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French President Emmanuel Macron visits Mont-Saint-Michel, a symbol of the "French spirit" of "resilience" and "resistance", on the eve of another day of union protests against pension reform. IMAGES
Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron arrive at Couesnon dam near Mont-Saint-Michel, before visiting the famous rocky islet in the English Channel to celebrate the millennium of the founding of its abbey. The French President is due to announce a campaign to classify more French religious buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries as historic monuments, in order to facilitate their preservation. IMAGES
A day after the 11th day of mobilisation against the pension reform, 200 to 300 demonstrators, held at a distance by the police, gathered to block the entry points of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy. IMAGES
Mayor of Saint-Etienne, Gael Perdriau, mired in a case of political blackmail involving a sex tape that has shaken his city since September 2022, is placed in custody by the judicial police of Lyon. The elected official was summoned at the same time as his former private secretary Pierre Gauttieri, his former deputy Samy Kefi-Jerome and the latter's ex-partner, Gilles Rossary-Lenglet. IMAGES
"To those who want to break the pension system, the street answers: resistance!", in Saint-Etienne, thousands of people demonstrate against the pension reform. IMAGES
French tightrope walker Nathan Paulin is attempting to break the world distance record on a 2.2 km wire stretched over the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel at a height of almost 100 metres. IMAGES