France

Local French media outlets imitated as part of Russian propaganda strategy<\/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//11//27//fact-check-is-china-using-tiktok-to-dumb-down-european-children/">Fact check: Is China using TikTok to 'dumb down' European children?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Where does the controversy come from?<\/h2>\n<p>A series of comments by the French president when he met with readers of French local newspaper La Voix du Nord on 19 November are at the heart of the controversy. <\/p>\n<p>Asked about the government's plans to fight fake news online, Macron defended the importance of distinguishing \"news sites\" from \"networks and sites that make money from advertising\".<\/p>\n<p>In this context, Macron brought up his media \"label\" proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think it's important for there to be a certification process carried out by professionals, who can say 'this does not comply with ethical standards and is a manipulation of information',\" he said. \"Information is a dangerous question in fact. So there are ethical rules.\"<\/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=\"1995554314849288403\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>However, the president highlighted a caveat: \"It's not the government or the state that can say, 'this is information, this is not',\" he said. \"We don't want to fall into that trap either, because that's not what democracy is about. Otherwise, it quickly becomes an autocracy.\"<\/p>\n<p>Citing an example for his plan, Macron referred to the Journalism Trust Initiative's (JTI) certification, which was launched in 2021 by media monitoring organisation Reporters Without Borders, focusing on how journalistic content is produced and the ethics surrounding this process, rather than judging pieces of content. <\/p>\n<p>The certification criteria were developed by a committee of 130 experts featuring journalists, various institutions, regulatory bodies, publishers, and members of the tech industry.<\/p>\n<p>\"An increasing number of news consumers find information through search engines and social media networks,\" Benjamin Sabbah, director of the JTI, told Euronews' fact-checking team, The Cube. \"The goal of our certification is to identify reliable sources of information and promote them.\"<\/p>\n<p>To date, more than 2,400 media outlets across 127 countries have participated in the Journalism Trust Initiative. <\/p>\n<p>\"The Journalism Trust Initiative was not originally designed as a tool to combat misinformation, but it ultimately has become one, out of necessity\", said Sabbah.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764862182,"updatedAt":1764952750,"publishedAt":1764945373,"firstPublishedAt":1764945373,"lastPublishedAt":1764945373,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP","altText":"France's President Emmanuel Macron attends a plenary session on the opening day of the G20 Summit at the Nasrec Expo Centre, in Johannesburg, South Africa, 22 November.","callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"caption":"France's President Emmanuel Macron attends a plenary session on the opening day of the G20 Summit at the Nasrec Expo Centre, in Johannesburg, South Africa, 22 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is France implementing a new cruise tax?_Indra","daletPyramidId":3516991,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"French Senate votes in favour of new \u20ac15 per passenger tax for cruise ships","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"France could introduce a new \u20ac15 per passenger cruise tax","titleListing2":"French Senate votes in favour of new \u20ac15 per passenger tax for cruise ships","leadin":"Following other European countries such as Greece and Norway, France is the latest to clamp down on cruise ships with a new tax proposal.","summary":"Following other European countries such as Greece and Norway, France is the latest to clamp down on cruise ships with a new tax proposal.","keySentence":"","url":"french-senate-votes-in-favour-of-new-15-per-passenger-tax-for-cruise-ships","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/travel\/2025\/12\/05\/french-senate-votes-in-favour-of-new-15-per-passenger-tax-for-cruise-ships","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"France could soon implement a new cruise ship tax for foreign visitors, which would require cruise ship travellers to shell out \u20ac15 per person for each French port call.\u00a0\n\nIt\u2019s estimated that the levy could bring in around \u20ac75 million a year, which could be used to conserve the country\u2019s vulnerable coastal areas.\u00a0\n\nCruise travel to France has continued to increase exponentially in the last few years. Mainland France saw an estimated more than 3.8 million cruise passengers pass through in 2023, according to the French government tourism agency, Atout France.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nWhen could France\u2019s cruise tax be introduced?\n\nThe new tax is expected to follow a \u201cpolluter pays\u201d model, which seeks to transfer both pollution and prevention costs onto the polluters themselves, rather than the other people affected. It is also part of France\u2019s wider 2026 budget.\u00a0\n\nThis move follows Cannes\u2019 recent decision to ban all cruise ships with more than 1,000 passengers from its harbour from 1 January next year. Similarly, Nice has also limited the number of cruise ships to 65 annually.\n\nThe French Senate has already voted in favour of the tax, with Senator Jean-Marc Delia citing the seven million tonnes of CO2 emitted by cruise ships in Europe every year as motivation for tabling it, according to The Local.\u00a0\u00a0\n\nAccording to a report by campaign group Transport and Environment (T&E), Carnival cruise line emitted more CO2 in 2023 than the Scottish city of Glasgow.\n\nHowever, France\u2019s current centrist government has objected to the levy, raising concerns about the difficulty of differentiating between ferries and cruise ships. The Assembl\u00e9e nationale will now need to consider the motion before it can be passed into law. It is expected to announce its decision later in December.\n\nEuropean countries clamp down on cruise ships\u00a0\n\nFrance is the latest European country to announce measures against cruise ships, following similar decisions in the last few months by Greece and Norway. Cruise ships have been accused of waste discharge, greenwashing and higher pollution in vulnerable coastal areas in recent years.\u00a0\n\nGreece has implemented a climate crisis resilience fee for cruise ships, with higher, \u20ac20 levies for popular spots like Mykonos and Santorini and lower levies of \u20ac5 for other destinations.\u00a0\n\nNorway also now lets municipalities add a 3 per cent tourism tax on cruise ship arrivals, in order to support local communities and cover overtourism costs.\n\nCities like Amsterdam and Lisbon are using higher cruise and tourist taxes to balance visitor impact and fund city improvements, too.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>France could soon implement a new cruise ship tax for foreign visitors, which would require cruise ship travellers to shell out \u20ac15 per person for each French port call. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s estimated that the levy could bring in around \u20ac75 million a year, which could be used to conserve the country\u2019s vulnerable coastal areas. <\/p>\n<p>Cruise travel to France has continued to increase exponentially in the last few years. Mainland France saw an estimated more than 3.8 million <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//08//17//would-you-spend-four-months-on-a-cruise-these-super-long-cruises-let-you-visit-dozens-of-c/">cruise passengers pass through in 2023, according to the French government tourism agency, Atout France. <\/p>\n<h2>When could France\u2019s cruise tax be introduced?<\/h2>\n<p>The new tax is expected to follow a \u201cpolluter pays\u201d model, which seeks to transfer both <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//11//27//air-quality-near-airports-and-ports-needs-to-improve-fast-eu-environment-agency-says/">pollution and prevention costs onto the polluters themselves, rather than the other people affected. It is also part of France\u2019s wider 2026 budget. <\/p>\n<p>This move follows Cannes\u2019 recent decision to ban all cruise ships with more than 1,000 passengers from its harbour from 1 January next year. Similarly, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//01//23//mayor-of-nice-vows-to-ban-floating-hotels-will-he-be-able-to-ban-cruises-by-the-summer/">Nice has also limited the number of cruise ships to 65 annually.<\/p>\n<p>The French Senate has already voted in favour of the tax, with Senator Jean-Marc Delia citing the seven million tonnes of CO2 emitted by cruise ships in Europe every year as motivation for tabling it, according to The Local. <\/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//01//from-ancient-trade-to-modern-travel-silk-road-tourism-surges-across-eurasia/">From ancient trade to modern travel: Silk Road tourism surges across Eurasia<\/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//30//us-transport-chief-urges-passengers-to-dress-with-respect-critics-say-clothes-arent-the-pr/">US transport chief urges passengers to \u2018dress with respect\u2019. Critics say clothes aren\u2019t the problem<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>According to a report by campaign group Transport and Environment (T&amp;E), Carnival cruise line emitted more CO2 in 2023 than the Scottish city of Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//08//11//france-is-the-worlds-most-visited-country-so-why-hasnt-it-turned-on-tourism/">France/u2019s current centrist government has objected to the levy, raising concerns about the difficulty of differentiating between ferries and cruise ships. The Assembl\u00e9e nationale will now need to consider the motion before it can be passed into law. It is expected to announce its decision later in December.<\/p>\n<h2>European countries clamp down on cruise ships<\/h2>\n<p>France is the latest European country to announce measures against cruise ships, following similar decisions in the last few months by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//10//22//strong-rise-in-non-eu-tourists-boosts-greeces-travel-sector-amid-drop-in-eu-visitor-number/">Greece and Norway. Cruise ships have been accused of waste discharge, greenwashing and higher pollution in vulnerable coastal areas in recent years. <\/p>\n<p>Greece has implemented a climate crisis resilience fee for cruise ships, with higher, \u20ac20 levies for popular spots like Mykonos and Santorini and lower levies of \u20ac5 for other destinations. <\/p>\n<p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//06//06//norway-to-introduce-tourist-tax-amid-record-visitor-numbers-and-overtourism-concerns/">Norway also now lets municipalities add a 3 per cent tourism tax on cruise ship arrivals, in order to support local communities and cover overtourism costs.<\/p>\n<p>Cities like <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//09//24//why-amsterdams-embattled-residents-are-suing-the-city-over-mass-tourism/">Amsterdam and <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//travel//2025//10//30//five-hour-lisbon-madrid-rail-link-to-go-ahead-by-2030-portuguese-officials-say/">Lisbon are using higher cruise and tourist taxes to balance visitor impact and fund city improvements, too. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764942727,"updatedAt":1764946205,"publishedAt":1764945028,"firstPublishedAt":1764945028,"lastPublishedAt":1764945028,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/32\/02\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_f7a121d1-6ccd-534b-b3fc-47002e08bbb1-9573202.jpg","altText":"A white cruise ship in sail","caption":"A white cruise ship in sail","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Matthew Barra\/ Pexels","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1333}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":2872,"urlSafeValue":"lahiri","title":"Indrabati 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OFFICIAL DIURETIC ABUSE","daletPyramidId":3515117,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"'It prolongs the trauma': French woman allegedly drugged by official decries slow pace of justice","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"French woman allegedly drugged by official slams slow pace of justice","titleListing2":"'It prolongs the trauma': French woman allegedly drugged by official decries slow pace of justice","leadin":"More than 240 women accuse Christian N\u00e8gre, a former senior official in the Culture Ministry, of secretly drugging them with diuretics during job interviews, then deliberately placing them in situations where they would be forced to urinate in public or on themselves.","summary":"More than 240 women accuse Christian N\u00e8gre, a former senior official in the Culture Ministry, of secretly drugging them with diuretics during job interviews, then deliberately placing them in situations where they would be forced to urinate in public or on themselves.","keySentence":"","url":"it-prolongs-the-trauma-french-woman-allegedly-drugged-by-official-decries-slow-pace-of-jus","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/05\/it-prolongs-the-trauma-french-woman-allegedly-drugged-by-official-decries-slow-pace-of-jus","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A French woman who was allegedly drugged by a diuretic by a former senior official in the Culture Ministry during a job interview has decried the slow pace of the justice system, saying, \"It prolongs the trauma.\"\n\nTen years after her alleged assault, Sylvie Delezenne is now speaking out about her ordeal in a bid to \"make things change\".\n\nShe says she met former ministry official Christian N\u00e8gre for an interview for a post at the Culture Ministry in 2015. She travelled from Lille to Paris to attend the interview, with high hopes, saying the position was a perfect fit for her profile and calling it \"my dream job\".\n\n\"I was in a very precarious situation. My unemployment benefits were about to run out, and I knew I was going to end up on welfare,\" she told public broadcaster Franceinfo.\n\n\"I was actively looking for work and networking on LinkedIn. When this senior official from the Ministry of Culture contacted me, with a profile perfectly aligned with my background in communication and marketing, I saw it as a real opportunity.\"\n\nDelezenne told the broadcaster that the job interview, which began in an office, started well. She accepted a cup of coffee from N\u00e8gre and when she had finished it, he suggested they take a walk and finish the interview outside.\n\nJob talk takes a nasty turn\n\n\"I felt an unusual urge to urinate (which) became increasingly urgent. My heart started racing, I was trembling, sweating, and felt like my body was swelling,\" she said in the interview on Tuesday.\n\nUnable to hold it any longer, Delezenne said she was forced to urinate in a tunnel leading to one of the bridges over the River Seine. She described that as painful and embarrassing, particularly when N\u00e8gre covered her with his coat.\n\nThey both went back to the ministry building, and at that point she realised the \"interview\" had lasted more than four hours.\n\nStill, she put the episode down to stress, blamed herself and did not think about it again until 2019.\n\n\"I received a letter from the Paris judicial police. They asked me to come and testify. At the police station, they first let me recount \u2018my interview\u2019 as I experienced it and I wondered why the police were interested in it,\" she explained.\n\n\"Then, the investigator returned with a huge binder and began to read: the supposed time of the administration of the diuretic product, the quantity, the route taken, the moment I asked for a break, the meeting with colleagues, then the description of the scene under the footbridge, down to the detail of the colour of my panties and even photos of my legs taken under her desk.\"\n\nDelezenne now finds herself at the centre of a criminal investigation and is one of more than 240 women who claim they were drugged by N\u00e8gre over a nine-year period with a potent and illegal diuretic.\n\nN\u00e8gre and his \"experiments\"\n\nThe alleged assaults first came to the attention of the police in 2018 after a colleague reported N\u00e8gre for allegedly trying to photograph the legs of a senior official.\n\nThat prompted police to launch an investigation and officers found a spreadsheet called \"Experiments\" on his computer in which he had recorded the times of the alleged druggings and the women\u2019s reactions.\n\nBy 2019, he was under formal investigation and had been removed from both the Culture Ministry and the civil service.\n\nHe is being investigated on charges ranging from drugging to sexual assault and faces a sentence of up to five years in prison and a fine of \u20ac75,000. Yet six years later, the trial is yet to begin.\n\nDrug-induced sexual assault involves covertly administering a psychoactive substance such as a diuretic or sedative to a person without their knowledge, to reduce their control over their actions in order to commit rape or sexual assault.\n\nIn France it is known as \"chemical submission,\" a term that became widely known across the country last year when Gis\u00e8le Pelicot waived her right to anonymity in the trial of dozens of men who raped her after she had been drugged into unconsciousness by her ex-husband.\n\nWhile the Pelicot case gripped France, many of the women allegedly assaulted by Christian N\u00e8gre have complained that their trauma is continuing because of the length of time it is taking for their case to come to trial.\n\nSylvie Delezenne told Franceinfo her professional life was left in tatters after her experience, saying she stopped applying for jobs and lived on welfare and loans. She also experienced cognitive difficulties and needed speech therapy.\n\nAt the bottom of the victim hierarchy\n\nShe also describes her position as a victim as being in a \"grey area\".\n\n\"I wasn't raped, he didn't 'touch' me in the way it's usually understood. So I find myself at the very bottom of the 'victim hierarchy,' as if what I went through were less serious,\" she said.\n\n\"Yet, my body was used for sexual purposes, without my consent, in a context of total domination. I was tricked with a drug, my dignity, my health, my social standing were played with.\"\n\n\"The consequences are very real: post-traumatic stress, financial insecurity, isolation, and the constant fear of the moment when justice will \u2014 or won't \u2014 finally deliver its verdict.\"\n\nWhile the case rumbles on and, for the time being, justice continues to elude many of N\u00e8gre's alleged victims, Delezenne is angry that her abuser has been able to continue with his life, reportedly finding work as a teacher in a private school under a new name.\n\n\"There's a kind of code of silence surrounding the fact that a senior official could have acted this way for years. I sometimes feel like they're taking me for a fool, that they're downplaying what happened.\"\n\n\"It gives the impression that in France, you can have 240 victims in a ministry of the Republic and continue living your life peacefully. You can't treat this as just another news item.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A French woman who was allegedly drugged by a diuretic by a former senior official in the Culture Ministry during a job interview has decried the slow pace of the justice system, saying, \"It prolongs the trauma.\"<\/p>\n<p>Ten years after her alleged assault, Sylvie Delezenne is now speaking out about her ordeal in a bid to \"make things change\".<\/p>\n<p>She says she met former ministry official Christian N\u00e8gre for an interview for a post at the Culture Ministry in 2015. She travelled from Lille to Paris to attend the interview, with high hopes, saying the position was a perfect fit for her profile and calling it \"my dream job\".<\/p>\n<p>\"I was in a very precarious situation. My unemployment benefits were about to run out, and I knew I was going to end up on welfare,\" she told public broadcaster Franceinfo.<\/p>\n<p>\"I was actively looking for work and networking on LinkedIn. When this senior official from the Ministry of Culture contacted me, with a profile perfectly aligned with my background in communication and marketing, I saw it as a real opportunity.\"<\/p>\n<p>Delezenne told the broadcaster that the job interview, which began in an office, started well. She accepted a cup of coffee from N\u00e8gre and when she had finished it, he suggested they take a walk and finish the interview outside.<\/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//30//03//808x539_cmsv2_757ad14a-9477-532e-8d60-cdbbfac498d3-9573003.jpg/" alt=\"Women with torches and placards protest in front of the Pantheon to mark the international day for the elimination of violence against women in Paris, 25 November, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/384x256_cmsv2_757ad14a-9477-532e-8d60-cdbbfac498d3-9573003.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/640x427_cmsv2_757ad14a-9477-532e-8d60-cdbbfac498d3-9573003.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/750x500_cmsv2_757ad14a-9477-532e-8d60-cdbbfac498d3-9573003.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/828x552_cmsv2_757ad14a-9477-532e-8d60-cdbbfac498d3-9573003.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/1080x720_cmsv2_757ad14a-9477-532e-8d60-cdbbfac498d3-9573003.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/1200x800_cmsv2_757ad14a-9477-532e-8d60-cdbbfac498d3-9573003.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/1920x1280_cmsv2_757ad14a-9477-532e-8d60-cdbbfac498d3-9573003.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\">Women with torches and placards protest in front of the Pantheon to mark the international day for the elimination of violence against women in Paris, 25 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<h2>Job talk takes a nasty turn<\/h2>\n<p>\"I felt an unusual urge to urinate (which) became increasingly urgent. My heart started racing, I was trembling, sweating, and felt like my body was swelling,\" she said in the interview on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Unable to hold it any longer, Delezenne said she was forced to urinate in a tunnel leading to one of the bridges over the River Seine. She described that as painful and embarrassing, particularly when N\u00e8gre covered her with his coat.<\/p>\n<p>They both went back to the ministry building, and at that point she realised the \"interview\" had lasted more than four hours.<\/p>\n<p>Still, she put the episode down to stress, blamed herself and did not think about it again until 2019.<\/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//30//03//808x539_cmsv2_1a13bfe9-c354-5b1f-97fd-370e1662d1ee-9573003.jpg/" alt=\"French police patrol on boat the River Seine in Paris, 8 December, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/384x256_cmsv2_1a13bfe9-c354-5b1f-97fd-370e1662d1ee-9573003.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/640x427_cmsv2_1a13bfe9-c354-5b1f-97fd-370e1662d1ee-9573003.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/750x500_cmsv2_1a13bfe9-c354-5b1f-97fd-370e1662d1ee-9573003.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/828x552_cmsv2_1a13bfe9-c354-5b1f-97fd-370e1662d1ee-9573003.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/1080x720_cmsv2_1a13bfe9-c354-5b1f-97fd-370e1662d1ee-9573003.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/1200x800_cmsv2_1a13bfe9-c354-5b1f-97fd-370e1662d1ee-9573003.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/1920x1280_cmsv2_1a13bfe9-c354-5b1f-97fd-370e1662d1ee-9573003.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 police patrol on boat the River Seine in Paris, 8 December, 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>\"I received a letter from the Paris judicial police. They asked me to come and testify. At the police station, they first let me recount \u2018my interview\u2019 as I experienced it and I wondered why the police were interested in it,\" she explained.<\/p>\n<p>\"Then, the investigator returned with a huge binder and began to read: the supposed time of the administration of the diuretic product, the quantity, the route taken, the moment I asked for a break, the meeting with colleagues, then the description of the scene under the footbridge, down to the detail of the colour of my panties and even photos of my legs taken under her desk.\"<\/p>\n<p>Delezenne now finds herself at the centre of a criminal investigation and is one of more than 240 women who claim they were drugged by N\u00e8gre over a nine-year period with a potent and illegal diuretic.<\/p>\n<h2>N\u00e8gre and his \"experiments\"<\/h2>\n<p>The alleged assaults first came to the attention of the police in 2018 after a colleague reported N\u00e8gre for allegedly trying to photograph the legs of a senior official.<\/p>\n<p>That prompted police to launch an investigation and officers found a spreadsheet called \"Experiments\" on his computer in which he had recorded the times of the alleged druggings and the women\u2019s reactions.<\/p>\n<p>By 2019, he was under formal investigation and had been removed from both the Culture Ministry and the civil service.<\/p>\n<p>He is being investigated on charges ranging from drugging to sexual assault and faces a sentence of up to five years in prison and a fine of \u20ac75,000. Yet six years later, the trial is yet to begin.<\/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:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//09//50//44//33//808x539_cmsv2_0f07310e-6dc7-523e-8f8e-ba6dbc003f7c-9504433.jpg/" alt=\"Gis&#xE8;le Pelicot sits in the courtroom during an appeals trial in Nimes, 9 October, 2025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/44\/33\/384x256_cmsv2_0f07310e-6dc7-523e-8f8e-ba6dbc003f7c-9504433.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/44\/33\/640x427_cmsv2_0f07310e-6dc7-523e-8f8e-ba6dbc003f7c-9504433.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/44\/33\/750x500_cmsv2_0f07310e-6dc7-523e-8f8e-ba6dbc003f7c-9504433.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/44\/33\/828x552_cmsv2_0f07310e-6dc7-523e-8f8e-ba6dbc003f7c-9504433.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/44\/33\/1080x720_cmsv2_0f07310e-6dc7-523e-8f8e-ba6dbc003f7c-9504433.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/44\/33\/1200x800_cmsv2_0f07310e-6dc7-523e-8f8e-ba6dbc003f7c-9504433.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/50\/44\/33\/1920x1280_cmsv2_0f07310e-6dc7-523e-8f8e-ba6dbc003f7c-9504433.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\">Gis&#xE8;le Pelicot sits in the courtroom during an appeals trial in Nimes, 9 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>Drug-induced sexual assault involves covertly administering a psychoactive substance such as a diuretic or sedative to a person without their knowledge, to reduce their control over their actions in order to commit rape or sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>In France it is known as \"chemical submission,\" a term that became widely known across the country last year when <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//19//dominique-pelicot-found-guilty-on-all-charges-in-historic-french-rape-trial/">Gis/u00e8le Pelicot waived her right to anonymity<\/a> in the trial of dozens of men who raped her after she had been drugged into unconsciousness by her ex-husband.<\/p>\n<p>While the Pelicot case gripped France, many of the women allegedly assaulted by Christian N\u00e8gre have complained that their trauma is continuing because of the length of time it is taking for their case to come to trial.<\/p>\n<p>Sylvie Delezenne told Franceinfo her professional life was left in tatters after her experience, saying she stopped applying for jobs and lived on welfare and loans. She also experienced cognitive difficulties and needed speech therapy.<\/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//09//02//gerard-depardieu-to-face-trial-in-paris-over-rape-and-sexual-assault-allegations/">G/u00e9rard Depardieu to face trial in Paris over rape and sexual assault allegations<\/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//24//french-prosecutor-seeks-rare-life-sentence-for-woman-who-killed-and-raped-schoolgirl/">First woman in France sentenced to life without parole for rape and murder of schoolgirl<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>At the bottom of the victim hierarchy<\/h2>\n<p>She also describes her position as a victim as being in a \"grey area\".<\/p>\n<p>\"I wasn't raped, he didn't 'touch' me in the way it's usually understood. So I find myself at the very bottom of the 'victim hierarchy,' as if what I went through were less serious,\" she said.<\/p>\n<p>\"Yet, my body was used for sexual purposes, without my consent, in a context of total domination. I was tricked with a drug, my dignity, my health, my social standing were played with.\" <\/p>\n<p>\"The consequences are very real: post-traumatic stress, financial insecurity, isolation, and the constant fear of the moment when justice will \u2014 or won't \u2014 finally deliver its verdict.\"<\/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//30//03//808x539_cmsv2_47e7137d-051a-5ccd-b5f3-da500ec02276-9573003.jpg/" alt=\"A protestor holds a placard reading &#x22;Victim we believe you. Rapist we see you&#x22; during a march in Paris, 23 November, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/384x256_cmsv2_47e7137d-051a-5ccd-b5f3-da500ec02276-9573003.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/640x427_cmsv2_47e7137d-051a-5ccd-b5f3-da500ec02276-9573003.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/750x500_cmsv2_47e7137d-051a-5ccd-b5f3-da500ec02276-9573003.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/828x552_cmsv2_47e7137d-051a-5ccd-b5f3-da500ec02276-9573003.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/1080x720_cmsv2_47e7137d-051a-5ccd-b5f3-da500ec02276-9573003.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/1200x800_cmsv2_47e7137d-051a-5ccd-b5f3-da500ec02276-9573003.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/30\/03\/1920x1280_cmsv2_47e7137d-051a-5ccd-b5f3-da500ec02276-9573003.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 protestor holds a placard reading &#x22;Victim we believe you. 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sites across the city, including the Sa\u00f4ne riverbanks, the T\u00eate d\u2019Or Park and the historic Saint-Jean Cathedral.\n\nA highlight this year is a drone light show above the T\u00eate d\u2019Or Park. With up to two million visitors expected, authorities urge travelers to plan ahead.\n\nThe region is offering discounted TER tickets and over 60 additional trains to facilitate access during the event.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Lyon\u2019s Festival of Lights returns from 5 to 8 December for its 26th edition, illuminating 23 sites across the city, including the Sa\u00f4ne riverbanks, the T\u00eate d\u2019Or Park and the historic Saint-Jean Cathedral. <\/p>\n<p>A highlight this year is a drone light show above the T\u00eate d\u2019Or Park. With up to two million visitors expected, authorities urge travelers to plan ahead. <\/p>\n<p>The region is offering discounted TER tickets and over 60 additional trains to facilitate access during the event.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764924970,"updatedAt":1764935324,"publishedAt":1764934915,"firstPublishedAt":1764934915,"lastPublishedAt":1764934915,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/27\/32\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_28e8d07a-ce07-58bf-b6e0-48a55100ee69-9572732.jpg","altText":"Lights Festival in Lyon","caption":"Lights Festival in Lyon","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"euronews","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1915,"height":991}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":18208,"slug":"fete-de-lumiere","urlSafeValue":"fete-de-lumiere","title":"Lyon Festival of Lights","titleRaw":"Lyon Festival of 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court.","keySentence":"","url":"french-student-convicted-of-vandalising-robert-badinters-grave","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/04\/french-student-convicted-of-vandalising-robert-badinters-grave","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A French student has been convicted of vandalising the grave of Robert Badinter, the former justice minister who abolished the death penalty in France, just hours before the late statesman was to be honoured at the Panth\u00e9on.\n\nThe 23-year-old with no prior record was arrested on Tuesday morning and tried for grave desecration and property damage. He admitted to the offences and was sentenced to a one-year suspended jail term.\n\nPolice identified him through CCTV footage showing him entering and leaving Bagneux cemetery in the Hauts-de-Seine department on the night of 8 October 2025, as well as mobile phone data analysis. Investigators said he had located Badinter's grave several days earlier.\n\nAt trial, he described himself as a \"royalist\" who reacted to an incident where an unknown suspect damaged the tombstone of late far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen \u2014 a Holocaust denier \u2014 in January.\n\nHe spray-painted the following message on the former minister's tombstone: \"Eternal is their recognition, murderers, paedos, rapists, the Republic sanctifies it\".\n\nOnce the desecration was discovered on 9 October, France's political class united in condemning the act.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron responded on social media platform X, stating: \"Shame on those who sought to tarnish his memory. This evening, he will enter the Panth\u00e9on, the eternal home of conscience and justice. The Republic is always stronger than hatred.\"\n\nMarie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Amiable, the mayor of Bagneux where Badinter is buried, condemned the \"cowardly act\" and said the inscriptions targeted his commitments against the death penalty and in favour of the decriminalisation of homosexuality.\n\nWho was Robert Badinter?\n\nBadinter, a lawyer and later justice minister, is remembered above all for his relentless campaign against capital punishment. He abolished the death penalty in 1981 following a historic speech to the National Assembly in which he argued forcefully for \"justice that does not kill\".\n\nThe landmark act made France one of the first European countries to permanently abandon capital punishment.\n\nBorn in Paris in 1928 to a Jewish family, Badinter experienced the horrors of World War II and France's collaboration first-hand, surviving the Holocaust under a false name. His father died in the Sobibor death camp. As a lawyer, he later pursued a notorious Holocaust denier in court.\n\nIt was also under Badinter's watch that France decriminalised homosexuality in 1982.\n\nBadinter's advocacy against capital punishment intensified after 1972, when he failed to save his client Roger Bontems from the guillotine. Five years later, he convinced a jury not to execute Patrick Henry for the murder of a seven-year-old boy, becoming an instantly controversial figure among the French public.\n\nAs justice minister under President Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand, Badinter overcame public opposition and won parliamentary support for abolishing the death penalty in 1981. The last person executed in France was Hamida Djandoubi in 1977.\n\nBadinter later served as president of the Constitutional Council and as a senator for 16 years.\n\nThe Panth\u00e9on ceremony\n\nThe pantheonisation ceremony \u2014 France's highest honour, which sees distinguished figures interred at the Panth\u00e9on monument in Paris \u2014 took place on the evening of 9 October, hours after the vandalism was discovered.\n\nHowever, Badinter's body remains in the Jewish section of Bagneux cemetery. A cenotaph containing his lawyer's gown, three cherished books and a copy of his most famous speech was placed in the Panth\u00e9on instead.\n\nHis widow, Elisabeth Badinter, explained the couple wanted to remain together after death: \"What we wanted was not to be separated.\"\n\nBadinter joined other French luminaries honoured at the site, including philosopher Voltaire, scientist Marie Curie, writer Victor Hugo and French Resistance hero Jean Moulin.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A French student has been convicted of vandalising the grave of Robert Badinter, the former justice minister who abolished the death penalty in France, just hours before the late statesman was to be honoured at the Panth\u00e9on.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old with no prior record was arrested on Tuesday morning and tried for grave desecration and property damage. He admitted to the offences and was sentenced to a one-year suspended jail term. <\/p>\n<p>Police identified him through CCTV footage showing him entering and leaving Bagneux cemetery in the Hauts-de-Seine department on the night of 8 October 2025, as well as mobile phone data analysis. Investigators said he had located Badinter's grave several days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>At trial, he described himself as a \"royalist\" who reacted to an incident where an unknown suspect damaged the tombstone of late far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen \u2014 a Holocaust denier \u2014 in January.<\/p>\n<p>He spray-painted the following message on the former minister's tombstone: \"Eternal is their recognition, murderers, paedos, rapists, the Republic sanctifies it\".<\/p>\n<p>Once the desecration was discovered on 9 October, France's political class united in condemning the act. <\/p>\n<p>President Emmanuel Macron responded on social media platform X, stating: \"Shame on those who sought to tarnish his memory. This evening, he will enter the Panth\u00e9on, the eternal home of conscience and justice. The Republic is always stronger than hatred.\"<\/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=\"1976242135793008808\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Amiable, the mayor of Bagneux where Badinter is buried, condemned the \"cowardly act\" and said the inscriptions targeted his commitments against the death penalty and in favour of the decriminalisation of homosexuality.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Who was Robert Badinter?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Badinter, a lawyer and later justice minister, is remembered above all for his relentless campaign against capital punishment. He abolished the death penalty in 1981 following a historic speech to the National Assembly in which he argued forcefully for \"justice that does not kill\".<\/p>\n<p>The landmark act made France one of the first European countries to permanently abandon capital punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Paris in 1928 to a Jewish family, Badinter experienced the horrors of World War II and France's collaboration first-hand, surviving the Holocaust under a false name. His father died in the Sobibor death camp. As a lawyer, he later pursued a notorious Holocaust denier in court.<\/p>\n<p>It was also under Badinter's watch that France decriminalised homosexuality in 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Badinter's advocacy against capital punishment intensified after 1972, when he failed to save his client Roger Bontems from the guillotine. Five years later, he convinced a jury not to execute Patrick Henry for the murder of a seven-year-old boy, becoming an instantly controversial figure among the French public.<\/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//10//10//france-pays-tribute-to-robert-badinter-the-man-who-ended-the-death-penalty/">France pays tribute to Robert Badinter, the man who ended the death penalty<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>As justice minister under President Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand, Badinter overcame public opposition and won parliamentary support for abolishing the death penalty in 1981. The last person executed in France was Hamida Djandoubi in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>Badinter later served as president of the Constitutional Council and as a senator for 16 years. <\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Panth\u00e9on ceremony<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The pantheonisation ceremony \u2014 France's highest honour, which sees distinguished figures interred at the Panth\u00e9on monument in Paris \u2014 took place on the evening of 9 October, hours after the vandalism was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>However, Badinter's body remains in the Jewish section of Bagneux cemetery. A cenotaph containing his lawyer's gown, three cherished books and a copy of his most famous speech was placed in the Panth\u00e9on instead.<\/p>\n<p>His widow, Elisabeth Badinter, explained the couple wanted to remain together after death: \"What we wanted was not to be separated.\"<\/p>\n<p>Badinter joined other French luminaries honoured at the site, including philosopher Voltaire, scientist Marie Curie, writer Victor Hugo and French Resistance hero Jean Moulin.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764837324,"updatedAt":1764845923,"publishedAt":1764845919,"firstPublishedAt":1764845919,"lastPublishedAt":1764845919,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/57\/11\/77\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_db9c5f26-3b79-5502-a391-94e95ff07bbf-9571177.jpg","altText":"The grave of former Justice Minister Robert Badinter, in Bagneux, France. ","caption":"The grave of former Justice Minister Robert Badinter, in Bagneux, France. 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Authors and publishers pulled out of the event last month.","summary":"The cancellation of the upcoming festival was expected after a monthslong crisis over its governance. Authors and publishers pulled out of the event last month.","keySentence":"","url":"angouleme-comics-festival-cancels-2026-edition-after-authors-call-for-boycott","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/12\/03\/angouleme-comics-festival-cancels-2026-edition-after-authors-call-for-boycott","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"France\u2019s Angoul\u00eame International Comics Festival (FIBD - Festival international de la bande dessin\u00e9e d'Angoul\u00eame) is among the world\u2019s foremost comic book events, but its survival is now hanging by a thread after a monthslong dispute over its governance.\n\nOrganisers have now decided to cancel the festival\u2019s 2026 edition. The event \u201cwill realistically not be able to take place under suitable conditions,\u201d lawyers for organising company 9e Art + said in a statement, which was first reported by local newspaper La Charente Libre.\n\nThe 53rd edition was supposed to be held from 29 January to 1 February 2026.\n\n9e Art + blamed the cancellation on the FIBD\u2019s public partners, who withdrew their subsidies in November.\n\nPublic funders \u201chave continually interfered in the management of this event, in spite of its private character, with the clear intention of ousting its long-standing organiser,\u201d the company said.\n\nCreated in 1974, the festival has been managed by 9e Art + since 2007. The company and its director Franck Bondoux are at the very centre of the crisis plaguing the entire French comic book ecosystem.\n\nOver the past decade, controversies and accusations of financial mismanagement have dealt a heavy blow to the event\u2019s reputation and angered professionals.\n\nA 2021 report from the local court of auditors highlighted the \u201ccomplex and opaque\u201d structure of 9e Art +, as well as inconsistent financial operations.\n\nUnder the company, the Angoul\u00eame festival also faced several accusations of sexism.\n\nThe announcement of an exhibition dedicated to French author Bastien Viv\u00e8s in the 2023 edition sparked debate as writers and feminist activists denounced the normalisation of incest and child sexual abuse in his work.\n\nThe episode triggered the emergence of #MeTooBD and the festival eventually cancelled the exhibition.\n\nBut the FIBD truly entered crisis mode in January, when French newspaper L\u2019Humanit\u00e9 revealed that an employee was fired after she reported she was raped during the 2024 event.\n\nThe revelation caused outrage among professionals and fuelled calls for a change of governance. In a statement published in late January, the Authors and Composers French Syndicate denounced the festival\u2019s \u201ctoxic atmosphere.\u201d\n\nAs negotiations were ongoing to renew the festival\u2019s governing bodies after 2028, authors were angered to learn that 9e Art + was still being considered to lead the event.\n\nThis was the last straw. Authors increasingly called for boycott and publishers followed through in November.\n\n\u201cThe FIBD has demonstrated its inability to listen to the comic book world, which for many months has overwhelmingly been rejecting the reappointment of [9e Art +] and of its director, Franck Bondoux,\u201d the Union of Alternative Publishers said in a statement on 10 November.\n\nPublic partners tried to maintain dialogue as unanimous discontent continued to rise.\n\nFaced with the prospect of an event deprived of its artists, they eventually pulled out their funds, which account for 47 per cent of the festival\u2019s budget.\n\n\u201cAuthors, together with their publishers, are the ones who make the festival happen. Without them and without festival-goers, there would be no event, and without a festival, there is no public funding,\u201d Angoul\u00eame mayor Xavier Bonnefond said in a press conference on 20 November.\n\nNow backed into a corner, 9e Art + had no choice but to announce the cancellation of the upcoming edition.\n\nThe company\u2019s governance contract runs for two more years and the 2027 festival could also be compromised if tensions remain high.\n\nThe prospect of other organisers taking over from 2028 onwards remains a source of hope for the industry but it promises to be a long battle.\n\n\u201cNever before has the danger been so real of seeing the most important comic book event disappear,\u201d the Union of Alternative Publishers said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>France\u2019s Angoul\u00eame International Comics Festival (FIBD - Festival international de la bande dessin\u00e9e d'Angoul\u00eame) is among the world\u2019s foremost comic book events, but its survival is now hanging by a thread after a monthslong dispute over its governance.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers have now decided to cancel the festival\u2019s 2026 edition. The event \u201cwill realistically not be able to take place under suitable conditions,\u201d lawyers for organising company 9e Art + said in a statement, which was first reported by local newspaper La Charente Libre.<\/p>\n<p>The 53rd edition was supposed to be held from 29 January to 1 February 2026. <\/p>\n<p>9e Art + blamed the cancellation on the FIBD\u2019s public partners, who withdrew their subsidies in November. <\/p>\n<p>Public funders \u201chave continually interfered in the management of this event, in spite of its private character, with the clear intention of ousting its long-standing organiser,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Created in 1974, the festival has been managed by 9e Art + since 2007. The company and its director Franck Bondoux are at the very centre of the crisis plaguing the entire French comic book ecosystem.<\/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//2023//10//18//culture-re-view-the-day-the-us-invented-the-newspaper-comic-strip-maybe/">Culture Re-View: The day the US invented the newspaper comic strip. Maybe<\/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//25//rare-superman-comic-breaks-record-and-becomes-most-expensive-ever-sold-at-auction/">Rare Superman comic breaks record and becomes most expensive ever sold at auction<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Over the past decade, controversies and accusations of financial mismanagement have dealt a heavy blow to the event\u2019s reputation and angered professionals.<\/p>\n<p>A 2021 report from the local court of auditors highlighted the \u201ccomplex and opaque\u201d structure of 9e Art +, as well as inconsistent financial operations.<\/p>\n<p>Under the company, the Angoul\u00eame festival also faced several accusations of sexism. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement of an exhibition dedicated to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2022//12//27//french-art-world-rocked-once-more-by-row-over-free-speech-incest-and-child-pornography/">French author Bastien Viv\u00e8s<\/strong><\/a> in the 2023 edition sparked debate as writers and feminist activists denounced the normalisation of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//01//27//child-porn-controversy-clouds-awards-at-frances-most-prestigious-comic-book-festival/">incest and child sexual abuse<\/strong><\/a> in his work. <\/p>\n<p>The episode triggered the emergence of #MeTooBD and the festival eventually cancelled the exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>But the FIBD truly entered crisis mode in January, when French newspaper L\u2019Humanit\u00e9 revealed that an employee was fired after she reported she was raped during the 2024 event.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation caused outrage among professionals and fuelled calls for a change of governance. In a statement published in late January, the Authors and Composers French Syndicate denounced the festival\u2019s \u201ctoxic atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As negotiations were ongoing to renew the festival\u2019s governing bodies after 2028, authors were angered to learn that 9e Art + was still being considered to lead the event.<\/p>\n<p>This was the last straw. Authors increasingly called for boycott and publishers followed through in November. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FIBD has demonstrated its inability to listen to the comic book world, which for many months has overwhelmingly been rejecting the reappointment of [9e Art +] and of its director, Franck Bondoux,\u201d the Union of Alternative Publishers said in a statement on 10 November.<\/p>\n<p>Public partners tried to maintain dialogue as unanimous discontent continued to rise.<\/p>\n<p>Faced with the prospect of an event deprived of its artists, they eventually pulled out their funds, which account for 47 per cent of the festival\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAuthors, together with their publishers, are the ones who make the festival happen. Without them and without festival-goers, there would be no event, and without a festival, there is no public funding,\u201d Angoul\u00eame mayor Xavier Bonnefond said in a press conference on 20 November.<\/p>\n<p>Now backed into a corner, 9e Art + had no choice but to announce the cancellation of the upcoming edition.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s governance contract runs for two more years and the 2027 festival could also be compromised if tensions remain high.<\/p>\n<p>The prospect of other organisers taking over from 2028 onwards remains a source of hope for the industry but it promises to be a long battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever before has the danger been so real of seeing the most important comic book event disappear,\u201d the Union of Alternative Publishers 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Honestly, I pay a lot of taxes. And it\u2019s not easy. But for others, it\u2019s very easy. And it isn\u2019t fair. That\u2019s why I\u2019m out protesting,\u201d he said.\n\nLimited impact on transport and schools\n\nThe strike caused minimal disruption nationwide. Rail traffic was \u201calmost normal\u201d, according to rail operator SNCF, with delays largely limited to the central Centre-Val de Loire and southern Occitanie regions.\n\nSchools were also largely unaffected - the Education Ministry reported a 5.27% teacher strike rate.\n\nMeanwhile, participation in the wider civil service reached 3.43% in state administration and 1.84% in local government.\n\nA smaller crowd in Paris\n\nIn Paris, a march of a few thousand people set off around 2 pm, but by 3:30 pm most participants had already dispersed, according to Euronews\u2019 correspondent on the ground.\n\nAnother protest was announced at 4 pm, but by 4:45 pm only a dozen people were present.\n\nThe CGT union estimated there were 17,000 demonstrators in the capital, a sharp drop compared to previous rallies.\n\nNationwide, the Interior Ministry estimated 31,900 protesters took part in Tuesday's strike.\n\nThe figures fall well below earlier mobilisations. 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Honestly, I pay a lot of taxes. And it\u2019s not easy. But for others, it\u2019s very easy. And it isn\u2019t fair. That\u2019s why I\u2019m out protesting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Limited impact on transport and schools<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The strike caused minimal disruption nationwide. Rail traffic was \u201calmost normal\u201d, according to rail operator SNCF, with delays largely limited to the central Centre-Val de Loire and southern Occitanie regions. <\/p>\n<p>Schools were also largely unaffected - the Education Ministry reported a 5.27% teacher strike rate. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, participation in the wider civil service reached 3.43% in state administration and 1.84% in local government.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A smaller crowd in Paris<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In Paris, a march of a few thousand people set off around 2 pm, but by 3:30 pm most participants had already dispersed, according to Euronews\u2019 correspondent on the ground. <\/p>\n<p>Another protest was announced at 4 pm, but by 4:45 pm only a dozen people were present. <\/p>\n<p>The CGT union estimated there were 17,000 demonstrators in the capital, a sharp drop compared to previous rallies.<\/p>\n<p>Nationwide, the Interior Ministry estimated 31,900 protesters took part in Tuesday's strike. <\/p>\n<p>The figures fall well below earlier mobilisations. On 18 September, 55,000 protesters were in Paris and 24,000 on 2 October, when larger inter-union coalitions joined the call for action, according to French authorities. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764705335,"updatedAt":1764708974,"publishedAt":1764708951,"firstPublishedAt":1764708951,"lastPublishedAt":1764708951,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/95\/65\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_cf5bb750-bf8a-5b32-839b-235588623ffc-9569565.jpg","altText":"A protester holds a placard reading \"Budget 2026\" during a demonstration for higher wages and against austerity, in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo\/Christophe Ena)","caption":"A protester holds a placard reading \"Budget 2026\" during a demonstration for higher wages and against austerity, in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (AP Photo\/Christophe Ena)","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Christophe Ena\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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Here\u2019s what to know","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Mistral releases new AI models, rivals US with multiple languages ","titleListing2":"Mistral, Europe\u2019s AI champion, releases new, smaller frontier models. 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This feature puts it in the same category as Google\u2019s Gemini 3, launched several weeks ago, and according to benchmarks, is considered one of the best AI models at the moment.\u00a0\n\nThe company Mistral Large 3 is engineered for robotics, autonomous drones, and small on-device applications without network access, as well as the world\u2019s largest enterprise agentic workflows.\u00a0\n\nMinistral\n\nThe large model is available in a series of nine \u201csmall models,\u201d called \u201cMinistral,\u201d that can be run directly on devices without the need to connect to the internet.\u00a0\n\nThe next wave of AI won\u2019t be defined by sheer scale, but by ubiquity - by models small enough to run on a drone, in a car, in robots, on a phone or a computer laptop. Small models deliver advantages for most real-world applications: lower inference cost, reduced latency, and domain-specific performance,\u201d the company said.\u00a0\n\nThe benefit of smaller AI models is that they require less computing power, resources and less expensive chips than large language models (LLMs). It also means that they can be faster and operate better in certain environments.\u00a0\n\nMistral said that this includes robotics, where Mistral AI\u2019s edge solutions work without Wi-Fi, giving operators instant, on-site diagnostics - using live sensor data and facility-specific repair logs to fix issues right on the shop floor. Its technology can also help in emergencies, so that drones can survive without wifi in dead zones.\u00a0\n\nThe company also said its models were open source, meaning they are customizable models for developers, \u201cmaking frontier AI accessible regardless of your native language,\u201d Mistral said.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The French artificial intelligence (AI) champion Mistral AI has rolled out new, smaller frontier models that operate in multiple languages to challenge its rivals in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>The company, which launched two years ago, released on Tuesday Mistral Large 3, which the startup claims maintains the same level of performance in \u201ca large number of languages,\u201d particularly European ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost AI labs focus on their native language, but Mistral Large 3 was trained on a wide variety of languages, making advanced AI useful for billions who speak different native languages,\u201d the company said in a press release.<\/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//02//05//frances-ai-darling-mistral-and-government-jobseeker-agency-join-forces-for-ai-tools/">France/u2019s AI darling Mistral and government jobseeker agency \u2018join forces\u2019 for AI tools<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>It is now multimodal, meaning it can read documents other than text, such as audio, images, and video. This feature puts it in the same category as Google\u2019s Gemini 3, launched several weeks ago, and according to benchmarks, is considered one of the best AI models at the moment. <\/p>\n<p>The company Mistral Large 3 is engineered for robotics, autonomous drones, and small on-device applications without network access, as well as the world\u2019s largest enterprise agentic workflows. <\/p>\n<h2><strong>Ministral<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The large model is available in a series of nine \u201csmall models,\u201d called \u201cMinistral,\u201d that can be run directly on devices without the need to connect to the internet. <\/p>\n<p>The next wave of AI won\u2019t be defined by sheer scale, but by ubiquity - by models small enough to run on a drone, in a car, in robots, on a phone or a computer laptop. Small models deliver advantages for most real-world applications: lower inference cost, reduced latency, and domain-specific performance,\u201d the company said. <\/p>\n<p>The benefit of smaller AI models is that they require less computing power, resources and less expensive chips than large language models (LLMs). It also means that they can be faster and operate better in certain environments. <\/p>\n<p>Mistral said that this includes robotics, where Mistral AI\u2019s edge solutions work without Wi-Fi, giving operators instant, on-site diagnostics - using live sensor data and facility-specific repair logs to fix issues right on the shop floor. Its technology can also help in emergencies, so that drones can survive without wifi in dead zones. <\/p>\n<p>The company also said its models were open source, meaning they are customizable models for developers, \u201cmaking frontier AI accessible regardless of your native language,\u201d Mistral said. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764690374,"updatedAt":1764693331,"publishedAt":1764691354,"firstPublishedAt":1764691354,"lastPublishedAt":1764691354,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/92\/02\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e28add6d-e124-56d8-9d0d-cb03ad547ccf-9569202.jpg","altText":"Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI participates in a panel discussion during an Artificial Intelligence Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. ","caption":"Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral AI participates in a panel discussion during an Artificial Intelligence Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. 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Sun shines down, so come to town. Set your body free\u201d was how the summer 1987 hit song goes. If you remember this tune, boys and girls, we have news for you.","summary":"\u201cBoys, boys, boys. Sun shines down, so come to town. Set your body free\u201d was how the summer 1987 hit song goes. If you remember this tune, boys and girls, we have news for you.","keySentence":"","url":"french-riviera-no-more-sunshine-for-foreign-pensioners","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/02\/french-riviera-no-more-sunshine-for-foreign-pensioners","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"First you collect your nice pension, you boomer. But coming to town to set your body free might, in the words of Sabrina's 1987 hit song, just got a little bit trickier.\n\nThe French government plans to end free healthcare for foreign pensioners, closing a loophole that lets them join the system after just 90 days of residence.\n\nThe law will affect all non-EU pensioners, including Brits and Americans. And the numbers are significant.\n\nData shows that around 150,000 adult US citizens live in France today, and a roughly similar number of UK nationals.\n\nYet, the plan is moving fast. It was accepted by the parliament last month with a vote of 176 to 79 and is likely to be passed by the French government next year\n\nFor future retirees, that means the free ride is soon to be over.\n\nAnd for those who have already been taking advantage of the generous system?\n\nAll you are left with to do is to sing \"Je ne regrette rien\" with a strong American accent. After all, it\u2019s another song from your youth, isn't it?\n\n","htmlText":"<p>First you collect your nice pension, you boomer. But coming to town to set your body free might, in the words of Sabrina's 1987 hit song, just got a little bit trickier. <\/p>\n<p>The French government plans to end free healthcare for foreign pensioners, closing a loophole that lets them join the system after just 90 days of residence. <\/p>\n<p>The law will affect all non-EU pensioners, including Brits and Americans. And the numbers are significant. <\/p>\n<p>Data shows that around 150,000 adult US citizens live in France today, and a roughly similar number of UK nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the plan is moving fast. It was accepted by the parliament last month with a vote of 176 to 79 and is likely to be passed by the French government next year<\/p>\n<p>For future retirees, that means the free ride is soon to be over. <\/p>\n<p>And for those who have already been taking advantage of the generous system? <\/p>\n<p>All you are left with to do is to sing \"Je ne regrette rien\" with a strong American accent. After all, it\u2019s another song from your youth, isn't it?<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764592052,"updatedAt":1764680902,"publishedAt":1764680763,"firstPublishedAt":1764680763,"lastPublishedAt":1764680763,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/76\/02\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_38cce2dc-e787-5093-8d24-97cbc4d145ed-9567602.jpg","altText":"JJ","caption":"JJ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"JJ","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"height":1126}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":3526,"urlSafeValue":"jakub.janas@ext.euronews.com","title":"Jakub Janas","twitter":null}],"producers":[{"id":3526,"urlSafeValue":"jakub.janas@ext.euronews.com","title":"Jakub 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continues.","keySentence":"","url":"zelensky-rallies-european-support-in-paris-ahead-of-us-led-moscow-talks","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/12\/01\/zelensky-rallies-european-support-in-paris-ahead-of-us-led-moscow-talks","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron Monday afternoon at a moment when diplomatic efforts around a US-driven peace plan are rapidly intensifying.\n\nIn the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio described discussions on Sunday with a Ukrainian delegation in Florida as \u201cproductive\u201d, while acknowledging that there's \"more work to be done\".\n\nMeanwhile, US President Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy Steve Witkoff is due in Moscow on Tuesday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe latest round of talks comes at a challenging moment for Kyiv. Russian forces continue to gain ground in eastern Ukraine, and Zelenskyy is facing domestic pressure following a major corruption probe that led to the resignation of his chief of staff Andriy Yermak, who had served as Ukraine\u2019s main negotiator with the US.\n\nZelenskyy said the territorial dimension of the US-backed plan remains \u201cthe most difficult one\u201d.\n\nMacron underlined that no agreement will move forward without European participation, insisting that the process can only advance with Europeans \u201caround the table\u201d.\n\nMacron added that no decisions have been finalised yet. Still, European leaders have developed a preliminary approach to security guarantees, which will continue to be discussed in the coming days with \"Coalition of the Willing\" partners.\n\nReporters questioned both leaders regarding the corruption case involving Zelenskyy\u2019s inner circle.\n\n\"Our role is not to lecture Ukraine,\" Macron said. \"The fight against corruption is working, since there are decisions that are open,\" he continued \u2014 drawing a contrast between Ukraine\u2019s anti-corruption measures and the lack of accountability in Russia.\n\nMacron also highlighted that pressure on Moscow is intensifying, noting that the EU has already adopted its 19th sanctions package and is preparing a 20th, now joined by the United States in targeting Russian oil companies.\n\nHe said the combined measures are unprecedented in their scope and warned that pressure will continue to grow in the coming weeks.\n\nBeyond Paris, Macron and Zelenskyy spoke \u201csuccessively\u201d with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the leaders of Germany, Poland, Italy, Norway, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands, as well as European Council President Antonio Costa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron Monday afternoon at a moment when diplomatic efforts around a US-driven peace plan are rapidly intensifying.<\/p>\n<p>In the United States, Secretary of State Marco Rubio described discussions on Sunday with a Ukrainian delegation in Florida as \u201cproductive\u201d, while acknowledging that there's \"more work to be done\".<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy Steve Witkoff is due in Moscow on Tuesday for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. <\/p>\n<p>The latest round of talks comes at a challenging moment for Kyiv. Russian forces continue to gain ground in eastern Ukraine, and Zelenskyy is facing domestic pressure following a major corruption probe that led to the resignation of his chief of staff Andriy Yermak, who had served as Ukraine\u2019s main negotiator with the US.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy said the territorial dimension of the US-backed plan remains \u201cthe most difficult one\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Macron underlined that no agreement will move forward without European participation, insisting that the process can only advance with Europeans \u201caround the table\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Macron added that no decisions have been finalised yet. 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All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Reporters questioned both leaders regarding the corruption case involving Zelenskyy\u2019s inner circle. <\/p>\n<p>\"Our role is not to lecture Ukraine,\" Macron said. \"The fight against corruption is working, since there are decisions that are open,\" he continued \u2014 drawing a contrast between Ukraine\u2019s anti-corruption measures and the lack of accountability in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Macron also highlighted that pressure on Moscow is intensifying, noting that the EU has already adopted its 19th sanctions package and is preparing a 20th, now joined by the United States in targeting Russian oil companies. <\/p>\n<p>He said the combined measures are unprecedented in their scope and warned that pressure will continue to grow in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Paris, Macron and Zelenskyy spoke \u201csuccessively\u201d with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the leaders of Germany, Poland, Italy, Norway, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands, as well as European Council President Antonio Costa, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764606570,"updatedAt":1764631243,"publishedAt":1764612411,"firstPublishedAt":1764612411,"lastPublishedAt":1764631242,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/79\/23\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_702b0ae0-07b3-58cd-a225-5e319e5c15fc-9567923.jpg","altText":"French President Emmanuel Macron, center right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy give a joint press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, Dec 1, 2025. 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month.","keySentence":"","url":"travel-disruption-thousands-of-airbus-planes-grounded-after-faulty-software-detected","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/2025\/11\/29\/travel-disruption-thousands-of-airbus-planes-grounded-after-faulty-software-detected","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Airlines around the world have been forced to ground thousands of Airbus planes following the discovery of a software problem which may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a plane last month, injuring 15 people.\n\nAround 6,000 A320 planes are thought to be affected, delaying and cancelling flights over the weekend. Airbus said on Friday that an examination of the JetBlue incident revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls on the A320 family of aircraft. The issue was caused by a software update to the aircraft\u2019s onboard computers, the EU agency said.\n\nThe European Union Aviation Safety Agency and the US Federal Aviation Administration have called on airlines to fix the issue with a new \u201cquick\u201d software update on most planes, which may cause \u201cshort-term disruption\u201d to flights, according to the EU safety agency.\n\nThe UK's aviation regulator said there would be \u201csome disruption and cancellations to flights\u201d, while around 500 US-registered aircraft will be impacted, just as travellers begin returning home from the Thanksgiving holiday, the busiest travel period in the country.\n\nAmerican Airlines operates around 480 A320-family aircraft, 209 of which are affected. The airline said the fix should take about two hours per aircraft, with the vast majority expected to have been updated on Friday and a small number on Saturday. Some delays were anticipated, but the airline said it aimed to limit cancellations and stressed that safety remained its top priority.\n\nEasyJet warned passengers of possible delays. In a message, it said: \u201cA software change is underway on our A320 family and if there are any changes to our flying schedule we will inform you.\u201d\n\nAir India said on X that its engineers were working on the update and had already completed the reset on more than 40% of the aircraft requiring it. It reported no cancellations.\n\nThe flight control computer is a Thales computer, in operation since March 2001. It has accumulated 50 million flight hours per year on 10,000 A320s.\n\nThe functionality in question is supported by software that is not under Thales' responsibility. The faulty software is known as the Elevator and Aileron Computer (ELAC).\n\nFollowing the 30 October incident on a flight from Canc\u00fan, Mexico, to Newark, New Jersey, at least 15 JetBlue passengers were injured and taken to hospital. The aircraft diverted to Tampa, Florida.\n\nAirbus is one of the world\u2019s largest aircraft manufacturers, alongside Boeing.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Airlines around the world have been forced to ground thousands of Airbus planes following the discovery of a software problem which may have contributed to a sudden drop in the altitude of a plane last month, injuring 15 people.<\/p>\n<p>Around 6,000 A320 planes are thought to be affected, delaying and cancelling flights over the weekend. Airbus said on Friday that an examination of the JetBlue incident revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls on the A320 family of aircraft. The issue was caused by a software update to the aircraft\u2019s onboard computers, the EU agency said.<\/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//11//18//flydubai-expands-its-fleet-beyond-boeing-with-major-airbus-order/">FlyDubai expands its fleet beyond Boeing with major Airbus order<\/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//05//26//frances-macron-secures-major-airbus-deal-during-vietnam-visit/">France's Macron secures major Airbus deal during Vietnam visit<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The European Union Aviation Safety Agency and the US Federal Aviation Administration have called on airlines to fix the issue with a new \u201cquick\u201d software update on most planes, which may cause \u201cshort-term disruption\u201d to flights, according to the EU safety agency.<\/p>\n<p>The UK's aviation regulator said there would be \u201csome disruption and cancellations to flights\u201d, while around 500 US-registered aircraft will be impacted, just as travellers begin returning home from the Thanksgiving holiday, the busiest travel period in the country.<\/p>\n<p>American Airlines operates around 480 A320-family aircraft, 209 of which are affected. The airline said the fix should take about two hours per aircraft, with the vast majority expected to have been updated on Friday and a small number on Saturday. Some delays were anticipated, but the airline said it aimed to limit cancellations and stressed that safety remained its top priority.<\/p>\n<p>EasyJet warned passengers of possible delays. In a message, it said: \u201cA software change is underway on our A320 family and if there are any changes to our flying schedule we will inform you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Air India said on X that its engineers were working on the update and had already completed the reset on more than 40% of the aircraft requiring it. It reported no cancellations.<\/p>\n<p>The flight control computer is a Thales computer, in operation since March 2001. It has accumulated 50 million flight hours per year on 10,000 A320s. <\/p>\n<p>The functionality in question is supported by software that is not under Thales' responsibility. The faulty software is known as the Elevator and Aileron Computer (ELAC). <\/p>\n<p>Following the 30 October incident on a flight from Canc\u00fan, Mexico, to Newark, New Jersey, at least 15 JetBlue passengers were injured and taken to hospital. The aircraft diverted to Tampa, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Airbus is one of the world\u2019s largest aircraft manufacturers, alongside Boeing.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764397243,"updatedAt":1764496961,"publishedAt":1764400411,"firstPublishedAt":1764400411,"lastPublishedAt":1764496960,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/59\/11\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_32f2ee4e-b424-5fff-ab07-7c247ea616e4-9565911.jpg","altText":"A TAP Air Portugal Airbus A320 is silhouetted against the setting moon while approaching for landing in Lisbon, Portugal, June 23, 2024. ","caption":"A TAP Air Portugal Airbus A320 is silhouetted against the setting moon while approaching for landing in Lisbon, Portugal, June 23, 2024. 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But is uprooting vines the solution?","leadin":"France says it is \u2018determined\u2019 to rescue the wine industry from a crisis, but could its plan backfire?","summary":"France says it is \u2018determined\u2019 to rescue the wine industry from a crisis, but could its plan backfire?","keySentence":"","url":"france-blames-climate-change-for-deteriorating-wine-industry-but-is-uprooting-vines-the-so","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/11\/29\/france-blames-climate-change-for-deteriorating-wine-industry-but-is-uprooting-vines-the-so","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"France has turned to the European Union for help after announcing additional funds to help rescue its \"deteriorating\" wine industry.\n\nEarlier this week, the French Agriculture Ministry confirmed it has allocated \u20ac130 million to finance a new, permanent vine-pulling plan to \u201crebalance supply\u201d and \u201crestore the viability\u201d of struggling farms in the most vulnerable regions.\n\nThis process involves severing and lifting the vines and their roots from the soil, usually using specialised equipment like a deep plough, and can cost around \u20ac1,000 per hectare.\u00a0\n\nMinister Annie Genevard has also asked the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food, Chrisophe Hansen, to finance the crisis distillation of non-marketable overstocks. This is where excess supply is turned into alcohol used for industrial purposes rather than consumption.\n\nWhat\u2019s behind France\u2019s vineyard crisis?\n\nGenevard says the country, which is one of the world\u2019s biggest winemakers and home to 11 per cent of global vineyards, has been \u201cconsistently\u201d facing a crisis for several years.\n\nIn a statement released on 24 November, she pointed the blame towards a trifecta of problems, including \u201cmajor geopolitical tensions\u201d.\n\nIt comes after Donald Trump threatened to impose a 200 per cent tariff on European alcohol earlier this year, a move which was quickly rescinded. However, a 15 per cent tariff on exports to the US, a crucial market for the French wine industry, was announced several months later.\n\nExperts fear the tariffs, combined with currency exchange rates, could slash annual French wine and spirit sales revenues by around \u20ac1 billion.\n\nA continued decline in wine consumption, particularly red wines, has also contributed to France\u2019s vineyard crisis. Last year, global consumption of wine fell to its lowest level in more than 60 years, while multiple surveys have pointed to Gen Z (those born between 1997 and 2021) turning their back on alcohol altogether.\u00a0\n\nTo top it all off, Genevard argued the sector\u2019s suffering has been compounded by climate change, which has \u201crepeatedly impacted harvests\u201d for several years.\n\n\u201cThis significant new financial effort, despite a particularly difficult budgetary context and subject to the adoption of the finance bill, demonstrates the government\u2019s determination to save our wine industry in the long term and allow it to bounce back,\u201d the Minister says.\n\n\u201cThis is not yet another emergency plan to correct a structural imbalance, it is an investment in our wine sector and to farmers in these production areas.\u201d\n\nWhat is uprooting?\n\nThe idea of pulling up vineyards is nothing new. It is believed to have originated in the first century when the Roman Emperor Domitian ordered the uprooting of 50 per cent of the grapes in Gaul (an ancient region of Western Europe that roughly corresponds to modern-day France) in fear that they posed a competition to Roman wines.\n\nSince then, subsidies for vine pulling have been introduced several times, and it is now considered a more economic measure compared to distilling or storing surplus.\u00a0\n\n\u201cToday\u2019s issues are an overproduction of wine and a large decrease in consumption, particularly with red wines, mostly in the entry-level sector,\u201d Pierre Metz, who is a partner in the Domaine Alain Chabanon vineyard in Terrasse du Larzac, Southern France,\u00a0 tells Euronews Green.\u00a0\n\n\u201cYounger consumers tend to consume less wine which pushes the sellers to reduce prices, which in turn pushes down prices at the producers\u2019 level.\u201d\n\nMetz explains that producers will now only receive around \u20ac0.80 for a litre of \u201cgeneric\u201d Bordeaux wine.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThe solution proposed by the producer lobby groups is to reduce production,\u201d he adds.\u00a0\n\n\u201cAn unproductive vineyard still costs money to maintain to avoid disease from spreading, as there are actually fines to be paid if you don\u2019t maintain your vineyard.\u201d\n\nThere are two different ways of pulling vines: permanently or temporarily. The latter has the benefit of allowing vineyard owners to replant with heat-resistant varieties, allowing them to adapt to rising temperatures, but this still reduces production for a couple of years.\n\nThe risk of wildfires\n\nUprooting vineyards permanently comes with its own set of risks, including disturbance to wildlife and hindering wildfire prevention.\n\nEurope faces more wildfires than ever, as climate change-fuelled droughts and rising temperatures make many regions across the continent more vulnerable. According to the European Commission, the area at risk of wildfires in France alone is expected to grow by 17 per cent by 2040.\n\nHowever, properly maintained vineyards could be part of the solution, as research shows that vine plots can act as \u201cfirebreaks\u201d by creating gaps in fuel and slowing the spread of flames.\n\n\u201cStudies in fire-prone areas have shown that wildfires often stop at the edge of well-kept vineyards, provided the space between rows is not overgrown with flammable vegetation,\u201d the EU\u2019s department for agriculture and development adds.\n\nMetz explains that the risk of wildfires can be mitigated by planting hedges, ploughing away wild growth of land and keeping up with general maintenance. However, this would incur high costs, which vineyards choosing to uproot their vines may not be able to afford.\u00a0\n\nUprooted vines can also make way for farmers to grow crops such as vegetables and cereals, but most choose to leave the land bare, as this again requires upfront costs.\n\nHow is climate change impacting the wine industry?\n\n\u201cClimate change is a daily subject for vineyard owners,\u201d says Metz, pointing to the \u201cmultiplication\u201d of hot periods that is being fuelled by global warming.\n\nThis summer, multiple parts of France were placed on high heat alert, as temperatures rose to 43\u2103 in parts of Charente and Aude. The scorching temperatures were identified as a key driver in a vast wildfire that burned through 160 square kilometres in Aude.\n\n\u201cThis succession of heatwaves also creates a water issue as there is less rainfall and the groundwater reserves are lower each year,\u201d Metz adds. \u201cSome of the large production areas can only survive with irrigation, which becomes more and more costly with the lack of water.\u201d\n\nIn June, the European Drought Agency classified a third of Europe as being in drought conditions, with 10 per cent of Europe in a state of crisis. In France, more than 30,00 commune inhabitants had their water supplies disrupted.\n\nUnlike mass producers, Metz chooses not to irrigate his vines or use fertiliser, which he says forces the plant to \u201cuse its survival instinct\u201d and \u201cpushes to the roots to look for groundwater.\u201d\n\nHe argues that good winemakers don\u2019t need protection and should be capable of adapting to the changing environment.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThe real help would be to push for an increase in quality by reducing the yield per hectare,\u201d Metz adds, arguing that uprooting vines will be like a \u201cdrop of water on a hot stone for most producers\u201d.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>France has turned to the European Union for help after announcing additional funds to help rescue its \"deteriorating\" wine industry.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the French Agriculture Ministry confirmed it has allocated \u20ac130 million to finance a new, permanent vine-pulling plan to \u201crebalance supply\u201d and \u201crestore the viability\u201d of struggling farms in the most vulnerable regions.<\/p>\n<p>This process involves severing and lifting the vines and their roots from the soil, usually using specialised equipment like a deep plough, and can cost around \u20ac1,000 per hectare. <\/p>\n<p>Minister Annie Genevard has also asked the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Food, Chrisophe Hansen, to finance the crisis distillation of non-marketable overstocks. This is where excess supply is turned into alcohol used for industrial purposes rather than consumption.<\/p>\n<h2>What\u2019s behind France\u2019s vineyard crisis?<\/h2>\n<p>Genevard says the country, which is one of the world\u2019s biggest winemakers and home to 11 per cent of<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//08//21//frances-vineyards-begin-2025-harvest-early-after-hot-temperatures/">global vineyards<\/strong><\/a>, has been \u201cconsistently\u201d facing a crisis for several years.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on 24 November, she pointed the blame towards a trifecta of problems, including \u201cmajor geopolitical tensions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//business//2025//11//24//us-to-cut-steel-tariffs-only-if-eu-agrees-to-soften-digital-rules-enforcement-in-return/">Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a>threatened to impose a 200 per cent tariff on European alcohol earlier this year, a move which was quickly rescinded. However, a 15 per cent tariff on exports to the US, a crucial market for the French wine industry, was announced several months later.<\/p>\n<p>Experts fear the tariffs, combined with currency exchange rates, could slash annual French wine and spirit sales revenues by around \u20ac1 billion.<\/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//16//talk-of-the-town-spains-joselito-ham-and-sierra-cantabria-wines-win-over-new-york/">Talk of the town: Spain's Joselito ham and Sierra Cantabria wines win over New York<\/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//03//which-grapes-went-into-which-bottle-the-food-detectives-bring-perfect-clarity-to-douro-win/">Which grapes went into which bottle? The Food Detectives bring perfect clarity to Douro wine<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>A continued decline in wine consumption, particularly red wines, has also contributed to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//02//17//why-do-frances-winemakers-want-to-destroy-their-vineyards/">France/u2019s vineyard crisis<\/strong><\/a>. Last year, global consumption of wine fell to its lowest level in more than 60 years, while multiple surveys have pointed to Gen Z (those born between 1997 and 2021) turning their back on alcohol altogether. <\/p>\n<p>To top it all off, Genevard argued the sector\u2019s suffering has been compounded by<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//11//25//from-the-alps-to-the-andes-how-climate-change-in-mountain-regions-is-putting-billions-at-r/">climate change<\/strong><\/a>, which has \u201crepeatedly impacted harvests\u201d for several years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis significant new financial effort, despite a particularly difficult budgetary context and subject to the adoption of the finance bill, demonstrates the government\u2019s determination to save our wine industry in the long term and allow it to bounce back,\u201d the Minister says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not yet another emergency plan to correct a structural imbalance, it is an investment in our wine sector and to farmers in these production areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>What is uprooting?<\/h2>\n<p>The idea of pulling up vineyards is nothing new. It is believed to have originated in the first century when the Roman Emperor Domitian ordered the uprooting of 50 per cent of the grapes in Gaul (an ancient region of Western Europe that roughly corresponds to modern-day France) in fear that they posed a competition to Roman wines.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, subsidies for vine pulling have been introduced several times, and it is now considered a more economic measure compared to distilling or storing surplus. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s issues are an overproduction of wine and a large decrease in consumption, particularly with <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//video//2025//11//21//midnight-tastings-mark-beaujolais-nouveau-celebrations-in-france/">red wines<\/strong><\/a>, mostly in the entry-level sector,\u201d Pierre Metz, who is a partner in the Domaine Alain Chabanon vineyard in Terrasse du Larzac, Southern France, tells Euronews Green. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYounger consumers tend to consume less wine which pushes the sellers to reduce prices, which in turn pushes down prices at the producers\u2019 level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Metz explains that producers will now only receive around \u20ac0.80 for a litre of \u201cgeneric\u201d Bordeaux wine. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe solution proposed by the producer lobby groups is to reduce production,\u201d he adds. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn unproductive vineyard still costs money to maintain to avoid disease from spreading, as there are actually fines to be paid if you don\u2019t maintain your vineyard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are two different ways of pulling vines: permanently or temporarily. The latter has the benefit of allowing vineyard owners to replant with heat-resistant varieties, allowing them to adapt to <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//11//22//six-thousand-year-old-data-reveals-europe-could-face-42-extra-days-of-summer-by-2100/">rising temperatures<\/strong><\/a>, but this still reduces production for a couple of years.<\/p>\n<h2>The risk of wildfires<\/h2>\n<p>Uprooting vineyards permanently comes with its own set of risks, including disturbance to wildlife and hindering wildfire prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Europe faces more <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//11//25//uk-dangerously-unprepared-for-growing-threat-of-climate-change-as-2025-wildfires-break-rec/">wildfires <\/a>than ever, as climate change-fuelled droughts and rising temperatures make many regions across the continent more vulnerable. According to the European Commission, the area at risk of wildfires in France alone is expected to grow by 17 per cent by 2040.<\/p>\n<p>However, properly maintained vineyards could be part of the solution, as research shows that vine plots can act as \u201cfirebreaks\u201d by creating gaps in fuel and slowing the spread of flames.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudies in fire-prone areas have shown that wildfires often stop at the edge of well-kept vineyards, provided the space between rows is not overgrown with flammable vegetation,\u201d the EU\u2019s department for agriculture and development adds.<\/p>\n<p>Metz explains that the risk of wildfires can be mitigated by planting hedges, ploughing away wild growth of land and keeping up with general maintenance. However, this would incur high costs, which vineyards choosing to uproot their vines may not be able to afford. <\/p>\n<p>Uprooted vines can also make way for farmers to grow crops such as vegetables and cereals, but most choose to leave the land bare, as this again requires upfront costs.<\/p>\n<h2>How is climate change impacting the wine industry?<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cClimate change is a daily subject for vineyard owners,\u201d says Metz, pointing to the \u201cmultiplication\u201d of hot periods that is being fuelled by global warming.<\/p>\n<p>This summer, multiple parts of France were placed on<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//08//11//france-on-high-alert-as-ongoing-heatwave-fuels-wildfire-and-pollution-risks/">high heat alert<\/strong><\/a>, as temperatures rose to 43\u2103 in parts of Charente and Aude. The scorching temperatures were identified as a key driver in a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//08//11//france-on-high-alert-as-ongoing-heatwave-fuels-wildfire-and-pollution-risks/">vast wildfire<\/strong> <\/a>that burned through 160 square kilometres in Aude.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis succession of heatwaves also creates a water issue as there is less rainfall and the groundwater reserves are lower each year,\u201d Metz adds. \u201cSome of the large production areas can only survive with irrigation, which becomes more and more costly with the lack of water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In June, the European Drought Agency classified a third of Europe as being in drought conditions, with 10 per cent of Europe in a state of crisis. In France, more than 30,00 commune inhabitants had their <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//08//14//300000-residents-left-without-reliable-water-sources-as-drought-ravages-southern-france/">water supplies disrupted<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike mass producers, Metz chooses not to irrigate his vines or use fertiliser, which he says forces the plant to \u201cuse its survival instinct\u201d and \u201cpushes to the roots to look for groundwater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He argues that good winemakers don\u2019t need protection and should be capable of adapting to the changing environment. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real help would be to push for an increase in quality by reducing the yield per hectare,\u201d Metz adds, arguing that uprooting vines will be like a \u201cdrop of water on a hot stone for most producers\u201d. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764243526,"updatedAt":1764577404,"publishedAt":1764399639,"firstPublishedAt":1764399639,"lastPublishedAt":1764577403,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/37\/26\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_ef413b1e-dc33-5cca-b55f-7262dedd017b-9563726.jpg","altText":"A worker tends to a vineyard in the southern France region of Provence, Friday Oct. 11, 2019.","caption":"A worker tends to a vineyard in the southern France region of Provence, Friday Oct. 11, 2019.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. 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French films represent 38% of movies screened in the country as opposed to more than 46% last year, according to the National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image.\n\nIt was, however, an interesting year for French lesbian cinema, with several acclaimed movies, in both documentary and fiction. One of them wasThe Little Sister (La Petite Derni\u00e8re), the third feature film by renowned actress Hafsia Herzi. This adaption of Fatima Daas\u2019 2020 novel, about a young woman learning to reconcile her Muslim faith and her sexuality, was awarded the Queer Palm at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and even bagged Nadia Melliti the Best Actress Award.\n\nIt wasn't the only stellar queer story that premiered in Cannes this year. Alice Douard\u2019s Love Letters (Des preuves d\u2019amour) was selected for the festival\u2019s Critics Week and has now come to French theatres.\n\nThe year is 2014 and the place is Paris in springtime. The French law authorising sex-same couples to get married and adopt children is less than a year old.\n\nC\u00e9line (Ella Rumpf) is expecting her first child but she is not pregnant. Her wife Nadia (Monia Chokri) is carrying their daughter thanks to assisted reproductive technology performed in Denmark.\n\nC\u00e9line will have to adopt her future child to legally become a mother. She listens carefully as a blunt lawyer asks her to provide letters from her loved ones, including her estranged mother, to attest of her relationship with her baby.\n\nWe follow the couple in the last three months of the pregnancy, as C\u00e9line struggles to find her place as a future parent and goes on a quest to collect her love letters.\n\nFor her first feature film, Alice Douard reconnects with familiar themes and settings. Love Letters expands from her 2022 short film L\u2019Attente, set in a maternity ward, about a woman waiting for her wife to deliver their first child. It won the C\u00e9sar Award for Best Fiction Short Film.\n\nThree years later, Douard offers a much-needed depiction of pregnancy and motherhood. The film does not shy away from complex emotions. Nadia\u2019s. C\u00e9line\u2019s. Ours.\n\nThe camera follows the characters up close, capturing the extraordinary nuances that Chokri and Rumpf bring to these two women. Nadia\u2019s frustration over her changing body and abilities as a parent take as much space as C\u00e9line\u2019s confusion and anger at having to prove her motherhood.\n\nC\u00e9line is afraid Nadia might die before the adoption is completed, leaving her with no rights over their daughter. And what if she just breaks up with her? \u201cEveryone says you can\u2019t stomach one another the first year,\" she says during an argument.\n\nBut Love Letters is far from being a maudlin tear-jerker, as the film delivers some truly funny scenes. For instance, C\u00e9line and Nadia visit a couple of friends, hoping to secure a reference for their adoption case. Their acquaintance leads to harrowing details of labour, soundtracked to restless children on a mission to make as much noise as possible.\n\n\u201cI can't have an abortion now anyway, it's too late,\u201d a stunned Nadia says after they leave, suddenly realising how much their life is about to change.\n\nThe film\u2019s brilliance lies in Douard\u2019s mastery of its tone. Moments of doubts and anxiety always unfold with a certain softness.\n\nThe magical ingredient is love. The love Douard feels for her characters and the love we sense between C\u00e9line and Nadia when they lip-sync the words to Flume\u2019s \u2018You & Me\u2019 from two opposites sides of a nightclub. In doing so, they look at each other but also at the camera.\n\nLater in the film, a heavily pregnant Nadia punches a homophobe to defend C\u00e9line, which might just be the ultimate proof of love.\n\nLove is also what unites C\u00e9line and her mother Marguerite (No\u00e9mie Lvovsky), a famous pianist who spent most of her daughter\u2019s childhood on the road. Marguerite does not understand why C\u00e9line isn\u2019t carrying her child and wonders if this is punishment for her absence. C\u00e9line resents her mother for choosing music over her despite also working in concert halls as a sound engineer. But their unique bond remains.\n\nUltimately, the initial administrative quest is just the starting point that allows Douard to unfold her tender and in many ways revolutionary portrait of parenthood. C\u00e9line and Nadia, like Marguerite, will be imperfect mothers. But mothers they will be.\n\nLove Letters is out in French, Belgian and Swiss cinemas now, with a scheduled release across Austria, Germany and Quebec in the coming months.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The year is coming to an end with a somewhat disappointing record for French cinema, bereft of major national successes like last year\u2019s <em>The Count of Monte-Cristo<\/em>, <em>A Little Something Extra<\/em> and <em>Beating Hearts.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As of October, ticket sales are down 14.9% in 2025 compared to 2024. French films represent 38% of movies screened in the country as opposed to more than 46% last year, according to the National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image.<\/p>\n<p>It was, however, an interesting year for French lesbian cinema, with several acclaimed movies, in both documentary and fiction. One of them was_The Little Sister_ (<em>La Petite Derni\u00e8re<\/em>), the third feature film by renowned actress Hafsia Herzi. This adaption of Fatima Daas\u2019 2020 novel, about a young woman learning to reconcile her Muslim faith and her sexuality, was awarded the Queer Palm at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and even bagged Nadia Melliti the Best Actress Award.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn't the only stellar queer story that premiered in Cannes this year. Alice Douard\u2019s <em>Love Letters<\/em> (<em>Des preuves d\u2019amour<\/em>) was selected for the festival\u2019s Critics Week and has now come to French theatres.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5405\">\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//56//40//54//808x437_cmsv2_c64f1bda-edb2-53cc-9236-e1b2dfc59e45-9564054.jpg/" alt=\"C&#xE9;line and Nadia (Ella Rumpf and Monia Chokri) in &#x27;Love Letters&#x27;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/384x208_cmsv2_c64f1bda-edb2-53cc-9236-e1b2dfc59e45-9564054.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/640x346_cmsv2_c64f1bda-edb2-53cc-9236-e1b2dfc59e45-9564054.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/750x405_cmsv2_c64f1bda-edb2-53cc-9236-e1b2dfc59e45-9564054.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/828x448_cmsv2_c64f1bda-edb2-53cc-9236-e1b2dfc59e45-9564054.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/1080x584_cmsv2_c64f1bda-edb2-53cc-9236-e1b2dfc59e45-9564054.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/1200x649_cmsv2_c64f1bda-edb2-53cc-9236-e1b2dfc59e45-9564054.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/1920x1038_cmsv2_c64f1bda-edb2-53cc-9236-e1b2dfc59e45-9564054.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\">C&#xE9;line and Nadia (Ella Rumpf and Monia Chokri) in &#x27;Love Letters&#x27;<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Apsara Films\/Les Films de June\/france 2 Cin&#xE9;ma<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The year is 2014 and the place is Paris in springtime. The French law authorising sex-same couples to get married and adopt children is less than a year old.<\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9line (Ella Rumpf) is expecting her first child but she is not pregnant. Her wife Nadia (Monia Chokri) is carrying their daughter thanks to assisted reproductive technology performed in Denmark. <\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9line will have to adopt her future child to legally become a mother. She listens carefully as a blunt lawyer asks her to provide letters from her loved ones, including her estranged mother, to attest of her relationship with her baby. <\/p>\n<p>We follow the couple in the last three months of the pregnancy, as C\u00e9line struggles to find her place as a future parent and goes on a quest to collect her love letters.<\/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//56//40//54//808x454_cmsv2_a0eeacdd-8a57-5a33-9d64-7d72ec03e427-9564054.jpg/" alt=\"Love Letters\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/384x216_cmsv2_a0eeacdd-8a57-5a33-9d64-7d72ec03e427-9564054.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/640x360_cmsv2_a0eeacdd-8a57-5a33-9d64-7d72ec03e427-9564054.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/750x422_cmsv2_a0eeacdd-8a57-5a33-9d64-7d72ec03e427-9564054.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/828x466_cmsv2_a0eeacdd-8a57-5a33-9d64-7d72ec03e427-9564054.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/1080x608_cmsv2_a0eeacdd-8a57-5a33-9d64-7d72ec03e427-9564054.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/1200x675_cmsv2_a0eeacdd-8a57-5a33-9d64-7d72ec03e427-9564054.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/1920x1080_cmsv2_a0eeacdd-8a57-5a33-9d64-7d72ec03e427-9564054.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\">Love Letters<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Apsara Films\/Les Films de June\/france 2 Cin&#xE9;ma<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>For her first feature film, Alice Douard reconnects with familiar themes and settings. <em>Love Letters<\/em> expandsfrom her 2022 short film <em>L\u2019Attente<\/em>, set in a maternity ward, about a woman waiting for her wife to deliver their first child. It won the C\u00e9sar Award for Best Fiction Short Film. <\/p>\n<p>Three years later, Douard offers a much-needed depiction of pregnancy and motherhood. The film does not shy away from complex emotions. Nadia\u2019s. C\u00e9line\u2019s. Ours. <\/p>\n<p>The camera follows the characters up close, capturing the extraordinary nuances that Chokri and Rumpf bring to these two women. Nadia\u2019s frustration over her changing body and abilities as a parent take as much space as C\u00e9line\u2019s confusion and anger at having to prove her motherhood.<\/p>\n<p>C\u00e9line is afraid Nadia might die before the adoption is completed, leaving her with no rights over their daughter. And what if she just breaks up with her? \u201cEveryone says you can\u2019t stomach one another the first year,\" she says during an argument.<\/p>\n<p>But <em>Love Letters<\/em> is far from being a maudlin tear-jerker, as the film delivers some truly funny scenes. For instance, C\u00e9line and Nadia visit a couple of friends, hoping to secure a reference for their adoption case. Their acquaintance leads to harrowing details of labour, soundtracked to restless children on a mission to make as much noise as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can't have an abortion now anyway, it's too late,\u201d a stunned Nadia says after they leave, suddenly realising how much their life is about to change. <\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s brilliance lies in Douard\u2019s mastery of its tone. Moments of doubts and anxiety always unfold with a certain softness.<\/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//56//40//54//808x454_cmsv2_3a7cc60c-7597-5c7d-b828-06d69d1368bf-9564054.jpg/" alt=\"Love Letters\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/384x216_cmsv2_3a7cc60c-7597-5c7d-b828-06d69d1368bf-9564054.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/640x360_cmsv2_3a7cc60c-7597-5c7d-b828-06d69d1368bf-9564054.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/750x422_cmsv2_3a7cc60c-7597-5c7d-b828-06d69d1368bf-9564054.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/828x466_cmsv2_3a7cc60c-7597-5c7d-b828-06d69d1368bf-9564054.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/1080x608_cmsv2_3a7cc60c-7597-5c7d-b828-06d69d1368bf-9564054.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/1200x675_cmsv2_3a7cc60c-7597-5c7d-b828-06d69d1368bf-9564054.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/40\/54\/1920x1080_cmsv2_3a7cc60c-7597-5c7d-b828-06d69d1368bf-9564054.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\">Love Letters<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Apsara Films\/Les Films de June\/france 2 Cin&#xE9;ma<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>The magical ingredient is love. The love Douard feels for her characters and the love we sense between C\u00e9line and Nadia when they lip-sync the words to Flume\u2019s \u2018You &amp; Me\u2019 from two opposites sides of a nightclub. In doing so, they look at each other but also at the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the film, a heavily pregnant Nadia punches a homophobe to defend C\u00e9line, which might just be the ultimate proof of love.<\/p>\n<p>Love is also what unites C\u00e9line and her mother Marguerite (No\u00e9mie Lvovsky), a famous pianist who spent most of her daughter\u2019s childhood on the road. Marguerite does not understand why C\u00e9line isn\u2019t carrying her child and wonders if this is punishment for her absence. C\u00e9line resents her mother for choosing music over her despite also working in concert halls as a sound engineer. But their unique bond remains.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the initial administrative quest is just the starting point that allows Douard to unfold her tender and in many ways revolutionary portrait of parenthood. C\u00e9line and Nadia, like Marguerite, will be imperfect mothers. But mothers they will be.<\/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//vkaPMIC23GU/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><strong><em>Love Letters<\/em> is out in French, Belgian and Swiss cinemas now, with a scheduled release across Austria, Germany and Quebec in the coming 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Thursday.","keySentence":"","url":"macron-announces-new-french-voluntary-military-service-to-start-next-summer","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/11\/27\/macron-announces-new-french-voluntary-military-service-to-start-next-summer","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"France will launch a voluntary military service programme in summer 2026, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday during a speech in Varces in the Alps.\n\nThe scheme will recruit 18 and 19-year-olds selected during a \"day of mobilisation\" based on their motivation and the needs of the armed forces. Volunteers will serve for ten months, beginning with one month of initial training in basic military skills and weapons handling, followed by nine months in a military unit deployed only on French territory.\n\nParticipants will receive pay and take part in all missions, including Operation Sentinelle, France's domestic security operation deployed since 2015.\n\nMacron said the programme aims to enrol 3,000 young people in 2026, rising to 10,000 by 2030 and 50,000 by 2035. He ruled out returning to universal conscription, which was suspended in France in 1996 and ended in 2001, and would require recruiting 600,000 to 800,000 young people annually.\n\n\"We need mobilisation,\" Macron said, stressing France must \"be ready and be respected\" without targeting any specific enemy. He described the initiative as a response to the \"acceleration of crises\" facing France.\n\nThe announcement effectively ends the Universal National Service programme, a civic engagement scheme Macron had previously championed for all young people.\n\nOn Tuesday, Macron clarified the new service was not about \"sending our young people to Ukraine.\" The statement came days after Chief of Defence Staff General Fabien Mandon sparked controversy by warning France must prepare to \"accept losing its children\" in response to Russian threats and the risk of open conflict.\n\nThe programme launch comes as France seeks to reduce its debt amid tight financial constraints.\n\nTwelve European countries currently maintain compulsory military service. In Norway, which Macron cited as a model, around 15% of each age cohort serve for 12 months, selected based on qualifications and motivation.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>France will launch a voluntary military service programme in summer 2026, President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday during a speech in Varces in the Alps.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme will recruit 18 and 19-year-olds selected during a \"day of mobilisation\" based on their motivation and the needs of the armed forces. Volunteers will serve for ten months, beginning with one month of initial training in basic military skills and weapons handling, followed by nine months in a military unit deployed only on French territory.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will receive pay and take part in all missions, including Operation Sentinelle, France's domestic security operation deployed since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Macron said the programme aims to enrol 3,000 young people in 2026, rising to 10,000 by 2030 and 50,000 by 2035. He ruled out returning to universal conscription, which was suspended in France in 1996 and ended in 2001, and would require recruiting 600,000 to 800,000 young people annually.<\/p>\n<p>\"We need mobilisation,\" Macron said, stressing France must \"be ready and be respected\" without targeting any specific enemy. He described the initiative as a response to the \"acceleration of crises\" facing France.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement effectively ends the Universal National Service programme, a civic engagement scheme Macron had previously championed for all young 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//2025//11//25//macron-seeks-to-reassure-public-as-france-prepares-a-new-voluntary-military-service/">Macron seeks to reassure public as France prepares a new voluntary military service<\/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//21//army-chief-warns-france-must-accept-loss-of-our-children-to-deter-russia-by-2030/">Minister backs army chief over warning France must accept 'loss of our children'<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>On Tuesday, Macron clarified the new service was not about \"sending our young people to Ukraine.\" The statement came days after Chief of Defence Staff General Fabien Mandon sparked controversy by warning France must prepare to \"accept losing its children\" in response to Russian threats and the risk of open conflict.<\/p>\n<p>The programme launch comes as France seeks to reduce its debt amid tight financial constraints.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve European countries currently maintain compulsory military service. In Norway, which Macron cited as a model, around 15% of each age cohort serve for 12 months, selected based on qualifications and motivation.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764243629,"updatedAt":1764253114,"publishedAt":1764247198,"firstPublishedAt":1764247198,"lastPublishedAt":1764247198,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/37\/27\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_6d339d7a-f406-5413-bfc0-abb6565b3ae1-9563727.jpg","altText":"AP","caption":"AP","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Thomas Padilla\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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CANDACE OWENS","daletPyramidId":3433221,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Candace Owens says Macrons ordered her assassination, but provides no evidence ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Candace Owens says Macrons ordered her killing, but there's no proof","titleListing2":"US conservative influencer and podcaster Candace Owens has claimed that French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron \"paid\" for her assassination.","leadin":"Amid a defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens for claiming that the French First Lady is a man, the far-right commentator is now alleging that the Macrons want her dead.","summary":"Amid a defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens for claiming that the French First Lady is a man, the far-right commentator is now alleging that the Macrons want her dead.","keySentence":"","url":"candace-owens-says-macrons-ordered-her-assassination-but-provides-no-evidence","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/11\/27\/candace-owens-says-macrons-ordered-her-assassination-but-provides-no-evidence","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Taking to X to make an \"urgent\" statement, US conservative influencer and podcaster Candace Owens alleged that French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte had \"paid\" for her assassination.\n\nHer X post from 22 November has garnered more than 40 million views.\u00a0\n\nAlthough internet users have gone wild for her claims, Owens \u2014 who has been at the helm of a fake news campaign which purports that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man \u2014 provided no credible evidence to uphold her statements.\n\nAccording to Owens, a \"high-ranking employee of the French government\" contacted her.\n\n\"The green light was given to a small team in the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group,\" she said. \"I am told there is one Israeli that is on this assassination squad and the plans were formalized.\"\n\nThe National Gendarmerie Intervention Group, also known by its acronym GIGN (Groupe d'intervention de la Gendarmerie nationale), has told French media these allegations are fake news, stating that their operations focus on counter-terrorism operations, fighting crime and rescuing hostages.\u00a0\n\nOwens also purported that Xavier Poussard \u2014 former editor of the far-right magazine \"Faits et documents\" and a key figure peddling conspiracy theories about Brigitte Macron being a man \u2014 was also at risk of being assassinated.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\n\nFalse claims about Brigitte Macron being a man first went viral in 2021, when self-proclaimed journalist Natacha Rey alleged that France's First Lady was assigned male at birth.\n\n\"From then on, the conspiracy theory went international in 2024 when Candace Owens picked up on it, joining forces with one of the major players in spreading this conspiracy theory: Xavier Poussard\", Rudy Reichstadt, director of Conspiracy Watch, an organisation which tracks conspiracy theories, told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team.\u00a0\n\nIn July, the Macrons filed a defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens.\n\n\"Candace Owens' headlong rush into the most radical conspiracy theories is probably linked to the legal proceedings brought against her a few months ago by Mr and Mrs Macron in a Delaware court in the United States for defamation\", Reichstadt said. \"She started out as a figure of the American conservative right, but then began to adopt increasingly controversial positions, peddling conspiracy theories and antisemitic claims.\"\n\n\"She has claimed that dinosaurs never existed, that humans never walked on the moon. She has also spread a range of crazy theories about the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Jeffrey Epstein case,\" he added. \"Today, she has been abandoned by one arm of the conspiracist sphere.\"\n\nCharlie Kirk suspect didn't train with France's Foreign Legion\n\nIn the same X post, Owens also alleged that the supposed French government employee who got in touch with her revealed that Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin \u2014 Tyler Robinson \u2014 trained with the 13th brigade of the French Foreign Legion.\n\nCharlie Kirk \u2014 one of US President Donald Trump's staunchest allies and a prominent conservative activist \u2014 was fatally shot at a campaign event at Utah Valley University.\n\nThe allegation gained further traction after Telegram's controversial owner Pavel Durov qualified these declarations as \"plausible\". Durov is currently under investigation in France over Telegram's alleged complicity in criminal activity.\n\nHowever, a spokesperson from France's Ministry of Armed Forces told The Cube that Robinson was never a member of the Foreign Legion.\n\n\"If he did not serve in an American military unit, he could not have been trained by the French Foreign Legion,\" the spokesperson said.\n\nRunning with the claim, a day after her initial post, Owens posted a screenshot from Google showcasing details of a joint training exercise carried out by the US Marines and the French Foreign Legion at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Centre in California from 4 to 25 August.\n\nCommenting on the screenshot, Owens stated that it was \"not a coincidence that the French legionnaires were in the United States training with our marines for three weeks\".\n\n\"When those 3 weeks ended in California, another military training exercise began alongside civilians at Camp Riley in Minnesota,\" she said. \"French foreign legionnaires were involved in Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination.\"\u00a0\n\nA spokesperson for the Ministry of Armed Forces told The Cube that \"there was no Foreign Legion training at Camp Riley in Minnesota between 25 August and 10 September 2025. The training that took place in California ended on 25 August 2025.\"\n\nPayments funnelled through a private French members' club\n\nIn a separate X post, Owens claimed that \"payments for assassinations are running through the Club des Cent in France\", calling on \"the patriots of France\" to trace the paper trail.\n\nHowever, the influencer provided no evidence for these accusations, while the Club des Cents \u2014 an exclusive private members' gastronomic club which is exclusively for men \u2014 declined to respond to our request for comment.\u00a0\n\n\"People who are intellectually fragile could believe these claims, but there are other people who know these claims are false or, at the very least, that there is insufficient evidence,\" Reichstadt said. \"They relay them for political or ideological reasons, because they feel that they are annoying their political opponents by doing so.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Taking to X to make an \"urgent\" statement, US conservative influencer and podcaster Candace Owens alleged that French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte had \"paid\" for her assassination.<\/p>\n<p>Her X post from 22 November has garnered more than 40 million views. <\/p>\n<p>Although internet users have gone wild for her claims, Owens \u2014 who has been at the helm of a fake news campaign which purports that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man \u2014 provided no credible evidence to uphold her statements.<\/p>\n<p>According to Owens, a \"high-ranking employee of the French government\" contacted her.<\/p>\n<p>\"The green light was given to a small team in the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group,\" she said. \"I am told there is one Israeli that is on this assassination squad and the plans were formalized.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-extended 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//56//33//78//1280x719_cmsv2_e1ac903c-e95b-5ba2-b718-32b905d21ed3-9563378.jpg/" alt=\"Screenshot of Candace Owen&#x27;s viral X post\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/33\/78\/384x216_cmsv2_e1ac903c-e95b-5ba2-b718-32b905d21ed3-9563378.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/33\/78\/640x360_cmsv2_e1ac903c-e95b-5ba2-b718-32b905d21ed3-9563378.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/33\/78\/750x422_cmsv2_e1ac903c-e95b-5ba2-b718-32b905d21ed3-9563378.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/33\/78\/828x466_cmsv2_e1ac903c-e95b-5ba2-b718-32b905d21ed3-9563378.jpg 828w, 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news, stating that their operations focus on counter-terrorism operations, fighting crime and rescuing hostages. <\/p>\n<p>Owens also purported that Xavier Poussard \u2014 former editor of the far-right magazine \"Faits et documents\" and a key figure peddling conspiracy theories about Brigitte Macron being a man \u2014 was also at risk of being assassinated. <\/p>\n<p>False claims about Brigitte Macron being a man first went viral in 2021, when self-proclaimed journalist Natacha Rey alleged that France's First Lady was assigned male at birth.<\/p>\n<p>\"From then on, the conspiracy theory went international in 2024 when Candace Owens picked up on it, joining forces with one of the major players in spreading this conspiracy theory: Xavier Poussard\", Rudy Reichstadt, director of Conspiracy Watch, an organisation which tracks conspiracy theories, told The Cube, Euronews' fact-checking team. <\/p>\n<p>In July, the Macrons filed a defamation lawsuit against Candace Owens.<\/p>\n<p>\"Candace Owens' headlong rush into the most radical conspiracy theories is probably linked to the legal proceedings brought against her a few months ago by Mr and Mrs Macron in a Delaware court in the United States for defamation\", Reichstadt said. \"She started out as a figure of the American conservative right, but then began to adopt increasingly controversial positions, peddling conspiracy theories and antisemitic claims.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"She has claimed that dinosaurs never existed, that humans never walked on the moon. She has also spread a range of crazy theories about the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the Jeffrey Epstein case,\" he added. \"Today, she has been abandoned by one arm of the conspiracist sphere.\"<\/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//2025//08//07//transvestigations-the-fake-investigations-claiming-famous-people-like-brigitte-macron-are-/">'Transvestigations': Fake investigations claim famous women like Brigitte Macron were born male<\/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//02//04//why-are-false-rumours-about-brigitte-macron-being-transgender-resurfacing/">Why are false rumours about Brigitte Macron being transgender resurfacing?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Charlie Kirk suspect didn't train with France's Foreign Legion<\/h2>\n<p>In the same X post, Owens also alleged that the supposed French government employee who got in touch with her revealed that Charlie Kirk's suspected assassin \u2014 Tyler Robinson \u2014 trained with the 13th brigade of the French Foreign Legion.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Kirk \u2014 one of US President Donald Trump's staunchest allies and a prominent conservative activist \u2014 was fatally shot at a campaign event at Utah Valley University.<\/p>\n<p>The allegation gained further traction after Telegram's controversial owner Pavel Durov qualified these declarations as \"plausible\". Durov is currently under investigation in France over Telegram's alleged complicity in criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>However, a spokesperson from France's Ministry of Armed Forces told The Cube that Robinson was never a member of the Foreign Legion. <\/p>\n<p>\"If he did not serve in an American military unit, he could not have been trained by the French Foreign Legion,\" the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>Running with the claim, a day after her initial post, Owens posted a screenshot from Google showcasing details of a joint training exercise carried out by the US Marines and the French Foreign Legion at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Centre in California from 4 to 25 August.<\/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//56//33//78//808x454_cmsv2_1c19a45a-37b8-53d3-9f71-e84dc4b34f52-9563378.jpg/" alt=\"Compilation of Candace Owens and Pavel Durov&#x27;s X posts\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/33\/78\/384x216_cmsv2_1c19a45a-37b8-53d3-9f71-e84dc4b34f52-9563378.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/33\/78\/640x360_cmsv2_1c19a45a-37b8-53d3-9f71-e84dc4b34f52-9563378.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/33\/78\/750x422_cmsv2_1c19a45a-37b8-53d3-9f71-e84dc4b34f52-9563378.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/33\/78\/828x466_cmsv2_1c19a45a-37b8-53d3-9f71-e84dc4b34f52-9563378.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/33\/78\/1080x608_cmsv2_1c19a45a-37b8-53d3-9f71-e84dc4b34f52-9563378.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/33\/78\/1200x675_cmsv2_1c19a45a-37b8-53d3-9f71-e84dc4b34f52-9563378.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/33\/78\/1920x1080_cmsv2_1c19a45a-37b8-53d3-9f71-e84dc4b34f52-9563378.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\">Compilation of Candace Owens and Pavel Durov&#x27;s X posts<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">X<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Commenting on the screenshot, Owens stated that it was \"not a coincidence that the French legionnaires were in the United States training with our marines for three weeks\".<\/p>\n<p>\"When those 3 weeks ended in California, another military training exercise began alongside civilians at Camp Riley in Minnesota,\" she said. \"French foreign legionnaires were involved in Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassination.\" <\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Ministry of Armed Forces told The Cube that \"there was no Foreign Legion training at Camp Riley in Minnesota between 25 August and 10 September 2025. The training that took place in California ended on 25 August 2025.\"<\/p>\n<h2>Payments funnelled through a private French members' club<\/h2>\n<p>In a separate X post, Owens claimed that \"payments for assassinations are running through the Club des Cent in France\", calling on \"the patriots of France\" to trace the paper trail.<\/p>\n<p>However, the influencer provided no evidence for these accusations, while the Club des Cents \u2014 an exclusive private members' gastronomic club which is exclusively for men \u2014 declined to respond to our request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>\"People who are intellectually fragile could believe these claims, but there are other people who know these claims are false or, at the very least, that there is insufficient evidence,\" Reichstadt said. \"They relay them for political or ideological reasons, because they feel that they are annoying their political opponents by doing 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organisation.","keySentence":"","url":"french-authorities-detain-three-for-suspected-russian-espionage-activities","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/11\/27\/french-authorities-detain-three-for-suspected-russian-espionage-activities","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"French authorities have detained three people on suspicion of working for Russian security services and conducting economic espionage, the Paris prosecutor's office said.\n\nThe suspects are accused of destabilising activities on French territory in Russia's interests. A fourth person has been placed under judicial supervision.\n\nFrench media reported that the three suspects are members of the French-Russian organisation SOS Donbass.\n\nAmong those detained is Anna Novikova, the organisation's founder, who holds dual French-Russian citizenship. Vincent Perfetti, a Frenchman from Saint-Denis who serves as the group's director, is also facing charges.\n\nIn videos posted by the organisation, Novikova and Perfetti have both promoted downloadable posters on the group's website that show a handshake in the Russian colours and the words, \u201cRussia is not my enemy.\u201d\n\nThe prosecutor\u2019s office said that the pair face preliminary charges of criminal conspiracy, intelligence contacts with a foreign power, and gathering information for a foreign power \u2014 crimes each punishable by up to 10 years in prison and hefty fines. It did not name the foreign power.\n\nNovikova first drew attention from France's Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI), which identified \"actions that could harm the fundamental interests of the nation.\"\n\nNovikova also faces charges of collecting information on state interests for a foreign power and collusion with a foreign state, which carries up to 10 years in prison.\n\nAnother suspect is Vyacheslav P, a Russian national. He was identified from CCTV footage showing him posting pro-Russian posters on the Arc de Triomphe in early September. Novikova was allegedly aware of his activities.\n\nThe posters showed a Russian soldier with words \"say thank you to the victorious Soviet soldier\".\n\nA fourth suspect, Bernard F from Paris, has been placed under judicial supervision and must regularly report to police.\n\nRussia targeting France, Macron says\n\nThe group, named after the Russian term for the Ukrainian eastern region of the Donbas \u2014 which includes Donetsk and Luhansk \u2014 claims its mission is humanitarian. However, its actions have been supportive of Russia's partial occupation of the region since its initial invasion in 2014.\n\nThe group's social media accounts regularly publish pro-Russian content, including excerpts from speeches by President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and materials from Russian state media banned in the EU.\n\nThe breakup of the alleged intelligence-gathering operation came as French President Emmanuel Macron warned about Russian destabilisation efforts targeting France, a key backer of Ukraine in the nearly four-year war.\n\nMacron said this week that Russia is waging \u201chybrid wars\u201d against Europe, including by employing proxies.\n\n\u201cIt pays people, mercenaries. It has pushed people to carry out destabilisation activities in our countries,\u201d he said.\n\nPerfetti's lawyer David Bocobza called the accusations \"absurd\" and \"a worrying shift toward the criminalisation of pro-Russian opinions.\" \"This isn't an espionage case, it's a case of poster-stickers,\" Bocobza said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>French authorities have detained three people on suspicion of working for Russian security services and conducting economic espionage, the Paris prosecutor's office said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are accused of destabilising activities on French territory in Russia's interests. A fourth person has been placed under judicial supervision.<\/p>\n<p>French media reported that the three suspects are members of the French-Russian organisation SOS Donbass.<\/p>\n<p>Among those detained is Anna Novikova, the organisation's founder, who holds dual French-Russian citizenship. Vincent Perfetti, a Frenchman from Saint-Denis who serves as the group's director, is also facing charges.<\/p>\n<p>In videos posted by the organisation, Novikova and Perfetti have both promoted downloadable posters on the group's website that show a handshake in the Russian colours and the words, \u201cRussia is not my enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor\u2019s office said that the pair face preliminary charges of criminal conspiracy, intelligence contacts with a foreign power, and gathering information for a foreign power \u2014 crimes each punishable by up to 10 years in prison and hefty fines. It did not name the foreign power.<\/p>\n<p>Novikova first drew attention from France's Directorate General of Internal Security (DGSI), which identified \"actions that could harm the fundamental interests of the nation.\" <\/p>\n<p>Novikova also faces charges of collecting information on state interests for a foreign power and collusion with a foreign state, which carries up to 10 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Another suspect is Vyacheslav P, a Russian national. He was identified from CCTV footage showing him posting pro-Russian posters on the Arc de Triomphe in early September. Novikova was allegedly aware of his activities.<\/p>\n<p>The posters showed a Russian soldier with words \"say thank you to the victorious Soviet soldier\".<\/p>\n<p>A fourth suspect, Bernard F from Paris, has been placed under judicial supervision and must regularly report to police.<\/p>\n<h2>Russia targeting France, Macron says<\/h2>\n<p>The group, named after the Russian term for the Ukrainian eastern region of the Donbas \u2014 which includes Donetsk and Luhansk \u2014 claims its mission is humanitarian. However, its actions have been supportive of Russia's partial occupation of the region since its initial invasion in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The group's social media accounts regularly publish pro-Russian content, including excerpts from speeches by President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and materials from Russian state media banned in the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The breakup of the alleged intelligence-gathering operation came as French President Emmanuel Macron warned about Russian destabilisation efforts targeting France, a key backer of Ukraine in the nearly four-year war.<\/p>\n<p>Macron said this week that Russia is waging \u201chybrid wars\u201d against Europe, including by employing proxies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt pays people, mercenaries. It has pushed people to carry out destabilisation activities in our countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Perfetti's lawyer David Bocobza called the accusations \"absurd\" and \"a worrying shift toward the criminalisation of pro-Russian opinions.\" \"This isn't an espionage case, it's a case of poster-stickers,\" Bocobza said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764150478,"updatedAt":1764247024,"publishedAt":1764239700,"firstPublishedAt":1764239700,"lastPublishedAt":1764239700,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/21\/48\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d3b74f48-6089-5f13-8885-0f89a770bc14-9562148.jpg","altText":"The Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox cathedral and the adjoining culture centre are seen next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 26 November 2025","caption":"The Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox cathedral and the adjoining culture centre are seen next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 26 November 2025","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":670}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"id":117,"slug":"france","urlSafeValue":"france","title":"France","titleRaw":"France"},{"id":8133,"slug":"espionage","urlSafeValue":"espionage","title":"Espionage","titleRaw":"Espionage"},{"id":12924,"slug":"intelligence-service","urlSafeValue":"intelligence-service","title":"intelligence service","titleRaw":"intelligence service"},{"id":26556,"slug":"hybrid-war","urlSafeValue":"hybrid-war","title":"hybrid war","titleRaw":"hybrid war"}],"widgets":[],"related":[],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"e4irU8C6wfE","dailymotionId":"x9ujffg"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"hasInternalOrExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"format":"mp4","quality":"md","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/ED\/30\/33\/84\/00\/ED_PYR_3033840_20251127123706.mp4","editor":"","duration":57360,"filesizeBytes":11557190,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"hd","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/SHD\/30\/33\/84\/00\/SHD_PYR_3033840_20251127123706.mp4","editor":"","duration":57360,"filesizeBytes":16106264,"expiresAt":0},{"format":"mp4","quality":"1080p","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/FHD\/30\/33\/84\/00\/FHD_PYR_3033840_20251127123706.mp4","editor":"","duration":57360,"filesizeBytes":46247442,"expiresAt":0}],"liveStream":[{"startDate":0,"endDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":"","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":{"id":1,"slug":"deepl","isActive":1},"localisation":{"producerLanguage":"en","storyId":9562148,"online":1},"autoPublished":0,"autoLocalised":1,"isReviewed":0,"path":"\/2025\/11\/27\/french-authorities-detain-three-for-suspected-russian-espionage-activities","lastModified":1764239700},{"id":2849994,"cid":9563514,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":null,"owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"FR PRISON ESCAPE","daletPyramidId":3434176,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Two inmates escape French prison using drone-delivered saw blades","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Two inmates escape French prison using drone-delivered saw blades","titleListing2":"Two inmates escape French prison using drone-delivered saw blades","leadin":"Two inmates escaped from Dijon prison after receiving blades via drone, according to authorities. One is under investigation for attempted murder, and both are considered dangerous.","summary":"Two inmates escaped from Dijon prison after receiving blades via drone, according to authorities. One is under investigation for attempted murder, and both are considered dangerous.","keySentence":"","url":"two-inmates-escape-dijon-prison-using-drone-delivered-saw-blades","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2025\/11\/27\/two-inmates-escape-dijon-prison-using-drone-delivered-saw-blades","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Two inmates escaped from the Dijon prison detention centre's disciplinary wing early Thursday after sawing through their cell bars with blades believed to have been delivered by drone, prosecutors said.\n\nThe escapees are a 19-year-old under investigation for attempted murder and criminal conspiracy, and a 32-year-old accused of threats and aggravated habitual violence against a spouse, according to local media reports citing the Force Ouvri\u00e8re union.\n\nThe two, who then used blankets to jump the barbed wire fence, were in isolation without contact with the outside world, according to reports. Both are considered to be dangerous.\n\nThe FO Justice union said it had been warning for months about deteriorating security at Dijon prison. \"Despite our repeated warnings, management has chosen to persist in its total blindness, refusing to see the reality on the ground,\" the union said in a Facebook statement.\n\nThe escape follows an inmate's flight from Rennes-V\u00e9zin prison in Ille-et-Vilaine last week during an outing to a planetarium. Justice Minister G\u00e9rald Darmanin immediately dismissed the prison governor.\n\nOn Wednesday, three prison unions issued a joint statement accusing Darmanin of prioritising resources for crime-fighting operations targeting dangerous drug traffickers while neglecting prison services.\n\nThey criticised the minister's \"contempt\" and accused him of doing anything \"to maintain his image of firmness and responsiveness.\"\n\nFrench prisons hold some 85,000 inmates, far exceeding the official capacity of 62,509 places, according to Justice Ministry figures from July. The average occupancy rate is at 135.9%, with 29 facilities surpassing 200%.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Two inmates escaped from the Dijon prison detention centre's disciplinary wing early Thursday after sawing through their cell bars with blades believed to have been delivered by drone, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>The escapees are a 19-year-old under investigation for attempted murder and criminal conspiracy, and a 32-year-old accused of threats and aggravated habitual violence against a spouse, according to local media reports citing the Force Ouvri\u00e8re union.<\/p>\n<p>The two, who then used blankets to jump the barbed wire fence, were in isolation without contact with the outside world, according to reports. Both are considered to be dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>The FO Justice union said it had been warning for months about deteriorating security at Dijon prison. \"Despite our repeated warnings, management has chosen to persist in its total blindness, refusing to see the reality on the ground,\" the union said in a Facebook statement.<\/p>\n<p>The escape follows an inmate's flight from Rennes-V\u00e9zin prison in Ille-et-Vilaine last week during an outing to a planetarium. Justice Minister G\u00e9rald Darmanin immediately dismissed the prison governor.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, three prison unions issued a joint statement accusing Darmanin of prioritising resources for crime-fighting operations targeting dangerous drug traffickers while neglecting prison services.<\/p>\n<p>They criticised the minister's \"contempt\" and accused him of doing anything \"to maintain his image of firmness and responsiveness.\"<\/p>\n<p>French prisons hold some 85,000 inmates, far exceeding the official capacity of 62,509 places, according to Justice Ministry figures from July. 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appeal after French court ruling<\/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//24//former-french-president-nicolas-sarkozy-to-publish-prison-memoir-on-his-20-days-behind-bar/">Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to publish prison memoir on his 20 days behind bars<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>In December 2024, the Court of Cassation had already made Sarkozy\u2019s conviction final in yet another case, this time involving wiretapping \u2014 also known as the Bismuth affair \u2014 sentencing him to one year of prison to be served under electronic monitoring for corruption and influence peddling. <\/p>\n<p>He wore an electronic bracelet from February to May 2025 before being granted conditional release halfway through his sentence. 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The document recommends testing a new type of magistrate dedicated solely to intrafamilial violence cases.\n\nRevealed earlier this week by French media outlet Le Parisien ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the report warned that \u201cdomestic violence is a complex issue that requires a comprehensive approach\u201d.\n\nDespite political commitments stretching back years, many protesters said the situation women in France are continuing to face is further deteriorating.\n\n\u201cIt seems to me that since the 1990s, there has been a regression in terms of equality,\u201d said Marie-Jos\u00e9e. She added that she struggles to understand \u201cwhy there is such indifference towards women, especially older ones.\"\n\nHer frustration signals a mounting crisis. In 2024, 107 women were killed by their partner or ex-partner nationwide \u2014 representing an 11% increase from the previous year.\n\nRecent data published last week by the government\u2019s MIPROF (Interministerial Mission for the Protection of Women against Violence) mission shows that every day in France, more than three women are victims of a femicide or attempted femicide, a figure that continues to rise year-on-year.\n\nActivist organisations warn these numbers still do not reflect the \"full scale\" of the crisis.\n\nThe government\u2019s annual observatory likewise reports that \u201cevery seven hours, a woman is killed, attempted to be killed, driven to suicide, or has attempted suicide by her partner or ex-partner.\u201d\n\nWomen aged 70 and above represented 26% of victims, a nine per cent increase in one year.\n\nThe horrific and heavily covered case of 72-year-old Gis\u00e8le Pelicot, who was drugged by her husband and raped by dozens of men over a decade, sent shockwaves not only in France, but around the world.\n\nIt exposed a largely hidden reality; senior women are also victims of sexual violence, a reality long ignored due to sexist and ageist assumptions.\n\nSpeaking about older victims, Violette, a member of the Solidaires Union who attended the Paris protest, said their voices are often dismissed because \u201cthey are considered not bankable as younger women can be.\"\n\nSpecifically, regarding the Pelicot case, she added: \u201cIt woke people up for 10 minutes and then died down again\u2026 we shouldn\u2019t wait for a media shock to do anything.\u201d\n\nOne of the reasons, according to her, is that France\u2019s strategy remains incoherent and chronically underfunded.\n\n\u201cToday, there is a lack of organisations saying that \u20ac3 billion a year is needed to move things forward,\" Violette said in an interview with Euronews.\n\nYet the government\u2019s 2025 budget for gender equality reaches just \u20ac94 million, far below what organisations argue is necessary for an effective nationwide policy.\n\nThe Council of Europe had already described France\u2019s low prosecution rate for perpetrators as \u201cparticularly worrying,\u201d urging Paris to adopt and enforce stricter measures.\n\nAs the French Parliament examines new proposals and organisations beef-up calls for long-term investment, protesters on Tuesday night said they fear the government still does not grasp the severity of the crisis.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Dozens of protesters filled central Paris on Tuesday night to condemn the surge in gender-based violence and pay tribute to its victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are constantly overwhelmed by reality,\" signed 78-year-old activist Marie-Jos\u00e9e, as the crowd honoured five women killed last week by their partners or ex-partners in France. <\/p>\n<p>The demonstration came just hours before the government received a major new report calling for France to radically reform how its justice system handles domestic abuse cases.<\/p>\n<p>The report was submitted on Tuesday to Justice Minister G\u00e9rald Darmanin. The document recommends testing a new type of magistrate dedicated solely to intrafamilial violence cases. <\/p>\n<p>Revealed earlier this week by French media outlet Le Parisien ahead of the<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2025//11//13//italy-redefines-sexual-violence-law-to-include-explicit-free-and-current-consent/"> <strong>International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women<\/strong><\/a>, the report warned that \u201cdomestic violence is a complex issue that requires a comprehensive approach\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Despite political commitments stretching back years, many protesters said the situation women in France are continuing to face is further deteriorating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems to me that since the 1990s, there has been a regression in terms of equality,\u201d said Marie-Jos\u00e9e. She added that she struggles to understand \u201cwhy there is such indifference towards women, especially older ones.\" <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.75\">\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//56//08//29//808x608_cmsv2_2f35f3eb-8be9-55a7-8d66-f5bbb29d2d00-9560829.jpg/" alt=\"Maire-Jos&#xE9;e holds a poster denouncing the gender-based violence that imapcts senior women\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/08\/29\/384x288_cmsv2_2f35f3eb-8be9-55a7-8d66-f5bbb29d2d00-9560829.jpg 384w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/08\/29\/640x480_cmsv2_2f35f3eb-8be9-55a7-8d66-f5bbb29d2d00-9560829.jpg 640w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/08\/29\/750x563_cmsv2_2f35f3eb-8be9-55a7-8d66-f5bbb29d2d00-9560829.jpg 750w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/08\/29\/828x621_cmsv2_2f35f3eb-8be9-55a7-8d66-f5bbb29d2d00-9560829.jpg 828w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/08\/29\/1080x810_cmsv2_2f35f3eb-8be9-55a7-8d66-f5bbb29d2d00-9560829.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/08\/29\/1200x900_cmsv2_2f35f3eb-8be9-55a7-8d66-f5bbb29d2d00-9560829.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/08\/29\/1920x1440_cmsv2_2f35f3eb-8be9-55a7-8d66-f5bbb29d2d00-9560829.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\">Maire-Jos&#xE9;e holds a poster denouncing the gender-based violence that imapcts senior women<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Her frustration signals a mounting crisis. In 2024, 107 women were killed by their partner or ex-partner nationwide \u2014 representing an 11% increase from the previous year. <\/p>\n<p>Recent data published last week by the government\u2019s MIPROF (Interministerial Mission for the Protection of Women against Violence) mission shows that every day in France, more than three women are victims of a femicide or attempted femicide, a figure that continues to rise year-on-year. <\/p>\n<p>Activist organisations warn these numbers still do not reflect the \"full scale\" of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s annual observatory likewise reports that \u201cevery seven hours, a woman is killed, attempted to be killed, driven to suicide, or has attempted suicide by her partner or ex-partner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Women aged 70 and above represented 26% of victims, a nine per cent increase in one year.<\/p>\n<p>The horrific and heavily covered case of 72-year-old <a 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chronically underfunded. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, there is a lack of organisations saying that \u20ac3 billion a year is needed to move things forward,\" Violette said in an interview with Euronews. <\/p>\n<p>Yet the government\u2019s 2025 budget for gender equality reaches just \u20ac94 million, far below what organisations argue is necessary for an effective nationwide policy.<\/p>\n<p>The Council of Europe <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.coe.int//en//web//portal//-//violence-against-women-in-france-strengthening-protection-for-victims-and-measures-to-combat-sexual-violence/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>had already described<\/strong> <\/a>France\u2019s low prosecution rate for perpetrators as \u201cparticularly worrying,\u201d urging Paris to adopt and enforce stricter measures.<\/p>\n<p>As the French Parliament examines new proposals and organisations beef-up calls for long-term investment, protesters on Tuesday night said they fear the government 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It was ultimately shelved after S\u00e9bastien Lecornu became prime minister in September.\n\nIn his RTL interview, he did not confirm a return to compulsory service but reiterated that the project will remain voluntary.\n\nAbove all, he sought to dispel fears that the revamped programme could involve deployments to Ukraine.\n\n\"We must, in any case, immediately dispel any confusion that we are going to send our young people to Ukraine,\u201d Macron insisted. \u201cThat is not at all what this is about.\u201d\n\nLast Tuesday, General of the French Armed Forces Fabien Mandon sent shockwaves after he told the Congress of French Mayors that France risks failure if it is not prepared to accept \"losing our children\" to \"protect what we are.\"\n\nThe financial implications of the new programme remain one of its most significant question marks.\n\nAccording to a note from the High Commissioner for Planning, a comparable scheme for 70,000 participants would cost \u20ac1.7 billion annually. This spending is not included in France\u2019s current 2024\u20132030 military budget law.\n\nPrime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu has also announced he will soon engage Parliament on broader defence issues, aiming for a vote in both chambers.\n\nEurope\u2019s shifting opinion on military service\n\nFrance is far from alone in reconsidering its approach to military preparedness amid heightened tensions with Russia. Several European countries have recently expanded or revived national service programmes.\n\nBelgium, the Netherlands and Germany have all signalled interest in voluntary or selective conscription models.\n\nBerlin passed a law in August introducing a voluntary military service, with questionnaires to be sent to all 18-year-olds starting in 2026 to assess their skills and interest in joining the Bundeswehr.\n\nTen EU countries still maintain or have reintroduced compulsory service: Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to unveil the contours of a new voluntary military service on Thursday during a visit to the 27th Mountain Infantry Brigade base in Varces, in the country's southeast. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement marks a significant shift, three decades after former President Jacques Chirac abolished mandatory conscription in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to French radio RTL on Tuesday morning, Macron defended the need to tighten the bond between citizens and the armed forces. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must strengthen the pact between the armed forces and the nation,\u201d he said, emphasising that the new programme aims to modernise France\u2019s national service framework.<\/p>\n<h2>'We must dispel any confusion'<\/h2>\n<p>The idea of reinstating some form of national service has lingered since Macron\u2019s first presidential campaign in 2017. <\/p>\n<p>His original proposal led to the creation of the Universal National Service (SNU), a civilian-focused programme intended to promote civic engagement among young people. <\/p>\n<p>However, the SNU faced high costs, implementation problems and limited uptake. It was ultimately shelved after S\u00e9bastien Lecornu became prime minister in September. <\/p>\n<p>In his RTL interview, he did not confirm a return to compulsory service but reiterated that the project will remain voluntary.<\/p>\n<p>Above all, he sought to dispel fears that the revamped programme could involve deployments to Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>\"We must, in any case, immediately dispel any confusion that we are going to send our young people to Ukraine,\u201d Macron insisted. \u201cThat is not at all what this is about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday, General of the French Armed Forces Fabien Mandon sent shockwaves after he told the Congress of French Mayors that <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2025//11//21//army-chief-warns-france-must-accept-loss-of-our-children-to-deter-russia-by-2030/">France risks failure<\/strong><\/a> if it is not prepared to accept \"losing our children\" to \"protect what we are.\" <\/p>\n<p>The financial implications of the new programme remain one of its most significant question marks. <\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.strategie-plan.gouv.fr//files//2025-05//FS-2025-NF01-Service national-2mai13h.pdf/" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>note from the High Commissioner for Planning<\/strong><\/a>, a comparable scheme for 70,000 participants would cost \u20ac1.7 billion annually. This spending is not included in France\u2019s current 2024\u20132030 military budget law.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu has also announced he will soon engage Parliament on broader defence issues, aiming for a vote in both chambers. <\/p>\n<h2><strong>Europe\u2019s shifting opinion on military service<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>France is far from alone in reconsidering its approach to military preparedness amid heightened tensions with Russia. Several European countries have recently expanded or revived national service programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany have all signalled interest in voluntary or selective conscription models. <\/p>\n<p>Berlin passed a law in August introducing a voluntary military service, with questionnaires to be sent to all 18-year-olds starting in 2026 to assess their skills and interest in joining the Bundeswehr.<\/p>\n<p>Ten EU countries still maintain or have reintroduced compulsory service: Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764068428,"updatedAt":1764085563,"publishedAt":1764085512,"firstPublishedAt":1764085512,"lastPublishedAt":1764085512,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/07\/93\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_1426aa39-23f4-5c2a-9ed6-359bd5700f04-9560793.jpg","altText":"Speaking on RTL on Tuesday morning, Macron defended the need to tighten the bond between citizens and the armed forces","caption":"Speaking on RTL on Tuesday morning, Macron defended the need to tighten the bond between citizens and the armed forces","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Thibault Camus\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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ARRESTS LOUVRE JEWEL HEIST","daletPyramidId":3412525,"channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Four more suspects arrested over Louvre jewellery heist, Paris prosecutors say","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Four more suspects arrested over Louvre heist, Paris prosecutors say","titleListing2":"Four more suspects arrested over Louvre jewellery heist, Paris prosecutors say","leadin":"Two men and two women from the Paris region have been taken into custody in connection with the theft at the Louvre last month, prosecutors said.","summary":"Two men and two women from the Paris region have been taken into custody in connection with the theft at the Louvre last month, prosecutors said.","keySentence":"","url":"four-more-suspects-arrested-over-louvre-jewellery-heist-paris-prosecutors-say","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/2025\/11\/25\/four-more-suspects-arrested-over-louvre-jewellery-heist-paris-prosecutors-say","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Four more people have been arrested in connection with last month's audacious jewellery heist at the Louvre, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.\n\nThe two men and two women in custody are from the Paris region and range in age from 31 to 40, said the prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, whose office is heading the investigation.\n\nThe office did not say what role they are suspected of having played in the theft at the Paris landmark and world-famous museum on 19 October.\n\nAccording to Le Parisien newspaper, one of the men arrested was a member of the four-man team thought to have carried out the daring robbery.\n\nInvestigating magistrates previously filed preliminary charges against three men and one woman who were arrested in October for their alleged involvement in the heist.\n\nOn the day of the heist, it took thieves less than eight minutes to force their way through a window into the Louvre's Apollo Gallery with the help of a basket lift and steal the trove of jewels worth \u20ac88 million.\n\nThe haul included a sapphire diadem, necklace and an earring from a set linked to 19th-century queens Marie-Am\u00e9lie and Hortense. None of the loot has been recovered.\n\nThe daytime theft of centuries-old jewels of significant cultural and monetary value has captured the world's attention for its audacity and movie plot-like details.\n\nLast week, the head of the Louvre said that the museum would soon install new surveillance cameras and anti-intrusion systems.\n\nAround 100 cameras will be operational by the end of 2026 while anti-intrusion systems will start to be put in place within weeks, said museum director Laurence des Cars.\n\nThat announcement came after French senators criticised the Louvre's security and called for improved measures in the wake of the heist.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Four more people have been arrested in connection with last month's audacious jewellery heist at the Louvre, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The two men and two women in custody are from the Paris region and range in age from 31 to 40, said the prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, whose office is heading the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The office did not say what role they are suspected of having played in the theft at the Paris landmark and world-famous museum on 19 October. <\/p>\n<p>According to Le Parisien newspaper, one of the men arrested was a member of the four-man team thought to have carried out the daring robbery.<\/p>\n<p>Investigating magistrates previously filed preliminary charges against three men and one woman who were arrested in October for their alleged involvement in the heist. <\/p>\n<p>On the day of the heist, it took thieves less than eight minutes to force their way through a window into the Louvre's Apollo Gallery with the help of a basket lift and steal the trove of jewels worth \u20ac88 million.<\/p>\n<p>The haul included a sapphire diadem, necklace and an earring from a set linked to 19th-century queens Marie-Am\u00e9lie and Hortense. None of the loot has been recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The daytime theft of centuries-old jewels of significant cultural and monetary value has captured the world's attention for its audacity and movie plot-like details.<\/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//01//louvre-burglary-two-new-suspects-under-investigation-three-released/">Louvre burglary: Two new suspects under investigation, three released<\/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//06//french-auditors-slam-louvre-for-focusing-on-projects-over-security-following-jewel-heist/">French auditors slam Louvre for focusing on projects over security following jewel heist<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Last week, the head of the Louvre said that the museum would soon install new surveillance cameras and anti-intrusion systems. <\/p>\n<p>Around 100 cameras will be operational by the end of 2026 while anti-intrusion systems will start to be put in place within weeks, said museum director Laurence des Cars.<\/p>\n<p>That announcement came after French senators criticised the Louvre's security and called for improved measures in the wake of the heist.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1764078715,"updatedAt":1764518617,"publishedAt":1764080892,"firstPublishedAt":1764080892,"lastPublishedAt":1764518617,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/56\/11\/44\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_7eb6c9e6-6074-5380-8723-a9cd52c408c5-9561144.jpg","altText":"FILE - A police car parks in the courtyard of the Louvre museum, one week after the robbery, on Oct. 26, 2025, in Paris.","caption":"FILE - A police car parks in the courtyard of the Louvre museum, one week after the robbery, on Oct. 26, 2025, in Paris.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Thomas Padilla\/Copyright 2025 The AP. 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Here\u2019s why","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Why hundreds of road signs in France have been decorated with \u2018flames\u2019","titleListing2":"Hundreds of road signs and billboards in France have been decorated with fake flames. Here\u2019s why","leadin":"Flames have been glued to a number of road signs and billboards across France, as activists beg \u2018stop climate sabotage\u2019.","summary":"Flames have been glued to a number of road signs and billboards across France, as activists beg \u2018stop climate sabotage\u2019.","keySentence":"","url":"hundreds-of-road-signs-and-billboards-in-france-have-been-decorated-with-fake-flames-heres","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/11\/25\/hundreds-of-road-signs-and-billboards-in-france-have-been-decorated-with-fake-flames-heres","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Hundreds of road signs and billboards across France were symbolically set on fire as citizens demanded \u201cconcrete measures for international climate justice\u201d.\n\nEnvironmental activists glued flame stickers to town entrances in areas such as\u00a0 La Tronche, Sainte Luce, Meylan, Pornichet and Corenc ahead of the now-finished UN climate talks in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil.\u00a0\n\nThe figurative fires were also emblazoned with the slogan \u201cstop climate sabotage\u201d.\u00a0\n\n\u2018Denounce the culprits\u2019\n\nThe stunt was the latest move from ANV-COP21 activists, which describes itself as a non-violent group of citizens who \u201crefuse to accept climate change and the social injustices it engenders\u201d.\n\nANV-COP21 says its fiery demonstration highlights that while \u201cwe are all affected by the consequences of climate\u201d, leaders of wealthy nations and the fossil fuel industry have scuppered chances of real change.\n\nThey point to statistics that found 93 per cent of French people have noticed an increase in extreme weather events, with 91 per cent attributing it to climate change, as well as the 480 deaths caused by the country\u2019s heatwaves this summer.\n\n\u201cBy affixing flames and the message 'STOP CLIMATE SABOTAGE' to billboards in our towns and cities across France, we aim to denounce these climate criminals, make their victims visible, and demand the implementation of concrete and immediate measures to limit climate change and protect populations,\u201d ANV-COP21 says.\n\n\u201cThe French government must assume its responsibilities by advocating for ambitious positions at COP30, such as establishing a binding timetable for phasing out fossil fuels and\/or implementing concrete measures for international climate justice.\u201d\n\nThe transition away from fossil fuels\n\nThe chance to establish a road map to transition to clean energy was quashed at COP30, as all mention of fossil fuels was erased from the final deal.\n\nDespite growing support from more than 90 countries, including France, oil-rich nations such as Saudi Arabia blocked such a commitment in the Global Mutir\u00e3o. Hope for a fossil fuel-free future now relies on a working group that invites more than 85 countries to voluntarily outline their plans to transition to clean energy.\n\nColombia\u2019s Global Fossil Fuel Phaseout conference, which is being co-hosted by the Netherlands, will address this issue in April next year.\n\nWas COP30 \u2018sabotaged\u2019?\n\nAgreements at the UN summit require consensus from all parties, which means progress is often slow and incremental. So-called petrostates proved the biggest obstacle in establishing a roadmap to fossil fuel phaseout, pushing the quest outside of the COP process.\n\nA recent analysis also found that 1,600 fossil fuel representatives were present at COP30, outnumbering almost every country delegation.\n\nThe Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) coalition says this was a 12 per cent increase from last year\u2019s climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan and was the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at a COP since the coalition started analysing attendees in 2021.\n\nThe overall number of fossil fuel representatives at COP30 is less than it was at COP29 in Baku last year, but the proportion is higher as there are fewer people in total attending the talks in Bel\u00e9m.\n\nOnly the host country, Brazil, had sent more people than lobbyists, with a delegation of 3,805.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Hundreds of road signs and billboards across France were symbolically set on fire as citizens demanded \u201cconcrete measures for international climate justice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental activists glued flame stickers to town entrances in areas such as La Tronche, Sainte Luce, Meylan, Pornichet and Corenc ahead of the now-finished UN climate talks in Bel\u00e9m, Brazil. <\/p>\n<p>The figurative fires were also emblazoned with the slogan \u201cstop climate sabotage\u201d. <\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Denounce the culprits\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The stunt was the latest move from ANV-COP21 activists, which describes itself as a non-violent group of citizens who \u201crefuse to accept <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//11//22//six-thousand-year-old-data-reveals-europe-could-face-42-extra-days-of-summer-by-2100/">climate change<\/strong><\/a>and the social injustices it engenders\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>ANV-COP21 says its fiery demonstration highlights that while \u201cwe are all affected by the consequences of climate\u201d, leaders of wealthy nations and the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//11//24//from-deforestation-to-fossil-fuels-what-did-countries-actually-agree-on-at-cop30/">fossil fuel<\/strong><\/a> industry have scuppered chances of real change.<\/p>\n<p>They point to statistics that found 93 per cent of French people have noticed an increase in extreme weather events, with 91 per cent attributing it to climate change, as well as the 480 deaths caused by the country\u2019s <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//11//18//a-2003-style-heatwave-today-would-kill-early-18000-europeans-new-study-warns/">heatwaves this summer.<\/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//green//2025//11//25//from-the-alps-to-the-andes-how-climate-change-in-mountain-regions-is-putting-billions-at-r/">From the Alps to the Andes: How climate change in mountain regions is putting billions at risk<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//11//24//from-deforestation-to-fossil-fuels-what-did-countries-actually-agree-on-at-cop30/">From deforestation to fossil fuels: What did countries actually agree on at COP30?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>\u201cBy affixing flames and the message 'STOP CLIMATE SABOTAGE' to billboards in our towns and cities across France, we aim to denounce these climate criminals, make their victims visible, and demand the implementation of concrete and immediate measures to limit climate change and protect populations,\u201d ANV-COP21 says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe French government must assume its responsibilities by advocating for ambitious positions at COP30, such as establishing a binding timetable for phasing out fossil fuels and\/or implementing concrete measures for international climate justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The transition away from fossil fuels<\/h2>\n<p>The chance to establish a road map to transition to clean energy was quashed at COP30, as all mention of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//11//24//from-deforestation-to-fossil-fuels-what-did-countries-actually-agree-on-at-cop30/">fossil fuels<\/strong> <\/a>was erased from the final deal.<\/p>\n<p>Despite growing support from more than 90 countries, including France, oil-rich nations such as Saudi Arabia blocked such a commitment in the Global Mutir\u00e3o. Hope for a fossil fuel-free future now relies on a working group that invites more than 85 countries to voluntarily outline their plans to transition to clean energy.<\/p>\n<p>Colombia\u2019s <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//11//24//from-deforestation-to-fossil-fuels-what-did-countries-actually-agree-on-at-cop30/">Global Fossil Fuel Phaseout<\/strong> <\/a>conference, which is being co-hosted by the Netherlands, will address this issue in April next year.<\/p>\n<h2>Was COP30 \u2018sabotaged\u2019?<\/h2>\n<p>Agreements at the UN summit require consensus from all parties, which means progress is often slow and incremental. So-called petrostates proved the biggest obstacle in establishing a roadmap to fossil fuel phaseout, pushing the quest outside of the COP process.<\/p>\n<p>A recent analysis also found that<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2025//11//14//fossil-fuel-lobbyists-outnumber-most-delegations-at-cop30-climate-talks-in-brazil/">1,600 fossil fuel representatives<\/strong><\/a> were present at COP30, outnumbering almost every country delegation.<\/p>\n<p>The Kick Big Polluters Out (KBPO) coalition says this was a 12 per cent increase from last year\u2019s climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan and was the largest concentration of fossil fuel lobbyists at a COP since the coalition started analysing attendees in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The overall number of fossil fuel representatives at COP30 is less than it was at COP29 in Baku last year, but the proportion is higher as there are fewer people in total attending the talks in Bel\u00e9m.<\/p>\n<p>Only the host country, Brazil, 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Support has been provided to affected teachers and teaching staff, while the general medicine department has established a psychological unit for students who need it. The school's secularism, anti-racism and antisemitism officer has also been contacted.\n\n\"The school reiterates its unwavering commitment to the fight against antisemitism, racism and all forms of discrimination,\" the university said.\n\nLatest in series of incidents\n\nThe incident is the latest in a series at French universities this autumn.\n\nIn early October, the Sorbonne referred the matter to prosecutors after the Comit\u00e9 Action Paris 3 described 7 October \u2014 the day of Hamas' attack on Israeli communities and a music festival \u2014 as a \"glorious day\" on X.\n\nOn 15 October at the University of Paris VIII, nearly 200 students participated in an event where terrorism was openly praised and the 7 October massacres were glorified, according to Senator Pierre-Antoine Levi. 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