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Impact estimated that the momentum around Jean-Luc Mélenchon, fueled according to him by the latest polls and increasingly crowded meetings, was worrying a part of the political class. He indicated that more than 11,000 people had gathered that day at the Zénith in Clermont-Ferrand for the rebellious leader. Impact also reported that Laurent Wauquiez (LR) had reacted by asking: "What are we waiting for to wake up and gather the right?" #Mélanchon #Politique #France (translated)

Sprint reported that Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton had been questioned about night races in Formula 1 and the possibility of adding them to the calendar. Alonso believed that they ended too late to fly home and that it would be better to schedule them at 6 or 7 in the morning, so that he could have lunch at home. Lewis Hamilton, for his part, mentioned his recent visit to Madrid: he found the city beautiful during the day and thought it could also be nice at night, like other circuits. #F1 #SingaporeGP #F1 #Formule1 #CoursesNocturnes (translated)

Press Briefs reported nearly 7,000 police custody cases, 86% of which involved minors, and indicated that the majority had not led to legal proceedings at this stage. The account described these arrests as a massive and unprecedented measure aimed at containing the mobilization of young people. Several cited observers viewed this as a form of intimidation, while Press Briefs believed this practice infringed on the right to protest and risked normalizing disproportionate police and judicial responses. The account added that the preventive use of police custody had already been documented during the Yellow Vests movement. Relying on independent press articles, Press Briefs relayed testimonies from high school students reporting violent detention conditions, symptoms of post-traumatic stress, forced undressings, and physical or psychological violence. A 15-year-old reportedly recounted being slammed against a concrete bed and hit on the head by police and then insulted. A complaint had been filed, according to the account, which also indicated that the police prefecture had not responded to Mediapart's questions about the reported statements. Mohammed, a 16-year-old high school student in Saint-Denis, reportedly stated that police had hit the bars of his cell during the night to wake up the detainees and had targeted him with a racist insult. The mother of Noham, also 16, claimed that her son had been hit in the liver and face after asking why he had been arrested. Adam's mother also denounced violence against young protesters. Press Briefs added that several teenage girls and boys reported sexist and racist remarks from police, and complaints had been filed. Anne Savinel-Barras, president of Amnesty International France, expressed her concern over the repression of the student movement, believing that the young people's demands for education and health were met with prohibitions on demonstrations and disproportionate police violence. The NGO stated that it would support people peacefully protesting and defend the right to demonstrate. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights also expressed concern about the situation in France and notably called for a proportional use of force. #jeunesse #manifestation #répression (translated)

Jon De Lorraine stated that the debate between Louise and Elwan was followed because it revealed, beyond a televised confrontation, a crisis of representation. He presented Louise as a young woman who embraced her ideas and, in his view, met the expectations of millions of French people disappointed by a political class he accused of calculating to preserve its allowances and interests. In contrast, he described Elwan as representative of a self-assured and moralizing television left. He praised her oratorical ease while asserting that she drew inspiration from the style of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. According to him, the left and far-left were thus seeking to extend their ideas to younger and more affluent classes but found themselves struggling as soon as the debate went beyond slogans. De Lorraine interpreted the resonance of the sequence as a sign that some French people were looking for new faces and a break from the traditional political class. He mentioned an economic, security, and migration crisis, but above all, a crisis of representation, and concluded that a part of the country desired a less formatted discourse as well as a right that assumed its ideas more fully. #PolitiqueFrançaise #Changement #EngagementCitoyen (translated)

Guillaume Kasbarian wrote that after the calls not to alter pensions and the social model, local authorities were also subject to a refusal of reform. He wondered what level of deficit, debt, interest rates, and spreads would be necessary for everyone to react, and announced a meeting in the assembly the following week. https://t.co/IkCp0sKdTU #Retraites #ModèleSocial #Politique (translated)

Christa Pike, sentenced to death in the United States, narrowly escaped a botched execution by lethal injection in Tennessee, waking up just before being disconnected from the machines that were keeping her alive, raising questions about transparency in execution protocols. #PeineDeMort #ChristaPike #Transparence (translated)