Morning coverage stayed in New York for the commemorations at Ground Zero and the Pentagon. Le Monde ran a live feed, others reconstructed the attacks minute by minute, published victims' final calls, and examined jihadism 25 years on. Attention narrowed to Donald Trump: his absence from New York, his speech at the Pentagon, and scrutiny of his shifting accounts of where he was in 2001.
Domestically, Bercy cut the 2026 growth forecast to 0.5% a day after Insee's downgrade, conceding a 5% deficit was no longer an option, while the Bank of France governor rejected Jean-Luc Mélenchon's debt-cancellation proposal as illegal. Rising fuel prices revived Gilets jaunes speculation, with Fabien Roussel calling to occupy roundabouts. The 2027 race surfaced around Roussel-Mélenchon and Le Pen-Bardella tensions.
In the evening a Rouen-Caen TER derailed near Elbeuf with about 180 aboard, leaving dozens injured.