Big televised debate, Benalla on the legal hot seat and banned weapons

Did you miss the news of this early morning? We have concocted a recap 'to help you see more clearly.

Six party leaders in debate. François Bayrou (MoDem), Olivier Faure (PS), Stanislas Guerini (LREM), Marine Le Pen (RN), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI), and Laurent Wauquiez (LR) exchanged on the crisis of "yellow vests" in a special show Wednesday night on BFMTV. You did not follow the exchanges? No worries, we summarize the evening.

And three more for Alexandre Benalla. The former collaborator Emmanuel Macron has just received this Wednesday new indictments, for other violence on the sidelines of the demonstrations of May 1, and for the episode of the selfie showing with a weapon, said a judicial source. At the end of his hearing started in the morning at the tribunal de grande instance in Paris, the former Elysée collaborator emerged from the judges' office with new indictments for "interference in the exercise of a public office" And "voluntary violence in a meeting without disability", facts concerning the episode of the Jardin des Plantes, and for "unauthorized wearing and holding of category B weapons", concerning the selfie with a pistol, detailed the judicial source that confirmed information from the Parisian.

"To sum up, every semi-automatic weapon used in Friday's terrorist attack will be banned in this country," said Jacinda Ardern. The Prime Minister of New Zealand announced Thursday the ban on the sale of badault rifles and semi-automatic weapons in response to the double killing of mosques.