Justice at a run

In the hall of the Paris court on Monday, the queue stretches outside room 6.01. Parents, friends, lawyers in their robes, and a lot of young people. Since 17 October, 2,513 people have been taken into custody, according to the authorities. The court opened four fast-track courtrooms at once, against one or two on a normal day.

At 11:20 a.m. on Wednesday, the bars disappeared from the top of the screens. No calls, no texts, no 4G or 5G for part of the 21.6 million mobile customers of Orange and Sosh. At 11:50, Downdetector counted close to 12,000 reports. Bouygues Telecom and SFR, for their part, said they had seen nothing. It took until 8:30 p.m. for Orange to announce “a return to normal”.

Unrefined cane sugar, panela, is sold in brown blocks all over Colombia. Ground to powder and mixed with cocaine, it was meant to slip through the scanners of the port of Cartagena. The anti-narcotics directorate of the national police opened the container: 7.6 tonnes, announced President Abelardo de la Espriella, more than 42 billion pesos taken from the traffickers and “more than 19 million doses” that will never reach the street.

On Wednesday morning, the website of the Paris police prefecture read “under maintenance”. So did those of the prefectures, of the CNIL, of the Finnish government, of British, German and Belgian public services, and Wikipedia or 4chan. The cause fits in three letters: PHP, the language behind 69.3% of the websites whose technology is known, according to W3Techs.