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Consider a Cremona group endowed with the Euclidean topology introduced by Blanc and Furter. It makes it a Hausdorff topological group that is not locally compact nor metrisable. We show that any sequence of elements of the Cremona group of bounded order that converges to the identity is constant. We use this result to show that the Cremona groups do not contain any non-trivial sequence of subgroups converging to the identity. We also show that, in general, paths in a Cremona group do not lift and do not satisfy a property similar to the definition of morphisms to a Cremona group.

In this paper, we give the first examples of connected Polish groups that have ample generics, answering a question of Kechris and Rosendal. We show that any Polish group with ample generics embeds into a connected Polish group with ample generics and that full groups of type III hyperfinite ergodic equivalence relations have ample generics. We also sketch a proof of the following result: the full group of any type III ergodic equivalence relation has topological rank 2., Comment: New version mentioning the results Malicki obtained independently and simultaneously http://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03919, which also answer Kechris and Rosendal's question in a different way. Comments welcome!