2020 in France


Events in the year 2020 in France.
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Events

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in France

January

  • 3 January – Villejuif stabbing where a man kills one person and wounds two others with a knife before the perpetrator is shot dead by police.
  • 18 January – French police call for backup as protesters try to storm a theater where President Emmanuel Macron and his wife are watching The Fly.
  • 20 January – Annie Chapelier, member of the National Assembly for Gard's 4th constituency, leaves LREM. She denounces "an above-ground movement, indifferent to the territories" where "little more or less self-proclaimed chiefs" want to be superior to "a mass, insignificant in their eyes, who is asked for blind allegiance and obedience", as well as inaction in the face of the "climate emergency".
  • 24 January – The first cases of COVID-19 are confirmed in France: one in Bordeaux, a Chinese native of Wuhan who lives and works in the Bordeaux region, and two in Paris, a couple of Chinese tourists.

February

  • 7 February – Five new cases of COVID-19, four adults and one child, are announced by the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn. The initial case is a British national returning from Singapore where he stayed from 20 to 23 January. He has arrived in France on 24 January for a four-day stay in the town of Les Contamines-Montjoie before returning to United Kingdom.
  • 8 February – Triggering of the Alerte-Enlèvement Device : the plan is launched after the kidnapping of Vanille, a 1-year-old girl by her mother Nathalie, 40, in Angers, on 7 February around 5:30 pm. Nathalie is found in Nantes on 9 February. A few hours later, the public prosecutor of Angers announces that Vanille has been found dead, in a clothing dumpster, and that her mother has admitted to having killed her. It is the first time since the launch of the Alert-Removal Device in France that the abducted child has been found dead.
  • 11 February – Death of François André, member of the French National Assembly for Ille-et-Vilaine's 3rd constituency. He is replaced by his substitute.
  • 16 February – Resignation of Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Solidarity and Health, following her candidacy for mayor of Paris.
  • 21 February – Shutdown of reactor 1 at the Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant.
  • 28 February – 45th César Awards.
  • 29 February – All indoor gatherings of more than 5,000 people are banned, over fears of the coronavirus.

March

April

  • 4 April – A terrorist knife attack in Romans-sur-Isère resulted in the death of two civilians and the wounding of five others. The perpetrator was arrested and charged with terrorist crimes.
  • 13 April – President Emmanuel Macron makes a television address on coronavirus to the nation viewed by 36.7 million people.

June

  • 11–17 June – 2020 Dijon riots: A 16-year-old Chechen in assaulted in Dijon, leading to several violent clashes, including in the Grésilles district.
  • June – Louis Aliot became the first National Rally Mayor in Perpignan with a city of more than 100,000 people.

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