Police attacked in Cannes, the bodies of mountaineers found and the Church takes action: the information to remember this afternoon

The info not to be missed

"We are dealing with someone who wanted to kill a cop", judge Laurent Martin de Frémont, national representative of the SGP Police-FO Unit union.

At around 6.30am this morning, a crew of four police officers from Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes) was attacked by a man equipped with a stabbing weapon.

One of the officials was notably targeted by a stab wound in the thorax, but was not injured, thanks to his bulletproof vest.

The assailant, a 37-year-old Algerian unknown to the intelligence services, said on several occasions that he was acting "in the name of the prophet".

According to our information, he received two bullets, one in the side, the other in the back.

Its vital prognosis is engaged.

The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police of Nice and the national anti-terrorism prosecution has not, at this stage, been seized.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin traveled to Cannes after the attack to provide “support” to the teams there.

"Not only must we greatly improve security and gendarmes by increasing the number of troops" but we must also "work on intelligence", he declared.

What to also remember

• The three French climbers who disappeared in Nepal are dead.

  The bodies of Louis Pachoud, Gabriel Miloche and Thomas Arfi, who have been missing since October 26 after an avalanche in the Everest region have been found, Nepalese police said.

  “The bodies will now be transported to Kathmandu for an autopsy,” she added.

• Sexual abuse in the Church: expected measures.

  A month after the publication of the shock report of the Sauvé commission, the Catholic bishops meeting in Lourdes promise "gestures" and a "schedule" of measures to fight against child crime in the Church.

  The 120 bishops must adopt these decisions this Monday morning in a closed-door vote, at the conclusion of several days of work.

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• Back to school: the mask is again compulsory in 39 departments for schoolchildren.

  Government spokesman Gabriel Attal had confirmed it on Wednesday: the mask is again mandatory on this return Monday, in 39 new departments, located across the country, but especially in the West, where the rate of he incidence (proportion of new cases in the population) exceeded 50 per 100,000 inhabitants for five days in a row.

The unexpected info

On purchase, the item was 16 times cheaper.

A black bamboo-print dress, worn by singer Amy Winehouse during her last concert in Belgrade in 2011, was sold for $ 243,200 at an auction held in California on Sunday.

The singer was found dead at her home in London in July 2011, following an alcohol overdose.

The dress sold was the most valuable item of a total of 800 - including books, DVDs - that belonged to the artist and that were offered for auction by her parents, Mitch and Janis.

They raised some $ 4 million.