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Added on the 17/07/2022 20:00:26 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in La Teste-de-Buch, Gironde, to meet with firefighters, civil security agents, and elected officials as two huge wildfires in the department rage on. IMAGES
Around a hundred French firefighters and Civil Security rescue workers prepare to leave Marignane in the south of France for Quebec to take part in a fight against blazes that have shrouded US cities in smoke. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron, on a visit to the Gard region of southern France to prepare for the summer after last year's wildfires, lays a wreath at the civil protection monument at the Nîmes-Garons civil security air base. IMAGES
Authorities on the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte on Monday begin demolishing homes in a large slum in an operation against sub-standard housing and illegal migration. France has deployed hundreds of police officers and gendarmes in Mayotte -- the country's poorest department -- since April to prepare a major security measure called Operation Wuambushu ("Take Back" in the local language). Diggers started destroying the sheet-metal shacks in the Talus 2 slum in the Majicavo area at around 7:30 am (0430 GMT) on Monday. IMAGES
A fire in progress since Monday afternoon has spread over 400 hectares of vegetation and forest in Saumos (Gironde) and has forced evacuations. IMAGES
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