On Wednesday morning, an AVE and an Iryo train collided outside a village in Castilla-La Mancha, 150 km south of Madrid. Before the firefighters, it was the neighbours who ran to the track. At least 68 dead.
Before the sirens, the neighbours. At 8.54 am, a Renfe AVE and an Iryo train collided near Urda station, on the Madrid-Andalusia line. Residents of Urda and Los Yébenes broke through the fences, carried the walking wounded to their cars, handed out water. “The village saves the village, there is no shortage of hands,” said Judith, who came with food and drink. The sports hall became a field hospital.
They are between 8 and 11. 11,200 of them answered the education ministry: one primary pupil in three says they have suffered at least one form of sexual violence at school. The youngest are the most affected.
A third-grader is eight years old. They are learning their times tables and losing their last milk teeth. Four in ten say they have suffered a form of sexual violence at school. The education ministry questioned 11,200 pupils from third to fifth grade about the 2024-2025 school year: a third report at least one form of sexual violence, mostly attempts at a forced kiss or someone watching them in the toilets. Two in ten, 22%, say someone tried to kiss or touch them.
A rapper in Bordeaux, a hundred signatures in Politis, a standing chamber. Since Pengo Bossio Wangi, 26, was killed in Trappes, the French scene refuses to stay silent.
On 26 and 27 October, at the Arkéa Arena in Bordeaux, Orelsan played a track nobody had heard before, lyrics about the state of the country, Sud Ouest reports. Phones went up, the clips did the rounds overnight. The rapper from Caen has not commented (but we love it).
The European Central Bank announces its decision this Thursday at 2.15 pm. Behind the deposit rate lie the loans of those who buy, the savings of those who wait, and two euros more on a parcel.
The Governing Council met on Wednesday and concludes this Thursday. Decision at 2.15 pm, Christine Lagarde’s press conference at 2.45 pm. Since June, the ECB has raised its deposit rate twice, to 2.25% and then to 2.50% in September, to counter rising prices. Markets are betting on a pause. For anyone signing a mortgage this autumn, a pause means a rate that does not fall; for anyone with a savings account, a return that holds.
They are sixteen, seventeen, twenty. Since 16 October, Italian pupils and students have been marching against the Meloni government. Five hundred soldiers in Milan, 330 detentions, a general strike on Friday. Few are talking about it.
In front of the Colosseum, thousands of pupils, backpacks on, flags raised. It all began on 16 October, a “No Meloni Day”: Rome, Turin, Milan, Naples, against the schools decree, the state of the buildings, the cost of living. In Turin, water cannon and tear gas. The following weekend, looting and clashes, at least 60 arrests in one night.
At first, I printed this paper for myself alone, every morning. I wanted to know what mattered in France, in Paris and in the world without spending an hour scrolling through screens. So I sorted, then I wrote.
filou d’actu is that sorting, shared. A few topics chosen every day, told simply, with the names of the media the facts come from. You read it with your coffee, from start to finish, then get on with your day.
