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Schoolboy arrested for threatening teacher with a knife - A schoolboy has been arrested after threatening his English teacher with a knife. The 15-year-old student was placed in pre-trial detention following the opening of an investigation into "attempted intentional homicide against a teacher". The incident occurred at the Edouard-Herriot college in northeastern France on Friday. France’s education minister is to visit the establishment today Monday 18th March.
Agricultural crisis - The meeting between the famer’s union in France and French President Emmanuel Macron scheduled for tomorrow Tuesday 19th March at the Elysée has been postponed. During the Agricultural Show in Paris, Macron had promised that he would bring together the agricultural unions mid-March. However, in a statement released by the Elyséé it was stated that the meeting has been postponed “as things are taking longer than the objective initially set by the Head of State in mid-March”.
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Fatal weekend on the region’s roads – The weekend was marked by three fatal road accidents on the Riviera in the space of a single weekend. On Sunday evening on the Basse Corniche shortly before 10pm a car and two motorcycles collided on Avenue de la Liberté. A 21-year-old motorcyclist died at the scene and the second motorcyclist, aged 26 has been taken to hospital. In the early hours of Saturday morning two fatal accidents again involving motorcycli
