The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) has requested the holding of a trial against the alleged perpetrator of the knife attack which left one dead, a 23-year-old tourist, and two injured, in December 2023, near the Eiffel Tower, he announced on Friday April 24, confirming information from the regional daily Ouest-France.

Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab will have to be tried before the Paris Assize Court, specially composed, for “assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise in a state of legal recidivism” and “attempted assassination in relation to a terrorist enterprise in a state of legal recidivism”, requested the PNAT in its indictment, which dates from Monday. Contacted by Agence France-Presse, his lawyer, Clémentine Perros, did not wish to comment.

On the evening of Saturday December 2, 2023, the 26-year-old Franco-Iranian national killed a young German-Filipino tourist with a knife, and injured two other people with a hammer, near the Bir-Hakeim bridge.

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Stripped of his French nationality

While in police custody, he took responsibility and claimed responsibility for his attack, as he had done shortly before his crime by publishing on his X account a video in Arabic, in which he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) organization.

In a controlled tone, he told investigators that he had taken action in reaction to the bombing of Gaza by the Israeli army, after the Hamas attack on October 7, but also in following the slogan of IS, which had called at the end of October to attack the “Jews”.

According to information from Le Monde, Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab also clarified that he had initially considered different targets, including several Jewish ones, before his December 2 attack. According to a source close to the investigation, he had also chosen the Enfants-du-Vél’-d’Hiv memorial garden, inaugurated in 2017 in memory of the roundup of 4,115 Jewish minors deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in 1942.

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Mr. Rajabpour-Miyandoab was then indicted and placed in pre-trial detention in solitary confinement. He was stripped of his French nationality a year later.

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Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab had already been sentenced to five years of imprisonment for criminal conspiracy with terrorist aims, after a planned violent action at Defense in 2016.

He was released from prison in March 2020, with a treatment order “implying tight psychiatric monitoring and controlled by a coordinating doctor” until the end of the probation, on April 26, 2023, according to the PNAT. The attack put pressure on the government, barely two months after that in Arras, which cost the life of teacher Dominique Bernard.

The three other people arrested as part of this investigation – his parents and a radicalized 27-year-old woman whom he had contacted on social networks and met the day before the incident – ​​had been released without prosecution.

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Lawrence Vale is professor of planning and urban design at the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. He opened the symposium “Architecture and National Identity”, organized by the Society of Architectural Historians, on March 21 and 22, in Washington.

Garden of Heroes, monumental triumphal arch, huge ballroom at the White House, giant banners bearing his image on public buildings… Donald Trump wants to leave his mark on Washington, the American federal capital. Are there other examples like this in American history?

What Donald Trump seeks to do is unprecedented, not in the scale of the overhaul of Washington, but in the variety of places in which he intervenes. Much has been made of the gilding of the White House offices, the spectacular destruction of the East Wing and the transformation of the Rose Garden into a terrace. But, outside, Lafayette Square is today surrounded by construction barriers, although it is a traditional place of protests and gatherings. Since the installation of security barriers in 2025, it has been almost impossible to get near the White House. The “people’s house” [People’s House] isolated herself from the people.

Never had a president put his name or image on federal buildings while still in office. However, this is the case today, particularly at the ministries of labor and justice, where huge banners bearing the image of Trump have been displayed. Add his name to a federal building, as he did with the Kennedy Center [principal centre culturel de Washington]typically falls under the prerogatives of Congress, which wanted to build a memorial to John F. Kennedy. It would be as if Georges Pompidou had himself decided to rename Beaubourg “Pompidou center” during his lifetime, or if the current president were to rename it “Macron-Pompidou center”. Instead of checks and balances, this system of checks and balances provided for by the Constitution, we now have ad hoc councils composed of people loyal to the president, who validate his decisions.

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This Friday, April 24, Vincent Chaigneau, director of research at Generali Investments, and Alexandre Attal, director of management at Russell Investments France, were guests of the BFM Bourse show presented by Guillaume Sommerer. BFM Bourse can be seen or listened to from Monday to Friday on BFM Business.

This Friday, April 24, Vincent Chaigneau, director of research at Generali Investments, and Alexandre Attal, director of management at Russell Investments France, were guests of the BFM Bourse show presented by Guillaume Sommerer. BFM Bourse can be seen or listened to from Monday to Friday on BFM Business.

This Friday, April 24, Laurent Daure, analyst at Kepler Cheuvreux, David Rainville, Tech strategy manager at Sycomore AM, and Gilles Santacreu, algorithmic trader and administrator of the Boursikoter.com site, looked at the record on the Nasdaq, the recovery of Intel on the market, the evolution of AI models in China, Bentley System, GDS Holdings, the technical thresholds to watch in tech, and tech assets with strong potential, in the BFM Bourse program presented by Guillaume Sommerer. BFM Bourse can be seen or listened to from Monday to Friday on BFM Business.

This Friday, April 24, Aude Kersulec, BFM Business journalist, Thierry Gautier, general manager of GSD Gestion, Arnaud Isaac, portfolio manager at Promepar AM, Frederik Ducrozet, in charge of strategy and macro research at Pictet Wealth Management, Charlotte Virally, investment director at Swen Capital Partners, Laurent Daure, analyst at Kepler Cheuvreux, David Rainville, Tech strategy manager Sycomore AM, and Gilles Santacreu, algorithmic trader and administrator of the Boursikoter.com site, were guests of the BFM Bourse show presented by Guillaume Sommerer. BFM Bourse can be seen or listened to from Monday to Friday on BFM Business.

This Friday, April 24, Frederik Ducrozet, in charge of strategy and macro research at Pictet Wealth Management, addressed the consequences of a possible abandonment of J. Powell’s legal action by the Trump administration on the Fed, K. Warsh’s speech, and the decline in household confidence in France, in the BFM Bourse program presented by Guillaume Sommerer. BFM Bourse can be seen or listened to from Monday to Friday on BFM Business.

This Friday, April 24, Charlotte Virally, investment director at Swen Capital Partners, explains investment in renewable molecules, and the sovereignty strategy in the gas sector, in the BFM Bourse program presented by Guillaume Sommerer. BFM Bourse can be seen or listened to from Monday to Friday on BFM Business.

This Friday, April 24, Thierry Gautier, general manager of GSD Gestion, looked at the rise in Accor shares despite the conflict, and the publications of values ​​to follow, in the BFM Bourse program presented by Guillaume Sommerer. BFM Bourse can be seen or listened to from Monday to Friday on BFM Business.

This Friday, April 24, Arnaud Isaac, portfolio manager at Promepar AM, was the guest of the BFM Bourse show presented by Guillaume Sommerer. BFM Bourse can be seen or listened to from Monday to Friday on BFM Business.

This Friday, April 24, Guillaume Dambrine, ETF distribution manager for France & Benelux at Franklin Templeton, looked at flows on ETFs, and investing in “investment grade” ETFs, in the ETF Culture column presented by Julie Cohen-Heurton. BFM Bourse can be seen or listened to from Monday to Friday on BFM Business.

After threatening with all the fires of hell, Donald Trump has once again backed down. The American Department of Justice announced on Friday April 24 that the investigation into Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve (Fed), was suddenly abandoned. This turnaround paves the way for the confirmation in the Senate of Kevin Warsh, the White House candidate, to become the next president of the central bank of the United States, from mid-May, at the end of Jerome Powell’s mandate.

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The Trump administration actually didn’t have many options after finding itself in a bind, of its own making. The confirmation of Kevin Warsh has been blocked for several weeks at the Senate banking committee stage, because of a Republican elected official, Thom Tillis, attached to the independence of the institution. The North Carolina senator, whose vote is decisive, has vowed not to vote as long as the investigations against Jerome Powell continue.

The investigation in question concerns the spiraling costs of work on the historic Fed buildings in Washington. She is widely seen as politically motivated. Donald Trump has fierce hatred for Jerome Powell, who did not comply with the demands of the White House in terms of lowering the institution’s key rates. The current administration has made prosecutions a weapon of intimidation against anyone it perceives as adversaries. The American president himself had asked in a message addressed to former Attorney General Pam Bondi, published – probably by mistake – on his social networks, to take action against several of his opponents.

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An assisted dying bill in England and Wales failed to pass Parliament on Friday after its review failed to be finalized on time after being stalled for months in the House of Lords.

In a historic vote in June 2025, the House of Commons approved the legalization of assisted dying in England and Wales for certain terminally ill patients. But the bill stalled in the House of Lords, where more than 1,200 amendments had been tabled, making it impossible to pass it in time. The last debate on the text was held on Friday in this upper and unelected house, and concluded with the abandonment of the text.

Lord Charlie Falconer, who brought this law into the upper house, denounced during a press conference “pure obstructionism on the part of a small group” of peers. At the opening of the session on Friday, he was keen to emphasize that this “bill, so important for so many people”, was not going to be “rejected on the merits, but due to procedural maneuvers”.

Both chambers must approve the bill for it to take effect. It is customary for texts still under discussion at the end of a parliamentary session to be generally abandoned.

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Labor MP Kim Leadbeater, who presented the text at the end of 2024, said on Friday morning on [ses] colleagues, activists and families to ensure that the issue is brought up again in the next parliamentary session.” Lord Falconer accused a “small minority” of Lords of having “disrespected” those who supported the bill by multiplying the amendments, echoing the same regret expressed Thursday in a letter signed by more than 200 members of the upper house.

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A handful of supporters of the text gathered again Friday morning in front of Parliament to denounce the blockage. Among them Rebecca Wilcox, daughter of a television star in the United Kingdom, Esther Rantzen, who has terminal lung cancer. She deplored to Agence France-Presse a “denial of democracy”.

The debate on assisted dying has given rise to lively and often emotional exchanges since 2024, both in Parliament and outside, where supporters and detractors of the text have mobilized on numerous occasions. Supporters of the law argue that it could have provided more dignity and freedom of choice over the end of life for people with incurable illnesses.

According to the text, a patient’s request had to be validated by two doctors and a panel of experts, and the person concerned had to be able to administer the lethal substance themselves. The Lords opposed to the bill assured that they had only carefully examined its contents.

The president of Care Not Killing, Gordon Macdonald, welcomed the failure of a text that he considered “both dangerous and inapplicable”, “riddled with gaps”. If it had been adopted, it would have “left the most vulnerable, including people suicidal or under financial pressure, dangerously exposed” to pressure, he said in a press release.

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The Isle of Jersey and the Isle of Man, dependencies of the British Crown with their own government, have already approved similar texts, which are still awaiting the royal seal before they can come into force. In Scotland, Parliament rejected in mid-March, with a fairly narrow majority (69 against 57), a similar project aimed at legalizing assisted dying.

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The Minister of Agriculture, Annie Genevard, announced on Friday April 24 the increase in compensation granted to breeders forced to slaughter their animals affected by bovine tuberculosis. This infectious disease, mainly carried by wild animals and transmissible to humans, finds a reservoir in the cattle herd.

“When the arrival of this disease on a farm leads to the slaughter-diagnosis of herds, we compensate,” underlined Ms. Genevard, who announced an increase of 850 euros in the compensation paid per cattle over 24 months old, during the congress in Avignon of health defense groups, departmental associations of breeders dedicated to animal health.

“We are therefore going from 2,500 euros to 3,350, with a retroactive effect,” she said, adding that “the revaluation and retroactivity were eagerly awaited by breeders. And despite the budgetary context that each of us is experiencing, the government has decided to respond favorably to this request from breeders which will bring great relief.”

Around 7,000 animals slaughtered in 2024, according to the FNSEA

The minister announced that she was working on this revaluation during the congress of the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA), whose president questioned her on the subject.

In mid-March, 50 outbreaks of tuberculosis had been detected in France, according to the latest report available on the ministry’s website.

In 2025, 93 outbreaks had been detected, especially in the South-West and Corsica, and 81 outbreaks in 2024, i.e. an incidence rate of less than 0.1%, which allows France to maintain the “free” status conditioning the animal trade.

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According to the National Bovine Federation, a specialized association of the FNSEA, around 7,000 animals were slaughtered in 2024 and 5,000 in 2025. That is more than the approximately 3,500 slaughtered due to contagious lumpy skin disease which appeared in June 2025.

The selective culling of herds in the event of tuberculosis infection is possible by derogation and was relaxed in November 2025, contrary to the protocol in force for dermatosis.

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Usually, they are in a bank safe… It was during the few hours that they were not there that Myke Petel had his Pokémon cards that he was collecting stolen, in Dordogne. Amount of damage? Nearly 300,000 euros, according to him.

This enthusiast told his story to Sud-Ouest and Ici (formerly France Bleu). The events occurred on Tuesday April 21, at his home in Prigonrieux (Dordogne). “A man rang the doorbell and pretended to be a delivery man,” he explains to Sud-Ouest, before recounting how this fake delivery man overpowered him before “bringing an accomplice” into his home.

The criminals then head into the room where he stores his Pokémon cards. He had taken them out of the safe he rented from a bank during a convention, organized two days earlier, during which he had exhibited them. “I am convinced that it is someone who knew very well what was there, and I even wonder if it is not someone who has already come to my house”, asks Ici the collector, also well known on social networks.

Damage worth 300,000 euros

According to Myke Petel, several cards as well as a case of trading cards were stolen. The damage is estimated by the young man at 300,000 euros.

The Bergerac public prosecutor’s office confirms “the opening of a flagrant investigation into the counts of armed theft, and the complaint of the victim who deplores damage of 300,000 euros”.

The attraction of Pokémon cards has attracted criminals for several years, while their value continues to rise (some can be worth several hundred thousand euros, depending on their rarity).

At the beginning of April, a man was sentenced to one year in prison and to pay 160,000 euros in damages for having stolen 150,000 euros of Pokémon cards in October 2024 during a burglary in Essonne. The cards were never found.