On Monday, Mauricio K., 44, was taken into custody at the Saint-Ouen police station. On Tuesday he came out dead. Prosecutors speak of a cardiac arrest, his father has filed a complaint, an investigating judge has been appointed.
Monday 26 October, 2.50 pm, a fast-food restaurant in Saint-Ouen. A man insults a woman, she wants to press charges, the municipal police arrive. Mauricio K., 44, a house painter who came from Angola at the age of eight, has been drinking: 1.37 mg per litre of exhaled air. A doctor rules his condition compatible with custody. The Bobigny prosecutor’s office holds him for sexist abuse and threats against police officers.
Coluche died forty years ago. This week, the Senate voted to make rape of minors imprescriptible, and children slept on the floor in the holding cells of the Bobigny courthouse.
On Wednesday, the Senate voted, 252 to 80, so that rapes committed against children will never again be time-barred. Until now, only crimes against humanity escaped the clock, and a victim could file a complaint until the age of 48. The National Assembly had voted a broader text in the summer. The 80 against, mostly on the right, defend limitation periods as a principle of law and fear trials without evidence forty years on. A final vote comes on Tuesday, then the two chambers must agree. A child raped in 2026 will be able to speak in 2070.
The International Civil Aviation Organization lifts the restrictions that have weighed on Libya since 2015. Tanzania finds gas, Nigeria has no more Ebola cases. Three pieces of good news, no conditional tense.
Since 2015 and the civil war, almost nobody flew over Libya. On 23 October, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the UN agency, lifted its restrictions, announced in Doha; Libya’s transport ministry made it public on Monday. From November, airlines from all over the world can cross that sky again.
On Thursday morning, TotalEnergies published its accounts: 7.4 billion euros of net profit in the third quarter, against 3.3 billion a year earlier. The barrel sold for 87 euros on average, 62 last year, and European refining margins quadrupled. The same day, diesel sells for more than 2.35 euros a litre, France imports half of its supply, and the Strait of Hormuz has been almost shut since February.
111 women killed by their partner or ex in 2025. A third had already been beaten, most had said so. We knew. This paper does not want to write that figure again next year.
111. It is not a figure, it is a list of first names nobody has read to the end. 111 women killed by the man who shared their life, in 2025, four more than in 2024. 25 men too. And 445 women who survived the attempt, the ones counted nowhere. The interior ministry published the study on 13 October. It did not make the front page. It should have.
Libya gets its sky back: ICAO lifts eleven years of restrictions.
11 years
Tanzania: first major gas discovery in ten years, at Mnazi Bay. At Urda, 69 dead including former minister Fátima Báñez; the control-centre audio has been published.
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.
