The CGT will file strike notices in the public service, announces its general secretary Sophie Binet. The teaching unions of Seine-Saint-Denis are calling for a rally on Thursday noon in front of the Ministry of Education in Paris.

Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin asks prefects that “all places of Muslim worship” in France be protected “ statically by the police ” during Ramadan. The average global temperature stood at 13.54°C, 0.12°C higher than February 2016, the previous record.