Euro 2024 opens this Friday June 14. The opening match at Munich’s Allianz Arena pits Germany against Scotland at 9pm tomorrow evening. The competition will take place until July 14 in ten different stadiums including Berlin, Dortmund, Stuttgart and Cologne. Thirteen matches will be broadcast on M6 (commented by Christophe Dugarry) and twelve on TF1.
France’s first match will take place on Monday June 17. The Blues will face Austria at 9 p.m. at the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf. France is in Group D alongside Poland, the Netherlands and therefore Austria. In 2020, Italy won the European football championship.
2 – Decision by the artistic committee of candidates for the design of contemporary stained glass windows for Notre-Dame de Paris
Stained glass windows at Notre-Dame de Paris.
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The artistic committee set up by the Ministry of Culture for Notre-Dame de Paris will decide tomorrow on a narrowed list of validated files from candidates for the design of contemporary stained glass windows. In fact, the committee had to choose an artist and a glass craftsman to design six contemporary stained glass windows. The committee is made up of twenty members including heritage curators, artists, members of the diocese of Paris, the public establishment responsible for the reconstruction project and the Ministry of Culture and is chaired by Bernard Blistène.
On June 26, the committee will publish a list of eight finalists which will have to be examined by the Archbishop of Paris, Mgr Laurent Ulrich and by Emmanuel Macron before selecting only one winner.
3 – Verdict at the appeal trial of the two main convicts for their involvement in the Nice attack
The appeal trial of the two main convicts for their involvement in the Nice truck ram attack in 2016 will end this Friday, June 14 at the Paris Special Assize Court. The attack left 86 dead and 450 injured on July 14, 2016 on the Promenade des Anglais.
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At first instance, the two convicts Chokri Chafroud and Mohamed Ghraieb were sentenced to eighteen years of criminal imprisonment for “criminal terrorist association”. Indeed, the two men are two friends of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, the 31-year-old Tunisian who drove the ram truck.
4 – Anticipated written French baccalaureate tests
First step for the baccalaureate. High school students in Première class will take the anticipated written French tests tomorrow from 8 a.m. The orals will take place between Monday June 24 and July 5, 2024.
5 – The Good News of the day
Frenchman Louis Arnaud, who had been detained in Iran since September 2022, has been released. The thirty-year-old had started a world tour in the summer of 2022 before his arrest with other Europeans, accused of having participated in the demonstrations in the country after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurd who died after her arrest by the police mores.
On X, Emmanuel Macron thanked “ our Omani friends and all those who worked for this happy outcome », specifying that he was thinking of Cécile, Jacques and Olivier, still detained in the Islamic Republic.
