Armed gang wounds 1 guard in cash-van attack in central Lyon
Five heavily armed men attacked a cash-in-transit van in central Lyon on Thursday, wounding 1 guard before fleeing without the money, a source said.
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The most serious incident of the past week remains an attack on an elected official: a secondary-school pupil threw a petrol bomb at regional councillor Angela Avond outside a Chelles lycée on 10 November, during a dispute linked to a nationwide education strike. Avond filed a complaint for attempted murder, and President Emmanuel Macron and education minister Edouard Geffray condemned the attack. On 11 November, Paris prosecutors opened a cyberattack investigation into France's blood donation service, and authorities issued a fuel-supply warning for north-east France as low Rhine water levels disrupted barge deliveries.
Other developments: France summoned Iran's ambassador over an October cyberattack on refrigeration systems at about 700 supermarkets, which it blamed on Iran's Shahid Kaveh unit; the EU said it was ready for a "rapid and united" response, while Iran rejected the accusations. A bus crash near Lent killed 2 people and injured 16 on 6 November. Marseille prosecutors opened 14 investigations into alleged police violence during October protests. France is due to take over air defence of Poland's Rzeszów-Jasionka airport, a hub for Western aid to Ukraine, from January.
Updated by the ECTV Crisis Desk, based on 16 verified stories from the past seven days.
ECTV has published 14 verified stories on France in the past seven days. The most recent, updated 12 November 2026: Armed gang wounds 1 guard in cash-van attack in central Lyon.
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