Justice: A review of the flammable case of the incarcerated police officer

A police officer and three colleagues are suspected of seriously injuring a young man during the riots in Marseille. This is a flammable case that has given rise to a revolt in some police stations and political controversy. The courts are considering the latter's pre-trial detention on Thursday. He must be present at the public hearing, which will begin at 8:30. The decision will be made quickly, possibly within the day.

Project: The French president talks about “a major political initiative” at the end of this month

President Emmanuel Macron will take a major political initiative” in order to “try to bring together around a clear and simple project all those who want to find their way around it, without asking them to join everything” at the end of this month. He gives few details about the content of this “initiative” but specifies that it will not aim to “create coalitions

Military intervention in Niger: the last option on the table to restore Mohamed Bazoum

A West African bloc official has indicated that military intervention in Niger would be “the last option on the table” to restore President Mohamed Bazoum, who was overthrown in a coup a week ago. The Commissioner of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in charge of Political Affairs and Security Abdel-Fatau Musah, considered that “the military option is the very last option on the table, the last resort, but we must

In addition, the World Bank announced that it had suspended disbursements “for all its operations until further notice” and Russia called for “dialogue” to avoid a “deterioration of the situation.”

World Youth Day: Pope meets victims of sexual violence

The pope met with victims of sexual violence committed by members of the Portuguese clergy, six months after the publication of a damning report for the Church in the Iberian country. Yesterday, he arrived in Lisbon to take part in the World Youth Day. The Vatican indicated in the evening that “Pope Francis received at the Nunciature a group of 13 people, victims of abuse by members of the clergy.” The Holy See indicated in a short statement that “the meeting took place in an atmosphere of intense listening and lasted more than an hour.”

IN A NUTSHELL

Union sources reported that Altice, SFR's parent company, has suspended a female executive in France as part of the internal investigation into the corruption scandal that led to the indictment of the co-founder of the telecommunications group in Portugal.

The author of a 2018 armed attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue was sentenced to death by a federal jury on Wednesday.

A hundred medical journals around the world on Thursday issued a rare joint call for urgent action to eliminate nuclear weapons. He considers my threat of a nuclear disaster “important and growing.”

Météo France has placed three departments in southeastern France on an orange alert for forest fires.

The French team beat Panama in Sydney (6-3) and is now in the round of 16 at the Women's World Cup.