For what it's worth the original close order was supposed to align with bringing the newer Flamanville 3 1,650 MW plant online which would have been a nearly even swap. Unfortunately that project has gone 5x over budget with numerous time delays. Current guesstimates expected it to come online in 2022. This article seems a little disingenuous.

Here's a DW (german news org) article illustrating the German annoyance at some particular "low-level" incident:

https://www.dw.com/en/reports-fessenheim-nuclear-accident-pl...

I'm not sure there's an easily accessible list of all incidents and/or way to compare that against other plants :/

Ed.: also, yeah, it'd be cool if this wasn't causing an uptake in coal :(