Strikes against pension reforms: hundreds of thousands expected to take to the streets

The unions are kicking off a mobilization on Thursday that they hope is “powerful” enough to make the government back down on its flagship pension reform. Indeed, hundreds of thousands of people are expected on the streets, strikes and their attendant disruptions at school and on transport. More than 200 assembly points are planned in France and the authorities expect 550,000 to 750,000 demonstrators, including 50 to 80,000 in Paris. Numerous leftist elected officials will participate. More than 10,000 police officers and gendarmes will be at work. There are 3,500 in Paris, where Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said he feared the influx of “a few thousand people” likely to fight.

Interior Minister's helicopter crash: Ukrainian authorities are starting a criminal investigation this Thursday

After the death of Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky in the crash of his helicopter that killed at least 14 people, Ukrainian authorities launched a criminal investigation ordered by President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday. Zelensky announced in his speech Wednesday evening that “the Ukrainian security service has opened a criminal investigation into this terrible event.” According to him, he “instructed the head of the Ukrainian Security Service, in cooperation with all other authorized bodies, to clarify all the circumstances of the disaster.” According to the State Emergency Service (SES) to which he belonged, the helicopter, a Super Puma EC-225 (Airbus Helicopters), crashed Wednesday morning in Brovary, near Kiev.

Rixe in Thiais: four minors indicted Wednesday

A fight cost the life of a 16-year-old young person in Thiais (Val-de-Marne). The Créteil prosecutor's office indicated that four minors were indicted Wednesday for voluntary homicide by an organized gang and attempted voluntary homicide by an organized gang for their participation in the brawl. Aged 15 and 16, these adolescents from Choisy-le-Roi were placed in pretrial detention by a liberty and detention judge, in accordance with the instructions of the prosecutor's office. According to the prosecutor's office, two of them “are named either by witnesses or by the injured victim as being the perpetrators of stabbing the two victims.”

IN SHORT

Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation today. The Prime Minister of New Zealand ensures that she “no longer has enough energy” to continue governing after five and a half years in power and nine months before the general elections.

Elon Musk is accountable to investors in court, more than four years after tweeting that he was going to take Tesla off the stock market. Investors consider themselves aggrieved by his statements, after having already suffered the wrath of the authorities.

Greta Thunberg and other young climate activists are back in Davos on Thursday. Greta must defend the fight against fossil fuels and discuss with the Director General of the International Energy Agency (IEA).

TotalEnergies boss Patrick Pouyanné is ready to “make a discount” on electricity supply contracts concluded in 2022 at full price with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). He estimates that 6,000 customers were affected.

Hollywood stars and independent filmmakers set sail for the first time in three years to the mountains of Utah as the Sundance Film Festival makes its post-pandemic comeback starting Thursday.

The Executive Committee of the French Football Federation is meeting again today in a context where the repression of Noël Le Graët is becoming more and more intense.