Navalny appeals nineteen years in prison. Already incarcerated for nine years in trying conditions, the main opponent of the Kremlin, Alexeï Navalny, was sentenced on August 4, 2023 to nineteen years in prison for “extremism” following a closed-door trial. His appeal hearing against this conviction will take place on Tuesday. A sentence that he must serve in a new penal colony with particularly difficult conditions. The opponent said he expected a “long, Stalinist” sentence. The UN immediately called for the “immediate release” of Navalny and the EU deemed this “arbitrary” conviction “unacceptable”.

Fuels. Faced with opposition from distributors, Emmanuel Macron gave up authorizing the sale of fuel at a loss, leaving in a bill presented on Wednesday by the government only the component of the fight against food inflation. The idea of ??selling at a loss has only existed for a week since Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announced it with the hope of lowering prices at the pump. At the request of the Head of State, the Prime Minister invited representatives of the sector to Matignon on Tuesday to ask them to sell their fuel at cost price – something they already do regularly during commercial operations. Refiners, distributors and professional oil tanker federations are expected Tuesday at 5:30 p.m., said Elisabeth Borne’s entourage. The latter will be surrounded by several ministers, according to the same source.

SNCF strike. The CGT-Cheminots, SUD-Rail and CFDT-Cheminots unions called for a strike on Tuesday to denounce what they describe as “social sabotage”, in particular the transfer of employees to subsidiaries as part of the opening to competition . Train traffic will still be “almost normal” at SNCF on Tuesday, the day of the national strike call, SNCF Voyageurs said on Monday, warning that “slight disruptions” could affect “certain lines or certain regions”. The railway company invites travelers “to check the movement of trains and connections on the usual information channels”, she stressed. Travelers on “a few TGV Inoui, Ouigo or Intercités (trains)” affected by disruptions “have already been notified individually, in order to benefit from a postponement or reimbursement free of charge,” said SNCF- Travelers in a statement addressed to AFP.