French police recorded an average 15% year-on-year increase in domestic violence incidents between 2019 and 2022, with numbers doubling between 2022 and 2016, according to data from the Ministry of the Interior's statistics unit

Panic buttons will be installed in schools in a bid to alert police of terrorist attacks, after a teacher has been murdered last month; several towns and cities already use them but PM Borne said the system should be introduced nationwide

The Pas-de-Calais département in northern France has confirmed a red alert for river flooding and heavy rain due to continuing downpours, with schools closed and transport disrupted

UNICEF France and a dozen civil society associations sent a letter to the PM asking her to urgently develop an ambitious national strategy for the mental health of children and young people