2025 in France


Events in the year 2025 in France.

Incumbents

Events

January

February

  • 1 February – Three people are killed in a fire at a retirement home in Bouffémont.
  • 3 February – Prime Minister François Bayrou passes his government's annual budget after bypassing a vote in the National Assembly through special constitutional powers.
  • 5 February –
  • *Serge Atlaoui is repatriated to France as part of the bilateral agreement with Indonesia signed on 24 January.
  • * Prime Minister Bayrou survives a no-confidence motion filed against him in the National Assembly over his passage of the 2025 budget.
  • 10 February – Prime Minister Bayrou survives a second no-confidence motion filed against him in the National Assembly over his passage of the 2025 budget.
  • 12 February
  • *2025 Grenoble attack – Twelve people are injured in a grenade attack on a bar in Grenoble.
  • *The WEST tokamak is reported to have maintained plasma for 1,337 seconds, a new world record duration for nuclear fusion and 25% longer than a similar effort by China the previous month.
  • 13 February – The National Assembly votes in favor of a measure banning single-use electronic cigarettes.
  • 22 February –
  • *One person is killed in a knife attack in Mulhouse.
  • * Fugitive Mohamed Amra, who escaped in an incident that left two prison guards dead in May 2024, is arrested in Romania. He is extradited to France on 25 February.
  • 24 February – Three molotov cocktails are thrown at the Russian consulate in Marseille. No injuries are reported.
  • 26 February – Brahim Aouissaoui is sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for carrying out the 2020 Nice stabbing.
  • 28 February – Cyclone Garance makes landfall in Réunion, killing one person and leaving two others missing.

March

April

  • 5 April –
  • *The 2025 French far-right protests begin.
  • *Paris Saint-Germain wins the 2024–25 Ligue 1 after defeating Angers 1-0.
  • 7 April – A massive fire destroys the Syctom recycling plant in Paris.
  • 14 April – Algeria orders the expulsion of 12 French diplomats in retaliation for France indicting three Algerians for the 2024 abduction of dissident Amir Boukhors in Paris. In retaliation, France expels 12 Algerian diplomats the next day.
  • 15 April – Unknown individuals launch overnight attacks on prisons in Toulon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Valence, Nîmes, Villepinte and Nanterre.
  • 24 April – Nantes school stabbing: One person is killed while three others are injured in a stabbing at a school in Nantes. The attacker is arrested.
  • 25 April – A Malian national is fatally stabbed in a suspected Islamophobic attack inside a mosque in La Grand-Combe. The suspect subsequently surrenders to police in Italy.
  • 28 April – A massive blackout hits parts of Europe, causing power outages in southern France.

May

June

  • 6 June –
  • *Four people are killed in a fire at a housing block in Reims.
  • *A rabbi is injured in a suspected antisemitic attack in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
  • 9–13 June – Third United Nations Oceans Conference in Nice.
  • 10 June – An educational assistant is fatally stabbed by a 14-year old student at a school in Nogent, Haute-Marne.
  • 14 15 June 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans
  • 15 June – The government revokes the awarding of the Legion of Honour to former president Nicolas Sarkozy, citing his conviction for corruption and influence peddling in 2024.
  • 16 June –
  • *A strike is held by employees of the Louvre in protest over overcrowding, understaffing and "untenable" working conditions.
  • *One person dies in an outbreak of food poisoning in Saint-Quentin, Aisne that leaves seven others hospitalized.
  • 17 June – Former prime minister François Fillon is sentenced to a suspended four-year prison term for providing a fake parliamentary assistant job to his wife, Penelope.
  • 21 June – At least 12 people are arrested following a wave of suspected syringe attacks that injure 145 people nationwide during the Fete de la Musique.
  • 22 June – Two people are killed in a gun attack on a wedding party in Goult.
  • 24 June –
  • *An appeals court in Nantes finds the French state liable for the death of a 50-year-old man who died in 2016 after inhaling hydrogen sulphide gases emitted by piled-up green algae while running along an estuary near Saint-Brieuc.
  • *The French fraud prevention and consumer protection agency orders the French subsidiary of Tesla, Inc. to stop "deceptive commercial practices" after finding that it had engaged in multiple violations regarding refunds, deliveries and marketing.
  • 25 June – More than 600 metres of cable are severed or stolen from the Eurostar railway line south of Lille-Europe station, causing travel disruptions.
  • 26 June – Two people are killed, including a child, and 17 others are injured nationwide following storms that also cause flooding in Paris.
  • 27 June – The National Assembly votes for Mayotte to become a single community.
  • 28 June – The government issues a decree prohibiting smoking in several public spaces and potential gathering spaces for children. Electronic cigarettes are exempt from the ban.
  • 30 June – A strike is held by public media agencies in response to proposals by the government to merge France Médias Monde, France Télévisions, Radio France and the Institut national de l'audiovisuel into a single body.

July

August

  • 1–25 August – Réunion competes in the 13th Indian Ocean Youth Games, winning 138 medals, with 92% of medalists from Saint-Denis.
  • 3 August – Pauline Ferrand-Prévot wins the 2025 Tour de France Femmes, becoming the first French person since 1989 to win in any category of the Tour de France since 1989.
  • 5 August – One person is killed while three others are reported in a wildfire in Aude that burns of land and becomes the largest wildfire in France since 1949.
  • 7 August – The Constitutional Council strikes down a provision in an agricultural measure known as the Duplomb Law that would have allowed the use of the pesticide acetamiprid, which had been banned in France since 2018 for its adverse effects on bees and other pollinators.
  • 11 August – The Gravelines Nuclear Power Station shuts down after its cooling system is clogged by a swarm of jellyfish.
  • 12 August – A letter from President Macron to Cameroonian president Paul Biya is released in which the French government officially acknowledges its actions against the Cameroonian independence movement from 1945 to 1971 as a war.
  • 13 August – An olive tree planted in memory of Ilan Halimi, a French Jew who was murdered in 2006, is cut down in Épinay-sur-Seine in a suspected anti-semitic attack.
  • 22 August – A leisure park manager in Porté-Puymorens is arrested on suspicion of discrimination after denying entry to a group of Israeli tourists.
  • 24 August – The French foreign ministry summons US ambassador Charles Kushner after he publicly accuses the French government of failing to adequately respond against anti-Semitism.
  • 2531 August 2025 BWF World Championships in Paris
  • 26 August – The skull of the Malagasy King Toera of Menabe, who was killed by French colonial soldiers in 1897, is returned to Madagascar along with the skulls of two of his companions by France, where they had been stored at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris.
  • 30 August – One person is killed in a car-ramming attack outside a bar in Evreux.

September

October

  • 1 October – The French Navy boards the Beninese-flagged vessel Boracay, which is under EU sanctions on suspicion of being part of the Russian shadow fleet, and detain two senior crew members off the western French coast on suspicion of involvement in the launching of drones over Danish airspace in the previous week.
  • 2 October – Nationwide strikes are held demanding in protest against cuts to government spending and demanding higher taxes on the rich.
  • 6 October –
  • *Sébastien Lecornu resigns as prime minister hours after unveiling his cabinet.
  • *A court in Bobigny sentences Japan Football Association technical director Masanaga Kageyama to a suspended 18-month prison term and a ban on entering France for 10 years after he was arrested at Charles de Gaulle Airport for viewing child pornography aboard an Air France flight.
  • 9 October – Husamettin Dogan, the only defendant in the rapes of Gisèle Pelicot case who appealed his conviction, has his sentence extended from nine to 10 years.
  • 10 October – President Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister.
  • 13 October –
  • *Philippe Aghion of the Collège de France is awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics for his work on "innovation-driven economic growth".
  • *Four people are arrested on suspicion of involvement in a plot to assassinate exiled Russian dissident Vladimir Osechkin, who is residing in Biarritz.
  • 16 October – Prime Minister Lecornu survives two successive no-confidence motions filed by La France Insoumise and the National Rally respectively.
  • 17 October – A court in Albi convicts and sentences Cédric Jubillar to 30 years' imprisonment for the murder of his wife, Delphine Jubillar, who disappeared in 2020.
  • 19 October – Eight jewelry items from the Napoleonic era that form part of the French Crown Jewels are stolen following a heist that targeted the Galerie d'Apollon at the Louvre in Paris.
  • 20 October – A tornado hits Val-d'Oise, killing one person, injuring four others and causing extensive damage in Ermont.
  • 21 October –
  • *Former president Nicolas Sarkozy begins a five-year prison sentence for corruption involving his election campaign finances.
  • *A court in Paris convicts TotalEnergies for "misleading commercial practices" by overstating its climate pledges.
  • 31 October – The National Assembly votes 228–172 to reject a proposal by left-wing parties to introduce a minimum two-percent tax on wealth over 100 million euros.

November

December

  • 4 December — Unidentified drones are seen flying over the Île Longue submarine base.
  • 9 December – The National Assembly votes 247-234 to pass the government's contested social security budget.
  • 12 December – A herd of 200 cows is culled in Les Bordes-sur-Arize following a discovery of a single case of Lumpy skin disease, triggering protests by farmers over the government's response to the outbreak.
  • 15 December – A three-day strike is launched by employees of the Louvre as part of demands for more recruitment and better maintenance.
  • 18 December – Besançon poisonings: Frédéric Péchier, an anesthesiologist who was found guilty of poisoning 30 patients and killing 12 with anesthetic infusion bags in Besançon is sentenced to life in prison.
  • 20 December – A knife-wielding assailant is shot dead by police after threatening bystanders and residents at a shop in Ajaccio.
  • 22 December – A cyberattack is carried out by the pro-Russian hacking group Noname057(16) on La Poste.
  • 23 December –
  • *Severe flooding caused by torrential rain leaves over 1,000 homes without power in Montpellier and Hérault department.
  • *The United States imposes sanctions on former EU commissioner for digital affairs Thierry Breton on charges of online censorship following the passage of the Digital Services Act.
  • 26 December – A man is arrested after carrying out a knife attack that injures three women in different locations along the Paris Métro Line 3.

Holidays

Good Friday and St Stephen's Day are observed in Alsace and Moselle only

Deaths

January

February

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

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