3 January – Villejuif stabbing where a man kills one person and wounds two others with a knife before the perpetrator is shot dead by police.[1]
18 January – French police call for backup as protesters try to storm a theater where President
Emmanuel Macron and his wife are watching The Fly.[2]
20 January –
Annie Chapelier, member of the
National Assembly for
Gard's 4th constituency, leaves
LREM. She denounces "an above-ground movement, indifferent to the territories" where "little more or less self-proclaimed chiefs" want to be superior to "a mass, insignificant in their eyes, who is asked for blind allegiance and obedience", as well as inaction in the face of the "climate emergency".[citation needed]
24 January – The first cases of
COVID-19 are confirmed
in France: one in
Bordeaux, a Chinese native of
Wuhan who lives and works in the Bordeaux region, and two in Paris, a couple of Chinese tourists.[3]
February
7 February – Five new cases of
COVID-19, four adults and one child, are announced by the Minister of Health
Agnès Buzyn. The initial case is a British national returning from Singapore where he stayed from 20 to 23 January. He has arrived in France on 24 January for a four-day stay in the town of
Les Contamines-Montjoie before returning to United Kingdom.[citation needed]
8 February – Triggering of the Alerte-Enlèvement Device (Alert-Removal Device): the plan is launched after the kidnapping of Vanille, a 1-year-old girl by her mother Nathalie, 40, in
Angers, on 7 February around 5:30 pm. Nathalie is found in
Nantes on 9 February. A few hours later, the public
prosecutor of
Angers announces that Vanille has been found dead, in a clothing dumpster, and that her mother has admitted to having killed her. It is the first time since the launch of the Alert-Removal Device in France that the abducted child has been found dead.[citation needed]
21 March – Independence of the XIVth district's Eco-Socialist Republic.[citation needed]
April
4 April – A
terrorist knife attack in Romans-sur-Isère resulted in the death of two civilians and the wounding of five others. The perpetrator was arrested and charged with terrorist crimes.[4]
13 April – President
Emmanuel Macron makes a television address on coronavirus to the nation viewed by 36.7 million people.[5]
June
11–17 June –
2020 Dijon riots: A 16-year-old Chechen in assaulted in
Dijon, leading to several violent clashes, including in the Grésilles district.[6]
June –
Louis Aliot became the first National Rally Mayor in
Perpignan with a city of more than 100,000 people.[7]
3 January – Villejuif stabbing where a man kills one person and wounds two others with a knife before the perpetrator is shot dead by police.[1]
18 January – French police call for backup as protesters try to storm a theater where President
Emmanuel Macron and his wife are watching The Fly.[2]
20 January –
Annie Chapelier, member of the
National Assembly for
Gard's 4th constituency, leaves
LREM. She denounces "an above-ground movement, indifferent to the territories" where "little more or less self-proclaimed chiefs" want to be superior to "a mass, insignificant in their eyes, who is asked for blind allegiance and obedience", as well as inaction in the face of the "climate emergency".[citation needed]
24 January – The first cases of
COVID-19 are confirmed
in France: one in
Bordeaux, a Chinese native of
Wuhan who lives and works in the Bordeaux region, and two in Paris, a couple of Chinese tourists.[3]
February
7 February – Five new cases of
COVID-19, four adults and one child, are announced by the Minister of Health
Agnès Buzyn. The initial case is a British national returning from Singapore where he stayed from 20 to 23 January. He has arrived in France on 24 January for a four-day stay in the town of
Les Contamines-Montjoie before returning to United Kingdom.[citation needed]
8 February – Triggering of the Alerte-Enlèvement Device (Alert-Removal Device): the plan is launched after the kidnapping of Vanille, a 1-year-old girl by her mother Nathalie, 40, in
Angers, on 7 February around 5:30 pm. Nathalie is found in
Nantes on 9 February. A few hours later, the public
prosecutor of
Angers announces that Vanille has been found dead, in a clothing dumpster, and that her mother has admitted to having killed her. It is the first time since the launch of the Alert-Removal Device in France that the abducted child has been found dead.[citation needed]
21 March – Independence of the XIVth district's Eco-Socialist Republic.[citation needed]
April
4 April – A
terrorist knife attack in Romans-sur-Isère resulted in the death of two civilians and the wounding of five others. The perpetrator was arrested and charged with terrorist crimes.[4]
13 April – President
Emmanuel Macron makes a television address on coronavirus to the nation viewed by 36.7 million people.[5]
June
11–17 June –
2020 Dijon riots: A 16-year-old Chechen in assaulted in
Dijon, leading to several violent clashes, including in the Grésilles district.[6]
June –
Louis Aliot became the first National Rally Mayor in
Perpignan with a city of more than 100,000 people.[7]