Here are the news we selected for you this Monday, November 17 at noon.
For this Monday, November 17, the news is marked by the President of the Republic accepting his Ukrainian counterpart to sign an arms agreement in favor of Kyiv, as well as the investigation that was opened after statements in favor of Marshal Pétain were made during the mass in Verdun this Sunday. It was also reported that a teenager was seriously injured by gunfire near a drug trafficking point in Grenoble.
Information that should not be missed
A “historic” text, according to the Ukrainian president. Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelensky signed an arms deal on Monday at an air base near Paris to “strengthen” Ukraine’s combat aviation and air defense.
The French president welcomed his counterpart at the Villacoublay base where industrialists handed over to the leader of the country at war since 2022 with Russia, the French Rafale fighter aircraft and its weapons, the new generation SAMP-T air defense system, as well as several drone systems.
They signed a “declaration of intent concerning cooperation regarding Ukraine’s acquisition of French defense equipment”, the exact contents of which were not revealed until a joint press conference at midday on the Élysée.
On Sunday, on the X network, Volodymyr Zelensky spoke about a “historic agreement” that provides “significant strengthening” of “combat aviation, air defense and other defense equipment” in Kiev.
According to the French presidency, this means “putting France’s superiority in the arms industry at the service of Ukraine’s defense” and “the sky” in the face of “Russian aggression.”
What you also need to remember
- The Epstein Affair: Trump’s Change. The US President said on Sunday that he ultimately supports a vote in the US House of Representatives to release the files of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Donald Trump previously opposed the idea.
- Mass for Pétain in the crosshairs of justice. An investigation was opened to charge crimes against humanity against the president of the Association to defend the memory of Marshal Pétain (ADMP), after a crowd spoke on Saturday in Verdun. The man specifically estimated that Philippe Pétain was “France’s first resistance fighter.”
- Drug trafficking: a teenager in a coma. After being hit by three bullets Sunday near a drug dealer in Grenoble, a boy remains in a coma with a life-threatening prognosis, and his attacker is on the run, prosecutors said.
This concerns you
Winter is coming. After a week marked by very cool temperatures in November, the mercury will drop drastically in France with the arrival of cold air coming from the poles, then with the descent of the basin from the North Sea full of moist sea air that will bring rain, even snow at low altitudes. Here is the weather update for this week.
