FLASH | The government plans to DOUBLE the VAT on pay television like Canal+, increasing it from 10% to 20%. Sports federations and channels are worried: this would reduce subscriptions and the resulting investments. Canal+ could anticipate layoffs. (translated)
FLASH | Many high schools will transition to distance learning due to the increasing protests in France. (translated)
🇫🇷✈️ FLASH | The Airbus A350F, cargo version of the A350, made its very first flight this week at Toulouse-Blagnac. 👉 Airbus announces up to 40% less fuel consumption compared to previous generation cargo planes. About 115 firm orders have already been recorded. (translated)
🚨🇫🇷 FLASH | Matignon believes that “LFI and its proxies from the far left” are “the source of the movement” blocking high schools. (translated)
🚨 FLASH | Gérald Darmanin urgently summons the 36 ATTORNEYS GENERAL to demand a firm criminal response to the violence linked to the high school protests. (Le Figaro) (translated)
🚨🇫🇷🎥 FLASH | A journalist from M6 was assaulted this morning in Marseille while covering the blockade at Saint-Exupéry high school. (translated)
FLASH | Two individuals DESTROYED a statue of the Virgin Mary in Porto-Vecchio and broadcast their act on social media. Identified, they were arrested and placed in police custody. (translated)
🚨 FLASH | The Minister of Education condemns violence "of extreme seriousness" near high schools after "one high school was set on fire" and "staff members were sprayed with gasoline." He requests that classes be held remotely when blockades or vandalism prevent students from being welcomed in safety. (translated)
🚨🔥 FLASH | Many fires have been started in Bordeaux. (translated)
🚨🇫🇷 FLASH | The principal of the Victor-Hugo high school in Marseille, along with several members of his team, were doused with gasoline. (LCI) (translated)
🚨🇫🇷🔥 ALERT INFO | A fire truck was set on fire and destroyed in Marseille (13) by rioters. (translated)
🚨🇫🇷🔥 FLASH | Very tense situation in Marseille where several buses were targeted near high schools. Drivers had to leave their vehicles abruptly and one of them was assaulted. (translated)
FLASH | A high school student's clothes caught fire during a blockade in front of a high school in Marseille. (translated)
🚨🇫🇷 FLASH | The mounted police have been deployed in front of the Blaise-Cendrars high school in Sevran (93). The deputy Clémentine Autain has contacted the police prefect after the intervention of the security forces. (translated)
FLASH | Bruno Retailleau raises "the question of banning LFI" after the violence that occurred outside high schools. "We have a party that is fascinated by violence, that calls for sedition, and that tries to organize insurrection," says the president of the Republicans. (translated)
🚨 FLASH | The situation is also very tense in Lyon, where the facade of the Lumière high school, in the 8th district of Lyon, is affected by a fire. (translated)
🇫🇷🎙️ FLASH | “I stand by these statements,” declares Bally Bagayoko, LFI mayor of Saint-Denis, after being reported to the justice system by the police prefect of Paris for alleged "incitement to commit an offense," following comments made during the student mobilization. (translated)
FLASH | Situation already very tense in front of many high schools across France. In front of the Rompsay high school, in La Rochelle, a bus was violently attacked by a group of about ten individuals. (translated)
ALERT INFO | The Nelson-Mandela high school is on fire this morning in Nantes, in connection with the high school student mobilization. (translated)
🇺🇸 FLASH | The execution of Christa Pike, 50, in Tennessee has "failed twice." She has survived 2 lethal injections and is currently agonizing, according to her lawyer, who adds that she can be heard snoring. She spent 30 years on death row after torturing and killing a classmate when she was young. Her lawyers are trying to suspend the execution. (translated)
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