Maybe it was that Merkel just didn’t want to do state visits.

It’s possible she didn’t for the French president she had to deal with. As far as I remember she got along with Chirac, but for a short time, she despised Sarkozy, she didn’t care much for Hollande and she was quickly disappointed by Macron.

First state visit, not first visit. A state visit is something particular with all the honours and the like.

Not particularly security savvy, but :

The infected devices then attempt to crack the telnet password by guessing default and commonly used credential pairs.

My understanding is that the worm is targetting connected devices with supidly simple credentials, which is why “Internet-of-Things” is mentioned?

Pour habiter Paris même, je suis complètement d’accord avec ta dernière phrase. Les parisiens représentent l’essentiel du problème, ils n’ont pas besoin de voiture pour la plupart sauf s’ils font le trajet que celui que tu décrivais plus haut.

The Guardian is making this about the American… The Paris vote was framed around big cars (“SUV”).

The exact translation is “Independent Commission on Incest and Sexual Violence on Children”.