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Does cyberattack on La Poste affect French Christmas postal arrivals?
Parcel tracking services remain down for second day
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Christmas gifts and food: How much are French households spending this year?
People are buying nine presents each on average
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Confrontations with wild boar increase in France despite more hunts
Boar numbers are rising and the ‘unpredictable’ animals can cause serious injury
State of emergency is extended again
France's state of emergency’ which has been in place since the Paris terrorist attacks of November 2015, has been extended for a fifth time, up to July 15, taking the period up to 20 months in total.
This will be the longest since the creation of the measure in the 1950s, linked to the Algerian War. The justification for the extension was to cover the period of the presidential elections, which are judged to have heightened risk of terrorist attack.
This comes as the ‘Vigipirate’ anti-terrorist plan was reclassified into three levels, including a new ‘urgence attentat’ one, which is currently in place in Ile-de-France, a maximum level for when an attack is imminent or one has just happened.
