Morning coverage stayed on purchasing power, with fishermen blocking then lifting the Fos-sur-Mer depot blockade, ministers insisting there was no shortage, EDF agents striking and police preparing to march in Paris, while Hollande warned of a gilets jaunes return.
Midday attention shifted to the announced death at 68 of the Rita Mitsouko singer from lightning cancer, saluted by Macron, which sidelined politics across front pages.
It returned to the Paris périscolaire scandal as Hidalgo admitted collective failure before the Senate and an animator was sentenced to five years including one firm for assaults on nine children, alongside Lecornu’s pledge of €1.5bn against gender violence and €2.6bn for child protection.
The evening closed on Russian pressure, from the NATO downing of a drone over Lithuania to flare fire at a Danish helicopter, as Barrot called France a priority target.