-d927f85f2609-9578084.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/1200x800_cmsv2_17903026-0f55-54a8-a88a-d927f85f2609-9578084.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/1920x1280_cmsv2_17903026-0f55-54a8-a88a-d927f85f2609-9578084.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Schoolchildren and educators at a school in Marseille, 16 October, 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>For several months afterwards, Elliot was permitted to wear a cap in class but was reportedly teased by his classmates.<\/p>\n<p>But in September, his mother discovered the video, which had initially been shared only in a WhatsApp group for educators.<\/p>\n<p>The home then told Elliot\u2019s mother that his hair had to be cut because he had lice, prompting her to refer the case to a family lawyer.<\/p>\n<h2>City of Paris refers case to court<\/h2>\n<p>The City of Paris, which is ultimately responsible for the home run by the Association Jean Cotxet, said on Tuesday that it was taking the case to court.<\/p>\n<p>\"None of the justifications put forward - be it the child's alleged consent, his mother's possible authorisation, or the attempts, which were in any case unverified, to get rid of lice - can legitimise the violence inflicted on him. In view of these unacceptable failings, the City of Paris has decided to refer the matter immediately to the judicial authorities and will also bring a civil action if necessary,\" a press release read. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//80//84//808x539_cmsv2_9690c04e-a9ed-5bfb-9c65-584df7f350a4-9578084.jpg/" alt=\"A child goes to school in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 18 January, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/384x256_cmsv2_9690c04e-a9ed-5bfb-9c65-584df7f350a4-9578084.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/640x427_cmsv2_9690c04e-a9ed-5bfb-9c65-584df7f350a4-9578084.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/750x500_cmsv2_9690c04e-a9ed-5bfb-9c65-584df7f350a4-9578084.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/828x552_cmsv2_9690c04e-a9ed-5bfb-9c65-584df7f350a4-9578084.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/1080x720_cmsv2_9690c04e-a9ed-5bfb-9c65-584df7f350a4-9578084.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/1200x800_cmsv2_9690c04e-a9ed-5bfb-9c65-584df7f350a4-9578084.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/1920x1280_cmsv2_9690c04e-a9ed-5bfb-9c65-584df7f350a4-9578084.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A child goes to school in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 18 January, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Minister of Health, Families, Autonomy and Disabled People, St\u00e9phanie Rist, said in a post on X that she was also referring the matter to the public prosecutor. <\/p>\n<p>She denounced what she called \"unacceptable acts\" that \"seriously undermine the dignity\" of the child. <\/p>\n<p>The Paris Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation into \"deliberate violence,\" and Human Rights Ombudsman Claire H\u00e9don said she was personally handling the case. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li 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which said that the educational team had been \"largely overhauled.\"<\/p>\n<p>Franceinfo also reports that an administrative inspection, requested by the City of Paris, will be conducted at the home on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765368071,"updatedAt":1765372294,"publishedAt":1765372290,"firstPublishedAt":1765372290,"lastPublishedAt":1765372290,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/80\/84\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c75361e4-f828-5840-8912-88461dbcb454-9578084.jpg","altText":"An empty classroom at a school in Marseille, 16 October, 2023","caption":"An empty classroom at a school in Marseille, 16 October, 2023","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP 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VOTE SOCIAL SECURITY BUDGET","daletPyramidId":3552671,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"France's National Assembly narrowly approves contentious 2026 social security budget","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"French MPs adopt contentious 2026 social security budget ","titleListing2":"France's National Assembly narrowly approves contentious 2026 social security budget","leadin":"The high-stakes vote gives some respite for the weakened French Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu","summary":"The high-stakes vote gives some respite for the weakened French Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu","keySentence":"","url":"frances-national-assembly-narrowly-approves-contentious-2026-social-security-budget","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/09\/frances-national-assembly-narrowly-approves-contentious-2026-social-security-budget","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"It came down to just 13 votes.\n\nThe Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS) was adopted this Tuesday night by France's lower house of parliament, a major win for French Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu, who has been walking a tightrope as he attempts to rein in a ballooning deficit in the face of increasing social discontent.\n\nA total of 247 MPs voted in favour of the text and 234 voted against, while 93 abstained.\n\nLecornu was saved by making last-minute concessions to secure the vote of the centre-left Socialist party, alienating the conservative Republicans party and his own centrist alliance.\n\nIn the end, most of the centrist alliance voted for the bill while the conservative right either voted for or abstained.\n\nThe government had warned MPs that if the social security budget for next year were to be rejected, public finances could quickly deteriorate.\n\nLast week, a memo was sent to MPs suggesting that the deficit could rise to \u20ac30 billion by 2026, a level deemed \"extremely worrying\" by Pierre Pribile, the head of the Social Security. The expected social security deficit for 2025 is estimated at \u20ac23 billion.\n\nSocial security accounts for over 40% of France's overall public sector spending. France's public deficit is currently one of the largest in the eurozone.\n\nThe social security budget also carries with it a major political issue: the suspension of French President Emmanuel Macron's highly unpopular pension reform.\n\nThis suspension, reintroduced by the MPs last Friday after being removed by the right-leaning Senate in the first reading, froze the increase of the retirement age from 62 to 64 until January 2028, after the next presidential election.\n\nAlthough the text was adopted by the National Assembly, it will now have to go to the Senate for a new reading.\n\nEither senators vote in favour of this version and the Social Security bill will be definitively adopted, or they reject the text, which is the most likely scenario, and a final reading will be necessary in the National Assembly, which will have the last word before its final adoption.\n\nS\u00e9bastien Lecornu will then have to deal with the next major hurdle: the adoption of the 2026 state budget plan, a separate piece of legislation where compromise has proven difficult.\n\nBoth of Lecornu's predecessors, Michel Barnier and Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou, were ousted after trying to push through significant budget cuts.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>It came down to just 13 votes.<\/p>\n<p>The Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS)was adopted this Tuesday night by France's lower house of parliament, a major win for French Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu, who has been walking a tightrope as he attempts to rein in a ballooning deficit in the face of increasing social discontent.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 247 MPs voted in favour of the text and 234 voted against, while 93 abstained. <\/p>\n<p>Lecornu was saved by making last-minute concessions to secure the vote of the centre-left Socialist party, alienating the conservative Republicans party and his own centrist alliance. <\/p>\n<p>In the end, most of the centrist alliance voted for the bill while the conservative right either voted for or abstained. <\/p>\n<p>The government had warned MPs that if the social security budget for next year were to be rejected, public finances could quickly deteriorate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//73//41//808x539_cmsv2_815963e8-4d11-5721-b242-551a1cb13cd6-9577341.jpg/" alt=\"France’s Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu in the National Assembly in Paris, 9 December, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/384x256_cmsv2_815963e8-4d11-5721-b242-551a1cb13cd6-9577341.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/640x427_cmsv2_815963e8-4d11-5721-b242-551a1cb13cd6-9577341.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/750x500_cmsv2_815963e8-4d11-5721-b242-551a1cb13cd6-9577341.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/828x552_cmsv2_815963e8-4d11-5721-b242-551a1cb13cd6-9577341.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/1080x720_cmsv2_815963e8-4d11-5721-b242-551a1cb13cd6-9577341.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/1200x800_cmsv2_815963e8-4d11-5721-b242-551a1cb13cd6-9577341.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/1920x1280_cmsv2_815963e8-4d11-5721-b242-551a1cb13cd6-9577341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">France’s Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu in the National Assembly in Paris, 9 December, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Last week, a memo was sent to MPs suggesting that the deficit could rise to \u20ac30 billion by 2026, a level deemed \"extremely worrying\" by Pierre Pribile, the head of the Social Security. The expected social security deficit for 2025 is estimated at \u20ac23 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Social security accounts for over 40% of France's overall public sector spending. France's public deficit is currently one of the largest in the eurozone. <\/p>\n<p>The social security budget also carries with it a major political issue: the suspension of French President Emmanuel Macron's highly unpopular pension reform.<\/p>\n<p>This suspension, reintroduced by the MPs last Friday after being removed by the right-leaning Senate in the first reading, froze the increase of the retirement age from 62 to 64 until January 2028, after the next presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Although the text was adopted by the National Assembly, it will now have to go to the Senate for a new reading.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//73//41//808x539_cmsv2_f28100a5-c774-5ea6-ba52-62125770b7b9-9577341.jpg/" alt=\"France’s National Assembly in Paris, 9 December, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/384x256_cmsv2_f28100a5-c774-5ea6-ba52-62125770b7b9-9577341.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/640x427_cmsv2_f28100a5-c774-5ea6-ba52-62125770b7b9-9577341.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/750x500_cmsv2_f28100a5-c774-5ea6-ba52-62125770b7b9-9577341.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/828x552_cmsv2_f28100a5-c774-5ea6-ba52-62125770b7b9-9577341.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/1080x720_cmsv2_f28100a5-c774-5ea6-ba52-62125770b7b9-9577341.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/1200x800_cmsv2_f28100a5-c774-5ea6-ba52-62125770b7b9-9577341.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/1920x1280_cmsv2_f28100a5-c774-5ea6-ba52-62125770b7b9-9577341.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">France’s National Assembly in Paris, 9 December, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Either senators vote in favour of this version and the Social Security bill will be definitively adopted, or they reject the text, which is the most likely scenario, and a final reading will be necessary in the National Assembly, which will have the last word before its final adoption.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00e9bastien Lecornu will then have to deal with the next major hurdle: the adoption of the 2026 state budget plan, a separate piece of legislation where compromise has proven difficult. <\/p>\n<p>Both of Lecornu's predecessors, Michel Barnier and Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou, were ousted after trying to push through significant budget cuts. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765306364,"updatedAt":1765347646,"publishedAt":1765308297,"firstPublishedAt":1765308297,"lastPublishedAt":1765310059,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/73\/41\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_86a99512-9638-578a-8114-4bcc98ac0968-9577341.jpg","altText":"Parliament members sit as France's National Assembly vote on a national health care budget in Paris, 9 December, 2025","caption":"Parliament members sit as France's National Assembly vote on a national health care budget in Paris, 9 December, 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Michel Euler\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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FAR RIGHT WANTS TO REOPEN BROTHELS","daletPyramidId":3550943,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"French far right wants to reopen brothels and put sex workers in charge","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"French far right wants to reopen brothels with sex workers in charge","titleListing2":"French far right wants to reopen brothels and put sex workers in charge","leadin":"National Rally (RN) lawmaker Jean-Philippe Tanguy said his proposed bill would allow sex workers in France to be \"empresses in their kingdom.\"","summary":"National Rally (RN) lawmaker Jean-Philippe Tanguy said his proposed bill would allow sex workers in France to be \"empresses in their kingdom.\"","keySentence":"","url":"french-far-right-wants-to-reopen-brothels-and-put-sex-workers-in-charge","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/09\/french-far-right-wants-to-reopen-brothels-and-put-sex-workers-in-charge","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"France's far-right National Rally (RN) party wants to reopen brothels run directly by sex workers.\n\nThe party is preparing to submit a bill to parliament recommending that brothels, which were banned in France 1946, be reopened as cooperatives managed by sex workers, according to RN lawmaker Jean-Philippe Tanguy.\n\nThe politician told the Le Monde newspaper that party leader Marine Le Pen backed the bill.\n\n\"Sex workers would be empresses in their kingdom,\" Tanguy told the radio station RTL.\n\nProstitution itself is legal in France, although brothels, pimping and the sale of sex by minors are illegal.\n\nA 2016 law passed by the Socialist Party under then-President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande decriminalised soliciting yet punished clients of sex workers with a fine of \u20ac1,500.\n\nTanguy said the legislation had made sex workers' lives more precarious and dangerous by driving the trade underground through the criminalisation of clients.\n\n\"They get beaten up, sometimes have their throats slit, and no one talks about it. [The current system is] the height of bourgeois hypocrisy,\" he told Le Monde.\n\nHowever, several sex worker associations and NGOs have criticised Tanguy's plan.\n\n\"Recreating places where human beings are locked up, just to satisfy the sexual needs of men that are considered irrepressible, no, that's unimaginable,\" Delphine Jarraud of the sex worker support group Amicale du Nid told Le Monde.\n\nThere is also reportedly strong opposition due to the party's hardline anti-immigration stance and the fact that majority of sex workers in France are estimated to not be French nationals.\n\nAcross Europe, the debate over how to approach sex work has raged for decades, especially since the early 2000s, when the Netherlands began regulating prostitution.\n\nIn 2022, Belgium became the only country in Europe to decriminalise sex work, while the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria all have some form of legalised prostitution.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>France's far-right National Rally (RN) party wants to reopen brothels run directly by sex workers. <\/p>\n<p>The party is preparing to submit a bill to parliament recommending that brothels, which were banned in France 1946, be reopened as cooperatives managed by sex workers, according to RN lawmaker Jean-Philippe Tanguy.<\/p>\n<p>The politician told the Le Monde newspaper that party leader Marine Le Pen backed the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\"Sex workers would be empresses in their kingdom,\" Tanguy told the radio station RTL.<\/p>\n<p>Prostitution itself is legal in France, although brothels, pimping and the sale of sex by minors are illegal. <\/p>\n<p>A 2016 law passed by the Socialist Party under then-President Fran\u00e7ois Hollande decriminalised soliciting yet punished clients of sex workers with a fine of \u20ac1,500.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////images.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//57//71//40//808x539_cmsv2_6c38e7b6-f6d6-5825-9000-718df72f6ff8-9577140.jpg/" alt=\"French far-right leader Marine Le Pen answers reporters at the National Assembly before a debate on a Social Security financing bill in Paris, 12 November, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/71\/40\/384x256_cmsv2_6c38e7b6-f6d6-5825-9000-718df72f6ff8-9577140.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/71\/40\/640x427_cmsv2_6c38e7b6-f6d6-5825-9000-718df72f6ff8-9577140.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/71\/40\/750x500_cmsv2_6c38e7b6-f6d6-5825-9000-718df72f6ff8-9577140.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/71\/40\/828x552_cmsv2_6c38e7b6-f6d6-5825-9000-718df72f6ff8-9577140.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/71\/40\/1080x720_cmsv2_6c38e7b6-f6d6-5825-9000-718df72f6ff8-9577140.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/71\/40\/1200x800_cmsv2_6c38e7b6-f6d6-5825-9000-718df72f6ff8-9577140.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/71\/40\/1920x1280_cmsv2_6c38e7b6-f6d6-5825-9000-718df72f6ff8-9577140.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">French far-right leader Marine Le Pen answers reporters at the National Assembly before a debate on a Social Security financing bill in Paris, 12 November, 2025<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Tanguy said the legislation had made sex workers' lives more precarious and dangerous by driving the trade underground through the criminalisation of clients.<\/p>\n<p>\"They get beaten up, sometimes have their throats slit, and no one talks about it. [The current system is] the height of bourgeois hypocrisy,\" he told Le Monde. <\/p>\n<p>However, several sex worker associations and NGOs have criticised Tanguy's plan. <\/p>\n<p>\"Recreating places where human beings are locked up, just to satisfy the sexual needs of men that are considered irrepressible, no, that's unimaginable,\" Delphine Jarraud of the sex worker support group Amicale du Nid told Le Monde.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//02//sex-workers-in-belgium-gain-historic-labour-rights-as-new-law-takes-effect/">Sex workers in Belgium gain historic labour rights as new law takes effect<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//11//10//dutch-police-attempt-to-solve-sex-worker-murder-case-with-hologram/">Dutch police attempt to solve sex worker murder case with hologram<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>There is also reportedly strong opposition due to the party's hardline anti-immigration stance and the fact that majority of sex workers in France are estimated to not be French nationals. <\/p>\n<p>Across Europe, the debate over how to approach sex work has raged for decades, especially since the early 2000s, when the Netherlands began regulating prostitution.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Belgium became the only country in Europe to decriminalise sex work, while the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria all have some form of legalised prostitution.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765295193,"updatedAt":1765299184,"publishedAt":1765299157,"firstPublishedAt":1765299157,"lastPublishedAt":1765299157,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/71\/40\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_0f4178b3-b856-5b49-a838-88062274075e-9577140.jpg","altText":"FILE: View of a room inside the closed Showpark brothel in Prague, Czech Republic, March 30, 2020.","caption":"FILE: View of a room inside the closed Showpark brothel in Prague, Czech Republic, March 30, 2020.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Petr David Josek\/Copyright 2020 The AP. All rights reserved","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":576},{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/71\/40\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_6c38e7b6-f6d6-5825-9000-718df72f6ff8-9577140.jpg","altText":"French far-right leader Marine Le Pen answers reporters at the National Assembly before a debate on a Social Security financing bill in Paris, 12 November, 2025","caption":"French far-right leader Marine Le Pen answers reporters at the National Assembly before a debate on a Social Security financing bill in Paris, 12 November, 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1333}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3238,"urlSafeValue":"guilbert","title":"Kieran 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COCAINE MAKES MORE MONEY THAN CANNABIS","daletPyramidId":3547832,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Cocaine overtakes cannabis as France's most lucrative illicit drug","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Cocaine overtakes cannabis as France's most lucrative illicit drug","titleListing2":"Cocaine overtakes cannabis as France's most lucrative illicit drug","leadin":"Cocaine overtook cannabis as France's most lucrative illicit drug in 2023, generating \u20ac3.1 billion as usage tripled over a decade despite falling prices.","summary":"Cocaine overtook cannabis as France's most lucrative illicit drug in 2023, generating \u20ac3.1 billion as usage tripled over a decade despite falling prices.","keySentence":"","url":"cocaine-overtakes-cannabis-as-frances-most-lucrative-illicit-drug","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/09\/cocaine-overtakes-cannabis-as-frances-most-lucrative-illicit-drug","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Cocaine overtook cannabis to become France's most lucrative illicit drug market in 2023, generating \u20ac3.1 billion in sales as usage tripled over the past decade, according to a study published Monday by France's drug observatory.\n\nThe illicit drugs market in France reached \u20ac6.8 billion in 2023, nearly three times the \u20ac2.3 billion recorded in 2010, according to research by the French Observatory of Drugs and Addictive Tendencies and funded by the government's Interministerial Mission to Combat Drugs and Addictive Behaviour.\n\nCannabis generated \u20ac2.7 billion in 2023, making cocaine the top revenue-generating illicit drug for the first time despite far lower consumption volumes. France sold 47.1 tonnes of cocaine in 2023 compared with 397.4 tonnes of cannabis.\n\nThe study was carried out by Christian Ben Lakhdar and Sophie Massin, professors at the University of Lille.\n\nCocaine's market dominance comes as prices have fallen to historic lows. A gram of cocaine cost \u20ac66 in 2023, down from \u20ac85 at the 2016 peak, according to the observatory. The number of cocaine users has tripled in 10 years, Ben Lakhdar said.\n\nChanged profile of drug users\n\nThe falling prices stem from increased production in South America, according to the study. Lower prices have changed the profile of cocaine users in France.\n\n\"Ten years ago, cocaine users would have been mainly Parisian, but today, in the workplace, we have a whole range of occupations that are affected, from manual workers to professionals,\" said Nicolas Prisse, chairman of the Interministerial Mission to Combat Drugs and Addictive Behaviour.\n\nThe observatory's annual report on the TREND system, published a week earlier, said \"the diversification of the profiles of cocaine-based users turning to addiction services is a notable feature of the investigations carried out in 2024.\"\n\n\"Many of those involved, whose facilities are located in cities as well as smaller towns, are seeing more socially and economically integrated people, sometimes in couples with children,\" the report said.\n\nCannabis remains France's most widely used illicit drug, but consumption among young people has declined. The market is sustained by a growing proportion of regular users who are increasingly approaching daily use, according to the study.\n\nPsychostimulants up sharply\n\nThe ecstasy and MDMA market grew 480% between 2010 and 2023. France consumed an estimated 65.6 million tablets in 2023, compared with 11.3 million in 2010.\n\nThe market recorded \"the strongest increase of all drugs in terms of value, with 637% growth between 2010 and 2023,\" the report said.\n\nTotal volumes of illicit substances purchased in France rose from 247 tonnes in 2010 to 463 tonnes in 2023. Cocaine volumes increased 244.6% while cannabis rose 144.8%.\n\nDrug dealers' use of instant messaging applications including Snapchat, Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal has driven the increase, as has increased productivity by traffickers in growing and processing substances, according to officials.\n\n\"Today, we have cocaine of 100% purity, criminal groups that have no hesitation in taking over every nook and cranny of our territory, and digital tools that help with transactions,\" Prisse told RTL radio.\n\n\"This massive supply has now met with demand from consumers who have changed a great deal over the last decade.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Cocaine overtook cannabis to become France's most lucrative illicit drug market in 2023, generating \u20ac3.1 billion in sales as usage tripled over the past decade, according to a study published Monday by France's drug observatory.<\/p>\n<p>The illicit drugs market in France reached \u20ac6.8 billion in 2023, nearly three times the \u20ac2.3 billion recorded in 2010, according to research by the French Observatory of Drugs and Addictive Tendencies and funded by the government's Interministerial Mission to Combat Drugs and Addictive Behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Cannabis generated \u20ac2.7 billion in 2023, making cocaine the top revenue-generating illicit drug for the first time despite far lower consumption volumes. France sold 47.1 tonnes of cocaine in 2023 compared with 397.4 tonnes of cannabis.<\/p>\n<p>The study was carried out by Christian Ben Lakhdar and Sophie Massin, professors at the University of Lille.<\/p>\n<p>Cocaine's market dominance comes as prices have fallen to historic lows. A gram of cocaine cost \u20ac66 in 2023, down from \u20ac85 at the 2016 peak, according to the observatory. The number of cocaine users has tripled in 10 years, Ben Lakhdar said.<\/p>\n<h2>Changed profile of drug users<\/h2>\n<p>The falling prices stem from increased production in South America, according to the study. Lower prices have changed the profile of cocaine users in France.<\/p>\n<p>\"Ten years ago, cocaine users would have been mainly Parisian, but today, in the workplace, we have a whole range of occupations that are affected, from manual workers to professionals,\" said Nicolas Prisse, chairman of the Interministerial Mission to Combat Drugs and Addictive Behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>The observatory's annual report on the TREND system, published a week earlier, said \"the diversification of the profiles of cocaine-based users turning to addiction services is a notable feature of the investigations carried out in 2024.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"Many of those involved, whose facilities are located in cities as well as smaller towns, are seeing more socially and economically integrated people, sometimes in couples with children,\" the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Cannabis remains France's most widely used illicit drug, but consumption among young people has declined. The market is sustained by a growing proportion of regular users who are increasingly approaching daily use, according to the study.<\/p>\n<h2>Psychostimulants up sharply<\/h2>\n<p>The ecstasy and MDMA market grew 480% between 2010 and 2023. France consumed an estimated 65.6 million tablets in 2023, compared with 11.3 million in 2010. <\/p>\n<p>The market recorded \"the strongest increase of all drugs in terms of value, with 637% growth between 2010 and 2023,\" the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Total volumes of illicit substances purchased in France rose from 247 tonnes in 2010 to 463 tonnes in 2023. Cocaine volumes increased 244.6% while cannabis rose 144.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Drug dealers' use of instant messaging applications including Snapchat, Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal has driven the increase, as has increased productivity by traffickers in growing and processing substances, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>\"Today, we have cocaine of 100% purity, criminal groups that have no hesitation in taking over every nook and cranny of our territory, and digital tools that help with transactions,\" Prisse told RTL radio. <\/p>\n<p>\"This massive supply has now met with demand from consumers who have changed a great deal over the last decade.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1765284688,"updatedAt":1765298562,"publishedAt":1765298558,"firstPublishedAt":1765298558,"lastPublishedAt":1765298558,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/68\/77\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_37a01c38-d717-54b4-a50c-0454d70ca87d-9576877.jpg","altText":"Pallets of cocaine seized aboard the US Coast Guard vessel Stone on Wednesday 19 November 2025 in Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.","caption":"Pallets of cocaine seized aboard the US Coast Guard vessel Stone on Wednesday 19 November 2025 in Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. 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