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Events in the year 2025 in France.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]January
[edit]- 6 January –
- The first case of clade 1b mpox in France is discovered from a patient in Brittany who came into contact with persons who had travelled to central Africa.[1]
- President Emmanuel Macron states that France was right to intervene militarily in the African Sahel against Islamist militants, and states that he is still waiting for the Sahel states to "thank" France while also denying that the French military was forced out of the region.[2]
- 11 January – Two trams collide in Strasbourg-Ville station, injuring 68 people.[3]
- 15 January – A wildfire breaks out in Amsterdam Island in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands, forcing the evacuation of all 31 residents. By 10 February, 45% of the island's area is affected.[4]
- 16 January – Prime Minister François Bayrou survives a no-confidence motion filed by La France Insoumise in the National Assembly.[5]
- 24 January –
- Pakistani national Zaheer Mahmood is convicted of attempted murder and terrorist conspiracy for carrying out the 2020 Paris stabbing attack and is sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment.[6]
- Indonesia and France sign an agreement to repatriate French national Serge Atlaoui, who has been in death row since 2007 in an Indonesian prison following a conviction for drug smuggling.[7]
- 29 January – Four Norwegian skiers are killed in an avalanche at Val-Cenis in the French Alps.[8]
February
[edit]- 1 February – Three people are killed in a fire at a retirement home in Bouffémont.[9]
- 3 February – Prime Minister François Bayrou passes his government's annual budget after bypassing a vote in the National Assembly through special constitutional powers.[10]
- 5 February –
- Serge Atlaoui is repatriated to France as part of the bilateral agreement with Indonesia signed on 24 January.[11]
- Prime Minister Bayrou survives a no-confidence motion filed against him in the National Assembly over his passage of the 2025 budget.[12]
- 10 February – Prime Minister Bayrou survives a second no-confidence motion filed against him in the National Assembly over his passage of the 2025 budget.[13]
- 12 February
- 2025 Grenoble attack – Twelve people are injured in a grenade attack on a bar in Grenoble.[14]
- The WEST tokamak is reported to have maintained plasma for 1,337 seconds, a new world record duration for nuclear fusion and 25% longer than a similar effort by China the previous month.[15][16]
- 13 February – The National Assembly votes in favor of a measure banning single-use electronic cigarettes.[17]
- 22 February –
- One person is killed in a knife attack in Mulhouse.[18]
- Fugitive Mohamed Amra, who escaped in an incident that left two prison guards dead in May 2024, is arrested in Romania.[19] He is extradited to France on 25 February.[20]
- 24 February – Three molotov cocktails are thrown at the Russian consulate in Marseille. No injuries are reported.[21]
- 26 February – Brahim Aouissaoui is sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for carrying out the 2020 Nice stabbing.[22]
- 28 February – Cyclone Garance makes landfall in Réunion, killing one person and leaving two others missing.[23]
March
[edit]- 6 March – The Ariane 6 rocket successfully launches from Kourou, French Guiana, placing the CSO-3 French military reconnaissance satellite into orbit.[24][25]
- 12 March –
- The National Assembly votes to remove sitting and standing as a voting method in the chamber following a proposal co-created by MP Sébastien Peytavie, who is wheelchair-bound.[26]
- Jean-Pierre Maldera, a former mafia boss, is shot dead along the A41 autoroute in Grenoble.[27]
- 17 March – French national Olivier Grondeau, who had been imprisoned in Iran since 2022 on espionage charges, is released and repatriated to France.[28]
- 22 March – Arié Engelberg, the chief rabbi of Orléans, is injured in an anti-Semitic assault. A suspect is arrested.[29]
- 25 March – Two Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet aircraft of the Patrouille de France collide mid-air near an air base in Saint-Dizier. The three people on board are rescued.[30]
- 31 March – Marine Le Pen from the National Rally (RN) is banned from running for political office for five years following her conviction for embezzlement, making her ineligible to run in the 2027 French presidential election.[31]
April
[edit]- 5 April –
- The 2025 French far-right protests begin.
- Paris Saint-Germain wins the 2024–25 Ligue 1 after defeating Angers 1-0.[32]
- 7 April – A massive fire destroys the Syctom recycling plant in Paris.[33]
- 14 April – Algeria orders the expulsion of 12 French diplomats in retaliation for France indicting three Algerians for the 2024 abduction of dissident Amir Boukhors in Paris.[34] In retaliation, France expels 12 Algerian diplomats the next day.[35]
- 15 April – Unknown individuals launch overnight attacks on prisons in Toulon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Valence, Nîmes, Villepinte and Nanterre.[36]
- 24 April – Nantes school stabbing: One person is killed while three others are injured in a stabbing at a school in Nantes. The attacker is arrested.[37]
- 25 April – A Malian national is fatally stabbed in a suspected Islamophobic attack inside a mosque in La Grand-Combe.[38] The suspect subsequently surrenders to police in Italy.[39]
- 28 April – A massive blackout hits parts of Europe, causing power outages in southern France.[40]
May
[edit]- 11 May – Algeria orders the expulsion of 15 French diplomats, citing breaches of diplomatic procedures related in part to the replacement of staff expelled in the previous round of removals in April.[41]
- 13 May –
- A court in Paris convicts actor Gérard Depardieu of sexually assaulting two women on a film set and sentences him to a suspended 18 month prison sentence.[42]
- One person is killed in a flash flood in Fort-de-France, Martinique.[43]
- 16 May – France files a case at the International Court of Justice against Iran accusing it of violating the rights of two French nationals arrested and imprisoned in the country since 2022 and holding them hostage.[44]
- 17 May – France's Louane finishes in seventh place at Eurovision 2025 in Switzerland with the single "Maman".[45][46]
- 18 May – An air traffic control systems failure causes massive disruptions at Paris-Orly Airport.[47]
- 20 May – Three people are killed in adverse conditions caused by thunderstorms in Le Lavandou and Vidauban.[48]
- 24 May –
- A suspected arson attack on an electricity substation in Tanneron causes a blackout that affects 160,000 homes in Alpes-Maritimes, including in Cannes.[49]
- Iranian film director Jafar Panahi wins the Palme d'Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for his film It Was Just an Accident.[50]
- 25 May – A second suspected arson attack on an electricity substation in Nice causes a blackout that affects 45,000 homes in the city as well as in Saint-Laurent-du-Var and Cagnes-sur-Mer.[51]
- 28 May – Surgeon and convicted paedophile Joël Le Scouarnec is sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment for abusing 299 patients including children from 1989 to 2014.[52]
- 31 May –
- Paris Saint-Germain defeats Inter Milan 5-0 to win the UEFA Champions League for the first time.[53] Following this, two people are killed in incidents in Dax and Paris during victory celebrations, while a police officer is severely injured in a related incident in Coutances. At least 294 others are arrested.[54]
- A Tunisian national is shot dead in a suspected hate crime in Puget-sur-Argens.[55]
June
[edit]- 6 June –
- Four people are killed in a fire at a housing block in Reims.[56]
- A rabbi is injured in a suspected antisemitic attack in Neuilly-sur-Seine.[57]
- 9–13 June – Third United Nations Oceans Conference in Nice.[58]
- 10 June – An educational assistant is fatally stabbed by a 14-year old student at a school in Nogent, Haute-Marne.[59]
- 14 – 15 June – 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans[60]
- 15 June – The government revokes the awarding of the Legion of Honour to former president Nicolas Sarkozy, citing his conviction for corruption and influence peddling in 2024.[61]
- 16 June –
- A strike is held by employees of the Louvre in protest over overcrowding, understaffing and "untenable" working conditions.[62]
- One person dies in an outbreak of food poisoning in Saint-Quentin, Aisne that leaves seven others hospitalized.[63]
- 17 June – Former prime minister François Fillon is sentenced to a suspended four-year prison term for providing a fake parliamentary assistant job to his wife, Penelope.[64]
- 21 June – At least 12 people are arrested following a wave of suspected syringe attacks that injure 145 people nationwide during the Fete de la Musique.[65]
- 22 June – Two people are killed in a gun attack on a wedding party in Goult.[66]
Predicted and scheduled events
[edit]- 5 – 27 July – 2025 Tour de France[67]
- 25 – 31 August – 2025 BWF World Championships in Paris[68]
Holidays
[edit]Source:[69]
- 1 January – New Year's Day
- 18 April – Good Friday†
- 20 April – Easter
- 21 April – Easter Monday
- 1 May – International Workers' Day
- 8 May – Victory Day
- 29 May – Ascension Day
- 8 June – Whit Sunday
- 9 June – Whit Monday
- 14 July – Bastille Day
- 15 August – Assumption Day
- 1 November – All Saints' Day
- 11 November – Armistice Day
- 25 December – Christmas Day
- 26 December – Saint Stephen's Day†
†Good Friday and St Stephen's Day are observed in Alsace and Moselle only
Deaths
[edit]January
[edit]- 1 January:
- Jean-Michel Defaye, 92, composer and pianist.[70]
- Louis Schittly, 86, physician and humanitarian (Médecins Sans Frontières).[71]
- 3 January: La Chunga, 87, French-born Spanish flamenco dancer and painter.[72]
- 4 January: Claude Allègre, 87, geochemist and politician, minister of national education (1997–2000).[73]
- 5 January:
- Benoît Allemane, 82, voice actor.[74]
- Anne-Marie Comparini, 77, politician, deputy (2002–2007) and president of Rhône-Alpes (1999–2004).[75]
- Freddy Zix, 89, footballer (Pierrots Vauban Strasbourg, RC Strasbourg, 1968 Olympics).[76]
- 7 January:
- Jean-Marie Le Pen, 96, founder of the Front National.[77]
- Lim Kimya, 73, French-Cambodian politician, MP (2013–2018).[78]
- 8 January: Gabriel de Broglie, 93, historian, chancellor of the Institut de France (2006–2017) and member of the Académie Française.[79]
- 10 January:
- Roger Lebranchu, 102, Olympic rower (1948).[80]
- Jean-Luc Petitrenaud, 74, food critic and television host.[81]
- 17 January: Didier Guillaume, 65, senator (2008–2018), minister of agriculture and food (2018–2020), minister of state of Monaco (since 2024).[82]
- 20 January: Bertrand Blier, 85, film director.[83]
- 21 January: Valérie André, 102, neurosurgeon, aviator and army general.[84]
- 22 January: Gabriel Yacoub, 72, folk musician (Malicorne).[85]
February
[edit]- 3 February: Stéphane Picq, 59, video game music composer (Dune, MegaRace, Lost Eden).[86]
- 6 February: Paul-Loup Sulitzer, 78, financier and author.[87]
- 7 February: Naâman, 34, reggae singer.[88]
May
[edit]- 17 May: Werenoi, 31, rapper.[89]
- 26 May: Marcel Ophuls, 97, German-born filmmaker.[90]
- 30 May: Étienne-Émile Baulieu, 98, biochemist and endocrinologist.[91]
June
[edit]- 4 June: Nicole Croisille, 88, singer and actress (Erotissimo, Les Uns et les Autres, There Were Days... and Moons).[92]
- 14 June: Catherine Delbarre, 100, Olympic fencer (1956, 1960).[93]
See also
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Country overviews
[edit]- History of France
- History of modern France
- Outline of France
- Government of France
- Politics of France
- Years in France
- Timeline of France history
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