Morning coverage stayed on the aftermath of Thursday's strike, with the 575,000-police versus 1.6-million-CGT split repeated and attention shifting to Monday's Matignon 'conférence sociale'. The labour minister floated trying to cross '1,500 euros net' for the Smic, Lecornu invited unions, employers and then youth representatives, while the intersyndicale announced Saturday's Paris République-Nation march authorized and Interior Minister Nuñez reconducted 70,000 police and gendarmes.
Live blogs pivoted mid-morning to Lent, south of Bourg-en-Bresse, where an interurban coach carrying children left the road and hit a tree. Transport Minister Tabarot confirmed a 7-year-old girl and an 18-year-old killed and 16 injured, four seriously. The driver, negative for alcohol and drugs, was placed in custody after saying he fell asleep; Macron offered condolences and prosecutors opened a road-homicide inquiry.
Separately, two drowned in floods in southern Corsica and Matignon reported four new bomb alerts forcing landings.