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A 22-year-old man died after falling from the top of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France, around 3pm on the Champs-Élysées. Emergency services pronounced him dead at the scene, and investigators are treating the incident as a suspected suicide.
The Arc de Triomphe remains closed to the public while investigators examine the circumstances surrounding the man’s death. Today’s protests, involving over half a million participants, have seen police clash with demonstrators across multiple cities, leading to significant unrest and calls for a rise in wages and pensions.
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu condemned the violence during recent protests, stating there is no room for “arson, looting, and attacks” while acknowledging the right to peaceful demonstration. In response to escalating unrest, President Emmanuel Macron emphasised that those who vandalise will be “prosecuted and punished,” as his government faces increased pressure ahead of the presidential election.
What remains unclear — Investigators have yet to disclose any additional details regarding the circumstances leading to the young man’s fall from the Arc de Triomphe.
Man, 22, falls to death from Arc de Triomphe in Paris
A man has died after falling from the Arc de Triomphe (Picture: Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
A young man has died after falling from the top of the Arc de Triomphe.
The incident occurred at around 3pm in the 8th arrondissement at the top of the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France.
A 22-year-old male fell approximately 50 metres from the monument in front of several witnesses.
Emergency services, including firefighters, arrived quickly, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene, the prosecutor’s office announced.
Consequently, the landmark has been completely closed to the public.
Investigators are currently treating suicide as the leading hypothesis, believing that he ‘jumped’.
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The man’s suspected suicide is not thought to be linked to today’s protests (Picture: Reuters)
While police explore the circumstances that led to the man’s death, it is not thought to be linked to protests in the French capital ‘at this stage’.
Law enforcement clashed with demonstrators in Paris and other cities today, firing tear gas and water cannons and making hundreds of arrests.
Some, wearing hoods and face coverings, launched fireworks and other objects at riot police, who were deployed around Place de la République.
Protesters broke windows at CNews and Europe 1 offices, and reports from the scene said they threw projectiles at the buildings.
Town hall buildings in Lille and Marseille were broken into, with a fire breaking out on the roof of Limoges City Hall.
Authorities also closed metro stations and dispersed gatherings near government buildings.
Insisting that people have the right to protest peacefully, French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said there is no place for ‘arson, looting, and attacks’.
He described today as the most violent school protests in decades and criticised the ‘hard left’ who ‘openly called for revolt’.
Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly young people, took to the streets to demand better education and improved public school conditions.
This followed weeks of student-led protests against crumbling buildings, teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and budget constraints.
Teachers, parents, nurses, human rights lawyers, and emergency service workers joined the students in solidarity.
This weekend’s unrest also stemmed from anger towards rising living costs, fuel prices, and the deteriorating social welfare system.
Protests turned violent as thousands marched against high living costs across French cities (Picture: Ibrahim Ezzat/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Authorities have vowed to punish vandals (Picture: Reuters)
Student unions originally initiated the movement to protest underfunding, deteriorating infrastructure, and teacher shortages (Picture: Richard Bord/Getty Images)
Shortly after midday, the Interior Ministry recorded around 140 protest actions outside the Paris region. Protests were initially reported to involve more than 32,000 people, but by evening, that figure rose to over half a million.
Backing the rallies, the CGT, one of France’s major labour unions, echoed demands for ‘higher wages and pensions, lower prices and the protection of public services that meet people’s needs’.
The protests increased pressure on President Emmanuel Macron’s government ahead of next April’s presidential election.
Macron, who first took office in 2017, responded to the demonstrators by saying there is ‘no place for violence in our Republic’, stating that those who have ‘vandalised and attacked’ will be ‘prosecuted and punished’.
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October 12, 2024
6:18 am
‘Cheer up, you caught the bad guy,’ says killer Virginia McCullough as she is arrested for murdering her parents
A woman who murdered her parents “in cold blood” before hiding them in makeshift tombs for four years told officers to “cheer up, you caught the bad guy” as she was arrested in her home.
Virginia McCullough, 36, poisoned her father John McCullough, 70, with prescription medication and fatally stabbed her mother Lois McCullough, 71, shortly afterwards in 2019.
She ran up large debts on credit cards in her parents’ names and after their deaths, she continued to spend their pensions until she was finally caught in 2023.
In body-worn video footage released by police, a handcuffed – and eerily calm – McCullough told officers: “I did know that this would kind of come eventually.
“It’s proper that I serve my punishment.”
She said she had slipped something into her father’s drink then put his body under a bed on the ground floor, and put her mother’s body in an upstairs wardrobe.
McCullough, having been arrested on suspicion of double murder, told an officer: “Cheer up, at least you’ve caught the bad guy.”
She added: “I know I don’t seem 100% evil.”
At the police station, she told officers where a kitchen knife was, which she described as a “murder weapon”, and a hammer which she said “will still have blood on it”.
McCullough, of Pump Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday with a minimum term of 36 years at Chelmsford Crown Court, after she admitted to their murders between 17 and 20 June 2019 at an earlier hearing at the same court.
Chelmsford Crown Court heard how she hid their bodies in makeshift tombs at the family home in Great Baddow in Essex, then told persistent lies to cover her tracks.
The court heard she cancelled family arrangements and frequently told doctors and relatives her parents were unwell, on holiday or away on lengthy trips.
But concerns over Mr and Mrs McCullough’s welfare were raised in September 2023 by a GP at their registered practice, and Essex County Council’s safeguarding team referred these to police.
The GP had not seen the couple for some time and said Mr McCullough had failed to collect medication and attend scheduled appointments. It was found McCullough had frequently cancelled appointments, using a range of excuses to explain her father’s absence.
Police said a missing persons investigation was initially launched and McCullough lied to officers, claiming her parents were travelling and would be returning in October.
It became a murder investigation, and when officers forced entry to the house in Pump Hill on September 15 2023, McCullough confessed that her parents’ bodies were in the house and that she had killed them.
Nicola Rice, a specialist prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service, said: “McCullough callously and viciously killed both of her parents before concealing their bodies in makeshift tombs within their home address.
“She spent the next four years manipulating and lying to family members, medical staff, financial institutions, and the police, spending her parents’ money and accruing large debts in their name.”
She added: “This was a truly disturbing case, which has left behind it a trail of devastation, and I can only hope that the sentence passed today will help those who loved and cared for Lois and John begin to heal.”
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Defense alliance NATO chief Mark Rutte has met US President-elect Donald Trump to discuss global security issues, according to a NATO spokesperson.
The meeting took place in Palm Beach, Florida.
During his first term as US president, 2017-2020, Trump pushed for European NATO countries to spend more on defense and described the alliance’s cost-sharing as unfair to the US.
Rutte took over as NATO chief from Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in November.
Before taking office in January, Trump has nominated Pete Hegseth for the post of defense secretary, which has raised eyebrows among many allies.
Hegseth, 44, has served as an infantry captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, but has no senior military or government officer experience.
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Multiple missiles were fired in an airstrike towards a densely populated part of Lebanon’s capital early on Saturday.
The huge airstrike targeted Beirut’s Basta neighbourhood, and no prior warnings were given by the Israeli military. The largely residential area was struck last month.
At least one violent explosion was heard across the city, Reuters witnesses said, and plumes of smoke could be seen. Scenes of massive destruction at the site were shared online, including a massive crater in the ground.
“Beirut, the capital, woke up to a horrific massacre, as the Israeli enemy’s air force completely destroyed an eight-story residential building with five missiles on Al-Mamoun Street in Basta,” the state-run National News Agency reported.
The health ministry put the initial death toll at four, with 23 wounded. The number is expected to climb in the coming hours as search and rescue efforts continue.
It came after a long day of Israeli airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, which have been non-stop since last week.
The cross-border fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group escalated into a full-blown war in mid-September.
Israel has bombed southern Lebanon, Beirut’s southern suburbs and the eastern Beqaa region, and has sent ground troops across the border. Hezbollah has continued to fire rockets deeper into Israel.
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