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Trial resumes for Benoit Feuillu and four other alleged organisers of two banned demonstrations in western rural France. The activists argue they fight to preserve water and are opposing large artificials reservoirs or "bassines" which they see as a way to monopolise water resources for the farming industry. in October 2022 and specially, in March 2023, the protests turned into violent clashes with police with many protesters injured. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron summons Elisabeth Borne, Bruno Le Maire and several members of his government to "take stock" of the situation after five consecutive nights of violence sparked by the death of 17-year-old Nahel, killed by a police officer during a traffic stop in Nanterre. IMAGES
On the base of the GIGN, the gendarmerie's elite tactical unit, in Versailles-Satory, near Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron posthumously awarded the Legion of Honour to Major Arnaud Blanc, an elite French gendarme who was killed in French Guiana, an overseas territory of France in South America, while taking part in an operation to combat illegal gold mining. IMAGES
French police prepare to carry out a new search for the body of Estelle Mouzin, the alleged victim of French serial killer Michel Fourniret, in the Ardennes, in northeastern France. Fourniret, the "Ogre of the Ardennes", confessed to killing 11 people, and died in May aged 79, taking his final secrets to the grave and denying families of victims long-awaited justice. IMAGES
Dozens of police officers cordon off the Tain-L'Hermitage town centre, in France's Drôme region, after French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face during his visit to the town. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron joins Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin as he arrives at the Bobigny prefecture on the outskirts of Paris, to chair a meeting by the anti-Islamism police cell, four days after the beheading of a teacher. IMAGES
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