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5 January – A court in Paris convicts ten people on charges of cyber-bullying first lady Brigitte Macron by spreading disinformation and "malicious remarks" over her gender, sexuality and personal life.[1]
8 January – Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher imprisoned in Russia since 2024 on charges of failing to register as a "foreign agent", is released in a prisoner swap in exchange for Russian basketball player Daniil Kasatkin, who had been detained in France since 2025 on suspicion of involvement in cyberhacking.[2]
15 January – President Macron announces the deployment of additional military forces to Greenland after a Defense Council meeting amid threats by the United States to annex the island.[3]
23 January – Prime minister Lecornu survives two no-confidence motions filed against him by the LFI and RN over his efforts to pass the government's budget through rarely-invoked provisions of the constitution.[5]
27 January – Former senator Joël Guerriau is convicted of putting MDMA on a drink of MP Sandrine Josso in an attempt to sexually assault her in 2023 and is sentenced to four years' imprisonment.[7]
February
2 February –
The Lecornu government passes the annual budget after surviving two no-confidence motions filed by the LFI and RN.[8]
A French judge issues arrest warrants for two French-Israeli citizens, accusing them of "complicity and incitement to genocide" for blocking humanitarian aid trucks en route to Gaza.[9][10]
3 February – A teacher is critically injured in a stabbing by a pupil inside a school in Toulon.[11]
6 February – Greenland crisis: France announces that it will open a consulate in Greenland to reinforce support for Denmark against US president Donald Trump's threats to annex the territory.[12]
8 February – Six people are arrested on suspicion of involvement in the abduction of a magistrate and her mother in Bourg-les-Valence, Drôme as part of a cryptocurrency ransom scheme.[14]
10 February – Nine people are arrested as part of an investigation into the fraudulent reusage of admission tickets into the Louvre that resulted in at least 10 million euros ($11.8 million) in losses to the museum over the previous 10 years.[15]
12 August – A total solar eclipse is predicted to occur at the Moon's descending node of the orbit in North America and Europe. The total eclipse will pass over the Arctic, Greenland, Iceland, the Atlantic Ocean, northern Spain and Biarritz, France.[20][21]
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