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Last updated Sunday, October 25, 2026 — 7:26 AM EDT
Hundreds of thousands marched across France on October 24 against the cost of living and shortfalls in schools and public services. Police fired tear gas and water cannon after nightfall, and the interior ministry reported more than 1,300 arrests.
One person was killed and five wounded, including a 12-year-old girl shot eight times, in a shooting at a petrol station, a medical centre and a playground in Trappes, south-west of Paris, in an attack President Macron called racist and terrorist.
French authorities confirmed the first known human case of the Shamonda virus, a livestock virus mainly found in cattle, in a patient in Lyon who died in early October.
