The first case of clade 1b mpox in France is discovered from a patient in Brittany who came into contact with persons who had travelled to central Africa.[1]
President Emmanuel Macron states that France was right to intervene militarily in the AfricanSahel against Islamist militants, and states that he is still waiting for the Sahel states to "thank" France while also denying that the French military was forced out of the region.[2]
Pakistani national Zaheer Mahmood is convicted of attempted murder and terrorist conspiracy for carrying out the 2020 Paris stabbing attack and is sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment.[6]
Indonesia and France sign an agreement to repatriate French national Serge Atlaoui, who has been in death row since 2007 in an Indonesian prison following a conviction for drug smuggling.[7]
29 January – Four Norwegian skiers are killed in an avalanche at Val-Cenis in the French Alps.[8]
February
1 February – Three people are killed in a fire at a retirement home in Bouffémont.[9]
Serge Atlaoui is repatriated to France as part of the bilateral agreement with Indonesia signed on 24 January.[11]
Prime Minister Bayrou survives a no-confidence motion filed against him in the National Assembly over his passage of the 2025 budget.[12]
10 February – Prime Minister Bayrou survives a second no-confidence motion filed against him in the National Assembly over his passage of the 2025 budget.[13]
The WESTtokamak is reported to have maintained plasma for 1,337 seconds, a new world record duration for nuclear fusion and 25% longer than a similar effort by China the previous month.[15][16]
13 February – The National Assembly votes in favor of a measure banning single-use electronic cigarettes.[17]
Fugitive Mohamed Amra, who escaped in an incident that left two prison guards dead in May 2024, is arrested in Romania.[19] He is extradited to France on 25 February.[20]
24 February – Three molotov cocktails are thrown at the Russian consulate in Marseille. No injuries are reported.[21]
26 February – Brahim Aouissaoui is sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for carrying out the 2020 Nice stabbing.[22]
28 February – Cyclone Garance makes landfall in Réunion, killing one person and leaving two others missing.[23]
The National Assembly votes to remove sitting and standing as a voting method in the chamber following a proposal co-created by MP Sébastien Peytavie, who is wheelchair-bound.[26]
17 March – French national Olivier Grondeau, who had been imprisoned in Iran since 2022 on espionage charges, is released and repatriated to France.[28]
22 March – Arié Engelberg, the chief rabbi of Orléans, is injured in an anti-Semitic assault. A suspect is arrested.[29]
7 April – A massive fire destroys the Syctom recycling plant in Paris.[33]
14 April – Algeria orders the expulsion of 12 French diplomats in retaliation for France indicting three Algerians for the 2024 abduction of dissident Amir Boukhors in Paris.[34] In retaliation, France expels 12 Algerian diplomats the next day.[35]
24 April – Nantes school stabbing: One person is killed while three others are injured in a stabbing at a school in Nantes. The attacker is arrested.[37]
25 April – A Malian national is fatally stabbed in a suspected Islamophobic attack inside a mosque in La Grand-Combe.[38] The suspect subsequently surrenders to police in Italy.[39]
28 April – A massive blackout hits parts of Europe, causing power outages in southern France.[40]
May
11 May – Algeria orders the expulsion of 15 French diplomats, citing breaches of diplomatic procedures related in part to the replacement of staff expelled in the previous round of removals in April.[41]
13 May –
A court in Paris convicts actor Gérard Depardieu of sexually assaulting two women on a film set and sentences him to a suspended 18 month prison sentence.[42]
18 May – An air traffic control systems failure causes massive disruptions at Paris-Orly Airport.[47]
20 May – Three people are killed in adverse conditions caused by thunderstorms in Le Lavandou and Vidauban.[48]
24 May –
A suspected arson attack on an electricity substation in Tanneron causes a blackout that affects 160,000 homes in Alpes-Maritimes, including in Cannes.[49]
25 May – A second suspected arson attack on an electricity substation in Nice causes a blackout that affects 45,000 homes in the city as well as in Saint-Laurent-du-Var and Cagnes-sur-Mer.[51]
28 May – Surgeon and convicted paedophile Joël Le Scouarnec is sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for abusing 299 patients including children from 1989 to 2014.[52]
31 May –
Paris Saint-Germain defeats Inter Milan 5-0 to win the UEFA Champions League for the first time.[53] Following this, two people are killed in incidents in Dax and Paris during victory celebrations, while a police officer is severely injured in a related incident in Coutances. At least 294 others are arrested.[54]
A Tunisian national is shot dead in a suspected hate crime in Puget-sur-Argens.[55]
June
6 June –
Four people are killed in a fire at a housing block in Reims.[56]
15 June – The government revokes the awarding of the Legion of Honour to former president Nicolas Sarkozy, citing his conviction for corruption and influence peddling in 2024.[61]
16 June –
A strike is held by employees of the Louvre in protest over overcrowding, understaffing and "untenable" working conditions.[62]
17 June – Former prime minister François Fillon is sentenced to a suspended four-year prison term for providing a fake parliamentary assistant job to his wife, Penelope.[64]
21 June – At least 12 people are arrested following a wave of suspected syringe attacks that injure 145 people nationwide during the Fete de la Musique.[65]
22 June – Two people are killed in a gun attack on a wedding party in Goult.[66]
24 June –
An appeals court in Nantes finds the French state liable for the death of a 50-year-old man who died in 2016 after inhaling hydrogen sulphide gases emitted by piled-up green algae while running along an estuary near Saint-Brieuc.[67]
The French fraud prevention and consumer protection agency (DGCCRF) orders the French subsidiary of Tesla, Inc. to stop "deceptive commercial practices" after finding that it had engaged in multiple violations regarding refunds, deliveries and marketing.[68]
25 June – More than 600 metres of cable are severed or stolen from the Eurostar railway line south of Lille-Europe station, causing travel disruptions.[69]
26 June – Two people are killed, including a child, and 17 others are injured nationwide following storms that also cause flooding in Paris.[70]
27 June – The National Assembly votes for Mayotte to become a single community.[71]
28 June – The government issues a decree prohibiting smoking in several public spaces and potential gathering spaces for children. Electronic cigarettes are exempt from the ban.[72]
Prime Minister Bayrou survives a no-confidence motion filed against him in the National Assembly by the Socialist Party following the failure of negotiations over pension reform.[75]
Three executives of Ubisoft are sentenced to suspended prison terms of up to three years for sexual and psychological harassment in the workplace.[76]
The French government announces an agreement providing for more autonomy for New Caledonia, including the creation of the "state of Caledonia" and creation of Caledonian nationality alongside French nationality.[84]
France returns Camp Geille and a nearby airbase to Senegal, marking the end of a permanent French military presence in west and central Africa.[89]
20 July – Demolition by detonation of the Kennedy Tower in Loos, the tallest residential tower north of Paris.[90]
21 July – Three people, including the director of the servicing company Anavim, are sentenced to up to four years' imprisonment by a court in Chalons-en-Champagne for subjecting migrant workers to slave-like conditions in the wine industry in the Champagne wine region.[91]
24 July – France announces that it would recognize the State of Palestine effective September.[92]
5 August – One person is killed while three others are reported in a wildfire in Aude that burns 16,000ha (40,000 acres) of land and becomes the largest wildfire in France since 1949.[98][99]
7 August – The Constitutional Council strikes down a provision in an agricultural measure known as the Duplomb Law that would have allowed the use of the pesticide acetamiprid, which had been banned in France since 2018 for its adverse effects on bees and other pollinators.[100]
12 August – A letter from President Macron to Cameroonian president Paul Biya is released in which the French government officially acknowledges its actions against the Cameroonian independence movement from 1945 to 1971 as a war.[102]
13 August – An olive tree planted in memory of Ilan Halimi, a French Jew who was murdered in 2006, is cut down in Épinay-sur-Seine in a suspected anti-semitic attack.[103]
22 August – A leisure park manager in Porté-Puymorens is arrested on suspicion of discrimination after denying entry to a group of Israeli tourists.[104]
24 August – The French foreign ministry summons US ambassador Charles Kushner after he publicly accuses the French government of failing to adequately respond against anti-Semitism.[105]
26 August – The skull of the Malagasy King Toera of Menabe, who was killed by French colonial soldiers in 1897, is returned to Madagascar along with the skulls of two of his companions by France, where they had been stored at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.[107]
30 August – One person is killed in a car-ramming attack outside a bar in Evreux.[108]
September
2 September –
A Tunisian resident is shot dead by police after injuring five people in a knife attack in Marseille.[109]
The French women’s boxing team is barred from competing in the World Boxing Championships in the United Kingdom due to late delivery of results of gender tests mandated by World Boxing.[112]
8 September – Prime Minister Bayrou loses a no-confidence motion filed against him in the National Assembly amid a dispute over the national debt.[114] He submits his resignation the next day.[115]
9 September – President Macron appoints armed forces minister Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister.[116]
Nationwide protests break out against the appointment of Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, resulting in at least 295 arrests.[118]
Two people are injured in a knife attack at a horticultural college in Antibes.[119]
12 September – The International Court of Justice rules in favor of the French government selling a luxury mansion in Paris that was seized in 2012 from Equatorial Guinea during a corruption investigation against Equatoguinean vice president Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue.[120]
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