The editorial staff of “Libération” compiles the main news from this Tuesday, January 7.
Every morning, the editorial staff of Libé selects the essential news in France, the rest of the world and those to follow during the day.
“Charlie”, ten years after the attacks
It was ten years ago to the day. On January 7, 2015, around 11:30 a.m., the Kouachi brothers entered the premises of Charlie Hebdo and open fire. They killed twelve people during the day, including eight members of the editorial staff and two police officers. This January 7, 2025, Charlie Hebdo is still there, “indestructible!” as its journalists write on the front page of a special issue this Tuesday. Several of them spoke at length to Libé how they lived this decade between fears, hopes and the desire to fight, for freedom of expression and for those who are no longer there. The day will be marked, like every year, by commemorations throughout France. Emmanuel Macron, Anne Hidalgo and several ministers will pay tribute to the 12 who died. The day can be followed live with Liberation ici.
More than 50 dead in Tibet earthquake
A powerful earthquake occurred this Tuesday morning in the Himalayan region of Tibet, in southwest China. With a magnitude of 6.8, it struck the canton of Dingri, located not far from the Sino-Nepalese border, at 9:05 a.m. local time (2:05 a.m. French time), according to the Chinese national earthquake agency. (CENC). The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a magnitude of 7.1. The tremors, felt as far away as neighboring Nepal, caused the collapse of numerous buildings and left at least 53 dead, according to the latest report. Videos broadcast by Chinese state television CCTV show high-altitude white-colored homes with gutted walls and collapsed roofs, with stones littering the ground.
The new Mpox variant detected in France
A first case of the new Mpox variant has been identified in France, health authorities announced on Monday, who nevertheless want to be reassuring about the risk of infection for the general population. “The Ministry of Labor and Health” was informed “a first human case of Mpox clade 1b on national territory, in Brittany. The recommended management measures have been put in place”announces the Ministry of Health in a press release, confirming information from West France. The infected person did not travel to Central Africa, an area in which this variant is actively circulating, but was in contact with two people who returned from this region.
The PS will censure the government if there are no “remarkable concessions” on the budget
The Socialist Party demanded a real “negotiation” on the 2025 budget, threatening censorship if he did not obtain “remarkable concessions” of the government. By launching discussions on Monday with the political parties represented in Parliament, the government hopes to involve them in the preparation of a budget of “compromise” which can be adopted in the National Assembly. This Monday took place “an appointment that we hope will be useful, but we have called back […] that we were not ready to sell out and that if there were not remarkable concessions for the French, we were ready again to take our responsibilities, including through censorshipdeclared Olivier Faure, at the end of the almost two-hour interview in Bercy. We do not want that, we want progress, for there to be a fruitful dialogue.”
New Caledonia fails to appoint a president
Elected Tuesday by members of Congress, the new government of New Caledonia failed to appoint its president, the non-independence majority, having failed to agree on a name. More than seven months after violent riots, the archipelago was plunged into uncertainty on December 24 by the overthrow of the government of independentist Louis Mapou, in place for three years. The negotiations have not “we are not allowed to agree on a governance contract”reacted to the outcome of the vote Philippe Dunoyer, candidate of the Calédonie ensemble party (center right, non-independence), who announced his resignation, less than an hour after the election of an executive.
To be continued today
Second day of the trial of Libyan financing of the Sarkozy campaign
Suspected of having benefited from money from the Gaddafi clan for his 2007 presidential campaign, Nicolas Sarkozy has been appearing before the Paris Criminal Court since Monday. The first day of the hearing was marked by the reunion between the former president and three of his former ministers: Claude Guéant (Interior, after having been secretary general of the Elysée), Brice Hortefeux (Interior) and Éric Woerth (Accounts public). It has been more than six years since they last communicated: a judicial review prohibited him from speaking to them since March 2018. The merits of the case should be addressed in a few days, after a first procedural hearing.
New attempt to arrest the South Korean president?
South Korean investigators are waiting this Tuesday for a court to issue them a new arrest warrant to try a second time to apprehend deposed president Yoon Suk Yeol, holed up in his residence in Seoul with his close guard. The first arrest warrant, issued on December 31, expired on Monday afternoon without the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) being able to arrest Yoon Suk Yeol for questioning. Friday, investigators supported by police officers entered his residence. But they came up against around 200 soldiers and agents of the Presidential Security Service (PSS) and retreated after six hours of a tense face-to-face.
The story
United States: Joe Biden, the end of a disenchanted parenthesis
Two weeks before returning the keys to the White House, the American president assures the after-sales service of his results while his camp strives to consolidate the ramparts against future abuses from Donald Trump. Read our story.
The champion
How the Minister of Transport, Philippe Tabarot, alienated the world of rail in two weeks
Suicide of driver Bruno Rejony, limitation of the right to strike, reaction to the Paris-Clermont delay… The new Minister of Transport has increased controversies since his appointment on December 23. And from rail to air to road, the files are numerous. Read our story.
The portrait
Ten years after Charlie: François Hollande, the day is falling
The former president, at the Elysée during the attacks, talks about the need, despite astonishment and intimate emotion, to embody authority and seriousness. Read his portrait.
