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Jean-Michel Blanquer announces 5 million FFP2 masks for teachers and "thousands" of replacements

Measures to try to get out of the crisis.

The Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer announced Thursday the provision of "5 million FFP2 masks" for kindergarten teachers on request and 3,300 additional contract workers for replacements "to deal with the crisis", at the result of a meeting with the teachers' unions.

The evaluations for the CP classes scheduled for January will be “postponed to a deadline which remains to be defined”, he indicated, after a day of massive strike by National Education staff.

Far-right Oath Keepers militia leader and 10 members charged with sedition after Capitol attack

It's a major development in the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol assault. The founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, Stewart Rhodes, and ten other members were indicted on Wednesday for sedition, announced the Ministry of Justice on Thursday.

Rhodes, a 56-year-old former US Army paratrooper arrested Thursday in Texas, and his associates are accused of participating in a "conspiracy" to "oppose by force the peaceful transfer of presidential power".

This is the most serious charge to date against the 725 people indicted for their participation in the attack on the United States Congress during the certification of the presidential results of November 2020. It is punishable by a maximum 20 years in prison.

The obligation to wear the mask outdoors suspended in Paris

The administrative court of Paris suspended Thursday evening the prefectural decree which makes it compulsory to wear a mask outdoors in Paris since December 31, AFP learned from the court.

This decision comes the day after that of the Administrative Court of Versailles, which had suspended a similar decree, a first on national territory, considering that the measure carried "an excessive, disproportionate and inappropriate attack (…) on individual freedom " .

The decision concerning this decree of the capital's police headquarters, put in place to deal with the emergence of the Omicron variant, will be published on Friday, added the Paris administrative court.

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