French interior minister Gérald Darmanin has referred several times to "eco-terrorism" in relation to the actions of Les Soulèvements de la Terre in recent months, saying some activists had showed "extreme violence against police forces".
Tourism minister Olivia Grégoire unveiled plan to regulate visitor flows at the most popular sites and said France, the world's biggest tourist destination, needed to better manage the peak-season influxes that threatened "the environment, the quality of life for locals, and the experiences for its visitors".
The men, now aged between 22 and 28, are accused of planning attacks on mosques, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) and the French headquarters of The International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (Licra) in Tours.
Video of Emmanuel Macron downing a bottle of beer in one straight go, after being egged on to do so by Toulouse players following their victory in a rugby cup final match against La Rochelle, has led to a flurry of comments on social media and in the press about his past stances against binge drinking.
Officials representing the Normandy region are locked in a legal battle with the culture ministry in Paris over which of them has the right to a letter written in 1793, four years after the French Revolution, by Charlotte Corday, 24, explaining why she was about to murder Jean-Paul Marat, 50, a radical faction leader who she stabbed to death in his bath.
An earthquake of between 5.3 and 5.8 on the Richter scale which struck western France on Friday evening, whose epicentre was close to the coastal town of La Rochelle, was followed overnight by two aftershocks on a scale of 5 and 3, worsening damage to buildings, while no fatalities were reported.
Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday for a working lunch in what is their third meeting since 2021, when Macron became one of the first Western leaders to shake the prince's hand after Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered inside Riyadh's Istanbul consulate in 2018.
Five trains on busy Line 4 became stuck during the Wednesday evening rush hour, trapping passengers in hot carriages for more than an hour and a half before they were eventually evacuated out of the tunnel, while unrelated incidents also later blocked trains on other lines.
Gabriel Fortin, 48, is accused of gunning down two female human resources directors and a woman jobs centre director, and of attempting to kill a male HR director, all in 2021, after a string of job dismissals.
French foreign minister Catherine Colonna said Russia had mounted a disinformation campaign 'based in particular on the creation of fake web pages impersonating national media and government sites as well as the creation of false accounts on social networks', adding that Russian embassies and cultural centres had 'actively' participated in amplifying the campaign.
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