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LA FINLANDE PAYS DU BONHEUR PAR EXCELLENCE

La Finlande maintient sa position de leader en termes de bonheur mondial, ce titre étant solidifié pour la septième année consécutive, d'après un rapport publié par l’ONU ce mercredi . Les pays nordiques dominent les dix premières places du classement, avec le Danemark, l’Islande et la Suède suivant de près la Finlande, tandis que la France se classe en 27e position.

En revanche, l’Afghanistan, en proie à une crise humanitaire depuis le retour des talibans en 2020, occupe la dernière place parmi les 143 pays évalués. Pour la première fois en plus de 10 ans, les États-Unis et l’Allemagne ne figurent pas dans les 20 nations les plus heureuses, se classant respectivement 23e et 24e. Le Costa Rica et le Koweit font leur entrée dans le top-20, se positionnant en douzième et treizième place.
Aucun des pays les plus peuplés au monde ne se retrouve parmi les vingt premiers du classement. Selon le rapport, seuls les Pays-Bas et l’Australie parmi les dix premiers, ainsi que le Canada et le Royaume-Uni parmi les vingt premiers, comptent plus de 15 ou 30 millions d’habitants respectivement.
Les plus forts reculs dans l’indice de bonheur depuis la période 2006-10 concernent l’Afghanistan, le Liban et la Jordanie tandis que la Serbie, la Bulgarie et la Lettonie affichent les plus fortes progressions.

Quels sont les six facteurs clés ?

Le Rapport mondial sur le bonheur, publié chaque année depuis 2012 par le Réseau des solutions pour le développement durable des Nations unies, est basé sur une évaluation du bonheur des individus ainsi que sur des données économiques et sociales. Six facteurs clés sont pris en compte : le soutien social, le revenu, la santé, la liberté, la générosité et l’absence de corruption.

Selon Jennifer De Paola, chercheuse spécialisée dans le sujet à l’Université d’Helsinki, la proximité avec la nature et un bon équilibre entre travail et vie personnelle sont des éléments cruciaux pour la satisfaction des Finlandais. De plus, la confiance dans les institutions, la faible corruption et l’accès gratuit aux soins et à l’éducation sont également des facteurs déterminants pour le bonheur dans ce pays.

Le rapport annuel souligne également un niveau de bonheur plus élevé chez les jeunes générations que chez les plus âgées dans la plupart des régions, bien que des exceptions existent. Par exemple, l'indice de bonheur a fortement diminué chez les moins de 30 ans en Amérique du Nord, en Australie et en Nouvelle-Zélande depuis 2006-2010, et est désormais inférieur à celui des générations plus âgées dans ces régions. En revanche, il a progressé dans toutes les tranches d'âge en Europe de l’Est sur la même période.

L’écart entre les générations s'est accru partout dans le monde, à l’exception de l’Europe, ce qui préoccupe les auteurs du rapport.




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ASIAN ELEPHANTS BURY THEIR DEAD AND

MOURN THEM

When a calf dies, Asian elephants bury it and mourn it by trumpeting around its remains, shows a study published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa. The research was carried out in North Bengal, India.

Researchers from two Indian universities identified five sites where baby elephants, aged between three months and a year and who died of organ failure, were buried by their herd. The adults carry the young by the trunk and legs and lay it on its back, in the irrigation canals of tea plantations, a few hundred meters from human settlements.

The herd does not return to the burial site

“Through timely observations, digital photographs, field notes and autopsy reports, we suggest that the remains were buried in the eerie manner of a recumbent figure, whatever the reason for the child's death.” , indicates the study.

In one case, the herd was observed trumpeting around the buried calf. Each time, the elephants left the scene "within 40 minutes of burial" and avoided returning to the same place. Only young ones are buried in this way, as transportation of adults is not possible. On the other hand, we already knew that elephants visit the remains of their conspecifics at different stages of decomposition.

Authors Parveen Kaswan and Akashdeep Roy said their research revealed "no direct human intervention" in the burial of each of the five baby elephants.

Clear footprints of 15 to 20 elephants were observed around the burial sites and on the earth under which the remains were buried.

Elephants are known for their social and cooperative behavior, but burying calves had only been "briefly studied" among African elephants. The phenomenon was still unexplored among their Asian cousins, according to the study.

Wild African and Asian elephants are known to visit the remains of their adult counterparts at different stages of decomposition, but this study revealed different behaviors. In all five cases, the herd "fled the site within 40 minutes of burial" and then avoided returning to the area, instead taking parallel migration routes.

Asian elephants are on the list of endangered species compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. An estimated 26,000 of them live in the wild, mainly in India but there are also a few in Southeast Asia.

Outside of captivity, they live on average 60 to 70 years.




Jaimie Potts for DayNewsWorld

NETHERLANDS DUO EUTHANASIA OF A FORMER PRIME MINISTER AND HIS WIFE

Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands Dries van Agt died on Monday February 5 in Nijmegen (Netherlands) at the same time as his wife Eugénie van Agt-Krekelberg as part of an assisted suicide procedure, reports the Dutch daily From Telegraaf.

Prime minister between 1977 and 1982 and first leader of his political party, the Catholic People's Party (KVP), which has since become the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA), Dries van Agt was ambassador of the European Union to Japan and the United States -United in the 1980s. A lawyer by training, he practiced in Eindhoven, before becoming a law professor at the Catholic University of Nijmegen from 1968 to 1971. He left his teaching position to join the government.

He suffered a brain hemorrhage in 2019 and had since been very weakened.

The announcement of the “duo” euthanasia of the Agt couple was made by the Rights Forum, a research center on Israel and the Palestinians, which the former Dutch Catholic prime minister had founded. The Rights Forum specified that Dries van Agt had left “hand in hand with his wife” to Nijmegen. Their funerals were organized in family privacy, without further details of their deaths being communicated. Assisted suicide has been legal since 2002 in the Netherlands.

They “couldn’t live without each other”

Questioned by the Dutch television channel NOS, the director of the Rights Forum, Gerard Jonkman, indicated that Dries and Eugénie van Agt, both 93 years old, were very ill but “could not live without each other” after having lived together for seventy years.

Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte said he was saddened by the death of the man he called his “practicing great-great-grandfather”.

“The death of Dries van Agt and his inseparable Eugénie, with whom he was united in love until the end, is sad. Dries van Agt remained completely authentic throughout his life,” responded the Dutch head of government.




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THE RELEASE OF A HOVING PIGEON SUSPECTED OF SPYING

On Tuesday, India released a pigeon that had been imprisoned for eight months in Mumbai. The bird suspected of espionage was finally cleared, we learned on Friday from the animal rights organization Peta.

The bird was intercepted in May carrying an “illegible message” and placed in detention in a veterinary clinic in Bombay (west), before being released on January 30, 2024 by the police, this source said.

According to the Times of India daily, the message was written in Chinese, which alarmed investigators.

“The police had opened a procedure for espionage against the bird, but closed the file at the end of their investigation,” states the newspaper.

The investigation ultimately revealed that the animal had gotten lost after participating in a race in Taiwan.

Arrests of homing pigeons for espionage are not uncommon in India.

In 2020, the Kashmir police arrested and then released a bird belonging to a Pakistani fisherman, recalls the APNews press agency.

In 2016, another bird was imprisoned after being intercepted near the Pakistani border, carrying a threatening message towards Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Espionage has a bright future ahead of it !




Abby Shelcore for DayNewsWorld

FRANCE FACING THE DESCRIPTION OF STUDENTS

IN THE PISA RANKING

GABRIEL ATTAL DRAWS OUT HIS SHOCKING PLAN

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) publishes this Tuesday, December 5, 2023, the conclusions of its Program for International Student Assessment (Pisa), a three-year study aimed at assessing the performance of 15-year-olds and, thus, different educational systems. As a result of Covid, the previous edition dates from four years ago.

The OECD's findings are clear: "Overall, the 2022 results are among the lowest ever measured by the Pisa survey in the three subjects in France." The report covers, in each edition, mathematics, reading comprehension and science, each time with a focus on one of these disciplines. This year it's about math.

France maintains its place in the OECD average in all three disciplines, alongside countries such as Hungary, Portugal and Lithuania. She ranks between 15th and 29th place in maths and between 11th and 29th in reading comprehension and science. In the leading group, we find Singapore, Japan, Korea, Estonia, Denmark, Canada and New Zealand.

France has even recorded a “historic” drop of 21 points in the math level of its 15-year-old students since 2018 as assessed by the OECD. compared to -15 points on average in the OECD. This is the “largest decline observed since the first Pisa study”, more than twenty years ago.

And the decline also continues in reading comprehension: the results decrease by 19 points in France compared to 10 points in the OECD. Since 2012, it is 32 points less, compared to 16 on average in the OECD, while the results were stable between 2000 and 2012. In science, finally, the drop is 6 points in France (2 points in the OECD).

A shock plan and demands at school

For the Minister of Education, "it is high time to stop the losing machine" without indulging in self-flagellation. Gabriel Attal unveiled yesterday his shock plan to "restore standards" to schools to eliminate the weaknesses of the French education system.

The tenant of rue de Grenelle plans to create “several thousand positions” over the five-year term to set up level groups at college .

Gabriel Attal also mentioned the conditioning of the transition to high school to obtaining the certificate or even the reopening of the debate on repeating a year, which has become "a taboo" according to him. Gabriel Attal affirms that he will publish, in the first quarter of 2024, a decree allowing the teaching team, and no longer the families, to have the last word in deciding whether to repeat a student.

The Minister of Education had already mentioned at the end of November his desire to “revisit the taboo of repeating a year”.

“By resolving this debate, I want to fight against forced failure” of students who would move to the next class despite having too many gaps, he noted at a press conference on Tuesday. It also provides that teachers can prescribe success courses to certain students during the holidays, which would be a condition for not repeating a year.

From the next school year, 6th and 5th grade students “will be divided into three groups according to their level in French and maths,” explains the minister. “We will create positions so that there are only around fifteen students” in the group of those who present the most difficulties, he added. This organization must extend to 4th and 3rd grade classes at the start of the 2025 school year.

“From the start of the 2024 school year, France will adopt the Singapore method , which has proven itself throughout the world,” he announced. For example, he wants to anticipate the learning of fractions and decimal numbers from CE1 class. The level groups will also serve, according to him, to raise the level in mathematics.

In high school, from the 2025-2026 school year, a new “anticipated mathematical and scientific culture test” will be added to the baccalaureate program, for general and technological first year students. It will be scheduled at the end of the year, as is already the anticipated French test.

In addition, the Minister of Education announces that he wants to focus on artificial intelligence in high schools. “All students entering high school will now be accompanied, at home, by an AI tool for remediation or improvement in French and mathematics,” writes Gabriel Attal in his message to teachers.

During his press conference, he confirmed that this software would be made available free of charge to 200,000 second-year students in the coming months, before being generalized to all in September. “I hope that AI can be used to raise the level. I prefer to choose rather than suffer,” he explained to journalists.

If he is popular with the French, he still has to convince his own troops - the 859,000 teachers - to play the reform game...

Finally, a courageous Minister of National Education who claims high standards and hard work as the key to student success !


Jenny Chase for DayNewsWorld

FRANCE MECHANICAL ORANGE

16-YEAR-OLD THOMAS KILLED WITH KNIVES

BY A GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE FROM THE CITY

Strong indignation is sweeping through a section of the political class following the death of a 16-year-old teenager in Crépol, a village in Drôme. The young man lost his life following a knife attack during the intrusion of around ten people during an evening organized by the town.

This tragic event arouses emotion within right-wing and far-right circles. Thomas, a 16-year-old boy, was fatally stabbed on the night of Saturday to Sunday during the "winter ball" in Crépol, a village with barely more than 500 inhabitants in Drôme.
“His family will remain dignified and will not incite a riot. As usual, some will keep silent about his murder perpetrated by individuals who came to Crépol to attack young French people,” declares the leader of Reconquête, Éric Zemmour, on X ( formerly Twitter).

Thomas, a “victim of wildness”

A group of at least ten people infiltrated the village hall in the middle of the evening. A security agent, denying them access, was injured by a stab. In difficulty, participants left the evening, triggering a general fight, specifies the Valencia prosecutor, Laurent de Caigny.

Thomas died of a stab wound while on his way to Lyon hospital.

The leader of the Republicans, Éric Ciotti, interprets the death of the teenager as a “victim of the savagery of France”. “No, Thomas was not simply in the wrong place at the wrong time!”, affirms the MP for Alpes-Maritimes.

The emotion and grief are palpable in Crépol. Denouncing "the barbarity and tragedy" of the night, the RC Romans-Péage rugby club, to which the young man belonged, posted on social networks a photo of him, smiling, wearing his jersey.
A minute of silence in tribute was observed this Sunday before a match organized by the club. The young boy's friends describe him as "a happy go lucky guy", always ready to bring others together and ease conflicts.

"What happened at the ball in Crépol, a village in the Drôme, is not a simple 'brawl', as the media claim: it is the effect of a savagery which disrupts lives and shatters them others,” writes the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella.

Darmanin reacts “faster for a crushed cat”

The observation is shared by Bruno Retailleau. The head of the LR senators evokes on social networks "the state of ultra-violence into which part of our youth is sinking", attributed largely to the feeling of impunity.
For the moment, the government, like the left, maintains a discreet silence. Gérald Darmanin, usually quick to react, has not yet spoken, causing annoyance within Reconquête.

The Minister of the Interior "reacted more quickly for a cat crushed by a TGV than for Thomas, massacred by the barbarians of Romans-sur-Isère 15 kilometers from Crépol", deplores Marion Maréchal, candidate for the European elections. She refers to the cat crushed by a train in Paris last January, which deeply shocked the tenant of Place Beauvau.
According to the first elements collected, the group's aggression seemed to be premeditated and "perhaps linked to a dispute with someone" present at the evening, explains Laurent de Caigny.
The vagueness remains regarding the motivations of the attackers, "but an element collected allows us to consider that this expedition is not simply justified by the simple intention of 'going to the ball' in Crépol", specifies a judicial source.

An investigation into “homicide and attempted homicide” by an “organized gang” was opened and entrusted to the gendarmes. No suspects have yet been apprehended.




Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

ALL GATHERED AT THE MARCH

AGAINST ANTISEMITISM IN PARIS

A march against anti-Semitism will take place in Paris on Sunday November 12, 2023, at the call of the presidents of the National Assembly and the Senate, Yaël Braun-Pivet and Gérard Larcher. The procession will leave at 3 p.m. from the Esplanade des Invalides, near the National Assembly, in the 7th arrondissement of the capital.

And will end at Edmond Rostand place, opposite the Senate, in the 6th. The route should connect the Assembly to the Senate, two Republican symbols. A great fraternal march bringing together “all those who recognize themselves in the values ​​of the Republic and are determined to defend them” !

Gérard Larcher and Yaël Braun-Pivet called for a general mobilization, while anti-Semitic acts have multiplied in France, more than a thousand since the massacre of October 7, 2023 perpetrated by Hamas terrorists in Israel.

“A cry of conscience,” say Gérard Larcher and Yaël Braun-Pivet, “to declare to the world that the French Republic does not allow, and will never allow, abjection to flourish.” .

Because abjection is already spreading throughout the world, in Europe and in France in reaction to the resurgence of tensions between Israel and its neighbors.

These are men steeped in hatred who in Dagestan went to the Makhachkala airport screaming “Allah Akbah” in search of a plane coming from Tel Aviv to chase away the Jew.

It is also with the cry of “Allah Akbar” that the demonstrators call for peace in the streets of Paris and spreading the propaganda of the terrorist organization, that young people in the Paris metro have fun shouting “we are Nazis and we are proud.” Fanatical hatred sows horror.

We are witnessing the resurgence of uninhibited anti-Semitism, in Germany, Great Britain and France, but also on American campuses,

Already in Le Monde in 2012, the former President of CRIF, Richard Pasquier wrote :

“When for the first time since the end of the Second World War children are killed because they are Jewish with the crimes perpetrated in Toulouse by Mohamed Merah, when a grenade is thrown in broad daylight in a kosher supermarket in Sarcelles (. ..), this violence is not indiscriminate (...).

It is in the name of this anti-Semitism that Ilan Halimi was tortured to death by the Barbarian Gang in 2006.

Awareness must be national: this matter concerns us all.”

The tragic events of October 7 remind us sadly, revealing the fragilities of our democracies, the horror of hatred and despair, but they have also brought back the darkest hydra in History, warns Brice Socco.

“Anti-Semitism is a serious offense against man in general,” proclaimed Vladimir Jankélévitch.

The need to combat all discrimination.




Garett Skyport for DayNewsWorld

A TIME MACHINE

THE SAPORAILLE

Who hasn't dreamed of using a time machine ? !

By pure chance, we came across an association which allows you to relive for a moment in a distant past, that of the Napoleonic period.

This association is called “la Saporaille”, a very friendly team, which transports you and makes you want to join straight away.

We tell you about them and their history, their objectives, to help you discover them.

A little history :

After the abdication of Napoleon I, the fall of the Empire and the restoration of royalty with Louis XVIII, all the soldiers of the Napoleonic armies were demobilized and had to surrender their weapons (sabers, rifles), uniforms and all equipment. military.

Covered with glory throughout Europe, many soldiers loyal to Napoleon did not want to give up their weapons and equipment and hid them.

In June 1817, after the failure of the Bonapartist insurrection in the Lyon region, in which Savignois took an active part, and the repressions which followed, these uniforms and materials became even more precious and more carefully hidden within the families.

On August 12, 1857, Napoleon III decided to grant a medal known as Saint Helena, accompanied by a pension, to all soldiers of the land and sea armies who fought under the flags of France from 1792 to 1815.

In 1858, in Savigny, the troop came to pay honors to these last survivors on the occasion of the patronal festival of Pentecost.

These veterans, seeing themselves recognized, were able to bring out hidden weapons, equipment and clothing to parade and celebrate this event.

Creation of the Saporaille:

Since that day, each year, on the occasion of the patronal feast of Pentecost, people from Savignois, assisted by medalists from Sain Bel, will perpetuate this tradition until the 1960s with a traditional parade, singing. La Saporaille was born.

The activities of Saporaille :

For several years, a small group has reconnected with the past and revived this ancient tradition. This team is made up of 15 sappers, 1 mounted hussar, and 3 waiters who parade to the sound of the drum, punctuated with revolutionary songs and Empire. The parade ends with rifle and cannon fire, accompanied by the “little glass” of friendship.

La Saporaille in recent years:

More than ever, La Saporaille is increasing its interventions, taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the calendar to perpetuate the tradition, in a pleasant and festive, and very friendly atmosphere that makes you want to join.

Do not hesitate to contact them, La Saporaille, here are the contact details :

Association La Saporaille

Mairie de Sain-Bel

69210 Sain-Bel (France)...


Jenny Chase and Patrick Mourreau for DayNewsWorld

THOUSANDS OF FESTIVAL-GOERS TRAPPED

BY THE RAIN IN THE NEVADA DESERT

The 2023 edition of the famous alternative festival installed in the Nevada desert turns into a fiasco: Burning Man has transformed into a huge quagmire after torrential rains this weekend, trapping the participants who can no longer leave the site. A festival-goer died, victim of bad weather.

Police in the US state of Nevada (West) were investigating a death on Saturday during the alternative Burning Man festival in the desert that heavy rains transformed into a field of mud.

Due to the heavy downpours, "la playa", a huge esplanade characteristic of the event, was made impassable. If the rains stopped during the day, they should return on Sunday, the last day of the festival, while the temperatures in the night from Saturday to Sunday should drop to around 10 degrees, again according to the organizers.

According to a White House official, President Joe Biden was even informed of the situation on Sunday.

"The gates and airport of Black Rock City (the name of the site, Editor's note) remain closed, any entry or exit is delayed until further notice", repeats at regular intervals since Saturday the X account (ex-Twitter) of the Burning Man.

“Do not travel to Black Rock City! Access to the city is closed for the duration of the event,” continued festival officials. This Saturday, the local Reno Gazette Journal reported that nearly 73,000 people were retained on site. The organizers also invited participants already on site to “conserve water, food and fuel and find warm and safe shelter”.

Burning Man not burned

Despite the difficulty of traveling, thousands of participants seek to flee the festival. Some chose to leave the scene by walking through eight kilometers of mud to reach the nearest paved road, from where several shuttles were deployed to transport festival-goers to Reno .

However, the festival is not officially over. The majority of planned activities have been suspended, including the lighting of the wooden giant installed in the center of “la playa”, which marks the end of the festival and gives it its name. It was postponed to this Monday, at 9 p.m.

Launched in 1986 in San Francisco, Burning Man aims to be an indefinable event, somewhere between a celebration of counterculture and a spiritual retreat. Initially organized on a beach in San Francisco, Burning Man has become a structured festival, with a budget of nearly $45 million (2018 figures) and more than 75,000 participants during the last edition.

It has been organized since the 1990s in the Black Rock Desert, a protected area in northwest Nevada, which the organizers are committed to preserving.

The festival faced an intense heat wave last year with strong winds which had already made the experience difficult for the "burners", as festival-goers are known.


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MAXIMUM ALERT FOR SUPER TYPHOON SAOLA IN CHINA AND HONG KONG

Typhoon Saola risks being "the most powerful" in more than 70 years.

Some of the most violent winds the region has ever experienced. Super-typhoon Saola threatens to hit southern China on Friday, September 1. In mainland China, a maximum alert has been issued for the approach of the typhoon which, according to state media, will make landfall "in coastal areas stretching from Huilai to Hong Kong" on Friday afternoon or overnight. Friday to Saturday.

Guangdong province declared a level 1 wind emergency, reaching the highest alert level. To deal with the looming threat, China's Transport Ministry has mobilized an impressive fleet, including 16 rescue ships and nine rescue helicopters, deployed to areas potentially affected by this storm, as reported by the news agency New China.

“There could be serious flooding”

The metropolis of Shenzhen, home to 17.7 million inhabitants, took drastic measures by announcing the closure of offices, businesses and markets from 4 p.m., as well as the suspension of public transport from 7 p.m. The emergency management department warned that the typhoon would most likely cause a large-scale storm in the city and advised residents not to leave their homes, except for emergency response personnel and those responsible for protection of livelihoods. All city shelters will be open so the public can find shelter in complete safety.

For its part, Hong Kong, the neighboring city, is strongly impacted by the threat of the super typhoon. The authorities took the decision to close the Stock Exchange and schools for the day and to cancel all departing and arriving flights. The city's weather observatory has warned of the risk of a storm surge around Victoria Harbour, which could lead to severe flooding.

Gusts that can exceed 220 km/h

Typhoon Saola, looming on the horizon, could become the most powerful cyclone to hit the Pearl River Delta region since 1949, encompassing major cities like Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Macau, as warned the National Meteorological Center via the social network Weibo.

The situation in Hong Kong is worsening, with an increase in the alert level from T8 to T9, then to T10, the maximum level, an extremely rare measure, having been triggered only 16 times since the Second World War. Authorities are forecasting a significant increase in wind strength, with speeds exceeding 118 km/h and potential gusts of more than 220 km/h.
Although typhoons can temporarily disrupt urban life in metropolises such as Hong Kong and Macau, strict building standards and improved flood management systems have significantly reduced human and property losses during these devastating weather events.


Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

UNDERSTANDING STAR RESTAURANTS

What is the passionate state of mind of great chefs, ready to do almost anything to win a star in the Michelin guide.

The word "passion" has its origins in the Latin "passio", meaning to bear, endure, and encompass both positive and negative suffering. In elite culinary chefs, this passion can manifest itself in intense enthusiasm or extreme perfectionism. We are far from the usual idealization of this form of passion.

The acceptance of excessive suffering

The world of high gastronomy is distinguished by demanding working methods, aimed at ensuring quality, discipline and compliance with the highest standards. This almost justifies the notion of suffering in the name of culinary art. Acceptance of excessive suffering without complaint becomes a hallmark.

Isolation, abuse and even violence.

For exceptional culinary excellence, working in the kitchen is implicitly synonymous with isolation, abuse and even violence.
It is essential to have a total and unwavering commitment on the part of the kitchen brigades. The chefs work between 12 and 20 hours a day. This conception of professional commitment translates into the image of a strong and resistant individual, having to choose between founding a family and devoting himself to a profession for which he is truly gifted.

“We dedicate our entire lives and sacrifice everything, absolutely everything, to put something we are passionate about on a plate,” as one sous chef with three Michelin stars put it in a study:

Furthermore, throughout their careers, leaders are confronted with acts of extreme violence, suffering attacks on their person, their dignity and their sense of worth. They submit themselves to many trials, thinking this is the path to enlightenment:

place yourself in arduous situations where you learn a lot in order to achieve a higher objective.

Serious and traumatic events involving repeated beatings, third-degree burns, sexual assaults, and even stabbings (such as with knives and temperature probes) can occur.

An impact on mental health

The mental state of star chefs is often altered by the mistreatment they endure, including humiliations during their training and career, and the impact this has on their psychological health.

Culinary chefs act almost as if they are going to war. Many chefs mentioned that they suffered from vomiting and/or diarrhea before starting their shift.

Difficult to be a rockstar and to be part of the ranking of the fifty favorite personalities of the French, like singers, actors or footballers. In 2023 Philippe Etchebest and Cyril Lignac appear respectively in 7th and 13th place.




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KILLINGS OF HUNDREDS OF ETHIOPIAN MIGRANTS BY SAUDI BORDER GUARDS

ACCORDING TO AN NGO

In a 73-page report, Human Rights Watch denounces the situation of hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians taking the “eastern route” linking the Horn of Africa to the Gulf, via Yemen.

Human Rights Watch has found that Saudi border guards have killed "hundreds" of Ethiopian migrants since last year trying to enter the wealthy Gulf monarchy through its border with Yemen, 21 August 2023 Human Rights Watch (HRW). Nadia Hardman, a migration expert at HRW, said in a statement that "Saudi authorities are carrying out these killings with impunity, hidden in this isolated border area, out of sight of the outside world."

The NGO relies on interviews with 38 migrants who tried to enter Saudi Arabia from Yemen. They refer to the presence of “explosive weapons”, point-blank fire from Saudi border guards who ask Ethiopians “what part of their body they would prefer to be shot at”.

Survivors tell how they were taken to detention camps, beaten with stones.

Satellite images, videos and photos published on social networks "or collected from other sources" support the testimonies of the Ethiopians. You can see people fleeing through the mountains, some are injured.

The "widespread and systematic" murder of Ethiopian migrants could even constitute a crime against humanity, HRW believes.
The billions of dollars allocated to sports and entertainment aimed at "improving the image of Saudi Arabia" must in no way relegate the attention paid to "these horrific crimes", she urged. underlines.

The government in Riyadh is frequently criticized by non-governmental organizations, which accuses it of diverting attention to major sporting events and cultural events, in order to hide the serious human rights violations as well as the humanitarian crisis prevailing in Yemen. , where the Saudi army is engaged.

The "widespread and systematic" murder of Ethiopian migrants could even constitute a crime against humanity, believes the NGO.

The Saudi authorities dispute the facts reported by the NGO.

Last year, the UN reported cross-border artillery fire and small arms fire by Saudi security forces killing 430 migrants in southern Saudi Arabia and northern Yemen during the four first months of 2022.




Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

UNDERSTANDING THE DEADLIEST FIRE

IN HAWAII

Hawai never stops counting its victims, after the violent fires which affected the island of Maui. The human toll now exceeds 110 dead. “They will probably find 10 to 20 people a day until they are done,” said the governor of the American archipelago, Josh Green. in an interview broadcast Monday by CBS. In his words, the Research operations will still stretch for "about ten days", while the final assessment, as it stands, remains "impossible to anticipate".
According to him, the search operations will last "probably ten more days" and the final results are currently "impossible to guess". If firefighters have done everything, risking their lives, to limit the damage, especially in the city of Lahaina, the number of people missing in the flames should increase further.

"Total Devastation"

The former capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii was almost razed by fire and the damage is immeasurable so far. The city, which was home to 12,000 people, appears to have been bombed, with thousands of buildings reduced to piles of greyish ash. "To be completely honest, there's nothing to see except utter devastation," acknowledged Governor Green, who visited the scene last week.

As communication networks are gradually restored on the island, the number of missing is reduced: currently, according to the governor, it stands at 1,300 individuals, down from the 2,000 previously recorded. are going to shatter irreparably if it means so many deaths," he said. Authorities believe the toll won't be as heavy, but "we're preparing for many tragic stories," Green said.

The population tried to flee somehow, some residents or tourists diving into the ocean to escape the fire. And while she is today in shock at the devastated landscapes, she is also angry and demanding answers

The reaction of the authorities has indeed been singled out for several days. It is in particular the fact that the warning sirens were not turned on which raises questions. Especially since the network having been cut during the fires, many residents were also unable to receive a signal on their telephones, informing them of the situation and inviting them to leave their homes.

However, the warning system in Hawaii is one of the most sophisticated in the world. It has some 400 alarms spread across the state, making it the most comprehensive on the planet. On the island of Maui, the second largest in the Hawaiian archipelago, no less than 80 outdoor sirens are operational to warn residents in the event of a tsunami or other natural disasters. However, at the beginning of August, they remained strangely silent.

A thoughtful choice by the authorities

"No one in the state or county attempted to activate these sirens," admitted Adam Weintraub, spokesman for the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency. However, he explains that this decision depended greatly on the speed at which the flames progressed. The effort to coordinate relief operations on the ground simultaneously with the triggering of other warning systems also played a role.
On Wednesday, Herman Andaya, administrator of the Maui County Emergency Management Agency, tried in turn to justify the non-use of the alert system. He argued that the latter was mainly designed to alert the population to the risk of a tsunami. According to him,

Nevertheless, the causes of such a heavy toll are not attributable solely to human action.

Another factor that played a key role in the extent of the fires that devoured Hawaii was the abandonment of farmland in the 1990s.

The once well-maintained fields, which could have slowed the spread of the fire, were replaced by huge expanses of non-native vegetation, left abandoned. Clay Trauernicht, a fire expert at the University of Hawaii, explained on Twitter that over the past 30 years, invasive weeds such as guinea grass and fountain grass have been introduced. These have a double particularity: they grow back quickly after a fire, but also ignite more easily. In Lahaina, the closure of sugar cane farms in the 1990s also led to the shutdown of irrigation systems that could have stemmed the spread of fires.

Particularly unfavorable weather conditions also played a role in the disaster scenario that unfolded on the island of Maui. The flames were fanned by strong winds, which exceeded 100 km / h according to the US Weather Services (NWS). They were powered by a Category 4 hurricane dubbed Dora. To make matters worse, the year was much less rainy than usual in Hawaii: 16% of the territory was affected by a "severe" drought on Wednesday August 9th.

Another source of anger in Maui, the help which is struggling to arrive and the lack of reaction from Joe Biden, the American president. On Wednesday, he announced that he would be going there with his wife Jill next Monday. The couple must "meet rescue teams, survivors as well as official officials", announced their spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre.

"I remain committed to making sure the people of Hawaii have everything they need to recover from this disaster," the president wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter).




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DEADLY RAINFALL IN CHINA

WITH MORE THAN 150 DEAD AND MISSING

Beijing has seen torrential rains for several days, resulting in both deadly floods and massive damage, with more than a month of rainfall falling in just 40 hours.

Rainfall of unprecedented intensity

Typhoon Doksuri, downgraded to a storm, swept through China after hitting neighboring Philippines. The Beijing Meteorological Service announced on Wednesday that the rains hitting the Chinese capital in recent days had been the heaviest since records began 140 years ago.

Since last Saturday, the Chinese capital Beijing has been hit by torrential rains. In just 40 hours, the city has seen the equivalent of a whole month of July of rainfall, the first in 140 years, according to the Chinese meteorological services.

"The maximum value" recorded at one of the capital's measuring stations was an impressive 744.8 millimeters of precipitation, setting a new record for the "heaviest rainfall in 140 years", as pointed out with certainty the municipal weather service. Traces of the last torrential rain that marked people's minds dated back to 1891, while the first official rainfall records were initiated in 1883.

After the rain, the balance sheet.

The Chinese authorities announced this Friday the heavy toll with an appalling tally of 147 people killed or missing across the country, affected by these historic rains in the Beijing region.

"147 people were killed or disappeared due to disasters," said the Ministry of Emergency Management, which also mentions "703,000 people relocated in emergency" with more than 2,300 homes destroyed and economic losses estimated at 2.2 billions of dollars.

Entire areas of northern China were still immersed in early August under brownish waters carrying tons of waste in the wake of storm Doksuri.




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UNDERSTANDING ALLEGED ORC ATTACKS ON SAILBOATS

Recently, sailors testified to having been attacked by orcas. Since 2020, more than 500 interactions initiated by orcas, mainly against sailing ships, have been recorded in the Iberian Peninsula and in particular in the Strait of Gibraltar. These incursions have generated deep apprehension among sailors, as these enigmatic creatures have been observed pushing sailboats, sometimes to the point of causing material damage to their hulls.
Three ships were sunk in this way, however, to date, no physical attack against human beings has been recorded.
What exactly is happening ?
Can we really talk about attacks ? Are navigators or fishermen really in danger ?

Killer whales presented as dangers of the ocean

Would a family of orcas carry out a "vendetta" on the high seas ?

This is the story told on July 27 by Le Monde. For nearly three years, a family of these cetaceans has been roughing up the boats in the Strait of Gibraltar. The Anglo-Saxon name for these marine mammals, "killer whale", adds to their mystery and presumed danger.

Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain the presumed sudden "aggressiveness" of marine animals towards humans. The latest, exposed in the journal Marine Mammal Science, indicates that these attacks would involve nine killer whales divided into two groups: three or even four juvenile individuals; and a mixed-age group led by an adult female, named White Gladis.

It is she – the only adult female involved in the attacks – who would hold the key to the mystery. According to the authors of the article, White Gladis would seek revenge after a collision with a ship. She would have developed a technique to sink the boats, which she would then have taught to the youngest. But among the 39 orcas identified in the strait, only about fifteen, "the Gladis", attack the rudders.

This idea, although reminiscent of the famous Michael Anderson film, "Orca", released in 1977, raises an existential question: "are we living the last moments of their incredible indulgence ? ", as Camille Brunel writes in his book "Praise of the whale": Because as humans, aware of the fate that we voluntarily inflict on Nature, we would like so much that the animals revolt, show their anger, want us.

It is undeniable that cetaceans would have reason to be unhappy, because the list of human activities that impact their environment is long: fisheries, plastic pollution, global warming, maritime traffic, oil exploration, explosions, military sonar, and even offshore wind turbines. However, it is essential not to blindly oppose our maritime activities, but rather to scientifically assess their negative impact, ranging from simple disturbances to strandings.

But why propagate such alarmist discourse, why encourage us to perceive killer whales in this way ?

These killer whales are known to come from several families. They can sometimes stay for more than 40 minutes around the boats, always with the same scenario: rapid and intentional approach, beginning of pressure and shocks on the hull, with, it seems, a very particular attraction to bite and tear the rudder (part of a ship's rudder).

A "just game" ?

According to Renaud de Stephanis, doctor in environmental sciences established in the region, it would rather be "a game". From his analysis, this species, known for its intelligence, is not going to put itself in dangerous situations.

During the attack by the French skipper Sébastien Destremau, near the strait, the oceanographer François Sarano had also supported the thesis of a game:

"For an orca who is eight meters and five tons, playing with a boat is like playing with a cat for us. For humans, it seems like aggression, but for orcas, it's just a game" , he said in May.

One thing is certain, these "incidents" are, to say the least, "rare and strange", as biologist Alfredo López points out.

Amazingly intelligent animals

These orcs, sentient beings capable of empathy, feeling emotions and pain, possess an astonishing intelligence. They are able to make decisions and innovate, developing adaptive skills in various situations.

Their culture manifests itself in particular through sound signatures specific to their clan and through a multitude of incredible hunting strategies to capture their prey, such as, for example, voluntarily stranding themselves on the beach to catch sea lions or coordinating to create a sufficient wave to destabilize the seal taking refuge on a piece of pack ice. This culture is transmitted from adults to juveniles; we speak of vertical cultural transmission.

Interactions between humans and cetaceans date back to the dawn of time, forging close links between the two worlds, as evidenced by legends and ancestral stories. Although most of the 90 species of cetaceans keep a low profile or avoid human activities, some approach voluntarily, such as bottlenose dolphins, pilot whales, gray whales or humpback whales.

These opportunistic situations are not guided to satisfy a vital function (such as obtaining food) but rather in a desire to observe us. And why not, maybe even to want to get in touch with us...as scientists suggest.




Kelly Donaldson for DayNewsWorld

SOUTHERN EUROPE INCLUDING GREECE

ATTACKED BY DEADLY FIRES

Fires are raging all around the Mediterranean. People died in Sicily. Firefighters are busy in Greece, while a new heat wave is expected.

A new rise in mercury suffocates Greece and the tourist countries of the Mediterranean area on Wednesday.

The Greek authorities on Wednesday ordered the evacuation of the outskirts of two cities in central Greece, Volos (85,000 inhabitants) and Lamia (60,000 inhabitants), where a new front of fires broke out in the daytime. Thousands of tourists have already been evacuated from the islands of Rhodes and Corfu, ravaged by fires favored by the heat wave.

The situation would be "out of control".

the General Secretariat for Civil Protection declared a state of emergency on the whole island on Wednesday 26 July. Source says situation is 'out of control'

More than 20,000 people had to evacuate their homes and hotels on the island of Rhodes over the weekend as the fire started a week ago and spread to the shores of the green island. More than 2,000 holidaymakers left the island by plane on Monday July 24, and new flights took place on Tuesday July 25 as several holiday companies canceled trips to Greece.

In Rhodes, 266 firefighters helped by counterparts from Turkey and Slovakia and supported by three helicopters and two planes are still trying to contain the flames. The fire burns for the ninth day in a row. More than 40,000 hectares burned on Rhodes.

At least a hundred firefighters continued their fight against the flames on Wednesday on the island of Euboea where two Greek air force pilots died in the crash of a water bomber.

In Corfu, 62 firefighters, two planes and two helicopters are on site to fight the fire which started last weekend. And in the western Peloponnese, on a fourth important front, 140 firefighters and a helicopter are also fighting against a forest fire.

Italy too !

The situation is also difficult in other countries around the Mediterranean. In Italy, at least five people have died in fires in Sicily and violent thunderstorms in the north, which could prompt the government to declare a state of emergency in the most affected regions.

Videos posted on social networks show the flames along a highway in front of flabbergasted travelers near Syracuse, while an impressive supercell thunderstorm near Verona (north) was captured by Internet users;

In Croatia, a fire broke out on Wednesday near Dubrovnik, a historic and tourist hotspot. On the island of Corsica, firefighters fought all night against a virulent fire and managed to control it on Wednesday.

In Portugal, where fires had already consumed more than 110,000 hectares last year, eight firefighters were injured and hundreds of others remained mobilized on Wednesday to prevent the spread of a forest fire which broke out the day before in the surroundings of the tourist resort of Sintra.




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OVERHEATED PLANET AROUND THE WORLD

The four corners of the globe continue to record sharp increases in temperature as the planet experienced its hottest June on record. From Europe to China via the United States, record temperatures are expected this weekend, which illustrate the extreme conditions amplified by global warming.

More than 100 million Americans are under heat alerts, according to the government website heat.gov. Texas, Arizona, Nevada and California are expecting potentially hazardous conditions in the coming days, US weather services have warned. Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, recorded its 15th straight day above 43 degrees on Friday, according to the US Weather Services (NWS).

In California's Death Valley, mercury could match or even exceed the highest air temperature ever reliably measured on Earth, 54.4°C recorded at the same location in 2020 and 2021, according to several experts. .

Some regions of China, including the capital Beijing, are also suffering from a strong heat wave. One of the country's main electricity companies said on Monday it recorded a record daily electricity generation, due to increased demand linked to high temperatures.

Parts of eastern Japan are also expected to reach 38-39C on Sunday and Monday, according to the local forecaster.

At the same time, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Greece and Poland are also facing a large heat wave. In Germany, over a large part of the country, temperatures could thus rise to 38 degrees, according to a press release from the German meteorological service. In Spain, the ground temperature has risen to 60°C in Extremadura, a region in the south-west of the country, according to the European observatory Copernicus. In Italy, a heat wave is expected to hit the south of the country this Saturday, resulting in temperatures slightly above 38 ° C in Sardinia, Sicily, Calabria and Puglia, with peaks “at 40 ° C and beyond, particularly Sunday” as in Rome (43°C expected on Sunday) or in Sardinia (48°C);

In Greece, the authorities have decided to close the Acropolis of Athens, the ancient emblematic monument and the most visited in the country, at the hottest hours, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

North Africa is also affected. In Morocco, which has been experiencing a series of heat waves since the beginning of the summer, a red heat alert has been issued for several provinces.

Heat is one of the deadliest weather events, the WMO said. Last summer in Europe alone, high temperatures caused more than 60,000 deaths, according to a recent study. The cyclical El Niño weather phenomenon, which usually causes global temperatures to rise, is also contributing to the worsening situation.

Compared to the pre-industrial era, the world is experiencing a warming close to 1.2°C as a result of human activity.




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NEW YORK INVADED BY INSECTS

After several days of choking smoke, New York is now invaded by swarms of insects. Experts have identified these critters as flying aphids.

These small creatures, white or green, move around in such large numbers that they form clouds in the sky of the city, forcing residents to wear masks to avoid inhaling or swallowing them.

Although the images of a city infested with these small insects may impress, the authorities want to reassure the population by specifying that aphids are harmless to humans. However, it is recommended to take some protective measures to avoid inhaling them.

But what exactly are aphids ?

These are insects that feed on the sap of plants. They have the particularity of being parthenogenetic, that is to say that the females can reproduce without fertilization, giving birth to clones of themselves. Thus, their population can rapidly increase under favorable conditions.

Aphids do not always have wings, but when their numbers reach a certain threshold, they develop wings so that they can take flight and colonize new host plants. This is the reason for their presence in the New York air.

According to specialists, this invasion of aphids is caused by several factors. First, New York experienced an unusually mild winter, which encouraged the early proliferation of plants that aphids feed on. In addition, the current hot and humid climate of the city is conducive to the development of these insects. Finally, the strong winds contributed to the dispersal of aphids in the atmosphere.

The New York City Department of Health wants to reassure the population that aphids do not pose any known danger to public health. They do not carry diseases and do not bite humans. In reality, aphids are rather beneficial for the ecosystem, since they serve as food for many predatory birds and insects, such as ladybugs or parasitoid wasps. They thus participate naturally in the regulation of insect populations.

The people of New York just have to wait for the natural cycle to end, that is, for the predators to do their job or for the climatic conditions to change.




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DUE TO AN INVASION OF GIANT SNAILS DANGEROUS FOR MAN

ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOODS LOOPED IN FLORIDA

A snail considered to be one of the most dangerous in the world has been discovered in Florida (United States). To eradicate it, the authorities have placed several neighborhoods under very strict control. The return trips of the inhabitants are monitored.

In Florida (United States), the inhabitants of certain neighborhoods received strict instructions after the discovery of a very dreaded species of snail on June 2. As our colleagues from CNN report, in Broward County, it is now forbidden to enter or leave with plants, soil, compost or even garden trash. According to authorities, a giant African snail has was discovered in this area.

This is considered one of the most dangerous in the world. Also called Lissachatina fulica or Achatine, it is one of the 100 worst invasive species in the world according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

"These snails could be devastating"

These snails which measure up to 15 cm long can eat at least 500 types of plants but also walls, garbage cans and even road signs. Their calcium-filled shells have ridges so sharp they can burst the tires of cars that run them over.

"These snails could be devastating to agriculture and natural areas in Florida, causing extensive damage to tropical and subtropical environments," the state's Department of Agriculture said Tuesday.

Very dangerous for humans

In addition, they are also very dangerous for humans, as carriers of a parasite called "rat lungworm", which can cause meningitis. Symptoms are serious since this parasite causes swelling of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.

To eradicate the snails, state officials established two treatment areas. They are going to spray it with a metaldehyde-based product, which could be enough to exterminate the molluscs.

This is not the first time that this type of snail has put Florida authorities on alert. In 1969, a first specimen had been discovered and the eradication had not been confirmed until 1975. In 2021, after ten years of work and a 23 million dollar budget, 170,000 snails had been captured.



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UNITED STATES INVASION OF THOUSANDS OF LOCUSTS

IN NEVADA

This week, millions of Mormon crickets began their migration to the western United States, in the town of Elko in the north of the state of Nevada, reports the American channel CNN.

Within days, locusts invaded roads, fields and buildings in the city. A new insect invasion for Nevada, which had experienced a similar situation in 2019.

The inhabitants noted with desolation that the locusts completely covered the walls of the houses.

An invasion of locusts into the hall of the village hospital: “We had people with leaf blowers, with brooms. We even had a tractor with a snow plow just to push the piles of crickets and move them out of the way,” says the facility's communications director.

The roads are also covered with a mass of insects. A situation making circulation laborious. They cause road accidents. These Mormon crickets are flightless. Their wings have been replaced by a shield on their backs which proves dangerous for traffic.

The thousands of bugs that get squashed on Nevada roads create a slippery layer causing traffic accidents. "The biggest problem is those afternoon thunderstorms, and put a little water on it, and it gets slippery." The Nevada Department of Transportation uses snow plows to dispose of the remains, as their exodus lasts between three and six days.

These locusts are not there by chance. According to Nevada Department of Agriculture entomologist Jeff Knight, “Mormon crickets have a life cycle of four to six years, laying their eggs in July.

These eggs usually hatch the following spring, but the wet conditions this winter have delayed the arrival of new insects,” he told US channel KSL5 TV in Salt Lake City. "This year we are really late, we didn't have an outbreak until mid-April," he adds.

The "Mormon cricket" generally feeds on plants, but it can become cannibalistic when it finds itself without food. In the spring, the insect migrates in swarms to the northwestern United States to find plants to devour. Its movements are slow, because the species has the particularity of not being able to fly.

Extremely voracious, its passage often leaves behind devastated crops to the chagrin of local livestock. Between 2001 and 2003, grasshoppers caused up to $25 million in damage to Utah plantations, according to USA Today.

These insects take their name from a devastating invasion in the fields of Mormon settlers in Utah in the 1800s.




Emily Jackson for DayNewsWorld

THE INSTALLATION OF A NEW EL NINO REFLECTS

BY A RISE IN TEMPERATURES

The climate of the next few months promises some upheaval.

And some parts of the globe could be particularly affected.

In question, the climatic phenomenon El Niño (the little boy in French) which officially began this Thursday, according to the American agency for oceanic and atmospheric observation (NOAA). Many climatologists had indeed predicted its arrival at the end of spring 2023. It could result in a general increase in the temperature on the surface of the Earth and the appearance of several extreme meteorological episodes. Explanations.

We speak of an El Niño phenomenon when the trade winds, which are regular winds blowing from east to west along the equator, weaken or change direction. This simple change has far-reaching consequences.

"The ocean's response to this change in the trade winds will reinforce the initial warming", adds Jérôme Vialard, oceanographer and research director at the Research Institute for Development (IRD). In cases where the El Niño phenomenon is particularly intense, the direction of the trade winds can even reverse and accelerate the movement of warm water to the South American coasts, leading to a whole host of disastrous consequences.

Masses of warm water accumulated in the western Pacific Ocean are indeed moving eastward towards the west coast of South America, changing atmospheric patterns. Areas that normally receive limited rainfall, for example, may experience heavy rainfall, while some normally humid areas may experience a period of drought. We know that temperatures can be higher than normal in some areas and lower than normal in others.

Disastrous consequences

Beyond the global increase in temperatures, the consequences linked to El Niño are different depending on the areas of the globe. For South America, it may be torrential rains with the risk of landslides and an ocean that no longer allows fishermen to live. On the Australian side, the phenomenon could induce an increased risk of drought, also increasing the risk of fires. The problem of drought also concerns the African continent and part of Asia with a potential drop in agricultural yields and an increase in the risk of famine.

The consequences for Europe

The consequences are obviously quite difficult to predict as they vary from event to event. They also depend on many factors interacting with regional climate systems. However, we do know that Europe generally experiences milder winters, cooler springs and warmer summers than normal. Among other consequences, this can have dramatic effects on agriculture, limiting crop growth in winter, while periods of drought can reduce the availability of water for irrigation.

Some areas may also receive above normal rainfall, leading to increased risk of flooding, while other areas may experience periods of increased drought. El Niño events can also influence the path and intensity of storm systems in the Atlantic, which can affect coastal regions of Europe. Finally, variations in sea surface temperatures could have repercussions on marine ecosystems in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, affecting the distribution and migration of marine species.

El Niño also affects marine life

El Niño is also endangering marine life along the Pacific coast. Normally, a phenomenon known as "upwelling" brings cool, nutrient-rich water up from the depths of the ocean. When the El Niño phenomenon occurs, this process is suppressed or completely interrupted. There is then less phytoplankton along the coasts, which reduces the amount of food for certain fish. In March, scientists observed that sea surface temperatures reached an all-time high. El Niño is likely to worsen the situation.

According to NOAA, there is a 56% chance that when the weather phenomenon reaches its peak, sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific will be at least 1.5 degrees Celsius above the normal. Warmer water causes coral reefs to bleach, putting them at increased risk of starvation.

NOAA, which expects moderate to strong conditions, says it could last until 2024.




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HOW DID THE YOUNG MIRACLES OF THE AMAZONIAN JUNGLE SURVIVE ?

The whole of Colombia had been following for forty days the search for the four Indian children, the only survivors of a plane crash in the middle of the Amazon rainforest.

"Miracle operation" was the code name the Colombian army had given to the quest for the children. The emotion was deep, the questions numerous: how is it possible that these children, aged 13 to 11 months, were able to survive in this difficult environment?

Some of the Indian guides gave their own, to this day the most accepted by Colombians: spirits of the forest took care of the children. It was necessary to perform a certain number of rites (prayers, but also to bring offerings to the spirits, for example bottles of alcohol, so that these spirits would return the children when the time came).

Politically, moreover, the power could show as a national triumph the alliance between the soldiers of the army and the Indians of the “guardia indígena”, recently called into question by the right following clashes with the army.

An ordeal of more than a month in one of the most hostile areas of the world.

Since their "miraculous" discovery on June 9, we know a little more about their survival. The Colombian press has begun to give details of their ordeal of more than a month in one of the most hostile areas of the world. Where tarantulas, scorpions, but also jaguars, pumas, ocelots or – they are rarer – anacondas live... That none of them was the prey of one of these animals of the miracle.

The children were able to use on their journey a mosquito net, a towel, a minimum of camping equipment, two mobile phones (with rapidly depleted batteries), a flashlight and a small music Box.

The children also revealed that their mother survived the plane crash for four days before succumbing to her injuries.

At first, they stayed near the wreckage, feeding on cassava flour they found on board the aircraft, said General Pedro Sanchez, head of search operations. Then, "they ran out of supplies" and decided to look for a way out of the jungle, reported Henry Guerrero, one of the natives who took part in the search with the army. Before walking away from the aircraft, the children collected a towel, a flashlight, two cell phones (with rapidly draining batteries), a music box and some clothes.

Then, during their stay in the Amazon, they fed on “chontaduro [orange fruits] and wild mangoes […] fruits of the jungle”, according to General Sanchez, who called their survival a “miracle”. Luis Acosta, head of the indigenous guards of the National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC), added that the children had “fed on roots, seeds and plants that they had identified and that they knew were edible”.

The siblings also belong to the Uitoto ethnic group, originally from the Amazon. “They are indigenous children who know the forest very well. They know what to eat and what not to eat. They managed to survive thanks to this and their spiritual strength,” said Luis Acosta. The natives were behind the discovery of the children, the two youngest of whom celebrated their birthdays while wandering.

The Leading Big Sister

During these days spent in the jungle, the children "stayed near a stream. They were filling a small bottle of soda with water", detailed Henri Guerrero, one of the members of the team. safety. “Nothing ever happened to them”, not a single animal attack or accidental injury, “They got away with it very well”.

He also explained that the young survivors had built a makeshift shelter using a tarp, and that they “had a small towel there, on the ground”. “I spoke with the eldest only, continued Henri Guerrero. She told me that she listened to all the messages from the helicopters, saying that we were looking for them, the message from the grandmother who said not to move or not to be afraid of the dog Wilson looking for them. They listened to the messages but did not know where to go in this very large, very difficult area.

One can imagine the distress, coupled with the maturity of Lesly, who, according to her grandmother's friend, "had the reflex to snatch the baby from her mother's arms, to search among the debris for the suitcase where diapers for her one-year-old sister".

As for her ability to take care of, so young a baby, it is because Lesly, pubescent at 13, was trained by her mother in her potential future role as a mother. “This community makes babies early but in large numbers because the parents know they will lose them. They are exposed to so many dangers: guerrillas, wild animals…”, says Adriana.

The Colombian Ministry of Defense, Ivan Velasquez Gomez, also paid special tribute to Lesly, the eldest of the siblings: "We must recognize not only her courage, but also her talent as a leader. It is thanks to her that the three little ones were able to survive".

The children's grandfather had said he was convinced during the search that his granddaughter had managed to get her siblings to safety. "She's very smart, she's very active, she's strong," he said, adding that the three older ones were "very strong to walk" in the jungle.

“I'm hungry” “My mom is dead.”

The team of natives who found the children in the jungle then recounted this extraordinary moment.

"The eldest daughter, Lesly, holding the little one by the hand, ran towards me. I took her in my arms, she said to me: "I'm hungry", told Nicolas Ordoñez Gomes, the one of the team members. I asked where the boy was. He was lying next to it.

fter a first hug, and giving him some food, he got up and said to me, very aware of what he was saying:

“My mom is dead”.

“We immediately followed up with reassuring words, saying that we were friends, that we came from the family, from the father, from the uncle. That we were from the family! He replied: “ I want fariña and chorizo” [du pain et de la sausage, ndlr]”, detailed Nicolas Ordoñez Gomes.

Three days after the rescue, the children continued to rest out of sight and media excitement in a room at Bogotá's military hospital, where they were airlifted the very evening of their rescue.

"A setting of extreme violence", according to sociologist Olga L. Gonzalez

Manuel Ranoque's family lived in the department of Caqueta, one of the historic departments where the Farc guerrillas were established. For at least forty years, the guerrillas have deployed there. But who says guerrilla also says drug trafficking (the largest cultivated areas of coca), paramilitarism

Since the peace agreement with the Farc in 2017, the territory has been dominated by Farc dissidents (i.e. former guerrillas who have refused to lay down their arms), paramilitaries, various groups fighting for control over local resources: coca, but also gold. All along the Caqueta River, clandestine gold miners poison the waters with mercury. These armed groups control access to the river, impose their rules by terror.

It was therefore in a setting of extreme violence, and not in a paradise of communion with nature, that this family lived. In fact, the head of the family, Manuel Ranoque, had to leave his home overnight.

He was the "gobernador" of his community of Puerto Sábalo, that is to say the local chief. Threats from Farc dissidents had summoned him to leave the premises.

Now settled in another city, the father of the miraculous children Manuel Ranoque has gathered a sum of money to bring his family back to him. He had the hope of settling in Villavicencio or Bogota to permanently flee the threats. Following his appeal, his wife and four children left the community. Their journey began with several days of navigation, to reach a small airport in the middle of the forest (the inhabitants of these regions, not served by roads or rivers can only take the plane).

The only means of transport is the private plane

The small plane had taken off on May 1 from Araracuara. It was a U206 G Cessna aircraft, at least forty years old piloted by a 55-year-old man. this plane had been cobbled together outside of official protocols. The inhabitants of these regions of the forest are forced to take private flights that escape the regulation of the authorities, and air accidents are not uncommon.

On May 1, 2023, the aircraft again presented an engine problem. This time, the pilot Hernando Murcia could not make an emergency landing on a river and crashed in the forest. He died instantly, along with Indian leader Herman Mendoza, in the cabin with him. The 33-year-old mother reportedly survived, but was injured and unable to get out of the plane and died after four days.

Stepfather abuse ?

The 13-year-old girl had taken to fleeing into the forest for several days to escape the reprimands and violence of this stepfather.

Her grandparents, who constantly claim custody of her children, confide that she would have stayed there for up to three days, that she knew how to make herself a hut with palm fronds, knew how to identify the good ones and the bad ones. seeds, because his mother had introduced him to the resources of the forest.

The father accuses his in-laws of spreading lies about him, reiterates his accusations against Farc dissidence and reprimands the president for showing images of his children without his consent.

Moreover, the lack of food, the forced fast would not be something completely foreign to this community. The available data show that hunger is very present among the peoples of the Colombian Amazon: thus, children under the age of four are smaller and lighter than children in all other Colombian regions.

Three days after their rescue, at the same time as it underlined the "satisfactory recovery process" of the young survivors, the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) announced on Monday June 12 that it had launched an administrative procedure on the restitution to children to their families. According to Adriana Velásquez, deputy director of the ICBF, work is already underway to organize the first meeting. With a mission on the agenda:

The opening of an investigation into allegations of abuse against Manuel Miller Ranoque, the father of the two youngest children.




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COLOMBIA FOUR MISSING CHILDREN

IN THE JUNGLE FOR 40 DAYS

FOUND ALIVE

The children had been wandering alone in the Amazon jungle since the crash on May 1, 2023 of a plane on which they were traveling with their mother.

"A joy for the whole country!" After wandering, left to their own devices, for forty days in the Amazon jungle of Colombia, the four children aged between one and 13, survivors of the crash of the small plane in which they were traveling, were found alive. Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced it on Friday, June 9, in a post on Twitter, accompanied by a photo of soldiers and indigenous people participating in the research.

Army rescuers "immediately cared for and stabilized" the four siblings, according to the Department of Defense. Lesly (13 years old), Soleiny (9 years old), Tien Noriel (4 years old) and Cristin (1 year old) were extracted from the jungle the same evening, airlifted and transported by helicopter in the middle of the night to the city of San Jose del Guaviare (285 km southeast of Bogota), according to images released by the ministry. According to AFP, the children arrived in Bogota, where they were to be taken care of in a military hospital.

"They are weak"

Originally from the Uitoto indigenous group, the children had been wandering alone in the jungle since the May 1 crash of the Cessna 206, aboard which they were traveling with their mother, the pilot and a relative. The lifeless bodies of the three adults were found by the army at the crash site. According to the army, rescuers found the siblings about 5 km west of the crash site. "They are weak. Let the doctors make their prognosis," Gustavo Petro told the press.

It is the "warrior" nature of Lesly, the eldest of the siblings, which allowed them to survive, judged grandmother Fatima Valencia. "She usually always took care of her brothers and sisters when their mother was working. Feeding them flour, cassava bread, fruits from the bush."

Photos released by the army show the children, in the middle of the thick vegetation, seated on tarpaulins, surrounded by soldiers and natives giving them food and drink. They are in jeans and long-sleeved t-shirts for the two older ones, their feet wrapped in bandages. Two others are swaddled in survival blankets.

Tribute to the military and natives

More than 100 soldiers accompanied by sniffer dogs and dozens of natives have been looking for the children between the departments of Guaviare and Caqueta since the discovery of the plane, vertical, nose planted on the ground, in the middle of thick vegetation .

According to the army, the rescuers of this "operation hope" traveled in total, in more than a month of research, nearly 2,656 km in this impenetrable jungle, always "with an intact faith". The children's chances of survival seemed to decrease day by day in this very hostile environment. The region is also an area of ​​strong influence for the dissidence of the Farc, an armed group with which peace talks were recently broken off.

An "Example of Total Survival"

The news of the disappearance of the children had gone around the world, with videos and photos of the search operations carried out by the army, which followed their trail with the discovery of a bottle, scissors, shoes, nappies , chewed fruit, footprints or makeshift shelters. On May 17, President Petro mistakenly announced that they had been found.

"Today has been a magical day that, without a doubt, fills us with joy", rejoiced for good this time the Colombian president on his return from Cuba where the Colombian government and the National Liberation Army ( ELN), the last guerrilla group still active in the country, reached a six-month ceasefire agreement.

The children "were alone, they succeeded on their own. It is an example of total survival that will go down in history. These children are therefore today the children of peace and the children of Colombia", s is he congratulated.




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GIFTS OF THE MOTHER'S DAY

Let's choose the gifts for the most beautiful mom.

There are moms fashion cook intellectual intellectual sportswoman stressed.

Here are some ideas:

For the stressed mother of cards care with massage Wonderbox box, well being. An original gift is the Facespa Pro from Braun. Pouch body and face care in pharmacy NUXE.

For the cook who loves to savor the good things: a lovely box Ladurée macaroons.


A Malongo coffee machine is trendy right now.

The Cookeo is fun too it saves time, go to a brunch, a juice extractor 900W Nutribullet.

For the intellectual mother a reader a surrender to a magazine. For the sporty mom a gym club membership a yoga mat.

For the gardener a pretty bouquet of flowers, what is fashionable is to make a kitchen garden at Carrefour a soup inside ready to grow in miniature.

For fashions sunglasses, a Zarra garment, Swarovski jewelry, a bracelet written Maman gold story, a beautiful Louis Vuitton handbag or Gucci.

Happy Mother's Day.




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UNPRECEDENTED MEGAFIRES

IN EASTERN CANADA

Eastern Canada suffocated on Thursday (June 1) due to an extreme heat wave, raising fears of a resurgence of forest fires which are ravaging the country, already facing an "unprecedented" year. 30.7°C in Toronto, 34°C in Montreal. In total, more than 210 fires are currently active in the country, 82 of which are out of control. And more than 2.7 million hectares have already burned in 2023, eight times more than the average of the last 30 years, announced the Canadian authorities. “These conditions, at this stage of the season, are absolutely unprecedented and obviously cause for concern,” said Bill Blair, Minister for Civil Protection.

After the west of the country and the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan at the beginning of May, it is the east and in particular Nova Scotia which have just been affected by huge fires due to very bad weather. hot and dry, in a province unaccustomed to fires.

Unusual fires in Nova Scotia

In Nova Scotia, at the heart of all concerns in recent days, 16 fires were active on Thursday. Some 200 homes were destroyed and nearly 20,000 people evacuated. "Breathtaking numbers," said Tim Houston, the province's premier. Since the beginning of the year, the Atlantic province has experienced nearly 200 wildfires that have burned more than 19,000 hectares and displaced more than 25,000 people. In 2022, there were only 152 fires that burned 3,390 hectares. But while fires are not uncommon in Nova Scotia, they tend to be much smaller. Located on the east coast of Canada, Nova Scotia's climate is heavily influenced by the North Atlantic Ocean, which brings higher humidity and more moderate temperatures than in many other parts of the country. In addition the region is covered by what is known as the "Acadian forest", which contains many broadleaf trees, such as sugar maples, mixed with evergreens, such as conifers. Hardwoods are less flammable than conifers because their branches and leaves are further from the ground and their leaves retain more moisture. The Acadian forest is much less prone to large fires than the forests of western Canada. mixed with evergreen trees, such as conifers. Hardwoods are less flammable than conifers because their branches and leaves are further from the ground and their leaves retain more moisture. The Acadian forest is much less prone to large fires than the forests of western Canada. mixed with evergreen trees, such as conifers. Hardwoods are less flammable than conifers because their branches and leaves are further from the ground and their leaves retain more moisture. The Acadian forest is much less prone to large fires than the forests of western Canada.

But Atlantic Canada received light snowfall this winter, followed by an unusually dry spring. Nova Scotia's capital, Halifax, received just 120 millimeters of rain between March and May, about a third of the average, according to Michael Carter, meteorologist with the Weather Network. A scorching heat wave at the end of the May pushed temperatures in Halifax up to 33 degrees Celsius on Thursday, about 10 degrees above normal for this time of year.

And with the arrival of an extreme heat wave and strong winds, "we are far from out of the woods", explained David Steeves, of the Ministry of Natural Resources, speaking of a situation "very dangerous and volatile".

Firefighters from the United States and South Africa are expected as reinforcements in the coming days. "We need Mother Nature on our side on this," added David Steeves.

One of the huge fires reached the suburbs of the province's main city, Halifax, and forced authorities to evacuate more than 16,000 people northwest of the city. It now seems partially under control. But another fire near Lake Barrington is under particular scrutiny, as it is still out of control after ravaging 20,000 hectares. It is the largest fire ever recorded in the province.

Heat records

In the other provinces of eastern Canada, notably in Quebec and Ontario, record temperatures were reached in several places. In Toronto, the thermometer reads 30.7°C, according to Environment Canada, surpassing the previous daily record of 28.3°C set in 1948.

In the west of the country, a month after the outbreak of fires that forced the province of Alberta to declare a state of emergency, more than 60 fires were still in progress and more than 1.13 million hectares have already burned. In the neighboring province of Saskatchewan, one of the breadbaskets of the country, about twenty fires were counted and more than 850,000 hectares went up in smoke.

Canada, which, due to its geographical location, is warming faster than the rest of the planet, has been confronted in recent years with extreme weather events.




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NEW-YORK SUSKS INTO WATER UNDER WEIGHT

OF ITS SKYSCRAPERS

In New York, the skyscrapers are singled out by a study published in the journal Earth's Future, which explains that, every year, the city sinks by 1 to 2 millimeters due to their weight. An alarming finding, because with the rising waters and frequent storms, the risk of flooding is extremely high. The water would thus have risen by 22 centimeters since 1950, underlines the report. “New York faces significant challenges related to flood risk; the threat of sea level rise is three to four times greater than the global average along the Atlantic coast of North America,” the report read.

"In 2012, Hurricane Sandy pulled seawater into the city, while heavy rains from Hurricane Ida in 2021 overwhelmed drainage systems due to heavy runoff in the mostly paved city."

"A deeply concentrated population of 8.4 million people face varying degrees of flood danger in New York City," experts warn.

All the buildings in the Big Apple would today represent a weight of 764 million tonnes, thus making this collapse of the city all the more rapid. The study chronicles the passage of two recent hurricanes that killed people and caused heavy damage in the Big Apple to illustrate the dangers that await the huge urban center, including the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens.

“Urbanization itself can exacerbate the problem; the cumulative pressure applied to the ground by tall buildings contributes to subsidence through the initial primary settlement of the ground compression and the reduction of vacant space.”

Stop coastal constructions

However, the ground of New York is, in certain zones, composed of soft elements, such as clay and sand. The city's surficial geology consists of silt, sand, clay lake, beach deposits and rock outcrops among others, the study reads. Soils rich in clay and artificial fill are particularly susceptible to subsidence, say the researchers.

New York, Jakarta, soon under water ?

The subsidence could be made worse by the construction of new buildings but also by the extraction of groundwater combined with rising sea levels, they warn. The world's population is growing, and one projection estimates that 70% of it will live in major cities by 2050, they add.

In the future, floods could increase. New York is one of the cities most at risk from future flooding. She's not the only one.

In Indonesia, the capital Jakarta could be under water in barely twenty-five years. Some neighborhoods are sinking nearly 11 centimeters a year due to groundwater pumping.




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ALERT ON LOW WATER IN THE LAKES

AND TANKS OF THE WORLD

This is a disturbing number to say the least. According to a new study published in the prestigious journal Science on Thursday, the amount of water is decreasing in more than half of the world's lakes and reservoirs.

The bottom of Lake Titicaca, in Bolivia, has completely dried up, transformed into a desert. The lake of Serre-Ponçon, in the Alps, reveals new banks, it is the same in Spain or in Voglans, in the Jura.

"Lakes are in danger globally, and this has broad implications," Balaji Rajagopalan, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and co-author of the study, told AFP. “They allow societies and humanity to live, and yet they don't get the respect they deserve. »

Lakes cover about 3% of the earth's surface, but account for 87% of liquid fresh water on Earth. They are used for human consumption, agriculture, or even the production of electricity. About a quarter of the world's population lives in an area with a lake or reservoir (a body of water regulated by a dam) that is drying up.

Nearly 2,000 bodies of water studied

Previous work has already looked at the decline of larger lakes individually. But this study is the first to offer a detailed view of global trends, and the causes of change, through satellite observations.

In total, the researchers studied 1,972 bodies of water, representing the vast majority of natural lakes (focusing on those larger than 100 km2) and reservoirs. Over the nearly 30-year period studied (from 1992 to 2020), the study concludes that they drained the equivalent of all the water consumed by the United States in 2015.

The study has an unexpected result: lakes lose water not only in arid areas, but also in humid regions. "It is generally considered that when the climate warms up, the arid regions dry out even more, and the humid regions become wetter", explains Balaji Rajagopalan. But even in the latter, “the lakes are in decline”, which is “surprising”, he underlined, giving the example of India.

To determine the causes of the observed trends, the scientists segmented their analysis according to the type of body of water. For natural lakes, they attribute about half of water loss to human activities and rising temperatures, which cause increased evaporation – the latter factor being linked to climate change.

In addition, humans or herds may need to consume more water due to higher temperatures.

With regard to reservoirs, the construction of new dams has made it possible to increase their overall volume of water, but nearly two thirds of the large reservoirs are in decline. Sediment accumulation was the main factor reducing their storage capacity, although droughts also affect some, such as in the southwestern United States.

Many consequences

The consequences of this decline are numerous. Lack of water can cause population displacements. Water quality can also be affected if a lake's level is low. Like the oceans, the lakes also store carbon, and no longer play this role when they disappear, in turn aggravating global warming.

But the researchers' message is not fatalistic: on the contrary, they seek to raise awareness. Decision makers are now “armed with information”.




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KALININGRAD RETURNS TO OLD NAME

In 1945 the city was placed under Soviet administration under the Potsdam Agreement and in 1946 was renamed Kaliningrad after Russian Bolshevik leader Mikhail Kalinin, one of six Soviet signatories to a execution order for over 21,000 Polish prisoners of war in 1940.

In its opinion published on Tuesday (9 May), the Polish Commission for the Standardization of Geographical Names (KSNG) recommended using the name Królewiec, the Polish version of the name given to the city founded in the 13th century by the Teutonic Order, to which the territory belonged at the time, rather than Kaliningrad.

“It is not even a question of Russophobia anymore, but of a decision which borders on madness”, declared the spokesman of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, quoted by the agency TASS.

Explaining the reasons for this new recommendation, the KSNG said that the town was historically known in Poland by its original name, Królewiec.

Naming such an important city close to Poland after Mikhail Kalinin, "a criminal" who was co-responsible for the murder of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest, among other places, is "artificial and unrelated to the city itself, nor with the region".

Current political circumstances were also cited as the reason for the recommendation, with the KSNG believing that Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Moscow's information warfare should reignite the debate over Russian-imposed names.

Reaction in Russia

The replacement of the city's name also drew strong reactions from former Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. If Poland does not like the name Kaliningrad, the names of Polish cities previously occupied by Germany should be replaced with German names, he said, as quoted by TASS.

To give some examples, he suggested using the name Danzig instead of Gdansk, Stettin instead of Szczecin, or Breslau instead of Wroclaw.

A town named after the Czech king by warrior monks

The city was founded in the mid-13th century on the site of the former Prussian colony of Twangste by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades and was named Königsberg, translated into Polish by Królewiec, in honor of King Ottokar II of Bohemia, which helped the Teutonic Order conquer the territories of the Prussian tribes. Until the 1500s, the city was one of the states of the Teutonic Order, an important urban center and the capital of the Grand Master of the Order between 1457 and 1525. Until the Second World War, it remained under Prussian and then German domination.

After Królewiec was captured by the Soviet Union on April 9, 1945, the Potsdam Agreement of 1945 placed it under Soviet administration.




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CANADA OVER 100 FIRES IN ALBERTA

DECLARED STATE OF EMERGENCY

Gigantic fires in the spring.

The Canadian province of Alberta declared a state of emergency on Saturday after around 100 forest fires broke out there and drove some 25,000 residents from their homes, an "unprecedented" situation, announced the premier of the province.

Authorities have asked thousands more to be ready to leave at any time.

"We have declared a provincial state of emergency to preserve the safety, health and well-being of Albertans," Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said at a press conference.

This Canadian province, one of the largest oil producers in the world, and where 103 forest fires have broken out in recent days, “had a hot and dry spring and with so much kindling, all it takes is a few sparks to start really scary fires," Ms Smith had earlier explained.

All of these factors together "have resulted in the unprecedented situation our province faces today." About 122,000 hectares have burned, she said, and 20 localities have been evacuated.

The state of emergency gives the provincial government "increased powers to respond to extreme situations", Ms. Smith said, including the mobilization of additional resources and the release of emergency funds.

Alberta in the middle of an election, and a significant area of ​​the neighboring province of Saskatchewan, as well as a large part of the Northwest Territories are currently facing an extreme risk of fires, according to the federal government.

According to a map posted on the government website, these areas are on moderate to severe drought alert, a situation made more likely and more intense with global warming.

If precipitation is expected and could help slow the spread of the largest outbreaks, it should not be enough to put out the fires, estimates with Radio-Canada Josée St-Onge, communication officer for the provincial agency of fight against fires.

Drayton Valley, a town of 7,000 people in Alberta about 140 kilometers west of Edmonton, is among the evacuated communities.

In Fox Lake, northern Alberta, a violent fire destroyed 20 homes, a store and a police station. Residents were evacuated by boat and helicopter.




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A NEW MASS SHOOTING IN SERBIA

LEAVES EIGHT DEAD AND THIRTEEN INJURED

A man opened fire with an automatic weapon on Thursday evening in Serbia on a group of people from a moving vehicle, killing at least eight people and injuring 13. This is the second mass killing in two days in the country.

The shooter opened fire with an automatic weapon at a group of people from a moving vehicle near the town of Mladenovac, about 60 km south of Belgrade, and then fled, RTS reported earlier .

Serbian police arrested the alleged perpetrator near the central town of Kragujevac on Friday morning, state television (RTS) reported.

After several hours of tracking, a man was arrested on Friday morning. "UB, born in 2002", according to the Serbian government, is suspected of having committed the killing with an automatic weapon in three villages near Mladenovac, about sixty kilometers from the capital. This is "one of the most difficult days in the contemporary history" of the country, lamented Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. Many police and ambulances were dispatched to the scene, and helicopters were flying over the scene.

Serbian Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic called the incident a "terrorist act".

Worried relatives gathered outside the Belgrade emergency medical center, where at least eight of the injured were taken to hospital, the N1 television channel reported. Health Minister Danica Grujicic briefly visited the center.

Three days of national mourning

This new shooting occurred the day after the shooting, by a 13-year-old student, of eight children and a guard in a school in Belgrade, a killing that deeply shocked the country. Seven people - six students and a teacher - were also injured in the attack, and two were still in critical condition on Thursday after undergoing a series of surgeries.

The assailant was arrested shortly after the killings in the schoolyard, where he was awaiting the arrival of the police, and was placed in a psychiatric hospital. The shooter's father, a reputable doctor, owner of the weapon used, was arrested and must be heard Friday by a prosecutor. The mother was also arrested.

Three days of national mourning were declared from Friday. Planned celebrations and events will be largely cancelled. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic lamented "one of the most difficult days in the contemporary history" of Serbia.

The head of state also announced on Friday a vast "disarmament" plan aimed at recovering hundreds of thousands of weapons from the inhabitants of this Balkan country, where some 765,000 weapons, including more than 232,000 pistols, are legally registered.

According to the Swiss NGO Small Arms Survey, Serbia was in 2018 the third country in the world for the circulation of firearms (tied with Montenegro), behind the United States and Yemen, with 39 guns per 100 inhabitants.

Arms stocks accumulated during the war

Indeed in the 1990s, due to the wars that led to the end of Yugoslavia, then the conflicts in the different areas of the region, a large number of firearms circulated in the Balkans. Already in 1989, under the Tito regime, 6.1 million small arms and light weapons were recorded, according to a report by the Ministry of Defense and Iris in 2017.

The end of the fighting led to a drop in demand, but did not lead to a decrease in the number of weapons in circulation. The maintenance of the local arms industry is particularly in question, according to Iris. “Whether in Serbia, Croatia or Montenegro, small arms and light weapons continue to be produced,” the report explains. The latter also highlights the "misappropriation in the stocks of the army" and "corruption", linked in particular to "the low wages of the workers and the meager pay of the soldiers".

"Disarm" the country

According to the Swiss NGO Small Arms Survey, in 2018 there were 2.7 million firearms held by civilians in Serbia, for 7 million inhabitants. Of these, 1.18 million were officially registered and 1.53 million undeclared. "Gun culture is well entrenched here," Predrag Petrovic, of the Belgrade Center for Security Policy, a Serbian NGO, told German media Deutsche Welle in 2016.

The Interior Ministry announced on Thursday home checks to check whether weapons were kept in safes, in accordance with the rules, adding that offenders would have their weapons confiscated. But the president went further on Friday. In particular, he promised a revision of the license to carry light weapons.

“We are going to carry out an almost complete disarmament of Serbia,” Aleksandar Vucic declared during a press conference broadcast live, a few hours after the second shooting.




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SCARYING HEAT RECORDS IN ASIA THREATEN

 THE POOREST

Scorching temperatures hit Asia during this period when the hot season is just beginning. With frightening records. 45°C in Thailand, 44°C in India, 38°C in China…

For the first time in its history, Thailand has just recorded temperatures of over 45°C. On April 15, 45.4°C was measured in Tak, a province in the northwest of the country and bordering Burma, according to data from the Thai Meteorological Department. The previous record dates back to 2016, when nearby Mae Hong Son region recorded 44.6°C. The country's weather service has warned that this weather will continue into next week. "It is possible that the heat of this year will be exacerbated by human activity," said Thanasit Iamananchai, the deputy director general of this service, joining the UN experts who warned in March about the risks of extreme episodes linked to global warming higher than they had estimated in 2014.

"This year's record heat in Thailand, China and South Asia is clearly a climate trend and will pose public health challenges for years to come," said Fahad Saeed, a researcher at the Climate Institute. Analytics, based in Pakistan.

Ditto in Central Asia, where Turkmenistan also set a heat record for the month of April: 42.2 ° C were measured in Uch-Adzhi, in the east of the country, notes British meteorologist Scott Duncan on Twitter . With 38.1°C in Uzbekistan, 35.1°C in Kazakhstan (including 33.6°C in the Taraz highlands, a record for the month of April) and 35°C in Tajikistan, the wave of heat extends in many territories of Central Asia.

Public health challenges

“It is not just hot during the day, extremely high nighttime temperatures have also been recorded. At night, temperatures do not drop below 28°C,” says meteorologist Scott Duncan.

In addition, the extreme heat will hit the poorest the hardest. It could even be a life-threatening risk for those who do not have access to air conditioning or suitable shelters On Monday, Indian authorities announced that eleven people had died of "heat stroke", during a handover of price which about a million people attended, in full sun. Since 2010, heat waves have killed more than 6,500 people in India. In Bangladesh, hundreds of people gathered this week in Dakha, the capital, to pray for beneficial rain, as the temperature reached 40.6 degrees Celsius, a record high since the 1960s. for the temperature to drop, and to be protected from the heat wave," local police chief Abul Kalam Azad said.

Global warming makes heat waves more frequent, more intense and earlier. Severe heat waves are on the rise around the world, experts say. The impact of human activities on the climate makes heat waves more frequent, more intense and earlier in the year. According to scientists, the probability of occurrence of unprecedented and very intense events increases with each tenth of global warming.

Thus, at +2°C, "1.7 billion additional people will be exposed to high heat, 420 million to extreme heat and around 65 million to exceptional heat waves every five years", warn the climatologist.




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ASSISTED SUICIDE EUTHANASIA

DOES THE END OF LIFE BELONG TO US ?

The citizen's convention on the end of life, organized by the Economic, Social and Environmental Council, submitted its report to the government after four months of discussions, reflections and votes. "We are all concerned, in essence, by the end of life.

"The day after the adoption of the report of the citizens' convention on this subject, which considers it "necessary" to authorize assisted suicide and euthanasia, Emmanuel Macron spoke on Monday, April 3, in front of the 184 participants gathered at the Elysée Palace. He recalled in particular that a "citizen convention never replaces parliamentary deliberation".

This extremely sensitive subject, which refers each person to their own vulnerability, indeed calls upon medical, societal, legal, ethical, philosophical and, of course, political dimensions and requires time to think about them.

Red lines not to cross

"I ask the government, in conjunction with parliamentarians, to carry out a work of co-construction on the basis of this solid reference which is that of the citizens' convention", continued the Head of State, while setting "red lines" not to be crossed. Among these, the need to "guarantee the expression of the free and enlightened will", of the "reiteration of the choice", "the incurability of refractory, psychic and physical suffering, even the commitment of the vital prognosis".

"You insist, rightly, that active assistance in dying should never be carried out for a social reason, to respond to the isolation which sometimes can make a patient who knows he is condemned feel guilty", added Emmanuel Macron, who also closed the door to any assistance in dying for minors. "These few red lines seem to me to frame the hypothesis of a French model of the end of life", he further underlined.

Better application of the existing framework, namely the Claeys-Leonetti law of 2016

Legislation on the end of life in France has been able to reinvent itself since the first milestones laid by the Kouchner law of 1999 which guaranteed access to palliative care. The Leonetti law of 2005, then the Claeys-Leonetti law of 2016 opened up rights for people at the end of life. Beyond the cessation of treatment, they frame the appointment of a person of trust and the drafting of advance directives, a written declaration that can be made by any adult person to specify their wishes concerning their end of life.

Current legislation allows caregivers to irreversibly sedate patients near death, whose suffering is intolerable. But it does not go so far as to authorize assisted suicide or euthanasia, as proposed by the citizens' convention.

These provisions are seen as effective means of removing uncertainties related to end-of-life conditions. However, they are ineffective.

This is why the "first pillar of the response" that Emmanuel Macron intends to bring to the conclusions of the citizens' convention and the various works on the subject is "perhaps the least spectacular response": that of the best application of the framework existing, namely the Claeys-Leonetti law of 2016, which "we need to better enforce".

Indeed, it is clear that advance directives are difficult to apply

A team of researchers has analyzed the ability of people of trust to make decisions corresponding to the wishes of their loved one. Based on nearly 20,000 pairs of patient-trustee responses on hypothetical end-of-life scenarios, they came to a worrying conclusion: in a third of cases, the trustee is wrong about treatment preference of his loved one and does not make the decision that he would like.

Even more alarming: this figure remains the same when discussions on these issues have already taken place. Indeed, people of trust can prioritize their own values ​​over those of their loved ones.

Moreover, asking an elderly person to make a decision about their end of life is not easy, including when the family and the caregivers seem to have reached an agreement. They may in particular be confronted with moral dilemmas: should one consider not having one's life extended under certain conditions? Is it possible to agree to let others decide for oneself if it is no longer possible to express oneself?

The question is particularly complex in the case of elderly people living in institutions. According to a study conducted in 2013-2014 in 78 retirement homes in France, questions relating to the end of life were discussed with a maximum of 21.7% of residents.

In another exploratory study, British health researchers highlighted older people's concerns when asked to think about palliative care and euthanasia (and in particular the terms of their implementation). Thus, even if advance directives have been drafted in anticipation of hypothetical future difficulties, the elderly will not necessarily be able to adhere to them when they are really confronted with the end of their existence, as described in an article by two researchers Stéphane Alvarez and Emmanuel Monfort published in The Conversation.

Not only is drafting advance directives not a simple exercise for the patient, but he must also be supported by an efficient and responsive healthcare system.

Exceed the current limits?

However, the High Authority for Health clarified in 2020 that the Claeys-Leonetti law is not sufficiently applied by health professionals: an improvement is necessary in the dialogue between health professionals and patients, even the oldest. Progress is also needed in supporting them and their loved ones.

Then, will the decision-makers introduce active assistance in dying while the palliative care system is criticized for its unequal aspect (26 departments have no palliative care units) and more generally for an obvious lack of means? ?

And the Head of State to point to a "fundamental inequality" in access to palliative care on the territory. The president thus confirmed “a ten-year national plan for the management of pain and the development of palliative care, with the necessary investments”. Without giving figures on the financing of this plan, the Head of State undertook to "develop the management of palliative care", including in the pediatric sector, "to better integrate it into the hospital in the course of care, to set a threshold of beds per territory and to continue their development at home". An essential prerequisite before considering going further than the current provisions.

Be that as it may, the Order of Physicians, the first concerned if any, said it was "unfavourable" to doctors being able to participate in "a process which would lead to euthanasia, the doctor not being able to deliberately provoke the death by the administration of a lethal product" in the event of a change in the legislation on the end of life.

In addition, the LR deputy for Bas-Rhin Patrick Hetzel denounces in his column in Figarovox a biased debate: to pilot the citizens' convention on the end of life, in conjunction with consulting firms, the executive has indeed chosen the Economic Council and social (CESE), which in 2018 advocated the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide. And to conclude: "The debate on the end of life deserves better than amateurism and manipulation".

Faced with these non-exhaustive findings, it seems legitimate to ask the question of a real political will to introduce the notion of assisted dying into the law, a development that has been refused until now. Many questions remain...




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THE CONSUMPTION OF ANTIDEPRESSANTS

EXPLODES AMONG YOUNG PEOPLE

The report of the High Council for the Family, Childhood and Age (HCFEA), published Monday, March 13, reports an explosion in the consumption of psychotropic drugs among young people. Between 2010 and 2021, the consumption of antidepressants increased by 179%, when it jumped 148% for psychostimulants, 114% for antipsychotics and finally 35% for hypnotics and anxiolytics.

The finding is alarming.

The phenomenon concerns tens of thousands of children. The level of prescription of psychotropic drugs concerns one in twenty children, specifies the HCFEA.

Alarming figures that can be explained in the light of other studies; one recently reported 62% of 18-24 year olds having suicidal thoughts. One in four young people (from the age of 12) would say they are unhappy.

Prescriptions of psychotropic drugs are often made without marketing authorization (AMM), warns the HCFEA, as appropriate drugs do not exist for children. According to the report, this is the case for 40% of prescriptions in the city, and between 67 and 94% of those issued in hospitals.

Multiple responsibilities

The Covid and successive confinements have had a deleterious effect on the health of children, according to the report. Suicidal gestures or feelings of anxiety are also on the rise.

This scourge of drug use which strikes young people in France has already largely affected the United States with Ritalin. Added to this question of the use and over-prescription of drugs is the “hyper-digitized” environment and the confinement of the mind behind smartphones and screens. The constant influx of information with their doses of anxiety (identity, climate, etc.) is an assault on brains. It was also without counting on digital addictions, to pornography in particular. The role of parents, sometimes resigning, sometimes disoriented, can also explain this trend, like that of the school, which is less and less protected.

Mental health is therefore a public health issue of prime importance in children, in France as in Western countries. When they occur early, mental disorders and psychological suffering impact a lifetime.

The decline in the supply of care in question

However "the pediatric, child psychiatric and medico-social offer is in decline and no longer allows children and families to be accommodated within a reasonable time", notes the HCFEA. In the absence of specialists, the majority of child consultations are carried out by the general practitioner. "Only 30% of children are seen by a pediatrician, who concentrates his patient population on children under two."

The ill-being of children and adolescents is therefore accentuated by a deficit in the supply of care, notes the report which points to a lack of specialists and school medicine whose situation is deteriorating.

Consultations in educational medical centers (CMP) were divided by four. The report denounces a "scissor effect" between this vertiginous increase in the consumption of drugs and the drop in the supply of care in France.

As a result, the support is not up to the challenges

However, psychotherapeutic practices: psychoanalysis, psychodynamic and clinical practices, cognitive and behavioral therapies, family and group therapies, etc. are the most suitable for mental disorders in young people. For certain cases only, a medicinal treatment can be prescribed as a second intention, in support of the psychological, educational and social accompaniment of the child and his family.

Not only does the HCFEA insist on the non-compliance with Marketing Authorizations and on the transgression of the recommendations of health agencies and scientific consensus, but it is alarmed at the substitution of psychotherapeutic, educational and social practices by practices medicated.

Faced with the deep malaise that affects a large part of the youth, it is time to react.

"The health and mental well-being of children is a concern that must mobilize the whole of society. All actors in the fields of educational and social action must provide a response", indicates the HCFEA.




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HOW TO DEAL WITH DROUGHT IN FRANCE ?

If the summer of 2022 brought to light the vulnerabilities of many territories in the face of a lack of water, the winter drought raises fears of new difficulties to come, accentuated and repeated under the effect of climate change. Since last Wednesday, the departments of Isère, Var, Bouches-du-Rhône and Pyrénées-Orientales have been placed on heightened alert. This means the implementation of a reduction in withdrawals for agricultural purposes greater than or equal to 50% and a stronger limitation of withdrawals for watering gardens. To prepare for this, Minister Christophe Béchu and his secretary of State for Ecology, Bérangère Couillard, will soon present a "drought plan".

The Minister for the Ecological Transition, Christophe Béchu, today receives the prefects coordinating the seven major basins of the country in order to encourage them to take measures now to "save water". Early restrictions to avoid the worst? "Anticipate!" asks the Minister for Ecological Transition to the prefects. Saturday, at the Salon de l'Agriculture, Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of a "sobriety plan on the water".

Agriculture 45% of water

In France, agriculture accounts for 45% of water consumption, and up to 80% in the middle of summer. "It is by modernizing agricultural systems, by making them more efficient, that we achieve the greatest savings", assures Hélène Michaux, director of the program and interventions department of the Rhône Mediterranean Water Agency. Corsica. Micro-irrigation and drip rather than sprayers, instruments helping farmers to optimize their use of water… Technical solutions exist, provided they can be afforded.

In the context of climate change, these investments offer "a form of hedging against risk, since the farmer will be able to maintain his yields, even during very dry years", underlines Arnaud Reynaud, research director at the Institute National Research Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (Inrae).

The Minister of Agriculture also stressed that 60 new agricultural hydraulic works projects would be "commissioned" by June even if these works, including the controversial basins, meet strong local protests.

Respond urgently to network failures

It would also be necessary to renovate the old, undersized and sometimes poorly maintained water networks, which are an urgent project. "Knowing that a pipe is replaced on average every 160 years, the urgency is to invest massively in renovation", explains Guillaume Dolques, specialist in adaptation to climate change, at the Institute of the economy for the climate, he insists, while on average 20% of drinking water escapes from pipes via leaks.

Thanks to an extension of 17 million obtained in 2023, the Water Agency "launched at the beginning of January a call for projects of 20 million euros aimed at securing the drinking water supply of communities". Reduction of leaks, rehabilitation of dilapidated drinking water reservoirs, establishment of interconnections in rural areas, where municipalities can find themselves very vulnerable... The means implemented are numerous.

Accelerate the deployment of treated wastewater reuse

In Spain, 14% of water resources already come from the recycling of wastewater. This rate reaches 8% in Italy, against less than 1% in France. To make up for this delay, the Minister for Ecological Transition and the Minister for Agriculture have put forward an upcoming decree blowing up “regulatory brakes”.

Encourage sobriety, at all levels

Constrained or chosen, this sobriety is already at work in the Var, where more than half of the municipalities face a more or less high level of constraints. Friday, Saint-Zacharie and Riboux were placed at the level "reinforced drought alert" by the prefecture of the department. Ban on watering lawns, sports grounds and vegetable gardens during the day, ban on washing your car or filling your swimming pool...

In the Var, municipalities have decided to suspend building permits believing that there would not be enough water for future inhabitants...




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CHEMSEX OR THE FATAL SEX AND DRUG DUO

The day after Pierre Palmade's accident, the prosecutor of the Melun court reveals that the toxicological analyzes showed that the comedian was driving under the influence of cocaine. Very quickly, the press also evokes the track of chemsex.

Chemsex?

This contraction of the English terms chemicals (chemicals) and sex refers to the use of narcotics in the context of sexual practices.

Appeared in England in the mid-2000s, sexual practices under the influence of narcotics are developing dangerously

They spread first in the gay community before seducing non-homosexual groups, especially young heterosexuals.

Initially very urban, it spread to rural areas or among rather young populations. The Covid-19 epidemic and its successive confinements have brought out a solitary chemsex, with consumption of substances during sessions of watching pornographic films.

Most often, the drugs used are synthetic cathinones (including 3-MMC and 4-MEC), GHB and methamphetamine crystals as well as, to a lesser extent, cocaine, MDMA or ketamine.

The practice is also accompanied by the use of poppers or other disinhibiting substances that influence libido and stamina, such as alcohol.

What is the desired effect?

"Sexual performance, above all. The use of drugs, in this context, aims first of all to increase the time of enjoyment. These drugs increase the coital time, increase the pleasure, amplify the desire, but also the number of intercourse and the full time of sexual practice.

These are generally marathons of several hours, sometimes several days, and most of the time in groups", according to Pr Amine Benyamina, head of the psychiatry and addiction department at the Paul-Brousse Hospital (AP-HP). member of his family died in a chemsex"

What are the dangers of Chemsex?

The death ?

Chemsex is a dangerous practice that leads users to consume more and more drugs in an irresistible way (craving).

The consumption of ketamine is associated with mood disorders, hallucinations and states of panic.

Cocaine, methamphetamine and cathinones lead to cardiovascular and cardiorespiratory risks, panic attacks, suicidal thoughts.

GHB/GBL can cause unconsciousness. In general, these drug cocktails can lead to overdoses, poisoning and comas. Even death.

Because of their lack of inhibition, chemsex enthusiasts do not take the necessary precautions to protect themselves (sharing syringes, forgetting condoms). As a result, STIs and other contaminations by HIV, hepatitis B and C and syphilis are on the rise.

Finally, chemsex is associated with an increase in sexual assault and rape since the notion of sexual consent cannot always be clearly established.

According to a report submitted in 2022 to the Ministry of Solidarity and Health by Pr Amine Benyamina, the practice of Chemsex could concern around 20% of men who have sex with men, potentially 100,000 to 200,000 people in France.

A meta-analysis published in 2019 estimates that this prevalence would be between 3 to 29% in the United States and Europe.

As soon as addiction to chemsex is proven, it is necessary to consult a trusted health professional.

The CSAPAs (Centres for Care, Support and Prevention in Addictology) bring together addictologists, doctors and nurses who know the subject perfectly.

Faced with the increase in, the association AIDES has set up an emergency call number

(+33 1 77 93 97 77), an SMS line via the WhatsApp application (+33 7 62 93 22 29) and a private discussion group on Facebook.


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GREAT COLD IN SIBERIA WITH -62.7° IN YAKUTSK

Every winter, Eastern Siberia experiences temperatures between -50° and -55°C during the long arctic night, whereas temperatures do not exceed -30 to -40°C in the pale glimmers of the frosty day.

But since the beginning of January, the great cold has spread almost to all of Eurasia, from Moscow to Yakutia.

The negative anomalies recorded in the heart of Siberia fell to -30°C, more than the hot anomalies observed on our planet.

The temperature drops to -62.7 ° C in the "coldest city in the world", a record for 20 years

In Yakutsk in Siberia (Russia), the mercury dropped to -62.7°C on Sunday January 15, 2023.

This city considered "the coldest in the world" is accustomed to low temperatures, but never so extreme. Usually in January the average temperature is -40°C.

In total, on the scale of Siberia, the current temperatures make it the most intense cold wave since 1982 in Yakutia. But the minimum and maximum temperatures (-57° at night and -50° C during the day) more generally make it the strongest cold wave since 1994.

Finally, the -62°C readings of Tuesday, January 10th constitute a monthly record for the Zhilinda station (since the opening of the current weather station in 1942).

"You Can't Wrestle"

While Yakutsk is known as “the coldest city in the world”, temperatures are normally not that low.

In January, the coldest month of the year in this region, the average is generally around -40°C.

Faced with this situation, the inhabitants, although accustomed to negative temperatures, must be extra careful.

Such cold can be dangerous, especially because of the risk of frostbite. At present, the entire city is shrouded in "icy fog", according to the North-Eastern Federal University of Yakutsk, whose remarks are relayed by CNN.

A phenomenon that occurs precisely in situations of extreme cold." The air is so cold that the warm air from houses, people and cars cannot rise" which has the effect of blocking the vapor on the ground, as explains the Northeastern Federal University in Yakutsk.

The establishment also sent a note to its students to remind them "that it is not recommended to walk the streets in winter when the temperature is below -40°C".




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COVID INFLUENZA AND BRONCHIOLITIS OUTBREAK

IN FRANCE

During a visit to Annecy on December 28, the Minister of Health François Braun spoke of a "week of all dangers" for hospitals.

And for good reason. For health professionals, back-to-school week is off to a flying start with a “triple epidemic” of Covid, bronchiolitis and influenza.

"In this triple epidemic, we are coming to a slightly calmer phase with regard to Covid and bronchiolitis", he explained to the press: the virus "circulates less" for the coronavirus, while the level of infection remains "very high" for bronchiolitis, "but is improving".

The flu hits the whole territory

On the other hand, for the flu, “there is an explosion of cases, with also serious cases which mean that the intensive care units, in a general way, are saturated”, he underlined.

Last week, the health authorities noted a "continued increase in influenza indicators in all age groups", according to their latest bulletin published on Wednesday. The flu epidemic is currently hitting all mainland and overseas regions. Hospitalizations for flu-like illness have thus increased by 75%.

The bronchiolitis epidemic continued at a high level in mainland France as well as in Guadeloupe, Martinique and Mayotte.

An unwelcome strike

The Minister of Health could only deplore the strike movement of general practitioners at the national level "particularly unwelcome in this period of extreme difficulty for the health system". However, he assured that "(his) door has always remained open and it will remain so to solve the problems".

It is also an opportunity to recall the best practices to adopt:

“Vaccination is still relevant with regard to the flu, as well as wearing a mask and washing hands of course in closed places and where there are many people,” he insisted.




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IN THE UNITED STATES THE "BLIZZARD" OF THE CENTURY KILLS AT LEAST FIFTY PEOPLE

Cataclysmic weather conditions. Terrible winter weather sweeping across the United States has killed at least 50 people nationwide, including 27 in one New York county alone, and this 'blizzard of the century' is far from over. completed.

"It's far too early to say it's over," warned New York Governor Kathy Hochul, adding that up to 30 cm of snow was still expected to fall.

"It's clearly the blizzard of the century," she added during a press conference from the city of Buffalo.

Even if the intensity of the storm is no longer that of recent days, it is "still dangerous to be outside", she warned.

A Christmas weekend under meters of snow, experiencing polar temperatures since last week.

The death toll in Erie County, which includes Buffalo, was already 13 as of Sunday evening, but local services have since confirmed the deaths of 14 more people 'bringing the total blizzard fatalities to 27,' it said on Monday. morning Mark Poloncarz, responsible for this county.

Some people have been found dead in their cars or outside, and others have died of cardiac arrest while trying to clear snow, while temperatures are still freezing, he said. Mark Poloncarz said he expected more victims to be found over time.

The total of deaths confirmed by authorities across 9 US states is at least 49 dead. In Ohio, road accidents related to these bad weather killed nine people, confirmed Highway Patrol.

" Heartbreaking "

Buffalo is still largely blocked, due to the impressive amounts of snowfall. Footage from downtown showed cars across the road, covered in snow.

“Please, unless you are part of the emergency services, do not drive,” asked Mark Poloncarz.

“Conditions are bad.”

A travel ban was still in effect Monday in the west of the county, but it was defied by some residents, he said.

"What we're doing today is getting people to doctors, nurses and hospitals," county sheriff John Garcia told CNN on Monday morning.

"The roads are finally starting to be passable because the winds have died down."

During the height of the storm, rescuers were no longer able to reach people in distress, for example those stranded in their car or at home without electricity.

"It's heartbreaking to have calls from families with kids saying they're frozen," said John Garcia. Electricity has been restored to more than 13,000 homes in the past 24 hours, Mark Poloncarz said Monday morning, but more than 12,000 are still without power. Some will not be able to be connected to the network before Tuesday, he warned.

3,800 flights canceled on Monday

Since Wednesday evening, the United States has been hit by this storm of rare intensity, whose icy winds have caused heavy snowfall, especially in the Great Lakes region.

Tens of millions of Americans saw their Christmas weekend turned upside down by massive power outages, impassable roads and thousands of canceled flights, causing chaos at airports. On Monday, nearly 3,800 flights were still canceled in the United States, according to the tracking site Flightaware.com.

Conditions are expected to improve only gradually as the week progresses.

The weather "will continue to cause hazardous travel conditions locally for the next two days," the US Weather Service (NWS) said in its latest national bulletin.

“Most of the eastern United States will remain in freezing conditions through the day Monday, before a more moderate trend sets in from Tuesday,” he added.




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POLAND'S VETO GETS RECOGNITION

FILIATION OF CHILDREN OF LGBT COUPLES

BY THE EUROPEAN UNION

Polish Deputy Minister of Justice, Marcin Romanowski, has warned that his country will veto a proposal presented on Wednesday by the European Commission to recognize the legal parentage of children of LGTBI couples obtained in another Member State, a measure to ensure that all European children enjoy the same rights when moving through the common space, “regardless of how they were conceived or born”, according to Brussels.

"As long as the Minister of Justice is Zbigniew Ziobro", Romanowski told the Do Rzeczy portal, "we are sure that Poland will not have to adapt to these senseless demands of the LGBT lobby and recognize adoptions homosexuals”.

The Deputy Minister assured that the Polish legal system is “protected” against the “harmful effects of gender ideology”, regardless of “the extent of the insidious tricks of the EU ‘establishment’”, who turned to "a toxic agenda"

Aware of the difficulties in advancing the law due to the reservations of countries such as Poland or Hungary with regard to the recognition of the rights of the LGTBI collective or the controversies concerning the regulation of surrogacy in several countries of the bloc, the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, made it clear that the proposal does not aim to modify family law, which is a national competence, but to give legal certainty to minors whose filiation is already recognized in a Member State. member.

However, Mr Romanowski interprets that the legal institutions relating to parentage, as well as civil status registers, remain within the exclusive competence of the Member States according to the existing case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

The Deputy Minister underlines that the adoption of the proposal for a European regulation requires unanimity, so that “Poland does not risk imposing homosexual adoptions, because we will simply veto them”.




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UNUSUAL BUT TRUE

187 COINS DISCOVERED

IN THE STOMACH OF A THIRTY INDIAN

Surgeons are sometimes surprised by what they can discover in a patient's stomach during an operation.

But nothing could prepare the doctors at Hangal Sri Kumareshwar in Bagalkot, India for what they unearthed in late November from the bowels of a man in his thirties.

Taken to the hospital by his family, the patient complained of “sloshing” and frequent vomiting.

Preliminary examinations, X-rays and endoscopies, made it possible to quickly determine the cause of these disorders: an enormous quantity of coins, swallowed every day for three months.

A weight of 1.5 kilos of metal

A surgical intervention of more than two hours made it possible to extract a total of 187 pieces for a weight of 1.5 kg.

“The stomach was terribly distended and there were pieces in every corner,” explains Dr Eshwar Kalaburgi. But, miraculously, the man, whose identity has not been revealed, retains few after-effects of this bewildering diet: “We treated the onset of dehydration and a few other minor symptoms. But the patient is stable and can speak normally.”

The Japanese record: 1894 pieces

This coin-eater suffers from a psychiatric disorder no doubt related to pica, magpie in Latin, which pushes certain individuals to compulsively ingest materials of all kinds, paper, fabric, wood, plastic and, of course, metal.

Cared for by psychiatrists, this patient will probably not, and fortunately, have the opportunity to equal the Japanese record in this area: 1894 coins absorbed by a man in his fifties for two decades .

He too survived despite this 8.5 kilo “treasure” occupying most of his stomach.




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EIGHT BILLION PEOPLE ON EARTH

LITTLE NEWS AND OVERCROWDING ?

Eight billion today, ten billion by the end of the century.

We are now eight billion humans on the planet. According to UN models, humanity crosses this milestone on Tuesday, November 15, eleven years after passing that of seven billion, on October 31, 2011.

For some, this announcement is to be welcomed as proof of the improvement in the living conditions of individuals on a planetary scale. For others, it brings its share of concerns and questions.

How far will population growth go ?

And as world leaders come together at COP27 to find solutions to climate change, will the planet be able to support and meet the needs of a growing population ?

“We are awaiting the birth of the eight billionth inhabitant of planet Earth. This event must both allow us to marvel at the progress in health, which has made it possible to extend lifespan and considerably reduce maternal and infant mortality rates, but must also sound like a reminder of our shared responsibility. to take care of our planet", summed up the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, on 11 November.

Symbolic bar of 8 billion

Eight billion people on Earth. According to United Nations estimates, the world population will cross this symbolic threshold of eight billion on Tuesday, November 15, 2022.

The number has doubled in almost fifty years, compared to the four billion human beings who inhabited the planet in 1975. The curve will continue to climb in the years to come, to a peak of 10.4 billion people, which should be reached by the end of the 2080s.

A decline should then begin until the end of the century, according to the latest UN projection, entitled “World Population Outlook 2022”, released in July.

59% of the world's population now live in Asia

4.7 billion of the planet's eight billion inhabitants now live in Asia, where the two most populous countries in the world are located: China, with 1.4 billion inhabitants, and India. Note that this ranking between the two giants should be reversed by 2023.

The Asian continent represents 59% of the world's population, compared to 18% for Africa, 9% for Europe, 8% for Latin America and the Caribbean, 5% for North America and 1% for l 'Oceania.

The countries with the highest population growth are mainly in the regions of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

Demographic growth is especially important in Africa – it is “ the countries of sub-Saharan Africa which should contribute to more than half of the increase projected until 2050”, according to the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations.

Some countries stand out with very rapid changes in their birth rate. If we compare these two maps produced by the World Population Prospects, the demographic dynamics of all the continents have dropped, even if some maintain a high rate.

But others, like Kenya, are well ahead of their neighbours. Although it was already declining, in 2011 its fertility rate was still at its highest, at more than 35 births per 1,000 people. Today, its demographic transition is nearing completion:

in 40 years, Kenya thus went from 8 to 3.8 children per woman, this is what is called the demographic transition. The example of Kenya, however, retains a high average compared to Europe, for example.

European countries find their balance between 1.3 and 1.9 children per woman. However, the fertility rate in sub-Saharan Africa remains at 4.7 children per woman according to AFD.

As a result, if the demographic transition in Africa advances, in particular thanks to much lower infant mortality than before, the African population should reach 2.4 billion inhabitants in 2050, estimates INED reports. More than half of the world's population growth will then take place in Africa.

South and Southeast Asia are also experiencing significant growth, but again the dynamics are changing.

If China completed its demographic transition more than ten years ago, it is now India's turn to see its birth rate plummet. The country, with 1.3 billion inhabitants, is almost on a par with China...but in 2021 its birth rate has just fallen below the replacement level for the first time. The country should therefore decrease after a peak reached around 2070.

Conversely, there are eight countries to concentrate more than half of the world's population expected in the coming decades. These are the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines and Tanzania.

However "most of the population growth is behind us"

According to UN projections released in July, world population is expected to peak in the 2080s and then stabilize at around 10.4 billion. “Ten billion may seem enormous, but it is ultimately a small increase if we compare it to that of the last sixty years”, affirms Gilles Pison, specialist in world demography, professor emeritus at the National Museum of Natural History and adviser with the National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED).

The symbolic bar of the first billion people on the planet had been crossed in 1800, that of two billion in 1927 then that of three billion in 1960. dizzyingly, with population growth of 2% per year. At the dawn of the 2000s, there were six billion of us on the planet, six times more than two hundred years earlier,” explains the demographer.

“Since then, the population has certainly continued to grow, but less and less quickly. Today, population growth is only 1%. And it will most certainly continue to decline. »

"The threat of a 'demographic bomb' that some feared is receding", for Gilles Pison.

“Most of the population growth is even behind us. »

But above all, once the ten billion mark has been reached, the population should stabilize and then begin to decrease slowly. For good reason, according to the UN, the fertility rate should drop from 2.3 children per woman, on average, in the world today to 2.1 in 2050. It would then stabilize at 1.8 in 2100 – the threshold that marks the end of generational renewal.

Birth control ?

Faced with this prospect, however, the question of what the planet can bear resurfaces. The anguish is not recent: from Antiquity, Plato and Aristotle worried, in their writings, about the destruction of forests and the disappearance of food sources. Later, in 1798, in his "Essay on the principle of population", Thomas Malthus was in turn alarmed by an imbalance between population and resources. But today, in the face of climate change, the fear is doubled, with both the fear that the planet will not be able to meet the needs of all the population, but also that the latter, too numerous, will end up destroying its habitat. .

“We are heading for disaster because the population is increasing much too quickly,” says Michel Sourrouille, author of the book Alerte surpopulation: le combat de demographie responsable (Édilivre editions). The 75-year-old man calls himself a Malthusian, advocating a drop in the birth rate so that population growth does not exceed that of resources.

“We cannot outlive the resources that the planet gives us”

Stabilizing the population, or even reducing it, is the solution to save the planet, thinks Michel Sourrouille: “We cannot outlive the resources that the planet gives us. It's the law of diminishing returns: the more resources we take from the Earth, the more we deplete it. In 2022, Overshoot Day – the date by which humanity has consumed all the resources the planet can regenerate in one year, calculated by the Global Footprint Network – has been set to July 28…

For many scientists, population growth is thus “one of the main factors of environmental threats”. For them, the answer is therefore simple: the human population must be reduced to alleviate the pressure on the planet. In France, the Responsible Demography association is campaigning, for example, to cap family allowances at two children. Same fight, in the United Kingdom, for the organization Population Matters.

A solution swept away by the demographer Gilles Pison. "To stop population growth suddenly, there are only three solutions: cause an increase in mortality - which no one wants -, move to another planet - which is unrealistic - or, effectively, control the birth rate" "However, this solution is just as unrealistic. It is an illusion to believe that it is enough to adopt birth control policies to see the world population drop. »

For Emmanuel Pont, engineer, more nuanced in his words and author of the book Should we stop having children to save the planet? (2022 , Payot), reducing the population is not the "priority"

Emmanuel Pont also points to the chronophagy of a birth control policy. “It takes a long time for the population to change. I had done the math, if we introduce the one-child policy in France, we will have to wait around 2100 for the population to be halved, he explains. Knowing that the objective is to achieve carbon neutrality in 2050, it will already be too late. »

Under no circumstances should authoritarian measures be imposed. An opinion shared by Emmanuel Pont: “In history, birth control policies have always gone wrong. There is a rather dark history of abuse of forced sterilizations, of eugenics finally. There is a fine line between deciding who has the right to have a child and who has the right to live… And it is also a policy that would be imposed on women, on minorities, once again. »

Stopping having children "to save the planet" also raises "philosophical questions about the right to procreation", he continues. “We're not going to put the fact of having children on the same level as consumer choices like flying or eating a steak… I find that this is a debate that quickly becomes slippery. »

24% of over 18s in some developed countries would however question their desire for a child because of the climate.

Some people have already chosen not to have children for ecological reasons. They are designated by the acronym "Gink", for Green Inclination No Kid in English, or people who claim not to want to have children to save the planet, and not to inflict on their offspring a life on a polluted Earth. and overheating.

Extremes to avoid, it seems to us.

“Changing our way of life”

Indeed for Emmanuel Pont as for Gilles Pison, the problem is less the increase in the population than our ways of living and consuming. "We must change our lifestyles, the political and economic mechanisms of society, the distribution of power and wealth between countries, the consumerist culture", details the first. “To fight against global warming, we must not be less, but we must strive, all together, for more sobriety and less consumption. “, underlines the second.

In 2015, an Oxfam report showed that countries with high birth rates – often also among the least developed – such as Pakistan (3.45), Nigeria (5.32) or Ethiopia (4. 15) represent only 3.5% of global CO2 emissions despite being home to 20% of the world's population. Conversely, the most developed countries, which have a low fertility rate, such as China (1.7), the United States (1.71) or European countries, emit 78% of CO2 while that they represent only half of humanity.

“In terms of food, for example, the planet has enough to feed ten billion people properly. Provided that he is not asked to feed them as the richest 1% eat today, with a diet that is too meaty and totally unbalanced,” continues Gilles Pison.

And this issue is all the more important since, in a few years, the maps of world demography will be completely reshuffled. India will become the most populous country and one in three people on the planet will live in Africa. “The challenge is to allow these countries to develop without becoming more aggressive for the environment. In this, the developed countries must now serve as models,” pleads the demographer.

“Furthermore, we now know that there is a correlation between improved living conditions and lower fertility. If we want to stabilize the world population, this will have to go through a reduction of inequalities, a fight against poverty, access to care and contraception everywhere in the world..."

Admittedly, but great disparities remain: in the West we are witnessing a suicidal drop in the birth rate, while in Africa an uncontrolled excess birth rate. The socio-economic and political consequences are likely to be significant.




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FRANCE BLIND TO THE EVOLUTION OF COVID

Difficult today for the health authorities to follow the evolution of the Covid-19 epidemic in the country: the strike movement of the medical analysis laboratories has had a strong impact on the production of reliable figures. In addition, the number of screening tests is also decreasing.

On paper, France is back in the green. With just over 20,000 new cases of Covid-19 contamination detected every day, the few figures that are today communicated by the health authorities show a marked improvement in the situation on the epidemic front.

Can the French rejoice? Not so much, and for good reason: it is difficult to trust the data that is currently shared. “These data cannot be interpreted, indicates Public Health France in a weekly report. Some rates are underestimated. »

Why ?

Firstly because since October 27, medical analysis laboratories no longer communicate the results of screening tests against Covid-19 to the national screening test file (SI-DEP). The latter are indeed opposed to the 2023 provisional budget of Social Security, which will force biologists to make 250 million euros in savings each year: an "unacceptable planing blow" for the profession:

"Faced with the deafness of the public authorities, we have decided to suspend the transmission of screening data on the SI-DEP platform", announced a few days ago Alain Le Meur, spokesperson for the Alliance for Medical Biology ( APBM).

The Department of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (Drees) noted a decrease of nearly 80% in the number of test results shared in this database at the start of this movement... According to our colleagues from Parisian, the laboratories have resumed sharing data since Wednesday, November 2, but professionals in the sector are threatening a strike from November 14 if they do not win their case with Thomas Fatôme , Director of Health Insurance.

A new sub-variant – BQ.1.1, spoilsport ?

To this is also added the drop in the number of tests carried out in France. On average, just under 90,000 tests are recorded every day in the country: such a low figure has not been observed since August 2020. The fewer the tests, the less visibility is good on the Covid-19 front. 19. This epidemiological monitoring is all the more important as a new sub-variant - BQ.1.1. - is gradually establishing itself in the country and gaining ground. BQ.1.1. could become dominant in the country within the next few weeks.

“We have never seen one of the Omicron sub-variants impose itself without causing an epidemic wave, and it is not very clear why this would not be the case this time”, affirms Antoine Flahault, director of the Institute of Global Health in Geneva.




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ARE THE PUNCH ACTIONS OF ECOLOGIST ACTIVISTS IN MUSEUMS PRODUCTIVE ?

Punchy actions. While the Just Stop Oil association is stepping up operations against works of art in Europe, in France, the Last renovation association has also decided to make a name for itself, by first blocking a motorway and then interrupting a opera in Paris this Friday, October 28. The aim of the action of "civil disobedience" on the motorway, which lasted about half an hour, is "to compel the government to adopt an ambitious plan for the thermal renovation of buildings by 2040, the first step towards a significant reduction in France's carbon emissions", according to a press release from the association

A few days before, wearing orange bibs which contrast with the decorum called for by a visit to the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, two activists take off before pouring large jets of yellowish mash on a painting from the Millstones series of the Impressionist painter Claude Monet, depiction of conical structures of wheat that dominated the landscape of the Normandy countryside in 1890.

“We are in the midst of a climate catastrophe,” recites one of the activists after sticking her hand to the wall, squatting in front of the French painter's masterpiece estimated at more than 110 million dollars. "And all that scares you is tomato soup or mashed potatoes on a painting," she says.

The two perpetrators of the coup, affiliated with the pro-climate civil disobedience movement Letzte Generation, echo the question posed by Just Stop Oil activists ten days earlier. “Is art worth more than life? What food? What justice? »

On October 14, two young members of the British organization opposed to the financing of fossil fuels raised the public's ire by spraying Van Gogh's Sunflowers with a tin of Heinz soup before sticking themselves against the wall .

Multiplication of civil disobedience actions

After Van Gogh's "Sunflowers", a painting by Monet or even an Aston Martin concession, activists from the environmental collective Just Stop Oil attacked this Thursday the painting "The Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Johannes Vermeer exhibited at The Hague, at the Mauritshuis museum.. They glued themselves to the glass protecting the canvas before being arrested by the police. Two people approached the painting and a third threw an unknown substance on it, but the work, protected under glass, was not damaged, the Mauritshuis said in a press release.

If this action has gone around the world, it is part of a series of stunts organized by environmental activists who have taken over museums in recent months, from the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow to the National Gallery of Victoria from Melbourne, via the Museo del Novecento in Milan.

For each of these militant actions, the same modus operandi: a hand stuck under the canvas, on the frame or directly on the work. The lock-on tactic, which activists resort to in order not to be able to leave the place of protest on request, is revisited; super glue replaces padlocked chains. Food, meanwhile, has been part of the activists' arsenal during the most recent high-profile stunts.

Whether it's soup or mashed potatoes, the media coverage of these incidents fulfills their mission of publicizing the environmental cause. They also include, by their scandalous effect, their own self-justification, by demonstrating that the attack on art would henceforth scandalize us more than that on the living...

“Art or activism ? »

This is the question the academic Isabelle Barbéris asks in an article published in TheConversation before answering it in the analysis that follows.

The environmental activists, even if their action uses an artistic repertoire, only claim the political dimension of their staging, devoid of any attempt at aestheticization.

The action of activists is also part of this artistic history of performance and the interventions of artists such as Duchamp's Large Glass, action painting, Campbell's soup by Warhol, "les décollages" by the artist Fluxus Volf Vostell, and even the banana stuck on a wall by Maurizio Cattelan…

As for the artification of the gesture of vandalism, it is also an old story that goes back to the historical avant-gardes: imbued with nihilistic irony, the Dadaist tracts and manifestos are stuffed with (metaphorical) calls for scrapping, while Tristan Tzara compared art to “a poet with broken ribs like Picabia who breaks all the bones and the glass roses”. This same Francis Picabia who proclaimed in his Cannibal Manifesto (1920): “What you cannot break will break you, will be your master. »

Recurring topos

The struggle between art and life, the dramatization of the tension between object and gesture are therefore recurring topos of contemporary art.

The history of activism in museums is just as extensive: one can think of Bed Piece (1972) by Chris Burden, but above all of the protest actions of the Fluxus group.

Finally, there was Joseph Beuys, who paved the way for performance that was truly activist, that is, driven by a cause. Beuys is the inventor of artistic and ecological agit-prop, as evidenced by several actions: Bog action (1971), one of the first performances of ecological activism to protest against the drying up of an inland sea in the Netherlands; I like America and America like me (the performance with the coyote); 7000 Chênes presented at Documenta in Kassel in 1982 – to name but a few examples.''

Art “as a launching pad”

“Art is really used as a launching pad, a tool to gain visibility. And it is clear that, from this point of view, it works very well. »

— A quote from Charles de Lacombe, board member of Friends of the Earth France and Alternatiba activist

If it is "destabilizing" to see activists attacking masterpieces, the choice is nonetheless considered. Van Gogh, Monet, Botticelli and Picasso are not responsible for climate change, and environmental activists know this very well, underlines Mr. Lacombe in a paper co-signed with Nicolas Haeringer, director of campaigns for the NGO 350.org.

By disturbing the public, activists are trying to draw attention to its indifference to the inaction of leaders to limit global warming, at a time when all the lights are red. "Abnormal situation, abnormal actions", they sum up, taking up substantially the same speech as Phoebe Plummer of Just Stop Oil, author of the throwing of the soup, who immediately recognized the absurdity of the gesture.

Provoke to rally ? Rather a failure

"These are actions that are very divisive", recognizes Charles de Lacombe, who himself participated in 2019 in a pro-climate campaign aimed at winning portraits of President Emmanuel Macron in the town halls of France in order to denounce the State inaction.

Charles de Lacombe believes that it is too early to decide on the success – or not – of these brilliant strokes. Success and failure will depend, he said, on how the media and activists comment on these actions, helping to shape public opinion.

The specialist in questions of environmental geopolitics, François Gemenne, professor at Sciences Po Paris and member of the IPCC, is among those who worry about the consequences of these actions, which "alienate", in his opinion, "a good part of the public to the cause of the climate".

“The house is burning. Everyone realizes this, and the climate itself is responsible for reminding us of it. It seems to me that there is no longer much point in shouting fire – even with soup or mashed potatoes – and that we must now seek to put out the fire,” he said on Tuesday. on Twitter.

"Furthermore, the ideological dualism which serves as a framework for the intervention undermines the ultimate aim of performance art, often qualified as 'environmental' by the artists themselves: in addition to opposing nature and culture is a potentially dangerous anti-humanism...

To claim that culture would be more protected than nature is, at best, disconcertingly naive and ignorant,” concludes Isabelle Barbéris.




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DOCTOLIB CLEAN UP ITS PLATFORM

After several weeks of reflection, Doctolib announced yesterday that it was going to delist 5,700 “wellness practitioners” from its platform. The French heavyweight in medical appointment booking announced on Wednesday October 26 that 5,700 practitioners practicing only unregulated well-being professions will be dereferenced from its platform. Among them, hypnotherapists (2700) and sophrologists (1500), but also 800 naturopaths or even psychoanalysts (500), according to the figures provided. From now on, only regulated professions will be accessible.

“To live up to expectations and provide patients with objective and verified information on the professionals present on our site, we have decided to list on Doctolib exclusively the professionals referenced by the health authorities. For these professionals, we are in a position to verify the right to practice”, emphasizes Doctolib.

The French company specializing in making appointments had indeed been at the heart of a controversy on social networks, two months ago, after Internet users revealed the presence of naturopaths with questionable and disputed practices. In response, she had initially “suspended making appointments for 17 profiles”.

Among the disciplines that pose a problem, naturopathy. This practice of helping the body heal on its own has many abuses. Naturopathy has become in a few years, a very competitive sector. The only French Federation of Naturopathic Schools (Fena), which brings together eight schools, recognizes at the last count 6,000 approved naturopaths.

And their number would have increased by 20 to 25% per year over the past ten years.




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A BILLION CHILDREN ARE AT RISK

BY CLIMATE CHANGE

T he effects of climate change threaten a billion children and, overall, the standard of living of minors in the world has not improved over the last decade, declared, Wednesday, October 19, the NGO KidsRights.

The Covid-19 pandemic has also had a significant impact on minors, sometimes deprived of food or medicine due to disruptions in the health sector, leading to the death of some 286,000 children under five, said the Dutch NGO in an annual study.

Published each year, the "KidsRights Index" ranks 185 countries according to their compliance with the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, based on UN data.

Iceland first, Chad last

Iceland, Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands occupy the first places in the 2022 ranking, closed by the Central African Republic, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Chad.

The 2022 study is "alarming for our current and future generations of children," Marc Dullaert, founder and president of KidsRights, said in a statement. “A rapidly changing climate now threatens their future and their fundamental rights,” he stressed. "There has been no significant progress in the living standards of children over the past decade and, in addition, their livelihoods have been severely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic," he said. he adds.

For the first time in two decades, the number of working children rose to 160 million, an increase of 8.4 million over the past four years, according to the "KidsRights Index", compiled with the Erasmus University of rotterdam.

Some progress

However, the study welcomes the progress made by some countries. Angola has more than halved under-five mortality, while Bangladesh has nearly halved the number of underweight under-fives. Bolivia, for its part, has almost halved its number of accidents involving children at work.

Second last year, Switzerland fell to 31st place "due to the country's insufficient implementation of the principle of the 'best interests of the child' in decisions affecting children", underlined the NGO.

Other countries were singled out by the report, including Nigeria, 175th, for the high rate of deaths of mothers during childbirth, and Montenegro, 49th, due to low vaccination rates.




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AT LEAST 23 DEAD IN FLORIDA

WITH TROPICAL STORM IAN

Storm Ian continues to weaken in the southeastern United States on Saturday and is expected to dissipate overnight, after causing flooding in South Carolina and devastating large swathes of Florida, where it killed dozens of people.

The authorities of this State confirmed Friday evening a new toll of 23 victims, most of them by drowning and in their vast majority of the elderly.

Some American media evoke an even heavier human toll, the CNN television channel evoking 45 deaths.

After ravaging Florida, Ian headed for South Carolina, where it made landfall on Friday afternoon near Georgetown as a Category 1 hurricane, accompanied by winds of up to 140 km/h , according to the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC).

It then weakened into a post-tropical storm. On Saturday morning, its winds were only blowing at about 50 km / h when it crossed North Carolina, noted the NHC.

Although the risk of downpours and “moderate” flooding remains in the central Appalachian and northeastern United States area, Ian “is expected to dissipate over south-central Virginia” overnight. Saturday, the center predicted.

President Joe Biden has urged residents to heed calls for caution from local authorities. In South Carolina, they had notably urged the population not to drive on the roads invaded by water.

“It's a dangerous storm that will bring high winds and lots of water, but the most dangerous thing will be human error. Be smart, make good decisions, check in on loved ones and stay safe,” Governor Henry McMaster tweeted.

Some 575,000 homes and businesses were already without power Friday evening in South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, according to the specialized site PowerOutage.

“Historic” damage in Florida

In Florida, in addition to the heavy human toll, the material damage is "historic", the level reached by the rising waters having been unprecedented, according to Governor Ron DeSantis.

Streets and homes were flooded and boats moored in marinas were tossed onto land by the storm. On Friday, in Kissimmee, not far from Orlando, the authorities crossed the flooded areas in boats to rescue residents trapped in their homes.

The only road leading to the Matlacha neighborhood of Fort Myers, Florida was damaged when Ian passed.

In this state, "we are just beginning to see the extent of the destruction", "likely to rank among the worst" in the history of the United States, said Joe Biden during a speech. “It will take months, years to rebuild,” he lamented.

As of Friday evening, more than 1.4 million customers remained without power there two days after Ian passed through, according to PowerOutage.

According to initial estimates, the passage of Hurricane Ian could cost insurers tens of billions of dollars and will weigh on American growth, in particular due to flight cancellations and damage to agricultural production.




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DEADLY FLOODS

MONSOON DUE TO PAKISTAN

The floods caused by the monsoon rains caused the death of 1,061 people, according to the latest report published Monday morning. And the human toll is likely to increase further.

More than 33 million people, or one in seven Pakistanis, were also affected by the floods; nearly a million homes have been destroyed or severely damaged, according to the government. The NDMA said that more than 80,000 hectares of cultivable land have also been devastated. In addition, approximately 3,400 kilometers of roads and 149 bridges were washed away. Many rivers in the province of Khyber Pahktunkhwa, crossed by mountains and steep valleys, overflowed and destroyed dozens of buildings. Downstream, fear of flooding around the banks of the Kabul River prompted nearly 180,000 people in Charsadda district to flee their homes, according to disaster officials, with some spending the night on the roads with their livestock.

In the southern province of Sindh, where some 500,000 inhabitants live, already massively affected, torrents of water are expected to arrive again in the coming days. Fed by dozens of rivers and mountain streams that burst their banks following record rains and melting glaciers, the Indus, the river that crosses Sindh, continues to grow. The valves were opened to deal with a flow of more than 600,000 m3 per second, said the person in charge of the important dam which regulates the flow of the river.

Negligence in the maintenance of the Sukkur dam

In several places, the Indus already overflows on the banks and if the Sukkur dam fails to control the flow of water, a disaster is to be feared. Once built by the British Empire, the dam was considered an engineering marvel, capable of discharging 1.4 million cubic meters of water per second through 19 hinged steel gates between stone pillars.

This 90-year-old dam controlling the mighty Indus River redistributes water in nearly 10,000 kilometers of canals that distribute water over agricultural land. But after years of neglect, these channels can no longer process the record volumes recorded today. "The silt accumulated and could not be removed," the minister explained, adding that due to a lack of equipment, the canals have not been dredged since 2010.

The government declared a state of emergency on Friday and mobilized the army to deal with this “catastrophe of a rare magnitude”, as Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman called it. "The scale of the calamity is greater than estimated," Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said in a tweet on Saturday after visiting the flooded areas.

Essential but often dramatic rains

The monsoon, which usually lasts from June to September, is essential for the irrigation of plantations and to replenish the water resources of the Indian subcontinent. But it regularly causes many human losses and destruction. Authorities estimate that the current bad weather is comparable to that of 2010, when 2,000 people were killed and almost a fifth of the country submerged.

Pakistani officials attribute the devastating weather to climate change, saying Pakistan is unfairly suffering the consequences of irresponsible environmental practices elsewhere in the world. It is in eighth position among the most threatened by extreme weather phenomena, according to a study by the non-governmental organization Germanwatch. But corruption and ill-established urban planning programs contribute to aggravate the consequences of bad weather since thousands of buildings have been built in flood-prone areas.

The floods come at the worst time for Pakistan, whose economy is collapsing and which has been in deep political crisis since Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted in April following a vote of no confidence in the National Assembly.




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THE "HUNGER STONES" ALERT ON THE DANGERS

OF DROUGHT

With the drop in water levels in Europe, lakes, streams and streams give way to sometimes unprecedented landscapes... or warnings. "If you see me, then cry ! Here is the inscription that can be read on a "hunger stone" which resurfaced this summer on the banks of the Elbe, in the town of Děčín (Czech Republic).

A singular echo to the current worsening of the climate crisis.

By ritual, the inhabitants of the edge of this river register the date, as well as their initials, each time the water gives way to these witnesses of history. According to Der Spiegel, that of Decin dates from 1616.

This message, moreover, is not the only one left on a "hunger stone" in the sector. Like an open book, you could read 10 dates ranging from 1417 to 1893.

"Before 1900, the following droughts are commemorated on the stone :

1417, 1616, 1707, 1746, 1790, 1800, 1811, 1830, 1842, 1868, 1892 and 1893”, specifies a study carried out by Czech researchers in 2013.

Like markers of the hydraulic level of the river, these stones retrace moments of suffering, bad harvests, when the risk of famine was intense along this river in eastern Europe, which also crosses Germany before flow into the North Sea near Hamburg.

Markers of the past anticipating the future ?

For Andrea Toreti, researcher at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission "Our analysis indeed indicates that extremely low flows affect almost all European rivers".

A symbol of extreme drought, these "hunger stones" have also been found on the banks of the Rhine, the Moselle and the German river Weser. "This drought could be the worst in 500 years," he continues.

A phenomenon destined to repeat itself in Europe.

This year, almost half of the territory of the European Union had been exposed to worrying levels of drought in July, and 11% to higher alert levels, according to a study by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission and based on the work of the European Drought Observatory (OED).

"We cried, we cry and you will cry", warns, premonitory, a "stone of hunger" found on its right bank of the Elbe, in Tuchlovice, a small town in the Czech Republic.



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MISSING STUDENTS IN MEXICO

ARREST OF THE EX-PROSECUTOR GENERAL AND SEARCH FOR 64 POLICEMEN AND MILITARY

Mexican justice on Friday August 19, 2022 ordered the arrest of the country's former attorney general as well as 64 police and military personnel for the disappearance in 2014 of 43 students from the Normal School of Ayotzinapa (south), the next day. the publication of a report by an official commission which called the case a "state crime".

On Friday evening, former attorney general Jesus Murillo Karam was arrested at his home in Mexico City for "enforced disappearance, torture and crimes against the administration of justice", and did not put up any resistance, said said the prosecution in a press release.

Twenty soldiers, 44 police officers and 14 drug traffickers arrested

The prosecution later announced that arrest warrants had been issued for 20 army officials and 44 police officers for their alleged involvement in the case, which caused deep shock in Mexico and abroad.

These 64 police officers and soldiers are wanted for “organized crime, enforced disappearance, torture, homicide and offenses against the administration of justice”, specified the prosecution. The identities and rank of those sought were not specified.

Jesus Murillo Karam, who had served under President Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018) and had led a controversial first investigation into these disappearances, is a former heavyweight of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who governed Mexico for 71 years without interruption until 2000.

This is the most important personality arrested so far as part of these investigations, which had restarted from scratch after the coming to power in 2019 of left-wing president Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador.

The prosecution has also issued arrest warrants against 14 members of the drug trafficking cartel Guerreros Unidos.

Killed and burned for reasons that remain obscure

On the night of September 26-27, 2014, a group of students from the Ayotzinapa teacher training school in the southern state of Guerrero traveled to the nearby town of Iguala to " requisition” buses in order to go to Mexico City for a demonstration.

According to the investigation, 43 young people were arrested by local police in collusion with Guerreros Unidos, then shot and burned in a landfill for reasons that remain unclear. Only the remains of three of them could be identified.

Thursday, an official report published by the “Ayotzinapa Truth Commission” set up by Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador had estimated that Mexican soldiers had a share of responsibility in this crime.

"There were clear responsibilities of members of the armed forces," said Interior Undersecretary Alejandro Encinas, during the public presentation of the report, without specifying, however, whether they were still active.

“Their actions, omissions or participation enabled the disappearance and execution of the students, as well as the murder of six other people,” he added.

Falsification of evidence by the military ?

Another commission, the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI), which was created under an agreement between the Peña Nieto government and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), maintains that soldiers falsified evidence found in the dump where the bodies were burned.

The first official investigation, led by Jesus Murillo Karam and whose conclusions were rejected by the families of the victims and by independent experts, did not attribute any responsibility to the military. This version accused a cartel of drug traffickers of having had the students killed by taking them for members of a rival gang.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador has said he will continue to press Israel for the extradition of the former head of the Attorney General's Office's Criminal Investigations Agency, Tomas Zeron. Accused of being involved in the Ayotzinapa affair but claiming his innocence, this former senior official fled to Israel where he requested asylum.




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FRANCE DROUGHT

NEW SUMMER CRISIS

This is the new crisis to which the government must tackle, for several weeks, even several months: the drought. Visiting the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence yesterday, Christophe Béchu, Minister for Ecological Transition, announced that "more than a hundred municipalities in France today no longer have drinking water". They must therefore be supplied. At the start of the week, the Haute-Corse prefecture had already sounded the alarm: "If we continue at this rate of water consumption, given the expected weather developments, there will be no more water in twenty-five days. »

Water restrictions

In France, in July, the precipitation deficit was 84% ​​compared to the 1991-2020 normal. And the next few days are also expected to be dry. Consequence: currently, sixty-six departments – two thirds of the country – have been placed in a crisis situation. At this level of alert, the watering of lawns, vehicles or the irrigation of crops is prohibited, as is the filling of bodies of water.

Closed waterways

While restrictions on the use of water are imposed on a large part of the territory, the level of rivers, canals and rivers has reached lowest levels in France, forcing in particular the Voies navigables de France (VNF) to close certain routes to navigation. The level of the rivers, particularly the Loire, is approaching its historical lows in places. It is possible to cross the Loire on foot at the beginning of August, at least in certain places. Striking photos and aerial images circulate on certain parts of the Loire such as under the suspension bridge of Ancenis or around the Island of Chalonnes in Maine-et-Loire, areas accustomed to lunar landscapes of a dry river in summers without rain.

However, the current levels were most often not observable before mid-August, reflecting the extent of the drought currently experienced in France. And the situation could even get worse with a fourth heat wave expected until Saturday August 13, raising fears of a very strong impact on animals living in and thanks to the river.

Agriculture is one of the most affected activities. A young market gardener from Lagrand came yesterday to the Ministers of Ecological Transition and Agriculture with a tray of "black ass" tomatoes, a disease linked to water problems. "The meadows are completely dry, the corn and the sunflower are thirsty, the vines are burning and the fruits are suffering from the high temperatures", had already alerted, at the end of July, Christiane Lambert, president of the FNSEA.

Drinking water, crops and livestock… The government will also have to actively address the fire issue. Since the beginning of the year, 47,000 ha have already burned, including 20,000 ha for the two fires that recently ravaged the Gironde. A record. From 2006 to 2021, the average area destroyed by fires in France was just under 10,000 ha (9,814) per year. However, as recalled by a senatorial report on Wednesday: Faced with such a situation, the means of struggle are lacking.

A crisis cell

Faced with this exceptional situation,  the Prime Minister activated the interministerial crisis unit yesterday : 

technical meetings began yesterday morning, but they did not lead to any immediate decisions.




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HEAT WEATHER AND DEVASTATING FIRES

IN EUROPE

Parts of western Europe continue to battle devastating wildfires on Saturday as a result of a heatwave that could shatter several temperature records early next week.

In France

In the south-west of France, the mobilization of firefighters does not weaken on Saturday to fix the fires, particularly in Gironde where nearly 10,000 hectares of forest have gone up in smoke since Tuesday, in a context of generalized heat wave where temperatures could reach 40°C locally, according to Météo-France.

In the tourist basin of Arcachon, on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, the efforts made have made it possible to slow the progression of the fire. "We are still, and it is a satisfaction, at 3150 hectares burned, but the fire is still not under control", declared to the press a representative of the State, welcoming "the enormous intensity and mobilization" firefighters.

Further inland, the fire continues to progress in two small towns, with now "more than 7000 hectares" burned, according to the authorities.

These fires, which mobilize more than a thousand firefighters, have since Tuesday resulted in the evacuation of more than 12,000 people.

Calm in the Iberian Peninsula

Portugal is experiencing a relative calm, with only one major fire still active on Saturday in the north of the country.

"We plan to contain this fire during the day," said Civil Protection Commander André Fernandes.

The day before, a water bomber plane which was fighting a forest fire in the region of Guarda (north) crashed, causing the death of the pilot, its sole occupant.

According to a report from the Portuguese civil protection, the fires of the last week have left two dead and around sixty injured. According to his estimates, these fires have ravaged, since the start of the heat wave, between 12,000 and 15,000 hectares of forest and brush.

Only the southern Algarve region is not on heat alert. In the rest of the country, the Meteorological Institute predicts temperatures that can reach 42 ° C in places on Saturday.

In Spain, dozens of fires are still raging from north to south of the country. In the region of Extremadura, bordering Portugal, a section of the A5 motorway, linking Madrid to the Portuguese border, could be reopened to traffic after being closed for more than twelve hours due to an inferno.

In the far south, in Andalusia, a fire near Malaga forced the preventive evacuation of more than 3,000 people, according to the Andalusian emergency services.

In Greece, firefighters continue to fight an outbreak that broke out on Friday morning, causing the preventive evacuation of seven villages in a rural area of ​​the prefecture of Rethymno, on the island of Crete.

The Spanish Meteorological Agency kept virtually the whole country under different high temperature alert levels on Saturday, with values ​​above 40 ºC in many areas and up to 44 ºC in places.

UK red alert

In the UK, a crisis committee made up of British government ministers met on Saturday after the national weather agency issued the first-ever 'red' alert for extreme heat, warning of a " risk to life”.

The Met Office said temperatures in southern England could top 40C for the first time on Monday or Tuesday, potentially breaking the record high of 38.7C from 2019.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has advised Londoners to only use public transport on these days when it is "absolutely necessary". Rail companies have also urged passengers to avoid travel. Some schools in the south of England have told parents they will remain closed from the start of next week.

This heat wave is the second in barely a month in Europe. The multiplication of these phenomena is a direct consequence of global warming according to scientists.




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COVID THE BA.5 SUB-VARIANT ON A SHARP RISE

IN FRANCE

The BA.5 sub-variant now causes a sharp increase in new infections. Descendant of the Omicron family, he is now the majority among the new contaminations recorded in France. More contagious, and benefiting from the effect of erosion of the immune protection conferred by the vaccine and previous infections, it caused the week of June 20 to 26 a 53% increase in the incidence rate, and is beginning to make increase hospitalizations.

Public Health France announced 125,066 positive cases of Covid-19 in France, in twenty-four hours, at the last count last night. The seven-day average of cases is now approaching the symbolic bar of 100,000 cases, with precisely an average of 99,316 cases per day recorded on July 1.

The incidence rate (number of positive cases reported per 100,000 inhabitants) is soaring everywhere in metropolitan France. Nationally, it stands at 824 cases per 100,000 population. It is in the Île-de-France region that we observe the most dynamic circulation of the virus, with more than 1,000 positive cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

The west and south coast of France also show very high levels, with incidence rates between 700 and 1,000. The four Breton departments are also in red. They show values ​​among the highest in France: Finistère (905 cases per 100,000 inhabitants), Ille-et-Vilaine (889), Morbihan (833) and Côtes-d'Armor (783).

Towards an epidemic peak at the end of July

Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, president of the Scientific Council, estimated on Thursday that “the peak (of the seventh wave) should rather occur at the end of July”. The situation should then stabilize until the fall, "where BA.5 will reappear if not dominated by a new variant"

Benjamin Davido, infectious disease specialist at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches, stresses that "we find ourselves with an unprecedented disease which no longer depends on the season" and that despite vaccination and collective immunity, natural immunity is not enough to protect people in the long term. The vaccine avoids at least the severe forms. And to add "We will have to find new solutions that do not only go through vaccination, to protect citizens and the hospital in the long term".

For the time being, the government is sticking to recommendations, in particular for wearing a mask and vaccination, with a second booster dose for people who are eligible for it.




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RISK OF A SEVENTH WAVE OF COVID-19

IN FRANCE

Will there be a 7th epidemic wave of Covid-19 this summer ?

The new highly transmissible Omicron BA.5 variant raises uncertainty for months to come. It could become dominant across the EU. This variant is notably at the origin of a major epidemic wave in Portugal. The question is now on everyone's mind with all the concerns it brings, due to the increase in SARS-CoV-2 contaminations observed by Public Health France.

Sunday evening, June 12, the figures transmitted by Santé Publique France indicated almost 80,000 new cases of Covid in 24 hours, a figure that is rising sharply.

Thus on June 11, the incidence rate in France was 368.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, an increase On June 14 there were 65,425 new confirmed cases, i.e. +462.7% in seven days! Suffice to say that the increase is significant even if it is not yet reflected in terms of hospitalizations: as of June 10, there were 2,589 hospitalizations over the last 7 days (+3%) and 301 critical care admissions over the same period. (-3.5%). This subvariant is not much more violent than the others, but 93% of the observed mortality occurred in people over the age of 80.

“The pandemic is not over” warns the director general of the WHO

If the BA.2 sub-lineage of the Omicron variant is the majority in France (80% of the sequences as of May 23), the detection of BA.4 (1.1%) and BA.5 (18%), which have already had a hard time hit South Africa and Portugal, are on the rise according to the latest Flash survey by Santé Publique France. Will they therefore develop in France and elsewhere in Europe?

This is the whole question that worries the authorities. "The growth advantage between BA.4, BA.5 and BA.2 is comparable to that which we observed between BA.2 and BA.1 in March", specified to Liberation the researcher Mircea Sofonea, epidemiologist at Montpelier. In fact, each new generation of the virus is transmitted faster than the previous one.

“The pandemic is not over, and we will continue to say so until it is,” World Health Organization Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last week. While he stressed that "globally, the number of reported cases and deaths from Covid-19 continues to decline", he also pointed to the weakness of vaccination. “Nearly 18 months after the administration of the first vaccine, 68 countries have still not reached 40% coverage,” he lamented, even though “the supply of vaccines is now sufficient. »

This epidemic rebound, if confirmed and amplified as happened in Portugal, would put France under pressure, in particular its hospital system. Because if the resuscitation services should be able to withstand the shock, those of the emergencies, on the other hand, are in a more complicated situation. Faced with staff shortages, these services recently went on strike to protest against the lack of resources and several of them are already planning to close overnight this summer, even though they are on the front line to manage the arrival of infected people. A congestion in the emergency room and the whole hospital is seized up…

The “exit from the state of health emergency” regime must end on July 31

For the government, the occurrence of a new epidemic wave in the heart of a summer that the French and tourism and event professionals finally hoped was "normal", would fall at the very moment when the "exit from the state of health emergency "must end on July 31. "There is no question today of extending the health emergency regime," said government spokeswoman Olivia Grégoire on Tuesday. A new text should be presented to the Council of Ministers on June 22, to “be able to remain vigilant at the place of the possible rise of Covid-19”.

In addition to the repeated call from the health authorities to reconnect with respect for barrier gestures, and the question of the generalization of a 4th dose of vaccine, a return to restrictions (wearing a mask, gauges, health pass, etc.) is therefore possible…

It is not a question of fearing a phenomenon that is out of control. In South Africa as in Portugal, everything ends up returning to normal without deploying strong measures but at the cost of high mortality, some of which seems avoidable.

South Africa, which was the first country to experience a wave due to the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, is emerging today, after eight weeks of epidemic, their shortest wave since the beginning of the pandemic.



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EARLY HEAT WAVE OVER FRANCE

A new heat wave should affect France from today until this weekend.

An episode described as "extremely early" for the month of June by Météo-France.

Strong heat has already been observed in the south of France and in Spain for several days. They should win the whole of France from Wednesday to Saturday. “The three days of Thursday, Friday and Saturday will probably be the hottest in France.

Nighttime temperatures will become more and more stifling with minimums often reaching or exceeding the threshold of 20°C”, warns Météo France. Temperatures of 35°C to 38°C, particularly high for mid-June, are expected with peaks of 40°C locally.

The “blowtorch of the Sahara”.

This exceptional episode is due in particular to a particular meteorological configuration. The heat wave which is taking place this week paradoxically finds its origin in… the cold. A phenomenon called cold drop is located west of the Iberian Peninsula.

It is a small mass of cold air, a small depression, isolated in the middle of a mass of much warmer air. By rotating on itself, this mass of fresh air acts like a heat pump which brings up hot air from the Sahara. This upwelling is relatively narrow in width and lasts only a few days. Its brevity and its intensity give it the name of “feather of heat” or “blow of blowtorch of the Sahara”.

Between 33 and 40°C this weekend

The heat coming up from Spain will likely be historic over western regions, unsurprisingly in the southwest, but more surprisingly in the northwest as well. Here are the ten major cities that could break records between Thursday and Saturday, with the two hottest days being Friday and Saturday:

Nantes: 37/38 ° C expected Friday and Saturday. Previous June record: 37.1°C on June 30, 2015;

La Roche-sur-Yon: 38 ° C expected Friday. Previous June record: 36.9°C on June 30, 2015;

Rennes: 35/36 ° C expected on Friday. Previous June record: 36.3°C on June 30, 1976;

Bordeaux: 39/40°C forecast for Friday and Saturday. Previous June record: 39.2°C on June 26, 2011;

Biarritz: 39/40°C forecast for Friday. Previous June record: 39.2°C on June 26, 2003;

Toulouse: 39/40 ° C expected Friday. Previous June record: 39.8°C on June 29, 1950;

Lyon: 38/39 ° C expected on Saturday. Previous June record: 38.4°C on June 22, 2003;

Dijon: 37°C expected on Saturday and Sunday. Previous June record: 36.4°C on June 22, 2017;

Paris: 35/36 ° C expected on Saturday. Previous June record: 37.6°C on June 26, 1947;

Lille: 33/34 ° C expected on Saturday. Previous June record: 34.8°C on June 28, 1947.

The forecast values ​​may obviously change slightly between now and then depending on the evolution of the heat wave and the weekend storms. Note that the highest temperature ever recorded in June, 46 ° C in Vérargues in the Hérault on June 28, 2019, should not be reached.

This will be the earliest heat wave ever recorded. The advancement of this type of phenomenon in the calendar as well as its intensity are increased by climate change, according to a majority of climatological and meteorological experts.

"It is almost certain that the increase in the intensity and frequency of heat extremes as well as the decrease in the intensity and frequency of cold extremes will continue throughout the 21st century and this, in the whole world", recalled on Twitter Christophe Cassou, climatologist at the CNRS.



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COVID 19 VERS UNE SEPTIEME VAGUE EPIDEMIQUE AVEC LES SOUS-VARIANTS BA.4 ET BA.5 EN FRANCE ?

Le Covid-19 n’a pas fini de se réinventer pour continuer de circuler. Les sous-variants du coronavirus, BA.4 et BA.5 causent une énième flambée de l’épidémie en Afrique du Sud et une sixième vague au Portugal. Le nombre de contaminations au Covid-19 connaît un léger rebond depuis une semaine en France.Les sous-variants BA.4 et BA.5 entraîneront-ils une nouvelle vague épidémique en France ?

Une progression de BA.4 et BA.5 en France

Après une nette décrue du nombre de cas positifs au mois d’avril et de mai, le début du mois de juin voit cet indicateur significatif repartir à la hausse. Les dernières données de Santé publique France, mises en forme par Covid Tracker, dénombrent 22 952 personnes testées positives au coronavirus le 7 juin, soit une augmentation de 29,3 % en moyenne sur sept jours. « Il semble que l’on reparte sur une nouvelle vague » de coronavirus, avait affirmé vendredi 3 juin sur Franceinfo le professeur Antoine Flahault, épidémiologiste, directeur de l’Institut de santé globale à la faculté de médecine de l’université de Genève. L’arrivée des sous-variants d’Omicron, BA.4 et BA.5, pourrait expliquer cette augmentation des cas.

Certes la majorité des cas en France provient à 94% du sous-variant BA.2 d’Omicron, les deux sous-variants gagnent cependant du terrain. Leur détection est bien en augmentation : 0,8 % pour BA.4 et 5 % pour BA.5 dans la dernière enquête Flash de Santé publique France (semaine 20), contre 0,5 % et 1,5 % pour Flash semaine 19. « La circulation des sous-variants BA.4 et BA.5 est en progression exponentielle », juge l’épidémiologiste Antoine Flahault, directeur de l’Institut de santé globale (université de Genève). C’est bel et bien cette multiplication de ces souches qui pourrait causer la septième vague.

La progression des sous-variants est donc très surveillée. Déjà, le 13 mai, le Centre européen de prévention et de contrôle des maladies (ECDC) lançait l’alerte, les classant comme « variants préoccupants » et les jugeant susceptibles de s’imposer en Europe et « d’entraîner une augmentation globale significative des cas ».

Ces deux variants qui sont en train de progresser en France ont bien été la cause d’un rebond de l’épidémie au Portugal en mai. Selon les données d’Our World in Data, une plateforme reconnue pour le recensement des données internationales pour la pandémie du Covid-19, le Portugal a en effet connu un pic de près de 3 000 cas pour un million d’habitants au 2 juin, pour cette vague de contaminations portée par les deux sous-variants BA.4 et BA.5.Un niveau dix fois plus élevé que celui d’environ 300 cas positifs pour un million d’habitants en France le même jour. Mais bien inférieur à son pic pour la première vague d’Omicron BA.1 en janvier, qui a provoqué plus de 6 000 cas pour un million d’habitants fin janvier au Portugal.

Le scénario pour les semaines à venir en France

Selon l’épidémiologiste Antoine Flahault, « on devrait voir une augmentation de circulation du virus en France » dans les jours à venir, liée à ces deux sous-variants. Mais pour lui, « les Français triplement vaccinés devraient bien passer cette vague comme ils ont bien passé la vague BA.1 et BA.2. » « Le port du masque doit être cependant largement recommandé aux personnes vulnérables et encouragé pour les personnes en contact avec elles. »

Face à ce scénario « fortement probable » d’une reprise prochaine de la circulation du coronavirus en France, les autorités sanitaires recommandent cependant un nouveau rappel de vaccin à l’automne, efficace face à ces sous-variants.

L’objectif ? « Anticiper » pour « limiter l’impact d’une future vague, en particulier sur les plus fragiles », réduire la mortalité « associée au Covid-19 et la diffusion de l’épidémie et maintenir les capacités du système de soin et les besoins vitaux de fonctionnement du pays », a expliqué fin mai la Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS),




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THIS TRADITION THAT IS MOTHER'S DAY

This Sunday at the end of May families celebrate their mothers. A long tradition that dates back to ancient Greece: the Greeks already used to take advantage of spring to celebrate Rhea, the mother of the gods of Olympus. The Romans then appropriated the celebration in honor of Mater Matuta, goddess of dawn and childbirth at the summer solstice and extended it to all mothers.

From the sixteenth century, in England, large families celebrated "Mothering Sunday", to which they invited their servants.

Across the Atlantic, Anna Jarvis, an American activist, decided in 1907 to launch a campaign to dedicate a day to those raising children. Her idea was born out of a desire to celebrate her own mother, whom she had lost three years earlier. In 1914, the text was finally approved by the government. Since then, the United States has celebrated "Mother's Day" every second Sunday in May.

It was only in the 19th century in France that Napoleon gave birth to the idea of ​​a party that would celebrate all mothers in the spring. Originally, this day was intended to demonstrate the importance of family values ​​and therefore to stimulate the birth rate. In 1906, the Fraternal Union of Deserving Fathers of Artas, in Isère, established a "Mother's Day" to reward the most deserving mothers. This will be democratized during the First World War with Colonel La Croix-Laval who created a "Mother's Day" in Lyon to pay tribute to all the women who lost their son or their husband during the war.

In 1920, a first nationwide "Mother's Day for large families" appeared. The government formalized "Mother's Day" in 1929 to support the pronatalist policy following the Great War. The first official ceremony in favor of women will not take place until April 20, 1926.

It was Marshal Pétain who definitively instituted "National Mother's Day" on May 25, 1941. But it was not until May 24, 1950 that the President of the Republic, Vincent Auriol signed a law that finally legitimized Mother's Day. mothers.

Mother's Day is now fixed for the last Sunday of May or the first weekend of June if it coincides with the date of Pentecost.


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AN ORCA IN DANGER IN THE SEINE WILL BE GUIDED TO THE CHANNEL

An orca has been lost in the Seine for ten days. Spotted for the first time on May 16 near the Normandy bridge, it now finds itself in great difficulty between Le Havre and Rouen. Probably ill or injured, his vital prognosis is engaged.

“She is very weak and thin. His body is covered with fungus. But for the past few days, his condition has remained stable, "says Sophie Poncet, marine mammal specialist for the French Office for Biodiversity (OFB). This "male orca, a protected and wild species", is "very weakened", confirmed the prefecture of Seine-Maritime in a press release.

The orca, a young male of about four meters, would come from a population which is "on the side of Ireland", explained Sébastien Jacquot, project manager at the Cotentin Cetacean Study Group (GECC) . Usually, this species lives in groups, but several hypotheses have been put forward to explain this isolation. She would have escaped from the group “out of curiosity”, or to “hunt, seals probably”, assures Sébastien Jacquot. Delphine Eloi, of the GECC explains that an illness could have been the cause of this distance.

“It would thus have come to calmer waters to feed more easily. “Her state of health makes it more comfortable for her to be in a river because it's less rough. She spends less energy, but it's more complicated to feed herself: there is less prey than at sea. And she's all alone whereas these are animals that hunt in packs. “, she continues. This animal “naturally has no vocation to evolve separated from its group, nor in fresh water courses. Deprived of the minerals provided by seawater, the orca's immune system weakens in fresh water.

According to several specialists, the competent authorities must intervene to save his life.

This Friday, May 27, 2022, the prefecture of Seine-Maritime announced that a device would be put in place to attract the killer whale to the sea. been taken to favor a gentle intervention method, aimed at ensuring remote monitoring of the animal by using a drone, coordinated with an intervention aimed at ensuring the dissemination of sound stimuli (sounds emitted by a population of killer whales ) to attract and guide the animal to the sea,” she wrote in a statement.

This first attempt less invasive than a drive with boat maneuvers increases its chances of survival, by reducing the stress induced. Endowed with a particular intelligence, the orca in difficulty could also understand the subterfuge and not be attracted towards sound signals.

The experiment is a first in France, but has already been successful with a group of killer whales in Norway.


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POLLEN ALLERGY ALERT

All you have to do is read the map of the risk of allergy to pollens updated on May 25, 2022 by the National Aerobiological Surveillance Network (RNSA): only two departments of metropolitan France, Landes and Pyrénées-Atlantiques present currently a "medium" risk of allergy to pollens.

Elsewhere, “the risk of allergy is high throughout the country and will remain so for several more weeks with very favorable weather conditions for the emission and dispersion of high concentrations of grass pollen in the air. »

This is why the RNSA recommends four applications to download to your smartphone: “Pollen alerts”, “My life as an allergik”, “Pollen” and “MASK-AIR” which can help people suffering from pollen.


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TEXAS SCHOOL SHOOTING

CAUSED 21 DEAD

An 18-year-old American opened fire in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday May 24, 2022, killing 21 people, including 19 children under the age of 10 and 2 teachers. The teenager, who had two assault rifles (it is not known if these are the weapons he used to perpetrate this massacre), was shot dead by the police after barricading himself in the establishment, reported several American media, including CNN and the New York Times.

The shooter was quickly identified as Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old American boy who had recently shared photos of guns and ammunition on his social media.

A former classmate, with whom he still played video games online from time to time, also told CNN that he had exchanged messages with him four days before the shooting. “He sent me a picture of the weapon he was using…and a backpack full of ammunition,” he explained to the American channel.

“I asked him: Bro, why do you have that ?

And he answered me:

Do not worry.

Then: I am very different now. You wouldn't recognize me. "

Chronology of events

The first elements indicate that the assailant shot his grandmother before going to the primary school. The latter is still hospitalized in a state of emergency. During a speech, the governor of Texas explained that he did not know the link between the facts.

Equipped with a bulletproof vest and a rifle, he would then have taken his car and had a “spectacular accident”. Then, chased by the police, he entered the school where he opened fire.

Bullied when he was younger

According to several American sources, Salvador Ramos was the victim of harassment during his schooling. What his former classmate, who wished to remain anonymous, confirmed with CNN. He explained that the shooter's family had serious financial difficulties and that the other students made fun of him daily because of his clothes. Reason why he would have "slowly abandoned school", according to this witness.

The arms lobby

“When, for God's sake, are we going to face the gun lobby? “Reacted Joe Biden, while the United States is unfortunately regularly in this kind of school shooting. A few days ago, a man opened fire in a Buffalo convenience store with racist motives, killing a dozen people.

While Joe Biden and Barack Obama have called for “standing up against the gun lobby”, some Republican Party politicians believe that the solution, on the contrary, lies in massive arming in schools. Texas Senator Ted Cruz has proposed putting more armed police in schools, saying it would be more effective than restricting gun control laws. "We know from experience that the most effective tool to keep children safe is armed law enforcement on campus," he told reporters, as reported by Newsweek.

Arm the teachers

Texas State Attorney General Ken Paxton, meanwhile, suggested that giving the teachers guns could have prevented the tragedy. Paxton said one way to prevent mass shootings would be to make it "more difficult for people to even get to that entry point," by having "teachers and other administrators who have gone through training and who are armed," added, "First responders usually can't get there in time to prevent a shooting, it's just not possible unless they have a police officer on camera on every campus, which for many of these schools is almost impossible. I think you're going to have to do more in school, because that meansusually very short periods of time, and you need to have trained people on campus to respond. »

A way out

“If only 30% of Americans own guns, there is quite a lot of support for the Second Amendment,” according to Marie-Christine Bonzom, a journalist specializing in the United States. “But there is also a lot of support around the restriction of firearms,” she also notes.

“Fundamental reform in the United States, what would it be ?

It would be a reform that would be inspired by what has been done in Australia, that is to say the creation of a national firearms register, ”she says.

The Australians indeed tightened the legislation around the weapons in 1996.

According to a study published in 2017 by two researchers, this new framework has led to a 61% drop in the number of firearm deaths in the country compared to the standards prevailing before its implementation.



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THE PANDEMIC HAS DEAD NEARLY 15 MILLION, ACCORDING TO WHO

The COVID-19 pandemic was responsible for the death of 13 to 17 million people at the end of 2021, far more than the official death toll recorded worldwide, according to a new WHO estimate, which is already raising polemic.

These highly anticipated figures give a more realistic idea of ​​the devastating effects of the worst pandemic in a century which, according to this data, has already killed 1 in 500 humans and continues to claim thousands of lives every week.

“The total death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021 is approximately 14.9 million deaths (a range of 13.3 to 16.6 million)”, revealed the organization on Thursday.

Since the start of the pandemic, official figures from member countries compiled by the WHO come to a total of 5.4 million deaths over the same period, but the WHO has long warned that this statistic underestimates the reality.

The WHO said most of the excess deaths (84%) were concentrated in Southeast Asia, which in the WHO regional breakdown includes India, Europe (which includes Russia and other countries of the former USSR) and in the Americas.

Some 10 countries alone accounted for 68% of the total excess mortality, these are in descending order Brazil, Egypt, India - which strongly disputes the WHO figures much higher than its official figures -, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Turkey and the United States.

“These sobering data underscore not only the impact of the pandemic, but also the need for all countries to invest in more resilient health systems capable of sustaining essential health services during crises, including including stronger health information systems,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

In fact, the figures published Thursday by the WHO suffer from holes in the statistics, the collection of data being sometimes fragmented, or even completely non-existent, for certain countries. The ranges given sometimes go from simple to double.

The Organization thus estimates that 6 out of 10 deaths are not recorded worldwide.

Excess mortality is calculated by taking the difference between the actual number of deaths and the number of deaths estimated in the absence of a pandemic, based on existing statistics.

Excess mortality includes both deaths directly caused by the disease and those indirectly caused.

The indirect causes can be due in particular to overloaded health structures and forced, for example, to delay surgical procedures or chemotherapy sessions for cancer patients.

Sometimes, confinements have also avoided deaths, such as traffic accidents.

"Measuring excess mortality is an essential component for understanding the impact of the pandemic", explained Samira Asma, in charge of the file at the WHO.

More reliable information allows decision-makers to better prepare the ground to limit the impact of future crises.

"These new estimates are based on the best available data produced using a robust methodology and a completely transparent approach," she said.

It is this methodology that is contested by India, for which COVID-19 has killed 525,000 people in total. The figures published by the WHO on Thursday are 9 times higher at around 4.7 million. In mid-April the Indian government had criticized "an undifferentiated approach and models that may work for smaller countries like Tunisia, but are not applicable to India and its population of 1.3 billion".

The subject is extremely sensitive because of the political repercussions, these figures being indicators of the quality of the management of the crisis by the authorities.




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TOWARDS THE END OF THE RIGHT TO ABORTION

IN THE USA ?

The right to abortion is once again threatened in the United States. According to the Politico newspaper, the Supreme Court is considering overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade of 1973 which recognizes abortion as a right protected by the American constitution.

The American daily says it has obtained the preliminary draft of a majority decision written by conservative judge Samuel Alito and dated February 10, which must still be the subject of negotiations until its publication before June 30.

A right “totally unfounded from the start”

Roe v. Wade, who almost half a century ago believed that the US Constitution protected women's right to abortion, was "totally unfounded from the start", it is written in this proposed text.

"We believe that Roe v. Wade must be canceled”, adds Samuel Alito, for whom the right to abortion “is not protected by any provision of the Constitution”.

If this conclusion is accepted by the High Court, the United States will return to the situation in force before 1973 when each state was free to prohibit or authorize abortions. Given the significant geographical and political divisions on the subject, half of the states, especially in the conservative south and center, should quickly banish the procedure on their soil.

“Let's be clear: this is a preliminary draft. It is outrageous, unprecedented but not final: Abortion remains your right and is still legal,” tweeted Planned Parenthood, which runs many abortion clinics.

Protests outside the Supreme Court

Without waiting for the official decision, the political class reacted strongly to Politico's article. Several elected Democrats felt that he confirmed “the urgency” of enshrining the right to abortion in law. "We must protect the right to choose and enshrine Roe V. Wade in law," tweeted Senator Amy Klobuchar.

A proposal to that effect passed the House of Representatives but is bogged down in the Senate due to fierce Republican opposition.

Handfuls of abortion rights advocates gathered spontaneously in the evening in front of the white marble temple that houses the Supreme Court in Washington.

Six out of nine conservative judges

The Supreme Court has been profoundly overhauled by Donald Trump who, in five years, brought in three magistrates, solidifying his conservative majority (six judges out of nine). Since September, this new Court has sent several favorable signals to opponents of abortion.

She initially refused to prevent the entry into force of a Texas law which limits the right to an abortion to the first six weeks of pregnancy against two trimesters under the current legal framework. During the December review of a Mississippi law, which also questioned the legal deadline for an abortion, a majority of its magistrates made it clear that they were ready to nibble or even simply overturn Roe v. Wade.

The document presented by Politico relates to this file. Its publication constitutes an extremely rare leak for the Supreme Court, where the secrecy of the deliberations has almost never been violated.



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LISTERIA, SALMONELLE, E.COLI ... OU

 LA MULTIPLICATION DES CONTAMINATIONS

 AUX BACTERIES

Des pizzas surgelées de la marque Buitoni sont suspectées par les autorités sanitaires d’être à l’origine de contaminations gravissimes d’enfants à la bactérie Escherichia coli.

Une campagne nationale de rappel concernant six fromages issus d’une fromagerie du groupe Lactalis a été lancée mardi et, lundi, plusieurs tonnes de chocolats Kinder, fabriqués en Belgique, ont été rappelés en France pour des suspicions de salmonelle.

Les rappels sanitaires s’enchaînent ces dernières semaines et commencent à ressembler à une série noire. Mercredi dernier, les autorités sanitaires ont confirmé que la hausse subite des contaminations à la bactérie E.coli était liée à un lot contaminé de pizza Buitoni de la marque Nestlé. Gabrielle Jones, épidémiologiste à Santé publique France, a estimé sur FranceInfo que cette épidémie d’E.coli a « la plus grande ampleur jamais décrite en France ».

Meilleur système de surveillance...

Maria Pardos de la Gandara, responsable adjointe du Centre National de Référence (CNR) Escherichia coli, Shigella et Salmonella à l’Institut Pasteur l’assure, « on ne peut pas parler de recrudescence des contaminations » aux Salmonelles. En revanche, « nous avons amélioré notre capacité de détection des cas groupés. Nous sommes passés de 10 cas groupés détectés par notre CNR en 2017 à plus de 90 en 2020 », illustre la chercheuse.

« De manière générale, les infections à ces pathogènes sont dues à des contaminations des matières premières (viande, lait cru et produits dérivés, œufs…) qui n’ont pas été détectées lors des autocontrôles aux différentes étapes de la chaîne alimentaire », explique-t-elle. Pour ce qui est de la bactérie E. coli, l’institut Pasteur a toutefois noté une légère augmentation annuelle depuis 1996, le début de sa surveillance.

Ou un « système défaillant »?

Pourtant, la directrice de l’information de l'ONG Foodwatch n’est pas de cet avis. Il ne s’agit « ni d’une série noire, ni d’une coïncidence, ni du fait qu’on communique mieux » mais plutôt « la conséquence d’un système défaillant », estime Ingris Kragl.

Les entreprises « ont des processus stricts et doivent faire énormément de prélèvements et d’autocontrôle », confirme-t-elle mais elle juge le contrôle de ces autocontrôles insuffisant. Dans le cas de Buitoni, alors que les autorités sanitaires soupçonnaient les pizzas Fraich’Up, Nestlé a affirmé « avoir fait 75 tests négatifs [à la bactérie E. coli] dans l’usine ». Le lien a depuis été confirmé et des images dénonçant les conditions d'hygiène de l'usine de Coudry ont été publiées. La production de ces pizzas a même été interdite dans cette usine du Nord par le préfet après des inspections d’hygiènes menées les 22 et 29 mars derniers. A propos de cette bactérie, plus rare mais plus meurtrière, le parquet de Paris a annoncé avoir ouvert une enquête notamment pour blessures et homicides involontaires. Deux enfants sont décédés et des dizaines d’autres ont été hospitalisés suite à une infection à la bactérie E. coli. Toutefois, pour le moment, il est impossible d'attribuer la responsabilité aux pizzas Buitoni, et encore moins de spéculer sur un dysfonctionnement global.

D’autant que les trois rappels dont il est question concernent chacun des entreprises différentes voire des lieux de production différents. Pour les pizzas Buitoni, il s’agit de la marque Nestlé et de l’usine de Caudry dans le Nord. Les fromages contaminés viennent de la Fromagerie de Livarot (Normandie), qui appartient à Lactalys. Quant aux chocolats, l’usine de production de Kinder (Ferrero) est située en Belgique.

« Aucun enseignement n’a été tiré »

Ingrid Kragl réclame un système plus préventif et pointe du doigt les suppressions de postes au sein de la direction générale de la concurrence, de la consommation et de la répression des fraudes (DGCCRF). L’Association pour la santé des enfants s’insurge, elle aussi, de « l’insuffisance de la sécurité sanitaire dans l’industrie agroalimentaire en Europe » dans un communiqué mercredi.

Les « rappels de produits dangereux arrivent à chaque fois après des hospitalisations, voire même après plusieurs décès », regrette le président de l’association Quentin Guillemain. Il estime qu'« aucun enseignement n’a été tiré » du scandale du lait infantile Lactalys contaminé.




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LA FAMILLE DE SAMUEL PATY PORTE PLAINTE CONTRE DEUX MINISTERES

Les ministères de l'Intérieur et de l'Éducation nationale ont fait ce mercredi l'objet d'une plainte de la famille de Samuel Paty, cet enseignant assassiné par un jihadiste en novembre 2020.

Elle estime l'État responsable de plusieurs dysfonctionnements, notamment de ne pas avoir pris suffisamment de mesures de protection. Les proches du professeur tué et décapité le 16 octobre 2020 portent plainte pour « non-assistance à personnel en péril » et « non-empêchement de crime ».

Un an et demi après l'attentat à motivation islamiste qui avait coûté la vie à Samuel Paty, sa famille a déposé une plainte à l'encontre des ministères de l'Intérieur et de l'Education nationale, a indiqué franceinfo mercredi 6 avril, citant l'avocate de la famille Virginie Leroy, et confirmant une information révélée par Libération.Les proches de l'enseignant, assassiné près de son collège de Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), reprochent notamment aux services de renseignement d'avoir sous-estimé le risque d'attentat, et au rectorat de Versailles de ne pas avoir pris les mesures de protection suffisantes à l'égard de Samuel Paty, qui avait fait l'objet de menaces après avoir montré des caricatures de Mahomet.

« Cet attentat aurait pu être évité »

« J’ai toujours été intimement convaincue que cet attentat aurait pu être évité. Aujourd’hui des éléments concrets confortent cette conviction : des fautes ont été commises tant du côté de l’Education nationale que du côté du ministère de l’Intérieur, sans lesquelles il aurait pu être sauvé », assure Virginie Le Roy, l'avocate de la famille à Libération.

« Il est indispensable que toute la lumière soit faite et que la famille de Samuel Paty obtienne la vérité. Cela passe nécessairement par un examen attentif et indépendant des moyens préventifs mis en œuvre par les agents de l’Etat. Je demande également qu’une enquête parlementaire soit diligentée », ajoute-t-elle.

Pour la famille, « dès le 8 octobre et jusqu'au 16, Samuel Paty, la principale et les enseignants ont identifié une menace grave pour leur intégrité physique et la sécurité du collège », résultant notamment de la médiatisation de l'affaire via les réseaux sociaux par Brahim Chnina, père d'une collégienne qui prétendait avoir assisté au cours, et par le sulfureux militant islamiste Abdelhakim Sefrioui.

Fin mars, l'un des fils du militant islamiste Abdelhakim Sefrioui a été placé en garde à vue, dans l'enquête sur l'assassinat du professeur Samuel Paty.

Le 16 octobre 2020, le professeur d'histoire-géographie Samuel Paty, 47 ans, a été poignardé puis décapité près de son collège à Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (Yvelines), par Abdoullakh Anzorov, réfugié russe d'origine tchétchène, tué peu de temps après par la police.

L'homme de 18 ans, radicalisé, lui reprochait d'avoir montré en classe des caricatures de Mahomet. Dans un message audio en russe, il a revendiqué son geste en se félicitant d'avoir « vengé le prophète » insulté à ses yeux par Samuel Paty.

Il avait pris connaissance de la polémique autour des caricatures via une vidéo sur internet réalisée par Brahim Chnina, père d'une collégienne visée par une exclusion pour indiscipline. L'adolescente avait menti à son père: elle avait assuré avoir été sanctionnée pour s'être élevée contre la demande de M. Paty faite aux élèves musulmans, selon elle, de se signaler lors de ce cours sur les caricatures, auquel elle n'avait pas assisté.

Au moins quinze personnes sont mises en examen dans ce dossier, dont six collégiens, le père de l'adolescente et Abdelhakim. Sefrioui.




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COVID-19 PIC ET EMERGENCE D'UN NOUVEAU

SOUS-VARIANT D'OMICRON EN CHINE

Un total de 13 146 cas de Covid-19 A été recensé ce dimanche en Chine. Soit le chiffre le plus élevé depuis le pic de la première vague mi-février 2020.

Les autorités sanitaires ont également annoncé la découverte d’un possible nouveau sous-variant d’Omicron dans la région de Shanghai.

Shanghai quasi entièrement confinée

La stratégie « zéro Covid », que la Chine est un des derniers pays à pratiquer, a permis au pays de n’enregistrer qu’un très faible nombre de cas jusqu’en mars dernier.

Mais cette politique draconienne, qui vise à empêcher l’apparition de nouveaux cas au moyen de confinements et de tests massifs, d’isolement systématique des malades et de quasi-fermeture des frontières, se retrouve sous pression alors qu’Omicron se répand dans le pays.

La quasi-totalité des 25 millions d’habitants de Shanghai, capitale économique de la Chine, sont confinés depuis samedi. La ville est devenue ces derniers jours l’épicentre d’une nouvelle vague de contaminations liée à Omicron.

Nouveau variant d’Omicron

Les autorités de Suzhou, à l’ouest de Shanghai, ont découvert une mutation du variant Omicron qui n’est répertoriée dans aucune base de données locale ou internationale, a rapporté dimanche la presse d’Etat.

« Cela signifie qu’un nouveau variant d’Omicron a été découvert localement », a indiqué l’agence Chine nouvelle, citant le directeur adjoint du Centre de contrôle et de prévention des maladies de Suzhou, Zhang Jun.

Plusieurs dizaines de millions de Chinois sont par ailleurs confinés dans le nord-est du pays, berceau de l’industrie automobile. Dimanche, une nouvelle grande ville de la région, Baicheng (1,5 million d’habitants) a été à son tour placée sous cloche.

Record de cas depuis février 2020

Un total de 13 146 cas de Covid-19 ont été recensés dimanche en Chine, le chiffre le plus élevé depuis le pic de la première vague mi-février 2020.

Il s’agit de « 1 455 patients avec des symptômes« et de »11 691 asymptomatiques« , et »aucun nouveau décès n’a été signalé », a déclaré la Commission nationale de santé dans un communiqué, alors que le variant Omicron, très contagieux, s’est étendu à plus d’une douzaine de provinces.

Près de 70% des nouveaux cas ont été détectés à Shanghai, a précisé la Commission, après les tests réalisés sur l’ensemble des habitants. Face au rebond épidémique, plusieurs halls d’exposition de la métropole ont été transformés ces derniers jours en centres de quarantaine de fortune.

Des parents ont exprimé leur crainte d’y être confinés s’ils sont testés positifs, et leurs inquiétudes pour leurs enfants, dont ils pourraient être séparés en vertu de strictes mesures d’isolement.




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FAUT-IL S 'INQUIETER D'UN RETOUR DE LA PANDEMIE AVEC LE PRINTEMPS

Deux ans après le début de la pandémie la menace ne semble pas vouloir disparaître comme chacun, las du masque et des gestes barrière, l'espérait happé par la guerre en Ukraine.

Mais les signes avant-coureurs d’un rebond sont là avec un nombre quotidien de nouveaux cas en forte hausse (86 022 en moyenne sur sept jours hier), certaines régions notamment connaissant une forte hausse de l’incidence (+ 40 % dans les Hauts-de-France, + 34 % en Bretagne) . De plus le nombre de nouvelles entrées dans les services de soins conventionnels augmente dans le nord du pays. L’exemple du Royaume-Uni, où la résurgence de l’épidémie – en avance de phase sur la France – se nourrit de la propagation du sous-variant d’Omicron BA. 2, incite également à la prudence. Même l’Écosse, région dans laquelle toutes les restrictions n’ont pas été levées comme en Angleterre, enregistre un niveau d’incidence record.

« Le virus est en voie de domestication, mais ça ne peut être que graduel, philosophe l’infectiologue et épidémiologiste suisse Didier Pittet interrogé par Le Parisien. Et, comme les quatre autres familles de coronavirus du passé, responsables de rhumes hivernaux, qui nous avaient hélas peu intéressés jusqu’à l’apparition du Sars-CoV-2, il est avec nous pour toujours. »

Il existe trois causes principales à cette cinquième vague qui n’en finit pas. Premièrement, le remplacement du sous-variant d’Omicron BA. 1 par BA. 2, autre rejeton assez semblable mais environ 30 % plus transmissible Deuxième raison de ce rebond : la multiplication des interactions sociales. Troisièmement, la baisse, au fil du temps, de la protection immunitaire conférée par la vaccination. « La mauvaise nouvelle de l’année 2021 a été la décroissance rapide de l’efficacité des vaccins pour prévenir les infections, décode la professeure Crémieux. Mais ce qui nous inquiète le plus, c’est le déclin de la protection contre les formes sévères, à partir de quatre mois après le rappel. »

Pour cette raison l’exécutif propose une quatrième dose aux plus de 80 ans et les vigies de l’épidémie conseillent aux plus de 60 ans et aux personnes fragiles de garder le masque à l’intérieur et d’éviter les situations à risque. Cependant, aucun expert ne sait dire à quoi ressembleront les prochaines semaines.

.« On ne peut pas dire si les beaux jours vont décapiter Omicron ou pas », ajoute Didier Pittet. Celui-ci souligne que ce variant très contagieux responsable d’infections passant souvent inaperçues complique le travail des modélisateurs. L’épidémiologiste suisse nous livre néanmoins une raison d’espérer : « Il faut imaginer l’immunité comme des couches de peinture successives. Grâce aux doses régulières de vaccin, la majorité d’entre nous est désormais protégée contre les infections sévères, voire la mort.

La bonne nouvelle avec Omicron, c’est qu’une infection banale par ce variant moins agressif génère un autre type d’immunité que l’immunité vaccinale. Cette forme d’immunité pourrait nous protéger contre de futures infections, à la manière du vaccin nasal qu’on attend tous. »




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UN REBOND DU COVID-19 EN FRANCE

Le seuil des 140.000 décès liés au Covid-19 en France a été franchi vendredi, deux ans après le début de l'épidémie, selon l'organisme Santé publique France, alors que le pays connaît un « rebond » des contaminations depuis une semaine.

 Deux ans presque jour pour jour après le premier confinement, les autorités dénombrent 140.029 personnes infectées par le Covid-19 et décédées à l'hôpital, en maison de retraite ou dans d'autres établissements médico-sociaux.

La barre des 130.000 avait été dépassée le 27 janvier, ce qui signifie que la cinquième vague épidémique a emporté 10.000 malades en six semaines.

Entre-temps, le rythme des contaminations s'est effondré, avant d'amorcer une reprise depuis quelques jours.

Avec 72.399 cas positifs enregistrés en 24 heures, la moyenne des sept derniers jours repasse au dessus de 60.000, contre un peu plus de 52.000 une semaine plus tôt.

Un « rebond » relevé vendredi par le ministre de la Santé Olivier Véran et que l'épidémiologiste Arnaud Fontanet relie à « un cocktail de facteurs  »: nouveau variant plus contagieux, rentrée scolaire et relâchement des comportements, à l'approche d'une nouvelle levée de restrictions lundi.

Cette inversion de tendance reste pour l'heure sans effet à l'hôpital, où le nombre de patients Covid continue de refluer.




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EN NORVEGE INTERDICTION D'ELEVER DEUX RACES DE CHIENS TRES POPULAIRES

L’un a le crâne trop petit, l’autre le museau trop plat… Parce que les traits qui les rendent si attachants sont aussi la cause de leurs tourments, la Norvège a pris la décision inédite d’interdire l’élevage de deux races de chien.

Dans un jugement retentissant, le tribunal d’Oslo a proscrit l’élevage du bulldog anglais et du Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, au motif que la pratique leur inflige des souffrances incompatibles avec la loi sur la protection des animaux.

Salué par les militants de la cause animale et critiqué par les éleveurs, le verdict a pour toile de fond un débat grandissant : la quête de « mignonitude » pour les animaux de compagnie se fait-elle aux dépens de leur bien-être ? « Beaucoup de nos races d’élevage sont très consanguines et portent un lourd bagage en termes de maladies », explique Åshild Roaldset, la présidente de la Société protectrice des animaux norvégienne, à l’origine de l’action en justice contre des sociétés canines et des éleveurs individuels.

De gros problèmes de santé

« Nous devons changer la manière dont nous élevons les chiens. La façon dont nous le faisions était peut-être acceptable il y a 50 ans, mais elle ne l’est plus aujourd’hui », dit-elle. A force de consanguinité, les deux races ont développé des maladies héréditaires touchant la plupart des individus, sinon la totalité.

Chien patibulaire, mais doux, notamment popularisé dans le dessin animé Titi et Grosminet et associé à l’esprit de résistance anglais pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le bulldog accumule les difficultés respiratoires du fait de son museau aplati, mais aussi des problèmes dermatologiques, reproductifs et orthopédiques. Plus de la moitié de ces molosses nés ces dix dernières années en Norvège ont été mis au monde par césarienne. « L’incapacité génétique de la race à donner naissance naturellement est en soi une raison pour que le bulldog ne soit plus utilisé dans l’élevage », ont estimé les juges.

Les éleveurs sceptiques

Quant aux Cavalier King Charles, qui ont conquis dans l’Histoire le cœur de nombreuses personnalités tels Louis XIV, Ronald Reagan et Sylvester Stallone, leur constitution fait qu’ils sont souvent sujets à des maux de tête à cause d’une boîte crânienne trop petite, des défaillances cardiaques ou encore des problèmes oculaires. Pour Åshild Roaldset, l’insuffisance de diversité génétique à l’échelle mondiale mène ces races tout droit à leur extinction. « Et cela va être douloureux pour elles parce qu’elles vont avoir de plus en plus de maladies », affirme-t-elle.

Ayant fait l’objet d’un appel, le jugement rendu le 31 janvier n’a pas encore force de loi mais il a semé la stupéfaction chez les professionnels.

Chiens sans papiers

Dans leur ensemble, les professionnels ne remettent pas en cause les « défis » que rencontrent les deux races, mais estiment pouvoir les surmonter en pratiquant un élevage sélectif avec des animaux passés au crible de plusieurs tests.

Et puis, font-ils remarquer, le jugement n’interdit pas la détention, la vente ou encore l’importation des bulldogs et des Cavalier, seulement leur élevage. Certains craignent donc l’afflux de « chiens sans papiers » venus d'« usines à chiots » situées à l’étranger.

Pour la Société protectrice des animaux, le salut des deux races passe par leur croisement avec d’autres espèces pour gommer leurs faiblesses génétiques. « Si le Cavalier finit par avoir un crâne un peu plus spacieux pour abriter son cerveau, il restera le chien le plus mignon au monde », estime Åshild Roaldset.




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LES JEUNES PRODIGES DU PATINAGE AUX JO 2022

L' AMERICAIN NATHAN CHEN DEVIENT CHAMPION OLYMPIQUE

L’Américain Nathan Chen, triple champion du monde en titre, rempote l’or olympique à Pékin. Les Japonais, Yuma Kagiyama et Shoma Uno complètent le podium. Yuzuru Hanyu, champion olympique en titre arrive 4eme . Il a offert un programme d’une incroyable difficulté et devient le premier à atterrir 5 quads et un triple axel dans un même programme. Au-delà de la difficulté du programme, Chen s’est complètement lâché et s’est permis une performance endiablé.

Le double champion olympique en titre se retrouve face au triple champion du monde en titre : le duel entre Yuzuru Hanyu, en quête d'un triplé historique malgré une cheville récalcitrante, et Nathan Chen, qui vise lui un premier sacre olympique, promet des étincelles aux Jeux de Pékin à partir de mardi.

LA STAR JAPONAISE YUZU HANYU

Pour Chen (22 ans), l'homme à l'origine de l'accélération de la course aux quadruples rotations depuis ses débuts internationaux en 2016, il s'agit de couronner une olympiade quasi sans faute. Mondiaux 2018 (sans Hanyu), 2019 et 2021, finale du Grand Prix 2018 (sans Hanyu non plus) et 2019, l'Américain est sorti vainqueur de tous les rendez-vous les plus prestigieux. Mieux encore, il ne s'est même incliné qu'une fois depuis les JO 2018, en ouverture de cette saison olympique. Dans ses face-à-face directs avec Hanyu depuis l'après-Pyeongchang, le bilan est à sens unique : 4 à 0 en sa faveur.

Au-delà de l'or olympique, « Yuzu » s'est ainsi mis en tête de s'attaquer au seul « quad » encore jamais réussi en compétition, le quadruple Axel. Le plus complexe puisqu'il s'agit en fait de réaliser quatre tours et demi en l'air.

La principale raison pour laquelle je vais à Pékin, c'est parce que je veux réussir le quadruple Axel

« Bien sûr, je pourrais laisser tomber et trouver d'autres moyens d'essayer de gagner l'or » mais « la principale raison pour laquelle je vais à Pékin, c'est parce que je veux réussir le quadruple Axel », a affirmé le Japonais fin décembre, après l'avoir tenté pour la première fois en compétition aux Championnats du Japon. Mais la rotation a été incomplète et la réception sur ses deux pieds.

Le programme court de l'individuel hommes vient de se terminer par une performance fantastique. Nathan Chen a remporté le programme court avec une note de 113.97, nouveau record du monde, sur « La Bohème » de Charles Aznavour. L'Américain a ainsi éclipsé la précédente marque du Japonais Yuzuru Hanyu (111.82), réalisée en 2020. Hanyu (95.15) a lui manqué son programme court, ratant une tentative de quadruple saut, se contentant de la huitième place.

Le double champion olympique Yuzuru Hanyu a pris du retard avec le programme court. Il avait donc beaucoup de points à rattraper pour essayer d’atteindre le podium. Il a quand même tenté un quadruple axel mais ne l’a pas réussi et est ensuite tombé deux fois. Cette performance était loin des attentes des spectateurs mais le champion sort de nombreux mois de blessures. Hanyu reçoit 188,06 points pour le programme libre et 283,21 au total. Il termine tout de même à la 4eme place.

Shoma Uno devient le médaillé de bronze des Jeux Olympiques. Il décroche 293,00 au total. Il est le seul médaillé de PyeongChang à rester sur le podium après 4 ans.

La rivalité entre Hanyu et Chen porte le patinage artistique vers des sommets inexplorés.


LA JEUNE RUSSE KAMILA VALIEVA DE 15 ANS ENTRE DANS L'HISTOIRE

La jeune Russe Kamila Valieva est devenue la première patineuse de l'histoire à réussir des quadruples sauts aux Jeux olympiques, lors du programme libre femmes de la compétition par équipes, lundi à Pékin.L'équipe russe sous drapeau neutre, portée par Kamila Valieva, a été sacrée championne olympique dans l'épreuve par équipes de patinage artistique, lundi à Pékin.

Au bout des quatre programmes courts et des quatre programmes libres, les Russes ont totalisé 74 points et ont devancé les Etats-Unis de Nathan Chen (65 pts) et le Japon de Yuma Kagiyama et Shoma Uno (63 pts).Depuis plusieurs jours, une rumeur de dopage ne cesse de grandir.

La situation s’est accentué quand plusieurs patineurs russes n’ont pas été vu à l’entraînement ce mercredi 9 février. Cela ferait suite à un problème juridique lié au test de dopage de la patineuse artistique russe Kamila Valieva coaché par Eteri Tutberidze.

L’ISU témoigne: « La nature exacte du problème de Valieva n’est pas claire, mais la situation est compliquée. En effet, selon les règles du Code mondial antidopage, elle est une « personne protégée « . En tant qu’athlète de moins de 16 ans, Valieva ne peut être formellement identifiée coupable d’une violation des règles antidopage.«

Plusieurs équipes juridiques travaillent désormais sur cette affaire complexe. Une décision sera donné le 10 février.

Le Kremlin a tenu a précisé que ces informations n’ont pas été validées par le CIO. Ce serait des spéculations du média Insidethegame. Mais aucun responsable sportif n’a communiqué à ce sujet.




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JO PATINAGE RECORD DU MONDE POUR GABRIELLA PAPADAKIS ET GUILLAUME CIZERON

La patinoire du Palais omnisports de Pékin a été parfaitement domptée par Gabriella Papadakis et Guillaume Cizeron, samedi 12 février, lors de la première manche de danse sur glace des Jeux olympiques de Pékin. Même si le concours n'est pas encore terminé, le couple formé par Gabriella Papadakis et Guillaume Cizeron a déjà frappé très fort en obtenant la note de 90,83 points, soit un nouveau record du monde sur le programme court, dit de danse rythmique, améliorant son propre record du monde de l'épreuve de danse rythmique. 

Une note qui a évidemment permis au duo français de prendre la tête du concours alors qu'il restait encore cinq couples à passer. ainsi pris la tête de la compétition, avant la danse libre, lundi.

Derrière le duo russe Victoria Sinitsina-Nikita Katsalapov pointe à près de deux points (88,85 points).

Un sans-faute dans l'exécution des éléments

Auteurs d'un sans-faute dans l'exécution de leurs cinq éléments, les Français finissent leur passage avec une note technique de 51,65, auxquels s'ajoutent 39,18 points pour la présentation.

Les Français auront rendez-vous avec l'histoire, lundi (à partir de 2h15, heure de Paris), pour décrocher la seule médaille qui leur manque : l'or olympique.




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LE MYSTERE DE L'ARRESTATION D'ANNE FRANK

 A-T-IL ETE RESOLU ?

Qui a dénoncé Anne Frank et sa famille en 1944 aux nazis ? La question taraude tous les admirateurs de l’œuvre de l’adolescente. Un journal intime, rédigé entre 1942 et 1944, alors qu’elle et sa famille de juifs allemands exilés se cachent dans un appartement clandestin à Amsterdam. Arrêtée en août 1944, elle mourra du typhus en mars 1945, à l’âge de 15 ans, dans le camp de concentration de Bergen-Belsen, en Allemagne.

Récupéré par son père, seul survivant de la famille, à son retour des camps de la mort, il sera publié en 1947. Traduis en 70 langues, vendu à plus de 30 millions d’exemplaires, il a ému des générations de lecteurs. La jeune fille, qui rêvait de devenir écrivaine ou journaliste, y raconte, son récit accompagné d’une fine galerie de portraits, une adolescence ballottée entre doutes intimes et nécessité vitale de se prémunir d’une époque dramatique, où elle et les siens sont traqués. Jusqu’à l’arrestation de la famille Frank et des quatre amis avec qui elle se cachait. Mais grâce à quels renseignements, alors que leur planque d’Amsterdam, baptisée « l’Annexe », les protégeait si bien depuis deux ans ?

Une enquête d'un ancien agent du FBI

Un livre fondé sur l’enquête d’un ancien agent du FBI désigne comme suspect principal un notaire juif qui l’aurait fait pour sauver sa propre famille.

Ce dernier, Arnold Van den Bergh, pourrait avoir révélé où se cachait la famille Frank, affirme l’auteur d’une enquête de six ans sur cette affaire non élucidée, dont les résultats ont été publiés dans le livre « Qui a trahi Anne Frank ? » de la canadienne Rosemary Sullivan, qui paraît ce mardi 18 janvier en français aux Éditions HarperCollins (420 pages, 19 euros).

Les preuves contre M. Van den Bergh ont été étayées par des techniques modernes, ainsi qu’une lettre anonyme envoyée au père d’Anne Frank après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale identifiant le notaire comme un traître.

« Cold case » vieux de 77 ans

Différentes théories ont circulé sur ce qui avait mené au raid qui a révélé où se cachait la famille. En 2016, Vince Pankoke, détective à la retraite du FBI, a été enrôlé par un réalisateur de documentaires néerlandais pour diriger une équipe chargée de résoudre ce « cold case ».

Le nom de Van den Bergh, décédé en 1950, avait jusqu’ici reçu peu d’attention. Le notaire était un membre fondateur du Conseil juif, organe administratif que les nazis ont utilisé afin d’organiser les déportations. Selon les enquêteurs, sa famille bénéficiait d’une exemption de déportation, et celle-ci avait été révoquée au moment de la trahison des Frank, mais la déportation n’avait finalement pas eu lieu.

Le notaire disparut des radars à la fin de la guerre, à laquelle il a survécu ainsi que le reste de sa famille. Mais l’élément le plus convaincant a été le sérieux avec lequel Otto Frank a traité l’allégation, ont indiqué les médias néerlandais. Le père d’Anne a déclaré aux enquêteurs en 1964 qu’il avait reçu une lettre peu après la guerre nommant Van den Bergh comme celui qui avait trahi les Frank et plusieurs autres familles juives. Une copie faite par M. Frank de la lettre a été retrouvée par les enquêteurs dans les archives d’un policier.

Questions et doutes

« Nous n’avons pas de pistolet fumant, mais nous avons une arme chaude avec des douilles vides à côté », a déclaré M. Pankoke, cité par la chaîne publique néerlandaise NOS. Ronald Leopold, directeur exécutif de la Maison d’Anne Frank, a averti que des questions subsistaient sur la lettre anonyme et qu’une enquête plus approfondie était nécessaire.


« Vous devez être très prudent avant d’inscrire quelqu’un dans l’histoire comme celui qui a trahi Anne Frank si vous n’êtes pas sûr à 100 ou 200 % de cela », a-t-il souligné.

D’autres experts se sont montrés plus critiques.

 « Un non-sens diffamatoire », a même réagi avec virulence Bart van der Boom, professeur à l’université de Leiden, auprès de la télévision publique NOS. « Ils (les enquêteurs) disent qu’il ne se cachait pas, donc il a dû acheter sa sécurité d’une autre manière. Mais ils ne savent tout simplement pas où il était », a-t-il ajouté.




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CORONAVIRUS SPREAD OF A NEW

UK SUB-VARIANT

A new coronavirus subvariant is now spreading in the UK. It affects almost 8% of new cases in the UK. The emergence of this new variant comes as the United Kingdom, which deplores nearly 139,000 deaths from Covid-19, is facing a growing number of positive cases, now exceeding 40,000 infections per day, with an incidence rate much higher than in the rest of Europe. This new Delta sub-variant is being watched very closely. "We are monitoring" this new form very closely "and we will not hesitate to take action if necessary," said a spokesperson for Downing Street. However, "nothing suggests that it spreads more easily", he tried to reassure.

The sub-variant named "AY4.2"

This “AY4.2” variant is a sub-variant of Delta, which has turned out to be very contagious. This initially appeared in India a few months ago and caused a resumption of the epidemic in late spring 2021. AY4.2 is an offshoot of AY.4, which itself is an offshoot of the "mother" Delta variant. When the virus makes copies of itself, small errors occur and result in slight variations, which result in sublinelines. As the British health agency specifies in its report, AY4.2 contains two major mutations, A222V and Y145H, in the spike protein, which allows the virus to enter cells.

Beyond the United Kingdom where AY4.2 is "on an increasing trajectory", as the British Health Security Agency recognizes, the Delta sub-variant has spread little. It was spotted in Denmark previously, where it represented at its peak, 2% of contaminations. The Newsweek media noted that this variant only appeared in the United States in three different states, with one case each time: in North Carolina, California and in the District of Columbia.

Finally, Israel announced its first case, Wednesday, October 20: an eleven-year-old child from Europe. He was identified at Tel Aviv airport and placed in quarantine.

More contagious, more resistant ?

It is not known if it is more contagious and more dangerous than the other variants. The emergence of this new variant despite the very strong contagiousness of the Delta, which tends to rule out new strains, raises fears of an even greater transmissibility. But "nothing suggests that it spreads more easily," tried to reassure a spokesman for Downing Street.

The progression of AY4.2 in the UK, however, highlights a phenomenon that scientists have warned against throughout the pandemic: the rampant transmission of the virus can create new, more resistant variants. As an American scientist, David States, points out on Twitter *, the rapid increase in the prevalence of this Delta subvariant suggests that it would be able to resist some immunity, with a large part of the British population now completely vaccinated (nearly 80%) or having already had Covid-19.

Currently, AY4.2 is not categorized among the most transmissible variants. But the emergence of this new variant, which tends to rule out new strains, raises fears of greater transmissibility, particularly in the United Kingdom, where more than 40,000 new cases are detected daily.

"We need urgent research to determine if this delta is more transmissible," said Scott Gottlieb, deputy commissioner of the US Medical and Scientific Affairs Committee.




Andrew Preston for DayNewsWorld
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CORONAVIRUS LA VACCINATION REDUIT DE 90%

LE RISQUE D'HOSPITALISATION ET DE DECES

CHEZ LES PLUS DE CINQUANTE ANS

Une étude française sur les vaccins contre le Covid, la plus large menée jusqu’ici dans le monde, montre que la vaccination contre le Covid-19 réduit de 90% le risque d’hospitalisation et de décès chez les plus de 50 ans.

Au total, 22 millions de personnes ont participé à l’étude, sur une période de 7 mois. Elle a été menée sur les vaccins de Pfizer/BioNtech, Moderna et AstraZeneca. Le quatrième vaccin autorisé en France, celui de Janssen, l’a été plus tardivement. Il a été utilisé dans des proportions moindres et n’est donc pas inclus dans l’étude.

« Les personnes vaccinées ont 9 fois moins de risque d’être hospitalisées ou de décéder de la Covid-19 que les personnes non vaccinées”, explique à l’épidémiologiste Mahmoud Zureik, directeur de la structure Epi-Phare, qui associe l’Assurance maladie (Cnam) et l’Agence du médicament (ANSM). Les chercheurs d’Epi-Phare ont comparé les données de 11 millions de personnes vaccinées de plus de 50 ans avec celles de 11 millions de personnes non-vaccinées dans la même tranche d’âge, sur une période allant du 27 décembre 2020 (début de la vaccination en France) au 20 juillet dernier.

A partir du 14e jour après l’injection de la seconde dose, les chercheurs ont observé « une réduction du risque d’hospitalisation supérieure à 90% ». Ces données confirment d’autres observations faites en vie réelle dans d’autres pays: Israël, Royaume-Uni, Etats-Unis.

Face au variant Delta, un manque de recul

Pour cerner l’impact du variant Delta aujourd’hui dominant, les chercheurs ont estimé de manière spécifique la réduction du risque d’hospitalisation au cours de la période où il a pris de l’ampleur en France, à partir du 20 juin (donc un mois avant la clôture de l’étude).Ils ont trouvé des résultats comparables aux périodes antérieures: une efficacité de 84% chez les 75 ans et plus, et de 92% chez les 50-74 ans. « Cette réduction est du même ordre de grandeur pour le risque de décès au cours d’une hospitalisation pour Covid-19 », selon Epi-Phare.

Cela permet de fournir « de premiers éléments », mais « cette période reste très courte pour évaluer l’impact réel de la vaccination sur ce variant », souligne cependant le Pr Zureik.




Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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DES CHIFFRE VERTIGINEUX

« ENTRE 2900 ET 3200 PEDOCRIMINELS »

 ET « 216 000 VICTIMES » DEPUIS 1950

DANS L'EGLISE CATHOLIQUE EN FRANCE

Il y a trois ans les évêques catholiques de France ont demandé à Jean-Marc Sauvé, 72 ans, ancien vice-président du Conseil d'État, de présider une commission d'étude sur les abus sexuels sur mineurs commis par des membres du clergé. Cette commission s'appelle la Commission indépendante sur les abus sexuels dans l'Église (Ciase). Elle a été financée à hauteur de trois millions d'euros par l'Église.

Après deux ans et demi de travaux, a été remis ce mardi 5 octobre 2021 lors d'une conférence de presse à laquelle ont été invités des représentants d'associations de victimes. Le rapport, annexes comprises, comprend  2 500 pages .

Le rapport donne un état des lieux quantitatif du phénomène, notamment du nombre de victimes.

En se basant sur un sondage commandé par l'Inserm, le rapport de la Ciase estime que 216.000 personnes ont été victimes d'abus sexuels par des clercs en 70 ans. Sur la même période, il y aurait eu autour de 3000 prêtres prédateurs sexuels, soit entre 2,5% et 2,8% des prêtres. C’est un chiffre à rapporter à une population générale de 115 000 prêtres ou religieux au total sur cette période de soixante-dix ans.ll apparaît aussi que dans l'Église 80% des victimes sont des garçons et 20% sont des filles. Alors que dans la société, 75% des victimes sont des filles et 25% sont des garçons.

La commission évalue également les « mécanismes, notamment institutionnels et culturels », qui ont pu favoriser la pédocriminalité, et liste 45 propositions pour lutter contre ce fléau.

Jean-Marc Sauvé conclut la conférence de presse en ces termes :

«  Il ne peut y avoir d’avenir commun sans un travail de vérité, de pardon et de réconciliation. Nous avons contribué autant qu’il était possible au travail de vérité. C’est à l’Eglise de s’en emparer et de le poursuivre afin de retrouver à la fois la confiance des fidèles et le respect de notre société. L’Eglise catholique est une composante essentielle de notre société. Il est impératif de rétablir une alliance qui a été mise à mal. C’est un message d’attente, c’est un message d’espoir. »

Dès le 20 août 2018, le pape François, conscient du problème, avait publié une « lettre au peuple de Dieu » dans laquelle il reconnaissait la « douleur des victimes » et appelait à la « solidarité » et à l’« engagement » en faveur « d’une culture de la protection et du “jamais plus” à tout type et forme d’abus ».




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BIENTOT UN TRAITEMENT ORAL

 CONTRE LE CORONAVIRUS ?

Le laboratoire américain Merck va demander une autorisation de mise sur le marché à l'agence des médicaments américaine (FDA) pour un traitement par voie orale contre le Covid-19, annonce l'entreprise (en anglais) vendredi 1er octobre. S'il est autorisé, le molnupiravir sera le premier médicament de ce type à être mis sur le marché pour traiter le Covid-19.

Merck affirme que son médicament, développé avec la société de biotechnologie Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, permet de diviser par deux les risques d'hospitalisation et de décès. Durant l'essai clinique de phase 3 mené sur 775 personnes, le taux d'hospitalisation ou de décès chez les patients ayant reçu le médicament était de 7,3%, contre 14,1% chez ceux ayant eu un placebo. Le traitement durait cinq jours.

Les données complètes, toutefois, n'ont pas encore été publiées et elles devront être analysées par des experts indépendants.

Plusieurs antiviraux à l'étude

Les antiviraux empêchent le virus de se répliquer. Leur application peut être double : permettre aux personnes déjà atteintes de ne pas souffrir de symptômes graves, mais également à celles ayant été en contact rapproché de ne pas la développer. Ce type de traitement par comprimés, facile à administrer, est très attendu et vu comme une façon efficace de combattre la pandémie. Pour le moment, aucun médicament antiviral n'a été très convaincant contre le Covid-19.

Le marché étant potentiellement énorme, plusieurs laboratoires se sont mis sur le créneau, comme la biotech Atea Pharmaceuticals et le laboratoire Roche qui étudient l’efficacité d’un traitement comparable, appelé AT-527.

Pfizer a annoncé lundi avoir commencé un essai clinique de grande ampleur pour sa propre pilule anti-Covid, afin de tester sa capacité à réduire à titre préventif les risques d’infection chez l’entourage d’une personne ayant contracté la maladie. Il sera administré en combinaison avec une « faible dose » du médicament ritonavir, utilisé contre le virus du sida.

En complément du vaccin

Plusieurs experts ont insisté sur le fait que ce genre de traitement serait à prendre en complément du vaccin. « Ce n’est pas un médicament miracle, mais un outil pour accompagner la vaccination », avance de son côté sur Twitter Peter Hotez, professeur au Baylor College of Medicine de Houston au Texas, qui s’inquiète par ailleurs de la possible apparition d’une certaine résistance au médicament s’il est largement utilisé.

Le problème pour les antiviraux comme celui de Merck est qu’ils doivent être pris avant que les patients ne soient généralement considérés « comme suffisamment malades pour avoir besoin d’autre chose qu’un traitement contre les symptômes », remarque Peter English, ancien directeur du comité de santé publique de l’Association.Les antiviraux contre la grippe ou les boutons de fièvre par exemple ne sont efficaces que s’ils sont pris très tôt, rappelle-t-il auprès du Science Media Centre.

Merck, par anticipation, a en tout cas déjà commencé la production de molnupiravir à grande échelle et prévoit de fabriquer les doses nécessaires pour 10 millions de traitements d’ici à la fin de l’année.




Larry Ricky pour DayNewsWorld
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HAUSSE DE 12,6% DES PRIX DU GAZ

AU 1ER OCTOBRE EN FRANCE

A quand l’arrêt de la hausse vertigineuse des prix du gaz en France ? Les tarifs réglementés d'Engie vont encore augmenter de 12,6 % le 1er octobre, a annoncé lundi la Commission de régulation de l'énergie (CRE). Il s'agit de la plus forte hausse constatée depuis 2013. Cette augmentation s'inscrit dans le sillage de la hausse des cours sur le marché indique le régulateur. « Cette évolution résulte de la hausse, historique, des prix du gaz sur le marché mondial qui se répercute sur les coûts d'approvisionnement du fournisseur de gaz Engie », explique la CRE. L'Hexagone n'est pas épargné par la flambée des prix sur le marché mondial. « La France ne dispose pas de gaz sur son territoire et importe 99 % de sa consommation, elle est donc exposée, comme le reste de l'Europe, aux variations des prix de marché européens et mondiaux », rappelle d'ailleurs la CRE en préambule.

Dans le détail, la hausse des tarifs réglementés pour octobre est de de 4,5 % pour les utilisateurs de gaz pour la cuisson, de 9,1 % pour ceux qui ont un double usage (cuisson et eau chaude), et de 14,3 % pour les foyers qui se chauffent au gaz. Depuis janvier, la progression TTC atteint + 57 %.

Une hausse en partie liée à la reprise économique post-Covid

Depuis le début de l'année, les cours du gaz ont ainsi flambé de plus de 300 %, alors même que la saison hivernale n'a pas encore commencé. Une explosion qui s'explique à la fois par des stocks bas, une forte demande de gaz naturel liquéfié en Asie et une incapacité de la Russie et la Norvège à augmenter leurs livraisons.La demande est aussi tirée par la reprise économique mondiale, à la faveur de l'amélioration de la situation sur le front de la pandémie de Covid-19.

Environ 3 millions de consommateurs concernés

La CRE précise que les tarifs réglementés concernaient, au 31 août, « environ 3 millions de consommateurs résidentiels » sur les 10,5 millions que compte la France, « dont 2,77 millions chez Engie ». « Ils représentent seulement 7,5 % de la consommation nationale de gaz », souligne l'instance.Pour aider les plus précaires à faire face à la hausse du prix de l'énergie, le gouvernement a annoncé, le 15 septembre, la création d'un « chèque énergie » exceptionnel. D'un montant de 100 euros, celui-ci sera envoyé à 5,8 millions de ménages d'ici décembre.

La CRE invite aussi les consommateurs « à anticiper la disparition des tarifs réglementés », le 1er juillet 2023. Elle les « encourage à se renseigner dès à présent sur les offres de marché commercialisées sur leur zone de desserte ».




Emily Jackson pour DayNewsWorld
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LE COVID PROVOQUERAIT UNE ALTERATION

 DU CERVEAU

Si la fatigue, la fièvre et la toux et des troubles neurologiques lors de infection des symptômes connus du coronavirus, des recherches préliminaires au Royaume-Uni réalisées sur plusieurs centaines d'IRM passées par des malades du Covid-19 suggèrent que le virus pourrait être responsable d'une atrophie de la matière grise du cerveau.

Alors que 5 à 10% des Français souffrent d'un Covid long qui se manifeste par un prolongement des symptômes, une étude britannique montre que le virus pourrait aussi altérer le cerveau des malades. En analysant plusieurs centaines d'IRM cérébrales de patients ayant contracté le Covid-19, les scientifiques ont ainsi noté une atrophie de la matière grise du cerveau, habituellement observée au cours du vieillissement. Ces observations ont été faites même chez des personnes n'ayant pas développé de forme grave de la maladie.

Pour réaliser cette étude, parue en août 2021, les scientifiques se sont appuyés sur une base de données britannique (BioBank) contenant les données d'imagerie cérébrale de plus de 45.000 personnes depuis 2014. L'équipe a analysé ces IRM avant de les comparer à ceux des patients qui avaient été testés positifs au Covid-19 en tenant compte de l'âge, du sexe, de la date du test de référence et du lieu de l'étude, ainsi que des facteurs de risque communs de maladie et le statut socio-économique.

In fine, les chercheurs ont trouvé des différences marquées concernant l'épaisseur de la matière grise entre ceux qui avaient été infectés par Covid-19 et ceux qui ne l'avaient pas été. Plus précisément, l'épaisseur du tissu dans les lobes frontaux et temporaux se trouvait réduite dans le groupe Covid-19. Une telle transformation s'observe habituellement avec le vieillissement, « mais les changements étaient plus importants que la normale chez ceux qui avaient été infectés par Covid-19 », explique dans les colonnes du média The Conversation Jessica Bernard, une professeure agrégée de la Texas A&M University qui étudie le vieillissement du cerveau.

De plus, les scientifiques ont remarqué que ces altérations, dont la durée dans le temps est pour le moment inconnue, étaient similaires chez les personnes ayant été hospitalisées suite à leur contamination au Covid-19, et donc ayant développé une forme grave, que chez les personnes ayant seulement souffert de symptômes légers.

Dans la pratique, cette atteinte de la matière grise s'est concrétisée par une plus grande lenteur à traiter les informations chez les personnes ayant été atteintes du Covid par rapport à celles ne l'ayant pas été, rapportent les auteurs de ces travaux.




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NOUVELLE ERUPTION DU VOLCAN DE LA PALMA

L’île de La Palma est à nouveau en alerte. Le volcan Cumbre Vieja de l’île espagnole de la Palma, où habitent 83 000 personnes dans l’archipel des Canaries, est entré vendredi 24 septembre 2021 dans une nouvelle phase éruptive.

Les pompiers ont dû battre en retraite à cause des violentes explosions et de l’important nuage de cendres, et les autorités ont évacué trois nouvelles villes.

Aéroport fermé

Les autorités ont en effet ordonné l'évacuation des villes de Tajuya, Tacande de Abajo et de la partie de Tacande de Arriba qui n'avait pas encore été évacuée. « Étant donné l'augmentation du risque pour la population due à l'épisode éruptif en cours », les autorités de l'archipel ont indiqué avoir « émis un ordre d'évacuation obligatoire pour (les quartiers de) Tajuya, Tacande de Abajo et la partie non évacuée de Tacande de Arriba ».

Par ailleurs, les compagnies aériennes locales – Binter et Canaryfly – ainsi que la compagnie nationale espagnole Iberia ont dû annuler leurs vols à destination de l'île pour la première fois depuis l’éruption volcanique. « L’aéroport de La Palma n’est plus opérationnel en raison de l’accumulation de cendres. Les opérations de nettoyage ont commencé mais la situation peut changer à tout moment », a dit l’opérateur..

Une éruption typique

Des jets de lave s’échappaient du volcan et explosaient dans les airs dans la nuit de vendredi à samedi 25 septembre alors que l’éruption s’est intensifiée pour entrer dans une phase explosive.

Deux nouvelles bouches éruptives, dont sortaient des coulées de lave, se sont par ailleurs ouvertes au niveau du volcan, a indiqué l'Institut volcanologique des Canaries.

Plus tard dans la journée, un autre phénomène a frappé l'île : les glissements de terrain. Toujours selon El Time, le périmètre côtier de la zone touchée par l'éruption volcanique continue d'enregistrer des situations qualifiées de « stress » par les scientifiques. Conséquence : des glissements de terrain se produisent comme celui enregistré sur la falaise de Playa Nueva, à côté du port de Tazacorte, à la mi-journée. Des images d'autant plus saisissantes que le terrain s'écroule à quelques dizaines de mètres du port.

« Nous avons affaire à un volcan typique des îles Canaries », a déclaré samedi Miguel Angel Morcuende, le directeur du Pevolcan (Plan d’urgence volcanique des Canaries). « Bien qu’hier nous ayons assisté à une augmentation significative de l’intensité de l’éruption, le volcan obéit aux schémas classiques », a-t-il expliqué.

« Nous ne sommes pas confrontés à un phénomène plus explosif que d’habitude dans les îles Canaries et je le dis surtout pour la tranquillité d’esprit des habitants de La Palma », a-t-il poursuivi.

Aucun blessé ni victime, mais des centaines de maisons détruites

Depuis le début de l'éruption du volcan, le 19 septembre, la lave a détruit jusqu'ici 390 bâtiments et recouvert 180,1 hectares – soit 40 édifices de plus en deux jours – sur l'île, selon les dernières données de Copernicus, le système européen de mesures géospatiales, ainsi qu’émis des milliers de tonnes de lave.

Environ 15 % de la production de bananes, principale activité économique de l'île, pourrait être également menacée.

Le Premier ministre espagnol Pedro Sánchez, en visite sur l'île, a annoncé que le gouvernement espagnol déclarerait La Palma « zone touchée par une catastrophe » naturelle mardi prochain en Conseil des ministres. Cette mesure permettra de débloquer l'octroi d'aides aux résidents.

Les deux précédentes éruptions sur l’île ont eu lieu en 1971 et 1949, faisant au total trois morts, dont deux par inhalation de gaz.




Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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COVID FAUT-IL CRAINDRE UN REDEMARRAGE

DE L'EPIDEMIE A L'AUTOMNE ?

Depuis plusieurs semaines maintenant, l'épidémie de Covid semble lentement refluer. Les spécialistes considèrent toutefois qu'avec l'arrivée de l'automne et du froid, une reprise épidémique n'est pas à écarter. Les conditions climatiques de l'automne et de l'hiver, c'est-à-dire le froid, entraînent de plus leur lot de maladies et notamment respiratoires dont le Covid.

Dans une interview au Parisien , le Pr Arnaud Fontanet alerte notamment à ce sujet : «On avait observé la même accalmie fin septembre 2020, avant un coup de froid qui avait déclenché la deuxième vague en France et dans les pays voisins», prévient le membre du Conseil scientifique, qui «s'attend donc à un redémarrage de l'épidémie à l'automne».

Le maintien du passe sanitaire en question

Pour prévenir une possible nouvelle vague de contaminations, Arnaud Fontanet se dit favorable au maintien du passe sanitaire. Si le gouvernement décide cependant de lever cette mesure dans certains départements, comme cela a été évoqué par Emmanuel Macron, Arnaud Fontanet tient alors à prévenir les Français. Ils « doivent avoir à l’esprit qu’il peut être réinstauré aussi vite qu’il a été levé. À la moindre alerte, il faudra serrer la vis et le plus tôt possible. » , avertit-il, rappelant que nous ne sommes «pas tirés d'affaire».

L'épidémiologiste Catherine Hill est par contre beaucoup plus inquiète. Elle estime que c'est une « énorme erreur » que de territorialiser le passe. Et elle justifie son positionnement sur BFM : « Les gens vont aller tranquillement dans les départements voisins s'ils n'ont pas de passe vaccinal ou s'ils ne veulent pas se faire vacciner et ils vont contaminer autour d'eux dans les restaurants, dans les cinémas... Donc ça ne va pas du tout. Il s'agit d'une erreur monumentale ».  « La régionalisation n'a jamais fonctionné. Il y a du virus en France encore partout, il circule plus ou moins et donc alléger les mesures dans une région ou un département va juste aggraver la situation. »

Pas assez de personnes vaccinées

Le nombre de personnes non-vaccinées « personnes isolées mais aussi récalcitrantes » reste important et pourrait entraîner un rebond épidémique.

Pour Catherine Hill : « Il reste 17 millions de gens qui ne sont pas protégés, un peu plus de 9 millions enfants moins de 12 ans et 8 millions plus de 12 ans pas vaccinés, c'est comme ça que le virus circule et il va circuler partout. »

Un nouveau Conseil de défense sanitaire doit justement se tenir mercredi pour « travailler sur la question » d'un passe sanitaire local, a annoncé plus tôt dans la semaine le porte-parole du gouvernement, Gabriel Attal..

«Diminuer nos échanges» pendant la période hivernale

Afin de passer cette période hivernale à venir, le Pr Arnaud Fontanet ne recommande pas de nouvelles mesures. Mais il estime qu'il faudra «diminuer nos échanges de 20 à 40%». «Concrètement, cela veut dire recourir au passe sanitaire, au port du masque en milieu clos, accepter moins de sollicitations, maintenir le tester-alerter-protéger, un peu de télétravail quand c'est possible et plus de dépistage en milieu scolaire», énumère-t-il.

Heureusement, aujourd'hui, «la vaccination fait office de bouclier» et «nous permet d'éviter des décisions plus drastiques comme des couvre-feux», conclut-il.




Jenny Chase pour DayNewsWorld
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COVID-19 VERS UNE CINQUIEME VAGUE

CET AUTOMNE EN FRANCE ?

Dans une mise à jour publiée lundi 6 septembre 2021, portant sur son étude « Epidémiologie du Sars-Cov2 dans une population vaccinée et implications pour le contrôle d'un rebond automnal », l'Institut Pasteur a dévoilé ses prévisions pour l'automne à venir.

L’Institut a actualisé sa modélisation en tenant compte de la vaccination et de la transmissibilité plus importante du variant Delta.

L’épidémie de Covid-19 continuera cet automne à poser des problèmes au système de santé français, mais les raisons de se montrer optimistes existent.

Les prévisions tablent en effet sur une couverture vaccinale de 70 % chez les 12-17 ans, 80 % chez les 18-59 ans et 90 % chez les plus de 60 ans, contre 30 %-70 %-90 % dans l’analyse de juin.

La plus grande transmissibilité du variant Delta est soulignée : le taux de reproduction (nombre de personnes qu’un infecté contamine) passe de 4 à 5, et la vaccination ne réduit le risque d’infection que de 60 %, contre une estimation de 80 % en juin.

Les non-vaccinés contribuent fortement à la pression hospitalière

Sans surprise, les adultes non-vaccinés vont contribuer « de façon importante à la pression sur l’hôpital », estime l’Institut Pasteur. Le scénario prévoit que les « plus de 60 ans » non-vaccinés, soit « 3 % de la population », représentent « 43 % des hospitalisations. » Le risque d’hospitalisation augmente ainsi « de 50 % pour les personnes infectées par le variant Delta ». Ces non-vaccinés contribuent également « de façon disproportionnée à la transmission », poursuit l’étude, qui préconise des « mesures de contrôle ciblant cette population ». Un rôle que joue déjà le passe sanitaire.

Les personnes vaccinées sont moins bien protégées qu'avant

« Avec le variant Delta, les personnes vaccinées sont moins bien protégées contre l’infection, même si la protection reste très élevée contre les formes graves »,», alerte l’Institut, soulignant s’attendre « à ce qu’à peu près la moitié des infections aient lieu chez des personnes vaccinées[alors que ce groupe représente plus de 70% de la population] ». Un constat qui ne surprend pas l’immunologiste Frédéric Altare, directeur de recherche à l’Inserm : « Le taux d’anticorps […] diminue au bout de quelques mois, explique-t-il. Avec le variant Alpha, les quelques anticorps qui se baladaient toujours quelques mois après la vaccination suffisaient à le bloquer, donc il ne se répandait pas et on ne devenait même pas positif. »

En revanche, reprend-il, « il faut une grande quantité d’anticorps pour bloquer le variant Delta. Quelques anticorps ne suffisent pas et il a le temps de se répliquer, jusqu’à conférer une positivité à la personne. » Heureusement, quelque temps après l’infection, de nouveaux anticorps sont produits par les cellules mémoires du vacciné, permettant de lutter contre le virus et d’éviter à « 95 % » les formes graves. Les scientifiques considèrent donc qu'il est essentiel « que la couverture vaccinale chez les plus fragiles soit aussi haute que possible ».

Un tiers d’infections chez les jeunes

Les chercheurs s’attendent « à ce qu’un tiers des infections ait lieu chez les enfants et adolescents », contre « près de la moitié » dans les estimations de juin. Ceci tient à « la part relative plus importante des infections chez les adultes » et aux bons résultats de la vaccination chez les adolescents.

D'autant que, désormais largement dominant, le variant Delta « pourrait être 50% plus transmissible que le variant Alpha », qui était lui-même plus contagieux que la souche initiale du virus, observent les modélisateurs.

Les gestes barrières indispensables

Aussi les chercheurs jugent-ils important que les efforts actuels pour limiter la transmission soient maintenus, notamment « en appliquant les gestes barrières, le port du masque, un certain degré de distanciation physique, le tester-tracer-isoler et le pass sanitaire ».Avec le variant Delta, « l’arrêt de toutes mesures de contrôle pourrait conduire à un stress important sur le système de santé », préviennent les experts.

Ils insistent sur la poursuite de la vaccination, mais aussi le maintien des gestes barrières, même chez les vaccinés.




Emily Jackson pour DayNewsWorld
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UN TIERS DES ESPECES D'ARBRES MENACES D'EXTINCTION DANS LE MONDE

Les écosystèmes sont mis à mal et, dans cette crise de la biodiversité, les arbres ne sont pas épargnés, selon une étude publiée mercredi 1er septembre par l’association Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). L'étude qui dresse un inventaire complet de la biosphère révèle que 17.510 espèces d'arbres sont menacées sur les 58 497 espèces d’arbres étudiées.

Cela équivaut au double du nombre de mammifères, d'oiseaux, d'amphibiens et de reptiles en voie d'extinction réunis. Plus de 440 espèces d'arbres sont sur le point de disparaître. Même des arbres communs, tels les magnolias, seraient en voie de disparition, mais aussi les chênes, les érables et les ébènes.

Le Brésil, qui abrite une large part de la forêt tropicale amazonienne, et près de 9 000 espèces d’arbres, est le pays le plus touché par cette extinction de masse. Au total, 1 788 espèces d’arbres y sont menacées, principalement par l’agriculture intensive.

Parmi les zones où les arbres sont le plus menacés, le Brésil se classe en haut du podium. La forêt amazonienne compte en effet plus de 8847 espèces d'arbres dont 1788 sont menacées.

Mais la plus forte proportion d’espèces menacées se trouve dans les régions tropicales d’Afrique, en particulier à Madagascar et sur l’île Maurice, où respectivement 59 % et 57 % des espèces sont en danger.

Alors que les écosystèmes forestiers jouent un rôle clé dans la nature en abritant et en fournissant des vivres à de nombreuses espèces animales et végétales, en absorbant du CO2 ou encore en fournissant les ingrédients nécessaires à l'élaboration de certains médicaments, la déforestation et l'exploitation forestière continuent.

En tête des principales menaces pour les arbres, le rapport pointe l’agriculture, qui contribue à l’extinction des arbres à hauteur de 29 % pour les cultures et 14 % pour l’élevage du bétail. Puis vient l’exploitation forestière, responsable de 27 % des extinctions, et l’habitat humain qui fait perdre 13 % des arbres. Au total, l’activité humaine durant les trois cents dernières années aura entraîné une diminution de la superficie forestière mondiale d’environ 40 %.

En outre, le changement et les événements climatiques extrêmes –provoqués par l'activité humaine selon le rapport du GIEC– menacent la survie des arbres à travers le monde. «Au moins 180 espèces d'arbres sont directement menacées par l'élévation du niveau de la mer et les phénomènes météorologiques violents. Cette menace est la plus grave pour les espèces insulaires, y compris les magnolias dans les Caraïbes», alerte le BGCI.

L'équipe du BGCI appelle à une mobilisation urgente afin de préserver les arbres à travers le globe. Son principal argument repose sur les bienfaits de ces êtres vivants. «Ils stockent 50% du carbone terrestre du monde [...], fournissent l'habitat et la nourriture à des millions d'autres espèces d'oiseaux, de mammifères, d'amphibiens, de reptiles, d'insectes et de micro-organismes.»

Le rapport préconise cinq actions clés que les responsables politiques et spécialistes peuvent mettre en place pour protéger et faire fructifier les espèces protégées :

étendre les zones de protection des espèces menacées; assurer la conservation de toutes les espèces menacées dans les jardins botaniques ou banques de semences; augmenter le budget alloué à la conservation des espèces d'arbres menacées; multiplier les programmes de plantation et privilégier les espèces menacées et indigènes. Et enfin, promouvoir la collaboration mondiale pour lutter contre l'extinction des arbres.




Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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COVID-19  LE VARIANT MU CLASSE

COMME  VARIANT A SUIVRE

Après Alpha, Delta et Beta, c’est le nouveau variant du coronavirus, B.1.621, baptisé « Mu » et identifié pour la première fois en Colombie en janvier, qui a été classé comme « variant à suivre » par l’OMS ce mercredi.

Il est désormais considéré comme « d'intérêt » par l'OMS, qui le suit donc de très près.

Un variant considéré comme d'intérêt par l'OMS ne signifie pas qu'il deviendra forcément préoccupant plus tard, seulement qu'il demande une vigilance renforcée, notamment pour déterminer plus précisément ses caractéristiques. Si la plupart des mutations des virus n'ont que peu d'effets sur leurs propriétés, certaines peuvent affecter la transmissibilité et la gravité des symptômes, ou influer sur l'efficacité des vaccins.

En l'occurrence, le variant Mu est encore bien mystérieux. Détecté pour la première fois en janvier dernier en Colombie, il y représente aujourd'hui 40% des cas. Depuis sa première apparition en Colombie, le variant Mu a circulé dans plusieurs pays d'Amérique du Sud, et notamment au Mexique, en Equateur et au Chili. Sa présence a également été relevée dans une quarantaine de pays, mais plus sporadiquement. À l'échelle mondiale, il ne représente ainsi qu'un cas positif pour 1 000.

Début août, sa possible dangerosité avait déjà évoquée lorsque sept résidents d'un Ehpad belge sont morts du Covid-19 en l'espace de deux semaines, après avoir été contaminés par le variant Mu. Au 7 août, 20 personnes avaient été contaminées. Toutes étaient vaccinées.

Dans son bulletin épidémiologique hebdomadaire sur l'évolution de la pandémie publié mardi (PDF en anglais), l'agence onusienne précise que le variant dispose « d'une constellation de mutations qui soulignent de possibles propriétés d'évasion immunitaire ». Selon l'OMS, une étude préliminaire montre « une réduction de la capacité à neutraliser » le variant grâce aux vaccins, similaire à ce qui est observé avec le variant Bêta (identifié en Afrique du Sud).

Encore beaucoup de questions autour de Mu

En dehors de sa rapide progression en Amérique centrale, Mu reste ainsi bien obscur. Quelques études indiquent une transmissibilité similaire à celle du variant Alpha, moindre donc que celle de Delta aujourd’hui majoritaire sur la planète.

Sa résistance serait, elle, comparable à celle de Beta, anciennement nommé variant sud-africain, c'est-à-dire que la vaccination resterait toujours efficace pour prévenir les formes graves.




Andrew Preston pour DayNewsWorld
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LE WONDERSEA LE PLUS GRAND PAQUEBOT AU MONDE PREND LA MER

Vendredi 20 août 2021, le plus grand paquebot du monde, le « Wonder of the Seas », construit dans les chantiers de l'Atlantique, a quitté Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique).

Il mesure 362 mètres de long et 64 mètres de large. Il peut accueillir 9.000 personnes en tout, dont 2.300 membres du personnel . Doté de quatre piscines, 18 ponts et 2.867 cabines, ce mastodonte sera livré au mois de novembre à son propriétaire, l'armateur américain Royal Caribbean Cruise Line.

Comme ses prédécesseurs Harmony of the Seas et Symphony of the Seas, ce navire doit donc prendre le large «pour des essais en mer et reviendra mardi matin vers 4h30», explique-t-on à la communication des Chantiers de l'Atlantique.

Le constructeur va effectuer une soixantaine de tests, notamment de vitesse et de capacité giratoire, mais aussi de confort des passagers avec des mesures de bruits et de vibrations.Il est désormais en route pour quatre jours d'essais en mer, jusqu'à Belle-Ile-en-Mer (Morbihan).

Il sera de retour mardi prochain, le 24 août.

Si la performance du paquebot et les tests sont concluants, l'heure sera aux finitions et à d'éventuelles modifications.

L'engin devrait être livré pour 2022. Son armateur, l'américain Royal Caribbean Cruise Line (RCCL), le destine au marché chinois, avec pour port d'attache Shanghai qu'il rejoindra en mars 2022.

Jusqu'ici, le record du plus gros paquebot du monde était détenu par le « Symphony of the Seas », conçu dans ces mêmes lieux, en 2018.




Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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 FRANCE INCENDIE DEVASTATEUR

SUR LA COTE D'AZUR

Des milliers de touristes évacués, des pans de forêt méditerranéenne calcinée: des centaines de pompiers luttent sans relâche mardi, à terre et dans les airs, contre un violent incendie qui ravage l’arrière-pays de Saint-Tropez, sur la Côte d’Azur. Relativement épargnée par les feux qui ont récemment fait rage dans plusieurs pays méditerranéens, la France connaît un de ses plus importants incendies de l’été.

Sur la route qui traverse le massif des Maures, une zone de forêt et de garrigue prisée des touristes, des lignes électriques sont au sol, des poteaux sont calcinés et comme des vignes par endroit. Au cœur de la Réserve naturelle de la Plaine des Maures, où l’incendie a débuté lundi vers 17h45, sur la commune de Gonfaron, des pompiers tentent de récupérer après une nuit passée à lutter contre les flammes. Dans les airs, le ballet des Canadairs est incessant.

Si des milliers d’hectares ont déjà été parcourus, la surface brûlée n’a pas encore pu être évacuée. La ville de Saint-Tropez elle-même «n’est pas du tout touchée par les feux», selon la mairie. «Le feu n’est toujours pas maîtrisé à l’heure actuelle», selon un responsable de la communication des pompiers au poste de commandement situé au Luc (Var). Environ 900 pompiers sont mobilisés.

Réserve naturelle dévastée pour moitié

Les dégâts sur l’environnement sont eux importants: «La réserve naturelle de la plaine des Maures a été dévastée pour moitié. C’est une catastrophe, car c’est l’un des derniers spots abritant la tortue d’Hermann», une espèce protégée, a expliqué Concha Agero, directrice adjointe de l’Office français de la biodiversité, en espérant que ces animaux auront pu s’enfouir sous terre pour se protéger. Les reptiles, quant à eux, ont moins de possibilités de se protéger.

Lutte difficile

«L’incendie est très vaste, c’est une lutte très difficile», a insisté la commandante Delphine Vienco auprès de l’AFP, en soulignant «les conditions défavorables, avec un vent fort et de fortes températures», même si l’alerte canicule a désormais été levée sur le département.

Les soldats du feu varois, aidés par des collègues de départements du Sud-Est, ont réussi à éviter que le feu ne touche la Garde-Freinet, à une vingtaine de kilomètres de Saint-Tropez, malgré une vitesse de propagation exceptionnellement rapide de 4 km/h dans la nuit. «Ce matin (mardi), le vent est bien tombé, cela n’a rien à voir avec hier soir», souffle le maire de cette ville de 2000 habitants. «Maintenant, le but va être de faire le tour des hameaux isolés et de faire le bilan exact des dégâts».

Le sud-est de la France, habituellement très touché par des incendies l’été avait été relativement épargné jusqu’ici mais ce feu est l’un des plus importants de l’été et pourrait s’avérer aussi destructeur que celui qui a touché la montagne d’Alaric dans l’Aude fin juillet. Plus important incendie de l’été en France, celui-ci avait ravagé quelque 850 hectares au total selon le dernier bilan. L’année dernière, un incendie avait ravagé 1000 hectares à Martigues, à l’ouest de Marseille, dans une zone très touristique. Au moins 2700 personnes, dont de nombreux touristes, avaient dû être évacuées, certaines par la mer.

Le mistral arrivé sur la Provence lundi a nourri plusieurs autres feux à l’entrée du parc national des Calanques près de Marseille, ou dans le Var encore, sur la presqu’île de Giens, mais ces incendies ont été maîtrisés.

Préventivement, la totalité des 25 massifs forestiers des Bouches-du-Rhône est interdite d’accès mardi, de même que les massifs des Monts toulonnais dans le Var.




Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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CLASSEMENT DE SHANGAI

LES UNIVERSITES AMERICAINES DOMINENT

Les universités américaines confirment leur hégémonie dans le classement de Shanghai, palmarès mondial des universités, publié dimanche sur le site internet de l’organisation Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.

Ainsi, les États-Unis placent 16 établissements dans le top 20 du classement 2021. À la première place, pour la 19e année consécutive : Harvard, dans le Massachussets.

Elle devance Stanford, en Californie, puis la première européenne du classement, Cambridge, au Royaume-Uni.La première université française se trouve à la 13e place. Il s'agit de l'université Paris-Saclay, qui regroupe notamment CentraleSupélec et AgroParisTech.

Elle gagne une place par rapport au classement 2020, dans lequel elle avait fait sa première apparition.

Paris-Saclay conserve la première place mondiale pour les mathématiques.L'université française la plus connue, La Sorbonne, gagne 4 place par rapport à l'année dernière, et se place en 35e position.

Paris Sciences et Lettres est la troisième et dernière université française à se placer dans le top 100, à la 38e place.

Elle regroupe plusieurs établissements du supérieur, dont l'École normale supérieure (ENS), l'université Paris-Dauphine, l'École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris ou encore l'École nationale des chartes, rappelle franceinfo.

Ce classement se base sur le nombre de prix Nobel ou de médailles Fields parmi les chercheurs ayant étudié ou enseigné dans une université ou le nombre d'articles scientifiques publiés dans des revues anglophones comme Nature et Science.




Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

JO. FROM TOKYO

FRANCE WINS GOLD IN JUDO

It is the eighth medal in judo and the eighteenth of the French delegation.

Four in gold, eight in silver and six in bronze. France created a sensation and won gold by beating the Japanese team in the final to close this Olympic week in judo.

The French team against that of Japan: Teddy Riner's teammates were imperial and managed to get rid of the premises.

Clarisse Agbegnou, Axel Clerget, Teddy Riner and Sarah-Léonie Cysique won their respective fights to achieve this collective victory. Only Romane Dicko did not manage to overcome his vis-à-vis.

The France team leaves Tokyo on an excellent note and on a very strong symbol by beating Japan, who won nine gold medals in the individual events (out of 14), at home in an Olympic final.

Saturday, France was imperial !




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WHAT LEVEL OF PROTECTION DOES THE COVID VACCINE OFFER?

Does the vaccine prevent contamination ?

This is the question that torments many more than one !

Rare but existing contaminations

The level of protection conferred by the vaccines used against Covid is, of course, very high. According to the studies available to date, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is, for example, more than 96% effective, or even 100% effective in adolescents under 16 years of age.

But an adult may have received two doses of the vaccine and still get sick.

*According to a note from the direction of research, studies, evaluation and statistics (Drees), 6% of new cases recorded from June 28 to July 4 in France concerned, for example, people who were fully vaccinated. A figure probably underestimated because the vaccinated tend to be less tested than the rest of the population. However, these “vaccinated carriers” of the virus can infect other people.

Less contamination however

Fortunately, studies suggest that they have a lower potential for contamination than unvaccinated carriers. Particularly because they would have a lower viral load. A study carried out in Israel on some 5,000 patients of all ages showed that contagiousness was correlated with the amount of virus present in the nose.

However, it is much lower in patients who have received a dose of Pfizer for at least twelve days than in non-vaccinated (3 to 4.5 times less). “But right now, no one knows the minimum amount of virus needed to transmit the disease. "

The importance of time

It should also be remembered that the protection offered by a vaccine does not intervene immediately after the injection because it takes time for the immune system to optimize its defenses against the virus. In fact, most vaccines on the market require the administration of a second dose within a certain timeframe (three to four weeks for the messenger RNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, and two to three months for the vaccine. AstraZeneca adenoviral vector).

For optimal protection, the French authorities also recommend waiting a further period after the injection of the last dose of vaccine (at least seven days for those of Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, and even four weeks for the vaccine. by Johnson & Johnson).

A study carried out in Israel on nearly 600,000 people who received Pfizer's vaccine confirms the crucial role played by time, especially for asymptomatic infections, which are difficult to detect:

-two to three weeks after the first dose, the frequency of asymptomatic infections is only reduced by 29% compared to the unvaccinated control population;

- three to four weeks after this first dose, it drops by 52%;

- after the second dose, containment of infections rises to 90%.

Clearly, as they advance in their vaccination course, a person has less and less risk of being infected without knowing it and of transmitting the virus.

The unknown of variants

According to the latest data available, Pfizer's vaccine is for the moment resistant overall to all the variants that have emerged so far, from the Alpha (discovered in England) to the Delta (in India). The effectiveness of its competitor AstraZeneca, it would not exceed 60% against the Delta variant. Delta variant slightly weakens vaccines, which are still quite effective

Duration of immunity

There remains the question of the duration of the protection conferred by a vaccine: if the immunity decreases after a few months, it then becomes possible again to be contaminated by the coronavirus or by its variants without knowing it.

The efficacy over the duration of protection varies in the face of the appearance of variants and the various reactions to which they may cause depending on the state of health or age. For all these reasons, the health authorities recommend a combination vaccination-barrier gestures, in order to limit the extent of the fourth epidemic wave as much as possible.

"A reduction in the transmission rate thanks to non-pharmaceutical measures therefore remains important to limit the impact of the wave on the hospital system", once again insisted the modellers of the Institut Pasteur in a note published on July 26.



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TOWARDS A FOURTH WAVE WITH THE DELTA VARIANT ACCORDING TO THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE

Passport  extended immunization, vaccination for caregivers ... Emmanuel Macron's speech on the evening of Monday, July 12 triggered many comments in France. But behind these announcements, there is a study made by the Institut Pasteur which takes stock of the Delta variant, as you can discover in the video at the top of this article.

The report, under the direction of epidemiologist Simon Cauchemez, attempts to anticipate the coming months, with a new wave in sight resulting from the particularly high transmissibility of the Delta variant. Three scenarios then emerge from these calculations, and the least we can say is that they encourage a certain vaccine activism.

The reproduction rate of the Delta variant, that is to say the number of people that a patient will infect on average, is today 2. In the worst case, if this rate did not change at the decline, we would then go towards a re-entry even worse than the second wave of autumn 2020: with 35,000 cases of Delta as of August 1, we would have a higher peak than that of the first wave in early September.

Same picture for critical care, with 13,500 beds occupied.The other two scenarios are more lenient, but with a reproduction rate lowered to 1.8, we cannot prevent a peak at the start of the school year, even if the projections are less dramatic . The number of cases envisaged would be similar to that of the first wave, but the patients in critical care would then be young, and the situation would not fail to impose drastic measures,for example a new containment.

It is only in the third scenario, that of a reduction to 1.5 of the reproduction rate, that a new epidemic peak is avoided. The curve stabilizes at the beginning of September, and the runaway summer is avoided.

An option that can only be considered within a massively vaccinated population.



Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

COVID A NEW TURN OF THE SCREW

IN MEASURES IN FRANCE

Emmanuel Macron announced several radical measures, to push the French to be vaccinated against Covid-19. From the extension of the health pass to the waiver of screening tests, through the compulsory vaccination of caregivers.

For his eighth address since the start of the health crisis, Emmanuel Macron urged, Monday evening July 12, the French to be vaccinated without further delay. While the Delta variant raises fears of a fourth epidemic wave, the head of state announced a series of radical measures that will be effective by next fall.

July 13: return of the state of emergency in Réunion and Martinique

Reunion and Martinique will go into a state of health emergency as of Tuesday, July 13. The President of the Republic announced that the curfew will be reinstated in these two French overseas territories due to the increased circulation of the coronavirus.

In metropolitan France, faced with the increase in the incidence rate in most departments, the Head of State has indicated that braking measures could again be triggered in consultation with the prefects. "In the departments which would exceed an incidence rate of 200 and would see their hospitalizations increase, braking measures could be taken by the prefect", he affirmed.

July 21: the health pass extended to places of leisure and culture

In order to put pressure on the unvaccinated, the health pass will be extended during the summer. This will take place in two phases. From July 21, it will come into force in places of leisure and culture of more than 50 people for all people aged 12 and over.

This pass is used to confirm that you are either immunized, or vaccinated, or that you have performed a negative RT-PCR (or antigen) test of less than 48 hours.

Beginning of August: the health pass extended to restaurants, bars, shopping centers, etc.

Act 2 of the expansion of the health pass will take place in early August. It will become compulsory in other establishments such as "restaurants, shopping centers as well as in hospitals, retirement homes, medico-social establishments, but also in planes, trains and coaches for long journeys", detailed Emmanuel Macron. The lapse of time between these two phases must allow the government to "vote on a text of law and to promulgate it", specified the president who hinted that a third phase of enlargement was possible: "We ask ourselves the question. extending the health pass to other activities this fall ”.

September 15: compulsory vaccination of caregivers

The government has taken the decision to make vaccination compulsory for all staff in health facilities. The caregivers have until September 15 to be injected the serum otherwise they will be subject to sanctions. "From September 15, if you are a caregiver and you are not vaccinated, you will no longer be able to work and you will no longer be paid", warned the Minister of Health Olivier Véran.

In the fall: reimbursement of “comfort” PCR and antigen tests

Unless a medical prescription or contact case, Covid-19 detection tests will no longer be reimbursed in the fall. Emmanuel Macron has confirmed the end of the free use of so-called “comfort” PCR tests, to attend a concert or travel for example, which had until then been reimbursed by Health Insurance. Gabriel Attal specified that antigenic tests were also affected by this measure.

Announcements that made the political class react.

Unsurprisingly, the oppositions were quick to ridicule the presidential announcements. "Serious decline in individual freedoms", "the world from before and to worse": the oppositions react to Macron's announcements on the Covid-19 and the reforms

Eric Coquerel, deputy La France insoumise, castigates the obligation of vaccination for caregivers and the generalization of the health pass, believing that "Emmanuel Macron draws a society of generalized control and discrimination". As for Marine Le Pen, president of the National Rally and candidate for the Elysee Palace, she denounced a "serious decline in individual freedoms, [the] deconstruction of the State [and the] liquidation of our social protection system":

On the right, the Republican deputy Eric Ciotti "approves the measures announced by the President of the Republic" but regrets "the total relaxation before the regional elections" and a "somewhat indecent campaign speech".



Abby Shelcore for DayNewsWorld

TERRIBLE FIRE IN THE WATERS

OF THE GULF OF MEXICO

A vortex of fire in the midst of the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Friday at approximately 5 a.m. local time, a fire broke out on the surface of the ocean, west of the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula, forming a spectacular "eye of fire ". The state-owned oil company Pemex says it started from a gas leak from an undersea pipeline, a few hundred meters from its oil platform named Ku Maloob Zaap. The spectacular images of this scene, shot from the sky, were posted on Twitter by Mexican journalist Manuel Lopez San Martin.

A rupture of an underwater gas pipeline

The fire was caused by the rupture of an underwater gas pipeline, less than a meter below the surface, shortly after 5 a.m., said the Pemex company, which operates it (in Spanish). The pipeline is part of the Ku Maloob Zaap oil and gas complex, operated by Pemex.

The gas exfiltrated through the damaged pipe and ignited on the surface. The company, which has several major industrial accidents to its credit, said it had closed the pipeline valves. She added that she would investigate the cause of the fire. According to a Pemex incident report shared by Reuters, the platform's production facilities were hit by a thunderstorm. Angel Carrizales, executive director of the Agency for Safety, Energy and the Environment for the Hydrocarbons Sector in Mexico, also indicated on Twitter that the incident “did not generate any spills.” Ku Maloob Zaap is Pemex's largest crude oil producer site, accounting for over 40% of its daily production: nearly 1.7 million barrels.

A fire extinguished with nitrogen

Several boats were dispatched to put out the fire. More than five hours were needed to contain it. It was extinguished at 10:45 a.m., the company said. The fire was stopped thanks to the intervention of "fire-fighting vessels located nearby, such as Isla Santa Cruz, Bahía de Campeche and Bourbon Alienor", which spilled nitrogen on the flames. The production platform which was a few tens of meters away was not affected, the company said. No one was injured or evacuated and production was able to resume.

One of the most polluting companies in the world.

Still, the incident is far from insignificant. The name of Pemex is infamous. To his credit, several environmental scandals such as the explosion of the Tlahuelilpan pipeline (Mexico) in January 2019 which killed more than 100 people. The company had been accused of having taken a long time to cut power to the pipeline, after having detected the leak for several hours.

In addition, the public company responsible for the exploitation of oil is known to be one of the most polluting in the world.

It was ranked in 2019 as one of the 20 most polluting companies in the world in terms of carbon emissions, in a survey by the Guardian.



Paul Emison for DayNewsWorld

THE THIRD LARGEST DIAMOND IN THE WORLD DISCOVERED IN BOTSWANA

The third largest diamond in the world was discovered in Botswana according to RFI, a 1098 carat diamond was discovered in Botswana.

It is the third largest diamond in the world known to history.

It is the size of a clementine.

The diamond discovered by a private company owned by a South African diamond group and by the Botswana state is the third largest known in the history of the world, reports RFI.

The price, for the moment, of this gemstone has not yet been assessed.

But for comparison, our colleagues recall that a diamond of 100 carats more discovered in this same country had been estimated at 53 million dollars.

This rough stone could either be kept whole or split into tens of diamonds.

The diamond ball will be auctioned off and with a team of specialists the owner can decide what

to do with it.




Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

THE MOVING TESTIMONY OF MILA

"I WILL NECESSARILY NOT STAY ALIVE"

The A young Mila is not a teenager like any other. She has been living under high police protection since the publication in January 2020 of a video in which she made controversial remarks about Islam. The young woman with blue hair delivers a moving testimony Sunday, June 13 in the show Sept à 8 on TF1.Victim of cyberstalking after his criticisms against Islam, Mila, a young girl of 18, tells about this life to "Seven to eight" . .

“You were taken prisoner in your own country,” her scorners point out to her. She admits that the individual, alas, “is right on this point. "

“Who will say the opposite? »She blurted out in the interview on the show. “Even when I'm outside I'm in jail. In prison in layers of clothes, different make-up ... (...) When I look like a fly with the big coat when it's hot, the mask, the sunglasses and the rotten hat ... No, I'm not Inspector Gadget! I am a woman, I walk in the street, I need to live, ”she says.

"Nobody does anything"

She assures us in this interview that “the Nation is fragile and cowardly”: “I see cowardice everywhere see cowardice everywhere around me. nobody does anything, because people are afraid, ”says Mila. “Yet I was convinced that my country was not like that. If we don't stick together, let it be even the silent majority, which 'supports' me but which will never do anything. They are people that I appreciate, thank you for supporting me. "Nobody does anything because people are afraid". Despite everything, even "with a knife to her throat", she does not intend to be silent. "On the other hand, I'm still a young woman who doesn't even know what to think of her future at the present time," she admits blasé.

"When people ask me how I see myself in five years ..."

When the journalist asks her how she sees herself in five years, the teenager paints a rather tragic picture. "I see myself maybe burnt up, maybe with a torn leg or maybe dead… Maybe I'll be dead in five years." And to add: "I am not necessarily going to stay alive and I tell you that in the greatest calm, and I know that it is not normal. And that's when I start to cry. Because I am not able to see my future like the others. "

Mila has been the target of death threats and insults since early 2020 and controversial statements about Islam. She recounts her life since that date in a book to be published on June 16, Je suis le prix de votre liberté (ed. Grasset). Mila promises: "I will never stop talking".




Abby Shelcore for DayNewsWorld

COVID THE WORLD AFTER

The measures to relax the conditions of deconfinement could give Europeans hope to find a normal life. Could they even hope for a start after the chaos ?

Dreaming of a happy reunion with freedom ?

And even imagine that the crisis would lead to a better future. No, Europeans are no longer delusional when the hope of a more normal life is emerging in several countries, at the cost, however, of heated debates in the United States on the lifting of the recommendation to wear the mask for the vaccinated.

One thing is certain, however: normal life will not be completely like life before.

The forecasting and analysis offices are also starting to imagine what life will be like after the Covid, pointing to two main categories of changes.

On the one hand, certain changes, immediate because they respond to a reality or simply to reactions of common sense. Changes that were germinating and whose lasting emergence was precipitated by the Covid.

On the other hand, probable changes, plausible but not certain.

The reinforced individual behaviors that the pandemic and its management have brought to light, namely that each individual will have to take responsibility for his own protection against health dangers, but not only health. This feeling, which is new in a country with a culture of assistantship, will go through:

- acceptance of the use of masks, screening and tracing of positive cases despite the disappearance of the pandemic. We will live masked most of the time like the Asians;

-the acceptance of vaccination almost annually or can be multiannual, because vaccination is the only way to protect yourself and others.

- the obligation of a health pass or a vaccination record (digital no doubt) to travel, go to the show or come to work.

All of its measures, previously considered as liberticidal, have gradually become public health measures under individual responsibility.

Technical changes that will eventually impose themselves completely, impacting daily and professional life.

- the digitization of all the functions of the company which is undoubtedly the first factor of productivity today;

- e-commerce, which already represents 20% of the total, is bound to grow very quickly.

- a fully digitalized bank.

Important changes linked to mobility prevented by the Covid, which we do not know if they will continue or not.

Teleworking, for example, could be more often requested by employees or business leaders, but professional relations in Visio, via Skype or Zoom, will not be abandoned to return to face-to-face. Digital will remain the master of the game for economic and financial reasons.

The policies deployed to deal with the health crisis have accelerated the underlying trends that are crossing societies and worrying populations: uncertainty, precariousness, devouring machinery, disembodiment of human relationships. Hadn't the Observatory for Society and Consumption predicted that a crisis always has a "powerful effect of accelerating the trends that we observed before it erupted " ?

Houellebecq had he not sensed the fact that “we will not wake up, after confinement, in a new world; it will be the same, but a little worse ” ?




Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

GERMANY DISMANTLING OF A LARGE PEDOPORNOGRAPHY INTERNET NETWORK


Three Germans kings were arrested after an investigation of several months of a special unit of the German police under the coordination of Europol.

The German judicial police announced on Monday the dismantling of a child pornography network on the Darknet presented as one "of the largest in the world" and with more than 400,000 members. The dismantling of the "BOYSTOWN" platform, which had existed since 2019, took place in mid-April, according to a police statement.

Three Germans were arrested after a months-long investigation by a special German police unit coordinated by Europol and with the collaboration of Dutch, Swedish, Australian, American and Canadian police. in Paraguay, is the subject of an international arrest warrant on the basis of which he should be delivered to the German authorities. The police did not reveal their identity ... Eva Kühne-Hörmann, Minister of Justice of the Land of Hesse, where Frankfurt is located, called the operation "a fantastic success in the fight against sexual violence against minors".

A platform of "international scope"

"The platform had an international reach and was used for the exchange of pornography of minors between its members", mainly photos or videos of abuse perpetrated on boys.

Among them were "images of serious sexual abuse of very young children," said the police.

Four suspects

Three of the suspects, aged 40, 49 and 58, respectively, are suspected of "having been the administrators of the child pornography platform". In addition to taking care of network management, they were responsible for "monitoring customers," said the police.

The fourth, a 64-year-old man, is believed to have been one of the platform's most active users, and to have posted more than 3,500 messages.

Germany has dismantled several of these networks in recent years. In March 2019, four Germans accused of having managed such a platform called “Elysium” were sentenced to prison terms ranging from three years and ten months to nine years and nine months.




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THE SARAH HALIMI CASE A BILL ON CRIMINAL IRRESPONSIBILITY

The French Minister of Justice, Eric Dupond-Moretti, announced on Sunday April 25 the presentation "at the end of May" in the Council of Ministers of a bill aimed at "filling" a "legal vacuum" after the Court of Justice. cassation confirmed the criminal irresponsibility of the murderer of Sarah Halimi, a Jewish sexagenarian murdered in Paris in 2017.

While confirming the anti-Semitic nature of the crime, the highest judicial court had confirmed on April 14 the abolition of the judgment of the murderer, taken from a "delirious puff" against a background of heavy cannabis consumption at the time of the facts.

This decision, which does not call into question his psychiatric hospitalization ordered by justice, aroused strong emotion and strong incomprehension on the part of the French.

While, eleven days after the confirmation of the lack of trial in the Sarah Halimi case, the government announced on Sunday April 25 a bill on criminal irresponsibility, Gilles-William Goldnadel, the lawyer for the sister of this Jewish sexagenarian killed in 2017 affirmed on franceinfo: “We are led to believe that without this bill, the decision of the Court of Cassation could not have been different. It's wrong. The reality is first of all an investigation carried out in spite of common sense, which never wanted to receive the lawyer of the civil party that I am. This is the first time I have seen this in exercise forty. The investigating judge also did not want to reconstruct the scene of the crime. "

“Experts were divided and some considered that Kobili Traoré's discernment was not abolished because he had deliberately taken drugs. Moreover, it was not the first time that he had delusional puffs ”, argued Gilles-William Goldnadel, the lawyer of the sister.

The family wants to take Israeli justice

Several “gatherings of anger” are planned for Sunday (in Paris, Lyon, Lille, Marseille, Bordeaux…), to challenge the lack of trial of the murderer. Under the slogan “Without justice, no Republic”, the main gathering began at 2 pm, Place du Trocadéro in Paris, at the initiative of the Agissons pour Sarah Halimi collective.

Sarah Halimi's family wants to go to Israeli justice to obtain a trial against Kobili Traore, who had beaten the sexagenarian before defeating her.

"Israeli criminal law provides that when the victim is Jewish and the crime is anti-Semitic in nature, Israeli justice is competent," explained Me Francis Szpiner, one of the family's lawyers.




Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld

COVID SOON THE END OF TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS FOR THE RESUMPTION OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISM ?

Opening international tourism again, this is a perspective that some governments are considering already for the near future. Asked by the American channel CBS News in an interview for the show "Face The Nation", broadcast this Sunday, April 18, French President Emmanuel Macron has indeed reaffirmed his desire to gradually lift from the beginning of May the travel restrictions introduced. in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.

For the French, the Europeans, but also for the Americans.

“We will gradually lift the restrictions at the beginning of May, which means that we will make sure to organize the summer period, with our professionals, for the French, for the Europeans, but also for the Americans.

We are working hard to find a concrete solution, especially for American citizens who are vaccinated, with a special pass I would say ”, detailed the president. Emmanuel Macron said that the French authorities had started discussing this subject with the White House, before discussing the European health passport currently being prepared in Brussels.

All AntiCovid and health passport

The European Union must put in place by the end of June a sesame intended to facilitate travel for Europeans who can certify that they have been vaccinated against Covid-19, or when they have passed a rapid PCR or antigen test, or that they are immune after being infected.

The ambassadors of the 27 Member States set Wednesday at one year the duration of application of a regulation on the health certificate prepared by the European Commission and now negotiated with MEPs. The health pass "will not be declarative" and will require, for example, a blood test to ensure acquired immunity, said Sunday the European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton, interviewed on BFMTV.

In France, the TousAntiCovid application should include a notebook to prove the positive or negative result of a virus detection test, then certify the vaccination status, the government announced on Sunday in an invitation to the press.

Contamination on a flight from New Delhi

As the story of the New Delhi Hong-Kong flight warns us: “47 passengers on a flight to Hong-Kong from New Delhi, warns a reporter from Atlantico , have tested positive during their quarantine at the hotel. , some on the twelfth day. They all tested negative on boarding. Similar cases have been recorded in Australia and New Zealand. What lessons can we learn from these contaminations on board in order to better adapt the health protocol in the context of international air transport ?

We must therefore be right: the implementation of quarantines on arrival in a country could be required.

"TousAntiCovid-Carnet, whose experimentation begins in the coming days, aims to store in digital form (in the application) and in a secure manner (a) certified negative or positive test proof and, tomorrow, a certified certificate of vaccination" , is it specified.




Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld
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SCANDALE SEXUEL EN AUSTRALIE AU PARLEMENT

Un nouveau scandale sexuel vient éclabousser la classe politique australienne après la diffusion d'images à caractère pornographique dans lesquelles apparaissent des députés et des collaborateurs du gouvernement.

Des députés pratiquant le coït dans une salle de prière du Parlement. Un conseiller de l’exécutif se masturbant sur le bureau d’une députée. Des prostituées qui ont leur entrée. Une nouvelle affaire de scandale sexuel ébranle la classe politique australienne après la diffusion lundi soir de vidéos et de photos à caractère pornographique que s’échangeaient des collaborateurs du gouvernement dans un groupe de discussion. Un lanceur d’alerte, scandalisé par ces agissements, a décidé de tout dévoiler à la presse.

Ces révélations ont suscité un tollé en Australie alors qu’une série d'affaires, dont une plainte pour viol, ont récemment mis en lumière les agissements de certains collaborateurs du gouvernement en place. Le Premier ministre conservateur, Scott Morrison, a dénoncé des comportements « scandaleux ».

Dans le journal The Australian, l’auteur de ces révélations dépeint une « culture d'hommes qui pensent qu'ils peuvent faire ce qu'ils veulent » au sein des arcanes du pouvoir. Tout en estimant que ces employés n'avaient probablement enfreint aucune loi, il a ajouté : « Moralement, ils sont cuits. » Un conseiller a d'ores et déjà été limogé et le gouvernement a promis de sévir davantage.

La ministre des Femmes, Marise Payne, qui est aussi la ministre des Affaires étrangères, a déclaré à la presse que ces révélations étaient « plus que consternantes » et qu'elles renforçaient la nécessité de l'enquête qui a été ordonnée par le gouvernement sur la culture de travail au Parlement. La sénatrice Verte, Lidia Thorpe, a affirmé avoir été victime à quatre reprises de faits de harcèlement sexuel depuis qu'elle a pris ses fonctions il y a six mois. « Ce sont les hommes qui écrivent nos lois, des hommes qui devraient savoir (…) Cela me rend malade », déplore-t-elle dans le journal australien The Canberra Times.

Deux affaires retentissantes impliquant deux ministres ont déjà éclaboussé ces derniers temps le gouvernement de centre-droit.




Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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LE PASSEPORT SANITAIRE

 NOUVEAU SESAME DES ISRAELIENS

Le pays champion du monde de la vaccination entre avec précaution dans ce qu’il espère être le début du monde d’après.

La course vers l’immunité collective s’accompagne d’un déconfinement progressif.

Dimanche, les cafés et les restaurants ont rouvert, tout comme l’aéroport Ben Gourion de Tel-Aviv, et la vie culturelle a repris.

Le badge vert, passeport vaccinal

Les autorités ont instauré le fameux badge vert.

Le document est à télécharger à la réception d’un mail du Ministère de la santé obtenu après la deuxième injection du vaccin Pfizer.

Son détenteur est un «aristocrate».

Son sésame lui donne accès à tous les commerces, aux événements culturels, aux musées, aux tables intérieures des restaurants, aux piscines, aux salles de sport.

Le non-vacciné doit se contenter des centres commerciaux, des terrasses de bistrot et de bains de mer. 40% des Israéliens y ont déjà droit. Et la majorité des citoyens va en bénéficier dans les prochaines semaines.

Le laissez-passer comporte un code QR sécurisé et le numéro d’identification de l’utilisateur. Un document que l’on peut imprimer.

Mais des copies de l’application circulent dans les entrailles du dark web. Elles connaissent, selon les spécialistes, un succès certain.

Quelque 100 000 abonnés auraient rejoint via le réseau crypté Telegram des groupes délivrant de fausses attestations payantes.

Des questions morales et éthiques

Premier laboratoire mondial à ciel ouvert d’une société en voie de vaccination, Israël s’interroge sur les règles du jeu.

Le pays est confronté à des questions juridiques, morales et éthiques, alors qu’il tente de trouver un équilibre entre les étapes de la reprise de la vie publique et des questions telles que la discrimination, le libre choix et la vie privée.

Le parlement israélien a adopté une loi donnant aux autorités la possibilité de connaître les noms, adresses et numéros de téléphone des personnes non vaccinées. Il s’agirait de les ficher pour s’adresser à elles afin d’essayer de les convaincre. Le texte a suscité des remous.

La nouvelle cheffe du Parti travailliste, Merav Michaeli, a fustigé la manière dont le premier ministre, Benyamin Netanyahou, «nie aux citoyens leur droit à la confidentialité sur leurs informations médicales».

Le premier ministre a négocié un accord pour être approvisionné massivement en doses de vaccin Pfizer en échange de la livraison des données nationales sur l’épidémie.




Joanne Courbet pour DayNewsWorld

GREAT APES VACCINATED AGAINST COVID-19 IN THE UNITED STATES

In the United States, they too are now vaccinated against the coronavirus, and this is a world first. Several great apes at the San Diego Zoo in California have been given two doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.

But a vaccine not quite like the others since it was specially developed for animals.

They are the first non-human primates to be now protected from Covid-19 infection: 4 orangutans and 5 bonobos.

On Friday, these residents of the San Diego Zoo received two shots of an experimental vaccine, designed specifically for animals and developed by the specialized firm Zoetis.

Something to reassure the managers of one of the largest zoos in the world.

In early January, several of the zoo's gorillas had tested positive for coronavirus and then placed in quarantine. This was the first case of transmission to monkeys.

The fear then was to see the spread of contaminations in primates, with which we humans share more than 95% of common genomes, and therefore a similar vulnerability to the virus.

For the time being, no side effects are to be deplored in the primates which have just been vaccinated. Zoetis, a veterinary research company, former Pfizer branch, is continuing its experiments.

These medical advances should ultimately be aimed first at endangered great apes, primarily the bonobo, which have 200 representatives in zoos across the globe.




Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld
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COVID LE NOMBRE DE SUICIDES EN AUGMENTATION DANS LE MONDE

Depuis plusieurs mois, psychiatres et psychologues à travers le monde alertent sur l’état mental des populations confrontées aux restrictions sanitaires dans le cadre de la lutte contre la pandémie de Covid-19.

Des facteurs comme le stress, les difficultés économiques ou encore les abus familiaux sont en effet exacerbés par les mesures sanitaires restrictives.

Aussi le Japon où le nombre de suicides -déjà un des taux les plus élevés au monde- a augmenté de près de 1000 en 2020- en a-t-il fait un problème de santé publique jugé suffisamment grave pour que le Premier ministre, Yoshihide Suga, désigne un « ministre de la Solitude », vendredi 19 février 2021.

C'est Tetsushi Sakamoto, ancien journaliste et ministre de la Revitalisation régionale, qui aura la lourde tâche d’endiguer ce fléau qui pourrait avoir été favorisé par l’essor du télétravail et le manque de relations sociales engendré par les restrictions pour lutter contre le Covid-19.

« En raison de la crise sanitaire, le nombre de personnes qui se donnent la mort est en hausse.

Si nous ne faisons rien, cela engendrera une crise sociale d’une ampleur inédite. Soyons humains et moins bureaucratiques. Mettons-nous à la place de nos concitoyens qui se trouvent dans une grande difficulté afin de leur tendre la main », a déclaré le nouveau ministre, selon la chaîne publique nipponne NHK

Signes inquiétants en France

Pour le moment, impossible de savoir si la France, qui possède l’un des taux de suicide les plus élevés d’Europe, avec 9 000 décès par an, a connu une flambée de cas durant cette crise sanitaire. Des statistiques solides ne seront pas disponibles avant plusieurs années.

Cependant, plusieurs études indiquent que le sentiment de solitude et de mal-être a augmenté au sein de la population. Entre les confinements, les couvre-feux, les fermetures des bars et restaurants, des salles de spectacles… l’épidémie de Covid-19 a porté un sérieux coup à la vie sociale de millions de personnes qui peuvent souffrir plus ou moins fortement de cet isolement.Selon une étude Ipsos publiée fin janvier pour l’association Astrée, près de 18 % des personnes interrogées, soit 1 Français sur 5, affirment se sentir toujours ou souvent seules, contre 13 % en 2018. En outre, le sondage montre que 63 % des individus souffrant de solitude ont eu des pensées suicidaires.

Des signes inquiétants remontent également du terrain de la part de professionnels aguerris. Les numéros d’écoute comme SOS Amitiés sont débordés assure Françoise Facy. « Nos associations adhérentes constituent des points d’alerte et tous les numéros d’écoute nous indiquent que le nombre d’appels a explosé », explique l’ancienne présidente de l'Union nationale de prévention du suicide (UNPS) contactée par France 24.

Jeunes en première ligne

Les étudiants sont régulièrement cités parmi les segments de la population mondiale les plus fragilisés par la crise sanitaire. Au Japon un bond de près de 30 % sur les suicides par rapport à la même période l'année précédente a été observé chez les jeunes Aux États-unis, les statistiques nationales sur les suicides d’adolescents ne sont pas encore disponibles mais certaines situations au niveau local donnent une tendance particulièrement frappante. Dans un comté du Nevada, qui englobe Las Vegas, 19 élèves se sont suicidés depuis mars, plus du double du chiffre de 2019. S’ils ne peuvent être attribués directement à la pandémie, les autorités ont décidé d’accélérer le calendrier de réouverture des écoles. En France, selon une enquête publiée en janvier pour la Fondation FondaMental, près d’un jeune sur trois a eu des « pensées suicidaires » ces derniers mois.

Sylvie Tordjman, chef du pôle hospitalo-universitaire de psy­chia­trie de l'enfant et de l’adolescent de Rennes, révèle que ses services ont enregistré deux fois plus d’épisodes de « crises suicidaires » et de « troubles anxio-dépressifs » durant cet hiver par rapport à la même période de l’année dernière.En cause notamment le « dérèglement des horloges biologiques » durant le confinement et le reconfinement, « terrain de vulnérabilité aux troubles anxieux et dépressifs » ou encore le « manque d’activité physique » induit par la sédentarité, selon la spécialiste.

Pour venir en aide aux jeunes fragilisés, les pouvoirs publics français ont certes lancé, début février, « le chèque psy »étudiant.

Mais il n'en demeure pas moins qu 'un jeune adulte a besoin plus que tout d'interactions sociales pour se construire et semble être sacrifié sur l'autel des mesures sanitaires restrictives .




Kelly Donaldson pour DayNewsWorld
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UN PASSEPORT CORONA NUMERIQUE

LANCE AU DANEMARK

Au Danemark, un « coronapass » numérique devrait voir le jour « dans trois ou quatre mois », pour confirmer son statut immunitaire, a annoncé ce mercredi 3 février le ministre danois des finances par intérim Morten Bodskov. Il devrait permettre aux Danois de voyager, mais aussi de sortir au restaurant ou d'aller à un concert

En attendant son lancement, un certificat aux personnes ayant reçu les deux doses du vaccin contre le Covid-19 devrait être disponible fin février et pourra être téléchargé sur le portail de santé électronique « Sunshed », où chaque Danois peut y gérer son dossier médical à partir d'un compte privé, s'inscrire pour un test et y recevoir ses résultats. «Avant la fin du mois de février, vous aurez la possibilité de surveiller votre vaccination sur la plateforme», a ainsi expliqué le ministre de l'Économie.

Ce certificat est d’abord destiné aux voyages d’affaires, puisqu’il permettra d’échapper aux contraintes sanitaires, comme les tests à répétition et la quarantaine exigée en rentrant de certains pays.Viendrait ensuite le « coronapass », ce permis immunitaire dont pourront bénéficier tous les individus vaccinés, mais aussi ceux qui ont été testés négatifs ou qui sont porteurs d’anticorps. Concrètement, il s’agira d’une application mobile via laquelle les Danois pourront confirmer leur statut immunitaire

Par ce dispositif, l'exécutif espère un retour plus rapide à la «vie normale».

Un horizon cependant encore lointain pour le Danemark qui a prolongé les mesures de semi-confinement jusqu’au 28 février. Les bars, restaurants, commerces et écoles sont fermés alors que le nombre de contaminations et d’hospitalisations est en hausse dans le pays (200.000 nouveaux cas ce mardi 2 février, contre 194.000 le 24 janvier). Au Danemark, plus de 3% de la population a déjà reçu une première dose de vaccin, plaçant le pays en deuxième position de l'UE dans la vaccination contre le Covid-19 et près de 100.000 habitants sur 5,8 millions ont reçu les deux doses à ce jour.

Tandis que l'Islande a été le premier pays au monde à lancer son propre passeport vaccinal, l'idée ne fait pas consensus parmi les états membres de l'UE...




Jaimie Potts pour DayNewsWorld
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DES CHIENS RENIFLEURS

POUR DEPISTER LE CORONAVIRUS

Le chien est-il l’avenir du dépistage du coronavirus ?

Ce canidé serait capable de détecter des personnes atteintes par la Covid-19, asymptomatiques ou non.

En France, un programme baptisé Nosais a été mis en place dès le mois de mai. Entraînés des chiens savent détecter l’odeur de la Covid-19 dans la transpiration des êtres humains. Fiabilité affichée : entre 94 et 98%.

Le recours aux chiens renifleurs se présente comme une alternative intéressante. Elle est déjà utilisée à l’aéroport d’Helsinki, en Finlande : à leur arrivée, il est possible pour les voyageurs d’entrer dans une petite pièce ils peuvent se frotter l’aisselle ou le cou avec un morceau de tissu.

De l’autre côté du mur, un dresseur récupère l’échantillon et le fait sentir à son chien. Une dizaine de secondes suffit à celui-ci pour déterminer si la personne est ou non infectée par le coronavirus.

Selon la scientifique qui supervise l’expérience, Anna Hielm-Björkman, le taux de détection va de 94 à 100%. « C’est mieux que les tests PCR. Et quand il y a une différence entre un test PCR et le chien, c’est généralement le chien qui a raison », comme l’a également prouvé une expérimentation menée en France.

L'odorat des chiens est plus performant que la technologie

Comment les chiens sont-ils en mesure de détecter la présence du coronavirus chez l’être humain, comme ils le font déjà pour la malaria ou le cancer ? Cela reste pour l’heure un mystère :

« La technologie n’est pas au niveau de l’odorat d’un chien, elle ne peut pas détecter des teneurs aussi faibles », conclut la scientifique.




Andrew Preston pour DayNewsWorld
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AFFAIRE DUHAMEL LE FRERE JUMEAU DE CAMILLE KROUCHNER A PORTE PLAINTE

 CONTRE SON BEAU-PERE OLIVIER DUHAMEL

Le frère jumeau de Camille Kouchner a porté plainte contre son beau-père« Victor » Kouchner, le frère jumeau de Camille Kouchner, qui aurait été agressé sexuellement lorsqu’il était adolescent par son beau-père, Olivier Duhamel, selon les révélations de sa sœur, a porté plainte contre le politologue, ce mardi, a annoncé son avocate.

« Dans le cadre de l'"affaire Duhamel", la victime présumée fait savoir, par l’intermédiaire de son avocate Maître Jacqueline Laffont, qu’elle a déposé plainte contre son ex-beau-père Monsieur Olivier Duhamel suite à l’ouverture d’une enquête préliminaire diligentée par le parquet de Paris », indique son conseil dans ce communiqué.

Une enquête ouverte par le parquet de Paris

Le parquet de Paris avait ouvert une enquête, le 5 janvier 2021, pour « viols et agressions sexuelles par personne ayant autorité sur mineur de 15 ans » après les révélations.

« Victor » Kouchner, aujourd'hui âgé de 45 ans a été entendu le 21 janvier par les policiers de la Brigade de protection des mineurs (BPM) chargés de l'enquête . Pendant cette audition, il est revenu longuement sur les faits révélés par sa sœur dans La Familia Grande, paru le 7 janvier.

Le fils de l'ancien ministre Bernard Kouchner et de la professeure de droit Evelyne Pisier (morte en 2017), remariée avec Olivier Duhamel, avait été interrogé dans une première procédure ouverte en 2011. Mais il avait alors refusé de déposer plainte pour ces faits, probablement prescrits.L'enquête avait été « classée sans suite », a indiqué le 5 janvier dans un communiqué le procureur de Paris Rémy Heitz, sans motiver cette décision.

La nouvelle enquête ouverte à la parution du livre vise à vérifier que les faits sont bien prescrits depuis 2003, « à faire la lumière » sur cette affaire et à « identifier toute autre victime potentielle », selon Rémy Heitz.

Depuis la parution du livre, ces accusations suscitent un vaste débat et de nombreux témoignages sur l'inceste, notamment sur les réseaux sociaux via le hashtag #Metooinceste.

Plusieurs personnalités éclaboussées par le scandale

Après les révélations, Olivier Duhamel a démissionné de l'ensemble de ses fonctions: outre la présidence de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques (FNSP), qui chapeaute Sciences Po, le politologue a aussi quitté celle du club d'influence « Le Siècle » et arrêté ses émissions sur LCI ou Europe 1. Plusieurs personnes de l'entourage de M. Duhamel, accusées d'avoir été au courant des faits depuis plusieurs années, ont été éclaboussées par le scandale.

Le préfet d'Ile-de-France Marc Guillaume, membre du conseil d'administration du "Siècle" et ex-secrétaire général du gouvernement, a quitté l'ensemble des fonctions dans lesquelles il a travaillé avec Olivier Duhamel.

L'ancienne ministre Elisabeth Guigou a, elle, quitté la présidence de la Commission sur l'inceste et les violences sexuelles subies pendant l'enfance.




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CORONAVIRUS A BALI UNE DROLE D'AMENDE

POUR LES RECALCITRANTS DU PORT DU MASQUE

Gare aux touristes qui ne respectent pas le protocole sanitaire en Indonésie !

Les autorités ont trouvé un moyen de lutter contre les personnes récalcitrantes au port du masque : les obliger à faire des pompes Aux forces de l'ordre de les contraindre à effectuer 50 pompes en cas d'absence de masque. Quant à ceux qui le portent mal, 15 pompes leur sont demandées.

Le port du masque est en effet obligatoire depuis l'an dernier dans les lieux publics de l'île indonésienne, afin de lutter contre la propagation de la Covid-19.

Dans la province de Badung, où se trouvent les plages prisées de Kuta et Seminyak, 8.864 infractions au protocole sanitaire ont été enregistrées.

Et 90% d'entre elles concernaient des touristes étrangers, principalement des Européens, détaille à ABC l'officier chargé du maintien de l'ordre, Gusti Agung Ketut

« Le respect du port du masque par les touristes étrangers est très bas. 90% des contrevenants sont des touristes étrangers », souligne Gusti Agung Ketut .

L'Indonésie pourrait bien sévir face à ces touristes irrespectueux en les expulsant tout simplement du pays!




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COVID-19 LES TROIS VARIANTS DU VIRUS DETECTES SONT DANGEREUX CHACUN A LEUR MANIERE

Le nombre de pays et territoires où se trouve dorénavant le variant du coronavirus repéré initialement en Grande-Bretagne s’élève à 50 et il est de 20 pour le variant identifié en Afrique du Sud, selon l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS).

Une troisième mutation, le variant japonais venu du Brésil, dont le Japon a annoncé dimanche la découverte  pourrait impacter la réponse immunitaire et nécessite d’être étudiée plus avant, selon l’OMS qui évoque dans son bulletin hebdomadaire « un variant inquiétant  »​.

«  Plus le virus SARS-CoV-2 se répand, plus il a d’occasion de muter », souligne l’OMS. « De hauts niveaux de contamination signifient que nous devons nous attendre à l’émergence de davantage de variants ».

Le SARS-CoV-2 est le virus responsable de la maladie Covid-19. Signalé pour la première fois à l’OMS le 14 décembre 2020, le variant britannique VOC 202012/01 a été retrouvé dans 50 pays, territoires et zones, précise l’agence de l’Onu.

Le variant identifié en Afrique du Sud, signalé pour la première fois le 18 décembre 2020, a été détecté à présent dans 20 pays, territoires et zones.

« À partir des enquêtes préliminaires et en cours en Afrique du Sud, il est possible que ce variant soit plus transmissible que les variants qui circulaient auparavant en Afrique du Sud », estime l’OMS dans son bulletin publié mardi soir.

« En outre, si ce nouveau variant ne semble pas provoquer une forme plus grave de la maladie, la hausse rapide du nombre de cas observée a mis les systèmes de santé sous pression ».

L’ampleur de la diffusion géographique des deux variants est vraisemblablement sous-estimée, ajoute l’OMS, en raison d’une distorsion liée au fait qu’ils ont été découverts dans des pays dotés d’une capacité de séquençage du virus.




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OLIVIER DUHAMEL ACCUSE D'INCESTE

Alors que son livre La Familia Grande n'est pas encore sorti en librairie, - il est publié ce jeudi 7 janvier - Camille Kouchner a brisé un lourd silence.

Dans ce livre, l'avocate et fille de l'ancien ministre Bernard Kouchner, aujourd'hui âgée de 45 ans, dévoile un terrible secret de famille : les abus sexuels subis par son frère jumeau à partir de ses 13 ans, dans les années 1980, commis par leur beau-père, le célèbre politologue Olivier Duhamel qui était en couple avec leur mère Evelyne Pisier. Un inceste qui n'est révélé qu'aujourd'hui au grand public, alors que « des dizaines et des dizaines de personnes » étaient au courant souligne Le Parisien ce 6 janvier et ont préféré se taire pour éviter tout scandale. En publiant son livre, Camille Krouchner brise donc une omerta très forte. Avec son livre, Camille Kouchner dit vouloir « témoigner de l'inceste pour montrer que ça dure des années et que c'est très, très difficile de se défaire du silence ».

Ouverture d'une enquête


Face aux accusations, Olivier Duhamel a annoncé sur Twitter mettre fin à l'ensemble de ses fonctions. « Etant l'objet d'attaques personnelles et désireux de préserver les institutions dans lesquelles je travaille, j'y mets fin à mes fonctions », a-t-il écrit, avant de supprimer son compte mardi matin.  Ancien député socialiste européen (de 1997 à 2004), Olivier Duhamel était notamment président de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques.

Ce mardi 5 janvier, le parquet a décidé d'ouvrir une enquête à son encontre pour viols et agressions sexuelles par personne ayant autorité sur mineur de 15 ans.

« À la suite de la publication des différents articles de presse le 4 janvier mettant en cause Olivier Duhamel, le parquet de Paris a ouvert ce jour une enquête des chefs de viols et agressions sexuelles par personne ayant autorité sur mineur de 15 ans », a précisé ce mardi 5 janvier dans un communiqué le procureur de Paris, Rémy Heitz.

La pétition de Matzneff qui ressort

L'affaire Gabriel Matzneff qui a éclaté avec le livre « Le Consentement » de Vanessa Springora l'an dernier avait fait ressortir la tribune rédigée par Gabriel Matzneff lui-même défendant la possibilité d'entretenir une relation amoureuse et sexuelle avec des mineurs. Publiée le 26 janvier 1977 dans le Monde, cette pétition avait à l'époque était signée par Bernard Kouchner, le père de Camille Kouchner et de son jumeau, donc le propre père de la victime d'Olivie Duhamel.

Quelque 69 intellectuels français ont signé aux côtés de l'écrivain Gabriel Matzneff et du romancier, Guy Hocquenghem une tribune publiée le 26 janvier 1977, comme le rappelle France Culture.

Parmi lesquels Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, Gilles et Fanny Deleuze, Francis Ponge, Philippe Sollers, Jack Lang, Bernard Kouchner, Louis Aragon, André Glucksmann, François Châtelet, Daniel Guérin, Pierre Guyotat, Françoise Laborie, Catherine Millet, Vincent Monteil, Alain Cuny, entre autres soutenus par de nombreux psychiatres.

Cette pétition a été publiée dans Le Monde puis dans Libération pour défendre trois hommes incarcérés depuis plus de trois ans pour avoir abusé sexuellement de mineurs de moins de 15 ans

L'an dernier plus de quarante ans après avoir approuvé cette tribune prônant la pédophilie, l'ancien ministre Bernard Kouchner avait confié au Point que « c'était une connerie absolue ».

Bernard Kouchner souligne le courage de sa fille

Dans son récit, Camille Kouchner n'accable en rien son père. Elle confie même qu'il avait voulu aller lui « péter la gueule » lorsqu’il a été au courant en 2010. C'est elle qui aurait dissuadé son père de s'en mêler pour protéger son frère .L'ancien ministre des Affaires Etrangères, père absent et distant lors de leur adolescence, comme l'a souligné Camille Kouchner, avait alors décidé de se taire, et de ne pas faire de vagues.

Leur mère prévenue a préféré garder le silence et protéger la réputation. Elle est décédée en 2017.

Bernard Kouchner a tenu à souligner le courage de sa fille. Il écrit dans un communiqué : « Un lourd secret qui pesait sur nous depuis trop longtemps a été heureusement levé ».

Avant d'ajouter : « J'admire le courage de ma fille Camille ».




Alyson Braxton pour DayNewsWorld
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PRES DE 6000 MORTS EN PLUS DU CANCER

A CAUSE DU CORONAVIRUS

Le Covid-19 va-t-il être à l'origine de décès de malades du cancer en France ces prochains mois ?

Oui, estime Unicancer qui regroupe les dix-huit centres de lutte contre le cancer en France et traite environ 25 % des patients. Entre 1000 et 6000 malades du cancer pourraient mourir dans les années qui viennent.

Ces patients n'ont pas consulté de spécialiste pendant le confinement, par peur du virus, ou faute de trouver un spécialiste disponible.

Selon l'étude menée par Unicancer, la baisse des nouveaux patients pris en charge a diminué de 6,8 % sur les sept premiers mois de l'année 2020.

La chute a été particulièrement importante en avril et en mai avec un recul de 21 %. La baisse du nombre de nouveaux diagnostics dépasse les 20 % dans certains établissements.

Les conséquences d'une absence de rendez-vous chez le spécialiste, le radiologue ou le centre anti-cancer, en cas de symptôme suspect, seront différentes selon le type de tumeur ou de cancer.

Les retards de dépistage du cancer du sein, du poumon ou du côlon son particulièrement inquiétants.

Toutefois, le président d'Unicancer Jean-Yves Blay chiffre à "6 % de plus de risque de décès par mois de retard".

Un chiffre très important.

"Pour les patients que l'on connaissait déjà, tout va bien, le suivi a eu lieu en temps et en heure.

Le problème, l'inquiétude, c'est pour les nouveaux". Les chiffres de l'impact du second confinement ne sont pas encore connus mais cette fois, contrairement au premier qui a duré 55 jours, les patients ont pu continuer à fréquenter les centres anti-cancer.

257 000 personnes sont mortes d'un cancer en France en 2019.




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DECOUVERTE DE 400 TOMBES DU 8EME SIECLE ORIENTEES VERS LA MECQUE EN ESPAGNE

Des ouvriers sont tombés sur des restes humains lors de l'élargissement d'une route à Tauste, une petite ville de la province espagnole de Saragosse.

Ils ont découvert l'un des sites funéraires de l'époque islamique les plus anciens et les mieux préservés d'Espagne.

Depuis une dizaine de jours, les archéologues ont ainsi pu mettre au jour 400 tombes contenant plus de 4 500 corps datant du 8e siècle, des tombes orientées vers la Mecque.

« C'est le témoignage d'un moment de convergence, de changement, c'est-à-dire que les gens que nous avons trouvés enterrés ici sont des gens qui se sont convertis à l'Islam, mais qui ont une culture traditionnellement romaine, donc ils apportent la preuve d'un moment de transition culturelle »,selon Eva Jiménez, coordinatrice de la recherche archéologique.

La société chargée des travaux s'est engagée à déterrer tous les squelettes dans un délai d'un mois et prévoit de construire une crypte pour les regrouper à la fin des recherches, mais ces restes humains pourraient aussi rejoindre un musée.

Des tombes faisant partie de l'histoire de l'Espagne après la conquête musulmane de la péninsule ibérique au VIIIe siècle.




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QUID DE L'ISOLEMENT DES PERSONNES

POSITIVES AU COVID-19 ?

La tendance gagne de plus en plus de pays et pas seulement les plus autoritaires :

des mesures d'isolement obligatoire des personnes testées positives au Covid-19 sont adoptées pour barrer la route à la pandémie et permettre à l'économie de repartir.

La France suit le même chemin comme l'a laissé entendre Emmanuel Macron lors de son allocution télévisée du 24 novembre 2020.

En appelant le gouvernement et le Parlement à « s’assurer de l’isolement des personnes contaminées, y compris de manière plus contraignante ». Et le porte-parole de l'Élysée Gabriel Attal l'a confirmé dès le lendemain :

« L'isolement contraignant est une possibilité, on y travaille. »

Après un test positif au coronavirus, les personnes malades devront-elles s'isoler obligatoirement ? Le cas échéant, que risqueront-elles et par qui seront-elles contrôlées ?

S'isoler pendant sept jours

Les personnes atteintes du Covid-19 sont censées s'isoler durant sept jours, à domicile ou dans un hôtel. La loi d'urgence sanitaire votée le 23 mars dernier, qui étend le pouvoir des autorités, leur permet déjà de rendre cet isolement obligatoire.

« Le code de la santé publique permet au Premier ministre, au ministre de la Santé, et aux représentants de l'État dans le département, c'est-à-dire le Préfet, de prendre des mesures d'isolement », a indiqué Lauréline Fontaine, professeure en droit public à l'Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle à Paris 3.

Quel contrôle ?

Comment contrôler la population supposée isolée ?

Le seul moyen efficace à grande échelle a été déployé en Corée du Sud et vise à géolocaliser les malades avec leur téléphone portable. Cependant, cette méthode est interdite en France.

Ainsi, il ne reste que deux possibilités : charger la police d'enquêter, comme en Angleterre ou en Espagne par exemple, ou demander aux inspecteurs de la Caisse Nationale d'Assurance Maladie (CNAM) - qui trace déjà les cas contacts - de les surveiller. Amende en cas de non-respect

En théorie, les contrevenants peuvent être sanctionnés en cas de non-respect de l'isolement. Mais, dans la pratique, la police n'a pas le droit de forcer les personnes positives à rester chez elles.

Une lourde amende de plusieurs milliers d'euros en revanche peut être dissuasive.




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CARLOS GHOSN « UN PROCESSUS D'ARRESTATION FONDAMENTALEMENT INEQUITABLE »

C’est un tableau accablant que dressent ces experts indépendants, qui dépendent du Conseil des droits de l’Homme mais ne s’expriment pas au nom des Nations unies.

Le gouvernement japonais a jugé cet avis « totalement inacceptable » et souligné qu’il n’est « pas juridiquement contraignant ».

Dans leur avis posté le 20 novembre 2020, mais diffusé seulement lundi 23 novembre 2020 dans les médias, les experts concluent que

« le processus d’arrestation et de détention de Carlos Ghosn à quatre reprises était fondamentalement inéquitable, car il l’a empêché de retrouver sa liberté et de bénéficier des autres droits à un procès équitable, notamment celui de communiquer librement avec un avocat».

Présomption d’innocence pas respectée

Et d’ajouter: les «violations du droit à un procès équitable étaient d’une telle gravité qu’elles ont conféré à la détention de Carlos Ghosn un caractère arbitraire».

En outre, soulignent-ils, «Carlos Ghosn a été détenu dans des conditions de nature à le contraindre à faire des déclarations le mettant en cause, ceci en violation de son droit à la présomption d’innocence».

Les experts de l’ONU soulignent que leur avis ne porte pas sur les accusations portées à l’encontre de M. Ghosn au Japon, mais sur les conditions dans lesquelles la procédure a été menée.

A cet égard, le Groupe de travail de l’ONU est d’avis que «la privation de liberté de Carlos Ghosn du 19 novembre 2018 au 5 mars 2019 et du 4 au 25 avril 2019, en violation des articles 9, 10 et 11 de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme et des articles 9, 10 et 14 du Pacte international relatif aux droits civils et politiques, était arbitraire».

«Enquête indépendante»

Il note notamment que les conditions de mise en liberté sous caution imposées à Carlos Ghosn «semblent avoir été exceptionnellement strictes, en particulier l’interdiction, pendant la deuxième période de mise en liberté sous caution, de tout contact avec son épouse, autrement que par l’intermédiaire de ses avocats, sans autorisation préalable du tribunal et pour une durée indéterminée».

« Compte tenu de toutes les circonstances de l’affaire, la réparation appropriée serait d’accorder à Carlos Ghosn un droit exécutoire à une indemnisation et à d’autres réparations, conformément au droit international », considère-t-il.

Pour les avocats de Carlos Ghosn, François Zimeray et Jessica Finelle, cet avis «est une décision courageuse qui constitue un tournant décisif».

Selon eux, cette décision « établit irréfutablement ce que nous avions dénoncé dès l’arrestation de Carlos Ghosn :

une détention arbitraire, un déni de son droit à une justice impartiale, des traitements indignes et dégradants ».

Le Groupe de travail exhorte le gouvernement japonais à garantir « une enquête complète et indépendante sur les circonstances entourant la détention arbitraire de Carlos Ghosn, et à prendre des mesures appropriées contre les responsables de la violation de ses droits ».

Les experts demandent à cette dernière et au gouvernement japonais de leur fournir des informations sur les mesures prises, notamment en matière de réparation, dans un délai de six mois.

Carlos Ghosn, qui nie ces accusations, était arrivé le 30 décembre à Beyrouth au terme d’une fuite rocambolesque du Japon. Il est soupçonné d’avoir quitté le pays caché dans un caisson de matériel.




Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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CORONAVIRUS FLAMBEE DE VIOLENCE

ENVERS LES FEMMES

La journée internationale pour l’élimination des violences à l’égard des femmes du 25 novembre 2020 revêt un aspect particulier au vu de l’augmentation des violences liée au confinement.Du Nigeria au Brésil, de la France à l’Inde, aucun pays n’échappe à l’épidémie de coronavirus.

Flambée des viols au Nigeria ou en Afrique du Sud, hausse des disparitions de femmes au Pérou, augmentation des féminicides au Brésil ou au Mexique, associations débordées en Europe: la crise sanitaire mondiale a mis partout en lumière le fléau des violences sexistes et sexuelles.

Selon des données de l’ONU Femmes publiées fin septembre, le confinement a fait augmenter les plaintes ou appels aux autorités pour des violences domestiques de 30% à Chypre, 33% à Singapour, 30% en France ou 25% en Argentine.

Dans tous les pays, contraints à prendre des mesures de restriction de déplacements pour enrayer la propagation du virus, des femmes et des enfants se sont retrouvés à huis clos. «La maison est le lieu le plus dangereux pour les femmes», rappelaient en avril une trentaine d’associations marocaines, demandant aux autorités «une réponse d’urgence».

Partout les fermetures d’entreprises, des lieux d’activités culturelles et sportives et des écoles ne permettent plus d’échappatoires aux victimes, déjà affaiblies par l’insécurité économique et sociale engendrée par le virus.

Au niveau mondial, seul un pays sur huit a mis en place des mesures pour atténuer les effets de la pandémie sur les femmes et les filles, selon l’ONU Femmes.




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A NEW CORONAVIRUS IN PIGS TRANSMISSIBLE

 TO HUMANS

A new coronavirus transmitted to humans from pigs?

Researchers at the University of North Carolina have successfully infected human cells with the coronavirus that causes porcine epidemic diarrhea (PED). The risk that he could jump the cash barrier would thus be confirmed.

A particularly virulent alphacoronavirus

This coronavirus, called SADS-CoV, belongs to the alphacoronavirus family. "SADS-CoV is derived from a bat coronavirus called HKU2, the distribution of which is widespread throughout the world," adds her colleague Caitlin Edwards, also co-author of the article. If it has not been reported in Europe since 1990, it has always circulated in Asia. And it has reportedly seen an upsurge in China since 2016.

It causes acute gastroenteritis in pigs, the mortality of which can reach 100% in unweaned piglets.

Its transmission has been favored by the production methods of factory farms, which result in high promiscuity and a decrease in genetic diversity.

Infected human cells, preferably those from the intestine

If so far no case of transmission to humans has been observed, researchers from North Carolina published a study on October 12 which shows that a transmission to humans cannot be excluded.

Working in the laboratory, the teams of Professor Caitlin Edward, who led the study, managed to infect human cells with SADS-CoV. The latter was transmitted without hindrance to the cells of the lung, liver and respiratory tract. Unlike SARS-CoV-2, which affects the lungs more, SADS-CoV has a preference for the intestines.

Besides those of humans, scientists have managed to infect many other mammalian cells.

"While many observers are focusing on the betacoronaviruses SARS and MERS, the alphacoronaviruses could prove to be also, if not more, dangerous for human health, given their potential to jump the species barrier", warns Ralph Beric, professor of epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, in the article describing the study.

Remdesivir as a possible future treatment?

It appears that remdesivir, prescribed in severe forms of Ebola and SARS-CoV-2, is effective against the SADS-CoV coronavirus. Data that remains to be confirmed. Pending the development of a vaccine for pigs, the authors of the study recommend careful monitoring of pig herds and farmers in contact with them in order to monitor a possible passage to humans and prevent losses. agricultural disasters.

While the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic is in full rebound, are we already seeing the next global pandemic take over ?




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THE EXTENSION OF THE DEADLINE TRAP

ABORTION VOTED IN THE FULL OF COVID-19

The Veil law of January 17, 1975, relating to the voluntary termination of pregnancy, still haunts the conscience The rate of recourse to abortion increased slightly in 2019, with more than 232,000 abortions performed in France, reaching its highest level observed for thirty years, according to an official study. However the extension of the period of recourse to the abortion from 12 to 14 weeks. was voted Thursday, October 8 to the national assembly with 102 votes 65, despite the opposition of the government.

A trap in the context of a "niche" reserved for the EDS group

The measure was introduced in a bill in the form of a trap set for the majority by the group of ex-marchers who became dissidents, Ecology, Democracy, Solidarity, which will be examined this Thursday in the National Assembly. Supported by the member of the EDS group and ex-LREM Albane Gaillot, the text is debated within the framework of a “niche” reserved for his political group. It won the support of the majority and follows a parliamentary report by the Assembly's delegation for women's rights which called for this measure.

During confinement, a first step had been taken in this direction, by extending the period during which a person could resort to a medical abortion. It is now possible to use it during the first nine weeks of pregnancy at home - not seven as before. The bill presented by LaREM is in the same vein: facilitate access to abortion and allow as many people as possible to be able to terminate an unwanted pregnancy. In addition to extending the legal period of access to abortion. Abortion at 14 weeks of pregnancy (16 weeks of amenorrhea), the law now authorizes midwives to perform surgical abortions up to the 10th week of pregnancy.

Against the advice of the government in the midst of Covid-19

The Minister of Health had however recalled that it was essential to wait for the opinion of the National Consultative Ethics Committee "to do a complete job". Speaking during the examination of a bill aiming to extend the legal deadline for resorting to abortion, the Minister of Health wished to delay, calling for caution, against the tide of the majority which wants to speed up its vote. "It is a sensitive theme," he stressed in particular, provoking applause and boos in the hemicycle. He reminded the deputies that he wanted "progress, but in good conditions of debate", and will argue "a position of wisdom" about this bill.

On the right, the deputy LR Geneviève Levy deplored a legislative process "rough" and a "concern for method" by declaring herself opposed to the extension of the deadline to 14 weeks. Some opponents of the text, associations or the deputy Emmanuelle Ménard (close to the RN) held a press briefing in front of the Assembly.

The National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE), however, still has to deliver its opinion in November on this text.



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A DIVORCE ACCORDING TO THE CHARIA IN DENMARK
WHO SCANDALIZES

In Odense, birthplace of the famous Danish storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, the mayor, Peter Rahbæk Juel, lives "a bad fairy tale in the middle of the 21st century". An imam has indeed sent a shock wave in his city and in the Scandinavian kingdom by drawing up an act of divorce according to the Sharia. "I had a stomach ache reading this document" in Arabic signed by Danish imam Abu Bashar, alias Mohamad Al-Khaled Samha, confides the city councilor.

Of Syrian origin, the religious is a controversial figure in Denmark. He is part of a delegation of religious who visited Egypt, Lebanon and Syria at the end of 2005 to mobilize support for a protest movement against the publication of 12 cartoons of Muhammad published a few months earlier in the daily Jyllands -Posten.

Divorce conditions based on Sharia law

In the divorce case, a three-page document in Arabic, revealed by the Berlingske Tidende newspaper, indicates that the young woman wishing to divorce accepted a series of conditions based on Sharia, including the payment of 75,000 crowns (10,000 euros) to her ex-husband, corresponding to the marriage dowry.

She also undertakes to lose custody of her two children if she marries another man […], if she moves more than 130 kilometers from her former home in Vollsmose (suburb of Aarhus) or if she adopts a behavior which damages his honor and that of his family. The divorce will also be annulled if "she does not teach the Koran to her children, the Arabic language and does not teach them to pray five times a day".

How many such divorces?

For the mayor, "this psychological violence, perpetrated by means of Sharia law, is unacceptable". In fact, "this woman has not divorced, she is subject to the control of her husband and her imam", he notes. This is why he lodged a complaint with the police, on behalf of the municipality, against the imam for "mental violence" against this woman, an offense punishable by a fine and up to three years in prison. . “It is important,” he said, “to send a clear signal to imams and preachers who practice Sharia law to remind them that it is punishable in Denmark. "

Indeed, this case would not be unique, according to the city councilor, who wonders "how many other divorces of this type have been concluded" in his city which has been fighting for several years to break the parallel society which reigns with its laws in ghettos as in Vollsmose.

The affair caused a stir within the government and on the parliamentary scene. "Sharia law oppresses women and has no place in Denmark," Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen hammered on her Facebook page. “In government, we will do everything in our power to put an end to this practice which confirms our fears about the undemocratic tendencies that exist in some parts of the country. An imam should not interfere with divorces at all. It is a choice to be made only by the two people and by no one else ”, she thunders.

Secret Islamist religious advice in Denmark

According to Berlingske Tidende, there are secret religious councils in Denmark that help maintain negative social control by denying, among other things, divorce to abused women. A reality confirmed by a January 2020 report from the National Center for Research and Analysis for Social Welfare (VIVE) commissioned by the Ministry of Immigration and Integration and showing that "divorced ethnic minority women are victims of violence and oppression, do not know their rights and find it difficult to get help with divorce ”. And, if the couple were "married in a religious ceremony and the man does not want to dissolve the marriage, he can keep the woman in the marriage relationship against her will," the document said.

“We are living in 2020, not in the Middle Ages! "

For Immigration Minister Mattias Tesfaye, “this report is shocking. We live in 2020, not in the Middle Ages! Oppressed women must know their rights and must decide for themselves whether they want a divorce ”. And his colleague from Gender Equality, Mogens Jensen, adds:

 "Stories of women who, against their will, are taken into a marriage because their equal right to divorce is not recognized by the family or their background are unacceptable in Denmark".



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DES MORTS ET DES DISPARUS

DANS LA TEMPETE ALEX

Des pluies diluviennes et des crues brutales ont laissé des villages coupés du monde et des habitants « abasourdis » dans les Alpes-Maritimes, où des centaines de secouristes sont mobilisés. Quatre morts et des personnes toujours portées disparues en France : deux retrouvées à Saint-Martin-Vésubie, une à Lantosque, une à Colomars, et un homme présenté comme un berger retrouvé à Vintimille, selon l'Italie.

Côté italien, deux morts sont à déplorer dans le Val d'Aoste et le Piémont, régions elles aussi touchées par ces pluies torrentielles. Le préfet a également annoncé avoir pris un arrêté pour interdire la fréquentation des massifs des Alpes-Maritimes pour « au moins 15 jours » pour permettre aux secours en haute montagne de se focaliser sur les secours des sinistrés.

Après le passage de la tempête Alex, vendredi 2 octobre, les dégâts sont considérables dans la vallée de la Roya (Alpes-Maritimes). Lundi 5 octobre, la préfecture des Alpes-Maritimes a annoncé que trois nouveaux corps de victimes avaient été retrouvés, trois jours après le passage de la tempête Alex. Le bilan humain fait état de quatre morts en France. Le bilan pourrait encore s'alourdir.

Au total, 36 communes du département sont touchées. 620 pompiers, aidés de 12 hélicoptères, sont encore sur le terrain pour poursuivre les recherches.




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UNE MOLECULE MIRACLE POUR COMBATTRE

 LA MALADIE D'ALZHEIMER

La Journée mondiale de la maladie d'Alzheimer se tient en ce mois de septembre 2200 et ils sont nombreux à considérer qu'il y a enfin des raisons d'espérer traiter la maladie d'Alzheimer après vingt années d'échecs. Certes, il n'existe toujours pas de traitement efficace contre une pathologie neurodégénérative très fréquente qui frapperait chaque année 225.000 nouveaux malades en France.

Mais, en décembre 2019, une lueur est née : le laboratoire Biogen a assuré, lors d'un congrès, que sa molécule aducanumab était capable de réduire le déclin cognitif chez une partie des patients inclus dans l'essai clinique, et ce dans la phase initiale de la maladie.

« L'aducanumab, lui, semble réduire le déclin cognitif chez une partie des patients dans la phase initiale de la maladie. Un effet positif sur l'autonomie et les performances cognitives, c'est une première et quelle promesse! », s'enthousiasme Bruno Dubois, professeur de neurologie, chef du service à la Pitié-Salpêtrière et auteur du passionnant Alzheimer – La vérité sur la maladie du siècle (Grasset, 2019)

Un dossier de demande d'autorisation de mise sur le marché a bien été déposé aux États-Unis par l'entreprise américaine.

À l'instar de Biogen, d'autres acteurs industriels se sont lancés dans la course au remède miracle. La majorité des quelque 300 médicaments en cours de développement s'attaque aussi aux protéines (plaques amyloïdes ou Tau) qui s'accumulent dans le cerveau des malades. C'est la première fois qu'une piste thérapeutique pourrait être validée

La molécule BAN2401, un anticorps qui vise lui aussi à éliminer les plaques amyloïdes, donne des résultats encourageants. La phase 3 de l'essai clinique a démarré. D'autres médicaments ciblant la protéine Tau sont en cours de développement.Mais d'autres voies sont explorées, comme un traitement développé en France qui vise à moduler l'inflammation au niveau des synapses ..Et certaines autres recherches sont prometteuses

Alors, faut-il vraiment se réjouir?

La course contre Alzheimer est certes lancée. « Mais prudence : les résultats des essais cliniques n'ont pas encore été publiés.

Si l'efficacité était confirmée l'an prochain, 2021 serait la deuxième date la plus importante depuis la description de la maladie par Aloïs Alzheimer en 1906. », conclut le  professeur en neurologie Bruno Dubois dont l'équipe mène des travaux avec Biogen.




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THE BANKSY BOAT IN DANGER

AFTER THE RESCUE OF MIGRANTS

It is the story of a rescue which itself needs to be saved. On the night from Friday to Saturday, the Louise Michel, a boat chartered in secret by the famous street artist Banksy to help migrants in the Mediterranean, called for help after having recovered 130 occupants of a boat a few hours earlier. adrift.

A rescue that puts him in great difficulty, as the campaign organizers explained in a tweet on the @MVLouiseMichel account, opened for the occasion.

The Louise-Michel began operations at sea this week and is now looking for a safe port to disembark the 219 castaways that it has recovered since Thursday off Libya. The boat is too loaded to be able to be maneuvered, especially since it is also towing a lifeboat, and it “is no longer master of its own destiny (...) above all because of the fact that Europe ignore our emergency calls for immediate help ”.

“There is already a dead person on the boat. The others show fuel burns, they have been at sea for days and now they are left behind in an EU search and rescue area, ”they lamented.

The ship, named after a 19th-century French anarchist and decorated with graffiti by the British artist, was chartered in the utmost secrecy. He left on August 18 from Borriana in eastern Spain, British newspaper The Guardian revealed. According to the Marinetraffic site, the Louise Michel was on Saturday morning motionless at sea about a hundred kilometers south-east of the Italian island of Lampedusa, south of Sicily.

A small boat

The Guardian has exclusively published several photos of Louise Michel, painted in pink and white, with graffiti obviously from Banksy of a little girl in a life jacket wielding a heart-shaped buoy.

Its captain is Pia Klemp, a German human rights activist, known to have driven several other rescue ships, including the Sea-Watch 3. She is still under investigation by the Italian courts, in particular for “helping illegal immigration”.

The boat is a former French customs vessel. At 31 meters long, it is smaller in size but considerably faster than the usual NGO ships operating in the area, allowing it to overtake the Libyan coast guard. The world's best-known living street artist, who regularly addresses the issue of the migration crisis in his works, would not be on board, assures the Guardian.

Banksy, who maintains the greatest mystery about her identity, contacted Pia Klemp in September 2019, explains the Guardian, according to which the young woman initially believed in a hoax. “Hello Pia, I read your story in the newspapers. You look like a badass, ”he wrote to her in an email.

"Convergence of struggles"

“I'm an artist from UK and I worked on the migrant crisis, obviously I can't keep the money. Could you use it to buy a new boat or something like that ? "

Said this message, signed " Banksy ".

Pia Klemp believes that Banksy solicited her for her political engagement: "I do not see the rescue at sea as a humanitarian action, but as part of an anti-fascist fight," she told the Guardian.

The ten sailors of the Louise Michel all call themselves "anti-racist and anti-fascist activists in favor of radical political changes," the daily specifies.

According to Lea Reisner, a nurse in charge of the relief operations, the project is "first and foremost anarchist, since it intends to defend the convergence of struggles for social justice, including the rights of women and LGBTIQ, equality race, migrant rights, environmental protection and animal rights ".

The year 2020 is marked by an upsurge of boats in the central Mediterranean, the deadliest migratory route in the world for candidates for exile to Europe.



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CAMION DE L'HORREUR EN ANGLETERRE

 ET CONDAMNATION AU VIETNAM

Sept personnes, accusées d'avoir joué un rôle dans le trafic ayant entraîné la mort de 39 migrants vietnamiens retrouvés dans un camion frigorifique en Angleterre, ont été condamnées au Vietnam. Il s'agit des premières condamnations dans ce drame qui a mis en lumière les dangers de l'immigration clandestine, avec des trafiquants sans scrupule qui profitent de la vulnérabilité des candidats, ces derniers finissant souvent dans des bars à ongles ou des fermes à cannabis illégales au Royaume-Uni, réduits à un état de semi-esclavage.

Le 23 octobre 2019, les corps de 31 hommes et de huit femmes, dont deux adolescents de 15 ans, avaient été découverts à bord d'un camion dans la zone industrielle de Grays, à l'est de Londres. Entassés dans le conteneur qui provenait du port belge de Zeebruges, ils sont morts en raison d'un manque d'oxygène.

Nombre des victimes de ce drame étaient originaires d'une région pauvre du centre du Vietnam, où les familles s'endettent à hauteur de milliers de dollars pour envoyer l'un des leurs au Royaume-Uni, via des filières clandestines, dans l'espoir qu'ils y trouvent des emplois rémunérateurs.

Plusieurs personnes ont été inculpées au Royaume-Uni, dont le conducteur du camion frigorifique, Maurice Robinson et un Nord-Irlandais, Ronan Hugues, soupçonné d'avoir organisé le mouvement des différents chauffeurs. Ils ont plaidé coupable d'homicides involontaires.

Treize suspects ont été inculpés en France, 13 autres en Belgique.




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DE NOUVELLES RECOMMANDATIONS DE L'ACADEMIE DE MEDECINE

LES MASQUES LAVABLES A 30 OU 40°C

L'Académie de médecine est revenue sur la recommandation officielle précisant que les masques en tissu devaient être lavés en machine, à 60 degrés.

Depuis le début de l'épidémie de Covid-19, les informations à destination du public ne cessent de se contredire ou plutôt de s'affiner. Si les masques sont désormais considérés comme une mesure de lutte contre le coronavirus nécessaire au quotidien, son usage doit respecter des recommandations strictes. Ainsi, l'Académie nationale de médecine a publié quelques précisions à ce sujet lundi 7 septembre. Et plus particulièrement concernant les masques grand public.

L'institution reconnaît que « si les masques alternatifs ont des performances légèrement inférieures à celles des masques chirurgicaux en termes de filtration et d’étanchéité, ils offrent généralement de meilleures qualités de confort et de 'respirabilité».

Laver le linge en contact avec le virus à 60°C est une recommandation du Haut conseil de santé publique, de la société française d'hygiène hospitalière et même de l’Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament. Mais elle a été publiée en avril dernier, en pleine vague épidémique.

Aujourd'hui, contrairement à ce qui avait été annoncé au départ, ces masques en tissu ne doivent pas être nécessairement lavés à 60 degrés. « Ils peuvent être lavés à la main ou en machine, avec un détergent, comme le linge de corps, la température de 60°C n’étant pas plus justifiée.

La plupart des Français lavent leur linge plutôt à 30° ou 40°. D’abord parce que c'est le conseil donné par des organismes publics comme l'Ademe pour que cela consomme moins d’énergie. Ce qui est mieux pour nos factures et notre environnement. De plus, nous utilisons des lessives qui ont déjà une action détergente, même à basse température. Quand vous repassez vos masques ensuite à 120°-140 °C, vous vous débarrassez du virus. lavage »

Par ailleurs, il est recommandé de les changer « lorsqu’ils deviennent humides » et ne doivent « jamais être portés plus d’une journée ». La société savante réitère au passage la nécessité de porter un masque, systématiquement associé aux mesures de distanciation, « dans tous les lieux publics, clos et ouverts, selon des règles faciles à comprendre, à appliquer et à contrôler ;

Concernant les masques chirurgicaux, l'Académie de médecine précise qu'ils « doivent être utilisés préférentiellement lors des activités de soins et de façon systématique pour les personnes malades ou en isolement ».

Pour des raisons économiques et écologiques, l'Académie de médecine estime donc que les masques peuvent être lavés avec le reste du linge et que l'on peut les garder toute une journée.

Les recommandations de l’Académie de médecine s'attachent plus au principe de réalité qu’au principe de précaution le plus strict. L'important est que le port du masque devienne une routine quotidienne.




Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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CONTRE LE CORONAVIRUS : LE SPRAY NASAL

MADE IN FRANCE

Une équipe de chercheurs français a annoncé avoir trouvé un traitement qui empêcherait une infection du Covid-19. Présenté sous forme de spray nasal, il pourrait être disponible d'ici la fin de l'année si les scientifiques obtiennent les financements nécessaires.

Depuis l'apparition du Covid-19, la communauté scientifique s’active pour trouver un traitement qui permettrait d’endiguer l’épidémie. De nombreuses recherches portent sur un possible vaccin, mais une équipe de chercheurs français a déclaré avoir trouvé un autre moyen d’empêcher l’infection au SARS-CoV-2. Ce traitement se présente donc sous la forme d’un spray nasal ou de pastilles à faire fondre sous la langue. L’étude a été dirigée par Philippe Karoyan, professeur au laboratoire des biomolécules de l’Université de Sorbonne.

« Un leurre »

Pour infecter l’organisme, le coronavirus s’attache à la membrane d’une cellule grâce à la protéine dite "Spike". Cette protéine s’associe ensuite au récepteur ACE2 de la membrane cellulaire et le SARS-CoV-2 pénètre la cellule. Pour empêcher, l’infection l’équipe de scientifiques a développé un « leurre » qui tromperait le virus. Ils ont donc fabriqué des peptides, des molécules qui parviennent à copier les récepteurs ACE2. Ces dernières se fixent sur la protéine Spike et font obstacle au virus. « Nos meilleurs peptides imitent la protéine ACE2 avec une grande affinité et sont capables d’empêcher l’infection pulmonaire », ont expliqué les auteurs de l’étude

A la recherche des financements nécessaires.

Selon les scientifiques, ces molécules ne sont pas toxiques pour les cellules humaines et n'entraînent aucune réaction du système immunitaire. Interrogé par le Parisien, le Professeur Philippe Karoyan a déclaré être en discussion avec de nombreux groupes pharmaceutiques étrangers pour obtenir des moyens financiers. "Côté français, Sanofi n'a pas daigné nous répondre. Si quelqu'un est prêt à investir ne serait-ce qu'un million d'euros, nous pourrions proposer un produit formulé avant la fin de l'année", a t-il ajouté au journal.

Une étude en attente d'une relecture et d’une publication par une revue scientifique, mais les travaux sont accessibles en preprint sur la plateforme du CNRS.




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UN OFFICIER FRANCAIS SOUPCONNE D'ESPIONNAGE POUR LE COMPTE DE LA RUSSIE

Une affaire digne de la série Bureau des Légendes. Un officier français en poste sur une base de l’Otan en Italie est soupçonné d'avoir espionné pour le compte de la Russie. L’homme a été écroué fin août à Paris, a révélé dimanche la radio Europe 1.

« Ce que je peux confirmer, c’est qu’un officier supérieur est sous le coup d’une procédure judiciaire pour atteinte à la sécurité », a confirmé dimanche la ministre française des Armées Florence Parly dans l’émission « Le Grand Rendez-vous », sans entrer dans les détails de l’affaire. .

Les chefs d'accusation

Cet officier français est-il soupçonné de faits isolés ou s’inscrivant dans la durée ? Trop tôt pour le dire. Le militaire basé à Naples est accusé d'« intelligence avec une puissance étrangère portant atteinte aux intérêts fondamentaux de la Nation ». Il est aussi poursuivi pour « livraison d’informations à une puissance étrangère ». L’officier est ainsi soupçonné d’avoir fourni des documents ultrasensibles aux services secrets de la Russie, selon Europe 1. La radio indique que c’est une rencontre avec un espion russe, un agent du G.R.U (service de renseignement militaire russe), qui aurait éveillé les soupçons des autorités françaises.

Le militaire français a été écroué pour quatre infractions, selon une source judiciaire. Il est ainsi poursuivi pour « intelligence avec une puissance étrangère portant atteinte aux intérêts fondamentaux de la Nation », « livraison d’informations à une puissance étrangère », « collecte d’informations portant atteinte aux intérêts fondamentaux de la Nation en vue de les livrer à une puissance étrangère » et « compromission du secret de la défense nationale par une personne dépositaire de ce secret ».

Que sait-on de l’espion russe, contact présumé de l’officier ?

Selon les informations du « Parisien », les services secrets italiens surveillaient sur leur sol en 2019 un « officier itinérant » de nationalité russe appartenant à la puissante GRU, le service de renseignement militaire du Kremlin dont la mission était d’identifier des agents « ayant des faiblesses personnelles » afin de les « retourner ». Comprenez : leur faire changer de camp. C’est dans ce cadre que les Italiens ont informé les Français d’une tentative d’approche sur un militaire en détachement, ce lieutenant-colonel en poste en Italie. L’homme serait actuellement « introuvable ».


Son profil

Peu de choses ont filtré sur le profil de l’agent français.Il s’agirait d’un lieutenant-colonel de l’armée française en poste à l’OTAN, près de Naples (Italie). L’homme serait affecté au centre de commandement des forces alliées, en charge de la sécurité du sud de l’Europe et du nord de l’Afrique, notamment la Libye. Des fonctions qui lui donnaient accès à des informations sensibles classées secret-défense. Selon le blog Le Mamouth spécialisé dans les questions de défense, il « était affecté à Naples, principal site de l’Otan en Italie employant des Français ».

Il serait âgé d’une cinquantaine d’années et père de cinq enfants, russophone, avec de lointaines attaches familiales dans le pays.

L’homme a été arrêté par les services de contre-espionnage, la Direction générale de la Sécurité intérieure (DGSI), alors qu’il s’apprêtait à repartir en Italie à la fin de ses vacances en France. Il est actuellement placé en détention provisoire à la prison de la Santé à Paris.

« C’est la France qui a pris l’initiative de cette procédure judiciaire », a souligné Florence Parly. Elle a précisé que son ministère avait saisi le procureur de la République en vertu de l’article 40 du Code de procédure pénale, qui impose à toute autorité publique de signaler à la justice un crime ou délit dont elle a connaissance. Ce signalement, daté du 22 juillet, a donné lieu à l’ouverture d’une information judiciaire par le parquet le 29 juillet.

Condamnations de militaires pour espionnage rares

Les inculpations et condamnations de militaires pour espionnage au profit d’une puissance étrangère sont rares en France, et inférieures à une dizaine depuis la Guerre froide. Les autorités préférant régler ce type d’affaires en interne et loin des médias. Mais la France pourrait avoir été contrainte d’effectuer ce signalement par les caractéristiques de l’accusation (au sein d’un commandement intégré et partagé avec d’autres pays, sur un territoire étranger).

La procédure est-elle aussi politique ?

Faut-il y voir la volonté de la France d’envoyer un message fort dans un contexte géopolitique marqué par l’empoisonnement de l’opposant russe Alexeï Navalny et la situation en Biélorussie ?

Selon des éléments recueillis par Le Monde auprès des autorités françaises, ce signalement judiciaire est une manière d’adresser « un message de fermeté à la Russie », dans un contexte de tensions diplomatiques, relatif aux événements en Biélorussie notamment.




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RECORD DE CHALEUR 54,4 DEGRES °C

DANS LA VALLEE DE LA MORT

La Vallée de la mort, en Californie, n’a jamais aussi bien porté son nom: le mercure y a grimpé dimanche jusqu’à 54,4°C, selon les services météorologiques américains, potentiellement l’une des températures les plus élevées jamais relevées sur Terre.

Cette température record, qui doit encore être vérifiée, a été enregistrée par un système automatique du National Weather Service (NWS) américain à 15h41 (heure locale) sur un site au nom de circonstance lui aussi: «Furnace Creek», le ruisseau de la fournaise.

L’Organisation météolorogique mondiale, organisme spécialisé des Nations unies, a indiqué sur Twitter qu’elle allait vérifier cette observation. «Ce serait la température la plus élevée officiellement relevée dans le monde depuis 1931», a-t-elle écrit.

Située dans le désert des Mojaves, à l’ouest de la ville de Las Vegas, la Vallée de la mort ( «Death Valley») détient le record de la température la plus élevée jamais enregistrée sur Terre: 56,7°C, en juillet 1913.Le mercure y était également monté jusqu’à 53,9°C en juillet 2013.

Le Sud-Ouest des Etats-Unis fait actuellement face à une intense vague de chaleur.




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JUSTICE POUR LA MORT DU COQ MARCEL

Le volatile avait été tué en mai dernier en Ardèche par un voisin exaspéré par ses chants. Une pétition réclamant «justice pour le coq Marcel» a récolté, afin de «sensibiliser et d’apaiser les campagnes» a à ce jour mobilisé 74 490 signataires.

Le conflit autour du coq Maurice avait incité l'Assemblée nationale à voter en janvier une proposition de loi introduisant la notion de «patrimoine sensoriel» des campagnes dans le droit français. Elle doit prochainement être présentée aux sénateurs.

«Nous avons été profondément choqués par ce drame», a rapporté Sébastien Verney, habitant de cette commune de 450 âmes, où le gallinacé a été tué d’un coup de feu par un voisin exaspéré par ses chants.

Le suspect a reconnu les faits et sera jugé début décembre.

Après ce qu’il a dénoncé comme un «acte barbare», le propriétaire de Marcel a créé une page Facebook qui a recueilli de nombreux témoignages et marques de soutien. Ce qui l’a incité à lancer la pétition «Justice pour le coq Marcel», afin de «sensibiliser et d’apaiser les campagnes». Elle a à ce jour mobilisé 74’490 signataires.

«Le mode de vie à la campagne est de plus en plus atteint par des comportements qui ne sont pas punis», observe Sébastien Verney, rappelant le combat judiciaire mené l’été dernier autour du coq Maurice sur l’île d’Oléron (ouest).




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UN BENEVOLE DU DIOCESE COUPABLE DE L'INCENDIE DANS LA CATHEDRALE DE NANTES

Une semaine après l’incendie dans la cathédrale de Nantes, le bénévole du diocèse est passé aux aveux et a été placé en détention provisoire dans la nuit de samedi à dimanche pour « destructions et dégradations par incendie ». L'« homme » a reconnu, lors de l’interrogatoire de première comparution devant le juge d’instruction, avoir allumé les trois feux dans la cathédrale : sur le grand orgue, le petit orgue et dans un panneau électrique», a précisé le procureur de la République de Nantes Pierre Sennès.

Un réfugié rwandais

Cet homme de 39 ans, mis en examen, est un « Rwandais, venu se réfugier en France il y a quelques années », avait expliqué la semaine dernière le recteur de la cathédrale de Nantes, le père Hubert Champenois. Il était chargé de fermer la cathédrale la veille de l’incendie. Selon le recteur, qui avait indiqué avoir « confiance en lui comme en tous les collaborateurs », le bénévole était « servant d’autel ». Le recteur le connaissait « depuis quatre ou cinq ans ». L'homme, en France depuis 2012, faisait l'objet d'une obligation de quitter le territoire français depuis fin 2019.

Le bénévole encourt dix ans d’emprisonnement

Le bénévole encourt pour cette infraction « une peine de dix ans d’emprisonnement et 150.000 euros d’amende », a précisé Pierre Sennés dans un courriel envoyé dans la nuit.

L'enquête avait révélé l'existence de trois points de feu distincts dans la cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul. « Entre le grand orgue, qui est sur la façade au premier étage et les autres feux, vous avez quasiment toute la distance de la cathédrale. Ils sont quand même à une distance conséquente les uns des autres », avait relevé, le jour de l'incendie, le procureur.

L'alerte avait été donnée le 18 juillet vers 7h45 par des passants qui avaient vu des flammes sortant de la cathédrale.

Il avait fallu environ deux heures aux sapeurs-pompiers pour circonscrire le feu qui a notamment détruit un tableau d'Hippolyte Flandrin du XIXe siècle et le grand orgue.




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DEUX PROJETS DE VACCINS CONTRE LE COVID-19

Deux projets de vaccins contre le Covid-19, un britannique et un chinois, ont produit une réponse immunitaire importante et démontré leur sûreté pour les patients, selon les résultats de deux essais cliniques distincts, publiés lundi 20 juillet 2020 dans la revue médicale britannique The Lancet.

Le premier, développé par l'université d'Oxford en partenariat avec le groupe pharmaceutique AstraZeneca, a généré « une forte réponse immunitaire » dans un essai sur plus de 1.000 patients.

Le second projet, sur lequel travaillent des chercheurs de Wuhan (Chine) financés par CanSino Biologics, a provoqué une forte réaction en termes d'anticorps dans un autre essai chez la plupart des quelque 500 participants.

Ces essais cliniques sont encore dans une phase préliminaire (phase 1/2 et phase 2), et leur efficacité devra être établie dans un essai de phase 3, sur un nombre de participants plus important, avant d'envisager leur commercialisation à grande échelle.

« Une option prometteuse »

Ces résultats étaient malgré tout très attendus: de nombreux chercheurs et laboratoires dans le monde se livrent à une course contre la montre pour trouver un vaccin sûr et efficace contre le Covid-19.

« Si notre vaccin s'avère efficace, c'est une option prometteuse, car ce type de vaccin peut être fabriqué facilement à grande échelle », a commenté Sarah Gilbert, chercheuse à l'université d'Oxford.

Le vaccin d'Oxford et celui de CanSino sont basés sur un adénovirus modifié, qui ne se réplique pas, ce qui les rend plus sûrs notamment pour les patients fragiles.




Jenny Chase pour DayNewsWorld
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QUELLES SONT LES SEQUELLES DU COVID-19 ?

Depuis le début de l’épidémie, la France compte 172 377 cas confirmés de Covid-19. Si 78 670 guérisons sont constatées, certains patients gardent des séquelles plus ou moins longtemps de la maladie.

Ce mercredi 15 juillet, l’Académie de Médecine a publié un avis listant les séquelles du Covid-19 dont elle a connaissance à l’heure actuelle.

Dans le détail, les experts divisent les séquelles en deux groupes avec d’un côté, les atteintes organiques de la phase aiguë, non ou peu réversibles, et de l’autre côté, les troubles complexes survenant quelques semaines après la guérison.

Les atteintes organiques de la phase aiguë

Dans le premier groupe, celui des « atteintes organiques de la phase aiguë » sont d’abord évoquées les atteintes respiratoires résiduelles, car le poumon «  est l’organe le plus fréquemment atteint » dans la phase la plus grave de la maladie. « La fibrose pulmonaire interstitielle est la conséquence fréquente de la détresse respiratoire observée », constate l’institution, avant de détailler :

« Elle est caractérisée par un déclin progressif de la fonction respiratoire, une extension des lésions visibles sur la tomographie thoracique, une sensibilité accrue aux infections respiratoires. Même un faible degré de fibrose résiduelle peut accroître la mortalité chez les sujets âgés. »

L’avis signale aussi des atteintes cardiaques, comme une myocardie inflammatoire « fréquemment retrouvée chez les malades traités en soins intensifs », ou des troubles du rythme susceptibles de persister et donc de réclamer une surveillance prolongée, ainsi qu'un traitement approprié. Des atteintes rénales, et des atteintes directes ou indirectes du système nerveux central sont également citées comme séquelles du Covid-19, tout comme des sarcopénies, en d’autre termes des diminutions des capacités musculaires, « quasi constantes chez les malades immobilisés plusieurs semaines en soins intensifs ».

Les troubles complexes après la guérison.

L’Académie de médecine a également identifié un autre groupe de séquelles, qui inclut celui-ci des troubles complexes « mal étiquetés », survenant « quelques semaines après la guérison » et « dont l’origine et le devenir restent inconnus » :

On a pu constater que des malades apparemment sortis de l’épisode aigu nécessitaient une convalescence prolongée ou se plaignaient de nouveaux symptômes après une période de rémission.

Dans ces cas-là, « l’infection initiale a été souvent courte et a guéri spontanément », indique l’avis, précisant que « les troubles dont se plaignent ces sujets sont un malaise général, des douleurs musculaires, des arthralgies, de la fatigue au moindre effort physique ou intellectuel, une perte de la mémoire et, parfois, des accès de tachycardie. » Si ces troubles sont le plus souvent épisodiques, ils peuvent cependant avoir un caractère prolongé, et leur traitement est « difficile », à part « la prescription de paracétamol, le soutien psychologique et la correction d’une éventuelle dénutrition par un diététicien ».

Les séquelles psychiques

Enfin des séquelles psychiques sont à craindre, prévient aussi l’Académie de médecine. Chez les patients d’abord, en particulier ceux « intensément marqués » par un passage en réanimation avec ventilation assistée et sédation profonde. Mais aussi chez les soignants, quels qu’ils soient, qui ont été soumis à des horaires de travail prolongés associés à des responsabilités accrues, vu l’état préoccupant des patients traités, entraînant fatigue, anxiété et manque de sommeil. »

L’Académie de Médecine recommande de reprendre une activité sportive (marche à pied par exemple) et de rester vigilant au fonctionnement des organes souvent touchés (cœur, cerveau, muscle, etc), voire de bénéficier d'un suivi psychologique.




Abby Shelcore pour DayNewsWorld
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LA STATUE D'UNE FEMME NOIRE

REMPLACE CELLE D'EDWARD COLSTON

MARCHAND D'ESCLAVES A BRISTOL

La statue d'un marchand d'esclaves déboulonnée début juin à Bristol (Royaume-Uni) a été remplacée à l'initiative d'un artiste, mercredi 15 juillet, par celle d'une jeune femme noire qui avait participé aux manifestation du mouvement Black Lives Matter.

Intitulée Une montée en puissance (A Surge of Power), la nouvelle sculpture réalisée par Marc Quinn a été installée sur le socle où se trouvait la statue d'Edward Colston par les équipes de l'artiste, sans en avertir la mairie de Bristol.

La grande pièce en acier noir représente Jen Reid, une manifestante qui avait été photographiée le poing levé sur le socle vide de l'ancienne statue de ce marchand d'esclaves de la fin du XVIIe siècle.

Cette sculpture, qui faisait controverse depuis des années, avait été déboulonnée puis jetée dans le fleuve début juin, lors de manifestations du mouvement Black Lives Matter ayant suivi le décès fin mai de George Floyd, un Américain noir tué par un policier.

Ces manifestations s'étaient accompagnées d'une série de dégradations de statues de personnalités contestées en raison de leur implication dans le commerce d'esclaves ou de leurs propos racistes.

Edward Colston, lui, s'est enrichi dans le commerce des esclaves. Il aurait vendu 100.000 esclaves d'Afrique de l'Ouest dans les Caraïbes et aux Amériques entre 1672 et 1689, avant d'utiliser sa fortune pour financer le développement de Bristol, ce qui lui a longtemps valu une réputation de philanthrope.

Le sort de la statue, repêchée depuis, n'avait pas été fixé. L'artiste Banksy, originaire de Bristol, avait proposé de la remettre sur son socle et d'y adjoindre des statues des manifestants la déboulonnant.

Le maire de la ville, Marvin Rees, avait, lui, promis de lancer une grande consultation démocratique à ce sujet.

Présente lors de la pose de la statue qui la représente, Jen Reid a jugé l'action « tout simplement incroyable » et « sacrément culottée ».

Cela va permettre de « poursuivre la conversation  sur le passé esclavagiste du Royaume-uni, a-t-elle déclaré au quotidien The Guardian (en anglais). « J' en avais déjà créé la statue lorsqu'elle s'est tenue sur le socle et a levé son bras en l'air. Nous l'avons cristallisée », a commenté Marc Quinn.

« Cette fièvre iconoclaste refleurit régulièrement, comme le marronnier. Les mêmes justiciers réclamaient les mêmes têtes - de bronze, de marbre - en août 2017, après l’attentat suprémaciste de Charlottesville », selon l'écrivain Nicolas Chaudun qui analysait ce phénomène dans une tribune du Figaro.




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INCENDIES DEVASTATEURS EN SIBERIE ET TEMPERATURES RECORD

Situation d'urgence en Sibérie où les incendies continuent de faire des ravages et les températures estivales atteignent des records, ont annoncé samedi les services russes chargés des forêts qui les combattent en ensemençant des nuages et en utilisant des explosifs.

La Sibérie connaît depuis janvier des températures anormalement élevées par endroits ce qui, combiné à un faible taux d'humidité du sol, a contribué à de nouveaux feux après ceux qui avaient dévasté la région l'été dernier, a noté cette semaine le service européen Copernicus sur le changement climatique.

Depuis mi-juin, le nombre comme l'intensité des incendies ont augmenté dans l'extrême Nord-Est de la Sibérie et dans une moindre mesure en Alaska, selon Copernicus, provoquant l'émission de 59 mégatonnes de CO2 dans l'atmosphère, un record pour ce mois depuis le début des mesures en 2003.

Le Service aérien de protection des forêts russe a indiqué qu'il luttait samedi contre 136 incendies sur 43.000 hectares, en utilisant des explosifs pour contenir les flammes et en tentant de déclencher la pluie avec l'ensemencement des nuages.

La plupart des foyers sont toutefois considérés comme trop éloignés et trop coûteux à traiter, avec actuellement 333.000 hectares en feu au total dans des zones où les efforts des pompiers ont été interrompus, précise-t-il. Ce chiffre s'inscrit toutefois en nette baisse par rapport à celui rapporté voilà une semaine par le service qui était de plus de deux millions d'hectares.

Depuis la mi-juin, les régions situées dans le Grand Nord et au delà du cercle arctique ont enregistré des records de température sans précédent. Les anti-cyclones sont bien plus fréquents et difficiles à prévoir, provoquant une hausse des températures et de l'ensoleillement, avait expliqué fin juin aux journalistes à Moscou Roman Vilfand, chef de l'agence météorologique russe. «C'est le principal problème et l'une des conséquences du changement climatique», avait-il estimé.

Des images satellites présentées samedi montrent que les principaux incendies sévissent toujours en Yakoutie (Sibérie orientale) qui borde l'océan Arctique. La région a déclaré l'état d'urgence le 2 juillet en raison des incendies.

Le service de contrôle des forêts de Greenpeace en Russie a déclaré samedi que 9,26 millions d'hectares au total, soit davantage que la superficie du Portugal, avaient été touchés par des incendies depuis le début de l'année.




Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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DES SOIREES COVID-19 D' ETUDIANTS

 AUX ETATS-UNIS

Des responsables de l’État de Washington, dans le nord-ouest des États-Unis, s’étaient inquiétés dès le mois de mai de l’apparition des « Covid party ».....

L’idée ?

Organiser des fêtes avec des personnes contaminées par le coronavirus, et d’autres pas… dans le but d’infecter les personnes non malades, en espérant qu’elles développent une forme d’immunité. Une très mauvaise idée, d’autant plus que l’immunité au Covid-19 fait débat parmi les scientifiques. Deux mois plus tard, nouvelle alerte. Cette fois en Alabama, dans le sud du pays.

« Cela n’a aucun sens »

C’est Sonya McKinstry, une conseillère municipale de la ville de Tuscaloosa, qui a tiré la sonnette d’alarme, au micro de la chaîne de télévision ABC News , comme l’a repéré 20Minutes.

Elle explique avoir pris connaissance, récemment, de l’organisation de « Covid parties » par des étudiants de la ville. « Ils mettent en place une cagnotte, et le premier qui est contaminé par le Covid-19 gagne l’argent, raconte-t-elle. Cela n’a aucun sens ».

De quoi susciter l’indignation des autorités locales alors que l’Etat d’Alabama est confronté à une flambée des hospitalisations, une quasi-pénurie de lits en réanimation et comptabilise plus 38.000 cas de coronavirus et 947 décès.

Et toutes les personnes contaminées par le coronavirus doivent se confiner, chez elles, pendant quatorze jours, au risque d’écoper une amende allant jusqu’à 500 dollars.




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DES TERMES SUPPOSES RACISTES SUPRIMES

DANS LE MARKETING

L'actualité fait bouger la stratégie marketing des plus grands groupes. Le géant de l’industrie cosmétique L’Oréal a ainsi annoncé samedi 27 juin vouloir supprimer certains termes qui pourraient susciter des contestations. « Le groupe L'Oréal a décidé de retirer les mots blanc/blanchissant (white/whitening), clair (fair/fairness, light/lightening) de tous ses produits destinés à uniformiser la peau », indique le groupe français des cosmétiques dans un communiqué publié en anglais samedi.

Une décision prise à la suite de celle d’un de ses principaux concurrents, l’anglo-néerlandais Unilever dans un contexte mondial de manifestations anti-racistes. Aux Etats-Unis surtout, mais aussi en France, en Inde ou en Australie, les marques sont sous pression devant la colère exprimée depuis la mort fin mai de George Floyd, un Afro-Américain asphyxié par un policier blanc à Minneapolis.

« Le débat des dernières semaines a mis en évidence le fait que certains noms ou promesses figurant sur nos produits Neutrogena et Clean & Clear visant à réduire les taches, représentaient la blancheur ou la clarté comme étant meilleures que votre teint, unique », déplore le groupe américain Johnson and Johnson dans un communiqué cité le New York Times.

« Cela n'a jamais été notre intention : une peau en bonne santé, c'est ça une belle peau », ajoute Johnson and Johnson, en annonçant la fin de ses lignes Neutrogena Fine Fairness et Clear Fairness by Clean & Clear. Le géant américain a donc décidé de ne plus commercialiser de substances éclaircissantes conçues pour l'Asie et le Moyen-Orient. Il s'agit dorénavant de célébrer tous type de peaux.

Toujours est-il que ce marché des crèmes éclaircissantes est un marché en pleine expansion dans le monde, surtout sur le continent asiatique. Il a rapporté plus de 7 milliards d’euros en 2017 et devrait rapporter plus de 13,5 milliards d’euros en 2024 selon certaines estimations.

Nombre d’entreprises emboîtent le pas voulant à leur tour modifier une identité visuelle encore chargée de stéréotypes raciaux, à l’image d’Uncle Ben’s annonçant vouloir changer « d’identité visuelle, afin d’épouser les changements culturels et sociétaux ».

Le 20 juin 2020, Dreyer’s avait dévoilé vouloir changer le nom de son produit « Eskimo Pie », un bâton de glace vanille enrobée de chocolat, afin qu’il n’y ait plus de confusion possible.Quaker Oats (PepsiCo) a promis de retirer d'ici la fin de l'année sa Tante Jemima, une femme noire qui ornait depuis 130 ans son sirop d'érable et ses préparations pour pancakes. En Australie, les sucreries « Red Skins » (peaux rouges) et « Chicos », fabriquées depuis des décennies par le confiseur national Allen's, seront bientôt débaptisées, en raison des « connotations » de leurs noms, a promis Nestlé.

Le mouvement Black Lives Matter a amené à une prise de conscience salutaire.




Andrew Preston pour DayNewsWorld
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ATTAQUE AU COUTEAU

A GLASGOW AU ROYAUME-UNI

Un grave incident s'est produit dans le centre-ville de Glasgow.

Les autorités évoquent une attaque au couteau qui a visé notamment un policier. L'assaillant a été abattu et la police juge la situation désormais sous contrôle.

Plusieurs personnes ont été hospitalisées.Le circonstances de cette attaque demeurent flous.

La police écossaise fait état de six blessés dont un policier. Ils ont été hospitalisé.

Les faits se sont produits à la hauteur d'un hôtel situé sur West George Street dans le centre-ville de Glasgow.

La Première ministre écossaise Nicola Sturgeon a appelé la population à rester à l'écart de la zone, évoquant des informations « épouvantables ».

Le Premier ministre britannique, Boris Johnson s'est dit « profondément attristé par le terrible incident de Glasgow ».

Ces faits interviennent moins d'une semaine après que trois hommes ont été mortellement poignardés samedi dernier à Reading, à l'ouest de Londres, faits dont la police antiterroriste a été saisie.




Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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LES QUATRE VERITES DU PROFESSEUR RAOULT

Le professeur Didier Raoult, devenu l’une des personnalités « politiques » préférées des Français, a été auditionné pendant trois heures ce mercredi 24 juin par la commission d'enquête de l'Assemblée nationale sur le coronavirus. Cette commission est chargée d’étudier la généalogie de la crise sanitaire et les éventuelles failles de la réponse française à l’épidémie.

L'infectiologue marseillais n'a pas été tendre avec les autorités sur la gestion de la crise sanitaire et n'a pas hésité à pointer du doigt les conflits d'intérêts qui existent, selon lui, dans le monde de la recherche et.qui, auraient affaibli la riposte face au SARS-CoV-2. Il a reconnu cependant la « difficulté d’avoir une ligne continue quand les vents soufflent dans tous les sens ».

« J’étais un ovni, un extraterrestre »

Le principal promoteur de l’hydroxychloroquine en France a expliqué pourquoi il n’avait pas siégé au sein du conseil scientifique, installé par Macron en mars, pour l’aider dans sa prise de décision. « Je ne suis pas un homme de réunion, je suis un homme de données », a-t-il insisté, précisant qu’il n’était « pas d’accord » avec ce que le professeur Jean-François Delfraissy et son cénacle avaient préconisé pendant la crise.

«Les discussions qu’il y avait dans ce Conseil scientifique ne me concernaient pas. Moi je veux bien parler de science, je veux bien parler de médecine. Ce n’était pas à nous de nous prononcer sur le confinement», a-t-il expliqué. Seconde raison de son retrait: l’incompatibilité avec les autres membres. « J’étais un ovni, un extraterrestre », au milieu d’« une bande de types qui ont l’habitude de travailler entre eux », mais dont aucun « n’est expert des coronavirus », a-t-il argué.

Outre la stratégie du conseil, le professeur Raoult a aussi critiqué l'attitude de l'exécutif et du gouvernement, déclarant notamment qu'Olivier Véran avait « été mal entouré ». Pour rappel, le ministre de la Santé avait demandé à ce que soient revues les règles de prescription sur l'hydroxychloroquine après la publication de l'étude The Lancet, suggérant une inefficacité du traitement antipaludique voire une certaine nocivité.

Des «blaireaux dans leur terrier»

Il a été également particulièrement critique sur l'organisation du dépistage de la Covid-19 en France : «Je ne suis pas d’accord avec la décision qui a été prise de ne pas les généraliser. », a jugé le médecin. « L'idée qu'on ne pouvait pas faire les tests n'était pas vraie », a-t-il expliqué, assurant que la technique PCR (test réalisé à l'aide d'un écouvillon dans le nez) était un « examen extrêmement, simple, banal ». Selon ses dires, le couac se situe au niveau de l’organisation «totalement archaïque» et centralisée vers les centres nationaux de référence (CNR) trop peu partageurs de leurs prérogatives et de leurs machines. Les membres des CNR étant comparés à des «blaireaux dans leur terrier qui mordent si on s’en approche», a-t-il houspillé.

Des conflits d'intérêts dans la recherche selon Raoult

Autre critique directe concernant le traitement: Didier Raoult a toujours défendu le traitement à la chloroquine , et continue à le prescrire à ses patients à Marseille, alors que les hôpitaux n'ont plus le droit d'en administrer. «Je suis surpris que l’ordre des médecins ait accepté une chose pareille, a-t-il exprimé. C’est la responsabilité des médecins de faire pour le mieux, pour leur malade, en leur âme et conscience, compte tenu de leur état de connaissance. »

Pour l'infectiologue certains détracteurs de l'hydroxychloroquine seraient financièrement liés au laboratoire Gilead, principal producteur mondial de remdevisir, une des molécules concurrentes de l'hydroxychloroquine dans la liste des traitements pour guérir le coronavirus. « Il y a des enjeux que je n'ai jamais connus de ma carrière. Je sais que la FDA a commencé une enquête là-dessus », a-t-il asséné. » Et il a souligné la permanence de conflits d'intérêt de la part d'un membre du conseil scientifique, l'infectiologue de l'hôpital Bichat, Yazdan Yazdanpanah qui avait siégé au « Board des experts » de Gilead en avril 2016, sans préciser toutefois que la Haute autorité de santé déclasse les liens d'intérêt comme tels au bout de trois ans...

L'infectiologue marseillais, a assumé de nouveau son choix de n’avoir pas mis en place un protocole classique d’essai clinique randomisé en double aveugle, tout en condamnant au passage les études de très grande ampleur comme Recovery et consorts : «Moins il y a de gens quand c’est significatif, et plus c’est significatif. Tout essai qui comporte plus de 10 000 personnes est un essai qui cherche à démontrer des choses qui n’existent pas.» Il fustige les modèles des épidémiologistes « C'est une croyance aux mathématiques qui finit par être de la religion », assène-t-il ,rappelant que lui à Marseille soignait directement des patients. « Tout était bizarre dans cette maladie, mais il fallait l'étudier y compris pour comprendre le traitement », a-t-il expliqué.

Loin d'être un prophète...

Question santé publique, le professeur de renom a estimé être incompétent pour juger certains points. «La décision du confinement, comme la décision des masques dans la rue, ne reposent pas sur des données scientifiques établies, claires et démontrables, a-t-il justifié. Le confinement à la maison, je l’ai dit deux fois au Président, c’est un domaine politique qui m’échappe. Parce que c’est celui de la gestion de la population, de la crainte de la population, sur laquelle je me suis interdit d’avoir une opinion.» . L'Imperial College de Londres a estimé le 8 juin que le confinement avait permis de sauver 3,1 millions de vies dans les 11 principaux pays européens (dont la France fait partie).

Concernant le risque d’une seconde vague, l’expert a joué la carte de la prudence. «Parmi les hypothèses les plus plausibles, il y a l’hypothèse que cette maladie devienne une maladie saisonnière comme les autres coronavirus et l’hypothèse qu’elle disparaisse comme le Sras purement et simplement à la fin de l’épidémie», a-t-il rappelé.

Loin d’être un «prophète», Didier Raoult s’est dit «ignorant comme tout le monde».




Joanne Courbet pour DayNewsWorld

CORONAVIRUS

THE RISK OF A SECOND WAVE EXISTS

The parliamentary commission of inquiry on the management of the health crisis questioned, this Thursday, June 18, four members of the scientific council, including Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, president of the Scientific Council.

Here is a plethora of tongue-in-cheek answers to members' questions.

Was containment necessary ?

"We had no choice but to do so," explains epidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet, given the arrival of many patients in intensive care, with severe pathologies.

“This confinement made it possible for the regions that were not affected not to be affected. It was a paying choice. "

Was the school closure justified ?

To request their closure, the scientists relied on their experience with seasonal flu, with schools being major sources of transmission of the virus. “In the end, based on the information collected on the Covid-19, the data are reassuring in primary schools.

Children are not very contagious to each other and to teachers. Even if there is no such thing as zero risk, ”says Arnaud Fontanet. The latter, on the other hand, wants to be less optimistic for middle and high school students.

Are masks necessary ?

The scientists' response is unanimous. It is obviously yes!

Transmission of the virus can be by asymptomatic people.

Patients can emit a significant amount of virus through speech. "We have also discovered, although this is fortunately not frequent, that the virus can remain suspended for twelve hours in the air, especially in confined places", continues Arnaud Fontanet.

Why late screenings ?

From mid-January, a virological test was developed by the Pasteur Institute. "It's the best that exists," says Bruno Lina, professor of virology. "But as demand has exploded everywhere, we encountered a problem of supply of materials, in particular swabs, to be able to test in large numbers."

Towards a second wave ?

Given the extent of the epidemic in the southern hemisphere (especially in Latin America), the scientific council considers that the risk of a second epidemic wave in France, in October-November-December, must be considered.

"We have to prepare for it now. It could be more important than the first."




Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

97 DEAD IN THE CRASH OF AN AIRBUS IN PAKISTAN

A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane with a hundred people on board crashed this Friday in Karachi, the capital of the South, as it approached the airport to land there.

At least 97 people died in the Friday crash of the Airbus A320 over a residential area in Karachi, the big city in southern Pakistan, according to a report made public on Saturday 23 May 2020 by local authorities.

The latter also reported two survivors, said the Pakistani aviation authority. It is not known whether the disaster also claimed lives on the ground.

The circumstances of the crash still unclear

The aircraft from Lahore was carrying 99 people (91 passengers and 8 crew members), an airline spokesman said on Saturday, correcting a first count that reported only 98 occupants. Among the two miracles of the crash was Zafar Masud, president of the Bank of Punjab, one of Pakistan's largest banks, said the president of PIA.

Rescue operations ended at dawn on Saturday. The circumstances of the drama are still unclear. According to the company's CEO, the aircraft was "on final approach" to Karachi airport when an incident occurred. "The last time we heard from the pilot, he indicated that he had a technical problem," said the manager. "He was told (...) that two runways were ready for landing, but he decided to go around." "According to the Pakistani Interior Minister, the pilot said he had" lost a engine "then launched" a distress call ".

A mixed record in aviation safety

The disaster comes just days after the country authorized the resumption of domestic commercial flights. For more than a month, domestic connections had been suspended to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. Very few international flights had been maintained.

Pakistan has a mixed record for aviation safety, with frequent civil and military plane and helicopter crashes having occurred over the years.




Paul Emison for DayNewsWorld

WHAT LINK BETWEEN KAWASAKI SYNDROME

AND THE CORONAVIRUS

Since March 1, 125 cases of atypical forms of Kawasaki syndrome have been identified in France.

"A 9 year old boy, presenting an overdevelopmental comorbidity, died in a table of systemic inflammation with myocarditis", specified Public Health France in its weekly bulletin, Thursday May 14, 2020.

More than half of the cases (58%) have been reported by the Ile-de-France region. Similar syndromes have been found in middle aged 8 year old children. in Italy, Spain, Switzerland, England or the United States.

What is Kawasaki disease?

Kawasaki disease is a childhood pathology still little known to doctors.

The symptoms are a significant deterioration of the general state, a fever, conjunctivitis, dry lips, a rash resembling scarlet fever, large nodes in the neck, without being present at the same time.

All these children and adolescents have a large inflammatory syndrome.

An unexpected number of children have been or are hospitalized in pediatric intensive care units for atypical forms of Kawasaki syndrome (inflammatory vasculitis disease), more than half of whom have acute myocarditis (inflammation of the myocardium, the main muscle of the muscle). heart), most with no identified risk factors.

Like the cases found in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, a majority of these children or adolescents are from Africa, the West Indies or North Africa, evoking a probable genetic track, note the doctors.

What connection with the coronavirus?

More than half of Kawasaki's cases tested positive for Covid-19, and "the link to the virus was probable" in 12% of young patients because they had been in contact with a positive subject or had had a CT scan that evoked the Covid-19. All of them have had little or no symptomatic form of Covid-19 before.

"The link between these hyperinflammatory syndromes and Covid-19 has been established," explains Professor Alexandre Belot, rheumatologist at the Woman-Mother-Child Hospital in Lyon. The health agency estimates that in affected children, this disease occurs "within an average of four weeks after infection" by the coronavirus. In other words, Kawasaki disease would be a reaction to the coronavirus developed by some children, several weeks after contamination.

To explain these atypical symptoms, "two hypotheses are explored: the genetic pathway associated with an excessive immune response that leads to inflammation and the pathogen pathway by studying the viral strains identified in Kawasaki cases", continues the researcher.

However, these cases are very rare with regard to the pediatric population.




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THE CORONAVIRUS VACCINE RUN ATTRACTS TENSIONS

The solution everyone is waiting for is a vaccine against the virus, which appeared in China in December. In view of the efforts made, it could be available in a year, estimated Thursday the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

An "optimistic" perspective, nuanced Marco Cavaleri, director of strategy at EMA, whose headquarters are in The Hague.

More than 100 projects have been launched worldwide and a dozen clinical trials are underway to try to find a cure for the disease, which killed 300,140 people and infected 4,403,714 people on the planet, according to a new balance sheet.

But the subject sharpens lusts and rivalries especially since according to WHO the virus may never disappear.

The French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi has also caused outrage in Europe by announcing that it would distribute a possible vaccine as a priority in the United States, which has invested 30 million dollars (29.20 million francs) to support its research. .

" First come, first served": the adage goes pretty well to President Trump, strongly suspected of wanting to apply his doctrine "America First" to the vaccine against Covid-19, on which several pharmaceutical companies are working hard.

"Good of public utility"

To French President Emmanuel Macron then to be offended and to demand that a vaccine not be subjected "to the laws of the market" while a spokesperson of the European Commission estimated: it "must be a good of utility and its access must be equitable and universal ”.

A vaccine or treatment against Covid-19 should even be provided "free to all", insist more than 140 personalities, including South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan in an open letter.

But what exactly did Paul Hudson say?

That the United States "was entitled to the largest order [of vaccines] because it invested in risk taking". Indeed, the American federal state, through a structure devoted to the fight against bioterrorism and pandemics, the Biomedical Development and Research Authority (Barda), has invested $ 1 billion in a public partnership -private with several laboratories working on vaccines against Covid-19, including the multinational Sanofi.

The boss of Sanofi also recalled that he had unsuccessfully campaigned in Brussels for the European Union to create the equivalent of the American Barda. This is where the essential question lies: Europe painfully discovers, thanks to this pandemic, that it has not given itself the instruments of sovereignty.

Europe is largely dependent on the outside world and must rethink its health security and, quite simply, its strategic independence...




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ABUSE A CHILD DIES EVERY FOUR DAYS

KILLED BY HIS FAMILY

Eighty miners lost their lives, miners were killed in 2018 in France after abuse by a parent, or 13 more than in 2017, according to the 2019 annual report of the National Observatory for Child Protection ( ONPE), published Tuesday 12 May.

These figures, whose annual publication became an obligation in 2017, are nevertheless "to be interpreted with caution since they only reveal part of the phenomenon, that brought to the attention of the security services, suggesting a possible underestimation FOUR, specifies the ONPE in its report.

Adding children killed by someone outside the family, nearly 122 victims of infanticide were identified in 2018, specifies this report, which represents almost 10% of the total number of homicides in France.

Among the 80 children who died in an intra-family setting, that is to say that the murderer is a parent (father, mother, step-parent, grandparent, uncle, aunt, siblings, etc.), 55 were 0 to 4 years old, 14 5 to 9 years old, eight 10 to 14 years old, and three 15 to 17 years old.

Girls more victims

The victims were mainly girls: 44 against 36 boys, it is detailed in this publication, which is based on activity data from the police and gendarmerie services, centralized by the Ministerial Statistical Service of Internal Security.

To curb the phenomenon and better fight against the murders of children by their parents or close family, a report was submitted to the government in 2019 which makes several recommendations: better spot the red flags, strengthen the training of professionals, avoid loss of information, etc.

Progress to be made in education and justice

The report suggests setting up in each department a commission of experts to be responsible for examining death cases a posteriori, in order to analyze "what happened, what could have been done differently and how similar situations can be identified and prevented ”.

"In a good number of situations, the mistreatment, or its risk, could have been detected if we had brought together several visible warning signals to synthesize them," observe the authors of this report, drawn up by the general inspectorates of social affairs (Igas), justice (IGJ) and education (IGAENR).

By focusing on the one hand on the 363 murders of children committed "in an intra-family environment" over the period 2012-2016, and on the other hand on 45 specific judicial files, the authors stress "the imperative need to better organize the 'exchange of information within each medico-social service, national education, police or justice and between these services."



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GET OUT OF YOUR BUBBLE AFTER UNCONTAINMENT

With deconfinement, an entire society will gradually emerge from its bubble. An alarm clock in Sleeping Beauty mode. where the world before will not be completely forgotten, but where new codes will govern our behavior.

The deconfinement is organized. And, like these Covid survivors from their artificial coma, the return to "normal" life will not be without difficulty. Not just for the most anxious among us.

Children, adolescents, teleworkers, temporary unemployed, self-employed workers who are stationary, everyone will have to walk out the door again early in the morning. Face the outside world, the light, the crowd, the traffic jams, the race for activities. An outside world where the disease will always prowl, this Covid not yet eradicated, and against which no vaccine still protects us.

In what state of mind will this deconfinement take place?

We could summarize it by an emotional cocktail made of happiness to find the close relations and a social life, accompanied by a certain anxiety vis-a-vis the disease, of perplexity vis-a-vis a world where the faces, in street, in the shops, at the school, at work, will be masked.

Sometimes judgmental, faced with behaviors from the past that did not shock anyone. A dive into a new world. A bit uncertain and insecure. The unknown.

the world will have to step out of its door again early in the morning. Face the outside world, the light, the crowd, the traffic jams, the race for activities. An outside world where the disease will always prowl, this Covid not yet eradicated, and against which no vaccine still protects us.

We will have to rebound and adjust to a society that will probably no longer be the one we knew before March 16. A company where the wearing of a mask will, if not compulsory, be strongly recommended. A society where social distancing will remain the norm that will govern our relationships with others. At work, at school, on the street. Not forever, but probably for a long time.

Faced with confinement, as with deconfinement, we quickly understand that we are not all in the same boat. And that the feelings will be as many and different as there are varied experiences. If the change imposed by entering confinement was not without difficulty. new habits have taken hold.

For many, a new routine has been set up, made up of small immutable rituals (evening stroll, virtual aperitifs, applause at 8 p.m.), the only escape routes in a liberated atmosphere.

Some also feel that they have found comfort in a calmer life. Some have rediscovered the pleasure of making bread, playing sports, or telecommuting. To leave in the routine of before, it is to draw them from a world which they built themselves, and in which they realize that they are not so bad.

Getting out of this bubble, it will be necessary to rebuild again, and probably otherwise, especially as the very anxiety-provoking climate created by a society where everyone will wear masks in survival mode will instill an impression of the dangerousness of the world.



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REORGANIZE AFTER CONTAINMENT

The confinement imposed by the coronavirus is no easy task, everyone agrees. deeply. At the same time, it forces us to test other ways of living and working.

And if, once deconfined, we kept the good sides ?

If everything is not going to change after the crisis since the change requires the effort to get out of our comfort zone and human beings return very quickly to their comfort zone. We are not going to change at all, however trends will accelerate. What will we change, once deconfined ?

Work organization

It is obvious, the organization of work has been shaken as rarely: 37% of employees in the private sector currently telecommute. Before the crisis, there was still a lot of reluctance with regard to remote work, on the union side as well as on the manager side. However today, with confinement, the trend has reversed. A balance was found according to the activity of the people and the type of management.

We can thus live and work better, with less time wasted, less stress. In traffic jams, human relations management

Massive homeworking of the moment will have consequences. Those who practiced it before before tested it full time and those who did not want it were forced to do so and may have found an interest in it. That, for example, of no longer attending meetings that are useless… to favor only real, strategic meetings, those where presence is necessary. Why make a round trip to Barcelona during the day for two hours of meeting, if videoconferencing avoids it. Let's continue on the ground of displacements

Transport reorganization

We have seen the beneficial effect of telework on traffic (less time wasted, less pollution), but we will still be on the move. We will no doubt avoid public transport as much as possible for the benefit of the car, cycling or walking. Everything will depend on the reaction of the public authorities. Who will be able to think of a redevelopment of public space by giving more space to pedestrians and cyclists (enough to ensure social distancing for these modes. Thus the city of Milan which affected in full hearted by the coronavirus, decided to widen sidewalks and transform 35 km of roads into cycle paths.

The organization of the day

To facilitate the physical distance between deconfines, we can also loosen the organization of our days. Why do businesses and schools all start at the same time when spreading out the start of activities reduces peak traffic in public transport and on the road. The experiences of time offices carried out in several European cities show that there is a way to fluidize the rhythms of a population in a given geographic space. The post-crisis should make us more flexible in organizing the rhythms of a day.

Relocation of companies

Decentralize, decentralize, relocate. With the limitation of travel and the blocking of many supply chains, short circuits are popular. However, let's not bet everything on the local. Because, the day when a disaster such as a great drought arrives, probable scenario, we will be quite helpless with a short circuit. We must therefore keep the sense of balance in. keeping a link with agricultural production which is not limited to the terroir

The crisis has also shown that when a company concentrates its production in distant countries with low labor costs, to look after its own profitability, it actually puts the community at risk. The example of protective masks and drugs shows this. When supply chains, long and sophisticated, seize up, everyone pays the price. It will therefore be necessary to relocate certain strategic sectors from pharmaceutical products to food products.

Taking into account ecology

The climate issue should also come back on the agenda in force after the coronavirus crisis. With the shutdown of the economy, we could observe the impact on the climate. Reducing energy dependence by developing renewable energies generates positive effects on health and the climate, but also on our industrial fabric since it creates internal activity.

Switching to a carbon neutral economy is very necessary despite the cost. The French State has therefore conditioned its aid to Air France to climate objectives.

While the crisis of 2008, was to curb saving the economy by keeping the same system as it is, today, faced with the health crisis, the State seeks a better balance between the economy, the social and the ecology..




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TOCILIZUMAB A REMEDY FOR CORONAVIRUS ?

Hopeful note on the research front ?

While clinical trials have multiplied in France and around the world, the Public Assistance-Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP) has decided to make public the preliminary results of a study.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, doctors have observed in some patients with the virus a sudden worsening of their condition after several days, a phenomenon probably linked to an excessive immune reaction of the body. This hyper-inflammation, also called "cytokine storm", can be fatal.

A phenomenon sometimes lightning, as in this man, hospitalized because of Covid-19, who had just exchanged an SMS with his relatives to say that he felt better when, suddenly, he no longer managed to breathe

A clinical trial

For these serious cases, tocilizumab gives rise to some hope. In the context of a clinical trial, this treatment reduced "significantly" the proportion of patients who had to be transferred to intensive care or died, compared to those who received standard treatment, said Public Assistance-Paris hospitals on Monday (AP-HP).

These initial conclusions show the effectiveness of a drug, called tocilizumab (Actemra or RoActemra), to avoid an exaggerated reaction of the immune system called "cytokine storm" in certain serious patients of Covid-19. This medication may be able to prevent this inflammatory thunderstorm which occurs between the 8th and 10th day of infection and which worsens the respiratory condition of patients.

This is the "first randomized controlled trial" which "demonstrates a clinical benefit" of this treatment in Covid patients with severe infection.

These results have yet to be "consolidated" and will be published in a scientific journal in a few weeks. Usually used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, it works by blocking the receptor of a protein of the immune system which plays an important role in the inflammatory process.

This profile corresponds "only to 5% to 10% of patients infected" by the coronavirus who, develop a severe form with an acute respiratory distress syndrome . They are, however, among those most at risk of being placed on artificial respiration or dying

A prognosis therefore improved, few adverse effects and a price certainly high for a single injection :

  $ 760. But as the doctors point out, this is a price that has no comparison with the cost of a single day in an intensive care unit.




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DOGS TRAINED TO DETECT

COVID-19

The British authorities wish to use canines to detect the coronavirus disease on people.

In collaboration with the organization Medical Detection Dogs, scientists from the universities of Durham and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have been working on this question for several weeks now to find out to what extent canids can detect the disease.

Does the disease leave an odor on the protective masks used by infected patients, and above all, if so, is it identifiable by canids, like cancer or other already detectable diseases ?

"We believe that dogs can detect Covid-19 and that they can very quickly screen hundreds of people to find out who should be tested and isolated," said Claire Guest, founder and chief executive officer of Medical Detection. Dogs.

In his training center in Milton Keynes, in the center of England, dogs are trained to recognize the smell of the virus among several samples. They must then report when they find it, before being rewarded.

"We have evidence that dogs can detect bacteria and other diseases, so we think this project will make a huge difference in the ability to control the spread of Covid-19," added Claire Guest, whose association has already trained canines to detect cancer or Parkinson's disease.

This solution could save precious time for medical teams in the care of infected patients.



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A TIGER WITH CORONAVIRUS

AT NEW YORK

A tigress from a Bronx zoo in New York has tested positive for coronavirus. The animal suffered from a dry cough and loss of appetite.

Dry cough and loss of appetite

It is a world first. In New York, a tiger from a Bronx zoo tested positive for Covid-19. The animal, a four-year-old Malaysian tiger called Nadia, but also its sister Azul, as well as two Amur tigers and three African lions all suffer from dry cough, but should recover fully, indicates the zoo in a communicated.

Nadia is the only feline to have been tested.

"Although their appetite has decreased, the felines of the Bronx zoo are doing well thanks to veterinary care and are lively, alert and interactive with their keepers," the same source said.

The tiger contaminated by a guard

The zoo has been closed to the public since March 16, as have the three other New York zoos and the city's aquarium. The contaminated tiger would therefore have contracted the disease from a guardian who would then have no symptoms.

"We do not know how this disease will develop in big cats because different species can react differently to new infections, but we will continue to monitor them closely and anticipate a full recovery," said the New York institution.

"We [the tiger Nadia] have tested it with all due care and we will make sure that any knowledge acquired about the Covid-19 will contribute to the understanding of this new coronavirus in the world", adds the press release.

At the end of March, a cat was infected with the new coronavirus in Belgium, contaminated by its owner who was sick, according to the Belgian health authorities who had then ruled out any risk of contamination from animals to humans. Similar cases have been reported in Hong Kong where two dogs tested positive for Covid-19.

These animals are said to have contracted the virus from the people with whom they live.




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CORONAVIRUS TOWARDS STAGE 3 OF THE PLAN ?

France is, for the moment, in stage 2 of its plan to fight Covid-19.

It could progress to the next stage in the event of active circulation of the virus throughout the country.

Faced with the number of cases that increases every day, it still seems "unlikely" that it will escape the epidemic stage, government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye said on Wednesday.

While the purpose of stage 1 of the coronavirus prevention plan was to prevent the virus from entering the territory, the second health level, in which we have been since February 28, aims to curb the spread of Covid -19.

Concretely, the triggering of stage 2 has led to the closure of a hundred schools, to cancel or postpone sporting and cultural events or to limit public gatherings to 5,000 people and to quarantine all over the territory . But today, if the government is to be believed, triggering stage 3 of the epidemic seems inevitable.

"I fear that it is difficult to escape the epidemic phase," admitted Sibeth Ndiaye, the government spokeswoman, to France Inter, Wednesday March 4. For that, it is necessary that the virus circulates on the whole of the territory whereas currently there exist only clusters, that is to say homes of patients in different places. The General Directorate of Health (DGS), which reports to the Ministry of Health, has three: in the Oise, in Haute-Savoie and in the Morbihan. However, the number of isolated cases in other regions is increasing every day. If the epidemic stage is reached, phase 3 will be triggered with the aim of limiting the effects of the epidemic.

To draw the contours of this stage 3, the authorities rely on a Prevention and Control Plan drawn up in 2011 in the event of an influenza pandemic. Although the coronavirus has differences, this could serve as a basis for reflection. Binding measures would be taken throughout the territory such as the closure of crèches and educational establishments on a territorial or even national scale, the possible suspension of certain public transport, the restriction of large gatherings and collective activities, maintaining a food supply and basic necessities to avoid shortages.

Stage 3, or epidemic stage, will also impose "full mobilization of the health system in all its components (city medicine, health establishments and medico-social establishments)", as specified in the methodological guide to "preparation for epidemic risk Covid-19 ". In this situation, patient management would evolve: patients infected with the coronavirus would no longer be systematically managed in the hospital. Indeed, the “harmless” patients would remain confined to their homes and would be followed by their general practitioner.

"This home support system will aim not to saturate the hospitalization capacities of health establishments and will make it possible to reserve the resources of health establishments for the most serious cases", indicates the government.

According to Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, specialist in infectious diseases who participated in the meeting, the transition from phase 2, currently underway, to phase 3 - that of the epidemic, which will impose more restrictive restrictions - will intervene "between a few days and a week or two. ".




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EXTRADITION OF JULIAN ASSANGE

HEROES OF FREEDOM TO INFORM OR SPY ?

In 2010, Julian Assange, an Australian computer scientist in his forties, became for some a sort of hero of the freedom to inform by disclosing thousands of confidential American documents.

Ten years after the publication of the thousands of documents that have made Wikileaks famous, the founder of the famous site is appearing in London this week. Since Monday, British justice is indeed called to rule on the extradition of Julian Assange towards the United States, where Julian Assange risks 175 years of prison.

Considered a whistleblower and a staunch defender of the freedom to inform by some, Julian Assange remains in the eyes of the American state a traitor and a spy.

So the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, is he a spy or a symbol of the freedom to inform?

Can he escape extradition?

The defense of Julian Assange accused Washington on February 25 of basing the espionage lawsuits targeting the founder of Wikileaks on "lies", on the second day of the examination by the British justice of the request for American extradition.

The 48-year-old Australian is being prosecuted in the United States for having disseminated from 2010 more than 700,000 classified documents on American military and diplomatic activities, in particular in Iraq and Afghanistan, then on heavy secrets of life in Guantanamo . And it revealed to the world the extent of US state surveillance.

Prosecuted under the anti-spy laws of 1917 and for hacking, Juain Assange faces up to 175 years in prison. The defense of Julian Assange, denounced the "lies" on which the prosecution would be based. But the 18 heads of prosecution against Julian Assange, arrested in April after seven years in hiding at the Ecuadorian embassy, ​​are based on "lies, lies and more lies", accused one of the founder's lawyers from Wikileaks, Mark Summers.

For a fair trial.

In order to rule on the extradition request, the examination of which takes place this week and then three more weeks from 18 May, the British courts must in particular ensure that it is not disproportionate or incompatible with human rights. 'Man. Now Assange appears to be a hunted fugitive passing from one place of confinement to another.

In his box, the founder of WikiLeaks appeared tired after hours of hearing. "Julian Assange is having trouble, he's having trouble concentrating," said a member of his defense team. In the courtroom, he appears, enclosed in a jar, in a huge glass box, with fine vertical openings where you cannot pass your hand. He complained several times:

it is difficult for him under his conditions to communicate with his lawyers. His detention also complicated his defense, and he complained yesterday of not being able to talk confidentially with his lawyers, in particular because of the two guards who surround him in the box, but also by the presence of microphones. It is also impossible to communicate with family and friends. At the start of the hearing on February 25, the defense protested the treatment inflicted on it. "Yesterday [February 24], Julian Assange was handcuffed 11 times, stripped twice" at Belmarsh prison where he is being held, protested one of his counsel, Edward Fitzgerald.

Such processing could "affect this procedure," the lawyer warned. Counsel for the United States government concurred, pointing out that he did not want Assange's treatment to "jeopardize" the proceedings. Their appeal to the judge overseeing the trial at the Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London was also supported by US government lawyers, who said it was essential that the founder of WikiLeaks be given 'a fair trial.

Another element that raised questions about the course of this trial: on the second day, the editorial staff of WikiLeaks were temporarily removed from the courtroom. "A few minutes before the start of the hearings, I was called by the authorities [...] and was told that the court had decided to ban all of us from the public gallery," said Kristinn Hrafnsson, the editor of WikiLeaks.

"I was given no reason. [...] I am absolutely indignant at this decision but it does not surprise me, it does not improve my faith in the justice of this country where people are sidelined for the most important hearing concerning l "The future of Wikileaks, the fate of Julian Assange as well as that of journalism," he added.

Conditions for publication of documents

Defense of the Australian recalled at length, Tuesday, the exact conditions under which this publication occurred. WikiLeaks initially worked with reputable newspapers to publish the leaks from the US State Department and the Pentagon, which caused a stir and scandalized Washington. According to defense lawyer Mark Summers, this partnership with the media had led to a rigorous editorial process, including working with US officials to ensure that the sources' identities were not published.

The lawyer said that in a book published in 2011, a Guardian reporter revealed the password to access a database of un-redacted source names. He said Assange had called the White House to alert US officials of the impending publication on various sites, telling them, "If you don't act, people's lives will be put in jeopardy." Thus, to say that Assange "deliberately put lives in danger by dropping an unexpurgated database [as the representative of the United States had done the day before) is knowingly incorrect," he pleaded.

The media distanced themselves when WikiLeaks, in 2011, published in extenso some of the documents they had worked on, without removing them from potentially sensitive information. On its website, the Guardian, "opposed to the extradition of Julian Assange," said that it was "entirely false" to say that the book "led to the publication of unredacted US files." "The book contained a password which Julian Assange had told the authors was temporary and should expire within hours," said the daily.

Arguments against extradition

Several arguments will be used by lawyers for the Australian to convince the judge to refuse extradition: the fact that the charges which motivate his extradition are "political offenses" within the meaning of the United Kingdom - United States Extradition Treaty United, that extraditing him would be contrary to certain fundamental rights (freedom of expression, fair trial), that his health does not allow him to be extradited ... His lawyers say in particular that his health is very poor and that he is under medical treatment. One of them spoke during the week of a risk of suicide and depression.

Friday ends the first week of the trial, but this is only the introduction: an additional three weeks are scheduled from May 18. The decision could then be made several weeks later. And that is without counting the appeal, which will not fail to be made by the party that has lost.

The issue of freedom to inform beyond the Assange case

Despite his ambiguities, Julian Assange should not be extradited

Wouldn't extraditing Julian Assange amount to assimilating to a spy activity any publication of secret documents emanating from the American state? In the name of reason, the dubious methods of the American army would never have been revealed to the public, and no one would have perceived the size of the surveillance society.

For Olivier Tesquet, author of À la trace, an investigation into the new surveillance territories , Assange is not so much a symbol of the fight against the surveillance society as against the extension of the domain of secrecy: “the hypothesis of a Extradition and a trial against him is both a message addressed to whistleblowers who would like to make public a certain number of documents or confidential information, and a message addressed to journalists and therefore to the freedom to inform. " The freedom to inform that he defended doubtless embodies a new form of checks and balances at a time when privacy is threatened as much by States as by technological acceleration.

The New York Times and the Guardian, who have been very critical of it in recent years, have strongly denounced these accusations.

"Mr. Assange is not a hero, but his affair poses a threat to freedom of expression, and in so doing, the very resilience of American democracy," according to the New York Times.

His British counterpart wrote that he "must be protected from American extradition in a case which shakes the foundations of freedom and democracy in both the United Kingdom and the United States".




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MALE DOYEN OF HUMANITY

CHITETSU WATANABE AT 112

Father of five children, he dethroned a compatriot, Masazo Nonaka, the former record holder who died last month at the age of 112 years and 266 days. He recognized a cute sin when he was awarded his title:

"Sweets like caramel pudding" that do not visibly harm his health.

The Japanese Chitetsu Watanabe has become the oldest man in the world, as he prepares to celebrate his 113 years. Chitetsu Watanabe was born on March 5, 1907 in Niigata, in the northwest of Japan.

He officially received his Guinness title on Wednesday in the retirement home where he resides, still in his hometown.

The previous record holder, Masazo Nonaka, another Japanese, died last month at 112 years and 266 days.

The absolute world record for male longevity is that of another Japanese man who died in 2013 shortly after his 116th birthday, Jiroemon Kimura.

His longevity secret?

"Keep smiling," he said simply.

Chitetsu Watanabe, who had five children, said the secret to his longevity was simply "not to get angry and keep smiling." He recognized a cute sin - sweets like caramel pudding - but obviously it didn't hurt him.

The current dean of humanity of both sexes is a Japanese woman, Kane Tanaka, who celebrated her 117th birthday last month.

According to Guinness, the longevity record that can be officially proven, all sexes combined, remains held by the Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days.

Japan has one of the highest life expectancies in the world: more than 70,000 centenarians live in the country, out of a total population of around 126 million inhabitants, in strong demographic decline.




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COULD VANILLA MURDER BE AVOIDED ?

The motive becomes clearer concerning the death of Vanille, 1 year old, found dead in Angers on Sunday.

Vanille's mother, little girl found dead in Angers in a clothing container on Sunday, was indicted on Tuesday (February 11th) for "murder of a minor under the age of 15" and placed in pre-trial detention, said Eric Bouillard, public prosecutor of Angers.

"Murder on a minor under 15 years of age"

“The motive for taking action seems to be linked to her departure from the maternal center, departure which had been announced to her, she tells us, on December 3, 2019, the day she decided, by various means (…), to give death to her child, "said the Angers public prosecutor on Monday.

Monday afternoon, the autopsy had confirmed, as his mother had indicated to the investigators "in a relatively detailed manner", that the little girl was killed Friday, by "suffocation".

The mother confessed during her police custody "to have given death to her child Friday, even before the hour at which she should deliver it" to her referent of social assistance to the child (ASE), had indicated the prosecutor on Sunday. Vanille died on February 7, the day of her first birthday.

A premeditated gesture

According to the prosecutor, the mother explained in police custody that she had planned to take action on the girl's first birthday, February 7. She faces life imprisonment. "Vanille's birthday was February 7, the day of her death, which [the mother] took advantage of for her acting out," said the prosecutor. A gesture that nobody could also foresee, according to the statements of the president of the Departmental Council, who also claims that the social services followed all the procedures.

"There was no violence, there was no indication of such an outcome," he said. On the contrary, the mother was described as a person "who was more and more involved" with her child.

Why such a gesture ?

The prosecutor explained on Monday that it was linked to the mother's departure from the Angers maternal center, a home for pregnant women and single mothers, which housed him.

The departure was scheduled for Monday, February 10, after being notified to him on December 3. Nathalie Stephan had been housed in this center for a year. Her daughter had been entrusted to ASE and placed in a foster family by the children's judge, but she could continue to see her mother regularly for a given time during the week.

Malfunctions ?

Was there a dysfunction on the part of the State services?

"There was absolutely no negligence on the part of the children's aid services," said the prosecutor.

However, this is the twenty-fourth time that the abduction alert has been triggered, and it is the first time that it has not made it possible to find the child alive.

This mobilization of the media and state services is usually 100% successful. The abduction alert plan is a massive and immediate alert system, deployed to assist in the search for a child suspected of being abducted. Adopted in France in 2006, it is largely inspired by the "Amber Alert" plan, created in Texas in 1996, after the kidnapping and assassination of Amber Hagerman, a 10-year-old girl.

However, Sunday February 9, in Angers, the little Vanilla who disappeared Friday was found dead...




Jenny Chase for DayNewsWorld

TOMATO VIRUS ALERT

The tomato is currently threatened by a virus which could affect French production, warns the National Agency for Food, Environment and Work Health Safety (ANSES).

This virus, the tomato brown rugose fruit virus (ToBREV) currently affects countries close to France and large producers of tomatoes such as Spain or Italy, but also the Netherlands, Greece and the United Kingdom.

Belonging to the family of tobamoviruses, this "rough brown tomato fruit virus" is specialized, that is to say that only tomatoes, peppers and peppers, but also eggplants, petunias, tobacco and wild plants are sensitive to it.

If it poses no danger to human health, the ToBRFV virus worries producers for several reasons. First of all, it affects tomatoes and peppers in a very visible way of the mosaics appearing on the leaves of yellow spots on the fruits which can also have a characteristic rough surface. Result: they simply become impossible to market.

Then its mode of propagation is alarming. The virus spreads once in the plant, from cell to cell until it completely invades. The fruits, but also the plants and seeds will remain infectious for months, on any type of support, which explains the spread of the virus across the planet.

"It is a very stable, persistent virus. When it is spotted, it is therefore necessary to go through a crawl space step, ”specifies Philippe Reignault. Concretely: it is necessary to uproot the plants, burn them, and stop cultivating the place until decontamination of the greenhouse or the soil. Germany and the United States have taken drastic measures to eradicate it. The other affected countries have not yet succeeded.

The Health Agency recommends that the French authorities extend the regulations already in force to infected fruits, and to guarantee that the imported plants all come from regions known to be free from the virus. It also calls for strengthening controls and the implementation of a monitoring plan.

It is "crucial," writes the Agency, "to rapidly report the presence" of the virus in production areas, in order to initiate "rapid and determined action to eliminate it as quickly as possible. »




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SARAH ABITBOL OR BREAKING OMERTA IN SPORT ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE

In a shocking book Un si long silence , published Thursday, January 30, former figure skating champion Sarah Abitbol reveals that she was sexually assaulted and raped at 15 by her trainer.

At the time, explains Sarah Abitbol to L'Obs, in an interview, she is a young sportswoman on a figure skating course for a few weeks at La Roche-sur-Yon.

In her story, she says that her trainer at the time, whom she named “Mr. O.”, takes advantage of her position to assault her sexually and rape her several times.

She recounts the ordeal experienced at the time and the impact on her life today.

“I am a handicapped person of life, walled in anxiety. In my head, I am a prey. At 15, I slept outside my home, I was vulnerable, and you benefited from it, "she writes, addressing directly to the one she calls" Monsieur O. ", in reality Gilles Beyer.

At the time, Sarah Abitbol was still sleeping with her stuffed animals. She remains silent until she is a medalist.

The European multi-medalist, who also spoke a second time at the microphone of France Inter, testified this Thursday, January 30, to "traumatic amnesia" which she then experienced.

For more than ten years, Sarah Abitbol had indeed no memory of the events which took place between her 15 and 17 years and about which she confided for a long time to L'Obs, namely, the rapes that she would have suffered several times from her trainer, Gilles Beyer. “I had traumatic amnesia. It stayed in a corner of my brain, the brain protects itself from the miseries of childhood and it was so strong, so repulsive, in fact, that the brain put it aside, and for more than ten years, actually , I completely forgot about this event ”, she underlines.

Until 2002, on the eve of the launch of the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, the champion does not remember anything. She was then 26 years old. At that time, it ruptures the Achilles tendons. She has a flash: “The body spoke first, because having a rupture of the Achilles tendons at 24 hours from the Olympic Games, on site, there is nothing worse for a top athlete. I did not understand what was happening to me ”.

Sarah Abitbol ends her professional career at 28 years old and tries for the first time to alert the highest French Sport authorities on the actions of “Monsieur O.” and on sexual and gender-based violence in figure skating. The Minister of Sports at the time replied that there is "a file" about this coach who has since climbed the ranks of the federation, but that he must "close his eyes".

Today, Sarah Abitbol continues her work as a director and skater, while fighting her trauma. Two years after the beginnings of the #MeToo movement, she denounced the “omerta” that reigns in sport in her book. A testimony whose facts are prescribed, but which it delivers to "break the silence". "If you lasted so long, Mr. O., it's because everything around you allowed it.

Politicians have closed their eyes, leaders have kept you in place, coaches have been silent so as not to risk being fired or to protect their own turpitudes. Women coaches put a handkerchief on the crimes of their spouses, parents were blinded by their desire to see their children succeed, students themselves are afraid of being discriminated against if they spoke. Everyone, at their level, has nurtured and continues to nurture crime, ”writes the champion in her book. The woman who was ten times champion of France hopes today that her testimony will encourage other athletes to confide in what they have suffered.

Other former skaters are making similar accusations against Beyer, published Wednesday in L'Equipe and L'Obs. Beyer disputes the facts related.

Sports Minister Roxana Maracineanu summoned the president of the Ice Sports Federation, Didier Gailhaguet, Thursday morning to have "explanations."




Pamela Newton for DayNewsWorld

ZOOPHILIA A REAL PRACTICE TO PUNISH

It is ignored. Taboo. And yet zoophilia is a very real practice, which leads to mistreatment for the animals which are the victims.

It is a "good of a mass phenomenon", reveals an investigation by the association Animal Cross, which denounces, in addition to the "unacceptable abuse" that this "sexual deviance" makes animals bear, "an attack serious with human dignity ”and a public health problem.

A study published under a shock title "Animals, new sex toys" is based in particular on the thesis of a young veterinary doctor, Marjolaine Baron:

"Zoophilia in society: what role can the veterinarian play in its repression? "

Internet a sound box for zoophilia

It is on the Internet that zoophilia finds a sound box without a filter. "The Internet is the antechamber of a sort of gigantic mess in which animals are the sexual victims", denounces Benoît Thomé.

This practice has grown considerably with the Internet and digital media.

The association thus estimates 1.6 million the number of visits by French Internet users recorded, each month, on specialized sites broadcasting zoophile videos - this figure did not take into account the traffic of the numerous "generalist" pornographic tubes. who also offer this theme.

“In a few seconds, one or two keywords on the search engines are enough to access these sites for free; most do not even bother to verify that the user is over 18 years old, ”deplores the Animal Cross survey. "There is therefore a massive voyeurism of people consuming zoo-pornography", deduces its author, who estimates the number of French zoophilia enthusiasts at 150,000.

It is difficult, however, to know how many are taking action in the absence of reliable scientific data, official surveys on the sexuality of the French refraining from tackling this scabrous subject. According to Animal Cross analyzes, “around 10,000” is the size of this active community. A number that would only grow with forums and digital formats. "Zoophilia is often presented as the new sexual experience to be discovered," notes the report. We are far from some received ideas. This practice does not only concern the farmhand or isolated persons in a situation of sexual misery. “The lack of better is a minority motivation; for most zoophiles, this is a deliberate choice, "said Benoît Thomé, president of the association. Zoophiles are often young and male.

The president of Animal Cross establishes a kind of cartography, from "passive voyeurists", consumers of videos, to "zoo-sadists", who practice torture on their prey, sometimes until its killing; between the two, graduated practices ranging from caress to full sexual intercourse.

Multiple consequences on animals

The consequences for animals are manifold. Marjolaine Baron, veterinary doctor, who has devoted a thesis to zoophilia, states: "The lesions are essentially physical and anatomical, on the anal or vaginal parts," explains the practitioner. But we can also have fibroated ears, because these parts sometimes serve as handles, or even bruises, because the animal struggles. The acts are sometimes accompanied by zoosadism with the will to torture the animal, and for certain species, the anatomical incompatibilities involve the death of the animal. “We also have a lot of cases where there is no injury. This makes the diagnosis difficult to make, "continues Marjolaine Baron,

Health risks

"In addition to the suffering it causes, zoophilia constitutes a serious health problem, for the risks of venereal diseases that they run to humans". A Brazilian study shows that 45% of people with penile cancer admitted having had at least one sexual intercourse with an animal. The report highlights a "significant prevalence" of sexually transmitted diseases, among zoophiles, and therefore "a public health concern".

“Another risk pointed out by the association: that of deviance. “A paraphilia rarely declares itself. […] Zoophilia, acts of bestiality predispose individuals to interhuman violence. […] They must be used as alarm bells to prevent harmful behavior, in particular pedophilia. Veterinarians have an important role in these interventions, ”reads the report.

Strengthen legislation

"Our goal is not to set ourselves up as a morality police force, but to concern ourselves with animals victims of sexual assault, unable to say no", specifies Benoît Thomé, president of Animal Cross and editor of the report .

In his conclusions, the author points to the legal void that would surround the dissemination of zoophilia on the Internet and calls for strengthening existing legislation against zoophiles, as we have seen recently in Germany.

Too many cases are still the subject of a classification without follow-up, for lack of proof or of opportunity. The practice takes place out of sight, reports are few, and when they are, evidence is difficult to provide.

Article 521-1 of the Penal Code punishes with two years of imprisonment the fact of exercising serious or sexual abuse, or committing an act of cruelty to an animal.

"We believe that in the long term animals should benefit from the same legal protection as minors," concludes the president of Animal Cross, referring to the "non-consent by nature" of the animal.




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DEATH OF KOBE BRYANT LEGEND OF BASKETBALL

Five-time of NBA champion with the Lakers, his lifelong club, Kobe Bryant died, Sunday, January 26, in the crash of his helicopter in Calabasas (southern California, United States).

Former NBA basketball star Kobe Bryant died on Sunday (January 26th) in his California helicopter crash, local officials said.

According to media people TMZ, the 41-year-old ex-player was aboard his private helicopter with eight other people on Sunday morning, including one of his daughters, when it suddenly fell, before igniting. No one would have survived the crash.

The cause of the accident is not yet known.

Kobe Bryant, who had four children, had notably evolved during twenty years within the NBA franchise of the Los Angeles Lakers.

The man nicknamed "Black Mamba" was one of the seven players to have scored more than 30,000 points in his career. He had put an end to it at the end of the 2015-2016 season.

Until Saturday, he was the 3rd best scorer in NBA history, before being overtaken by rival LeBron James in the Lakers' loss to Philadelphia (108-91). “Kobe was immortal offensively because of his ability to score a lot.

And here I am here in Philadelphia, wearing the [same] Lakers jersey. The universe sometimes causes these things… It is not supposed to have a meaning, but here it is, it just happens, "said LBJ Saturday evening, moved, after the meeting.

Converted into documentary production (he received the Oscar for best animated short film in 2018). I have no words to express my pain, "tweeted Shaquille O'Neal, Bryant's teammate at Los Angeles in the early 2000s.

His disappearance sparked an avalanche of tributes: the President of the United States, Donald Trump, spoke of "terrible news", while his predecessor, Barack Obama, sent his "prayers" to the bereaved family.

Another former Staples Center legend to have expressed himself on the social network, the Frenchman Tony Parker has "a broken heart".

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

CORONAVIRUS: 10 DAYS TO BUILD

A HOSPITAL IN CHINA

The China started Friday the construction of a hospital intended to welcome within 10 days a thousand patients victims of the new coronavirus.

The images of the construction site are impressive. More than fifty backhoe loaders converged this Friday on a vacant lot in Wuhan, epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic raging in China, where the authorities want to build a hospital in a week.

According to images broadcast on television, dozens of construction machines were busy preparing the ground on which the establishment must rise in this city of 11 million inhabitants at the heart of the epidemic.

The works must be completed in record time and the hospital, of 25,000 m2 and with a capacity of 1,000 beds, will open on February 3, according to the agency Chine nouvelle.

"We have mobilized all the workers remaining in Wuhan to work in shifts to provide 24-hour construction work," said Zhang Chongxi, head of Wuhan Construction, according to the agency.

The hospital will exclusively admit patients of viral pneumonia of unknown origin which has infected 830 people since December, including 26 fatally.

The site "will alleviate the shortage of medical resources," the official news agency said. The city of Wuhan, where the vast majority of contamination is concentrated, was placed under de facto quarantine on Thursday, residents were no longer allowed to leave. China had already built a hospital in Beijing in record time - a week - during the SARS epidemic in 2003. The site included prefabricated buildings.

The new hospital built in Wuhan would have been designed on the same model.




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A MYSTERIOUS PNEUMONIA IN CHINA

MAY ARRIVE IN EUROPE

Appeared for the first time in December in China, the mysterious pneumonia has left more than 300 patients ill and killed 6 people so far. And has crossed the borders of China, raising the specter of a global contagion. The World Health Organization (WHO) will meet this Wednesday to determine whether to declare a "public health emergency of international concern".

For the moment entitled “2019-nCoV”, this new coronavirus has crossed the borders of the Middle Kingdom and infected several other people in Japan, South Korea and Thailand. For the moment, 922 patients are under observation in Chinese hospitals, according to figures communicated by the health authorities.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the animal seems to be "the most probable primary source" of this epidemic.

Human-to-human mode of transmission

If at first, the path of human-to-human contagion was not privileged, this Monday, Zhong Nanshan, a Chinese scientist of the National Health Commission, said that the transmission by contagion between people was "proven". It is the first time that such an assertion has been made publicly. "Today we have evidence to confirm that contamination between humans is possible and has occurred," said Professor Yazdan Yazdanpanah, head of the Infectious and Tropical Diseases Department at Bichat Hospital in Paris. This virus is 80% similar to that of SARS. And depending on the age and state of health of the infected patient, it can cause different symptoms, ranging from signs of a simple cold to those of the flu, or even pneumonia. A fragile person can develop a severe form of this virus ”.

This epidemic is raising growing concerns: a second person has died, dozens and undoubtedly hundreds of patients remain infected and the United States has implemented screening at several of their airports.

The epidemic is fueling fears of the re-emergence of a SARS-type virus, and more specifically beta-coronavirus, which is contagious and which had killed some 650 people in mainland China and Hong Kong in 2002 and 2003. This new disease, observed for the first time in late December in China is characterized by a respiratory syndrome, like a form of pneumonia, with flu-like symptoms.

The Chinese authorities' investigation determined that several infected patients were working in a market in Wuhan specializing in the wholesale of seafood and fish. On Saturday, the Wuhan Municipal Hygiene and Health Commission identified four additional cases, bringing the total number to at least 45 infected patients.

Preventive measures at several foreign airports

Outside China, prevention measures are on the increase. Latest: The United States has announced that as of Friday it will begin screening flights from Wuhan to San Francisco Airport and John F. Kennedy Kennedy Airport - where they land direct flights from Wuhan - as well as to Los Angeles, where there are many connections. Passengers will be examined by medical teams but not systematically subjected to a sample.

"Based on the information currently available, the risk (posed by the virus) for Americans is considered to be low," said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who nevertheless wished to "take precautions."

Due to this global health risk, many Asian countries on Tuesday tightened their controls. From Bangkok to Hong Kong, from Singapore to Sydney, the authorities carry out systematic checks on the arrival of flights from risk areas. In Vietnam, a country bordering China, the Ministry of Health has declared a "high risk of infection" and ordered reinforced controls at its northern border, an intense crossing point between the two countries.

The Thai authorities have set up compulsory thermal detections at Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket and Krabi airports for passengers coming from Chinese risk areas. In a statement, the Thai Minister of Health, Anutin Charnvirakul, announced that these passengers were screened "without exception", and Charnvirakul, announced that these passengers were screened "without exception", and placed under observation in quarantine for 24 hours if they show signs of fever.

Especially with the approach of the Lunar New Year festivities (January 25), a period that raises concerns about the possible spread of the virus. On this occasion, hundreds of millions of Chinese take buses, trains and planes to spend the holidays with family.

In 2003, there were 8,096 cases of SARS, which killed 774 people worldwide, including 349 in mainland China and 299 in Hong Kong, according to WHO. The international organization at the time strongly criticized Beijing for having delayed raising the alarm and trying to conceal the extent of the epidemic.

However, the management of this type of virus has evolved a lot since the SARS epidemic: "We have learned the lessons of this pandemic and are today much better organized, reassures Professor Yazdanpanah. The most important and urgent thing, faced with this type of situation, is to be able to detect infected people as soon as possible ”.

China has already shared with the international scientific community the genomic sequencing of the new coronavirus. "For the past ten days, we have therefore known how to identify this virus, which is decisive in preventing its spread," continues the infectious disease specialist. As soon as an individual from an area where the virus is rife has respiratory symptoms associated with it, it should immediately be placed in quarantine. ”

For example, Beijing announced on Tuesday that it has classified the epidemic in the same category as SARS, and has decreed compulsory isolation for people diagnosed with the disease.

This vigilance is all the more important at the dawn of a crossover in transport on the occasion of the Chinese New Year this Saturday, which raises fears of an acceleration of contamination.

Andrew Preston pour DayNewsWorld

ATTEND A COMPLETELY BARE MASS IN THE USA

In a country still deeply believing, churches compete in imagination to reconnect with the faithful In the United States, anything is possible, including going to mass in the simplest device. In Ivor, in the State of Virginia, the White Tail Chapel has set up original religious offices, reports the HuffPost. Every Sunday, the faithful are invited to come to communicate completely naked.

Allen Parker, the pastor of this church located in a “nudist and family” community draws on the story of Adam and Eve to invite his faithful to come naked as worms to his sermon.

"If God did us so, how can it be bad?" He asks, still in the HuffPost, recalling that Jesus was naked at the most important moments of his life.

Nudist or outdoor masses

The pastor is convinced that nudity has a beneficial effect on the faithful, because it allows everyone to be placed on an equal footing. Himself totally naked, Allen Parker preaches his religious office every week.

Biblical amusement park

In this eminently religious country, where more than two-thirds of the population identifies as Christian, the churches show ingenuity, reinvent themselves and offer new concepts that are sometimes surprising. The Christian Drive-In Church in Daytona Beach, Florida, for example, allows mass to be followed from his car parked on the grounds of an old open-air cinema. Over 600 parishioners come there every weekend. Facing them, a pastor officiates from a platform while his sermon is broadcast live in cars, on the radio wave 88.5 FM.

Photographer Cyril Abad, also discovered biblical theme parks. One of them, the Ark Encounter creationist park, built Noah's Ark in pharaonic proportions. “Churches have adopted free market principles to open new niches in spirituality, explains the photographer author from a series of photos of these churches apart, in an interview with Wired.

If you are a surfer, there is a church for Christian surfers. If you are a biker, there will be a biker church.»

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld
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CHINE CONDAMNATION A TROIS ANS DE PRISON

DU PERE DES BEBE OGM

Il avait provoqué l'an dernier une onde de choc planétaire en mettant au monde les premiers bébés génétiquement modifiés. Le chercheur chinois He Jiankui a été condamné à trois ans de prison à une amende de 3 millions de yuans (384 000 euros), lundi 30 décembre pour « avoir illégalement procédé à la manipulation génétique d'embryons à des fins de reproduction », précise l'agence Chine nouvelle. Il a été condamné par un tribunal de Shenzhen, la métropole du sud du pays où il avait effectué ses travaux.

Un procès à huis-clos

Deux autres personnes ont également été condamnées, mais Chine nouvelle n’a pas précisé leur rôle : un dénommé Zhang Renli a écopé de deux ans de prison et d’une amende d’un million de yuans et un certain Qin Jinzhou d’un an et demi de prison avec sursis et d’une amende de 500.000 yuans. Tous deux appartiennent à « des instituts médicaux de la province du Guangdong » (sud). Le procès s’est tenu à huis clos car l’affaire relevait du domaine de « la vie privée », selon l’agence.

He Jiankui avait annoncé en novembre 2018 être parvenu à mettre au monde Lulu et Nana, des jumelles à l'ADN modifié pour les rendre résistantes au VIH, dont était infecté leur père. Lors d'une conférence de presse quelques jours plus tard à Hong Kong, il s'était dit « fier » du fruit de ses recherches.

Mutations génétiques

Le chercheur , qui a été formé à Stanford aux Etats-Unis, avait expliqué avoir employé l’outil révolutionnaire Crispr-Cas9, dit des « ciseaux génétiques », qui permet d’enlever et de remplacer des parties indésirables du génome, comme on corrige une faute de frappe sur ordinateur. La simplicité de Crispr a dopé l’imagination des apprentis sorciers.

En procédant à la modification du génome, le chercheur chinois a provoqué d’autres mutations… qui seront transmissibles à leurs descendants. « La technologie n’est pas encore sûre », dit Kiran Musunuru, professeur de génétique à l’université de Pennsylvanie. Les ciseaux Crispr coupent souvent à côté du gène ciblé. « C’est facile à utiliser si on se fiche des conséquences ».

Nouvel arsenal juridique

Lorsque l'affaire avait éclaté, la Chine avait été mise en cause pour avoir laissé se développer des recherches sans supervision. Le pays ne disposait pas alors de loi dans ce domaine : une brève réglementation du ministère de la Santé, datant de 2003, interdisait bien la manipulation génétique d'embryons, mais ne prévoyait aucune peine pour les contrevenants. Le gouvernement chinois, accusé de laxisme, avait finalement ordonné la suspension des recherches et placé le scientifique sous enquête policière. Le pays a aussi renforcé son arsenal judiciaire. La Chine disposera, à partir de février, d’une nouvelle réglementation qui punit désormais d’une amende de 100.000 yuans les manipulations génétiques.

L'agence de presse officielle a ajouté qu'au total trois bébés génétiquement modifiés sont nés à la suite de ces recherches.

Andrew Preston pour DayNewsWorld
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GRECE DEUX DEMANDEURS D'ASILE SE DONNENT LA MORT PAR PENDAISON

Deux demandeurs d’asile, un Irakien et un Afghan, se sont donné la mort par pendaison dans le nord de la Grèce, a annoncé l’ONG le Forum grec pour les Réfugiés.

«Nous avons de terribles nouvelles en provenance de Mouries […] deux jeunes hommes se sont suicidés hier et aujourd’hui», a déclaré dans un communiqué jeudi le Forum grec pour les Réfugiés.

Selon l’ONG, les deux demandeurs d’asile étaient hébergés dans un hôtel accueillant entre 350 et 400 réfugiés dans le village de Mouries, dans le nord de la Grèce, près de la frontière terrestre avec la République de Macédoine du Nord. premier demandeur d’asile retrouvé mercredi pendu près d’un pont non loin de l’hôtel était un réfugié afghan de 32 ou 33 ans, père de deux enfants. Le second, un jeune Irakien, la trentaine, a été retrouvé jeudi pendu par son colocataire dans un couloir de l’hôtel.

Selon les autorités grecques, plus de 40 000 demandeurs d’asile se trouvent actuellement dans des camps aux conditions insalubres sur les îles du nord de la mer Égée, face à la Turquie.

L’ONG Médecins Sans Frontières avait fait état fin novembre d’un nombre grandissant d’enfants réfugiés ayant commis des tentatives de suicide dans ces camps aux conditions sordides et appelé les dirigeants européens à agir.

Le gouvernement conservateur de Kyriakos Mitsotakis a promis de relocaliser 20 000 demandeurs d’asile sur le continent d’ici à début 2020.

Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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LES AGRESSIONS CONTRE LES POMPIERS

EN FORTE HAUSSE SUR UN AN EN FRANCE

Depuis des années, les sapeurs-pompiers subissent une hausse exponentielle des agressions. Le rapport de l’Observatoire national de la délinquance et des réponses pénales (ONDRP) publié mercredi 18 décembre est alarmant : les agressions ont encore augmenté de 21 % entre 2017 et 2018. Il y en a eu 2.813 en 2017, 3.411 en 2018. En 10 ans, le nombre de déclaration d’agressions a bondi de 280%.

« L’augmentation du nombre de déclarations d’agressions peut être due à une augmentation des actes de violences, à une meilleure remontée des informations, à un abaissement du seuil d’acceptabilité des violences ou à une sensibilisation des autorités hiérarchiques sur la nécessité de mieux déclarer les faits », explique l’ONDRP.

Dans un rapport rendu public mercredi 11 décembre, des sénateurs ont appelé le gouvernement à se mobiliser pour enrayer la hausse de ces agressions. La commission des lois du Sénat a formulé 18 mesures pour « que cessent » ces violences « inacceptables » contre les pompiers. Lors du 126e congrès des sapeurs-pompiers en septembre, le ministre de l’intérieur, Christophe Castaner, s’était engagé « à tout faire » pour la sécurité des agents, avec une grande campagne de communication et l’expérimentation des caméras-piétons.

Plusieurs syndicats déplorent la difficulté pour les pompiers d’intervenir dans certains quartiers. Lorsqu’ils doivent s’y rendre, les pompiers redoutent de tomber dans un guet-apens . Ils sont parfois caillassés comme les forces de police.

Il faudrait, selon eux, davantage de policiers pour sécuriser leurs interventions et rappeler aux gens de ne pas les appeler « pour un oui ou pour un non ».

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

SYDNEY CONFRONTED WITH A HEALTH EMERGENCY

DUE TO TOXIC FUMES

The largest city in Australia is facing a health emergency. In question, the toxic fumes caused by the monster fires that have enveloped Sydney for weeks. This Monday, Australian doctors are sounding the alarm.

“Air pollution up to 11 times higher” than the limit

More than twenty professional medical organizations - including the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, which brings together 25,000 doctors and trainees - issued a joint statement calling on the government to tackle this toxic air pollution. "Air pollution in New South Wales is a public health emergency," warns the Climate and Health Alliance.

"Smoke from the fires has caused air pollution up to 11 times higher than what is estimated to be" dangerous "in parts of Sydney and New South Wales," the statement said. This smoke "is particularly dangerous due to high levels of fine PM2.5 particles," he said. It is caused by hundreds of forest fires, notably linked to climate change, which have ravaged Australia since September.

People demand action against climate change

Health services in the state recorded a 48% increase in the number of people who went to the emergency room for respiratory problems during the week ending December 11, compared to a five-year average.

This figure reached 80% on December 10, the day when air quality deteriorated considerably in Sydney. The next day, nearly 20,000 people demonstrated in the city to demand that the government fight climate change.

The Alliance also called on the government to take urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, saying that climate change is making these fires "devastating to human health".

Prime Minister Scott Morrison acknowledged last week that climate change was one of the "factors" behind the hundreds of devastating fires.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

DOPING: EXCLUSION OF RUSSIA FROM THE OLYMPIC GAMES FOR FOUR YEARS

The World Anti - Doping Agency (WADA) decided Monday to exclude Russia from the Olympics for four years, which includes Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022.

The Russians are punished for falsifying control data of their athletes.

"The full list of recommendations (Sanctions of the Compliance Review Committee) was unanimously approved" by the twelve members of the Executive Committee, a spokesperson for WADA told the media.

These are the heaviest sanctions taken by the agency since its inception.

The Compliance Review Committee recommended, among other things, the exclusion of the Russian flag from the Olympics and any world championship for four years, with the possible presence of Russian athletes under the "neutral" flag, provided that they are not involved in the organized doping that took place in Russia until 2015.

The white, blue and red flag had not been raised at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. ..

On the other hand, Russia and its athletes will compete, under their flag, with European competitions, such as the next European Football Championship, which they can also host:

St. Petersburg will host many Euro matches and the final of the 2021 Champions League.

Russia will also compete for the next World Cup under its name before becoming a "neutral team" in Qatar if qualified.

The Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) will decide on 19 December whether it will appeal the decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which is expected to make its arbitration before the Olympics in Tokyo next summer.

This is the latest episode of the doping crisis in Russia, triggered in 2014 by a survey of the German ARD and a couple of Russian whistleblowers.

The first revelations reported institutionalized doping in Russia between 2011 and 2015, involving several state machinery.

Alyson Braxton for DayNewsWorld
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VIOL COLLECTIF EN INDE

QUATRE SUSPECTS ABATTUS PAR LA POLICE

L’affaire du viol collectif et du meurtre d’une vétérinaire qui avait révulsé l’Inde a connu, vendredi 6 décembre, un dramatique dénouement : les quatre suspects ont été tués, abattus par la police en marge de la reconstitution du crime. Un haut responsable de la police de Hyderabad (sud) a affirmé que les quatre hommes avaient été tués alors qu’ils tentaient de s’enfuir lors de cette reconstitution dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi.

« Dans le cadre de l’enquête, la police a amené les suspects sur le lieu du crime. Les accusés ont d’abord attaqué les policiers à l’aide de pierres et de bâtons, puis ils se sont emparés des armes des agents et ont commencé à tirer. Les policiers leur ont demandé de se rendre, mais ils ont continué à tirer. Ensuite nous avons ouvert le feu, et ils ont été tués. », a détaillé le commissaire V. C. Sajjanar.

Prakash Reddy, commissaire adjoint de la police de Hyderabad, a précisé qu’une ambulance avait été appelée, « mais ils sont morts avant que l’aide médicale arrive ».

Les quatre avaient été arrêtés la semaine dernière et inculpés pour le viol et le meurtre d’une vétérinaire de 27 ans dont le corps avait été brûlé.

Selon la police, la victime avait été enlevée le 27 novembre 2019 au soir au moment où elle reprenait son scooter. Les quatre hommes auraient crevé l’un des pneus de son deux-roues en son absence puis lui auraient proposé leur aide à son retour, en l’attirant sur une aire de camions.

Selon la police, les restes carbonisés du cadavre de la victime ont été découverts le lendemain matin sous un pont. Le corps avait été placé dans une couverture puis arrosé d’essence avant d’être incendié.

Malgré l’arrestation rapide des quatre suspects, l’affaire a révulsé le pays où les violences sexuelles font régulièrement la Une depuis le viol collectif d’une étudiante à bord d’un autobus à New Delhi en 2012, qui avait suscité l’indignation internationale.

Samedi, la police avait dispersé par la force des centaines de manifestants qui tentaient d’entrer dans le commissariat où étaient détenus les quatre suspects. Au Parlement national, la députée Jaya Bachchan, ancienne actrice, avait estimé que les coupables devaient être « lynchés en public ». Un de ses collègues avait réclamé la castration des violeurs.

La « violence arbitraire » de la police dénoncée

L’annonce de la mort des quatre a été accueillie par des célébrations de joie à Hyderabad et la sœur de la vétérinaire tuée a réagi. « Je suis heureuse que les quatre accusés aient été tués », a déclaré vendredi à une chaîne de télévision locale « Cet incident aura valeur d’exemple. Je remercie la police et les médias pour leur soutien. »

Mais des voix sont montées au créneau pour dénoncer la « violence arbitraire » d’une police indienne souvent accusée de meurtres extrajudiciaires quand il s’agit de couvrir des enquêtes bâclées ou de calmer l’opinion publique.

« La police doit rendre des comptes. C’est absolument inacceptable », a déclaré l’avocate et militante Vrinda Grover. « La police doit rendre des comptes. Au lieu de mener une enquête et de rassembler des preuves, l’Etat commet des meurtres pour satisfaire le public et éviter de devoir rendre des comptes. »

Amnesty International a demandé l’ouverture d’une enquête indépendante.

« Dans une société moderne qui respecte le droit, le recours aux exécutions extrajudiciaires pour rendre justice aux victimes de viol est non seulement inconstitutionnel, mais il contourne le système juridique indien et crée un précédent regrettable », a dit l’organisation dans un communiqué.

Selon les derniers chiffres officiels incluant plus de 10.000 victimes mineures, plus de 33.000 viols ont été déclarés dans le pays en 2017.

Dans le même temps, du fait de l’inefficacité du système judiciaire indien, les victimes doivent souvent attendre des années avant d’obtenir justice.

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TRIBUTE TO THIRTEEN DEAD SOLDIERS IN MALI

"I bow to their sacrifice," "they died for us all," said Emmanuel Macron solemnly Monday, December 2, during the ceremony at Invalides in honor of the 13 soldiers killed in Mali last week.

These French soldiers were killed in the crash of their helicopter in Mali last Monday as they supported paratrooper commandos who spotted suspicious pickups in the border area with Niger and Burkina Faso, a haunt jihadist groups affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) or al-Qaeda.

"They died in operation, for France, for the protection of the people of the Sahel, for the safety of their compatriots and for the freedom of the world, for all of us who are there," added the head of state, face 13 coffins in the courtyard of the Hôtel des Invalides, which has been home to veterans and war wounded since the 17th century.

In front of 2,500 guests, including his Malian counterpart Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, the President of the Republic described in a few words the commitment of each soldier and the families they leave behind. He also focused on telling the night of their deaths.

The Legion of Honor was awarded to them, posthumously.

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BLACK FRIDAY AGAINST BLOCK FRIDAY

In recent days, slogans on virtual leaflets blooming on social networks: "The abuse of production seriously harms the planet", "overuse kill" or "stop the big sell-off on the planet". Each time, these words are accompanied by the same hashtag #BlockFriday calling for a very real operation on this Friday "black" of large commercial transactions. Launched by Youth For Climate and Extinction Rebellion, the Blockfriday operation organized this Friday in several cities must focus on blocking a "major trade"

"No to deadly consumerism"

It's about saying "no to deadly consumerism".

"Friday, November 29, is Black Friday: a day of intensive sales and compulsive shopping, symbol of capitalism the most harmful. Devouring our world, exhausting its natural resources, multiplying ecocides, exploiting the weak, and digging social inequalities in the name of the myth of infinite growth. Consumerism will eventually destroy us if we do not act before, "note the members of XR

Some local groups have also joined the Attac association for their actions. Moreover, between 50 and 100 activists of the groups ANV-COP21 and Friends of the Earth installed straw boots and formed human dams this Thursday in front of the Amazon center of Brétigny-sur-Orge (Essonne), American giant of the distribution and digital.

This Friday morning, dozens of people gathered this time in front of Amazon's French headquarters in Clichy (Hauts-de-Seine), to denounce the overconsumption and its ecological consequences. Gathering in particular at the call of Attac and Greenpeace for this action presented as "non-violent and joyful", the demonstrators unfurled banners hostile to the online trading giant before sitting in front of the headquarters of the company. shouts of: "We say stop at Black Friday and his impunity! "

Anti-waste law and Green Friday

Minister of Environmental Transition Élisabeth Borne warned Monday against the pollution generated by "Black Friday", warning against "consumption frenzy" related to this day of promotions. MEPs have given the green light in committee to a ban on "Black Friday" promotional campaigns, which gives consumers the impression of receiving sales when it is not the period. This amendment to the anti-waste bill, adopted on the night of Monday to Tuesday, has yet to be examined in the hemicycle since 9 December. It is the non-registered member and former Minister of Ecology Delphine Batho who is carrying this measure and wants to end the "Black Friday" in the name of the fight against "overconsumption".

Green Friday and Make Friday Green Again

In concrete terms, companies are taking part in Green Friday. Instead of offering discounts to their customers on Black Friday, they pledge to donate 10% of their turnover for the day to associations committed to responsible consumption (HOP, Zero Waste France, Ethics). on the label, Friends of the Earth ...). The Envie Federation, Altermundi, DreamAct, Emmaus, Ethiquable and the Greater Paris Reuse Network are the founding members of the Green Friday association, whose main objective is to raise awareness of the social and environmental impacts of purchasing, and to stimulate new consumption patterns.

In the tradition of Green Friday, a collective called Make Friday Green Again, launched in October by the French brand of eco-responsible shoes Faguo, has brought together more than 500 brands, mostly French, who will refrain from making promotions this November 29 "to promote more responsible consumption by inviting our communities to repair, give and resell products they do not use" Among the brands adhering to Make Friday Green Again, there are large brands such as Naturalia or Nature and discoveries. This one belongs to ... Fnac Darty.

"The Fnac group is perfectly aware of our approach," says Fanny Auger, brand director at Nature et Découvertes, referring to "two beautiful brands that have different commercial policies." A double discourse of "commercial strategy" that leaves enough doubtful ...

65% of French people participate in Blackfriday, taking advantage of the broken prices to make their Christmas shopping. For traders it is the first day of the most important activity of the year until Christmas. Black Friday must generate 6 billion spending in France this year.

Black Friday still has a great day ahead of him.

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FOUR DEATHS IN THE INTEMPERIES

COTE-D'AZUR IN FRANCE

The rains of "historical intensity" that fell on the French Riviera from Friday to Sunday, causing violent floods, killed four people. The recession started on Sunday in most of the affected areas.

Four dead and one missing

After hours of research, "the security services and relief workers engaged on the floods in the Var discovered, in Tanneron, two bodies without life and the vehicle" of a couple from Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes) who went missing since Saturday, announced the Prefecture of Var Sunday, November 24, in the evening.

These two deaths are added to that of a man found in Muy (Var). He was part of a group of three people rescued by three firefighters Saturday night, according to the prefecture, but their boat capsized in the waves and one of the civilians could not be found.

A man in his fifties, was also found dead "in a car in Cabasse" (Var), another area affected by the weather.

A septuagenarian is also still missing in Saint-Antonin-du-Var. He was out of his house on the night of Friday to Saturday, despite heavy rains.

Three months of rain in 48 hours

Victims of a "Mediterranean episode", the departments of Alpes-Maritimes and Var were affected by torrential rains accompanied by impressive waves on the coast between Friday and Sunday and many rivers overflowed. In some parts of the Var, it fell the equivalent of two to three months of rain in 24 to 48 hours.

Flood areas

Firefighters of the Var and Alpes-Maritimes have 171 helicopters in the night from Saturday to Sunday to rescue people threatened by the waves, said Christophe Castaner came Sunday congratulate the rescue teams and meet the victims. Rescues have often involved people illegally settled in flood-prone areas, said Françoise Dumont, patron of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service.

The Minister of the Interior said that "the environmental dimension" can not be opposed to the anticipation of risks.

"The Var and the Alpes-Maritimes, for example, these are departments that in a few years have doubled the surfaces that are waterproofed, so necessarily it has consequences," he said.

Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

EXPLORERS MIKE HORN AND BORGE OUSLAND AT RISK IN THEIR ARCTIC TRAVERSE

The two famous explorers, the South African Mike Horn and the Norwegian Børge Ousland, are experiencing difficulties in their skiing across the frozen Arctic Ocean.

After leaving Nome, Alaska by sailboat on 25 August and reaching the sea of ​​ice on 12 September, they continue their journey across the Arctic pack ice on skis, pulling a sleigh loaded with food.

While at the beginning they had planned to finish their adventure in mid-November, the climatic conditions force them to progress more carefully than expected.
In fact, the ice is thinner than usual and more inclined to drift, so explorers have to travel up to five extra kilometers a day.

In cause precisely? Global warming.

"The ice is breaking and moving much faster than before, which is one of the biggest challenges we have faced so far. It's sad to admit to me, but in all my years as a professional explorer, I have never been so affected by climate change, "wrote Mike Horn, who has fallen into the water several times over. times, in his last message to his daughters, Jessica and Annika.

The team now hopes that the goal can be achieved within ten to twelve days. Time is running out as this time corresponds to their remaining food rations.

A state of extreme fatigue and a frantic race

But here they are in a state of extreme physical fatigue due to the full darkness, a classic phenomenon in this part of the world at this time of the year, but also very unstable temperatures, varying in a few days from - 2 ° C to - 45 ° C, and wind gusts particularly violent, creating ice piles "abnormally numerous", which the two men must bypass.

If Mike Horn's daughters are worried and would like their father to stop the expedition, for one of the organizers, Mr. Ebbesen, however, "there is no danger, no great drama. But it's tight, a frantic race to reach the goal. "" If it takes longer, we're thinking about how to bring more food, "he added, adding that the weather was changing and that more favorable winds were expected.

And besides the two men have not asked to be evacuated and are "in a surprisingly good condition" by accomplishing such a feat, "they have some frostbite but it's quite normal," said his side a spokesman for the rescue coordination center in northern Norway, Bard Mortensen.

A Mike Horn to have the last word "No matter how much we try to protect ourselves against salt, ice, wind and cold. [...] That's what real exploration means, imagining solutions to survive.»

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THE STRIKE OF 5 DECEMBER IN FRANCE

PROMISE TO BE FOLLOWED

Calls for a strike on December 5 against the pension reform continue to multiply so that the executive does not know which way to dance. Despite the billions granted to yellow vests, the "emergency plan" for the public hospital, the government's procrastination over the Delevoye report, anger has not subsided.

Here is an inventory, two weeks before the day J. At the SNCF, the four representative unions participate in the strike movement. While the CGT-Cheminots, Unsa railway and SUD-Rail first signed a unitary call for unlimited movement, the CFDT-Cheminots announced Thursday morning to file in turn a notice of strike renewable from December 5 and FO.Travellers will be informed "December 3 in the afternoon" on the trains in circulation on 5, says the direction of the SNCF.

At the RATP, after the strike on 13 September, which had almost paralyzed Paris, the three representative unions of the board - CFE-CGC, CGT and Unsa - also call for an indefinite strike against the reform.

The CGT and FO call for an indefinite strike from December 5 in the urban and road transport of passengers, goods, funds. A call that also concerns paramedics, movers or taxis.

Three unions particularly established with ground staff have filed notices: FO, the first union all categories, the CGT and SUD-Air. Strikers involved in air operations - aircrew or ground personnel - must declare themselves individually no later than 48 hours before the start of the conflict. At Air France, the pilot unions and those of the hostesses and stewards do not call the strike.

In air traffic controllers, the SNCTA, the first union, does not call for a strike, unlike the USAC-CGT. These officials are subject to a system of penalty payments to ensure a minimum service. Major mobilization could, however, lead to delays or cancellations of flights.

Several unions of EDF, among which the CGT, Force Ouvrière and South, called Thursday, in turn, the strike renewed December 5 to protest the pension reform. On the other hand, the CFDT will not call to strike on December 5th. At EDF, the CGT advocates "cuts in public state buildings"

On the side of the public hospital, the National Union of Nursing Professionals (SNPI CFE-CGC) joins the movement. Emergency doctors will again be on the streets on December 5 as the union of medical interns goes on strike from December 10.

In National Education, SNES-FSU unions, SUD-Education Unsa-Education call for mobilization on December 5.

In the police, Alliance and Unsa Police will "symbolically close the police stations except for an absolute emergency" on December 5th. Fire brigades are also involved.

In the civil service, the FSU federation calls on all unions representing civil servants to strike.

In the private central CGT, FO, FSU, Solidaires called for a great day of interprofessional strike on December 5

The National Council of Bars (CNB) voted Thursday in a general assembly for a "day of dead justice" on December 5, "both to continue to firmly defend the specifics of autonomous regimes in solidarity with those who have to suffer from the lack of listening to the government and its dogmatic reform.

The day of December 5 promises to be a black Thursday.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

KOALA SAVES FLAMES IN AUSTRALIA

This year, the fire season is particularly violent in Australia.

140,000 hectares went up in smoke. Animals are the first victims.

On Tuesday, November 19, a flaming koala fled the hell out of Port Macquarie Reserve in Long Flat, Australia.

By an ultimate instinct of survival, the animal has tried to find refuge in height when it is rescued by a Toni.

The Australian woman was driving near the reserve when she saw the koala trying to escape.

She then rushed to his rescue, wrapping him in his shirt and then in a blanket.

She poured water on her fur and burnt leg.

The 14-year-old koala was then taken to Port Macquarie Koala Hospital, where he was cared for.

At least 350 koalas have died in Port Macquarie since the beginning of the fire on the east coast of Australia.

The Australian Koala Foundation is calling for a law to protect koalas and their habitat, as well as better management of the bush. A gigantic fire has been spreading for several days on the east coast of Australia.

Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

EPSTEIN CASE INCULPATION OF GUARDIANS OF JAIL

They were supposed to perform regular rounds. But between 10:30 pm and 6:30 am, the two prison guards in charge of monitoring Jeffrey Epstein remained at their office, finding the lifeless body of the American financier, accused of sex trafficking of minors, in the early morning of August 10, 2019.

Three months after the death of the 66-year-old sexual predator, the US court on Tuesday (November 19th) indicted its prison guards for falsifying documents certifying that they had completed their rounds when it was not the case.

"They stayed at their desk, surfed the net, and wandered around the common areas of their unit," the prosecutor said in a statement.

"To conceal their shortcomings, (Tova) Noel and (Michael) Thomas have signed false certificates attesting to having done several rounds of counting prisoners, which was not the case," the prosecutor further accused. According to the New York Times, they also reportedly napped.

However, the magistrate has not put forward any reason why the guards of this wing reserved for sensitive prisoners would have failed in their responsibilities.

This point could continue to feed speculation: to some to evoke a lack of guards and a massive resort to overtime in the prison, to others to speculate on the conspiracy theory, personalities that Jeffrey Epstein had attended having all interest in seeing him dead ..

To be continued.....

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CHILD PROTECTION AGAINST ALL FORMS OF ABUSE

On the occasion of the International Day of the Rights of the Child, the Secretary of State for the Protection of Childhood, Adrien Taquet, presented the Government Plan to protect children from all forms of violence, a subject « which must mobilize the whole society ".

Alarming child maltreatment figures

Despite a first plan on this topic launched in 2017 by the previous term, the figures concerning child abuse in France remain alarming. In France, 72 children die each year of parental violence, one every five days A young person is the victim of a sexual assault every three minutes and between 8,000 to 10,000 minors prostitute themselves, figures probably below reality because of the silence surrounding these subjects. 700,000 students are victims of bullying, and more than half of them experience cyber-violence. Finally, according to Unicef, one in five children, nearly 3 million, live below the poverty line in France.

Violence against children, carried out eight times out of ten in a family setting, is the first risk factor for attempted suicide, addiction and dropping out of school.

Strengthen the 119

To free up the voices of abused children who often keep quiet and improve the reports, 119 will be reinforced. The telephone platform "119 - Allô childhood in danger", which recorded in 2018 476,039 calls, will receive 200,000 euros of additional budget to deepen its work of listening to victims. Thus, the number of listeners will be increased by 20%. In addition, an online chat should be created.

Better accompany child victims

The 119 will be supported by the generalization on the whole territory by 2022 pediatric forensic reception units (UAMJP), which offer minors legal and medical support. There are already 60 today. Multidisciplinary training will be offered to professionals to better detect domestic violence.

The support of minors victims will also be improved by investing two million euros for the creation of five new units specialized in the management of psycho-traumatism next year, currently ten in number.

Strengthen control of sex offenders

Penalties will be tightened for the viewing of child pornography as well as a mandatory default parental control requirement for internet service providers. The president gave the "operators" six months to put "parental control".

The sentences for the use of child pornography will be increased to 5 years and their authors automatically stuck, with prohibition to work with children.

The plan also aims to strengthen the consultation of the automated court file of perpetrators of sexual or violent offenses (FIJAISV) for those working with children, and to test, in five regions, an assistance number for persons sexually by children, inspired by a German initiative launched in 2005, which has handled more than 10,000 calls.

In a statement, 35 associations, NGOs and collectives, including Unicef, ATD Fourth World and SOS Children's Villages, asked the government to move from "convention to action" by committing to a goal of "zero children". to the street by 2022 "and a" national observatory of non-schooling "to detect vulnerable youth

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PHOTOGRAPHER UNDER THE SKIRTS OF WOMEN

OR UPSKIRTING

"Upskirting", or taking photos under women's skirts without their knowledge, will become an offense in Germany, the government announced on Wednesday, a few months after the vote on a similar law in Britain. .

"The unauthorized production of images and film footage showing intimate areas of other people photographed or filmed under clothing" will become punishable, government spokesman Steffen Seibert said at a press conference.

Thus the mere fact of taking such a photo will become an offense, as will the fact of sharing it.

The German Parliament has yet to approve this project to convert it into law. It will also be prohibited to take pictures of necklines without the knowledge of people, according to this text.Clichés décolletés without the knowledge of people, according to this text.

It must be said that upskirting has become in recent years a practice more easily spread through the miniaturization of cameras and cameras. And that often the photos taken are then broadcast on the internet, especially on pornographic platforms, without the consent of the people concerned.

Until now, this type of practice was considered a criminal offense only from the time the offender touched or harassed his victim.

However, since 2015, harsher sentences, and even up to two years' imprisonment, can be imposed for the publication of images that could significantly damage the reputation of those represented .

In fact, as Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht reminded us, "photographing a woman under her skirt or cleavage is a humiliating and unjustifiable violation of her private life" and participates in voyeurism.

In January, the British Parliament passed a bill to punish two years in prison for taking pictures under the skirts of women.

In France, the "capture of shameless images" is punished by a law promulgated in 2018.

Kate White for DayNewsWorld

VENICE INONDEVATED BY A HIGH EXCEPTIONAL TIDE

A high tide of unprecedented magnitude has invaded, on Tuesday, November 12, the alleys of Venice and St. Mark's Square.

The situation is "catastrophic" in Venice, struck by a historic tide, announced the mayor of the city, Tuesday evening. Luigi Brugnaro said he was going to demand that the state of natural disaster be declared Wednesday, expecting "major damage".

This "acqua alta" of 1.87 m is the highest tide recorded in Venice since the terrible acqua granda of 4 November 1966, which caused the city a great deal of irreparable damage.

If the recession started at 23 hours, another rise in water is announced for Wednesday morning with a new peak at 9:50.

This exceptional tide could have terrible consequences on the artistic heritage of the city of Doges and especially on the Basilica of St. Mark, located at the lowest point of the city.

A frequent phenomenon in the lagoon during the winter months (October to May), acqua alta has been identified since 1966 as the main threat to the city of Venice.

A pharaonic project of floating dikes should be completed best in 2022 to protect Venice from floods (project "MOSE").

Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

ARNAUD DONCKELE CHIEF OF THE YEAR

BY THE GAULT & MILLAU

At the hands of La Vague d'Or in Saint-Tropez, Arnaud Donckele was crowned chef of the year by the famous yellow guide, during a ceremony on Monday night at the Moulin Rouge in Paris.

«Arnaud Donckele, Cook of the year 2020.

It had to be now.

Not before, not after, "announced the Gault & Millau, who wanted to reward the" poetic "cuisine of Norman chef past Michel Guérard, Alain Ducasse or Jean-Louis Nomicos.

"This year, Arnaud Donckele, although he is already well established.

We must further enhance this talent, this humility, this extraordinary poetry of the plate.

In the world of cooking we will find many formats - the orthodox, the rigorous, the precise, the hypercréatifs - and then there is what I call poetry.

At Arnaud Donckele, we are in the essence of the taste to which everyone adheres, "explained Jacques Bally, president of the great French gastronomic guide, about the 42-year-old chef, already a three-star Michelin star.

2020 will be the year Donckele since it is preparing to take the head of the gastronomic restaurant Cheval Blanc, which will be installed in place of the Samaritaine.

Kelly Donaldson for DayNewsWorld

INVESTIGATION ON THE HORROR TRUCK

IN GREAT BRITAIN

The investigation continues, more than a week after the discovery of 39 bodies in a refrigerated truck near London.

Vietnamese victims

The British police said Friday that the 39 people found dead in a refrigerated truck near London, were Vietnamese.

"We believe the victims are Vietnamese and we are in contact with the Vietnamese government," Essex police said in a statement Friday night.

"We are in direct contact with a number of families in Vietnam and the United Kingdom," adds the police, explaining that the identification process is still ongoing.

Two brothers wanted

The police are also hoping to hear two brothers, suspected of manslaughter, Ronan Hughes, 40, and Christopher, 34, from Northern Ireland, who have been wanted since Tuesday.

"Although we have already spoken with Ronan Hughes over the phone, we need to have a conversation with him and his brother in real life," said Essex Chief Inspector Dan Stoten, during a press conference.

"Talking to Ronan and Christopher is crucial to our investigation," he added. "The sooner this happens, the sooner we can progress in our investigation."

A man on remand

The police in Northern Ireland have intercepted Thursday on a truck potentially linked to the Hughes brothers, "known to have links with Ireland and Northern Ireland, as well as with road and maritime transport."

A 23-year-old man also appeared before the Irish High Court in Dublin on Friday for 39 involuntary homicides and human smuggling. British police requested extradition.

The man, originally from a northern Irish village near the border town of Newry, has been remanded in custody until 11 November 2019, a spokesman for the prosecution said.

Two people arrested in Vietnam

Vietnamese police have arrested two people in the central province of Ha Tinh suspected of involvement in the tragedy, according to a statement posted on the Ha Tinh police website.

No further details were provided on these two suspects, arrested for "illegal immigration organization".

These two arrests in Vietnam occur after those of four people arrested in Britain, including the driver of the truck, a native of Northern Ireland.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

WHAT CHANGES FROM NOVEMBER 1

IN FRANCE

The gas prices rise again

Regulated gas sales tariffs, applied by Engie to millions of French households, will increase by 3% in November, according to the Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE).

Cigarettes will be expensive

The price of the pack of cigarettes will increase by about 50 cents, due to a tax increase planned by the government, which aims a package to 10 euros at the end of 2020 to reduce tobacco consumption in France.

Disabled adult allowance is increased

The AAH is revalued by 4.6%. It goes from 860 to 900 euros per month for a single person.

This allowance is made on a means-tested basis for people with disabilities over 20 years old and not yet of retirement age . However, in October the State Secretariat for Persons with Disabilities admitted that some 67,500 disabled couples, out of 1.2 million beneficiaries, will not benefit from this revaluation because the income of their spouse is taken into account in the calculation of their rights.

Their allocation will remain stable.

Complementary health solidarity enters into force

The complementary health solidarity merges the CMU-complementary and the ACS - assistance to the payment of complementary health. For insureds of the current CMU-C: the future "complementary health solidarity" will remain free, with the same level of reimbursement.

On the other hand, for the population eligible for the ACS (less than 1,007 euros for a single person, 1,813 euros for a couple with a child), this measure is presented as a "simplification": the guarantees will be aligned with those of the CMU-C , with a "financial participation" increasing with age.It will cost beneficiaries 8 euros per month up to 29 years, 14 euros between 30 and 49 years, 21 euros between 50 and 59 years, 25 euros between 60 and 69 years, and 30 euros from 70 years (except in Alsace-Moselle), according to a decree published in June in the Official Journal.

Canteens

School canteens must now offer a vegetarian meal a week, according to the Egalim law.

Unemployment insurance rules harden

Now, in order to open compensation rights, you will have to have worked at least six months in the last 24 months (compared to four months out of the last 28 months), except for the over-53s where the reference period will remain 36 months .

As a result, the minimum duration of compensation also increases from four to six months. The maximum duration remains two years for those under 53 years, two and a half years for the 53-55 years, three years for the over 55 years.

Andrew Preston for DayNewsWorld

ACCIDENTAL EXPLOSION  IN PAKISTAN INTO A TRAIN

74 DEATH AND MORE THAN 40 INJURED

Fire broke out on Thursday, October 31, 2019 on a passenger train in the Punjab province of central Pakistan.

The fire was caused by the explosion of a gas cylinder that passengers used to heat a meal and left at least 65 dead and more than forty wounded.

The latter are being evacuated to hospitals in the region Only 18 bodies have been identified at this stage.

The flames ravaged three cars and many of the victims were killed by throwing themselves off the train, which ran near the town of Rahim Yar Khan in the center of the country.

"Terrible tragedy in a train in Tezgam with the explosion of a gas cylinder brought by a passenger. Prayers and condolences to the families of the victims, "said Pakistani Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari on Twitter.

Railway accidents are quite common in Pakistan, a country that has inherited from its colonial past under British rule a vast network of railroads now decrepit.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

FIRES DESTROY CALIFORNIA

California is flaming again. Due to extreme drought and strong winds, the US state is once again ravaged by fires.

Firefighters have been fighting for several days against huge fires in several sites in the US state, including a particularly violent near Los Angeles.

A new fire erupted Monday in the megalopolis' chic neighborhoods, forcing thousands to evacuate the area, including LeBron James.

Residents who have been asked to evacuate their homes as a precautionary measure include many millionaires, including Los Angeles Lakers star basketball player, NBA, LeBron James. "Dude, these lights in LA do not laugh," tweeted the American basketball player.

Residents who have been asked to evacuate their homes as a preventive measure

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger also had to go under cover on the orders of the authorities. "We evacuated no problem at 3:30 this Monday morning," he said on Twitter. "If you're in an evacuation zone, do not hang around, get in," insisted the Terminator.

Sunday, a new evacuation order was issued for the majority of the city of Santa Rosa (180,000 inhabitants) north of San Francisco, and the entire state of California was placed Sunday in a state of emergency by his governor then that the fire continued its progression.

Specialists are concerned about particularly strong winds, even described as "potentially historic" north of San Francisco. The gusts can reach up to 80 mph.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

ADVANCES IN THE SURVEY

ON THE TRAILER TO 39 CORPSES

The investigation on the trailer containing the 39 corpses is making great strides.

Recall of facts

39 corpses - 31 men and 8 women - were found in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday in an industrial area of ​​Grays, about thirty kilometers east of London.

The container carrying the migrants arrived by ferry at the port of Purfleet, in the Thames Estuary, from Zeebrugge in Belgium an hour before the police went there, called for help.

The driver of the truck, suspected of murder, was arrested on the spot and placed in custody.

Aged 25, he is from Northern Ireland. According to the British media, this is Mo Robinson, a resident of Portadown, County Armagh.

Three new arrests in this investigation

The police in Essex on Friday announced three new arrests in this fast-moving investigation: a 48-year-old Northern Irish man arrested at London's Stansted Airport for human trafficking and homicide, and a couple - a man and a woman, aged 38 - living in the city of Warrington in the north of England.

According to the British press, who contacted the couple before his arrest, they are suspected of being the owners of the registered truck in Bulgaria. They told reporters that they were strangers to the case, saying they were shocked.

Investigators began performing autopsies on Friday to determine the exact causes of the 39 migrants' deaths. Then can start the work of identification of the bodies.

Autopsies: Vietnamese victims

At first, the British police had announced that the 39 victims - were Chinese but doubts appeared and a spokesman pointed out Friday that the situation was changing as the process of identification was not completed.

Two Vietnamese families fear that their children, who carry fake Chinese passports, may have died in the refrigerated truck. Nguyen Dinh Gia, the father of a 20-year-old Vietnamese boy, revealed that he received a chilling call a few days ago announcing that his son had died while trying to reach the United Kingdom.

According to Nguyen Dinh Gia, his son told him two weeks ago of his plan to join Britain from France, where he had been living illegally since 2018.

Pham Thi Tra, 26, reportedly sent a message on the phone to her mother explaining that she could not breathe, that she was dying, according to her brother's revelations.

Both families are from the same region of Ha Tinh, a very poor part of Vietnam from which many migrants leave. The latter often seek to join Britain to work in nail bars or illegal cannabis farms, hoping to earn money quickly.

Many pass through Russia or China, with false documents and this journey can cost them up to the equivalent of 36,000 euros, a fortune in Vietnam where the average income does not exceed 2,000 euros per year, according to the World Bank.

According to the BBC, an association of Vietnamese living in Britain, VietHome, has received photos of some twenty Vietnamese missing since the discovery of the truck. On Wednesday, the association says it has received messages informing them of the disappearance of people aged 15 to 45 years.

Driver Charges for Involuntary Homicide, Human Trafficking and Money Laundering

The driver is Maurice Robinson and he is from Northern Ireland. The driver of the truck in which 39 bodies were found on Wednesday east of London, was charged on Saturday. According to the British police, he is prosecuted for 39 manslaughter, human trafficking and money laundering. According to the same source, the other three people arrested in this case were still in custody on Saturday.

In a statement on Saturday, the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry said its embassy in London was working to speed up the process of identifying victims.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

EGYPT DISCOVERED WITH THIRTY ANCIENT SARCOPHAGES OF THREE THOUSAND YEARS

Thirty suberbes sarcophagus painted wood of more than 3000 years and in excellent state of conservation were unveiled this Saturday in Egypt.
They were discovered by an Egyptian team of archaeologists, in Assasif, in a necropolis of the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, in the south of Egypt.
The sarcophagi were discovered last week at Assasif, a necropolis on the western bank of the Nile.

"This is the first discovery in Assasif by archaeologists, conservatives and workers," said the secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri on the spot at a press conference in Luxor.

An important family of priests

Painted wooden pieces - coffins for men, women and children - were found one meter underground, stacked one above the other in two rows. These sarcophagi belong to an important family of priests.

Yellow, red, green, the colors and black lines are intact on the wood of the sarcophagi, which still carry many hieroglyphs, Egyptian deities, birds, snakes or lotus flowers.

The thirty found objects date from the 22nd Dynasty, founded more than 3000 years ago, in the tenth century BC.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

NOTRE DAME DE PARIS OFF-STANDARD SITE

On April 15-16, the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral burned in the face of the world's dumbfounded eyes. Faced with such a catastrophe, the head of state, Emmanuel Macron, had promised to rebuild the French architectural jewel in five years, not one more.

But six months after the fire that ravaged the cathedral, no one believes in this promise. Apart from Philippe Villeneuve, chief architect of historical monuments, responsible among other things for the restoration of the religious building.

It will take "several months to save Notre-Dame de Paris and finish the sanitary condition that will serve as a diagnosis to establish the action plan for restoration" of the cathedral, believes, careful, the Minister of Culture Franck Riester . The yard is moving slowly, despite the noise of the drills and the coming and going of the workers.

Involved: the consolidation of the cathedral is indeed more complex, and therefore longer than expected. The complete diagnosis of the monument will be made only at the end of 2020.

Reconstruction should not begin until the year 2020. For the moment, hangers have been installed to reinforce the flying buttresses of the frame of the cathedral. Temporary ceilings and floors should soon be laid to strengthen the vault. The next step is obviously risky:

it involves dismantling the imposing 500-ton scaffolding, built around the spire that threatens to crumble at any moment.

The slowdown is also due to lead. Three hundred tons of lead melted in one night during the fire. This summer residents were worried about lead pollution. High rates are still regularly detected around the building despite decontamination.

And to ensure the safety of the staff, the procedures are very numerous and very rigorous. Too strict, according to some. For example, every time a worker moves from a dirty area to a clean area, that is, a lead-free area, he must remove his mask, his suit, his gloves, and take a shower. The whole thing lasts 10 minutes and the operation can be repeated ... six times a day.

The last black point of the file: how can Our Lady be restored when no one knows what to look like? Indeed, six months after the fire, two schools still clash on how the cathedral must be rebuilt, either identically or adapted to the taste of the day. For the Ancients, we must follow the model of Viollet -Le-Duc and for the Moderns it is necessary to propose a modern aesthetic.

The majority of French would like the traditional aesthetics to be respected. The State to develop a "process" to decide the outcome (the minister does not necessarily speak of a competition of architects, which had been a time mentioned by Prime Minister Philippe Édouard). As owner, the state will make the final decision, but the Minister of Culture ensures working hand in hand with the diocese of Paris and the City of Paris.

"The President of the Republic has set an ambition," says Franck Riester, but the "priority of priorities is a quality restoration", conducted at "a steady pace.

Andrew Preston for DayNewsWorld

SIMONE BILES THE MOST TITLE GYMNASTE

OF THE WORLD

At only 22 years old she reigns supreme over the world of gymnastics. She won Sunday, October 13th her 24th and 25th medals, both in gold, at the World Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart.

The four-time Olympic champion thus closes in beauty these Worlds during which she shone by her performances.

The day before, she had equaled, at 22, the record set by the legendary Belarusian Vitaly Scherbo (23) in the 1990s by winning the jump.

She gave birth on October 5 to two new figures, who now bear her name.

With, as a final salute, a representation of the "Biles II", a double somersault with a triple twist. "These are really the best Worlds I've ever done," says Biles, who "can not move so much (She's tired ".

And who now expects her mother to have a party in her honor on her return to Texas, as she "is used to, whether I like it or not," she jokes.

"His regularity has been exceptional," greets his French coach Landi. She proved that even with very, very big difficulty, she can have very good performance notes. "

Only the uneven bars, the only apparatus of which she was never crowned world champion, resisted her once again: she was ranked "only" fifth of the final Saturday.

At nine months of the Tokyo Olympics (July 24-August 9), the American is more than ever the sport to follow.

Jenny Chase for DayNewsWorld
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ASSASSINAT A LA PREFECTURE DE POLICE DECOUVERTE D'UNE CLE USB INQUIETANTE

L'enquête sur Mickaël Harpon, le tueur de la préfecture de police, progresse et les investigations confiées à la brigade criminelle et à la DGSI, depuis jeudi, lèvent chaque jour un peu plus le voile sur la radicalisation de cet agent administratif, en poste au service informatique de la direction du renseignement de la préfecture et habilité au secret défense.

De quoi faire froid dans le dos.

Une clef USB contenant des vidéos de décapitation a été découverte chez le tueur lors de la perquisition de son domicile à Gonesse dans le Val-d'Oise jeudi dernier, d'après des sources concordantes.

Une liste de noms de ses collègues de la préfecture de police avec des données personnelles a également été retrouvée sur cette clé USB.

Pour quoi faire ?

Mickaël Harpon avait-il l'intention de les communiquer à des tiers, ou de s'en servir à d'autres fins ?

Il était en contact très étroit avec un prédicateur musulman, connu des services de renseignement pour être salafiste, et était en communication avec dont les autorités considèrent qu'il prônait une pratique très rigoriste de sa religion.

Des contacts qui remontent à quelques mois.

Pour les policiers le ver était bien dans le fruit.

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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ATTAQUE AU COUTEAU A LA PREFECTURE DE POLICE DE PARIS VERS LA PISTE TERRORISTE

Le parquet antiterroriste s'est saisi, vendredi 4 octobre 2019 au soir, de l'affaire du policier qui a tué quatre de ses collègues à la préfecture de police de Paris. En effet tout un faisceau d'indices laissent à penser qu'il s 'agirait d'une attaque terroriste.

Des éléments troublants semblent démontrer une radicalisation de l'individu.

Des sms à connotation religieuse dans les téléphones, sa proximité avec la mouvance salafistes , ainsi que le mode opératoire de l'attaque où une des victimes de l'assaillant a été égorgée pourraient valider la thèse de la piste terroriste. Le meurtrier s'était converti en 2008 à l'islam.

La divulgation des échanges avec sa femme confirmerait aussi son rapport avec cette religion.

Après l'achat de son couteau le matin même de l'attaque il aurait prévenu sa compagne par SMS.

« Seul Dieu te jugera », lui aurait-elle répondu . De plus, cet homme aurait déjà fait l'objet d'un signalement par le passé après l'attentat contre les locaux de Charlie Hebdo en 2015 qu'il aurait légitimer. terroriste.

Son passage à l'acte se dessine également petit à petit. Mickaël H. aurait « entendu des voix » la nuit précédant les faits selon les révélations de sa femme interrogée en garde à vue. Son mari aurait eu une « crise de démence ».

Un début d'explication peut-être ?

Mickaël H travaillait depuis 2003 en tant que spécialiste de la maintenance informatique au sein de la Direction du renseignement de la préfecture de police de Paris , qui se concentre notamment sur la lutte antiterroriste.

Ce fonctionnaire policier doublé d'un informaticien qui possédait l'habilitation secret-défense aurait-il pu transmettre aux milieux salafistes une masse d'informations sensibles vu son allégeance probable à l'islamisme

Un tel drame dans une enceinte aussi surveillée qu'une préfecture ne peut qu'interroger.

Les chefs d'accusation sont requalifiés en « assassinat et tentative d'assassinat sur personne dépositaire de l'autorité publique en relation avec une entreprise terroriste » et « association de malfaiteurs terroriste criminelle ».

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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ATTAQUE MEURTRIERE ET (TERRORISTE ?)

A LA PREFECTURE DE POLICE DE PARIS

Un agent administratif a blessé mortellement, jeudi, au sein de la préfecture de police de Paris, quatre policiers à l'arme blanche et blessé une autre collègue.

Il a pénétré successivement dans deux bureaux de la préfecture de police où il a tué trois collègues, avant d'emprunter des escaliers et de s'en prendre à deux femmes.

Sur les quatre personnes tuées au cours de l'attaque, une a été égorgée.

L'assaillant a été abattu par un policier.

Profil de l'agresseur

Michael Harpon, âgé de 45 ans, travaillait depuis 2003 à la préfecture de police où il occupait un poste d'informaticien à la direction du renseignement (DRPP). Il souffrait d' un léger handicap de surdité. L'agresseur se serait converti à l'islam depuis 18 mois. Selon Christophe Castaner, l'assaillant n'avait «jamais présenté le moindre signe d'alerte».

« Assassinat et tentative d'assassinat sur personne dépositaire de l'autorité publique en relation avec une entreprise terroriste », ainsi que pour « association de malfaiteurs terroriste criminelle », a précisé le PNAT.

Au regard des éléments rassemblés à ce stade des investigations par les enquêteurs de la brigade criminelle, le parquet national antiterroriste s'est saisi, ce vendredi soir, de l'enquête ouverte à la suite des faits commis hier à la préfecture de police, indique ce vendredi le parquet de Paris.

Le mobile?

Quel était le mobile de Michael Harpon abattu après avoir tué à coups de couteau quatre de ses collègues, jeudi à la préfecture de police de Paris ? Au lendemain du drame, vendredi 4 octobre, la question est au cœur de l'enquête. Les policiers ont notamment entendu l'épouse du meurtrier placée en garde à vue.

Sa femme a déclaré que son mari avait eu des visions et entendu des voix la nuit qui a précédé son passage à l'acte. La piste d'un désaccord avec sa hiérarchie a également été évoquée par l'épouse du suspect qui a indiqué aux enquêteurs que son mari, sourd à 70%, avait le sentiment de ne pas être reconnu par sa hiérarchie à sa juste valeur et n'avait pas eu, selon lui, la progression de carrière qu'il méritait.

Depuis plusieurs mois d'ailleurs, Michael Harpon, malentendant, réclamait un interprète en langue des signes, dans l'espoir de pouvoir évoluer vers des postes de concepteurs de réseaux.

Les motivations de l'assaillant au couteau sont encore floues même si l'hypothèse du terrorisme est, depuis ce vendredi soir, privilégiée. Des fréquentations de Mickael H. sont présentées comme appartenant à la mouvance salafiste.

Le préfet de police de Paris avait assuré n'exclure « aucune hypothèse » au lendemain de l'attaque meurtrière perpétrée jeudi par un agent de la Préfecture de police.

«Notre lucidité de policier nous amène à n'exclure strictement aucune hypothèse à ce stade », a déclaré Didier Lallement.

En décembre 2015, une note de la direction de la sécurité de proximité de l’agglomération parisienne a recensé dix-sept cas de policiers radicalisés entre 2012 et 2015. La plupart d’entre eux étaient «entrés dans la police au milieu des années 2000».

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

FIRE OF THE LUBRIZOL FACTORY

QUESTION TIME

After the gigantic fire factory Lubrizol, Thursday, September 26 in Rouen, it's now time for questions. Should we fear massive pollution ?

what will be the consequences for the health of the population ?

what are the origins of the fire ? The Lubrizol plant in Rouen has the particularity of being a Seveso "high threshold" site set up in a very populated area. Barely more than three kilometers separate the Lubrizol factory from the historic city center of Rouen. The Rouen-Normandie metropolis has 490,000 inhabitants and includes 71 municipalities. Twelve of them, in addition to Rouen, have been affected by containment measures of some 65,000 inhabitants, in addition to 110,000 in the Normandy capital.

Since Thursday, the fire has released a heavy and thick plume of smoke, causing soot fallout throughout the northeastern area of ​​the city and raising many concerns. Although no casualties were reported, residents complained of vomiting, nausea and sore throat. They worry about the health consequences.

Crisis management for the least approximate. "The city is clearly polluted" .. ..

The prefect said during a situation, Friday, September 27 at midday, that the soot contained "components mainly related to the burning of oil finished products, chemical additives for oils and hydrocarbons hence the black, greasy soot that we find, "spreading several times, any risk of" acute toxicity "in the air.

Yet the Minister of Health has, meanwhile, not ruled out the risk of pollution and danger to health. "The city is clearly polluted" by soot, said Health Minister Agnès Buzyn Friday in Rouen .

"These are soot, like pollution, like tar patties on the beaches. If we see tar cakes on the beaches, we will ask the children not to touch them (...) Well it's the same thing we ask the residents today, that is to say, to clean these soot , these dirt, visually very identifiable, to take precautions including putting on gloves, "added Agnès Buzyn who spoke alongside the Minister of Environmental Transition Élisabeth Borne. "It's never good for people to touch that kind of product," she added.

"I can not say there is no danger, there are inevitably traces of hydrocarbons," said the health minister, expecting to wait for more fine analyzes to come later in the week next.

Crisis management that questions.

Questions around the origin of the fire

If Frederic Henry, the boss of the company Lubrizol, has testified his "empathy" to people living near the plant, he did not hide Saturday morning on Europe 1, his astonishment at the circumstances of the start of fire .

"I never thought we could have such a fire in premises like these," he said, recalling that the flames ignited "a place where nothing normally happens, where it does not. there is no activity per se. In fact, the fire took on a "drum storage" building.

"It really questions me, I can not understand why." "I can not know exactly where [the fire] started today," said Henry. "But we can still think that he started [near] a fence that separates us from a neighbor. I am very surprised to see a fire that starts like this, in the middle of the night, in a place where there is no one. It really questions me, I can not understand why. We must not dismiss anything, but it is very surprising. "

So many questions that deserve answers in a crisis that could be sanitary.

Alyson Braxton for DayNewsWorld

MAP FOR ALL WOMEN

VOTED BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IN FRANCE

Article 1 of the bill on bioethics reaches a milestone at the Palais Bourbon. The National Assembly voted the opening of medically assisted procreation (MAP) to all women, Friday, September 27, despite strong opposition from the right.

This article 1 of the bill of bioethics, fiercely debated since Wednesday, was adopted by 55 votes against 17, and 3 abstentions, several political groups being shared.

Medically assisted procreation makes it possible to have a child using various medical techniques such as artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization (IVF).

It is currently reserved for heterosexual couples in France. This expanded PMA for lesbian couples and single women, supported by the majority and the left, will be reimbursed by Social Security.

The Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, aims at a final adoption of the bill before the summer, which would allow an effective access of the PMA to all women "immediately from the law promulgated".

Since the beginning of the exchanges at the beginning of the week in the Hemicycle, deputies, mainly on the right and on the far right, have denounced a "fatherless MAP" which would inevitably lead to the gestation by others (GPO), even if the government keeps repeating that it remains "an absolute prohibition in France". In contrast, the majority and the left support, in the opening of the MAP, a measure of "equality", and to adapt the right to the state of society.

Several elected members voted in opposition to the majority of the members of their group. At LR, Maxime Minot voted for Article 1, and Damien Abad abstained. At LREM, Blandine Brocard, Marie Tamarelle-Verhaeghe and Liliana Tanguy voted against, while Benoît Potterie and Annie Vidal abstained. At the MoDem, Jean-Louis Bourlanges voted against.

The MAP is already allowed for lesbian couples and single women in ten out of twenty-eight European Union countries: Portugal, Spain, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.

Seven countries allow it for single women but not for lesbian couples: Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Croatia, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus. Austria and Malta allow lesbian couples but not single women.

Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

IPCC ALARMING REPORT

ON THE OCEANS AND THE CRYOSPHERE

The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 195 countries) on the oceans and the cryosphere (permanent snow, mountain glaciers, ice caps, pack ice, frozen ground) was presented on Wednesday 25 September at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco.

This report presents several warming scenarios, ranging from an optimistic scenario limiting warming to + 1.5 ° C compared to the pre-industrial era, up to + 7 ° C.

Increase in sea level

From ice caps to glaciers, ice sheets and permafrost, the frozen areas of the planet are not spared by global warming and their melting leads to a significant rise in sea level.

If sea levels rose 2.5 times faster at the beginning of the 21st century than in the 20th century, the elevation, depending on the scenario, could reach between 40 and 80 cm before the end of the century. The sea will continue to rise after 2100, according to the Giec report. In a world at +2 ° C the rate of rise could stabilize, reaching about 1 meter in 2300, against several meters if greenhouse gas emissions continue at the same rate as today.

Redefinition of land / sea boundaries

According to the report, the rising waters will redraw the boundary between land and sea, threatening flooding of many coastal regions, from small island states to large cities such as New York or Shanghai, through the deltas of the Ganges or Mekong. More than one billion people will be affected.

But these alarmist simulations do not take into account the possible developments that could be implemented by humans to contain the waters: dikes, canals, polders ... Building protection against rising water could reduce from 100 to 1,000 times the flood risk, according to the report.

Warming ocean

According to the report's authors, ocean warming has doubled since 1982. As for permafrost temperatures, they have never been so high. Its melting will continue to release in the atmosphere huge amounts of CO2 and methane but also mercury, hitherto trapped in the soil, which will cause - and already causes - problems of water pollution. However, warming has a strong impact on the oceans, which absorbed a quarter of the greenhouse gas emissions generated by humans. The IPCC's conclusion is clear: the ocean is saturating, acidifying and producing less oxygen and fewer fish.

15% of the biomass production of the ocean at risk

However, experts say, these ecosystems play a vital role for life on Earth. Glaciers bring us clean water, the ocean provides 50% of atmospheric oxygen, and regulates the climate by capturing CO2 and absorbing heat from emissions. It is also a source of food and income for more than 800 million people.

But the IPCC's conclusion is clear: the ocean is saturating, acidifying and producing less oxygen and fewer fish. We could lose 15% of ocean biomass production and fish up to 26% less fish than currently.

The IPCC argues, once again, to respect the Paris Agreement and to limit warming below 2 degrees in order to manage the consequences of climate change and preserve the ocean and glaciers on Earth.

Joanne Courbet for DayNewsWorld

UN SUMMIT ON CLIMATE EMERGENCIES

A close to the historic climate walks around the world opens, this Monday, September 23, 2019, a UN summit on the climate emergency. Its general secretary Antonio Guterres is tired of the promises and expects concrete commitments. "Bring action plans, not speeches," he told world leaders in a letter he sent them.

A report released Sunday (September 22nd) by the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warns that the five years from 2015 to 2019 should be the hottest time ever, with + 1.1 ° C compared to the period 1850-1900. While the countries made the commitment in 2015 to limit the rise in global temperature "well below" 2 ° C, compared to the pre-industrial era, the planet is on a trajectory of + 3 ° to 4 ° C at the end of the century.

The UN Secretary-General will call on leaders around the world to increase their greenhouse gas reduction targets, partly responsible for climate change.

In a letter to Heads of State, Antonio Guterres set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 45 percent by 2030 by ending fossil fuel subsidies and banning the construction of coal-fired power plants. 2020. With the objective of "carbon neutrality" in 2050.

On Friday, Germany's Angela Merkel gave the the by adopting a 100 billion plan over ten years for climate protection. An absent: Donald Trump has said he will not come.


Kelly Donaldson for DayNewsWorld

MAP FOR ALL

THE RESERVES OF THE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE

The National Academy of Medicine, which gave an official opinion on Saturday , September 21, on the opening of medically assisted procreation (MAP) to lesbian couples and single women, believes that

"The deliberate conception of a child without a father" and is "not without risks" for his "psychological development" and his "development".

"The deliberate conception of a child deprived of a father is a major anthropological break that is not without risks for the psychological development and development of the child," she said.

This opinion on the law of bioethics, of which the opening of the MAP is the most symbolic measure, was adopted in session by the Academy Tuesday, September 17th, by 69 votes for, 11 against and 5 abstentions. His rapporteur is former health minister Jean-François Mattei.

"Possible medical consequences"

While the Academy states that its purpose is certainly not to "give an opinion" on a "societal measure", it "considers (however) its duty to raise a certain number of reservations related to possible medical consequences".

The Academy "recognizes the legitimacy of the desire for maternity in any woman whatever her situation," but believes that "equal rights must also be taken into account in the right of every child to have a father and a child. mother as far as possible ".

"The argument regularly put forward to reject the risk for the child is based on certain evaluations, mainly in some Anglo-Saxon and European countries, indicating the absence of a proven impact on the future of the child", continues the Academy. But it "does not judge very convincingly these data methodologically, in number of cases and in length of observation on children who have not always reached the age of existential questions ".

"The figure of the father remains a founder"

The Academy "believes that, increasingly mistreated by societal changes, the figure of the father is still founding for the child's personality as recalled by child psychiatrists, pediatricians and psychologists."

The bill of bioethics will be debated from Tuesday to the Assembly.

According to its statutes, the National Academy of Medicine can be seized of a request for opinion by the government and can also be self-sufficient on any question concerning the domains of the health and the medical ethics.

Kelly Donaldson for DayNewsWorld

THE SCANDAL OF THE WILD CLINICAL TRIAL ON 350 PATIENTS IN FRANCE

"It is absolutely inadmissible, it is a scandal, I think there will be a criminal prosecution, the prosecutor is seized," insurged the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, returning to the illegal clinical trial conducted at least 350 Parkinson's and Alzheimer's patients, banned Thursday.

This clinical trial presented as a "preliminary clinical trial" was carried out partly in an abbey near Poitiers through a fund called "Josefa" with Pr Henri Joyeux as vice-president. The latter is highly contested by the medical community, particularly because of its anti-vaccine positions. On his website, the founder of the "Josefa" fund, Professor Jean-Bernard Fourtillan claims the discovery of valentonine, supposed to "protect our organism and ensure the regulation of psychic and vegetative life".

With Professor Henri Joyeux, the two men say they want to make "known to the general public this essential discovery, and drugs (transdermal patches), under preparation, resulting from it". They explain that they "created a non-profit endowment fund (the Josefa Fund), which was given, in full, the intellectual property rights of the drug patents resulting from this discovery".

A molecule with unknown effects. .

The experiment consisted in applying patches to patients containing two molecules called valentonine and 6-methoxy-harmalan. Beforehand, patients had to stop their current treatment for Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease. The next day they had a blood test early in the morning. " But the effects on the human body of the incriminated molecule are not known according to the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines (ANSM) . "The valentonine used in these patches is a molecule for which the quality of manufacture and the effects on the human body are not known," says the agency ANSM. The concern is that patients have stopped their regular treatment. In addition, the ANSM does not have information on the protocol and what was specifically said to these patients. . The ANS Ma called the patients concerned to "no longer use the patches" (but to keep them for analysis) and "to quickly consult a doctor".

1000 euros requested per patient

The Josefa Fund, of which Pr Joyeux is vice-president, sent emails to the patients he wanted to recruit for the experiment. They were asked to participate in a "preliminary clinical trial" of the famous patch. The cost was evaluated at 1,000 euros per "included subject" in the essay.

Given the price of the test, Pr Joyeux asked the patients "the wealthiest" to "donate more than € 1,000, in order to properly finance this trial", not everyone being able to bring said sum. "The same goes for the quality of the Marketing Authorization (MA) dossier that will be submitted to the health authorities".

The two professors explained that they "created a non-profit endowment fund (the Josefa Fund), which was given, in full, the intellectual property rights of the drug patents resulting from this discovery".

The ANSM has seized justice.

"These people have been victims of false information," said the Minister of Health, stressing that "when you're sick, vulnerability makes you are much more sensitive to speech promising a miracle cure ».

Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld

MADNESS ON THE PART OF A PROFESSOR

A teacher from a high school in Brignoles (Var) was seized in the dark for a quarter of an hour by 20 or so students of terminal school before they escaped. No student was physically abused.

The teacher would have asked his students of terminale L (literary), Tuesday at the beginning of his course, if one of them had a connection to the Netflix series site, to view "The Lord of the Rings".

As this film was not found, the teacher turned to a "Lucifer" series, throwing the students:

"It will bring you light."

It was at the moment when one of the high school students questioned the professor about the pedagogical interest of such a program that he would then have decided to lock up his students in the dark and close the door locks.

"Some of the students were able to escape through the door communicating with the next room thanks to the intervention of a colleague of the professor, before the rest of the students were released by the assistant principal who , alerted by the supervisors, managed to open the door to the corridor, "said a spokeswoman for the academy. The whole scene, which took place on Tuesday afternoon, "did not last more than a quarter of an hour," she added. The firefighters called on the scene took the professor to the hospital, according to the direction of the school.

The academy says it has no news from it and is waiting for medical advice before starting any procedure.

A psychological unit was set up by the school and a substitute teacher appointed for this class, also specifies the academy.

Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

A BLACK PANTHERE ON A ROOF  THE OUT-STANDARD INTERVENTION OF SAPIERS-FIREFIGHTERS

A black panther who "wandered" on the roof of a building was seen in Armentières (North), near Lille.

"Called for a dangerous animal, Northern firefighters are faced with a large feline roaming on residential gutters," quickly identified as "a panther," firefighters write in a statement posted on Facebook and Twitter.

The imposing cat roamed quietly on the edge of a roof, the third and last floor of a brick building in Armentieres (north). According to witnesses, the black panther

"Sometimes stopped to watch the train go by, or to follow with a clear gaze a cat who was running off the road."

The imposing cat, after a stalking that lasted more than two hours, was asleep by a firefighting veterinarian with a "hypodermic rifle" darts anesthetic.

Caged, the feline was finally entrusted to the Animal Protection League.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

CLIMATE WARMING IS EXPECTED TO BE STRONGER THAN EXPECTED

French climate experts exacerbate their projections on global warming: global warming is expected to be stronger than expected, regardless of the efforts made to counter it, warned Tuesday, September 17, 2019 French scientists who present new climate simulations which will serve as a basis for the IPCC.

About a hundred researchers and engineers, including the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and Météo-France, participated in this work which will feed the sixth report of Evaluation of the UN Panel of Experts on Climate, scheduled for 2021-2022.

And the results of their two new models - one developed by the National Center for Meteorological Research (Météo-France / CNRS) and the other at the Pierre-Simon-Laplace Institute (IPSL) -, join "those of other foreign models already available, "says the joint press release:

they "simulate a greater warming by 2100 than the previous versions established in 2012, especially for the most pessimistic scenarios in emissions".

The two models developed by the French scientists predict a continuous increase of the average temperature of the globe at least until 2040, to reach about 2 ° C, whatever the evolution of the emissions of greenhouse gases - because of the inertia of the climate system. Then everything will depend on the policies implemented now by the States to limit or not the carbon emissions.

"In the worst case scenario, the global average temperature rise reached 6.5 to 7 ° C in 2100," say the scientists. This scenario is based on rapid economic growth fueled by fossil fuels. In the latest IPCC 2014 report - which served as a basis for the Paris Agreements - the worst case scenario was + 4.8 ° C compared to the pre-industrial period.

The most optimistic scenario, "marked by strong international cooperation and giving priority to sustainable development" allows to remain "just" under the objective of the 2 ° C warming of the Paris Agreement. This objective "implies an immediate reduction of CO2 emissions until reaching global carbon neutrality around 2060, as well as an atmospheric CO2 uptake of around 10 to 15 billion tonnes a year. 2100 ".

Which would imply a very strong political will. "The average temperature of the planet at the end of the century depends heavily on climate policies that will be implemented now and throughout the 21st century," insist the scientists, according to which we must grant "a higher degree of confidence" to this new generation of models, which have "improved". technologically impossible for the moment.

"The average temperature of the planet at the end of the century therefore strongly depends on the climate policies that will be implemented now and throughout the twenty-first century" insist the experts.

How to explain these results even darker than those predicted by previous models ?

The release discusses the hypothesis of a "stronger climate response to increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gases than in the 2012 simulations". But "the reasons for this greater sensitivity and its impact on projections are not yet very clear," say the scientist

For France, the last exercise of this kind dates back to 2012. "As computing capacity increases, we have refined the resolution and we also have models that better represent the current climate," explains Olivier Boucher, research director at the CNRS.

This has allowed researchers to better model the consequences of global warming in Western Europe, focusing in particular on heat waves.

Another striking result of these two new French models is the continued increase in the intensity and frequency of heat waves in France and Western Europe, "at least in the next two decades, whatever the scenario considered.

Joanne Courbet for DayNewsWorld
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LA PMA POST-MORTEM REJETEE DE JUSTESSE

Les députés ont rejeté mercredi 11 septembre 2019 en commission des amendements visant à autoriser la PMA post-mortem.

Ce sujet a divisé la plupart des groupes politiques, dans le cadre de l'examen du projet de loi sur la bioéthique.

La PMA post-mortem a été rejetée à chaque révision des lois de bioéthique ces vingt dernières années L'utilisation des gamètes ou embryons in vitro issus du conjoint ne sera pas autorisée après le décès de conjoint.

Le gouvernement est opposé à la poursuite du projet parental, la ministre de la Santé Agnès Buzyn soulignant les « risques pour la construction de l'enfant ».

Une série d'amendements étaient portés par des « marcheurs », des socialistes, des élus MoDem ou encore du co-rapporteur La République en Marche Jean-Louis Touraine.

Ce dernier a évoqué la « logique » de permettre à ces femmes veuves de recourir à l'insémination ou au transfert d'embryons existants, plutôt que de recourir à un donneur. Le conjoint aurait dû dans ce cas donner son consentement préalable, et la PMA aurait été encadrée dans le temps.

En cas de décès « Il faut laisser la femme décider », « c'est une question de confiance » a-t-il insisté. M. Touraine a également rappelé une décision du Conseil d'État, remontant à 2016, qui avait autorisé pour la première fois une veuve espagnole à faire transférer le sperme de son mari en Espagne, où l'insémination post-mortem est autorisée.

Mais au sein même de son groupe LREM, partagé, des voix se sont élevées pour dire leur opposition à la naissance d'«enfants orphelins», et le risque de «pressions» sur «la femme endeuillée». , et le risque de « pressions » sur « la femme endeuillée ».!

De nombreux élus LR sont aussi montés au créneau , estimant notamment qu'«on ne respecte pas l'intérêt supérieur de l'enfant».

«Ce qui est techniquement possible n'est pas toujours souhaitable. Ne jouons pas aux apprentis sorciers», a aussi plaidé Annie Genevard.

Alyson Braxton pour DayNewsWorld
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LA GUERRE DES PESTICIDES EN FRANCE

On se souvient des polémiques créées cet été par un arrêté municipal très médiatisé pris par le maire de Langouët (Ille-et-Vilaine) Daniel Cueff, suivi d'autres, interdisant l’utilisation de produits phytopharmaceutiques à moins de 150 mètres d’habitations. Arrêté qui a été suspendu par la justice administrative.

Consultation en vue d' un décret pour le 1er janvier 2020

Face la multiplication des arrêtés anti-pesticides, le gouvernement a lancé, ce lundi 9 septembre, une vaste consultation publique, d’une durée de trois semaines et ouverte à tous, sur les distances minimales à respecter entre habitations et zones d’épandage de pesticides.Le gouvernement a proposé samedi 7 septembre de fixer cette distance minimale à 5 mètres pour les cultures dites basses (céréales par exemple) et à 10 mètres pour les cultures hautes, telles que les vignes ou l’arboriculture. Il justifie cette décision par les préconisations scientifiques de l’Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire (Anses) allant en ce sens.

La consultation « sur le modèle du grand débat », selon le ministère de l’Agriculture, doit être ouverte simultanément sur les sites du ministère de la Santé, de la Transition écologique et solidaire, et celui de l’Agriculture et de l’alimentation.

Le ministère de la Transition écologique analysera ensuite les résultats et fera la synthèse en vue d' « un arbitrage définitif fin novembre », avant la publication du décret prévu pour le 1er janvier 2020.

« C'est la première fois qu'on va mettre en place des distances minimales et on est un des seuls pays à le faire », s'est félicitée Elisabeth Borne, la ministre de la Transition écologique.

Des polémiques

Décret ou charte

Parallèlement à cette consultation, d’autres négociations locales dans les préfectures se poursuivent entre ONG, agriculteurs et élus pour l’élaboration de chartes départementales sur l’utilisation des pesticides. Or « Le cousu main de ces chartes prévaudra sur le décret » a prévenu le ministère. À ce jour, huit chartes ont été signées, privilégiant «l' intelligence locale ».

La FNSEA, principal syndicat de la profession agricole, a apporté son soutien aux « solutions locales » pour encadrer les épandages de pesticides. En revanche la Coordination rurale a en exprimé ses doutes sur la création de telles chartes. Pour Bernard Lannes la charte que les agriculteurs avaient signé avec les industriels et la grande distribution à l’issue des États généraux de l’alimentation se solde par un échec.

« 150 mètres »

Le débat fait également rage entre les écologistes et le monde agricole sur les contours de cette mesure. En effet pour les agriculteurs l'exclusion des terres de la zone d'épandage représente un manque à gagner en terme de culture. « De trois à cinq mètres ce sont déjà des milliers d’hectares » enlevés à la production agricole, « mais 150 mètres, c’est non, car ça représente des millions d’hectares », a signalé Bernard Lannes . Et 150 mètres équivaudrait à retirer 15 à 20% de la surface agricole française.

Il a également rappelé que l’Anses avait déjà déterminé pour chaque produit phytopharmaceutique homologué la zone de non-traitement appropriée en fonction de la santé humaine.

Or pour l’association Générations futures les données de l'Anses sont inappropriées du fait de l'utilisation d'une méthodologie obsolète et limitée.

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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800 000 SUICIDES PAR AN

Selon les données publiées lundi à Genève par l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) , une personne se suicide toutes les quarante secondes dans le monde, soit 800 000 par an.

Le taux s'établit à 10,5 pour 100 000. Si le taux mondial a reculé de 10%, il reste cependant toujours très élevé dans les pays riches .

Au total, 79% des suicides sont observés dans des pays à revenus bas ou intermédiaires, mais le taux est le plus élevé dans les pays riches, à 11,5 pour 100 000.

Les hommes sont 1,8 fois plus affectés que les femmes et même trois fois plus dans les pays riches.

Alors qu'au Japon et la Corée du Sud le taux de suicide est en baisse, les Etats-Unis reste le seul pays où le taux a augmenté. L'accès aux armes à feu peut constituer l'une des explications, a affirmé devant la presse une responsable de la prévention du suicide à l'OMS, Alexandra Fleischmann.

Le directeur général Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus appelle les Etats à utiliser les politiques de prévention dans leur approche nationale de santé.

Les méthodes de suicide les plus courantes sont la pendaison, l'auto-empoisonnement par les pesticides et les armes à feu. Selon l'OMS, diminuer l'accès aux pesticides peut faire baisser les taux de suicide, comme l'ont montré des initiatives prises au Sri Lanka et en Corée du Sud. Ainsi l'organisation demande notamment des restrictions à l'accès aux pesticides, l'un des moyens les plus utilisés dans le monde.

L'OMS mène une campagne d'un mois sur la prévention du suicide. A cette occasion, l'organisation va publier une brochure avec des recommandations pour les cinéastes et créateurs de séries télévisées.

Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld

COCORICO FOR MAURICE THE ROOSTER

The justice authorizes the rooster Maurice to continue to sing on the island of Oléron and it is justice!

The rooster Maurice was "relaxed" by the justice, Thursday, September 5, 2019, in a case which opposed his owners and neighbors inconvenienced by the morning song of the animal in the commune of Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron, in Charente -Maritime.

The criminal court in Rochefort dismissed their complaint and ruled that the bird could continue to sing.

For months, a conflict opposes indeed a couple, secondary resident in Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron, the owner of the gallinace, their neighbor. They complained of the noise pollution caused by the singing of Maurice.

Its noisy cocorico, at dawn, annoyed some inhabitants of the island of Oléron. The plaintiffs asked that the justice gives Corinne Fesseau, owner of Mauritius, from an old Oleron family, 15 days to drive away the animal or shut him up

The lawyer of the owner of Maurice, Mr. Papineau, explained that his victory was due to the fact that "in French law it is necessary to prove a nuisance, and it was not made". "Neither the plaintiffs nor their defender were present.

I am speechless. We stole them in the feathers. It's a victory for all people in the same situation as me. I hope this will be a case law for them, "said Ms Fesseau in the Rochefort court. "Everyone will be protected behind: the bells, the frogs ...", she added, referring to other noise-related neighborhood quarrels that annoy city dwellers.

Pending the decision of the court the mayor of the town, Christophe Sueur, had decided to take a decree to preserve "lifestyles related to the campaign, especially with regard to the presence of farm animals." "We have always lived with vegetable gardens, henhouses, we have a rather traditional life," he said.

Vincent Huberdeau, the plaintiff's lawyer, refused to see the idea of ​​the "city against the campaign" trial, of a "conflict between citizens bobos and rural" and yet ...

"Why not a Mauritius law to protect all rural noises? Said the owner of the angry rooster.

Jaimie Potts for DayNewsWorld

SOME RELICS NAZIES HIDED TO THE FRENCH SENATE

What are the "Nazi relics" in the French Senate ?

A bust of Hitler, eagles of the Third Reich and a Nazi flag: the secret is known only to a few insiders, says Le Monde in an investigation published Tuesday.

Yet, the Luxembourg Palace houses many objects of the Third Reich in its basements ...

This is the history of the palace that would explain their presence.During the Second World War, the Luxembourg Palace was headquarters for the German air force, the Luftwaffe. The building was vacated on August 25, 1944, and it was not until 1949 that the Provisional Consultative Assembly moved there.

So what secrets hides this 17th century palace of the Lutwaffe HQ during the Nazi occupation.

The Senate staff, meanwhile, fell from the clouds. "This is a discovery for many people, everyone falls from above," then assured the communication department of the palace. "You're telling me," Vincent Capo-Canellas, Senator UDI of Seine-Saint-Denis and now Quaestor of the Senate, reacts.

And to add: "We must soon visit the bunker with my colleagues. This place had stayed a little in his juice, that may be the explanation. "

The Senate decided to take the bull by the horns and to communicate at the end of August a document of five pages listing the objects. "Documents and objects left in the Senate by the German occupation after World War II". "In the reserves are also kept some pieces of furniture and a bust left by the German occupant and whose origin is unknown," said the statement. Similarly, objects stored in the "bunker", an air-raid shelter built under the courtyard of 15 bis Vaugirard will be inventoried.

"The bust was to be in an office of the occupant, says the chief architect of the Senate. He always stayed in reserve, he never came out. Nobody cared, I do not see what we can do. ".

To the historian Cécile Desprairies, specialist of the German occupation, to explain to the confreres that "the Nazi flags were taken as trophies". "The places were looted, ransacked, the liberators took away a small piece of the occupier, it was the rat race. It was then circulating on the black market, and it's still going around. There was no destruction policy or control policy. The winners do what they want.

The President of the Senate, Gerard Larcher "ignored [t] the presence of this bust. I asked the questure [responsible for the management of the institution, ed] to deepen the research on all objects.

"I asked for an in-depth work, and at the same time a reflection on this period. There were, it seems, on the part of agents who were there moments of patriotism that I would not want to overshadow, "added Gerard Larcher, who made the link with the Liberation of Paris.

Jaimie Potts for DayNewsWorld

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS PRESENT

IN THE ORGANIZATION OF FRENCH


For the first time, Public Health France measured the presence of endocrine disruptors in the body of a large representative sample (1,104 children and 2,503 adults) of the French population between 2014 and 2016.

Bisphenols, phthalates, parabens, glycol ethers, brominated flame retardants, perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) have been tracked in the bodies of children and adults.

Pollutants present in the body of the French .

According to the study, diet is not the only source of exposure to these substances.

The use of cosmetics and care, for example, increases the levels of impregnation of parabens and glycol ethers with concentrations found in the French exceeding the "threshold values ​​health" established abroad.

These substances, which are omnipresent in everyday objects and which are often endocrine disruptors or carcinogens, proven or suspected, are "present in the body of all French people"

Children, first concerned

Public Health France also emphasizes that "higher levels of impregnation are found in children" compared to adults.

Several hypotheses can explain these higher levels in children: the latter touch and carry more objects to the mouth, they are more exposed to household dust and their weight is relatively lower compared to their food intake, also vectors of these pollutants .

Toxic effects

Although Public Health France does not pronounce on the health consequences of this pollution, still poorly known, it recalls however that some of these products are endocrine disruptors or known or suspected carcinogens.

PEs are indeed able to interfere with the hormonal system and are involved in certain disorders and conditions such as obesity, lower intelligence quotient or cancers of the reproductive system.

Glycol ethers are suspected of causing toxic effects on reproduction and development in humans: decreased male fertility, increased risk of spontaneous abortions or fetal malformations.

These results are part of the Esteban Framework - Environmental Health, Biomonitoring, Physical Activity and Nutrition - a research program launched in 2014 to monitor the health status of the French population.

Two other parts of the study, on exposure to metals and pesticides, will be published later, said Public Health France.

Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld

THE DORIAN MONSTER HURRICANE OUTSIDE NORMAL

"We are facing a hurricane (...) as we have never seen in the history of the Bahamas," said Sunday, September 1, Hubert Minnis, the prime minister of the Caribbean archipelago.


Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas with torrential rains and high winds. The cyclone, category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, struck northern Bahamas. Described as "catastrophic" by the US National Hurricane Center (NHC), it is accompanied by sustained winds reaching 184 mph, with gusts exceeding 218 mph.

While still sweeping the islands of the Bahamas, winds and waves, sometimes higher than homes, have killed at least five people. And the material damage is very heavy.

Hurricane Dorian is the worst storm in the history of this Caribbean archipelago. But also one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded on the Atlantic.

It is also the fifth category 5 hurricane to have formed in the Atlantic in the last four years. In meteorology, scientists classify hurricanes on a scale of 1 to 5 on the so-called Saffir-Simpson scale. But even among category 5 hurricanes, Dorian has little equivalent.

Dorian is as powerful as Gilbert (1988), Wilma (2005) and the Labor Day hurricane of 1935. With averaged winds of one minute in the order of 184 mph and gusts of up to 224 mph, hurricane Dorian is more powerful   than Maria ( 174 mph ) and

Irma (180 mph) that ravaged the Lesser Antilles in September 2017.

Only Allen, in 1980, had higher sustained winds, reaching 190 mph. The rains are also torrential, with accumulations exceeding the expected 40 in northwestern Bahamas. That's the equivalent of 5 months of rain in just 48 hours. The particularly vulnerable islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama are experiencing the worst floods in their history.

After the Bahamas, the hurricane is expected to move closer to the east coast of Florida on Monday night and Tuesday. Although it is not yet certain that it will land in the Sunshine State. The state of emergency had been declared in Florida and in a dozen counties in the state of Georgia. This measure makes it possible to better mobilize the public services of the State and to resort if necessary to the federal aid.

In the face of global warming, meteorologists are worried that cyclones could increase in intensity.

And despite the questioning of Donald Trump on a possible bombardment of the hurricane, it is not scientifically possible to stop a hurricane.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld
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CORONAVIRUS MODERNA DEPOSE

LES DEMANDES D'AUTORISATION DE SON VACCIN

La société américaine Moderna a annoncé qu'elle déposerait aujourd'hui des demandes d'autorisations conditionnelles de son vaccin contre le Covid-19 aux Etats-Unis et en Europe.

Deux semaines après avoir annoncé une efficacité de 94,5% sur la base de résultats préliminaires, Moderna a en effet rapporté que sur 196 participants à son grand essai clinique tombés malades du Covid-19, 185se trouvaient dans le groupe placebo et 11 dans le groupe vacciné, soit une efficacité calculée de 94,1%.

Aucune forme grave de la maladie n'est apparue parmi le groupe de participants vaccinés.

Une bonne nouvelle dans cette course effrénée au vaccin contre le Covid-19.




Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

IN JAPAN RESTART WHALE HUNTING

After nearly thirty years of arrest, commercial whaling resumed on Monday in Japan, signaling the government's decision in late December to leave the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Japan is expected to resume commercial whaling in early July 2019. This Asian country began its "research missions" to Antarctica and the Northeast Pacific 32 and 25 years ago respectively, giving up to a purely commercial fishery, but using a "scientific exception", tolerated by the IWC. However, whaling on the pretext of scientific research, often described as hypocritical, sometimes covered commercial activity.

A little consumed food

During these decades, the archipelago has indeed ceased to be criticized by cetaceans advocates for its methods considered cruel, while non-lethal methods exist to conduct the desired studies, according to critics.

In addition, while researchers were certainly the first to look at reported whales, some of their flesh ended up on the stalls of fishmongers, despite an unimportant appetite for this commodity.

But there is a willingness and pride to preserve a rite held by a part of the population, including the elderly who remember that the whale was their only major source of protein during the famine of the post-war period.

"We believe that whales are marine resources like fish and that they can be used on the basis of scientific criteria," said an official from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. "We determine quotas so as not to harm the species," he said. The quota of whales killed was set at 227 until December.

Five whalers at sea as early as July 2019

A fleet of 5 whalers will take off from Kushiro town (Hokkaido Island) and finally return at the end of August. When he left the IWC in December Tokyo had made sure that he would not go hunting "in the waters of the Antarctic or in the Southern Hemisphere", limiting his fishing "to territorial waters and the Exclusive Economic Zone ", in line with IWC quotas," so as not to deplete resources ". Sea Shepherd welcomed this release: "It's a victory in our fight to stop whaling in the Southern Ocean." "If Japan withdraws from the International Whaling Commission (IWC), it allows it to vote the motion to establish a sanctuary in the South Atlantic, thus putting an effective end to the hunt throughout the Southern Hemisphere" explained the famous NGO in a statement.

Countries that still hunt whales

From now on, Japan and Norway practice commercial whaling with more or less significant profits. Conversely, Iceland will refrain from hunting for the first time since 2002, the two specialized companies having decided to give up the 2019 season. The Icelandic whaling industry has put an end to the whaling of Minke whales considered too unprofitable, the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) said in a statement on July 27, 2018.

Although practiced, commercial whaling is still prohibited by the International Whaling Commission. By the end of 2018, she had even refused Japan's request for a legal resumption of whaling. However, this prohibition does not affect indigenous peoples who can hunt whales for food, a practice that is endorsed by the IWC. It voted on 12 September 2018 largely in favor of whaling for these communities living in the Arctic, with the renewal of quotas for their subsistence.

Hundreds of minke whales, humpbacks, borealis and fin whales can be hunted for six years by people living in Alaska (United States), Russia, Greenland and Bequia Island. (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines).

Abby Shelcore for DayNewsWorld

FRANCE SHOTS IN FRONT OF A MOSQUE TWO INJURED

At 4:00 pm, several shots were fired in front of the mosque, injuring two people including Imam Rachid El Jay.

"The two wounded were brought to the emergency room, their vital prognosis would not be engaged," according to the prefecture.

One was shot in the abdomen and the other in the leg, according to sources close to the file.

The balls would be 9 mm caliber.

The facts occurred shortly after 16:00 outside the mosque located in the Pontanezen district.

The author or the authors of the shots fled aboard a gray Clio, found shortly after by the police but empty, according to sources close to the investigation.

The alleged gunman was found dead near his car in Guipavas, near Brest, after fleeing the scene at first.

He allegedly shot himself in the head, according to a police source.

According to a police source, the alleged perpetrator, who was identified, left written documents near the place where he was found dead. He also posted a picture of him on social networks.

"He is known to the police but is not known, and is not known as belonging to a far-right movement," according to a police source.

The judicial police have been seized of the investigation.

According to the Paris prosecutor's office, the situation is being assessed by the antiterrorist section of the Paris prosecutor's office, which is in contact with the prosecutor's office of Brest.

"I asked the prefects to strengthen surveillance of places of worship in the country," tweeted Interior Minister Christophe Castaner.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

NOTRE-DAME OF PARIS FIRE

OR A CLOCK RECOVERED

The watchmaker Jean - Baptiste Viot has found the twin sister, or almost, the clock that melted in the fire last April.

An almost twin sister of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral clock was found a few kilometers away, rekindling the hope of being able to rebuild this masterpiece carried away by the flames with the roof. Or ?

In a kind of shed, located exactly under the bells of the church of the Holy Trinity, in full Paris, in a junk of sculptures and old furniture.

An extraordinary discovery made by the watchmaker Jean-Baptiste Viot while he makes an inventory for the account of experts in art objects.

He discovers that the mechanism of more than 2 meters long forgotten at the bottom of the Holy Trinity is "identical" to that of Notre-Dame. The inscription does not mislead on its relationship.

"Year 1867. Built by Collin", the same year as that of Notre-Dame. And by the same workshop.

Less than 4 kilometers from the Notre-Dame cathedral, Jean-Baptiste Viot has just got his hands on the twin sister, or almost, the clock that has almost completely melted in the fire.

Unlike the Notre-Dame frame, the clock was not digitized until it was destroyed. The plans having disappeared, no indication exists, except photos, to guide its reconstruction.

The discovery of the clock of the Holy Trinity is an unexpected base to redo the room.

And a good crank for the tick to be heard again !

Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

FIVE INTERPELLATIONS

IN THE ATTACK OF CARCASSONNE AND TREBES

The investigators are trying to find out how the terrorist, who killed 4 people in March 2018, bought weapons.

Five people were arrested on Tuesday by the anti-terrorist sub-directorate of the judicial police in the case of the attacks committed in Carcassonne and Trèbes (Aude) on March 23, 2018.

Aged 19 to 29 years, living in the Aude, the suspects were placed in custody on rogatory commission of the judge in charge of investigations.

On 23 March 2018, a young jihadist, Radouane Lakdim, attacked motorists in Carcassonne, killing the passenger and wounding the driver with gunshots.

He then fired on policemen in front of their cantonment and then entrenched himself with hostages in the Super U de Trèbes. There, he had killed a supermarket butcher and a customer.

Lieutenant-Colonel Gendarmerie Arnaud Beltrame, who had allowed the release of a cashier, was murdered by the terrorist.

Five people are indicted in this case.

Sandra Stac for DayNewsWorld

HEAT WAVE ON EUROPE OF WHICH FRANCE

The end of June should be marked by a heat wave that will begin this weekend. Since 1947, only the heat wave of 18 to 28 June 2005 had been so early.

A "remarkably intense and early" heat wave is spreading all over France next week. This heat wave, due to a hot air mass coming from the Maghreb and Spain, could last until the following weekend.

More than 40 ° C in places?

Temperatures will drop to 30 ° C on Sunday. The heat will be even more pronounced on Monday. And from Tuesday, outside the coastlines, Météo France expects to see mercury reaching 35 to 40 ° C in the vast majority of regions. At night, minimum temperatures will not drop much: mercury will not drop below 20 ° C in much of the country.

The days are at this time the longest, such heat can be very painful because they last until late at night and temperatures do not have time to go down in the night. Warmth vigilance is very likely, at least in the East and Southeast.

The situation will be even more painful in the agglomerations, particularly vulnerable during periods of extreme heat. The temperature is higher than in the surroundings. This phenomenon is called an urban heat island (ICU). The difference in temperature is often of the order of 2 to 3 degrees, but in case of heat wave this difference can go up to 10 degrees!

Thunderstorms by following?

It is likely that a storm will put an end to this heat wave.

Because storms are formed precisely in summer, when the air is warm near the ground and cold in altitude. This hot air meets a mass of cold air. The ideal conditions for a supercell storm, the most violent storm.

Heat being one of the main drivers of such storms we will undergo others during the summer since it looks hotter than normal.

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IMAGES SHOCK OF COWS IN PORTHOLE

Shocking and chilling eyes: they are called porthole cows, their flanks are perforated with a hole six inches in diameter and closed by a flapper. Here is what we discover with horror on the new shock video of the animal rights association L214, filmed in hidden camera and commented by the host of France Télévisions, Nagui. He tells :

"Employees come to open the porthole to come and deposit samples or take samples." The "fistulation", the name of this process invented in the nineteenth century, allows through openings 15 to 20 centimeters in diameter to access the rumen, one of the four stomachs of the animal. On the images we see operators in blouses introduce their hands inside the stomach of several "guinea pigs".

"During experimentation, you can open and close their portholes 6 times within 48 hours to take samples. Not to mention the installation of the porthole, an invasive operation that generates postoperative pain and requires taking medication for several days - antibiotics for two weeks according to a center operator, "writes the NGO. The cows, they are stored in premises without straw, even their droppings. These experiments are carried out in the farm of Sourche (Sarthe).
An experimental center of the Avril group: the diet is tested to increase the productivity of farm animals.

"Illegal" practices

Today, L214 denounces inhumane conditions. "We complain, because these experiments are illicit, the regulation is quite precise and sets a framework. Experiments on animals must be done in a context of strict necessity, "says Sébastien Arsac.

Of course, the agribusiness group Avril, which produces 25% of the eggs consumed in France, one in eight pigs and one out of four rabbits that end up on the plates, has since reacted via a statement: "This process is used worldwide exclusively. for research purposes. It is accompanied by extremely rigorous veterinary monitoring and is currently the only solution to study the digestion of plant proteins. "

Certainly society wants by 2025 to replace these methods by others, called "alternatives", but pending the abuse on animals must be denounced, what the association did in filing a complaint.

"Deeply shocked," Nagui calls for "putting an end to this race for performance that is detrimental to the health of animals and our health. Let's stop these experiments. "

L214 also posted a petition "for the ban of these zootechnical experiments".

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TRAGIC DEATH OF THE MAGICIAN WHO DID IMMERSED IN THE GANGE

"If I can free myself, it will be magic. If I fail, it will be tragic, "said Chanchal Lahiri, before being immersed chained in the Ganges.

The body of the Indian illusionist Chanchal Lahiri, who had been immersed in the Ganges chained to prove that he could escape quickly, in the manner of Houdini, was found in the river, Monday, June 17, In the evening.

Harry Houdini was an American stuntman of Hungarian origin, famous in particular for a feat in 1912 in New York, where he had freed himself from his bonds while he was immersed in the East River.

Tragic denouement therefore for the brave magician who had been immersed chained in the Ganges. He wanted to prove that he could escape quickly, in the manner of Houdini, from his cage.

But he was found in the river Monday night, police said. Chanchal Lahiri, known by his stage name "Jadugar Mandrake" ("The magician Mandrake"), had been missing since Sunday.

He was plunged into the river by a crane in front of family members, the media and police gathered on the banks. But the 40-year-old man had never recovered and the authorities had launched a search. "If I can free myself, it will be magical" Leaving a glass cage 21 years ago

Before his attempt, Deceives Death had explained that he had achieved this same trick in a more difficult version 21 years ago, at the same place. "I was chained inside a glass cage and was thrown into the water from Howrah Bridge. It took me 29 seconds to get out, "he said.

Chanchal Lahiri had recounted the escape from the glass cage in 2013, but was attacked by the public who had been able to see the door of the age.

He admitted, however, that it would be more difficult this time: "If I can free myself, it will be magic. If I can not do it, it will be tragic. He did not succeed this time in deceiving death.

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WHEN THE CHILDREN OF PRIESTS COME OUT OF THE SHADOW IN FRANCE

"It is important for me to listen to those children of silence who express suffering, and to understand this question through their eyes. This is not a taboo issue.

When we meet them, we recognize them. We wish to repeat to them that the good of the child and of the mother must prevail and that the priest must abandon his ministry to formally assume his child so that he can perceive himself as a child of love.

I also wish to move with them towards a charter of the Church of France defining the ways to act in these situations. "

The Conference of Bishops of France is organizing, Thursday, June 13, an unprecedented meeting between children of priests and several bishops.

Soon the recognition of the Church?

Many of these "children of silence" recount their need for recognition and their suffering related to the weight of secrecy. They have all experienced a deep trauma of the severe silence of the Church and the humiliation of others as a "child of dishonor".

These "children of silence" never completely undo the wounds and unspoken of their childhood are in search of their origin.

AT insi, daughter of a nun and a priest, Anne-Marie Mariani-Jarzac, president of the association Enfants du silence, went in search of her origins for her children. This 68-year-old Catholic practitioner recalls her healing through the listening and compassion of a priest:

"I understood that I existed in the eyes of God and that he loved me as I am. Too many priest children suffer while we are not responsible for our history. "

"The good of the child and the mother must prevail"

For Bishop Jérôme Beau, Archbishop of Bourges "The good of the child and the mother must prevail"

Certainly the priests of the Catholic Church commit themselves to celibacy and chastity.

And if some have children, the church is clear: it must "act for the sake of the child" by abandoning the priesthood and assuming it, so that it grows by its side.

If today the bishops do not yet know what will happen to this dialogue that begins their line is that of Rome: "If we learn that a priest is a father, it is obvious that he must leave the clerical state to assume his paternity "

The bishops also say they are ready to offer specific support, drawing from a fund for priests who leave their ministry.

"I think we can, for example, set up an operating charter worked together" with Enfants du silence, said Bishop Beau.

Other meetings are planned in September.

Jaimie Potts for DayNewsWorld

PROSTITUTION ON SOCIAL NETWORKS

AND LOVERBOYS

Prostitution is invading social networks. The Internet has "eaten street prostitution" which only concerns a marginal fringe. This is confirmed by a study by the Fondation Scelles: "prostitution and sexual exploitation on the internet appear as a scourge in full expansion". The report, unveiled this June, denounces the diversion of new technologies for the benefit of prostitution 2.0. Whatsapp, Tinder, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Airbnb, rare applications to escape, says the study.

Two-thirds of prostitution on the internet

The Scelles Foundation, which mentions a note from the French Ministry of the Interior dated May 2018, points out that "for the first time in 2017, the percentage of identified victims exercising on public roads was lower than that of victims exercising" in prostitution. lodged ", in apartments or hotels. ". In France, this new form of prostitution represents "two-thirds of prostitution".

Of the 35 countries in the spotlight, the same report is alarming: pimps use Whatsapp to communicate with each other and with prostitutes, they spot their prey on Instagram and bait the customers via classified ads on the web.

All countries are affected

For example, a Russian pimp was arrested in 2016 for leading a prostitution ring in Lebanon and throughout the Middle East via Whatsapp, whose encryption makes it difficult for the authorities to monitor it. In Israel, "Tinder is today the most used tool for finding prostitutes," the report said.

The phenomenon of loverboys and cities

This international observatory also noted the recent emergence in France of a new form of exploitation: "loverboys", which is part of the trafficking of underage girls.

The phenomenon was first spotted in the Netherlands, and settled in Germany. Today, it is anchored in France. The "loverboys" are young men, in their twenties in general. They seduce girls even younger, usually minor. They create the illusion of a love story. They set a situation of emotional and financial dependence. And end up prostituting them. This phase is often accompanied by physical violence.

In France, girls, often minors, are identified on Snapchat or Instagram, before being prostituted in apartments rented on the Airbnb platform and transformed into "brothels ephemeral".

Yves Charpenel, president of the Fondation Scelles and Chief Advocate General at the Court of Cassation, also points out: "City prostitution is in full upsurge, accounting for around 20% of human trafficking in France. (...) It goes on the Internet and takes place out of sight. Girls are prostitutes in apartments, hotel rooms. It is also the reign of terror, omerta, victims do not usually complain. No need to bring "girls" from Africa or South America, the raw material is on site in the city, at hand. We are in French-French. "

"The digital facilitates the concealment, anonymity and discretion that allow to develop illegal activities," says the Foundation. "From the same computer, a criminal network can identify its future prostitutes, bring customers and launder money," summarizes Yves Charpenel, magistrate and president of the Foundation.

Difficult, sometimes, for the authorities to characterize this pimping which slips in the sites of classified advertisements behind ambiguous messages, promising "massages", "moments of escape" or even "to take a shower after".

Stop the phenomenon.

"Prostitution generates so much profit that it sweeps everywhere. We need to make platforms more accountable, "said Mr Charpenel. However, the report notes "significant milestones".

In France, the website Vivastreet, targeted by a survey for "aggravated pimping," decided in June 2018 to suspend its "Meetings" section, to prevent "any abuse" or "inappropriate use" of "certain users".

In the United States, the adoption in March 2018 by the Congress of a law putting an end to the impunity of the websites letting prostitution ads run has allowed the closure of the "Backpage" site, sometimes presented by its detractors like the the world's first prostitution site.

"A real governance of the internet remains to be built," says Fondation Scelles.

Paul Emison for DayNewsWorld

DISCOVERY OF RARISSIMES COINS

The archaeologists from Dijon made this discovery last January, on the occasion of an archaeological diagnosis carried out before the construction of a building.

Thirty gold and silver coins, some of them "rare", had been hidden by their owner at the end of the Middle Ages under an opulent house in Dijon. These pieces from several European countries have just been found.

The archaeologists of Dijon Inrap (National Institute of Preventive Archaeological Research) made this discovery last January in the heart of the capital of Burgundy, close to the old abbey Saint Benigne, on the occasion of an archaeological diagnosis realized before the construction of a building. "A small nest egg with a wedding medallion", buried at the end of the 15th century under the soil of a house that "perhaps belonged to a little aristocrat or a bourgeois with a little enriched", explained the archaeologist Stéphane Alix, Head of Operations at Inrap.

These coins "tell the story of the merchant bourgeoisie and the small aristocracy at the end of the 15th century in Dijon," which was at the end of the Middle Ages the capital of a powerful duchy "that had connections from the Northern Italy to northern Europe. With this sum, "a small craftsman or a worker from Dijon would have lived a long time. But for a merchant who lives in luxury, it is a secondary savings, "says the archaeologist.

Documents issued between 1432 and 1492

The discovery of these 34 coins, ten in gold, the rest in silver, was announced as a prelude to the National Days of Archeology to be held from June 14 to 16 in France and other European countries. The oldest is a currency of Brabant (today in Belgium) issued between 1432 and 1467. The majority of coins come from states of the Holy Roman Empire or Italian principalities. When they were discovered, they were slightly spread out and stuck together. They were in a small, modest bronze box, some of which remains. "The pile remained as it was laid by the burier. She had kept the shape of the box (and) the gesture of the burner at the time he put the coins, "he continues.

To take off and clean the precious metal discs, Inrap used a specialized laboratory, the Center for Restoration and Municipal Archeology in Vienna, in the Isère. Swiss coins then appeared, one formally dating back to 1494. This is the most recent coin and is an essential clue to understanding the history of this monetary deposit.

Coins Signs of the Power of the Lords

These coins often testify, especially among Italian princes, of a strong personalization of iconography, inherited partly from the codes of the Roman Empire. This iconographic revival participates in the styles of the Italian Renaissance. They are also often heavy pieces, which show the power of these lords and their desire to make them reference currencies.

At that time, the King of France Charles VIII, had banned foreign currencies which he hoped to recover the precious metal to finance his wars. All these pieces, made of pure silver or with a very high gold ratio, had therefore been hidden for their metallic value. "Unwittingly, the burier of this deposit has preserved" pieces that are today, for archaeologists, "a small sample of the monetary landscape of the late 15th century and a catalog of the great princes who are warring at that time "in Europe, says Pascal Listrat.

Other discoveries

On the same site, but at a greater depth, the Dijon archaeologists have also found sarcophagi, vestiges of a necropolis of the 4th century whose existence was until then only supposed. Their discoveries will be presented during the "ball of vestiges" on June 15 in Dijon, one of the events organized in the card of national days of archeology by Inrap, which provides more than a thousand events in France including visits to excavation sites.

The currencies, which are the property of the State, will not be presented on this occasion, but are intended to be exposed to the public at the archaeological museum of Dijon.

Alyson Braxton for DayNewsWorld

THE FELLOW OF PHILOSOPHY MICHEL SERRES

Le philosophe français et auteur de nombreux ouvrages, Michel Serres, est décédé.

« Il est mort très paisiblement à 19h entouré de sa famille », a déclaré son éditrice Sophie Bancquart.

L'ancien officier de marine, qui a sillonné l'Atlantique et la Méditerranée et participé comme enseigne de vaisseau à la réouverture du canal de Suez, s'était tourné vers l'enseignement à la fin des années 50. Avec la volonté de s'affranchir des frontières des disciplines universitaires.

Passionné notamment par l'écologie et l'éducation, l'académicien s'est intéressé à toutes les formes du savoir, anticipant les bouleversements liés aux nouvelles technologies de la communication.

Voyageur de la pensée

Ecrivain et historien des sciences, passionné notamment par l'écologie et l'éducation, ce membre de l'Académie française s'est intéressé à toutes les formes du savoir, scientifique comme littéraire, anticipant les bouleversements liés aux nouvelles technologies de la communication. L'académicien, était aussi professeur à l'université californienne de Stanford. C'est dans cette université californienne qu'en septembre 1981, un colloque sur « l'auto-organisation » avait été organisé, dont Michel Serres fut le conférencier vedette

En 2012, Petite Poucette (clin d'oeil à la maestria avec laquelle certains utilisent leurs pouces pour taper sur leurs portables) se vendit à plus de 270.000 exemplaires. « Voyageur infatigable de la pensée », comme le décrit sur son site internet Le Pommier, son éditeur de longue date, Michel Serres est l'auteur de quelque 80 ouvrages et continuait de publier régulièrement ces dernières années.

Son dernier livre, Morales espiègles, était paru en février. Invité de « Questions politiques » sur France inter dimanche dernier, il disait à propos de ce livre vouloir éviter de paraître « donneur de leçons ». « S'il y a une voie pour un signal moral, c'est le rire », ajoutait ce philosophe que le grand public a également pu écouter dans des chroniques dominicales à la radio pendant plusieurs années.

« Nous vivons une période exceptionnelle de l'histoire », disait cet éternel optimiste.

Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld

EXPLOSION IN A PLANT MAY 79 INJURED IN RUSSIA

According to the Russian news agency Interfax, an explosion took place in a factory in Dzerzhinsk, located 400 kilometers from Moscow. Seventy-nine people were wounded on Saturday at a major explosives factory in central Russia, according to a new report by the Russian authorities.

A previous report reported 42 wounded. The explosion took place in the Kristall factory in Dzerzhinsk, a town about 400 kilometers east of Moscow in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Five buildings at the plant and nearly 180 residential buildings were damaged by the explosion, according to municipal authorities.

"According to the latest information, 79 people have asked for medical assistance after the explosion in Kristall: 38 factory workers and 41 residents of the city. There are no children among the wounded, "the ministry of health said in a statement. Fifteen people were hospitalized, including one in serious condition, according to the same source. No deaths are to be deplored.

Shrapnel Fragments

The wounded were hit by fragments of shrapnel, said a spokesman for the health authorities quoted by the agency Interfax. "We are talking about shrapnel injuries of moderate and moderate severity," she said. According to Kristall officials, five people were working in the area where the explosion occurred and were successfully evacuated.

"There was an explosion in one of the workshops, followed by a fire that spread over a hundred square meters," said an emergency services spokesman quoted by Russian agencies.

An investigation for potential breaches of security standards has been opened.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

FEMEN PUNCH OPERATION IN PARIS

Almost 60 Femen have invested the Palais-Royal court to pay homage to the 60 women murdered since the beginning of the year in France.

Some sixty activists of the Femen movement briefly invested Thursday morning the courtyard of the monument of the Palais Royal, in the heart of Paris, to "pay homage" to some 60 women "murdered" since the beginning of the year in France and denounce "The indifference of the government".

Arrived at the scene at 11am, the bare-breasted activists remained perched ten minutes on the famous columns of Buren in this courtyard, first silent and fists lifted, then cracking pink smoke before chanting:

"To murdered women, the homeland indifferent", "Not one more!" And "Stop feminicide!".

Slogans then resumed during their quick exit to the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre Museum, where activists quickly dispersed, under the watchful eye of the few tourists present in the late morning cloud.

"Raise awareness of society"

On their breasts, they had painted in black the names of the women killed in France since January 1st:

"Gaëlle stabbed 6 months pregnant", "Josette shot dead", "Chantal beaten to death", "Celine defenestrated with her baby 3 months" ...

A symbolic action, supposed to "create an open-air pantheon to pay tribute to them", according to the Ukrainian Inna Shevchenko, figurehead of the Femen movement.

Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld

PARCEL TRAPS ALL A SUSPECTED FAMILY

The suspect of the attack in Lyon, his parents and his little brother were arrested on Monday morning.

A search was conducted at the home of the suspect.

The father of the young man suspected of filing a parcel bomb in a busy street of Lyon on Friday, was also arrested Monday and placed in custody, said the Paris prosecutor.

The arrest brings to four the number of people in custody at this stage in the investigation of the explosion of a parcel bomb that made 13 casualties Friday in Lyon.

In addition to the young man "suspected of being the author of the facts", an Algerian aged 24, according to the prosecution, his mother and another member of his family - a senior high school student of Algerian nationality

have already been placed on guard at sight.

The sister of the first is also interviewed by the police but in the context of a free hearing, according to the same source.

An investigation was opened on Friday for "attempted murders in connection with a terrorist company and criminal terrorist criminal conspiracy.»

Carl Delsey  for DayNewsWorld

EVEREST KILLS

The high season of Everest lasts from the end of April to the end of May. At this time, the weather offers a short window of less extreme conditions in these icy and unfit heights.

Many seasoned mountaineers climb it to reach the highest peak in the world.

Nearly 1000 climbers expected this year

This year, Nepal has issued a record 381 licenses for the spring season, mostly to foreign mountaineers at a unit price of $ 11,000. Each holder of a permit being accompanied by a guide, this means that about 750 people start on the same track in a few weeks.

As of Friday, some 600 people had already climbed Everest through the Nepalese route, according to a government official based on information from expedition organizers.

At least 140 others have been allowed to climb Everest from the northern flank in Tibet, according to expedition operators.

In total, the number of Mountaineers on Everest could this year surpass last year's record which had seen 807 people reach the summit to reach the thousand.

But Everest kills.

The high season is in full swing on the 8,848-m mountain, to the point where there are queues of mountaineers near the summit. These "death zone" congestion (altitude above 8,000 m) are designated as the cause of at least four of the ten deaths that have occurred in recent days, and raise fears that profit will outweigh security.

Profit before security?

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

FRENCH JUSTICE ACKNOWLEDGES A MOTHER OF INTENT FOR CHILDREN OF  SURROGACY

The tribunal big instance of Nantes on Thursday acknowledged the "mother of intent" of a child born abroad surrogacy, announced Friday the family lawyer, who spoke of an evolution "Unpublished" in the recognition of maternal affiliation.

The young woman is the biological mother of the child, but she has not carried it in her womb or birth.

"The French courts have ruled that maternal affiliation can be recognized in French law when it is shown that the child born abroad under surrogacy is born from the gametes of the French mother who has not yet given birth. Said Matthias Pujos, the couple's lawyer and their three-year-old daughter.

The child born to a surrogate mother in Orlando, United States, thus obtains the right to be registered on the French civil status, with the name of his biological father, American citizen, and that of his mother known as intention, ordered the court of Nantes in a judgment of May 23, 2019.

This recognition also allows the child to benefit from French nationality, otherwise it could "be deprived of links with his birth mother in case of separation of parents or death of the father," said the court.

Although the use of surrogates remains prohibited in France, changes have occurred in recent years to better recognize children born abroad of a surrogacy, favored by several convictions of France by the European Court of Human Rights. On April 10, 2019, the ECHR found that filiation should be recognized for the "mother of intent" who desired and raised the child. But this does not require the transcription of birth certificates, she said, suggesting the use of adoption.

It is therefore the best interest of the child that is placed above all else.

Kelly Donaldson for DayNewsWorld

LYON FRANCE EXPLOSION OF A PIECE PACKAGE
MAKES AT LEAST 13 INJURED

An explosion took place this Friday, May 24 in downtown Lyon France, which was completed.

Emmanuel Macron spoke of "an attack".

A man is actively sought.

A parcel bomb exploded rue Victor-Hugo, a pedestrian street in the center of Lyon, between Place Bellecour and Gare de Lyon-Perrache, in front of a bakery "Golden Brioche", around 17:40 this Friday, May 24.

There would be thirteen light ones, in "relative urgency," including an eight-year-old girl.

It would be a parcel bomb loaded with bolts and screws, according to the floor.

The neighborhood was cordoned off by the police. A demining team is on site. Two minutes before the explosion, a man who was riding a bicycle dropped a bag in front of the Brioche Dorée, according to the newspaper Lyonnais. He is actively sought.

The Lyon public prosecutor's office opened an investigation for "attempted murder.»

Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

PEDOPHILES NETWORK UNDERGONE BY INTERPOL

Interpol announced Thursday that it has dismantled an international network of pedophiles connected to the "dark web". An operation that has already led to the arrest of nine people in Thailand, Australia and the United States.

This operation was launched in 2017 after the discovery of child pornography on a subscription site of the dark web bringing together nearly 63,000 members.

It also helped "save 50 children," the organization adds, without specifying their age or nationality. Investigators from several countries, seized by Interpol, analyzed material published on this site showing abuses perpetrated against eleven boys, all under the age of 13. The analysis also helped locate IP addresses in Thailand, Australia, and the United States.

For its part, the anti-cybercrime department of Bulgaria has disabled the server of this site on which "for several years new material was put online each week," says Interpol.

Among nine suspects arrested, the main administrator of the site, based in Thailand, was identified as the author of the abuse against the eleven boys, among whom was his nephew.

Another site administrator residing in Australia has been arrested in possession of thousands of child pornography documents filmed in Thailand and Australia. In these images, he was often the main perpetrator of child abuse, one of whom was only 15 months old at the time, says Interpol.

In the United States, "several arrests involve people in positions of trust, as well as an individual who abused his half-brother two years old," said the regional attaché of the Ministry of Homeland Security (HSI ) in Bangkok Eric McLoughlin, quoted by Interpol.

The investigation, which still mobilizes nearly 60 member countries of the police organization, could continue for several years as the ramifications of this network are numerous and extensive.

Carl Delsey for Daynewsworld

OUTSIDE OF CORSICA DISCOVERING AN ISLAND

PLASTIC WASTE

An island made up of several thousand tons of plastic waste is currently drifting in the Mediterranean off Corsica. This thick sheet of several kilometers of plastic waste is made between the island of Elba and Corsica, as France Bleu reported.

This is not the first time that such a pile of waste is drifting in the sector, explains François Galgani, head of Ifremer (French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea). Consisting of several thousand tons of garbage, algae and mosses, this "artificial island" drifts with the currents.

This is a fairly recurrent phenomenon in this part of the Mediterranean. "This phenomenon of concentration is chronic in the channel of Corsica, explains François Galgani. Wind-driven currents favor these areas of waste accumulation over short periods of time. "

But unlike permanent plastic concentrations in other maritime areas such as the Pacific or the Atlantic, this "waste island" will only last a few days or even a few weeks at most. "These are areas of temporary accumulations, of the order of a few days or weeks, a maximum of two or three months, but never permanent," according to the head of Ifremer.

The Mediterranean remains one of the most polluted seas in the world, with 95% of plastic waste.

The plastic islands are numerous in the world. As early as 1997, oceanographer Charles Moore had discovered a gigantic floating dump between Hawaii and California. nicknamed the "7th continent of plastic", covering a surface three times as big as France.

Globally, a 2014 PLoS One study estimates that more than 5 billion plastic objects are floating in our oceans, amounting to more than 250,000 tonnes.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

CASE VINCENT LAMBERT WRITE ITS

LAST MEDICAL WILL

In the painful case of Vincent Lambert and a family that has been torn apart for ten years, the Minister of Health has invited the French to publicize their advance directives, that is to say, their last wishes regarding the end of life.

Agnès Buzyn has indeed raised , Tuesday, May 21, the case of Vincent Lambert tetraplegic in a vegetative state, in the heart of a judicial battle on the end of life, during questions to the government in the National Assembly. "For this situation to not happen again, we must all meet our advance directives," she said.

Scheduled under the Leonetti law of 2005 and confirmed in the Claeys-Leonetti law of 2016, the so-called "advance directives" allows any adult to make a written declaration, in order to specify his wishes concerning his end of life .

The law, while prohibiting euthanasia and assisted suicide, allows for the suspension of treatment in certain situations. The person concerned, sick or not, indicates whether they prefer to initiate, limit or stop treatments or medical procedures in the event of a "definitive loss" of consciousness.

In France, the document can be found under the name of "advance directives" for example on the website of the Ministry of Health or on the website of the Association for the right to die with dignity (ADMD). One can also write his last wishes on free paper. Anyone of full age can write advance directives, provided that they include their identity, the date of the day and sign the document. If the person can not write, they can have it written by someone in the presence of two witnesses. An adult under guardianship must draft it with the permission of the judge or family council.

This document allows, if necessary, to the medical team, the time comes to make a decision on the care to give if the person can no longer express his wishes.

"Advance directives" are binding on health professionals who can only derogate from them "in the event of a vital emergency, the time necessary for a complete assessment of the situation" or when the latter wishes appear "manifestly inappropriate or inconsistent with the situation". medical ".

According to the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE), only 13% of French people have already drafted their advance directives.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

CASE VINCENT LAMBERT A FAMILY DRAMA

The scheduled death of Vincent Lambert, whose salaries had been stopped Monday, before the Paris Court of Appeals overturned this decision, plunged into a deep unease. The latter has been in a vegetative state for ten years, after being the victim of a road accident in 2008.

Everyone feels concerned by the family tragedy that is played around Vincent Lambert, each of us may be after an accident, like him, totally dependent on the care of those around him.

In late April, European justice had paved the way for the cessation of care of this nurse of 42 years, hospitalized in Reims in a vegetative state for ten years.

And the umpteenth rebound last night: the Paris Court of Appeal overrules the decision that the doctor could launch the protocol for stopping care.

The Paris Court of Appeal "ordered the French State (...) to take all measures to enforce the provisional measures requested by the International Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CIDPH) on 3 May 2019 maintaining the nutrition and hydration "of Vincent Lambert. Between the stop of the care Monday and the recovery this Tuesday, this last one will have lived without being hydrated and feeding during one day.

This is the third time a procedure for stopping care has been interrupted. The CHRU of Reims had already launched and stopped two procedures of stopping care, one carried by Dr. Eric Kariger in 2013, the other by his successor, Dr. Daniéla Simon, in 2015.

It's been ten years since his family accompanied him but did not agree on his wishes: for some, Vincent Lambert would not have wanted to live like this, so they want to stop care; for the others, it is not so. It is also ten years since the medical profession has also been divided:

some say it is a relentless therapeutic, others say it is not end of life but severely handicapped. On the legal side, the latest decisions argued in favor of stopping care. The protocol for stopping care was therefore launched Monday, May 20 in the morning

But last week, the United Nations Committee for the Protection of Persons with Disabilities asked France to suspend any decision to stop care for Vincent Lambert, time to study the case on the merits. Putting forward "unreasonable obstinacy", the decisions of the Council of State and the European Court of Human Rights, France refused.

"Why this haste to want to lead him to death? "Asks the Bioethics Group of Bishops, led by Bishop d'Ornellas.

Has France not signed the Convention for the Disabled? In so doing, it has committed to prevent "any discriminatory refusal to provide care [...] for food or liquids because of a disability". The bishops question: "Does not he have the right to be nourished and hydrated [...] since these are basic care to which every human being is entitled? Every disabled person, no matter how fragile, has equal rights to other people. "

"Why would the State which puts its honor in the respect of the rights of the man would avoid the respect of this convention for Vincent Lambert? This drama is not likely to be a dangerous precedent? "Who will guarantee that all persons sharing a disability similar to his own will be effectively protected by the State which, while officially committing itself to it, would flout today its commitment? Ask the bishops.

Vincent Lambert is not alone. In France, 1,500 people live in this way and the decision to stop caring for Vincent Lambert could mean that the law would allow a person who is a disabled person to die. Because in this case, the cessation of care means the death of Vincent Lambert.

The French State has six months to provide the Committee with its observations. The Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, said that France would "take into account what the UN says and we will answer them. And to specify that these experts "have only the version of the parents".

This request of the committee, which respects the UN law, does not prejudge in any way the admissibility of the file, nor of the decision of the CIDPH on the substance.

"This opinion is not mandatory from the point of view of international law, but the UN committees seek to impose it, explains Sophie Grosbon. States generally demonstrate goodwill. Otherwise, they would undermine any authority of the committee ».

Paul Emison for DayNewsWorld

KISS YOUR COW

To kiss a cow for a good cause ?

This is a new internet challenge that could entertain us. The #KuhKussChallenge was launched on Wednesday, May 15th by the Swiss Castl website for a German-speaking audience in Germany, Switzerland and Austria; It is about kissing cows ("with or without the tongue")! The goal: to raise funds for humanitarian purposes.

An initiative for a noble cause, but which is not to the liking of the Austrian authorities. And for good reason: in Austria fatal accidents involving cattle and walkers are not uncommon and the cohabitation between tourism and mountain breeding is a matter of state.

No wonder the challenge of the kiss to the cow is strongly disavowed Thursday by the Austrian authorities.

"Such a challenge is really stupid and dangerous," responded Agriculture Minister Elisabeth Köstinger, warning of the "serious consequences" he could have.

Bovid is dangerous

And the director of Veterinary Services of the Tyrol (West), Josef Kössler, to point out that it could be "very dangerous" to approach cows "that we do not know", especially if they are accompanied by young.

The cohabitation between walkers and animals is a most sensitive subject in the Alpine regions of Austria, where tourism and livestock are the two main teats of economic activity.

In February, a court provoked consternation by condemning a Tyrolean breeder to pay several hundred thousand euros in damages to the relatives of a German tourist killed in 2014 by a herd of suckler cows that she had tried to cross with his dog. The breeder has appealed. A "code of good conduct" recommends that walkers avoid approaching cows on alpine pastures.

"Initiatives such as this challenge go against our efforts to live together on alpine pastures," Köstinger said on Thursday.

Emily Jackson for DayNewsWorld

SUMMIT IN PARIS AGAINST ONLINE VIOLENCE

AND CHRISTCHURCH'S CALL FOR REGULATING

THE INTERNET

On Wednesday  May 15 2019, Emmanuel Macron and Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's premier, jointly present from Paris the "Christchurch Appeal" against online violent extremism.

The Elysee will bring together both heads of state and government such as King Abdullah of Jordan, Senegalese President Macky Sall or Britain's Theresa May, and bosses of the digital giants, including Google, Twitter and Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Facebook, was received Friday by the head of state to discuss ways to combat hate content.

Their common concern?

"Ask countries and major digital companies to act against terrorism and violent extremism online," says the Elysee.

We remember that during the attack of March 15, a man murdered fifty people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and was able to retransmit the images live on Facebook. And the spread of these images of hate lasted seventeen minutes without anything hampering it.

How can we prevent the recurrence on Facebook of live broadcasts of horrifying and hateful videos like the one on March 15?

This Wednesday, Facebook announces, along with "The Call of Christchurch", measures to limit the live broadcast of images of attacks, murders, suicide, rape or torture

Indeed the social network announces first that it restricts the functionality "Facebook Live" for people who have violated rules of moderation. "For example, someone who shares a link to a terrorist group release without a contextual element will immediately be banned from using" Facebook Live "for a specified period of time. "A measure that is intended only as limited in time and only those who have already broken the rules of Facebook ...

These discussions come as France is working on a law that would require social networks to remove the contents reported within 24 hours, under penalty of a large fine. Paris wants to promote such regulation at European level. With this in mind, Secretary of State for Digital Cédric O Wednesday gathered his G7 colleagues to discuss a draft charter on hate content on the Internet. Also tackle the copies of these videos.

In the case of Christchurch the video has been downloaded, copied to continue circulating on Facebook and other platforms like YouTube, which have struggled to make them disappear. Facebook had announced that it had eliminated 1.5 million copies in 24 hours. But sometimes modified versions of the massacre (only excerpts, cropping, text additions ...) made their detection difficult for our systems, "said Facebook.

To address this problem, the company will invest in research to develop more efficient technologies to automatically detect modified copies of videos. Partnerships are planned with researchers from the universities of Maryland, Cornell and Berkeley, "for a total of $ 7.5 million," says Facebook, or 6.7 million euros.

While these measures may limit the negative impacts of live image broadcasting, they are still largely inadequate.

That's why unlike many of the big bosses of Silicon Valley, Mark Zuckerberg calls for the intervention of the authorities in the regulation of large Internet platforms.

Paul Emison for DayNewsWorld

AN AI WHO DETECTS BREAST CANCER

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed an artificial intelligence that can detect breast cancer up to five years before its formation, regardless of the patient's skin color.

An analysis of a simple mammogram would suffice. To achieve this result, researchers analyzed data from more than 60,000 patients from Massachusetts General Hospital, the MIT website says. As the images used were taken several years ago, the researchers were able to machine-learn which mammograms corresponded to women who developed breast cancer and who had no evidence of cancer. A crucial step for artificial intelligence that has been able to analyze and deduce markers of potentially cancerous cells.

It is also a major medical and technological advance since, in addition to predicting breast cancer at an early stage, artificial intelligence is able to take into account the racial disparities of patients, which was not the case before. . "It is particularly striking that the model works on both black and white patients, which was not the case with previous risk assessment tools," says Dr. Allison Kurian, a researcher who worked on the project.

Despite significant screening campaigns 54,000 new people are affected each year by breast cancer in France, making it the most common cancer in women.

Although the algorithm is still in its infancy, researchers and doctors hope to soon deploy it on a larger scale to prevent breast cancer, the fifth most deadly cancer.

"If validated and made available for widespread use, it could actually improve our current risk estimation strategies," says Dr. Allison Kurian.

Andrew Preston for DayNewsWorld

SCANDALE AT MONSANTO OR THE SECRET FILE OF PERSONALITIES BASED ON THEIR SUPPORT FOR GLYPHOSATE

Has the Monsanto group secretly stuck "hundreds of personalities" in France according to their position on pesticides and glyphosate in particular ?

This is what last night said "The Eye of the 20 Hours", the investigative unit of the France 2 news that says it has received "confidential" computer files bearing the signature of communication agencies working for the Monsanto group.

For years, the use of glyphosate, Monsanto's herbicide suspected to be a carcinogen, has been controversial. Monsanto has put in place customized lobbying strategies to influence opinion leaders in the public debate on this controversial molecule.

In fact, confidential documents reveal not only opinion leaders but also personalized lobbying strategies.

A 2016 document bearing the logo of Monsanto and the French advertising giant, Publicis ranks the main players in the debate on pesticides in France according to their degree of support for Monsanto and their influence.

If the executive chairman of Publicis Consultants, Clément Léonarduzzi claims to discover that his company has participated in a file of personalities, he says however that only data open access were used.

A second communication agency, Fleishman Hillard would have used in 2016 another file according to France 2, gathering including private addresses or the phone numbers of some 200 personalities.

Monsanto's personalities have not only been rated from one to five. They are also the target of personalized lobbying strategies. Among the documents received by L'Œil du 20 heures is a list called "Glyphosate target" which lists 74 priority targets divided into four groups:

the "allies", the "potential allies to recruit", the "educate" and the "watchdog" stakeholders. A personalized action plan is built for each target likely to become proglyphosate, be it a one-on-one meeting, a sending of educational tools ... as well as individualized comments and the focus of interest (Golf, tennis, hunting).

On the other hand, it is indeed strategies of marginalization that are put in place for the classified personalities to watch. Black and white figure on the document the need to "isolate" Ségolène Royal, at the time Minister of the Environment, and in favor of a ban on glyphosate.

Which did not fail to make her react. "This is a very important discovery, because it proves that there are objective strategies to demolish loud voices," she said.

Nicolas Hulot resigning from his post as Minister of the environment did he not point out the harmful role of lobbies?

According to the law, every registered citizen must be informed.

However, of the forty or so people listed who agreed to respond to the requests of the Eye of the 20 hours, none was aware of having been stuck in this way.

Holding an illegal listing is punishable by five years in prison and a fine of 300,000 euros.

"It says a lot about the methods of lobbyists: they do espionage, infiltration, sometimes financial influence I imagine, and therefore the interest of updating this mechanism is also to show and to be able to fight the methods of the perfectly harmful lobbies ", affirms Ségolène Royal, who was minister at the time this file was realized, in 2016.

Garett Skyport for DayNewsWorld

DEATH IN SERIES OF BABYS EMPEROR PENGUIN

Black series for babies of an emperor penguin colony: almost all chicks born in one of the largest colony of emperor penguins died due to the melting of their habitat in the past three years, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature. This is a catastrophic finding for emperor penguins.

The Halley colony in the Antarctic Weddell Sea was the second largest emperor penguin colony in the world, with up to 25,000 breeding pairs each year.

But satellite images studied by the British Antarctic Research Center (BAS) have shown that in 2016, a year marked by particularly hot and stormy weather, the ice on which pairs of penguins raise their young has melted what has caused the death of almost all chicks, according to a statement.

This requirement to have a solid icy ground has become a critical issue for this colony.

Indeed, from 2015, the sea ice has been disrupted by strong storms resulting in a particularly intense phenomenon known as El Niño: the seasonal warming of the Pacific Ocean, which changes global weather conditions, including end to the fishing season.

The phenomenon has been repeated in 2017 and 2018. The result is the near disappearance of this colony.

"We've been tracking the population of this colony and other colonies in the area over the past 10 years, using high-definition satellite imagery," said BAS's Peter Fretwell.

"These images have clearly shown a catastrophic failure in reproduction on this site these

According to BAS's expert, Phil Trathan, it is not possible to say without a doubt that the melting of Halley's Bay ice is linked to climate change. "But such a failure to reproduce on this site is unprecedented," he said.

The emperor, the biggest penguin, seems particularly vulnerable to climate change. Its populations, endemic to Antarctica, could decline by up to 70% by the end of the century.

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

OBESITY, A PROBLEM OF RURAL TERRITORIES

And if the global epidemic of obesity, this chronic disease, was more prevalent in rural areas than in cities ?
This is what a scientific study, published Wednesday a few days before the European Day of May 18 against obesity.

Increase in obesity in rural areas

"Obesity is growing faster in rural areas of the planet than in cities," says the team of researchers, led by Professor Majid Ezzati of Imperial College London. The researchers focused on the evolution of the body mass index (BMI) of 112 million adults from 200 countries between 1985 and 2017. This index is used to measure overweight and obesity. It is obtained by dividing the weight (in kilos) by the height (in meters) squared. Above 25 for an adult, one is overweight. From 30, we talk about obesity.

However, the study shows that during these 32 years, the BMI increased overall by 2 points for women and 2.2 for men, an increase of 5 kg to 6 kg per individual on average.

More than half of this increase comes from rural populations. "55% of this overall increase is due to the increase observed in rural areas," says the study of Imperial College London. In lower income countries, it is sometimes more than 80% of the increase in BMI that comes from rural areas.

In addition, during the same period, the average increase in BMI in rural areas was 2.1 points for both men and women, whereas it was only 1.3 for men. and 1.6 for women in cities. In rich countries, BMI was already higher in rural areas in 1985.

This pathology, which is now more prevalent in rural areas, stems from the phenomenon of "urbanization of rural life": easier access to industrial dishes and hypermarkets' sugary beverages, the consumption of which favors weight gain, and the mechanization of food. agriculture, which leads to a decline in physical activity.

Results: the populations of these areas have thus gone from a problem of undernutrition to a problem of malnutrition . "With the increase in their standard of living, these rural populations are facing a new challenge, which is no longer to provide enough food, but to provide food of good quality," says Professor Ezzati.

Review public health policies against obesity .

But "public health discourses tend to focus on the negative aspects of urban life," notes Professor Majid Ezzati, leaving the territories. And measures to combat overweight - promoting walking and cycling for example - also target urban dwellers.

It is therefore necessary to "rethink the way we respond to this global problem of public health" at a time when obesity has almost tripled in the world since 1975, affecting 650 million adults in 2016 and where nearly a quarter of the world's population will be obese in 2045, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Bad news when you know that obesity is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes or cancer.

Andrew Preston for DayNewsWorld

FRANCE INCOME TAX OR LESS TAX

FOR 95% OF THE TAXPAYERS

Finally, good news for taxpayers. "More than 95% of taxpayers" subject to income tax "will pay less tax" next year, ensures the Minister of Action and Public Accounts, Gerald Darmanin, in an interview with Parisian, Wednesday May 8th.

In response to the crisis of "yellow vests", the head of state announced among other measures a decrease of 5 billion euros in total, the income tax that specifies Gerald Darmanin in the columns of Parisian Wednesday, May 8th.

Nearly 95% of taxpayers subject to income tax will benefit from a tax cut next year, for an average amount of 300 euros per household, says the minister. "Almost all the people who pay the income tax - whether they are workers, employees, managers - will be affected," he said in the interview.

This tax cut will be greater for the middle classes than for those with higher incomes.

The income tax, which pays nearly 75 billion euros each year to the state, is currently paid by 16.8 million tax households out of a total of 38.3 million, less than 45% of taxpayers .

But this drop in income taxes should not affect the fiscal seriousness "We are holding our course of serious budget"

According to Gerald Darmanin, the tax cut of five billion euros promised to calm the anger of yellow vests will be offset by savings equivalent. "We are holding our course of serious budget and we will still be around 2% deficit next year, as expected," promises the minister.

To this end, it is planned to eliminate certain tax loopholes for companies and "reforms such as those of the Public Service, unemployment insurance, public broadcasting or measures that encourage people to work longer will enable us to do not dig the deficit, "says Gérald Darmanin .

Alyson Braxton for DayNewsWorld

CONVICTION OF JULIAN ASSANGE TO PRISON BY UK JUSTICE

Julian Assange, 47 years old, was sentenced Wednesday to fifty weeks of detention for violating the conditions of his parole on June 19, 2012:

he had fled to the London embassy in Ecuador, where he remained for almost seven years until his strong arrest on 11 April by the British police.

Judge Deborah Taylor Julian Assange felt that the Australian who tried to deliberately evade justice deserved a sentence

"Very close to the maximum prescribed by law", that is to say fifty-two weeks of detention.

The judge did not take into account the extenuating circumstances that the WikiLeaks founder's defense attempted to play except for the deterioration of her state of health during the seven years spent cloistered at the embassy.

The whistleblower also appeared Thursday, May 2 at a hearing on Washington's request to extradite him to the United States, where he is accused of "hacking".........

Jenny Chase for DayNewsWorld

TIGER MOSQUITOES ENVAIL FRANCE

Warning, the tiger mosquito is back in France and strong growth:

51 departments are placed in red vigilance (implanted and active tiger mosquito) by Vigilance Mosquitoes, 9 more than in 2018.

The implantation map of the Aedes albopictus, also called tiger mosquito -recognizable by its white stripes, is found gradually covered with red.

No more territory is in green vigilance, implying a simple health watch.

The southern regions are the most affected, but Paris and the small crown and Alsace are also affected by the presence of the insect.

Red vigilance is concerned with the following departments:

Charente-Maritime, Côte-d'Or, Loire, Nièvre, Puy-de-Dome, Paris, Seine-et-Marne, Essonne, Seine-Saint-Denis, Hauts-de-Seine, Aisne, Hautes-Alpes, Hautes- Pyrenees, Ariège, Lozère, Indre, Maine-et-Loire, Corrèze, Val-de-Marne, Lower Rhine, Haut-Rhin, Vendée, Saône-et-Loire, Rhône, Ain, Isère, Savoy, Alpes Haute Provence, Var, Alpes-Maritimes, Haute-Corse, Corse du Sud, Drome, Vaucluse, Bouches-du-Rhone, Ardeche, Gard, Herault, Aveyron, Tarn, Aude, Pyrenees-Orientales, Haute-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, Lot , Dordogne, Lot-et-Garonne, Gers, Gironde, Landes, Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

The tiger mosquito carries serious diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and to a lesser extent Zika, which are viral diseases in South America, among others. .

If no measure is 100% effective, there are ways to protect yourself from bites

The World Health Organization (WHO) provides several tips.

The most effective means of control is to remove areas where mosquitoes may grow - particularly stagnant water areas such as gutters.

For example, it is better to avoid getting out at dawn and dusk and wearing loose, full-body clothing.

During the night, it is recommended to sleep under a mosquito net, which can be impregnated with a mosquito repellent or in an air-conditioned room, or equipped with an insecticide diffuser.

It is advisable to use repellents containing one of the four recommended active ingredients (IR3535, Icaridin, Citriodil, or DEET).

"It's the sum of individual and collective measures that reduces transmission," says the Ministry of Health.

Emily Jackson for DayNewsWorld

FIRE OF OUR LADY OR MANY FAILURES OF SAFETY

Who is responsible for the fire of Notre-Dame de Paris ?

If the investigators privilege for the moment the thesis of the accident, it remains nonetheless that they discovered security flaws as revealed Le Canard chained.

First of all, the construction workers were smoking on the scaffolding while the regulation forbids it.

Seven butts were found on the scene. . On the other hand, the company assures that "in no case, a badly extinguished butt" is at the origin of the fire.

In addition, electrical wires ran in the attic which exposed the latter to "short circuits". Then the first fire alarm sounded around 6:15 pm and was considered a "false alarm".

The Elitys company security officer reported the smoke alarm to the manager and a security guard at the cathedral. They were sent to the rooftops and did not see anything.

Finally, they eventually locate the flames at the base of the arrow and warn the firefighters, 35 minutes after the first smoke alarm, against twenty minutes officially announced.

In addition the current of the three electrified bells would not have been extinguished at the end of the work.

And, while the fire plan, set up by the regional management of cultural affairs, provided for two supervisors for the security PC that was to operate 24 hours a day, only one agent was present and only from 8h to 23h.

Finally, the dry columns, connected outdoors to a water source, did not allow to deliver more than 200 to 500 liters per minute.

Insufficient quantity to extinguish the fire. Firefighters would have been forced to fetch more powerful spears.

A succession of "human errors" ............. !! ???

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Garett Skyport for DayNewsWorld

OUR LADY OF PARIS AN OUTSTANDING SURVEY AND SEVERAL POSSIBLE TRACKS

Past the amazement, we must take action with the investigation.

If the "scene of the crime" is largely destroyed and not inaccessible until the stabilization of the building has been ensured, this does not prevent some fifty investigators of the criminal brigade of the judicial police (PJ) of Paris to try to understand how the fire took Notre-Dame.

As early as Tuesday morning they were hard at work. From this Wednesday morning they entered the cathedral. Drones will also be used for the investigation.

The public prosecutor hastened to communicate excluding at first sight any criminal track.

The company Le Bras Frères, which mounted the scaffolding around the spire, "excluded" Wednesday "any responsibility" in the fire that ravaged the building, explaining that the security procedures had been respected. He firmly believes that he is not related to the fire

Thirty workers from companies involved in the restoration of the carpentry, security agents and employees have already been auditioned.

But nothing allows for the moment to rule out several possible scenarios. Thus for many observers, several hypotheses are possible: an involuntary act coming from a negligence, a technical accident of the short-circuit type, or any other incident.

However, caution is needed because the survey is only in its infancy.

Scaffolding at the center of the interrogations.

The fire would have taken from the base of the boom near which an electrified scaffolding with elevators and neon lighting had been installed. For the company Le Bras Frères, which mounted the scaffolding around the spire, its "responsibility" in the fire is ruled out explaining that the security procedures had been respected.

"When you leave a building site you have to cut off all the electricity, the circuit breaker, lock the door and return the keys to the sacristy of the cathedral, which has been done and duly noted in the notebooks", assured the spokesperson of the company.

"The last one left at 5:50 pm (one hour before the outbreak of the fire, Ed.) And the first at 5:20 pm", descending "by the two elevators that served the scaffolding", detailed the CEO of Le Bras Frères and representative of its subsidiary Europe Scaffolding.

"The power supply has been approved by an approved body. The elevators were seven to eight meters from the cathedral. ". At the end of the project, as recommended by one of the many draconian security measures, the men cut off the power supply to the site, lights and elevator.

"The electrical cabinet is locked and the key given to the concierge," said Marc Eskenazi, advisor in this time of crisis.

"At the time of the fire, no more employees were on site," he assured, "There was no work by hot spots or electrical work. ". Only a few people were involved in erecting the scaffolding. "The assembly is a hammer and a key of 22! " , he added. For the frame, Julien Le Bras express the surprise of many specialists: "it takes a real source of heat to ignite such sections of wood. "

Two fire alerts.

One thing is certain, however, there were two fire alarms. A first computer-based fire alarm at 6:20 pm A security guard from the cathedral would have gone by one of the elevators to a place in the attic where he There would have been no fire.

The second ring, half an hour later, would have taken him to the right place, but the fire would have already grown. Was there a malfunction of the alarm ?

"We must know as quickly as possible what happened and we are put out of the question," says Julien Le Bras. "It's easy to point fingers at us," he says in substance...

Jaimie Potts for DayNewsWorld

29 DEATH IN BUS ACCIDENT AT MADEIRA

At least 29 people died in a tourist bus accident in Caniço, Madeira, Portugal, the mayor of the municipality of Santa Cruz, Filipe Sousa told several local media, also mentioning 22 hospitalized wounded . Among the dead are 11 men and 18 women.

The bus was carrying around 50 people, mainly German tourists. Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa confirmed that the victims were German.

"I express the sorrow and solidarity of all the Portuguese in this tragic moment and especially the sorrow for the relatives of the victims who, according to what I have been told, are all German," he declared. at the microphone of Portuguese television

The German Foreign Ministry said on Twitter that "some of the victims came from Germany." "" Horrible news comes from Madeira, "the German government spokesman said on Twitter. greater sadness for all those who lost their lives in the bus crash and our thoughts are with those who are injured, "he added.

According to preliminary reports, the driver, alive according to the Portuguese media, lost control of the bus in a turn around 18h ​​and the vehicle went off the road to hit a house built on a hillside below.

The regional government found it "premature" to advance the causes of the accident, but said the bus was five years old and "apparently everything was fine". The judicial authorities opened an investigation into the circumstances of the accident .

The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, is expected on the spot.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

THE INVESTIGATION ON THE FIRE OF

NOTRE DAME OF PARIS

The whole world was stunned by the destruction of the cathedral by huge, glowing flames so that donations from all over the world poured in.

But before thinking about rebuilding the building, investigators understand how the devastating fire broke out. For the moment no track is privileged.

Do the truth, a mission of the most delicate entrusted to the scientific experts.

For its part, the judicial police focuses on questioning dozens of people , the Paris prosecutor's office having opened an investigation for "involuntary destruction by fire" Monday evening.

The investigators have already heard about thirty witnesses. Among them, the staff in charge of security in the historic building but also the employees of the five companies involved in the renovation project.

Julien Le Bras, CEO of Europe Echafaudage, the first company in charge of the renovation, assured to be able to count on a collaboration "without any reserve" of his staff on the building site.

He also claims that the security procedures had been "respected" and that no employee "was present on the scene" at the moment of the departure of the fire. "The hearings will continue

"Nothing in the state is in the sense of a voluntary act," according to the prosecutor of the Republic of Paris, Rémy Heitz, hearings resume tomorrow.

What we think we know is that the fire started from the attic of the cathedral, at the level of the scaffolding installed on the roof of the religious building and then spread extremely fast over the entire roof.

This is the version of our valiant firefighters who struggled at the risk of their lives to save this jewel of heritage.

A first fire alarm rang Monday at 18h20 when no fire was found.

One second at 18:45 while the fire was found at the level of the frame. What has happened in the meantime?

It was necessary to evacuate the cathedral, a mass having begun.

Tuesday the Paris public prosecutor Rémy Heitz said that the accident track was "privileged", ensuring that "nothing goes in the direction of a voluntary act." All scenarios can still be considered at this stage: short-circuit, "hot spot" caused by torch welding, etc.

No findings on the spot could still take place because of the restrictions of access to the cathedral decided for security reasons, said these sources close to the case. Vulnerabilities have been identified, especially at the level of the gable of the north transept, resulting in the evacuation of five neighboring buildings. According to one of these sources, a first computer alert occurred around 18h20 Monday thanks to a smoke detector , resulting in the evacuation of the building where some faithful attended mass while the last visitors walked the cathedral. A security person then went into the attic, but did not notice anything at the location indicated by his colleague in charge of control.

About 15 minutes later, the employee finally discovered the flames after going to a second location.

To the experts of the scientific police , keen in their field, to carry out a most meticulous work on a construction site to understand the origin of the propagation of the fire.

Even if clues went up in smoke ... Its director, Christophe Pezron, told colleagues that fires are the "heart of expertise" of the central laboratory of the police headquarters.

Samples, findings on the scene of the tragedy, but also laboratory reconstructions of all debris are essential to experts who intend to determine "the origin of the fire as its mode of development," according to Christophe Pezron to our colleagues.

On debris, on electrical equipment for example to determine if there has been gasoline or flammable products. "We can also assess this or that. We will try to model the fire, to reproduce certain fire behaviors to understand how it has spread within a building, "he explained.

Scientific expertise at the height of the stakes ... to shed light on this national drama and beyond.

Garett Skyport for DayNewsWorld

THE REAL IDENTITY OF JACK THE RIPPER

The mystery about the most enigmatic serial killer in criminal history is finally over.

He made London tremble by his crimes and fueled all fantasies. Jack the Ripper, the most famous serial killer in the world, could have finally been unmasked!

The killer, who gave himself the nickname "Jack the Ripper," spread terror in the Whitechapel district of East London, mainly targeting prostitutes, whom he killed and threw up. He acted during the night and could never be unmasked by the police.

As West-France reports, British researchers believe they have discovered the killer's identity through new scientific evidence. Their work has been published in the journal Journal of Forensic Sciences.

Jari Louhaleinen, a scientist at the University of Liverpool, and David Miller, a scientist at the University of Leeds, have been working on identifying the "Whitechapel killer" since 2007 from DNA fragments and genetic tests. They published the results of their work in the journal Journal of Forensic Sciences, in which they confirm the identity of the one who was already the main suspect of the time:

Aaron Kosminksi , a 23-year-old Polish barber and emigrant.

To establish the identity of the killer, they based on the shawl found by the investigators in the night of September 30, 1888, on the body of Catherine Eddowes, the fourth victim.

By analyzing it, they discovered blood and sperm from which they extracted the mitochondrial DNA, that is to say the DNA inherited from the mother.

They compared them to the DNAs taken from the living, and known, descendants of the main suspect at the time: Aaron Kosminski.

The correspondence found leads to the Polish barber, 23 years old at the time, arrested but released by Scotland Yard for lack of evidence. The DNA comparison revealed that the police had been right at the time, she had decided to release him, for lack of evidence.

The barber was born in central Poland and had joined London in the 1880s with his family, not far from the various places where the murders were committed.

He died in 1919, interned in an asylum, two years after assaulting his sister with a knife. He suffered from auditory hallucinations and paranoia.

Kate White for DayNewsWorld

HURRICANE IDAI AT LEAST 172 DEATH IN MOZAMBIQUE AND IN ZIMBABWE BUT A BALANCE THAT COULD EXCEED 1000 DEATHS

Hurricane Idai, which wiped out Zimbabwe and Mozambique at the end of the week, killed at least 172 people and destroyed the second largest city in Mozambique.

But the final balance in Mozambique could exceed a thousand deaths, warned Monday, March 18 President Filipe Nuysi.

"For the moment, we officially have 84 dead (in Mozambique, ed). But when we flew over the area early this morning [...] to understand what is happening, there is every indication that the toll could exceed 1,000, "Nyusi said in a televised interview in Maputo. 100,000 people need food aid, "he added. "The waters of the Pungue and Buzi rivers have overflowed and destroyed entire villages, isolating communities. There are floating bodies. This is a real humanitarian disaster, "said the Mozambican president.

In Zimbabwe, the latest record was 98 dead and at least 217 missing, according to the Ministry of Information. "It feels like we are dealing with the consequences of a large-scale war," said Defense Minister Perrance Shiri.

Given the scale of the damage, President Emmerson Mnangagwa hurriedly returned from a trip to the United Arab Emirates on Monday. "Every hour that passes, our worst fears are confirmed," he said in an intervention on the public channel ZBC. "Many have died drowned, while others have been killed in their sleep by stones that have demolished their homes," he added.

The damage is considerable. Beira, the second largest city in Mozambique, and its environs have been "90% damaged or destroyed by Cyclone Idai," the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (IFRC) said Monday. The extent of the damage "is huge and terrifying," says the organization.

Hurricane Idai hit central Mozambique on Thursday (March 14th), before continuing to neighboring Zimbabwe, carrying roads, schools, homes and even a dam. At least 83 people were killed in Mozambique and 89 in Zimbabwe. Idai continued to hit the country Friday, cutting half a million inhabitants of Beira's port from the rest of the country.

Zimbabwean President Emerson Mnangagwa cut a trip to Abu Dhabi and declared the state a natural disaster.

ldai is considered one of the most powerful cyclones in the Indian Ocean for ten years.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

 

TRIAL OF THE CENTURY OR CONDEMNATION

FROM CARDINAL PELL TO PRISON FOR PEDOPHILIA

The Australian Cardinal George Pell, the former Vatican number three, aged 77, was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in prison for sexual assault on two choir boys. He was risking up to fifty years of criminal imprisonment.

Convicted of sexual assault on two minors in the 1990s while he was Archbishop of Melbourne, Cardinal Georges Pell was sentenced on Wednesday, March 13, 2019, to six years in prison, including three years and eight months' imprisonment. safety.

The sentencing hearing was opened to the press and broadcast live on the country 's television and radio stations.

A rare scene that took place Wednesday, March 13, 2019 at 10 am in the Melbourne court, where Cardinal George Pell, 77 years, was sentenced to the nature of his sentence.

The cardinal, who claims his innocence and appeals his conviction, was convicted in December of sexual penetration and four counts of indecent assault against two teenagers then aged 13.

But this verdict could only be announced at the end of February for legal reasons.

He is accused in particular of imposing, in December 1996, a blowjob on one of the two children and masturbating while rubbing against the other, while the boys were hiding in the sacristy of the cathedral from Melbourne to drink mass wine. Two months later, he allegedly pushed one of the teenagers against a wall to grab his genitals.

George Pell did not testify at his trial. In a police interrogation filmed in 2016 while in Rome, he described the accusations as "insane lies", "lots of absolute nonsense".

"I'm not here to judge the Catholic Church," Kill J. said at the beginning. "You must not be a scapegoat. (...) It is Georges Pell who is judged. "

But the facts established by the jury at the trial were there. In addition, the cardinal pleaded not guilty, the judge noted that he had expressed "no remorse or contrition likely to reduce his sentence."

Cardinal Pell, who has always claimed his innocence, will know at the beginning of June whether he will be entitled to an appeal trial.

Cardinal Pell is the highest representative of the Catholic Church ever convicted of raping a minor.

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DISCOVERING A GIANT TORTOISE

CONSIDERED AS OFF

It has been thought extinct for more than a century. Well no, the species "Chelonoidis Phantastica" was found on the island of Fernandina during an expedition.

An adult female giant turtle was found during an expedition organized by the Galapagos National Park and the American environmental organization Galapagos Conservancy, tweeted the minister without further details.

The giant tortoise Chelonoidis Phantastica is endemic to Fernandina, an uninhabited island of the Galapagos, a volcanic archipelago of the Pacific. This species, however, was considered extinct, as were Chelonoidis from Santa Fe Island and Chelonoidis abingdonii from Pinta Island.

In 2015, Ecuador announced the discovery of a new species of Galapagos turtle, named "Chelonoidis donfaustoi" in honor of Fausto Llerena, who was the healer of the famous "George the loner".

The latter, the last specimen of Chelonoidis abingdonii, died in captivity in 2012 at around 90 years of age but had refused to obtain progeny by mating with females of related species.

Scientists have been found fifteen species of giant tortoises in the archipelago, including those considered extinct.

According to them they arrived there three or four million years ago were dispersed by the sea currents.

Thus different species have been created adapted to the habitats of the different islands.

Notably, Galapagos tortoises owe their exceptional longevity to a genetic ability to repair DNA, scientists say.

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FORMER CARDINAL AMERICAN McCARRICK DEFROSTS FOR SEXUAL ABUSE

Pope Francis has reduced to former secular 88-year-old American cardinal Theodore McCarrick, accused of sexual abuse on at least one teenager more than half a century ago, Saturday, February 16, Vatican communiqué.

This is the first time that a cardinal is defrocked for reasons of sexual abuse.

McCarrick, who appealed this decision, received a veto by the Vatican.

Last July, he was the first cardinal to lose his title.

He becomes today the highest personality of the church to be defrocked for reasons of sexual abuse. With his official exclusion from the Church, the currently reclusive man in the US state of Kansas is simply Mr. Theodore McCarrick.

The Pope therefore recognized as definitive a sentence in this sense of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a Vatican institution that ensures respect for Catholic dogma, the Holy See said.

The series of revelations in 2018 of huge scandals in the United States, Chile or Germany has seriously tainted the credibility of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis had promised on December 21, 2018 that "never again" the institution he runs would protect pedophiles, urging the clergy concerned to "indulge in human justice."

He acknowledged that the Catholic Church "is hit by hurricanes" and that pedophile priests "discredit" its mission. The pontiff, who intends to implement his promise of "zero tolerance", promised in recent months that he would be uncompromising with the high ecclesiastical hierarchy.

From 21 to 24 February the presidents of episcopal conferences around the world will work in the Vatican, particularly on the responsibility of the prelates who have passed over the sexual abuse of minors by the clergy.

Andrew Preston for DayNewsWorld

TRANSFORMATION OF THE CARE SYSTEM

OR PRESENTATION OF MY HEALTH PLAN 2022

The Health System Transformation Bill is on the agenda of the Council of Ministers this Wednesday, February 13th. The text, which includes 23 articles, is carried by the Minister of Health of Agnès Buzyn. Here are the main measures.

Agnès Buzyn presents this Wednesday, February 13th, its health reform which provides for the end of the numerus clausus to increase the number of doctors, the opening of telemedicine, the creation of a network of "local hospitals". The text will be debated in the Assembly in March.

The bill aims to translate into law the "My Health 2022" plan outlined by President Emmanuel Macron during a speech on September 18 to meet the increased need for care of an aging France.

Increase by 20% the number of doctors trained

To increase the pool of practitioners, the text removes the famous "numerus clausus" for the start of the school year 2020, the quota decided each year by the State which limits the number of students entitled to continue their studies in the health professions. The number of students in second or third year will thus be determined by the universities, in conjunction with the regional health agencies, according to their capacities and the needs of the territory.

Objective, "increase by 20%" about the number of doctors trained, according to Agnès Buzyn, while diversifying their profiles, through bridges between courses and selection criteria that remain to be specified by decree. The "classifying tests" at the end of the 6th year of medicine will also disappear in favor of new exams.

Still in the same perspective, the system allowing to pay € 1,200 per month for young doctors who agree to work in a tense zone once graduated will be extended to non-European Diploma Practitioners (PADHUE). In addition, ordinances will define the conditions for regular "re-certification" of practicing physicians to ensure that their skills are up-to-date.

Territorial Hospital Groupings

In parallel with the decompartmentalization of recruitment, a pooling of resources is planned in several areas.

The bill empowers the government to revise the hospital card by prescription. It will be one side to label between 500 and 600 "local hospitals" refocused on general medicine, geriatrics and rehabilitation, but without surgery or maternity. On the other hand to modify the rules of authorization of the activities of care (surgery, maternity, emergencies ...) and equipment.

In the territorial health processional communities (CPTS), all the health professionals of a territory (doctors, pharmacists, physiotherapists, nurses, etc.) will have to network, this sharing of skills to allow "to release margins of medical time, "says the MP The Republic in March Thomas Mesnier, member of the Committee on Social Affairs of the Assembly and rapporteur of the bill.

For example, a doctor with 800 patients who, by networking with nurses, could delegate certain acts to them. In doing so he would welcome other patients through these avoided consultations which would bring his patient to about 1 1400.

Renovation of exercise modes

Measures are also planned to facilitate the early career of doctors, make the hospital more attractive and improve access to care. The assistant medical device, which allows an intern to assist a doctor in case of seasonal influx in tourist areas, will be extended to areas lacking doctors.

On the health facility side, a unique hospital practitioner status, a sensitive subject, will be created by prescription and the related competition removed, to make the mixed exercise (in liberal and in the hospital) easier. .

The access contest would be removed "to facilitate entry into the career," says the Ministry of Health

Telemedicine open to other health professionals.

Telemedicine, already authorized for doctors, will be open to other health professionals. The "télésoin" could for example also concern "the accompaniment by the nurses side effects of oral chemotherapy, or the speech therapy and remote orthoptic sessions". Thus, in the absence of a speech therapist near his home, a patient can consult remotely that of a big city.

As for better financial management measures that provide for the payment of fixed-rate or quality doctors, they will be included in the Social Security Financing Act (PLFSS) for 2020, says Thomas Mesnier.

New digital services

A "health data platform" will replace the current Institute of Health Data. Access to these data (1.2 billion sheets of care per year, 500 million medical procedures, 11 million hospitalizations ...) will be expanded, and their field extended to clinical data collected for example by doctors Liberals.

The government intends to "increase the possibilities of exploitation" of this information, particularly for research or "development of artificial intelligence methods," while promising to "maintain a high level of protection of privacy." .

In addition, all patients will be able to open their own digital health area by January 1, 2022. They will have access to their shared medical record (sort of health book), "applications" or "referenced health information". .

Let's hope that the umpteenth health plan finally meets the needs of an aging France.

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ABOUT THE WEDDING OF CARLOS GHOSN

Did the Renault manufacturer pay in spite of himself for the wedding of Carlos Ghosn?

As revealed by Le Figaro, Renault discovered that the Château de Versailles had booked the rental of the Grand Trianon, a service valued at 50,000 euros, as a counterpart of the sponsorship contract signed between the two partners in June 2016.

A benefit that was "earmarked for the personal benefit of Mr. Ghosn".

The reception in great pomp for the marriage of Carlos Ghosn with his second wife, in October 2016, took place at the Trianon of the Palace of Versailles so that the former boss of Renault could have rented the Grand Trianon for 50 000 euros as counterpart of a sponsorship contract.

But marriage is a priori a private event, with no connection with the patronage of Renault.

His financing could therefore constitute an abuse of social good on the part of his former boss.

The automaker announced Thursday it would report to justice that his former boss had received for his

"Personal benefit" a payment of 50,000 euros.

This information was discovered as part of checks launched after the arrest of his former CEO on November 19 in Japan for suspicion of financial malpractice as president of Nissan.

Until then, investigations at Renault have not highlighted any fault attributable to the former boss.

Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

MORTAL FIRE IN PARIS

A fire on rue Erlanger in the 16th arrondissement of Paris started on the night of Monday 4 to Tuesday 5 February. The provisional record amounts to 10 dead fire has been controlled, but firefighters continue their work.

The criminal track is preferred by the investigators, a resident of the burned building was arrested.

The fire started around one in the morning, according to firefighters, who evoke a "scene of incredible violence".

He was mastered between 6 am and 7 am

Some residents of this 1970s eight-storey building took refuge on the roof to escape the flames.

Many residents called for help from their windows.

Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

POLAR COLD UP TO -58 °F IN THE UNITED STATES

A major part of the north-central United States is undergoing a wave of polar cold Tuesday with snowfall and temperatures of -58 ° F.

Weather conditions have caused disruptions in air traffic and in administrations.

Currently installed in the Midwest, the cold wave will move on the east coast at the end of the week.

The cold warning was given on Monday in several states of the Midwest, from North Dakota to Ohio.

"In the beautiful Midwest, temperatures are as low as -76 degrees  F (-59.8 ° F), the coldest ever recorded," he wrote, ironically adding, "What the hell is going on with global warming ?"

world ?

Please, come back soon, we need you! Donald Trump wrote on Twitter ironicly.

Tens of millions of people are concerned by this cold alert launched Monday in several states of the "Midwest", from North Dakota to Ohio.

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GABRIEL STORM ALERT IN FRANCE

A new degradation of weather conditions is expected in the coming hours with the arrival of a depression named Gabriel.

The snow is coming back to the plains and tempestuous winds will hit the western regions.

On the morning of Tuesday, January 29, Météo France placed 43 departments in orange vigilance for strong winds or snow and ice at 16 hours.

These are the Aisne, Ardennes, Aube, Aveyron, Cantal, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Cher, Corrèze, Côte-d'Or, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Gironde, Haute-Marne, Landes, Loir-et-Cher, Loire-Atlantique, Loiret, Marne, Mayenne , the Meuse, Nièvre, North, Oise, Orne, Pas-de-Calais, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Sarthe, Paris and its small crown, the Saone-and -Loire, Seine-Maritime, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Deux-Sèvres, Somme, Vendée, Vienne, Yonne, Essonne and Val-de-Marne d'Oise. They are placed on alert until Wednesday morning.

The meteorological institute describes in its bulletin a "significant snow episode that can make the traffic conditions very difficult".

A tip: stay "very careful and vigilant" when traveling.

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HE JIANKUI AND THE FIRST GMO BEBE

He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher, claims to have created the first genetically modified babies. In this case, immunized against the AIDS virus.

A second woman is pregnant after the experiment of the Chinese researcher who claims to have created the first "genetically modified babies", confirmed the Chinese authorities quoted on Monday by the agency Chine nouveau, adding that the scientist would be targeted by a police investigation.

He Jiankui could only receive the wrath of the world scientific community in November 2018 when he announced the birth of twins whose DNA was modified to make them resistant to the AIDS virus. These are prohibited practices in most countries, including China. The Chinese government had also demanded the suspension of its scientific activities.

Shortly after, the same He Jianku had reported at a forum in Hong Kong an "other potential pregnancy." And now a second woman is pregnant with the same genetic manipulations as just confirmed by a survey conducted by the provincial government of Guangdong (south), according to the official news agency China New. This woman, as well as the two twins, now about 3 months old, of the first pregnancy, will be placed under medical observation.

In total, between March 2017 and November 2018, eight volunteer couples were recruited through a Beijing association for the support of AIDS patients. So-called "serodiscordant" couples: a father carrying the virus and a healthy mother. One of the couples abandoned the process along the way. The women of the other five couples are not pregnant, the authorities say.

Genetic scissors

He Jiankui claims to have used the CRISPR-Cas9 tool, called "genetic scissors," for his experiment. It allows you to remove and replace unwanted parts of the genome, such as correcting a typo on the computer.

This technique is extremely controversial, especially because the modifications made can be transmitted to future generations, and affect the entire genetic heritage.

This type of genetic modification made on humans is forbidden in the vast majority of countries in the world, including China.

In search of "glory"

The publicized elements of the investigation also highlight the motivations and the way He Jiankui would have proceeded. According to the results of the investigation, He Jiankui "produced false ethical assessment documents", set up "in a private capacity" a research team that included foreign scientists and used "technologies for security and doubtful efficiency ". The investigators told China News that the researcher "sought glory" and used his "own funds" to carry out his project.

"This behavior constitutes a serious violation of the ethics and integrity of scientific research, as well as of the regulations in force in the States," writes China, adding that He Jiankui's case will "be transferred to responsible for public security ".

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DEFINITIVE CONDEMNATION OF CLAUDE GUEANT

A YEAR OF PRISON CLOSES IN THE CASE

OF PREMIUMS IN LIQUIDS

The conviction of Claude Guéant is now final, after the rejection today of his cassation appeal.

The Court of Cassation validated Wednesday the conviction of the former Minister of the Interior to two years imprisonment, including suspended in the matter of cash bonuses of the Ministry of the Interior.


In this case of embezzlement of public funds, the former top state clerk was also fined 75,000 euros and banned from holding any public office for five years.
The hard part of the sentence is not synonymous with detention, sentences of less than two years in prison being suitable.

A payment of 5000 euros each month

The case involved cash bonuses totaling € 210,000 paid by members of Nicolas Sarkozy's firm when Claude Guéant was his chief of staff. These premiums were deducted from an envelope for police investigation and surveillance (FES) costs, particularly to pay for their indicators. According to the prosecution, between 2002 and 2004, Claude Guéant paid himself 5,000 euros each month, an amount in addition to a salary of 8,000 euros and compensation of 2,200 euros. In front of the court, Claude Guéant defended himself by speaking of a "practice which was part of the customs of the ministry" and of which he still did not consider that it was "irregular".

The Court of Cassation also rejected the appeals of the former national police chief Michel Gaudin and a former collaborator of Claude Gueant in the office of the Minister of the Interior, Daniel Canepa.

They had been sentenced to suspended prison with probation and, for Mr. Canepa, fined.

Andrew Preston for DayNewsWorld

LAURENT GBAGBO ACQUIRES CRIMES

AGAINST HUMANITY

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday (January 15th) acquitted Laurent Gbagbo of crimes against humanity while ordering the immediate release of the former president of Côte d'Ivoire (2000-2011), incarcerated for more than seven years .

His release is suspended until Wednesday to allow time for the prosecution to respond.

"The Chamber grants the acquittals presented by Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Ble Goudé [former head of the Young Patriots movement, loyal to Mr. Gbagbo] on all the charges" against them and "orders the the immediate freedom of the two accused, "said Presiding Judge Cuno Tarfusser.

The two men were tried since 2016 in The Hague for crimes against humanity and war crimes, including killings, rape and persecution, during the post-election violence in Côte d'Ivoire, while Laurent Gbagbo refused to accept his defeat facing his rival Alassane Ouattara, the current Ivorian president.

Facts that cover the post-election crisis period in Côte d'Ivoire between November 2010 and April 2011.

Violence that has killed more than 3,000 people in five months. Facts for which Laurent Gbagbo had pleaded not guilty.

The judges found that the prosecutor was not able to provide enough evidence to demonstrate that Laurent Gbagbo and Charles Blé Goudé were at the initiative of a common plan to stay in power and therefore to use of violence to achieve it.

The decision by the judges is a new blow for the ICC.

Previous attempts by the Court to try senior political figures, most of them in Africa, have all encountered obstacles.

Andrew Preston for DayNewsWorld

THE NEW LIFE OF THE YOUNG SAUDIAN

IN CANADA

"Very happy" to be a refugee in Canada, a young Saudi woman who sparked an international mobilization after fleeing her family and country, began a new life in Toronto where she arrived on Saturday, January 12th.

18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun was greeted at the airport by Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland herself.

After fleeing Saudi Arabia and her family for physical and psychological abuse, she was blocked by the Thai authorities at the airport while she was in transit between Kuwait and Australia, where she wanted to start a new life. But, traveling without permission, she had to be sent back to Kuwait. Following a mobilization on her social media, the Thai authorities had refrained from sending her back against her will and allowed her to leave the airport with UNHCR representatives.

Arriving in Toronto the girl was supported by the non-profit organization Costi, based in Toronto and specialized in the reception of refugees.

Officials of the association will accompany him in his administrative steps to open a bank account or fulfill various formalities and also in his search for permanent housing. The young woman went on Saturday afternoon to do some shopping to buy warm clothes in the center of the Ontario megacity. She knows several people she has contacted.

The epilogue of an international odyssey

His arrival in Canada marks the epilogue of an international odyssey that has attracted attention via social networks for a week.

Saudi Arabia is one of the most restrictive countries in the world for women's rights. In particular, they are subject to the guardianship of a man (father, husband or other) who exercises arbitrary authority over them and takes important decisions in their place.

"As Prime Minister [Justin Trudeau] has said, Canada believes very strongly in the defense of human rights around the world, and we firmly believe that women's rights are human rights," said Chrystia Freeland.

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EXPLOSION IN A BOULANGERIE OF PARIS

THREE DEATHS THIRTY INJURED

A very strong explosion occurred in a bakery in the 9th district of the capital this Saturday around 9 am, said police headquarters. Paris firefighters intervened for a gas leak when the explosion occurred.

There was a "serious explosion, certainly related to a gas leak of obviously accidental origin with pockets of gas that exploded.

The human toll is heavy and serious, "said at about 10:30 the Minister of the Interior, Christophe Castaner, who went on site, as the Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the Paris prosecutor, Rémy Heitz.

12 people are in absolute emergency of which 5 have their vital prognosis engaged. 24 others were injured more lightly.

"At this point, we can say that it is obviously an accidental origin but we must remain cautious," said the prosecutor of Paris.

The blast was of such magnitude that it blew several shops but also cars in the vicinity within a radius of 100 meters.

200 firefighters and 100 policemen were mobilized, according to the Minister of the Interior, who reported a "controlled" situation, around 10 hours.

Rescue teams crisscross the area and a helicopter flies over the area to take care of the victims.

The police prefecture of Paris asked residents and users to avoid the area.

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MERRY CHRISTMAS 2018

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COMPLOTIST THESES VEHICLEED BY YELLOW VESTS ON TERRORIST ATTACK

The conspiracy theories flourish on social networks claiming that the attack in Strasbourg "falls right", that it was intended to break the movement of "yellow vests" ... The government, or the secret services, would be origin of the shooting that occurred Tuesday night in Strasbourg. In Facebook groups of "yellow vests", one goes so far as to question the origin of the nature of the shots fired near the Christmas market.

"It's just me, or is this event in Strasbourg just ... a very, very good help to Macron to make the GJ forget? Cracks are everywhere ... From there to go into + emergency attack + ?? !! ?? ", So asked a user on the Facebook page" National Blocking November 17 General Organization. "

"Solidarity Strasbourg. EMERGENCY STATE. Manifestation forbidden MACRON solution. BLOCK OUT, "said another surfer on the same Facebook group.

For many Internet users, the government, engulfed in a deep social crisis, would have caused everything. Government manipulation ... "And there you are !!! The inevitable happened. An 'attack' unleashed just after the speech of Macron and before the next Saturday of demonstrations ... ", writes a surfer in the Facebook group Act 5: Macron resignation, which brings together more than 62,000 people.

A screenshot of the tweet of the prefecture of the Grand Est region, which was broadcast on BFMTV with time of publication "11h47", was also commented "So? The attack is announced before it is in progress ?! It's clear no ?? ", reads as a comment. This is the time zone used by Twitter users, set by default to the United States.

One of the most controversial leaders of the yellow vests movement, Maxime Nicolle, aka "Fly Rider", did not fail to be noticed by expressing his distrust during a Facebook Live which he is the administrator: "Do you say that the guy who wants to do a bombing really, he does not expect there to be 3 people in a street in the evening at 8 pm, he goes in the middle of the Champs-Elysées when there has millions of people and it blew itself up, "he says. Had he not already claimed to have been contacted by a "Mr. X" in possession of highly dangerous information for power?

This Wednesday morning on France Inter, the Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, affirmed that the "yellow vests" will not be prevented from gathering Saturday, December 15 on the occasion of their "act 5 ". Laurent Nuñez reminded that it was necessary to declare the gatherings beforehand.

As a reminder, in the terrorist attack in Strasbourg on Tuesday 11 December, two people were killed, twelve wounded, six of them in absolute urgency.

The Secretary of State to the Minister of the Interior, Laurent Nuñez, reacted to these conspiracy theories smokers who circulate since the shooting by judging them unworthy.

The Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer also reacted to the microphone of RTL noting that "every time it happens ignoble things, there is the despicable that has just added to the despicable. "

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SALE OF YELLOW GILETS PROHIBITED IN EGYPT


The movement of yellow vests in France takes on an international dimension that is not without concern for some governments.

The Egyptian authorities fear that opponents of the regime are inspired by the protests of French yellow vests, have simply decided to ban the sale of these fluo jackets until the end of January.

A date choice that owes nothing to chance since the eighth anniversary of the 2011 popular uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak took place on January 25, 2019.

No more selling yellow vests to individuals or "occasional buyers".

Resellers of road and industrial safety equipment have also been instructed to restrict distribution to wholesalers and certified companies only after obtaining the permission of the police.

Otherwise beware of reprisals!


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CASE OF FILLON OR THE CONDEMNATION OF MARC LADREIT DE LACHARRIERE

The businessman Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière was sentenced Tuesday in Paris to eight months of suspended sentence and a fine of € 375,000 for abuse of corporate property.

He admitted to overpaid and fictitiously paying Penelope Fillon in 2012 and 2014 for his participation in the Revue des deux mondes which he owns.

He had Mrs. Fillon employee at 3,900 euros net per month during the month.

It had to provide reading sheets and a reflection on the future of the Journal.

But she had only made two reading notes!

She has never visited the journal's premises and has never played any role as an editorial advisor.

During a short public hearing, the President of the High Court approved the sentence proposed by the National Financial Prosecutor (PNF) and accepted by the billionaire in the context of a procedure of "pleading guilty", an "appearance on prior recognition of guilt "(CRPC), inspired by Anglo-Saxon law.

A prelude to the Fillon affair.
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A SIMPLE TEST TO DETECT

CANCER IN 10 MINUTES

Australian researchers would have found a simple method to diagnose the disease in 90% of cases, says Nature Communications

Diagnose cancer in just 10 minutes, here is the promise made by a group of Australian researchers from the University of Queensland.

A simple blood test would be enough to detect "the universal biological marker of cancer" found in the disease.

Unlike the biopsy usually used, an invasive and expensive technique, the one used by Australian researchers is simple and fast.

The test relies on the presence or absence of a methyl group on the DNA of a cell to identify the difference between healthy and diseased cells. It changes color depending on the result: blue for healthy cells, pink for malignant cells.

"These analyzes are fast, that is, the analysis time is equal to or less than ten minutes, and they require final preparation of the sample as well as a small entry on the DNA," explain Researchers.

According to the results, the test makes it possible to identify 90 cases of cancers out of 100.

Small flat: the test does not know which organ is affected by the disease. It is therefore necessary to carry out further examinations to identify the type of cancer and its stage.

A promising technique that could revolutionize the diagnosis and therefore improve care while in metropolitan France 400,000 new cases of cancer are identified each year.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

INDICTMENT OF CARLOS GHOSN IN JAPAN

New episode in the case Carlos Ghosn. After twenty-two days in custody in Japan, the former president of Nissan was charged with concealing income between 2010 and 2014 while his custody was extended for similar events from early 2015 to March 2018.

The prosecutor's office has decided to indict the CEO of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Motors alliance for failing to report to the stock market authorities about 5 billion yen (38 million euros) of revenue over five years.

The founder of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance could spend Christmas in jail. His right-hand man Greg Kelly, who was arrested at the same time, was also charged.

The prosecution has also indicted Nissan as a company, finding that the responsibility of the Japanese manufacturer was also committed, because it is she who submitted the offending reports to the stock market authorities.

Already in 2017, Nissan had already hit the headlines with the scandal called "final inspections". Unapproved controllers had approved vehicles and pollution controls had been distorted. The group was forced to recall more than one million vehicles in Japan.

And a new recall of 150,000 cars was announced on December 7th.

The leader, who denies the charges, has been dismissed from the boards of Mitsubishi Motors and Nissan, which also accuses him of misuse of corporate assets. He remains however CEO of the Renault group.

Asked by the Japanese press on Monday, Mr. Ghosn replied that "have nothing to declare, for the moment ."

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TOWARDS A GLOBAL SANITARY SCANDAL

WITH THE IMPLANT FILES ?

An international survey conducted by 59 media and published Sunday denounces the shortcomings of the control of medical implants (insulin pumps, pacemakers, breast prostheses, hip, shoulder or knee ...) in Europe.

This "Implant Files" survey was conducted as part of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) by more than 250 journalists in 36 countries. At the end of their research, they say that the number of incidents related to medical devices "= is increasing dangerously in the world because of the lack of regulations.

These medical devices, which are supposed to help patients, range from insulin pumps to breast implants, pacemakers and hip prostheses.

They easily benefit from the certificate "European Conformity" to sell in Europe.

The American Medtronic, world leader in medical technology, is particularly in the sights of this' an investigation.

The US Medtronic is potentially linked to 9,300 deaths and 292,000 injuries between 2008 and 2017 in the United States, according to reports on medical implant incidents analyzed in an international journalistic investigation released Sunday. According to reports to US regulators last year, one in five incidents due to a medical implant were linked to a Medtronic product, more than double that of any competitor in the company.

The survey finds that reports to authorities in Japan, Norway or Australia also place the US firm among those that have been linked to the highest number of incidents in the past five years. Since 2008, Medtronic's insulin pumps or their components that accompany diabetes patients have potentially been implicated in more than 2,600 deaths and 150,000 injuries in the United States. In Europe, there is no information on this subject, for lack of systematic "feedback" and control.

The US Federal Drug Agency has noted that it is normal that the largest producer of medical devices is also the one who knows the most incidents, says the ICIJ.

In a written response to ICIJ, a Medtronic spokesperson, Rob Clark, says that patient safety is the company's top priority, meeting "the highest ethical standards."

"The charges are not facts and should not be interpreted to suggest that Medtronic violated our legal, ethical or regulatory obligations in any way," he added, while emphasizing that medical product involved a degree of risk.


Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld

 

INDONESIA DEATH OF A CACHALOT THE BELLY

FILLED WITH 6 KG OF PLASTIC

Indonesia throws around 1.29 million tons of plastic a year at sea, making waste management a vital issue.

A sperm whale was found stranded on a beach in southeastern Indonesia, with 6 kg of plastic in its stomach filled with 115 glasses and 25 bags of this material.

The 9.5-meter-long cetacean carcass stranded Monday in Wakatobi National Park, Celebes, in southeastern Indonesia, also contained flip-flops, plastic bottles, raffia and tattered tarpaulins.

If the cause of death is not yet known it is possible that ingestion of this harmful waste has caused it.

The Wakatobi district, consisting of four picturesque islands surrounded by a marine reserve, has asked the central government for help in dealing with the problems of waste in the water.

The fourth largest country in the world with some 255 million inhabitants, the archipelago of Southeast Asia unfortunately stands out as the world's second-largest producer of marine litter after China with about 1.29 million tonnes each year. sea.

The damage to ecosystems and health is notable.

In 2017, the authorities had already declared a "state of emergency waste" on a Bali beach covered with rubbish.

The archipelago has pledged to reduce marine litter by 70% by 2025, a difficult goal to achieve given the poor infrastructure and lack of public awareness.


Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

 

MEDICINAL BARRIERS

NOT PREVIOUS IN FRANCE

Essential drugs are out of stock in France. Between 2008 and 2017, the reports of drugs in tension or out of stock increased from 48 to 530. An alarming situation when it is known for example that 200 000 Parkinson's patients are affected by the shortage of Sinemet, essential drug in the treatment against brain disease. Other products essential for health are also out of stock. Antibiotics, vaccines, antiepileptics, medicines for hypo or hypertension. Faced with this lack, some patients even went to Switzerland for treatment!

Why is France facing such recurring shortages for several years?

There are several reasons for this.

Most of the drugs are manufactured in Asia or in the United States for 80% of the world, so that France depends almost entirely on supplies from abroad.

Are the molecules produced by a very limited number of sites then in case of failure all production is impacted. This is exactly what happens with the Simenet produced and marketed by the Merck laboratory, whose American factory has stopped the production for a standardization without any management plan to avoid stockouts.

Among the supply difficulties, there are also delays in manufacturing, the loss of know-how, but also insufficient production capacity or raw material supply difficulties.

In addition, pharmaceutical companies not only set quotas per country based on last year's consumption but also prefer to sell their products to the highest bidder. But as the prices in France are low compared to other European countries, manufacturers, once the quota is delivered, turn to their sale to Germany, Denmark or Sweden more expensive drug.

Finally, a monopoly manufacturing position can sometimes intervene.

When a laboratory is the only one to make a product, it displays the price it wants. In times of shortages, some are not afraid to raise prices to make profits. Thus the BCNU, a drug prescribed to treat certain brain tumors, which cost 34 euros per 100 mg in 2013 and was the following year out of stock, was marketed in 2015 at 900 euros for the same quantity when it reappeared!

A recent parliamentary report is alarmed by this health dependence on the US and Asia and advocates including relocation of certain drugs in France. A proposal that could constitute "a basis of work" according to the federation of the pharmaceutical industry (LEEM) which, for its part, also encourages "the development of European production capacity" and "the constitution of the most important " .

On the basis of all these findings, a senatorial mission also reported on September 27, proposing thirty measures to improve the availability of drugs. Thus the senators propose the establishment of one or more public structures able to produce essential drugs and regularly exposed to risks of shortage. In Switzerland, for example, the country has its own military laboratory developing security reserves ...

Senators also propose to experiment for five years a tax exemption for companies "pledging to establish in France production sites for drugs and essential substances . " Another proposal suggests "to open up to pharmacists the possibility of offering patients a therapeutic substitution of a specialty in rupture" . This allows the pharmacist to propose a substitute molecule in case of out of stock.

Some of these measures are subject to amendments to the Social Security Financing Bill (PLFSS), considered in the Senate from 11 November.

Jenny Chase for DayNewsWorld

 

ADJOURNMENT OF METAM-SODIUM IN FRANCE

UNTIL THE END OF JANUARY

The French government suspends until January 2018 the use in France of products containing metam sodium.

This is a pesticide used especially by producers of lamb's lettuce that has been singled out as a result of poisoning.

"The use of plant protection products containing the metam sodium active substance" is suspended until 31 January 2019, " says a decree taken Thursday by the government and published Friday in the Official Journal.

This decision responds to cases of intoxication and "doubts about the possibility of using the products concerned in a safe manner according to the terms currently in force".

The government expects the results of work on the subject of the National Agency for Health Security (ANSES).

Metam sodium had already been banned in Maine-et-Loire where dozens of people had been poisoned.

Indeed, there had been three waves of poisoning in Maine-et-Loire following the use of metam-sodium pesticides.

Remains to find alternative solutions for market gardeners using this pesticide.


Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

 

AT LEAST EARLY DEAD IN AUDE ALWAYS IN RED VIGILANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND FLOODING

The balance sheet continues to climb. Eleven people died after the floods in Aude, according to the latest assessment given by the prefect of the department.

The Aude was placed in red alert on Monday morning, because of heavy rains that were falling on the department, resulting in particular the cutting of many roads, said Météo France.

The department of Aude, where the flood reached an unprecedented level since 1891, lives a Mediterranean episode. Prime Minister Philippe Philippe visited the site Monday afternoon. Last balance sheet reports 11 deaths

The prefecture recommends "to avoid any displacement" because "many roads cut" .

School transport is suspended in the agglomeration of Carcassonne ...

The balance sheet was however "evolutive", said the prefect.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

 

HURRICANE MICHAEL

AT LEAST 11 DEATH AND NUMEROUS INJURED

It is a landscape of desolation and debris that has left in its wake Hurricane Michael, now downgraded to a tropical storm, after its passage in the eastern United States that has killed at least six people.

"It's an unthinkable devastation , " Florida Governor Rick Scott said Thursday. "I have heard that a lot of people have been hurt," he added. "I have heard that many people have been hurt," he added.

Residents of Florida, Alabama and Georgia continue to face Hurricane Michael, described as one of the most powerful in over 100 years.

While some areas were devastated, at least six people were killed.

In Florida, four people died according to the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office. In neighboring Georgia, an 11-year-old girl was killed when a garage awning landed on her house, authorities said. And in North Carolina, a state hit hard by Hurricane Florence last month, one person died after a tree collapsed on a car, the governor announced Thursday (October 11th). midday.

The coastal city of Mexico Beach is devastated by the violence of the winds: flattened houses, partially or totally destroyed and trees strewn on the ground, torn facades leaving the interior of the houses bare.

The torrential rains and several tidal mini-razes cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of people who remained without electricity in several states in the southeastern United States, including more than 380,000 in Florida, 234 000 in Georgia and about 400,000 in North Carolina.

Thousands of soldiers and rescue workers were working in the affected states for rescue operations, clearing the streets littered with debris and restoring power.

"Help comes through the air, the land and the sea," he said. "We have 35,000 Florida National Guards and over 1,000 special rescue vehicles, 13 helicopters and 16 boats for humanitarian assistance, security, search and rescue operations. Commented Rick Scott on Thursday,

President Trump announced in mid-day that he has approved the state of major disaster in Florida, allowing to unlock more federal aid. Mr Trump also declared a state of emergency in Georgia.

The reconstruction "is going to be fast. We will make it fast. " The hurricane was "incredibly destructive and powerful," commented the president, interviewed Thursday by the Fox News channel, describing the cyclone as "racing."

The United States last year suffered eight major storms and three major hurricanes - Irma, Maria and Harvey.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

 

STOP AT THE TANNING BOOTH

The Health Security Agency (ANSES) recommends closing the tanning booths for "proven" cancer risk.

In an opinion, it asks "the authorities to take any measure likely to stop the exposure of the population artificial UV emitted by tanning booths for aesthetic purposes" just as it Calls for the sale of the devices to be discontinued to individuals.

The links with the risks of skin cancer have long been known. The number of new cases of skin cancer more than tripled in the period 1980-2005. The numbers are sobering. Carcinomas represent 90% of skin cancers diagnosed in France. Less common, melanomas are the most dangerous because of their high metastatic potential. 14,325 new cases of melanoma were recorded in 2015 in France, and 1,773 deaths, according to figures from the National Cancer Institute.

The figures are clear: "382 cases of melanoma could be attributed to exposure to tanning equipment," says the ANSES opinion. The risk of developing melanoma for people who used artificial tanning at least once before the age of 35 is increased by 59%. 43% of cases of melanoma in young people can be attributed to a use of cabins before 30 years, adds ANSES. Cutaneous melanoma is one of the leading causes of death among people under 35 in France.

Contrary to popular belief , "exposure to artificial UV does not prepare the skin for sun exposure and does not protect against sunburn," warns the health agency.

In addition, artificial UV causes other undesirable effects, such as aging skin, which experts believe could be four times faster with tanning lamps than with the sun. In reality, tanning in the cabin colors the skin more than it tans. Another concern of the agency, while the regulation prohibits these booths to minors, "the controls show that there is still a significant fraction of the under 18 years who practice it, and the more one exposes early the more the risk is high, " says Olivier Merckel, director of the physical risks unit at ANSES.

"No limit value of irradiance or dose can be set to protect users," adds the report. Tanning booths are places of exposure to intense UV sources that are much richer in UVA than natural light. Exposure to these UV causes damage to the DNA for doses lower than those triggering sunburn.

The National Health Security Agency (ANSES) asks "the public authorities to take any measure likely to stop the exposure of the population to artificial UV" in the face of the risk of cancer " , " in a notice published Wednesday, October 10 .

The practice of tanning is therefore in very strong increase, whether by UV artificial or natural so that there are in France more than 12,500 tanning devices, according to the National Union of professionals tanning cabin (SNPBC). The stakes are also economic, the SNPBC regularly highlighting the 22,000 jobs that would be threatened by a ban.

Brazil and Australia had the courage to forbid this practice. In France, will ANSES be heard by the government?

Emily Jackson  for DayNewsWorld

 

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PRIX NOBEL DE LA PAIX

A DENIS MUKWEGE ET A NADIA MURAD

CONTRE LES VIOLENCES SEXUELLES

Le prix Nobel de la paix a été attribué vendredi 5 octobre au médecin congolais Denis Mukwege et à la Yazidie Nadia Murad, ex-esclave du groupe Etat islamique, « pour leurs efforts pour mettre fin à l'emploi des violences sexuelles en tant qu'arme de guerre », selon la présidente du comité Nobel Berit Reiss-Andersen.

L'un gynécologue, l'autre victime, Denis Mukwege et Nadia Murad incarnent une cause planétaire dépassant le cadre des seuls conflits, comme en témoigne le raz-de-marée planétaire #MeToo.

« Denis Mukwege et Nadia Murad ont tous les deux risqué personnellement leur vie en luttant courageusement contre les crimes de guerre et en demandant justice pour les victimes », a déclaré la présidente du comité Nobel .

Déjà récompensé en Europe, aux Etats-Unis et en Asie pour son action le Dr Denis Mukwege, 63 ans, est un gynécologue qui soigne les victimes de violences sexuelles en République Démocratique Du Congo.

Il est un expert reconnu au niveau mondial de la réparation des dommages physiques causés par le viol et les violences sexuelles et pour faire reconnaître le viol comme « une arme de guerre », «une guerre sur le corps des femmes».

En 2014, l'Union européenne lui remet le prix Sakharov, récompense honorant les personnes ou organisations qui ont consacré leur vie à la défense des droits de l’homme et des libertés fondamentales.

Il a créé en 1999 l’hôpital de Panzi pour les accouchements qui devient cependant rapidement une clinique du viol à mesure que le Kivu sombre dans l’horreur de la deuxième guerre du Congo (1998-2003) et de ses viols de masse.Il n'a de cesse de dénoncer auprix de sa vie « le climat d’oppression […] et de rétrécissement de l’espace des libertés fondamentales » dans son pays.

C’est dans la salle d’opération de sa clinique de Panzi que le gynécologue a appris qu’il était colauréat du prix Nobel de la paix 2018. « Soudain, des gens sont entrés et m’ont appris la nouvelle », a confié le docteur Mugwege.

La seconde lauréate est âgée de seulement 25 ans mais a déjà survécu aux pires heures traversées par son peuple, les Yazidis d'Irak, jusqu'à en devenir une porte-parole respectée. Nadia Murad a été retenue captive pendant près de six mois par des hommes de l'État islamique (EI), lors desquels tortures, viols collectifs et mise en esclavage lui ont été infligés. Mariée de force, battue, torturée, violée, vendue et revendue comme esclave elle parvient à s’échapper avec l’aide d’une famille de Mossoul, gagne le Kurdistan et trouve refuge en Allemagne où elle vit toujours.

Elle poursuit son combat pour la cause yézidie depuis l’Europe et bénéficie du soutien de l’avocate et militante des droits de l’homme libano-britannique Amal Clooney. Elle témoigne et à se bat pour que les crimes de l'EI soient reconnus comme un génocide. Celle qui a été nommée «ambassadrice de l'ONU pour la dignité des victimes du trafic d'êtres humains» a également obtenu le prix Sakharov en 2016.

Aujourd’hui encore, Nadia Murad comme son amie Lamia Haji Bachar, avec laquelle elle obtenait en 2016 le prix Sakharov du Parlement européen,rapelle  que plus de 3 000 yézidies sont toujours portées disparues, probablement encore captives.

Le prix, qui consiste en une médaille d'or, un diplôme et un chèque de 9 millions de couronnes suédoises (environ 865.000 euros), est remis à Oslo le 10 décembre, date anniversaire de la mort de son fondateur, l'industriel et philanthrope suédois Alfred Nobel (1833-1896). Dans un testament rédigé un an avant sa mort, l'inventeur de la dynamite avait souhaité voir récompensés «ceux qui au cours de l'année écoulée auront rendu à l'humanité les plus grands services».

« Un monde plus pacifique ne peut advenir que si les femmes, leur sécurité et droits fondamentaux sont reconnus et préservés en temps de guerre », a rappelé la porte-parole de l'ONU à Genève, Alessandra Vellucci.

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

PMA FOR WHICH TWOSOME ?

The University Hospital of Toulouse did not discriminate by refusing medically assisted procreation (PMA) to a lesbian couple in 2014, according to the opinion of the Council of State, the highest administrative jurisdiction.

The Council of State had in fact been seized in early July of a Priority Question of Constitutionality (QPC) raised by a couple of women after the University Hospital of Toulouse refused their application for PMA in February.

This couple of women, whose infertility problems were medically diagnosed, felt that the current law, which reserves the PMA to heterosexual couples who are infertile or at risk of transmitting a disease to the child, "disregards (t) the principle of equality before the law ", according to the decision of the Council of State.

According to the two women, this "difference in treatment between couples with medically diagnosed infertility, according to whether they are of the same or different sex" was not justified and reserving the PMA to these couples alone was discriminatory

But in their judgment, delivered Friday, the judges did not follow them. They consider that "the differential treatment [...] between male and female couples and same-sex couples ... is not contrary to the principle of equality"

Refusing to grant a medically assisted procreation (LDC) to a lesbian couple is not contrary to the principle of equality before the law , says the Council of State in a decision released Tuesday, October 3.

"This is an unlikely decision," reacted Caroline Mécary, the lawyer of the couple . "It was up to the Constitutional Council to say whether the law was discriminatory or not. Refusing to pass on this priority question of constitutionality, she said that "the Council of State has exceeded its powers and has become a censor"

Satisfaction on the other hand on the side of Ludovine de la Rochère, the president of the Manif for all. She noted that the issue of opening the PMA to lesbian couples and single women "is not an answer to a problem of discrimination or a measure of equality"

But forget that the National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE) last week gave a new opinion favorable to the extension of the PMA to lesbian couples and single women. One of the commitments of the candidate Emmanuel Macron during the presidential election.

The government must submit a bioethics bill in this direction before the end of the year, for a debate in Parliament in early 2019 that promises to be heated.

Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld

 

THE MANIPHUT TIPHON DESTRUCTIVE

After sweeping the Philippines and Hong Kong in recent days, the super Typhoon Mangkhut rushed on Sunday afternoon in mainland China, making its first victims.

The Southeast Asian archipelago, which regularly suffers from violent typhoons, was once again the hardest hit by this powerful storm.

Making 65 deaths in the Philippines Friday and Saturday, more than 200 wounded in Hong Kong typhoon Mangkhut is considered the most powerful of the year at this stage with gusts reaching in places the 330 km / h.

Many material ravages have also been noted:

landslides, floods, house collapses, mudslides

That Sunday afternoon, he began to hit mainland China.

In particular, he reached Jiangmen City in southeastern Guangdong Province.

Authorities said they evacuated more than three million people in southern China, and ordered tens of thousands of fishing boats to return to port prior to the typhoon that the media has dubbed the "Queen of Storms".

Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

 

STORM FLORENCE DEATH AND FLOODING

Even though Hurricane Florence was downgraded to a tropical storm, it has already killed five people on the east coast of the United States.

The hurricane killed its first victims on the Atlantic coast of the United States, and hit the coast beaten by strong winds and heavy rains so that dozens of people were trapped by the rising waters.

The hurricane's eye made landfall near Wrightsville Beach, NC at 0715, with winds up to 150 km / h, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).

Florence, however, weakened in intensity in the afternoon and was downgraded to a tropical storm, with winds detected at 110 km / h.

But its amplitude and its very slow advance - 6 km / h - in the country worries the authorities.

Authorities anticipate catastrophic floods.

In its 20-hour bulletin on Friday, the NHC warned of a strong, wind-driven night tide on the coast and "catastrophic floods expected in areas of North Carolina and South Carolina."

"We are expecting many rainy days , " said North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, calling the hurricane's rains "a millennial event . "

"Our priority now is to put people out of immediate danger, " he added at a news conference.

We are still in the storm and, if she has not reached you, she will. "

President Donald Trump will visit "early or middle of next week" in the affected areas, for its part announced the White House .

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

 

HURRICANE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS

EXPECTED IN THE UNITED STATES

Storm Florence, which is currently approaching the East Coast of the United States, is expected to turn into an "extremely dangerous" hurricane by Monday, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) announced, calling on the population to prepare.

"We expect Florence to quickly strengthen and become a major hurricane by Monday, and should remain an extremely dangerous hurricane until Tuesday," said NHC in its bulletin broadcast Sunday at 9:00 pm GMT.

North Carolina, then South, declared a state of emergency.

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper declared a state of emergency on Friday to prepare for the possible consequences of Florence's arrival, and South Carolina did the same on Saturday.

The US Navy ordered all its ships to leave the Hampton Roads area in anticipation of Hurricane Florence.

The first hurricane of category 4 of the season weakened in contact with cooler waters. But now, he enters a warmer zone, according to meteorologists.

NHC calls the communities "along the east coast, especially from Florida to North Carolina, to carefully monitor Florence's progress and ensure that hurricane plans are in place."


Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

 

ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS ALERT IN OUR PLATES

More than six out of ten pesticide residues are found in our plates and its residues are endocrine disruptors. What to pull the bells alame!

Indeed after having peeled the latest report from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the NGO Future Generations alert:

"More than six out of ten pesticide residues quantified in the European diet are suspected endocrine disruptors".

First of all, what is an endocrine disruptor?

It is "a substance ... with properties likely to induce endocrine disruption in an intact organism, in its descendants or within (sub) populations. As defined by the World Health Organization.

More concretely "it is chemicals present in consumer goods or environmental contaminants that can, at very low doses, disrupt our hormonal system" , explains François Veillerette, director of the NGO Générations Futures.

In a word, they are toxic substances for health!

They can have negative effects on growth, fertility, behavior and cause some cancers.

The Efsa report, released in July and based on 2016 data, concluded that 96% of the samples analyzed were within legal limits and 51% were free of any quantifiable residue. Future generations focused on the remaining 49%:

there, quantifiable traces of pesticides have been detected. Out of 109,843 samples concerned, 69,433 are suspected endocrine disrupting pesticide residues, ie six out of ten.

The NGO relied on the TEDX database, which lists molecules suspected of having an endocrine disrupting effect because "there is no list for endocrine disruptors" as is the case for substances carcinogens, explained the director of the NGO

The NGO Future Generations is doing its utmost to ensure that governments finally take real action against endocrine disruptors.

France has certainly adopted in 2014 a national strategy on these substances banishing one of the best known, bisphenol A, baby bottles and food containers.

But the second part of this strategy, which is currently under development, would hardly take into account food. "In the draft (of this text), there is almost nothing on food, which is shocking," said François Veillerette, director of the NGO.

Public powers to take the problem head on and impose sanitary standards! They already think about the health cost: 150 billion euros a year for Europe. These numbers should make them react to a time of all money.

Health is on the plate!


Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld

 

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EVALUATION DES ELEVES ET DES PROFESSEURS

SOUS LA HOULETTE DE JEAN-MICHEL BLANQUER

EN FRANCE

«Les évaluations deviendront une habitude comme la photo de classe» a lancé leministre de l’Éducation nationale.

Un vent de modernisation et de libéralisme souffle rue Grenelle.

Tout d'abord la réforme du lycée va se mettre en place progressivement et s'avère nécessaire dans le contexte actuel.

«La douche froide nous arrive toujours de l'extérieur», a constaté le ministre, lors de la conférence de presse de rentrée, en référence aux classements internationaux Pisa . En effet tous les trois ans la France se trouve déclassée et éloignée des meilleurs. Que se passe-t-il donc dans l'enseignement français pour obtenir d'aussi médiocres résultats dans le classement Pisa ? Pour essayer de comprendre dès 2019, une instance d'évaluation du système sera créée.

Et des changements vont voir le jour pour les élèves.

La génération qui entre en seconde a déjà connu les nouveaux rythmes scolaires au primaire et la réforme du collège . Arrive en toute logique celle du lycée. Autant dire que la réforme du collège s'est bien déroulée. Quant au nouveau lycée, les lycéens ont été consultés pour sa conception.

Peu de modification en somme pour la classe de seconde en cette rentrée puisque les changements vont plutôt porter sur la première, à la rentrée 2019. Les élèves choisiront trois disciplines de spécialité, au lieu des séries L, ES et S. Le contrôle continu prendra une plus d’importance. La compétence orale également. Quant aux spécialités au nombre de douze, le Conseil supérieur des programmes publiera de son côté les premiers projets.

En terminale le grand oral prévu dans la réforme du bac pourrait s'appeler selon le ministre de l'éducation nationale « grand entretien ».

Vient seconder cette réforme du lycée la modernisation des ressources humaines que Blanquer appelle de ses vœux avec des professeurs plus performants en introduisant notamment une part de variable dans les salaires, une autonomie des chefs d'établissement, des contrats d'objectifs, des postes à profil...Des réformes annoncées déjà dans ses nombreux ouvrages sur l'école.

Ce sont d'ailleurs des promesses d'Emmanuel Macron durant sa campagne qui entend moderniser la fonction publique dans son ensemble.

Mais comme l'a rappelé Jean-Michel Blanquer «Un pays qui va bien est un pays qui aime ses professeurs» a-t-il déclaré . «Il n'y a pas d'amour. Il n'y a que des preuves d'amour», a rétorqué de son côté Jean-Rémi Girard, le président du Syndicat national des lycées et collèges.

Preuve qu'il va falloir mettre de l'eau dans son vin des deux côtés.

Jenny Chase pour DayNewsWorld

 

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FRAUDE A LA CARTE BANCAIRE

OU

PLATEFORME PERCEVAL

Depuis juin, il est possible de déclarer en ligne qu’on a été victime d’une fraude à la carte bancaire. Inutile de se déplacer à la gendarmerie ou au commissariat, la plateforme Perceval sert à ça. Lancée en juin dernier, Perceval permet de signaler une fraude en ligne. Elle a déjà permis l’ouverture de 17 enquêtes, et neuf dossiers ont été transmis à la justice.

Vous ne le saviez pas mais il est désormais possible de déclarer en ligne que l’on a été victime d’une fraude à la carte bancaire.

Plus besoin de se déplacer à la gendarmerie ou au commissariat, la plateforme Perceval sert à ça. Déjà ouverture de 17 enquêtes et neuf dossiers ont été transmis à la justice.

Mais voilà la fraude à la carte bancaire est monnaie courante  atteignant un montant qui dépasse les 450 millions d’euros en France (cartes françaises et étrangères), en 2017 selon l’Observatoire de la sécurité des moyens de paiement. Plus d' 1,2 million de ménages se sont déclarés victimes d’au moins une escroquerie bancaire en 2016.

Elle a fait trois fois plus de victimes que les cambriolages.

Une plateforme de signalement de ce type de fraudes a été lancée en juin. Son nom : Perceval, pour Plateforme électronique de recueil de coordonnées bancaires et de leurs conditions d’emploi rapportées par les victimes d’achats frauduleux en ligne.

Une condition s'avère importante : il faut être toujours en possession de votre carte bancaire. On y accède via le site service-public.fr, dans l’onglet « fraude à la carte bancaire » grâce au système d’identification France Connect.

La traque aux arnaques

Perceval facilite donc les démarches en cas de vol des données d’une carte bancaire et accentuer la « lutte contre les auteurs de ces infractions bancaires avec la collecte, l'analyse et les recoupement du renseignements criminel à l’échelle nationale », selon le ministère de l’Économie.Cela facilite les recoupements sur les sites internets utilisés, les modes opératoires, etc.

« Ça nous permet parfois d’avoir une adresse physique, une adresse mail et une adresse IP derrière laquelle on adosse, non plus un fait ou une série de faits sur une victime, mais pour des préjudices très importants », explique le lieutenant-colonel Cyril Piat, du centre de lutte contre la criminalité numérique

17 000 signalements ont été enregistrés dont environ 8 000 concernaient des montants de moins de 200 € signalées, et plus de 350 atteignent plus de 2 500 € de préjudices.

Certains subtilisent les numéros et cryptogramme en les photographiant à l’insu du propriétaire, d’autres se spécialisent dans l’escroquerie lors d’un achat en ligne ou vendent des coordonnées bancaires sur le darkweb… les modes opératoires pour les escrocs sont variés.

Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld

 

FIRE IN AUBERVILLIERS IN FRANCE

22 WOUNDES OF WHICH 6 IN ABSOLUTE EMERGENCY

A fire broke out in Aubervilliers this Sunday around 7 pm; He was mastered in the early evening.

The balance sheet reports twenty-two wounded. Six are in absolute urgency, including five children.

He declared himself in a two-story apartment building where two families lived.

Important means were deployed on the spot The fire was controlled in the early evening, said a spokesman for the Paris fire department.

The record shows 22 wounded, six of whom were still in absolute emergency including five children and a woman.

A dozen police dispatched to the scene were slightly affected by this fire.

Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

 

MORE 300 WOUNDES OF WHICH 5 SERIOUS

IN THE COLLAPSE OF A PLATFORM

AT A FESTIVAL IN SPAIN

More than 250 people were injured, five seriously, after the collapse of a platform in the night of Sunday to Monday at a music festival in Vigo (northwestern Spain), has - we learned from the local authorities.

"Fractures or head trauma"

Of the wounded, five were seriously injured and hospitalized. The majority of the victims escaped with simple bruises or minor injuries.

"Right now, 266 patients are being treated. The vast majority are slightly injured with bruises " but " there are five hospitalizations mainly for fractures or head trauma, " said Jesus Vazquez Almuina, a health officer in the government of the Galicia region, on a local radio station. is located Vigo.

The wooden platform, 30 meters long and 10 meters wide, located on the seafront, was filled with spectators watching a rap concert at the O Marisquiño festival when it was suddenly collapsed shortly before midnight Sunday, the mayor of Vigo Abel Caballero told the press.

"The causes remain to be determined," said Jesus Vazquez Almuina, health officer in the government of the Galicia region.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

 

79 DEATH IN DARK FIRES IN GREECE

The balance sheet is on the rise as research continues, amounting to 79 deaths. It's worse than the 1977 fires that killed 77 people in 2007.

The firefighters continued Wednesday searches for people stranded in houses or cars charred around the resorts of Mati and Rafina, east of Athens, ravaged. 187 wounded, including 23 children, are part of the last official report.

Described as a "national tragedy" by the country's media, the fire occurred Monday afternoon: the fire took on the nearby Mount Pendeli and was fanned by winds of 100 km / h to spread as a trail of powder up to Mati, 40 km from Athens. Hundreds of homes whose residents fled to the beach remaining in the water to stay safe burned.

Tuesday evening, in Mati sector, "the fire was evolving without active front, with scattered fireplaces" , according to firefighters while another front has taken over Kineta, west of Attica.

Macabre discoveries:

The country was under the shock of macabre discoveries on Tuesday, especially that on the same ground of 26 charred people including "small children", found entwined in groups. Some 715 people were evacuated by military or private boats to the port of Rafina. Mati, located in a pine forest, was the hardest hit because of "a blazing fire in the urban fabric," Maliri said. "Mati no longer exists," said Rafina Mayor Evangélos Bournous, reporting "more than a thousand buildings and 300 cars" damaged.

A still provisional balance sheet:

The toll is "79 dead," said Stavroula Maliri, fire chief. Of a total of 187 people hospitalized, 82 remained treated Tuesday night, ten of whom are in serious condition and 11 children whose condition did not inspire concern. Foreign tourists are among the victims.

Research is continuing to search for possible victims in this area of ​​Attica flooded with flames. Firefighters received "dozens of calls" from people looking for relatives. Tuesday night, the government had not published the number of missing.

National mourning of three days:

"Today Greece is in mourning," said Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras who announced on television three days of national mourning. Flags will be half mast until Friday.

The presidency also canceled the festivities to commemorate Tuesday the return of democracy in Greece in July 1974. The Ministry of Finance has released 20 million euros "to meet the imminent needs of municipalities and affected citizens . " The government has announced that it will take charge of the funeral, and tax measures for the victims.

European aid:

The country, which has activated the European Civil Protection Mechanism, will benefit from air assets donated by Spain, France, Israel, Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy, Macedonia, Portugal and Croatia. "The European Commission will not spare its efforts to help Greece," tweeted President Jean-Claude Juncker. "The pain of the victims affects us all," said German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a telegram to Tsipras.

The United States lent a drone to fly over the area and "observe and detect any suspicious activity . " The pope made known "his deep sadness," while NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said "the "solidarity" of the Alliance.

An investigation into the causes of the fires has been opened. The government has had to deal with an "extreme", "asymmetrical" phenomenon, according to Tsipras. Dimitris Tzanakopoulos noted that there were "15 simultaneous fire starts on three different fronts" in Attica.

Jenny Chase for DayNewsWorld

 

SIX VILLAGES ENGAGED AND DEAD IN THE COLLAPSE OF A DAM IN LAOS

The collapse Monday night of the hydroelectric dam caused flooding in seven villages.

Rescuers are looking for missing persons in Laos after a hydroelectric dam collapsed on Wednesday: only twenty-six bodies have been recovered and rescue operations are set to be tough in this isolated area.

"There are 131 missing," said Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith, while the official news agency has so far evoked "hundreds of missing".

"Hundreds of people" are missing, was content to evaluate the official news agency KPL, Tuesday, July 24. In this remote region of a mountainous country the balance sheet is uncertain.

6,600 people would be homeless but no official record has yet been given.

The dam, after torrential rains, collapsed Monday night in Attapeu province releasing nearly five billion cubic meters of water and swallowing six villages according to official media.

This dam, a project worth more than $ 1 billion, was under construction since 2013.

It is being developed by Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy Power Company (PNPC), a joint venture formed by the Thai company Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding, the Korean company Korea Western Power and the Laotian state-owned Lao Holding State Enterprise.

With a capacity of 410 megawatts, it was planned that the dam would provide electricity from 2019, 90% of the energy produced was to be exported to Thailand, the rest being distributed locally.

Located in the province of Attapeu in southeastern Laos, not far from the Vietnamese border, the dam under construction collapsed on Monday, July 23, causing "several deaths and hundreds of missing," according to the official news agency of the regime. "Several houses were also destroyed" in the disaster, according to the agency.

Laos has started building dozens of dams and exports most of its hydroelectric power to neighboring countries, including Thailand.

Environmental organizations have worried about Laos' hydropower ambitions, particularly about the impact of the dams on the Mekong, its flora and fauna, rural populations and dependent local economies.

Paul Emison for DayNewsWorld

 

AT LEAST 80 DEATHS IN JAPAN DU CANICULE

If Europe sees a new heat wave, some countries are suffering much more from summer temperatures. Unprecedented temperatures exceeding 40 ° C in the shade have been reached across Japan. The majority of victims are elderly people, but also children.

"Emergency measures are needed"

It is a sweltering wave of damp heat that Japan is killing 80 people and driving some 35,000 others to the hospital in just three weeks, according to official data released on Tuesday. The past week, with temperatures exceeding 35 degrees in the shade, is among the deadliest week, with 65 victims recorded, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency. Fifteen deaths had been deplored the previous two weeks.

"We are seeing unprecedented heat in many areas," Motoaki Takekawa, a Meteorological Agency official, told a press conference Monday night. This heat wave "is fatal and we consider it a natural disaster," he said.

The national record on Monday

The city of Kumagaya, north of Tokyo, broke the national record on Monday with a thermometer reading 41.1 ° C. The town of Ome in Tokyo prefecture had a heat of 40.3 ° C. According to the Meteorological Agency, temperatures above 35 ° C could last until early August, despite a few days of respite soon.

One solution: extension of summer holidays

The majority of deaths are in the elderly, but children are also among the victims. A six-year-old boy succumbed to heat stroke after activities outdoors with a non-air-conditioned classroom.

But with between 35 and almost 40 ° Celsius in the shade and humidity over 80%, several cities in Japan show a deadly combination, which weakens the natural defenses "emergency measures are necessary to protect children" , Government spokesman Yoshihide Suga told reporters on Tuesday morning.

The government will subsidize the installation of air conditioners in schools, colleges and high schools from next summer. As of April 1, 2017, less than half of the classrooms in public schools had air conditioning. The extension of the duration of summer holidays is also part of the provisions under study, said Suga

The Disaster Management Agency has urged people to use air conditioners in most homes, drink water and take regular breaks at work.

Residents of the western regions have been ravaged by torrential rains earlier this month, and they are being warned by the authorities, who are trying to clean their homes.

Temperature records reached this year, which rekindle worries for the 2020 Olympic Games scheduled in Tokyo in the heart of summer, from July 24 to August 9.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

 

SWEDEN IN THE LIGHT OF FOREST FIRES

Sweden has activated the European Civil Protection Mechanism. Several countries responded to the call by sending men and equipment to the image of Italy, Germany, Norway and Poland and France who sent French soldiers to fight against forest fires unusual in this Nordic country. In recent days, Sweden has been facing severe fires due to hot weather.

An unusual situation in this Nordic country that had to call for reinforcements from Europe. So a detachment of French soldiers specialized in the fight against the ground arrived Sunday evening

These thirty rescue sappers units of instruction and intervention of the Civil Security were to be joined this Monday by 30 firefighters of the SDIS of the South of France.

It is for this team to ensure that the lights under control do not start again. There were about fifty active homes, including twenty in the extreme north of the country, Sunday, according to the Swedish Agency.

European watercatchers, two of whom come from metropolitan France, operate in the areas concerned in conditions close to those in Southern France.

The most violent fires can be found in the provinces of Gävleborg, Dalarna, Jämtland and Västernorrland. Some 250 km² of forest have already been washed away and residential areas are under threat.

For the civil protection, it is a question of "working edges active, little active or isolated, to treat the surface, to scratch the ground" as Stéphane Nisslé explained, head of the detachment French.

"The advantage is the presence of many bodies of water," said Pierre Schaller, the colonel in charge of the mission, facilitating supplies for the Canadians.

Successful European cooperation in the face of dangers
Paul Emison for DayNewsWorld

 

EMEUTE AT BREIL, A DISTRICT OF NANTES

Once again, a simple police check went badly, this time in the Breil district of Nantes, on Tuesday, July 3rd, in the evening.

Several detonations were heard.

A 22-year-old died after a shot.

It was 8:30 pm, Tuesday, July 3, rue des Plantes, in the Breil district, Nantes.

CRS patrolling the city, wanted to control the driver of a vehicle.But it refused to obey.

"He refused to obey," says a police source.

Who adds: "At that time, he made a sudden reverse" hitting a CRS knee, which reflexed to depart in time.

"One of his colleagues fired to stop the vehicle. The 22-year-old, allegedly shot in the neck, is dead. This shooting would have taken place without "summons" according to a inhabitant of the district. The investigation was handed over to the federal police.

The sector is squared by an important safety device. The House of Associations is on fire and young hoods sent projectiles and Molotov cocktails against the police who responded with tear gas.

Three cars, at least, caught fire and a room next to the shopping center ignited. Firefighters had to intervene in number.

When will the rule of law once and for all be re-established throughout French territory?

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

 

SPECTACULAR ESCAPE OF THE RAIDER

REDOINE FAID BY HELICOPTERE

The recurrent robber, Redoine Faïd, is currently on the run. He escaped from the prison of Réau in Seine-et-Marne. Redoine Faïd, 46, a recidivist robber, escaped by helicopter Sunday, July 1 at 11.20 from the prison center of Réau in Seine-et-Marne.

An armed commando landed in a helicopter in the main courtyard while the detainee was in the parlor. The escape lasted only a few minutes.

"There is no wounded or hostage," said the Justice Department in a statement. He did not have his first escape since in less than half an hour he had used four monitors in human shields to leave the prison of Lille-Sequedin.

The prison of Seine-et-Marne is wearing a modern prison but there is no safety net over the courtyard, unlike the promenade ... The unions had denounced this anomaly there a few years ago saying that it was necessary to put here also what was not done.

This helicopter escape was probably prepared by his accomplices who had " undoubtedly spotted the place through drones," said Nicole Belloubet, the Minister of Justice, interviewed by journalists, Sunday, July 1 .

"A very well prepared commando"

"The ongoing judicial inquiry will say so," she added, noting that the robber's accomplices had gone through "a very little used door". "Someone has identified this possible way of passage, it could be done through the drones," she added to the microphone of journalists.

The perpetrator has not been found at this stage, Nicolas Belloubet explained.

"The security forces are extraordinarily mobilized because we know that it is someone who is dangerous" .


Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

 

GANGRENE OF PROSTITUTION IN

CITES IN FRANCE

The Attorney General of the Paris Court of Appeal Catherine Champrenault warns about the increase in the facts of "prostitution of cities" , affecting young women, sometimes minor, and calls for the "vigilance" of parents in particular.

"In recent years, alongside foreign criminal networks of human trafficking, the cases dealing with acts of procuring the cities are increasing," wrote Catherine Champrenault, Sunday, June 17, in a forum published in the Parisian

It denounces the commodification of the body and the banalization of the sexual act in these young women sometimes minor related to the explosion of pornography on the internet in particular. This prostitution also proceeds from the lure of easy gain.

"It is both greed for money and banalization to the extreme of sex exacerbated by the explosion of pornography," she analyzes.

Often these girls fall prey to young men in their neighborhood, initially their buddies, who provide them with cocaine push them to prostitute themselves.

The Créteil Criminal Court sentenced several men to prison terms ranging from two to six years for having prostituted young girls they met in their neighborhood and who they described as their "girlfriends" .

These girls, drugged with cocaine, chained for their benefit up to 300 passes per month in hotels in Ile-de-France can bring up to 48 000 per month.

The victims' complaints being rare, it is the public prosecutor's office who bears the responsibility to prosecute the pimps.

The prosecutor insists on the importance of "personalized support for victims" and calls for "the vigilance of everyone, especially parents" .

The prosecution has opened a criminal investigation against X for "aggravated pimping" after a preliminary investigation into suspicions of prostitution disguised in the advertisements of the website Vivastreet.

Jaimie Potts for DayNewsWorld

 

"MARTYR OF THE A1"  SHADOW ZONES

More than thirty years after the death of the little "martyr of the A10", her parents were found thanks to DNA.

When the body of the girl is discovered, on August 11, 1987, on a portion of road of Loir-et-Cher the investigators deploy all the means to try to establish the identity of the small martyr. About 20,000 vital records of girls born in the region in the early 1980s are inspected, but nothing conclusive.

And for good reason: Inass had been registered at the CAF, but in Île-de-France!

In 1987, the expertises show that the body of the child bears traces of burns due to an iron and that scars and wounds of human bites caused by a small jaw that of a woman probably.

The investigating magistrate in Blois, who was in charge of the case at the time, said at that time that it was "practically a case of cannibalism with the taking of flesh" .

At the time, the computer is still in its infancy and the interconnection of files does not exist. So how do you know that the little girl enrolled in kindergarten had never been to school? Hence the failure of checks in 65,000 kindergartens.

In spite of the reports of his disappearance the multiple calls to witnesses, the portraits-robots and verifications of the investigators no serious track had been found.

But that was without counting on computers!

The girl had indeed been discovered dressed, covered with a blanket. All these material elements had been carefully sealed. It is essentially from a work on the DNA of the child that the gendarmes pulled the thread back to his father and his mother, more than thirty years after the fact.

The survey has rebounded in recent days. Indeed it is thanks to a DNA sampling carried out after "a tort", on a man who turned out to be his brother, which allowed to relaunch the investigation ... DNA from the National Automated Fingerprint File (FNAEG), which has also been shown to be that of the girl.

Her name was Inass. She was 4 years old and her body was discovered in August 1987 in a ditch on the A10 motorway. The family lived in violence.

The girl's Moroccan parents have been indicted for murder, receiving a corpse and habitual violence against a minor under the age of 15

"The evolution of the investigation has been long, but time has never played against us. The investigators have always thought that the case would be clarified, " said the prosecutor.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

 

FIGHT AGAINST MOSQUITO-TIGER

With the beautiful days of summer, the tiger mosquito reappears in France. Implemented progressively in some forty French departments since 2004, the Aedes albopictus continues to gain ground, especially around the Mediterranean.

The tiger mosquito is potentially a carrier of diseases such as dengue, zika or chikungunya, serious diseases.

The female tiger mosquito needs water to reproduce. She lays her eggs at the edge of containers that can collect water. So do not panic, but respect certain instructions not to attract! Some simple gestures of prevention are enough. Garden, courtyard, terrace, are all ideal places for Aedes albopictus. All small or very small collections of artificial or natural water favor its reproduction

Some examples are: water collectors (tanks, drums ...), saucers under flower pots, ponds.

The breeding sites are therefore largely man-made. To fight against the mosquito-tiger requires that each one adopts the good gestures, daily, to deprive it of water and, thus, to avoid its development.

So think about cleaning the gutters (dead leaves, debris ...), maintain the water points that are the pools and basins, open the water collectors ...

Unlike other mosquito species, it does not move beyond a 150 meter perimeter around its nesting site. Its "zone of life" is restricted to a perimeter of 150 meters around its place of lay.

This is why it is necessary to act by managing its domestic waters and / or physically removing the deposits present in private homes (which represent 80% of the places of laying).

Such simple actions help reduce the presence of this dangerous mosquito that is the tiger mosquito. It's your turn !

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

 

TAKING OF HOSTAGES IN PARIS

BRI policemen are sent to the scene of the hostage-taking in the 10th district of Paris.

Negotiations took place following a hostage-taking in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.

An armed man held two people in a building. The sector is closed.

It took place in a building in the Rue des Petites Ecuries, located in the 10th district of Paris.

The hostage took place on the premises of an advertising agency, Mixicom.

According to preliminary evidence, a man "still unclear motivations" would have had a bomb and a handgun and asked to be put in touch with the Embassy of Iran.

A large security perimeter and a police detachment have been deployed in this street, frequented in particular for its bars and restaurants.

The Brigade of Research and Intervention (BRI), the Security and Response Company (CSI), many firefighters and police armed with assault rifles are on site.

The assault was given and the man arrested and the two hostages are safe and sound.

Assault ended thanks to the professionalism of the BIS and relief forces.
Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

 

GLYPHOSATE IN HONEY

TRAIN A COMPLAINT OF APICULATORS

VS BAYER

The Aisne apicultural union lodged a complaint on Wednesday against Bayer, who has just bought Monsanto, after the discovery of glyphosate in the honey of one of its members.

The union, which has 200 beekeepers, mostly amateurs, has been alerted by one of its members who sells his surplus family Group Michaud Apiculteurs, the largest actor of honey in France including its brand Honeymoon.

This group, which systematically analyzes the honey, found traces of glyphosate and therefore refused three barrels of honey all flowers. The three barrels of honey involved were carefully preserved by the beekeeper.

This herbicide, the most used in France, is considered probable carcinogen by the World Health Organization (WHO). The ban on glyphosate within three years, however, does not appear in the future law agriculture and food, despite the attempt of deputies to include it, LREM deputies having rejected an amendment tabled by dozens of their colleagues listing the banishment of this herbicide.

The beekeeper in question, owner of 100 hives, lives near Laon, a region of field crops (rapeseed, beet, sunflower, alfalfa). "But do not forget the Sunday gardener and his propensity to use Roundup easily , " said the union's lawyer, Emmanuel Ludot, of the Reims Bar.

The latter filed a complaint Thursday on behalf of the union for "administration of harmful substances" against Bayer and Monsanto, whose headquarters in France is Lyon.

A date that was symbolically chosen to coincide with two events: the national action of beekeepers and the final purchase of Monsanto by Bayer.

According to Vincent Michaud, president of Famille Michaud Apiculteurs, this is not an isolated case.

"And systematically when we detect glyphosate (above the threshold of 10 ppb) we refuse honey in our recipes". Among the other substances often detected, Mr. Michaud cites in particular antibiotics for bees, and pesticides.

With this complaint, the lawyer hopes "to eventually recognize the notion of environmental crime."



Jenny Chase for DayNewsWorld

 

A "PREGNANT" WOMAN OF CALAMARS !

A South Korean had tasted a barely cooked squid before feeling severe pain in the mouth.

And now the doctors have made a little raucous discovery! You certainly like squid, this delicate mollusc.

But guess what the doctors discovered in the mouth of this unfortunate woman: a brood of calamari babies

This news is recounted in the tabloid The Sun which explains that the Korean felt violent pains in the mouth shortly after ingesting the little beast practically raw, a tasting mode relatively common in this country.

After an emergency visit to the hospital, the doctors understood what had happened.

The squid had injected sperm into the oral tissues: 12 small bags of sperm-shaped white sperm were embedded in his tongue and gums. These small bags have been identified as squid spermatophores.

They belonged to a Japanese squid known as "Todarodes pacificus".

Well alive and healthy!

Rest assured, the case is extremely rare so much so that it was published in the journal Journal of Parasitology .

He reports that the woman had not only removed the inner organs of the squid but that by boiling seconds before eating it had aggravated the problem!

Tip of friend: before consuming a squid do not forget to empty it of its internal organs!

Kate White for DayNewsWorld

 

IS THERE A KOHLER CASE ?

The national finance court has opened an investigation against Alexis Kohler into suspicions of conflict of interest between his public service posts and his links with the Italian-Swiss shipowner MSC, he said in a statement released Monday in the middle of the day.

Investigations carried out by the Economic Crime Suppression Brigade (OERD) took place on Wednesday in Bercy, at the Ministry of Economy, where Alexis Kohler, secretary general of the Elysee and Emmanuel Macron's right-hand man, worked between 2012 and 2016. The investigators also visited the premises of the commission of ethics of the public service and those of the agency of the participations of the State, in charge of managing the public portfolio.

The OERD investigators are responsible for "verifying whether the rules governing the layoff of public officials have been respected" , according to the statement of the National Finance Ministry Monday, which opened an investigation.

The investigation opened by the PNF follows a complaint from the anti-corruption organization Anticor for "illegal taking of interests" and "trading in influence" but also following the publication of several press articles initiated by Mediapart early May.

Why would there be a possible conflict of interest between the posts of this high civil servant in the public service and his links with the Italian-Swiss shipowner MSC, a major client of the shipyards of Saint-Nazaire?

The forty-year-old Alexis Kohler sat as a representative of the state on the board of STX France, the shipyards of Saint-Nazaire from 2010 while he has family ties with the shipowner MSC was founded and directed by his mother's cousins.

The Anticor association also recalls that this high-ranking official wanted to join the shipowner twice after being deputy director of cabinet at the Ministry of Economy, between 2012 and 2014 when the post was held by Pierre Moscovici and between 2014 and 2016 when Emmanuel Macron succeeded him.

If the first time, the commission of ethics, the authority charged with controlling the departure of the public agents in the private sector, had opposed its request, the second time Alexis Kohler obtained the green light of the latter to join MSC Cruises as financial director.

Anticor then suspects Alexis Kohler to have intervened as an executive of MSC in a meeting in Bercy in March 2017 on the recovery of STX France, then threatened with bankruptcy ...

Would Alexis Kohler have favored a private shipowner involved in discussions with the state because of his family ties? The question needs to be asked.

For now the executive is behind Alexis Kohler.

Monday, the Elysee said that " it is quite willing that Alexis Kohler will provide the prosecution all documents proving his conduct respectful of the law in all circumstances of his career and put an end quickly suspicions totally unfounded thrown at him obviously because of his duties as Secretary General of the Elysee. This Wednesday the Elysée has however refused to comment.

Government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux, questioned Wednesday on the case, said at the end of the Council of Ministers that Alexis Kohler was in no way weakened, calling for justice to do his work "in complete dependence".



Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld

 

DECREASE IN ACCESSIBLE ACCESSIBLE HOUSING

MEPs voted on Friday, June 1, in favor of the transition from 100% to 10% of housing accessible to disabled people in new construction, the remaining 90% to be "evolutionary" , according to the Housing Evolution bill, planning and digital (ELAN). The disabled, big losers of the ELAN law? Associations for the defense of the disabled point to a "serious social regression".

Faced with criticism from the right as well as from the left, Secretary of State Julien Denormandie justified himself by considering that housing could evolve throughout life. Simple work will be enough to adapt the housing, in case of accident or because of aging

"The government is fully mobilized" for "inclusion society," he said.

The objectives of the evolutionary housing were specified, via a governmental amendment "following the work with the associations" , added Mr. Denormandie whereas the latter discriminatory denounce "social absurdity" that would represent such a measure, qualified as "discriminatory"

The defender of rights, Jacques Toubon, said that this provision "calls into question universal accessibility": "We will have to debate, because it is totally contrary to law. "

"The introduction of this quota of housing is discriminatory and in contradiction with the right of people to freely choose their place of life according to Article 19 of the UN Convention on the Right of Persons with Disabilities, yet ratified by France in 2010, " says the Committee for the Right to Work of the Disabled and Equal Rights (CDTHED).

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

 

"A THIRD SEX IN THE NETHERLANDS"

AND SOON IN GERMANY

The Netherlands has taken a decisive step! A Dutch citizen has been granted by the Limburg District Court the right not to have to register as a man or a woman on his birth certificate. "The time has come for the recognition of a third genre," said the judges.

The Dutch applicant, born intersexed, asked the court to place a third entry on the birth certificates insofar as like all intersexed persons, the latter was born with a visible sexual ambiguity.

In its judgment, the court found that because of "current social and legal developments, the time has come for the recognition of a third genre".

"To allow registration under a third kind (X, for example), an amendment of the law is necessary. The ball is now in the legislator's court. The court rules in favor of changing the sex of the person on the birth certificate under the heading "sex could not be determined". "

Another country, too, is asking the registration of a "third sex" on the birth registers . This is Germany, which since 2013 has not been able to provide information on the gender field. But the highest German court demanded, Wednesday, November 8, the opening of the registration of a sex other than the masculine and the feminine in the birth registers. To the deputies summoned by the Constitutional Court of Karlsruhe to vote a law in this sense before "the end of 2018" . This decision will have to be included in a federal law for the legalization of a "third sex" on the birth registers.

A law on the "third sex" that could emulate in other countries.

Jaimie Potts for DayNewsWorld

 

PARCOURSUP FOR 18 HOURS IN FRANCE

A year after the decried APB, the Parcoursup system will deliver Tuesday at 6 pm responses to the wishes of future graduates But a good part of them should be on the waiting list.

This Tuesday at 18:00 Parcoursup will deliver the answers to the wishes of orientation in the higher education of 810,000 future graduates. One year after the APB trauma and the scandalous draw, a new system was put in place.

The selection process has not been easy for the academics themselves, so many candidates will still be on the waiting list.

According to Jean-Michel Blanquer, a guest of RTL on Tuesday morning, "more than half of the students will have a positive answer tonight" of the 810,000 future graduates and students in reorientation

"Good students with excellent records will be accepted in most of the courses they have requested"

And the others?

The answers will arrive.

In the selective channels, these will be "yes", "no" or "pending". For the non-selective sectors, it will be "yes", "yes pending" or "yes if", "yes if waiting" if the university considers that the candidate does not have the required knowledge and skills, it is accepted provided he undertakes to follow a path of accompaniment.

The places will be released progressively in Parcoursup where the candidates will validate their choice (one week), and Parcoursup will subsequently prevent those who are on the waiting list.

Starting June 26, students will have only three days left to validate the proposal issued by the system. From August 21st, it will be a day.

Polemic assured for graduates who will have no answer just before passing their baccalaureate!

It is not the elements of language that have been given to the rectorates that will appease future graduates and students in reorientation. And to close everything from June 26, the complementary procedure will also allow those who have no place to reformulate vows in universities where there are still places!

To believe that the massification of higher education for 80% of an age group at the bac level was a mirage corresponding neither to the desires of young people or the job market!

Alyson Braxton for DayNewsWorld

 

CRASH OF A BOEING 737 IN CUBA

An airliner with 104 passengers aboard crashed shortly after takeoff on Friday afternoon at Jose Marti airport in Havana, Cuba. State agency Prensa Latina reported an "accident " near the international airport .

Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel said only three women, admitted in serious condition at Calixto Garcia Hospital in Havana, had survived the disaster.

"For the moment the prognosis is suspended and their condition remains serious, with a vital danger," Dr Carlos Martinez, director of the Calixto Garcia Hospital , told state television on Friday.

"The news is not encouraging, it seems that there is a high number of victims," ​​said Diaz-Canel. "The bodies are being identified. The Ministry of Transport has set up a commission to investigate the facts. (...) We will launch all relevant investigations and we will communicate the information to the population as soon as we get them, " said the new Cuban president, who succeeded Raul Castro.

According to the state daily Granma, three passengers survived the accident and were hospitalized in "critical condition". Miguel Diaz-Canel mentioned the presence on board of nine "foreign" crew members, without further details.

Airport sources said the aircraft crashed after taking off shortly after its first turn.

Boeing 737-201 was leased by the Cuban national carrier Cubana de Aviacion to the Mexican company Global Aerolineas Damojh, Air Transport Director Mercedes Vazquez said. Made in 1979 according to the Mexican government, it had passed its last revision in November 2017.

The plane crashed into a sweet potato field near the airport, about 200m from populated areas.

A cordon of police officers was put in place about 100 meters from the carcass that the firefighters continued to water more than two hours after the accident.

Raoul Castro, who had just undergone a hernia at the age of 86, gave instructions and sent "his condolences to the families of the victims of the disaster".

A national mourning was decreed for Saturday and Sunday by the authorities.

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FINALLY PROHIBITED SALE OF DRUG GHB

TO THE PUBLIC

GBL had become a public health problem, and hospitals had had to adapt to the phenomenon.

After several years of surveillance, the health authorities finally banned the sale to the public of this solvent, often diverted into drugs. This industrial solvent, used for its euphoric effects, invites itself more and more in the evenings of the capital, and charms young consumers. A black series fell on Parisian nights, especially among 17-25 year olds.

In the most severe cases, these drugs can cause deep coma or respiratory failure, which can lead to death.

It is very quickly metabolized in GHB or GHB with a double effect: first euphoric and then anesthetic. It was used in medicine as a general anesthetic before being used in the 1980s by athletes as anabolic.

Between GBL and GHB, gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, we note the same effects once ingested in the body: euphoria until deep sleep, relaxation, dizziness memory loss, inhibitions or more serious, loss of consciousness. These two substances act very quickly after absorption: 10 to 20 minutes are enough to observe the first effects. These effects increase when alcohol and / or other drugs are associated.

Often associated with sexual assault, the GBL "the drug of the rapist" has been the target of several prevention campaigns.

But this is not the case of GHB, very easily accessible and inexpensive ...

It is commonly and legally found in many industries and therefore available from commercial suppliers. This is a very effective product for cleaning car rims or paints (especially tags). . On the Internet itself, the availability of GBL-containing products is likely to make it easily accessible to drug traffickers and drug addicts, at prices well below those of illicit products: the average price of a 1-gram dose of GBL purchased in Canada. wholesale online oscillates between 0.09 and 2 euros

GBL becomes banned for sale to the public

In order to circumvent the legislation, the dealers therefore resorted to the GHB, which is not yet controlled.

Surveillance at the national level had thus been put in place by the health authorities, in particular by the French Agency for Sanitary Safety of Health Products. Afssaps issued a warning in September 2009. At the same time, staff at nightclubs and bars are urged to encourage their customers not to consume them and to pay attention to their glasses. Some even propose glasses with lid, in order to avoid adding GBL or GHB .:

Finally, the health authorities have banned the sale of GHB to the public, but is this measure sufficient?

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NET GOVERNMENT BACK

WITH ABSENCE OF CONSENT AGE

FIXED AT 15 YEARS IN CASE OF VIOLENCE

 

The text contested by the entire opposition does not set an age of sexual consent at 15 as a time.

If it was voted it is thanks to the support of LREM MPs.

After five hours of heated debate, it was voted by 81 votes (mainly LREM) against 68.

The original article, amended following a negative opinion of the Council of State in March, provided that the rape would be constituted when a minor under 15 years of age would be sexually penetrated and that the author "knew or could not ignore the age of the victim .

The Council of State opposed this threshold of consent, below which the rape would have been presumed without it being necessary to prove the violence, the constraint, the surprise or the threat.

"This article is firm" and "better protects children," assured the Secretary of State for Equality between women and men, joined late in the evening by Christophe Castaner on the government bench.

The opposition denounces since Monday a decline of the government face this topic of sensitive society. In fact, instead of setting an age of sexual consent at 15, the article provides for the introduction of special protection for minors under the age of 15 in the definition of rape.

These are the notions of coercion and surprise, constituting a rape, which can "be characterized by the abuse of vulnerability of the victim who does not have the necessary discernment to consent to these acts".

Rape is no longer a crime in all cases but a crime of " pervasive " sexual assault, in cases where rape, a crime punishable by 20 years' imprisonment, could not be constituted, in the absence of any characterization. violence, coercion, threat or surprise.

"Fragmentary answer" which "does not pose a clear prohibition" for the LR , called for an article that "satisfies neither the associations nor the judicial world" for the Socialists, "maintain a halo of ambiguity" for the Communists and sending a bad "signal to society" .

The arguments of anti-article 2 are numerous.

Anti-Article 2 warns of the risk of "correctionalization" of rape of minors. A victim who could attack his attacker at the forced court could indeed prefer to attack him on the correctional ground, via the new offense of sexual assault on a minor of 15 years with penetration but without violence, constraint, surprise or threat . Why ?

A choice of the victim solely motivated by the shorter judicial time in correctional than in front of the assize courts. Do not forget that the reform also had the function of relieving the courts of assizes!

According to its opponents, Article 2 confirms traumatic situations for victims.

If the judges refuse the qualification of "rape" for lack of being able to prove the violence, the constraint, the threat or the surprise the victim will be forced to count on the new definition of the offense of sexual offense. In other words, if the victim can not prove the existence of one of these four elements, she can not prove her lack of consent.

"It is like saying to the victim that she has, in a way," participated "in what happened to her, criticizes Dr. Muriel Salmona, but the denials of reality [by justice] are extremely traumatic for the victims. rape victims. "

Article 2 is therefore less protective today than in its original version ...


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A NEW HOUSE OF HORROR IN CALFORNIA

A new house of horror has been discovered in California (USA).

Ten children, the youngest only four months old and the eldest twelve years old, were found alive in the midst of feces and garbage.

By the beginning of the year, 13 children, the Turpin family, had been found stranded and starving in Riverside County.

The police have fallen on this new "house of horror" by bringing home the eldest son of the family, whose mother had reported the disappearance,

"Horrible living conditions. "

The California police said in a statement, relayed by several American media, to have discovered, at the end of March, ten living children

"In a black misery and in conditions of insecurity".

The investigations revealed "serious physical and mental abuse on children".

The children had many injuries:

stings, burns, bruises and marks from air gun shots.

At a press conference, a local police official confirmed that there were scenes of torture in the house, "for sadistic purposes" .

Ina Rogers and Jonathan Allen are charged with physically and psychologically torturing and abusing their 10 children, aged 4 months to 12 years, at their home in Fairfield, California, United States.

Jonhatan Allen's bail was set at $ 5.2 million.

The alleged executioner pleaded not guilty. The children were entrusted to Ina Rogers' sister and mother.

The suspects deny the facts they are accused of.

"Torture?

I do not even understand what we're talking about.

People must see that I love my children and that my husband loves his children. Yes, he has a lot of tattoos and he's scary, so it's very easy to think he's a monster.

But that's not the case, " Ina Rogers told an American channel.

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AND IF THE PRIVATE RADAR CARS

WERE NOT LEGAL?

The Canard enchaîné publishes a note from the Ministry of the Interior pointing to several flaws in contracts with private companies to control the speed of motorists. According to the edition of May 16, the fact of entrusting to private companies driving cars equipped with embedded radars could simply be illegal!

This is at least what reveals an internal note of the Ministry of the Interior of March 30, 2017 that the satirical weekly was able to consult.

The head of the interministerial delegation for road safety (DISR), Emmanuel Barbe had announced in February 2017 that the police vehicles banalized with radars onboard and in circulation would be driven by private providers to replace the police. In 2020, the system should be generalized in France.

Clever indeed but certainly illegal !!!

In support, the newspaper puts forward a note dated March 30, 2017, issued by the General Secretariat of the Directorate of Civil Liberties and Legal Affairs, to the attention of the delegate for road safety and traffic.

This note states in black and white that " the outsourcing of this task should be provided for by law, which must expressly provide for the possibility for private operators to carry out these operations. ". However, no law today provides for this case. However, experiments had started in Normandy on September 1st 2017 to be implemented in 2 departments already.

Other reservation: By using equipment "made available by the State" , private companies could see contracts with the State be requalified "in loan of illicit labor within the meaning of Article L8241-1 of the Labor Code ". Using law enforcement equipment is therefore highly objectionable

Finally, the third reservation made in this note of the DLPAJ: the "impossibility of verifying the morality of the agents implementing these missions". But as explained Le Canard chained to be certain of the "morality" of the private agents recruited for these missions it is necessary to obtain the communication of an extract of criminal record, and it would thus be necessary that the contract be qualified as "market of security".

Revelations that should not fail to interest the association 40 Million motorists who has already filed an appeal before the Council of State in March ..

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CANCELLATION OF KOH-LANTA

AFTER AN ATTEMPT OF RAPE ?

 

An attempt to rape a candidate on a candidate would have pushed TF1's reality TV production to suspend shooting at the end of the fifth day of adventure.

Filming began in the Fiji Islands in the Pacific, but it was abruptly halted following a "serious incident that broke out between two candidates on the night of the 4th to the 5th day of filming.

No injuries, but the event prevents the continuation of filming in serene conditions , " said Friday a statement on the Twitter account Friday, May 11 Adventure Line Productions, the game show production company.

Both candidates took a flight back to France on Friday 11 May. The French justice is competent even if the facts happened abroad details the lawyer franceinfo.

Alexia Laroche-Joubert, the boss of Adventure Line, did not comment but would have made an emergency early this week in Fiji.

This program presented by Denis Brogniart, Koh-Lanta is one of the flagship programs of TF1 with nearly 5 million viewers.

In 2013, the death of a candidate, followed by the suicide of the doctor of the production, had already raised a controversy on the conditions of filming.

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THE 104-YEAR AUSTRALIAN SCIENTIFIC

GIVEN DEATH

David Goodall, a 104-year-old Australian scientist, died Thursday at 12:30 in Basel, the Exit International Foundation announced.

He came to Switzerland to receive an assisted suicide that his country refused him.

"At 12:30 today (May 10), Professor David Goodall, 104, died peacefully in Basel, Switzerland, of a Nembutal injection" (barbiturate), tweeted Dr. Philip Nitschke, founder of the Exit International Foundation, which helped him to organize his last trip ".

He came to Switzerland to benefit from assisted suicide that his country refused him while he

did not suffer from any terminal illness, but felt that his quality of life had deteriorated and that it was time to leave.

After a failed suicide attempt earlier this year, Goodall had asked the Australian authorities for assisted suicide, which had been denied.

"I would have preferred to finish in Australia and I really regret that Australia is late on Switzerland" in the right to die, he explained to journalists Wednesday in a hotel in Basel.

This honorary associate researcher at Edith Cowan University in Perth wanted his body to be donated to medicine .

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NAOMI CASE AND DYSFUNCTION THE SAMU

 

On 9 May, the Strasbourg public prosecutor announced the opening of a preliminary inquiry.

"I opened a preliminary investigation of the head of non-assistance to person in danger and entrusted the execution to the services of the Regional Directorate of Judicial Police (DRPJ) Grand Est," said Wednesday the prosecutor of the Republic Yolande Renzi, in a statement.

Two other investigations were carried out, one, administrative, by the Hospitals of Strasbourg (HUS) and the other, at the request of the Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, entrusted to the General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (Igas ).

The operator was suspended by "as a precautionary measure"

The 22-year-old mother died last December after calling the UAS. But the operator had not taken into account his complaints even mocking. On 29 December 2017, young Strasbourg girl Naomi Musenga, mother of an 18-month-old girl, is alone in her home when she is suffering from severe stomach pains and dials an emergency number. First transferred to the call center of firefighters and then to that of Samu, she only gets advice from the operator of Samu to call SOS Doctors. "You will die, certainly a day like everyone else", he responds the operator who sends her back to SOS Doctors, delaying the outbreak of relief.

Only after several hours, the young mother manages to join the medical emergencies and, a call this time the intervention of Samu is triggered. When she was taken to the hospital, however, she suffered a heart attack and was transferred to intensive care but died at 5.30 pm.

Naomi Musenga died in the hospital a few hours later.

Agnès Buzyn said she was "deeply indignant" . "Besides the medical malfunction, the tone is extremely shocking. I therefore asked for an investigation by the Interministerial Inspectorate General of the Social Sector (IGAS). I asked for the conclusions very quickly, " she said.

Investigators from the PJ of the East will have to determine the level of responsibility of each.

Could this death have been avoided?

Health Minister Agnès Buzyn can not answer this question, but she pointed to the issue of the regulation of calls. "When I arrived at the ministry, I asked to work on the regulation of emergencies, I asked a report to a deputy ... All this will be the subject of an analysis so that a possible modification or reform, I do not know yet whether it requires reform, should take place in the coming months , "she says. "A regulator of Samu must systematically put the call to a doctor that has not been done," she adds, which is a serious malfunction.

Agnès Buzyn, however, wants to reassure the French about the operation of Samu.

"I want to reassure the French people that if there is a serious problem, the Samu treats around 25 million calls a year with almost 800,000 outings to go to the bedside, fortunately, the vast majority is very large. quality, " she said.

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THE DEPRESSION OR PROTEIN OF HOPE

Depression is the most common psychiatric illness affecting more than 2 million people each year in France.

Nearly a third of them do not find therapeutic strategies for adequate treatment, and run the risk of serious complications, which risk relapses and severe complications.

A glimmer of hope for them.

The study published in the journal Nature Medicine on Monday focused on those patients who, according to FondaMental, needed "new therapeutic strategies" . It comes from the results of a collaboration between several teams * of the Fondation FondaMental network, published Monday, May 7 in the scientific journal Nature Medicine.

Some depressions are resistant to drugs because of a deleterious protein identified by a team of French and Canadian researchers.

" This study identifies the Elk-1 protein as a prognostic marker for depressions resistant to conventional treatments," the FondaMental Foundation said in a statement.

Researchers have identified the Elk-1 protein, which plays an important role in modifying emotions and behavior. Changes in blood levels are related to the severity of the disease and the response to treatment. This "makes it possible to define Elk-1 as a blood biomarker easy to follow over time," said in a statement Dr. Raoul Belzeaux (AP-HM, Institute of Neuroscience of the Timone). "This protein could be a good indicator of the prognosis of depression and help the therapeutic decision such as the change of treatment anticipated to avoid therapeutic failure. "

The protein in question, ELK-1, may not be involved in all resistant forms of depression, but the results are conclusive: the over-representation of the protein was found in mice with depressive symptoms and in man, on the analysis of post-mortem brain tissue, explained FondaMental. " It seems that during the depressive phases, this protein is present in excess," said psychiatrist Raoul Belzeaux

A simple blood test would measure the intensity of the depression and follow its progress.

"This is a very important issue, because it is difficult to predict the evolution of a major depressive episode, it is difficult to know if a patient is at risk of relapse or recurrence," says the doctor Belzaux

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NEAR 150 DEATHS IN THE STORMS

IN INDIA IN ALERT

 

A succession of powerful storms has killed nearly 150 people in India this week, authorities said Friday in a new report, with several regions remaining on alert.

A sandstorm of rare intensity claimed the lives of 121 people in the north of the country, mainly in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.

Trees uprooted, sections of collapsed houses, electric pylons destroyed by strong winds blowing over 130km / h in the night from Wednesday to Thursday.

In a previous meteorological episode, lightning had caused the death of 14 other people in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh the previous day, which had been struck by lightning nearly 41,000 times, officials said. rescue.

to violent storms. Most of the deaths were caused by collapsed roofs or falling trees or walls.

"Saddened by lives. Condolences to bereaved families, " Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted.



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STATE OF EMERGENCY IN HAWAI AFTER THE ERUPTION OF VOLCAN KILAUEA

EVACUATING THOUSANDS OF INHABITANTS

The Kilauea volcano has lava lava in a residential area of ​​the Big Island, Hawaii. Hawaiian authorities have declared a state of emergency as the spectacular eruption of Kilauea volcano caused flushing lava flows into residential areas on Thursday. Thousands of Hawaii residents had to flee.

The governor, David Ige, has declared a state of emergency, so he can mobilize all services and emergency funds from the state related to natural disasters.

"Vapors and lava escaped through a crack in the area of ​​Mohala Street " , wrote the local civil defense on his Facebook account, a local official stating that about 10 000 people live in the area concerned by evacuations. Seven hundred and seventy buildings and 1,700 people are under mandatory evacuation, said Governor's spokesman Cindy McMillan

The American Geological and Seismological Agency, USGS, warned, on its volcano site, that "new lava flows could occur without it being possible to predict" where they would occur. USGS officials in charge of the Hawaii Volcano Observatory monitor the importance of the eruption at 16:45 local time (14:45 GMT) with terrestrial and aerial means. open to accommodate the evacuees but the governor asked the National Guard for help in the relief operations. "Prepare now for your family to be safe," warned the governor to residents at risk of evacuation.

At 10:30 am a magnitude 5 earthquake south of the Puu Oo volcano triggered rock falls and a potential rupture in the crater of the volcano, according to USGS. Numerous aftershocks, south of Puu Oo's volcano Kilauea eruptive mouth, triggered rock falls and a potential rupture in the crater of the volcano, according to USGS.

Authorities said the eruption could contain "potentially lethal concentrations of sulfur dioxide."

New cracks in the soil were reported late in the afternoon. " The areas at the bottom of the erupting (volcano) slope are likely to be flooded with lava, particularly the general area of ​​the Leilani Estate Subdivision"

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CAUTION TO TIGER MOSQUITO

 

The tiger mosquito is back in France at the same time as the first heat. The insect is already present in 42 departments under surveillance.

The General Directorate of Health calls the inhabitants to vigilance towards this insect vector of several diseases, such as chikungunya, dengue or zika, while the insect is now present in 42 departments of the metropolis

This figure "has doubled in the last two years," said Friday in a statement the Directorate General of Health (DGS).

The ability of the tiger mosquito to transmit chikungunya, dengue fever or zika "makes it a priority surveillance target during its activity in mainland France from May 1st to November 30th," adds the DGS

Signs of dengue are easy to recognize: joint pain, muscle, headache, rash with or without fever, conjunctivitis.

If a person presents these signs within seven days of returning home, they must "consult a doctor and continue to protect themselves against mosquito bites, including using mosquito nets where possible".

Simple actions to prevent their proliferation.

The goal: " do not transmit the disease in metropolitan France, if the tiger mosquito is present in the department." The DGS recalls that 11 indigenous cases of dengue were reported in the Hérault in 2014, 7 indigenous cases of dengue in the Gard in 2015 and 17 indigenous cases of chikungunya in the Var in 2017.

To avoid the proliferation of the tiger mosquito, "it is very important to remove stagnant water" because they allow its reproduction.

The DGS recommends removing the saucers from the flower pots or filling them with sand, changing the water of the vases several times a week, or putting out of the rain any object that can be filled with water. An online portal ( www.signalement-moustique.fr ) is used to report tiger mosquitoes..

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RAVE PARTY OF 8000 PEOPLE IN THE MARNE

Some 8,000 people were present this Saturday afternoon on the former military base of the Otan de Marigny (Marne), for the 2018 edition of Teknival, an unauthorized techno music festival + said the prefecture of the department .

"This is an undeclared event that has not been prepared with the services of the state, particularly in terms of security, so it is an illegal demonstration , " said the prefect of the Marne, Denis Conus.

The participants began to arrive Friday evening around 22:30 and the prefect took two ban orders in stride.

One of the decrees prohibits the movement of heavy goods vehicles "carrying sound material for a festive gathering of unauthorized music" and the other temporarily prohibits "musical gatherings" in the department of Marne .

That on the premises of a former military base Oran Marigny in the Marne to participate in a rave party on the site with ecological value classified "Natura 2000".

"This is an undeclared event that has not been prepared with the services of the state, particularly in terms of security, so it is an illegal demonstration , " said the prefect of the Marne, Denis Conus.

"For us, on an event like this, there are three issues: an issue of safety, public safety and road safety," said the prefect of the Marne. 60 firefighters, 250 gendarmes, doctors and nurses from Samu and civil protection associations were mobilized. "Six people were evacuated to a hospital after suffering from drug abuse and minor injuries," added the prefect. A little trick for women: varnish at least one of your nails and dip it in your glass before drinking it: if your nail palit is that a drug has been put without your knowledge in your glass!

The Teknival celebrates this year its 25 years and takes place each edition in a different place, kept secret until the last hours. In 2017, the Teknival was held in Pernay, near Tours. Teknival celebrates 25 years


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REACTIONS IN SPAIN AFTER CONVICTION

FOR SEXUAL ABUSE OF MEUTE

The conviction is very inferior to the prosecution's submissions: twenty-two years and ten months' imprisonment for each of the guilty parties were requested.

Five men calling themselves "The Pack" on WhatsApp were sentenced to nine years in prison on Thursday, April 26 in Spain, for "sexual abuse" and "abuse of weakness" on an 18-year-old woman at the San Fermin celebrations. Pamplona, ​​in July 2016.

A decision of the court of Pamplona that could only provoked the anger of women's rights associations, the charge of rape was not required by justice.

For the prosecutor "the intimidation, very serious, had prevented the resistance or the flight". the young woman, who had never met her attackers seven minutes before, she added .

In addition, one of the defendants was a member of the Civil Guard while another had belonged to the army.

One of the central pieces of the trial, which took place in November 2017 in Pamplona, ​​was a ninety-six second video of their actions, broadcast with the message "kissing one to five" .

But it was a decision of the judge who had hit the country.

The latter had accepted as an exhibit a photo of the young woman extracted from alleged social networks in a store, next to a T-shirt featuring the slogan of a successful television program:

"Whatever you do, take off your pants. " provided by a private investigator.

What right to delve into a victim's private life to justify a crime?

All the more so since the court refused to put on the record the messages of the Andalusian suspects exchanged between them two weeks before their trip to Pamplona:

they were planning to take burundanga, a sedative drug for rape.

After the statement of the judgment, demonstrators went to the doors of the court shouting "it is not sexual abuse, it is rape."

The intention was clear, it seems. At the time of the Weinstein affair, would Spain render a patriarchal justice, as the protesters denounce?




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FRAUD IN SOCIAL BENEFITS

UP IN FRANCE

More than 35 million checks were carried out last year, a stable figure compared to 2016. Since 2012, the number of identified frauds has been multiplied by three.

Fraud cases to social benefits increased by 5% in 2017 compared to 2016, for an amount of 291 million euros, or 0.4% of the 70 billion euros of benefits paid by the Cafs. 45,100 cases of benefit fraud in 2017, according to figures released Thursday.

Benefits are paid to 12.5 million beneficiaries, according to figures presented by Vincent Mazauric, Director General of the National Family Allowances Fund (Cnaf).

1.2 billion euros would have been "regularized" in 2017 or 72% of amounts reimbursed by recipients who had received too much, either because of fraud (the 291 million), or because of inadvertent errors (511 millions of euros).

On the other hand, the remaining 28% (€ 316 million) is money paid by the CAF for benefits to which the beneficiaries were entitled, but which they had not received.

35 million checks carried out

Exchanges of data with Pôle Emploi or the tax authorities, by request for supporting documents or at the recipients' homes have allowed these checks.

The frauds remain those of the social minimums (RSA, premium of activity, 72%), housing aids (20%) and family benefits (8%).

The use of "data mining" makes it possible to target the controls according to a standard profile, established from the data concerning already identified fraudsters. This method will also be used to identify profiles of beneficiaries who may benefit from services they have not requested.

The Cnaf will maintain its controls at a high level.

In the framework of the next agreement of objectives and management (Cog) with the State for 2018-2022, " the family branch will see (indeed) its workforce decrease" , and Vincent Mazauric intends "to maintain a priority on the 'action and control staff' , that it 'will not hesitate to increase'.


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GRAFT OF A PENIS

ON AN AMERICAN SOLDIER

A US soldier received the first ever penis and scrotum transplant in the world.

The operation of this man, injured in an explosion in Afghanistan, lasted 14 hours.

A US soldier has received the world's first penis and scrotum transplant, said doctors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, on Monday, April 23, in a statement.

The man was seriously injured several years ago in an explosion in Afghanistan. No less than nine cosmetic surgeons and two urologist surgeons for such an operation for 14 hours on March 26.

Four penis transplants had already been successfully completed in the history of medicine, but it is an innovation for the penis / scrotum duo.

"It's really an amazing injury, not easy to accept," he said in a brief statement. "When I woke up, I finally felt more normal," said the soldier, on condition of anonymity.

" We are optimistic that he will find almost normal sexual and urinary functions , " Wei-Ping told Andrew Lee, professor and director of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

The testicular transplant did not take place for ethical reasons.

The operation was indeed the source of ethical questioning by doctors who transplanted a sexual organ taken from a deceased donor.

The man had also lost his testicles, but the scientists did not graft him new ones.

" The testicles were not grafted because we made the decision, upstream of the program, not to graft germinal tissue, that is to say not to transplant tissue that produces sperm because that would raise a problem. number of ethical issues , " said Johns-Hopkins University plastic surgeon Damon Cooney.

Because "the capacity of the beneficiary of the transplant to have children would result in the transmission of the genetic material of the donor (...) to the children of the transplanted person ," he explained.

"We are hopeful that this transplant will help restore almost normal sexual and urinary function in this young man," said WP Andrew Lee, professor and director of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University Medical School. .


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REFUSAL OF NATURALIZATION FOR AN ALGERIAN REFUSING TO TIGHTEN THE HAND

TO THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE STATE


An Algerian national, married to a French citizen since 2010, who had invoked her " religious convictions" , at a naturalization ceremony in June 2016, will not benefit from French nationality. Indeed the Council of State validated the rejection of the naturalization of an Algerian who had refused to shake hands with a secretary general of the prefecture of Isère, as well as that of an elected representative of a commune of this Department, at its reception ceremony in the French nationality, according to a decision dated April 11, and made public Thursday, April 19.

Informed of this behavior, the State services had, by decree, ordered the cancellation of the naturalization. According to them, this behavior "prevented that it could be regarded as assimilated to the French community" .

But this young woman did not stay there, considering as an "excess of power" the decree of the Prime Minister of April 2017 refusing naturalization. She therefore appealed to the Council of State. "In considering that such behavior, in a place and at a symbolic moment, revealed a lack of assimilation, the Prime Minister did not make an incorrect application of the provisions of Article 21-4 of the Civil Code" , decided the highest French court.

The sages felt that the government was completely in its right, and recalled that the Civil Code provides that "the government can oppose (...) for indignity or lack of assimilation other than linguistic acquisition French nationality by the foreign spouse within two years "

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18 WOUNDES, 3 SERIOUS IN AN ACCIDENT

TO FLETRE ON A25 BETWEEN TRANSPORT BUSES

CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES

Their mini-bus carrying disabled children (9 places each) crashed on the A25 at Flêtre (near Bailleul) this Wednesday morning around 10:30.

A light vehicle is also involved.

According to firefighters, there are 18 wounded, including 3 serious ones.

They were transported in absolute urgency to the CHR of Lille and the hospital of Armentières.

Lighter wounded were cared for on site.

The cause of this accident is unknown for the moment.

"50 firefighters and 10 emergency vehicles are on site and the SMUR helicopter landed on the highway. "

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URBAN VIOLENCE IN TOULOUSE

The popular district of Mirail de Toulouse was once again the scene of incidents on the night of Monday 16th to Tuesday 17th April. Cars burned, throwing stones, clashes with police, car and garbage fires, throwing projectiles ... Eighteen people were arrested, young people mainly after the first violence on Sunday.

"The police were taken to party throughout the night and made 18 arrests for acts of violence, destruction of property by fire and contempt," said Tuesday morning in a statement the prefect Pascal Mailhos.

The Mirail district in Toulouse has been hit by a new night of clashes from Monday to Tuesday. According to the SGP police-FO unit union, the districts of Bellefontaine and Bagatelle, which are part of the urban ensemble of Mirail, were

"The theater of scenes of urban violence", with "ambush and firing of vehicles, garbage containers, and hearty coagings on the speakers".

Located southwest of Toulouse, the popular district of Mirail is once again in the heart of urban violence that last two days now. The incidents affect the Reynerie and Bellefontaine, but also the Faourette and Bagatelle on the other side of the ring, all classified as a priority security zone (ZSP) .out begins on the evening of Sunday, April 15. A police station is also targeted just like police vehicles. Monday, April 16th, rebelote. New incidents erupt, always in the same place, and always in the evening.

According to the police, mortar fire is being fired from the street apartments. The police replicate with grenades and tear gas bombs. A barricade in flames long barrel Street Paul Gauguin. "

In a statement, the prefect of Haute-Garonne condemns "with the greatest firmness these acts of violence that lead to the destruction of private property and endanger human lives."

According to Commissioner Arnaud Bavois, tension in the neighborhood rose in the afternoon after the control of a veiled woman refusing to submit to police checks.

The violence may also have been triggered by a rumor that guards at the Seysses prison, south of Toulouse, were the cause of the death on Saturday of an inmate from the neighborhood who committed suicide by hanging.

An important device had been put in place by the police, with the support of a CRS company and the gendarmerie helicopter.

In a statement, the union unit SGP-FO asked him, "the strongest firm against the perpetrators of these unacceptable actions and salutes the determination and control of the workforce engaged in this configuration of policing, also atypical than dangerous. " Republican law must apply throughout the country!


Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

GRAFFE MAN IN THREE FACES

"The operation answers a question that was of the order of research: can we remake a facial transplant? Yes, we can retransplant, and that's what we get, " said Pr Lantieri.

Jérôme Hamon, 43, has already undergone two facial grafts being the only one in the world in this case.

A medical feat. From the hospital in Paris where he is still hospitalized, the Breton three months after a second facial transplant, unveiled his new face during a meeting with the media.

A question of identity

"I feel very good," says Jerome Hamon, three months after his operation on January 15 and 16, during a meeting with media last week. It was the night he had a second facial graft because of neurofibromatosis type 1 (von Recklinghausen's disease), a genetic disease that deformed his face. "The first transplant, I accepted the graft right away. I thought it was a new face and now it's the same, " says Jérôme Hamon today. "If I had not accepted this new face, it would have been a tragedy. Indeed, it is a question of identity. [...] But here it's good, it's me. ".

He appeared with a face still smooth and motionless having not yet married the features of his skull. To do this he has a heavy immunosuppressive treatment preventing a new rejection. "I can not wait to get rid of all this," he adds, still hospitalized and tired by the heavy treatment he has to undergo. He expresses himself with difficulty.

An unprecedented surgical feat

A world first had already been made on this patient at Henri-Mondor Hospital in Créteil, near Paris by the same team.

This second unprecedented feat belongs to the team of Pr. Laurent Lantieri, to the Georges Pompidou European Hospital, to the Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP). This plastic surgeon had already made, on the same patient, a first total facial transplant, in 2010 at Henri-Mondor Hospital in Créteil, near Paris but a banal cold treated with antibiotics degraded his first transplanted face while the Graft had been a success as he had told in a book Have you seen the gentleman? published in April 2015.

Here he is again hospitalized in summer 2017 and his grafted face, with areas of necrosis, is removed. He remains two months "without face" in intensive care in Pompidou, the time that the Agency of biomedicine reports a compatible donor. The patient is then waiting for a new donor.

"The whole resuscitation team was blown away by Jérôme's courage, his will, his strength of character in a tragic situation. Because he is waiting, and never complains. He was even rather in a good mood, " Bernard Cholley, an anesthetist-resuscitator, told the press.

The donor a 22 year old man

The face donor will be a young man of 22, who died several hundred kilometers from Paris. All logistics will take place on January 14th. We must first take this face in the day of Monday by transporting it as quickly as possible, by road, to Georges-Pompidou.

The National Agency for Drug Safety (ANSM) has agreed to use a revolutionary technique to preserve the graft: in addition to being immersed in a classical solute, it has benefited from the properties of marine worm hemoglobin for retain oxygen.

Put a new graft face

Jérôme Hamon entered the operating room on Monday, January 15th, at midday. "Around noon, the team performed the preparation at the recipient level: prepare the vessels, prepare the nerves, so that we can then do this transplant," says Professor Lantieri.

Then comes the moment to delicately pose a mask by connecting it to all that makes the complex anatomy of the head. The graft took. The patient will come out of the block on Tuesday at the end of the morning, after a non-standard operation.

Some 40 facial grafting operations have been performed since the first, that of the French Isabelle Dinoire in 2005.

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

IMMOLATION OF A FAMOUS LAWYER OF AMERICAN

BY FIRE TO DENOUNCE POLLUTION

 

A famous American lawyer, a fervent advocate for gay rights, set himself on fire in a New York park:

the goal was to protest against the pollution, according to a farewell letter sent to the media before his death.

According to the New York Times, which quotes the police, David Buckel committed suicide by fire in Brooklyn Prospect Park on Saturday morning and was pronounced dead at 6:30 am, after sending an email to several US media outlets.

"Pollution is ravaging our planet and spreading instability through the air, the soil, the water and the weather," wrote Buckel in this text published by the New York daily.

"Most humans on the planet now breathe unsanitary air with fossil fuels and many, therefore, will die prematurely - my premature death with a fossil fuel reflects what we are doing to us- same, "he denounces.

60-year-old David Buckel fought for gay rights in the United States in high-profile cases of discrimination.

As part of the LGBT Lambda Legal Civil Rights Organization, it has allowed the legalization of gay marriage, now legally recognized in all states of the country.

"The news of David's death is breaking our hearts.

This is a terrible loss for the Lambda Legal family, but also for the entire movement for social justice, " said one of the organization's directors, Camilla Taylor, in a statement.

Fascinated by the defense of the environment after leaving Lambda Legal he left a letter explaining his irremediable action. "To have honorable goals in life invites to have honorable goals in death," wrote Mr. Buckel in his farewell letter.

Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

THESE FOODS THAT POISON

 

The magazine 60 millions consumers tackles the agri-food industry by denouncing "poisoning foods", and by teaching the consumer to decipher, brand by brand, sugars, salts, fats, additives, nitrites and hidden pesticides. Mis en cause: processed products.

This concept, defined in 2009 by the nutrition department of the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, covers foods "whose particularity is to be made with very few raw materials (fruits, milk, meat ..) and many additives or reconstituted ingredients in order to lure the consumer's taste and to obtain an easy-to-use product . '

Chocolate powder that contains more sugar than cocoa with additives banned in yogurt, the off-series 60 million consumers ( edited by the National Institute of the consumer, a public institution dependent on the ministry in charge of the consumption) therefore scrutinizes more than 100 consumer products to denounce in a special issue published this Thursday « foods that poison ": sugars, salts, fats, additives, nitrites and hidden pesticides" 80% of the salt absorbed by the French comes from processed foods. 70% of the sugars are added and hidden "indicates the review.

The accused number one: the sugar often hidden

In a bottle of Heinz ketchup 700 g, there are eight tomatoes and 22 pieces of sugar. That is, for 20 g of sauce, as much sugar as in two small butter brand Lu.

The chocolate powders of breakfast are also singled out as Nesquik and Super Poulain. Real "sugar bombs" , according to the authors of this special issue. Nesquik contains 76% sugar and Super Colt 86%!

Prohibited additives

Fruit yogurts from the big brands incorporate a number of banned additives: "nine additives in Carrefour yoghurt with creamy recipe fruit, seven in Strawberry Taillefine, and 12 in Yoplait Nature's basket on fruit", according to the authors of review

"The fruit mixture is basically a Trojan horse to get around the law," says the magazine, saying that consumers are simply deceived

A list of 50 products "to proscribe" is quoted, ranging from E102 to E951. A tip for vegetables and fresh vegetables that should be favored: peel and brush zucchini, eggplant and cucumbers, because "a passage under the water is not enough"

A list that has angered the Ania (Food Industries Association) that additives "were first introduced for the preservation of food."

Warning on red meat

In the meat department, the magazine details the "pernicious mechanism" of "too much iron" in red meat, which favors the development of cancers, especially breast cancer for women.

In summary, the recommendations given by the journal are identical to those of the National Agency for Food Safety: do not consume more than 500 g of red meat a week, or 70 g per day, and less for women after 50 years.

Ania, which has been implicated and represents 17,000 French companies in the agri-food sector, has of course regretted the publication of such a clean file according to her to "only fuel the fears".

Is happiness still on the plate as Paul Bocuse thought?

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THE DEATH PENALTY OR A REDUCED LIGHT

WORLD EXECUTIONS

Death penalty: The number of executions in the world continues to fall, according to Amnesty International. The number of abolitionist countries amounts to 142 out of 195 countries in the law or de facto, 106 having totally repealed it. Mongolia has become abolitionist.

Guatemala has become abolitionist for crimes of law only

Guinea has become the 20th country in sub-Saharan Africa to abolish the death penalty. The Gambia has also signed an international treaty obliging it not to carry out executions and to progress towards the abolition of the death penalty.

Kenya has removed the mandatory use of this punishment for murder.

Burkina Faso and Chad have taken legislative steps in the direction of abolition, lists AI's global report.

" Perceived developments in sub-Saharan Africa reinforce the hope for a definitive end to cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments," said Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International.

A total of 993 executions were recorded in 23 countries in 2017, a decrease of 4% compared to 2016.

These statistics, however, do not take into account China, the country with the most capital punishment. It is impossible to obtain accurate accounting, as this data is classified as a State secret.

With the exception of China, four countries alone account for 84% of reported executions worldwide: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan. But we continue to execute for narcotics offenses in the Middle East, North Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. Singapore has carried out eight executions in 2017. In the Middle East, 27% of these killings are related to drug cases.

Amnesty notes, however, a decrease of 31 per cent in Pakistan and 11 per cent in Iran. Among the improvements, Egypt stands out with a decline of 20%. On the other hand, countries such as Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Kuwait are once again applying executions in 2017.

In contrast, Amnesty International recorded no executions in five countries that had implemented the death penalty in 2016: Botswana, Indonesia, Nigeria, Sudan and Taiwan.

In Europe, Belarus is the last nation to apply the death penalty despite a slight downward trend. At least two executions took place in this country in 2017 while six people await their executions.

The United States was the only country in the Americas to execute prisoners with a slight increase in the number of death sentences: 41 executions in 2017, compared to 32 in 2016. Texas remains at the top of the states in which we execute the most (7), followed by Arkansas, Alabama and Florida.

The resumption of executions in Arkansas is noted in the report as " a new level of disregard for life" in that on February 27, 2017, this state had planned eight executions over a period of ten days spread over the following April.

Reason then invoked by the governor of the southern state of the country, the Republican Asa Hutchinson, the expiry in late April of a controversial substance used in lethal injections, midazolam. This accelerated program has been the target of judicial appeal and international mobilization of opponents of the death penalty.

Four were finally executed, the justice stopped three convictions and the governor finally granted his leniency to the eighth convict.

A statement that goes in the right direction

Joanne Courbet for DayNewsWorld

LOIRET INHABITANTS HAVE SEEN

THE SKY FALL THEM ON THE HEAD

They did not know what it was, the fact that the sky could fall on our heads; but since Tuesday, April 10, 2018, like our ancestors the Gauls, some inhabitants of Loiret now know it!

It was 15H08 very precisely, yesterday, when firefighters Loiret were called urgently. An explosion had just occurred in the building of the Faurecia Company based rue de Varenne in Nogent sur Vernisson.

Large means were immediately mobilized: more than twenty machines and a large forty men.

Nobody knew, a priori, exactly what had happened in this factory specialized in the manufacture of car seats, but the soldiers of the fire had obligation to respect the procedure foreseen for an industrial establishment confronted with a damage, of type explosion.

It was only on the spot that firefighters and rescuers who came running understood what had happened, when they spotted a large hole of about 1 m2 in the roof of the building and the remains of what had happened. to prove to be an inert warhead, fallen from a fighter jet that trained in the sky of Gâtinais. The employees were evacuated for the first time, and then for a second time confined to a canteen.

An employee of the workshop indicated that part of the machine was embedded in a robot, the rest stuck to the ground.

Two employees of the company Faurecia were seriously injured, probably by the fall of a wardrobe?

But the residents of the Faurecia site, who worked in a farming company whose hold is separated from the equipment manufacturer's land by a railroad, also had a great fright! They saw two fighter planes arrive and it was after the passage of the second plane that they heard a big "boom" , then saw a flash followed by a release of smoke.

Two of the market gardeners immediately worried about exactly what was going on and if the cooperative's nitrogen and gas facilities had been affected?

According to the communication officer of the Ministry of Defense (SIRPA-Air), the object that broke away from a fighter plane and fell, is "a carrying bag" set under the wing of the plane before takeoff.

This object has all the visual characteristics of a bomb, but which is not a real one, because it is an inert object that measures 80 cm long and weighs 16 kg. The warhead is plastic and only the tip is metal (something seriously hurt!).

The two fighter jets spotted were from Mirage 2000D who flew on patrol and came from the Nancy base.

The two mirages 2000D that sailed at low altitude, at a speed of 600 to 800 km / h participated in a maneuver between Nancy / Camp Suippes and Nogent on Vernisson. They had to make simulated firing passes, not dropping anything above Nogent on Vernisson. The dropping was to take place on an approved range, that of Suippes en Champagne.

These 2000D mirages are currently engaged in the Sahel against terrorism.

According to the Air Force representative, this is an extremely rare event that has never happened in the last 3 years.

When the two military planes landed, they were immediately seized by Justice. Several investigations were opened: one by the military prosecutor's office of Paris, another by the gendarmerie because there were wounded and a third by the BEA (Bureau Investigation Accidents).

On landing both aircraft were screened, after which it was established that the safety devices had been complied with (no human failure). The investigation would therefore turn towards a technical problem.

The two pilots very shaken by this accident asked to know, from their landing, in which state of health were the wounded.

We did not expect better from these knights of the sky, seasoned, thoughtful and generous, responding to a demanding code of honor.


Clara Mitchell for DayNewsWorld
257 DEATH IN THE CRASH OF AN AIRCRAFT

ALGERIAN MILITARY

An Algerian army plane crashed Wednesday on an "uninhabited farmland" shortly after taking off from a base south of Algiers, killing 257 people, the worst air disaster in Algeria.

The victims are the ten crew members and 247 passengers, "most of whom are National People's Army personnel as well as members of their families," the ministry said, without mentioning any survivors.

The aircraft insured a flight Boufarik-Tindouf-Bechar. Tindouf, 1,800 km from Algiers, near the borders of Morocco and Western Sahara.

Security sources, quoted by the daily Ennahar, indicate that 26 members of the Polisario were on board.

No hypothesis has been advanced to explain the accident.

The device is an Iliouchine IL-76, a civilian or military quadrireactor of Soviet and then Russian manufacture.

According to the manufacturer's website, the IL-76 can carry between 126 and 225 passengers, depending on the version.

There remains a charred and blackened wreckage of the aircraft in a field some 100 meters from the base's surrounding walls.

The Algerian Deputy Minister of Defense, also Chief of Staff of the National People's Army, the General

Ahmed Gaïd Salah, went to the scene of the accident and ordered the establishment of "immediate commission of inquiry to determine the circumstances of the accident."


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BACTERIA E .COLI 500 KILOS OF HATCHED MEAT RECEIVED BY THE BIGARD GROUP

 

Bigard's Socopa company had to recall 500 kilograms of minced meat with traces of the bacteria "Escherichia coli". The lots sold in the south and east of France whose expiry date is March 28th to 31st are concerned.

A check revealed the presence of Escherichia coli bacteria in a lot marketed in the south and east of France as well as in Corsica.

The positive control took place within the framework of the surveillance plan of the General Directorate of Health. feeding on E. coli pathogens that depends on the Ministry of Agriculture.

The meat in question was removed from the stores but may have been purchased and frozen. "No patient or case of food poisoning related to the batch concerned was brought to the attention of the company and health authorities," said the company in a statement, stressing simply act "in accordance with the principle precautionary".

Socopa asks customers who own the products concerned either to throw them away or bring them back to the store. The brands concerned are Auchan, Boucherie Saint Clément and Socopa "Le délice du butcher" , sold in Auchan, Leclerc, Simply, Atac, Leader Price and Aldi stores.

Escherichia coli O26: H11 bacteria can cause gastrointestinal disturbances when the meat is not sufficiently cooked.


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SUDDEN DEATH OF ADULT OR STUDY

TO PROBE THE GENETIC TRACK

 

Cardiologist Antoine Leenhardt will work with 50 survivors of this condition. In 5% of cases, the causes are unknown.

The sudden death of adults kills no less than 50,000 people a year and researchers rack their brains to find a cure. Antoine Leenhardt, cardiologist, launches an unprecedented initiative in France: a study, entitled "What if your heart stops beating? Funded by the Heart and Stroke Foundation , conducted over two years and with the help of fifty patients who survived a sudden death case.

Is there a cure for sudden death of adults? This is the hope of the researchers.

It is a discovery made a few months ago at the hospital of Salpêtrière, in Paris which is at the origin of this study. The team discovered that the abnormality of a protein located in the heart muscle could explain these cases of sudden death in adults. "It had never been found before," says Professor Antoine Leenhardt.

Antoine Leenhardt and the other researchers will therefore try to see if these 50 survivors have this gene.

To support this hypothesis, the researchers want to introduce this famous mutated protein into the genome of rats to see if they then suffer from cardiac arrhythmia.

It should be known that only 5% of the people concerned survive this cardiac arrest, which kills as much as the cancers of the breast, lung and colon combined, says Le Parisien.

Currently, "to escape, you need a doctor in the street, a defibrillator in the subway, incredible luck, a rescue in less than three minutes," says Professor Antoine Leenhardt.

Jaimie Potts for DayNewsWorld

THE DIFFICULT RECONSTRUCTION OF

TREBES HITTING

 

I gave her life for me. He killed himself for me to live, "Julie V., a cashier at the Super U in Trèbes, told her relatives.

This 40-year-old woman is the hostage replaced by Arnaud Beltrame during the Aude attack on 23 March. Julie's face to face with the terrorist who used it as a human shield lasted more than an hour.

Radouane Lakdim pointed a pistol at his neck for nearly an hour after releasing the other hostages remaining alone with the terrorist until Arnaud Beltrame made the decision to take the place of her to release her. The heroic act of the lieutenant-colonel will cost him his life.

Upset, the forty-year-old did not visit the funeral of Hervé Sosna and Christian Medvès, two other victims of the Trèbes attacks. That same evening, she had met with Elisabeth Pelsez, the interministerial delegate in charge of victim assistance.

She went with her husband to the national tribute given in the courtyard of Invalides (Paris) in honor of Arnaud Beltrame on March 28.

Between the trauma of this hostage-taking and the guilt of having survived thanks to the sacrifice of the policeman, the young woman has significant psychological consequences. Since then, she does not want to see anyone living in seclusion since her home, more traumatized.

She would be the object of an important psychological follow-up.

"For the moment, she remains very affected and does not want to see anyone," said Marc Dormières, the mayor of the small audoise town of Puichéric, where the young woman lives, to our colleagues in the JDD.



Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld

A "CLOSE HOUSE" WITH

GIRLS IN PARIS ?

Although prostitution is not prohibited in France, brothels have been prohibited since 1946.

And yet Xdolls in a hidden apartment in the heart of the XIVth arrondissement opened in Paris on February 1 not employing real women, but dolls hyper realistic silicone.

Sex dolls bought several thousand euros each to satisfy the fantasies of visitors who pay 89 euros per hour by making an appointment by internal 

Subdued lighting, music, three rooms with closed curtains with in each a creature made of silicone, naked, made in China of 1.45 meters.

A doll worth several thousand euros.

As wall decor, a screen with porn videos "for stimulation".

At the back, a room where the dolls are cleaned ...

An apartment of 70 sqm open to men for paid sexual services on life size silicone dolls is it a brothel?

The Communist Group-Left Front notes with anger that "Xdolls has been declared in the commercial register as a gaming house as if it were a room with foosball or pinball machines. "

The elected representatives of the Communist Group - Left Front at the Paris Council have just submitted a wish to the Council (which starts on Tuesday) calling for the ban on this brothel of giant sex toys. For them, "Xdolls conveys a degrading image of the woman" , and the establishment can be described as "place of prostitution with a landlord who can be likened to a pimp" .

Pierre Laurent, national secretary of the Communist Party, has invited himself into the controversy and announced that he will table a written question in the Senate denouncing further that some of these "sex robots" can "make think of children" .

An innovation in the sex trade that is controversial.

On the Web, Internet users have regretted this "prudery" , and this "moralisation to excess".

Lorraine Questiaux, lawyer and spokeswoman for the "Nest" in Paris recalls "that in France, every year, there are 86,000 women raped . " For her, "Xdolls is not a sex shop. It's a place that generates money and where you rape a woman . " The powerful association will also "challenge the prefect" .

Joaquim Lousquy, the founder and manager of the place, at the height of his 29 years does not intend to be counted.




Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld

PENIS CANCER WHEN ONE MAN IN FOUR REFUSES

THE AMPUTATION OF THE VERGE

A large global study has addressed the issue of penile cancer and male behavior. In Copenhagen at the 33rd Congress of the European Association of Urology, Italian, Spanish, American, Brazilian and Hungarian researchers reveal that one out of four patients refuses to receive an adapted treatment whereas this intervention is the only one able to double his chances of being cured of penile cancer.

Even though penile cancer is a very rare disease, every year about one in every 100,000 men gets the disease in the West. It affects more and more men, especially older men.

Ad hoc treatment consists of partial or complete amputation of the penis. "Partially or completely removing the penis is often the most effective way to cure cancer, but for many men this cure seems worse than the disease," says the American Cancer Society.

"No longer have a male attribute and heal" , or "keep your penis but stay sick" . Cornelian choice for these men according to this study but heavy consequence since twice as many patients survived the disease when they had a partial or total amputation of the penis.

Because of its rarity, penile cancer is a disease that is not well understood not only by patients, but also by health professionals. Thus, when patients do not refuse a treatment, it is their doctor who does not offer them a lack of knowledge of the subject. A situation encouraging patients to go to specialized centers. The survey, however, includes a note of hope indicating that the countries studied want to be more and more informed about this cancer and provide a gradually better adapted response.

In the United Kingdom alone, ten specialized centers offer treatment for penile cancer cases.



Alize Marion for DayNewsWorld

THE BERTRAND CANTAT CASE

The controversy swells around the return of Bertrand Cantat on stage.

Bertrand Cantat announced Monday night that he renounced to perform in summer festivals "to end all polemics" and "put an end to pressure on the organizers." He maintains all the dates of his own tour started March 1 in La Rochelle. His last performances are scheduled at the Olympia, in Paris, on May 29th and 30th. .

He played at the box office Monday night, at Rockstore Montpellier but could not avoid the boos of protesters gathered in protest in front of the room before the concert and waving signs "Cantat assassin".

For several weeks, the singer has been the target of growing protests, especially from feminists.

More than 75,000 people have signed an online petition to request the cancellation of his visit in May at the Papillons de nuit festival in the English Channel. " By highlighting Bertrand Cantat, you trivialize the violence against women and you endorse them", we read in the text that accompanies the petition.

Bertrand Cantat who in 2003 killed his companion then, Marie Trintignant. served his prison term and was released in 2007.

The former singer of Black Desire denounces the "censorship" of which he is the object, certain concerts having been deprogrammed by directors of rooms.

He claims the right to reintegration, "in the same way as any citizen," he writes on Facebook, thanking the public of Rockstore Montpellier where he has performed.

In fact the Cantat case raises a simple question: once his sentence is served, does a criminal have the right to reintegrate into society ? In justice, yes. He paid his debt to society. But according to the people's court no.

That the family of Marie Trintignant can not forget the drama we understand. That the singer is not welcomed with open arms by those for whom he has become the symbol of violence against women, it is also understood.

But the singer who has been convicted for his crime and has served his sentence, is he not entitled, like any other person, to resume his life in society and to practice his profession ... without absolving him?

Alyson Braxton for DayNewsWorld

MURDER RITUAL OF A CHILD OF FOUR YEARS

IN IVORY COAST


In Ivory Coast, the ritual murder of a four-year-old child has aroused the indignation and anger of the population. The word hash #JesuisBouba has invaded social networks for a few days to denounce this barbaric act in the networks social.

Even the first lady of the country, Dominique Ouattara, went there from her message. "I have a hard time understanding how such an act can be perpetrated," she wondered.

Bouba by his real name Traoré Aboubacar Sidick was reported missing in the center of Abidjan on the weekend of 24 and 25 February 2018. His body was found a few days later, partly buried, members bound, throat slit , near the CHU Cocody, east of Abidjan, following the confession of his murderer.

This four-year-old child was murdered in squalid conditions. The murderer, a 27-year-old jeweler, and a close friend of Bouba's family spoke to police officers about "ritual crime" .

The reason for this barbarism: the hope of being rich by sacrificing a human being. He therefore followed, according to him, the instructions of a marabout to the letter so that the ritual is effective.

The father of the young victim Bouba spoke. "I have to talk so that never again will a child die like that." Bouba was choked, a 4-year-old boy was suffocated before being slaughtered and gutted , " he said. the father of the child whose words were told by TV5 Monde.

What is happening in Ivory Coast? According to the police, these acts of ritual sacrifice had not been reported to them for years. But in recent weeks, several cases of missing children have been reported. "Since the beginning of the year 2018, it is by the dozens that notices of disappearance of children in Côte d'Ivoire are disseminated on digital social networks and in the written press" , warns Mamadou Doumbia, president of RAMEDE-CI, an association for the defense of children's rights. More than forty children have disappeared since the beginning of the year in Abidjan itself.

Saturday, March 3, 2018, hundreds of anonymous walked in front of the Cocody Hospital in memory of the child with the slogan of "Never again! " One of the initiators of the march expressed himself, hoping that this would be "the last case of child crime in the country".

"We do not have the right to let these crimes against children flourish. It must stop. Through this event, it is a moral support that we bring to the family of Bouba " added a march organizer, Nicole Mireille.

Several members of the government, such as the Minister of Family, have called for the greatest "vigilance" for children's property.

The first lady Dominique Ouattara, engaged in the fight for the rights of the children, also "condemned this practice relating to the kidnappings of children, for any reason whatsoever

The little Bouba has become the symbol of all the children missing in an unexplained way and killed on the advice of marabouts.

The wizard who had advised to make a sacrifice is still on the run.


Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

WHAT IS EXPECTED FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH ?

Like every month, the march is punctuated with changes. Here is the overview of the measures that come into effect Thursday that will affect your wallet.

1 ° Increase in the price of tobacco

New blow for smokers. This Thursday, the price of the pack of cigarettes will increase by 1 euro on average, to settle around 8 euros whereas it had already significantly increase previously date. In detail: an increase of 1 euro on average of the price of the pack of cigarettes and 2 euros for rolling tobacco. Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn hopes the measure will bring "awareness" to smokers. The government's goal is to reduce tobacco consumption. Further increases are planned in the future to reach 10 euros per pack of cigarettes by November 2020.

2 ° Decrease in regulated gas tariffs

After a sharp rise in January, the regulated natural gas tariffs applied by Engie to several million customers in France fell by 3% on average. This decrease is 1% for those who use gas for cooking, 1.8% for those who have dual use cooking and hot water and 3% for homes that heat gas.

Regulated tariffs have been suspended since the Conseil d'Etat, seized by competing suppliers of Engie, ruled in July that their maintenance was contrary to European law.

3 ° The Crit'air sticker

Mandatory in some large cities to indicate the level of pollution of vehicles, the sticker will increase from € 3.70 to € 3.11. A price to which must however add the amount of the routing by postal way "the total cost thus returns to 3,62 euros instead of 4,18 euros" , can one read on certificat-air.gouv.fr. To obtain the sticker, motorists can go to the website certificat-air.gouv. It is enough to bring the certificate of registration of his vehicle. The sticker will be sent to the address appearing on the car registration card. A motorist may face a fine of 68 euros. An amount raised to 135 euros for cars and trucks ...

4 ° Arrival of the energy check

This device replaces social tariffs for the most modest households, to help them pay their energy bills.

About 4 million households will be eligible for this check, ranging from € 48 to € 227 depending on the level of income and the composition of the household. It will be used to pay directly to the energy supplier all kinds of expenses (gas, electricity, fuel oil, wood ...). It can also be used to finance energy efficiency works. For the homes concerned, there will be no particular approach to perform to receive it since the energy check will be sent automatically by post.

5 ° Increase in the price of transport in Lyon

The Sytral group - Syndicat mixte des transports for the Rhône and the Lyon conurbation - has decided to review its pricing policy this year. Starting on Thursday, a single metro ticket will now cost 1.90 euros, compared to 1.80 euros in 2017. The price of the Pass Partout is increasing by 40 cents to 63.60 euros.

6 ° Regulation in Bordeaux for owners renting via Airbnb

After Paris, Bordeaux is putting in place a very strict regulation of housing rentals via platforms like Airbnb. From Thursday, in Bordeaux, the inhabitants of this city wishing to rent a room or all their main residence via these platforms will now have to register in town hall. There, a number will be created to make it possible to verify that the owners do not rent more than 120 days a year. If exceeded, they will be liable to a fine and may switch in the tax applied to professionals.

7 ° Change to summer time

The European Parliament adopted in early February, a resolution to end the change of time for all countries of the European Union. At the European Commission now to convince the 28 Member States to endorse this abolition, knowing that if this is the case, the time system of the European Union will be fixed on the zone UTC / GMT +1, in other words, on the hour of winter ...







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SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND AGE OF CONSENT

TO THE 13-YEAR ACT

 

F rançois Molins, prosecutor of the Republic of Paris, salutes in Le Parisien the liberation of the words of women victims of sexual assault. "If this lead screed finally gives way, that's fine," he said.

Harassment complaints in the aftermath of the Weinstein affair and social media whistle-blowing campaigns such as #MeToo and #BalanceTonPorc have increased significantly. "We have seen a 20 to 30% increase in cases of harassment and sexual assault in the fall, with a peak in October, 154 complaints in this month alone , " said the prosecutor of Paris. " But this effect is falling back to the previous situation, between 80 and 120 complaints a month. As for the rapes, the figures have remained stable with around 700 complaints a year, "he explains.

Warning against the danger of the "media court"

But faced with this strong increase, he can not help but warn against excesses and rumors. The campaign of denunciation on social networks can not indeed replace justice. The prosecutor recalls the existence of the presumption of innocence applying to all. While the right to information exists but there can be no "media court". "It should not be rumor worth condemnation. There is an absolute right to information, but there can be no media court, "he insists.

For François Molins justice has done its job well in two recent cases that have unleashed the chronicle, those of Tariq Ramadan and Gerald Darmanin.

Better care for rape victims

Measures have been taken to better assist those wishing to lodge a complaint. "A rape victim who now goes to the hospital before filing a complaint will immediately be examined and at the new court [which will open in Paris in April], a device will allow those whose condition requires it to immediate care on a psychological or social level ", explains François Molins. And he invites women victims of aggression to "report it without delay" to facilitate the work of the investigators.

Age of sexual consent at age 13

François Molins also wants to set 13 as the minimum age of consent to a sexual act

"This would be consistent with the 1945 Ordinance on the protection of minors: 13 years is the age from which one is accessible to criminal sanctions. That would be the threshold of discernment, so to speak, " says Molins. This bill follows the controversy created by the case of a 28-year-old man prosecuted for "sexual assault" and not for rape, his 11-year-old victim being considered to be consenting.

An information report from the National Assembly presented Thursday proposes that any sexual act committed by a major on a minor under 13 years be considered "an aggravated sexual assault and, in case of penetration, rape."

Alyson Braxton for DayNewsWorld

THE TEMPERATURE RESSENTIE

AN EVALUATION OF PUBLIC UTILITY

France is preparing to live an episode called "cold weather" with negative temperatures up to -10 ° displayed on the thermometer. Minimum temperatures between -6 ° C and -10 ° C are expected in the north and east of France. On the coasts of the Channel and the Atlantic and in the South-West, the minimum is announced between -2 and -6 ° C. The Mediterranean, meanwhile, will be a little more spared: from 0 to -4 ° C. For daytime highs do not expect to exceed -6 ° C. And a cold air from Russia will blow all week on the Hexagon. The coldest days will be Tuesday and Wednesday.

Meteorologists now give two indications about the cold: the temperature and the temperature felt or the feeling always inferior.

What are these two notions corresponding to?

The first concept corresponds to the following definition: it is " the temperature of the air - the temperature under shelter - is, by definition, that measured with a thermometer (or a probe) placed at 1.5 m from the ground in a perforated shelter " explain the specialists of Météo France. This temperature is very different from the temperature felt.

The second notion incorporates another parameter: that of atmospheric conditions. "The physiological perception of the temperature varies from one individual to another and according to the atmospheric conditions (wind, rain, sunshine ...). " So depending on the strength of the wind, the cold can be difficult to withstand, because of what is called the wind chill. When the wind blows we have the impression of a much greater cold.

"To quantify this effect, meteorologists calculate the perceived temperature or wind chill index using an empirical mathematical relationship, which takes into account air temperature and wind speed. With an air temperature of -10 ° C and a wind speed of 30 km / h, the wind index will be, for example, -20, which means that the sensation on the skin will be close to that experienced under temperature of -20 ° C on a day without wind.

This data, known as the temperature, comes from the other side of the Atlantic, cold countries like Canada or the north of the United States.

This week, in some places temperatures felt will oscillate between - 20 and -25 ° C, especially on the Jura plateaus, and in some ski resorts. In the lowlands, Météo France forecasts temperatures of -18 ° C over most of the country, down to -12 ° C on the Atlantic coasts.

To resist the cold several tips:

1 ° To superpose the layers of clothes and to cover the hands and the feet, which quickly lose the heat, but also the neck and the head.

2 ° Do not make intense physical efforts.

3 ° Avoid alcohol consumption which contrary to popular belief does not warm up but causes dilation of the blood vessels, which is bad for health.

4 ° Take care of the most vulnerable (babies, old people, some people suffering from a pathology ...).

An evaluation of public utility that allows to anticipate the consequences on the human body in order to protect the latter against this Siberian cold.

The cold weather plan is activated in 37 departments for the homeless.


Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld

 

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GRAND FROID SUR L'EUROPE DE L'OUEST AVEC L'AXE « MOSCOU-PARIS »

Un «  épisode de grand froid », soit 8 à 10 degrés en-dessous des normales saisonnières, est annoncé par Météo France pour la semaine prochaine. A son origine, le phénomène "Moscou-Paris".

Ce phénomène est connu des prévisionnistes même si habituellement il se manifeste en général entre mi-décembre et fin janvier.

C'est une véritable invasion d'un froid sec venu du grand Nord qui va arriver sur la France dès la fin de cette semaine. Une masse d'air froid et sec va s'installer durablement sur l'Hexagone.

« C'est la mise en place de ce qu'on appelle un Moscou-Paris: l'air froid des hautes pressions du nord de l'Europe est aspiré sur notre pays par les basses pressions du sud de l'Europe », explique François Gourand, ingénieur prévisionniste à Météo-France.

Les températures les plus froides seront largement en-dessous de 0°C et pourrait descendre de mercredi  28 février à vendredi 2 mars jusqu'à - 10°C le matin.

« On devrait observer des températures minimales de -6 à -10 °C au nord et à l’est de l’Hexagone, -2 à -6 °C sur les côtes de la Manche et de l'Atlantique et dans les plaines du Sud-Ouest, 0 à -4 °C près de la Méditerranée », écrit Météo France. .

Avec le vent en provenance de Russie, ces températures ressenties se feront encore plus basses, les habitants de l'Est de la France pouvant ressentir des -25°C à certains endroits.

Mais grâce à l' anticyclone de blocage qui va s'installer sur l'Europe du nord et un vent continental venu de l'Est le soleil s'imposera.

Ce temps sibérien devrait perdurer sur l'Europe de l'Ouest jusqu'au week-end prochain, avant un refroidissement plus sérieux (en début de semaine prochaine), lié à une nouvelle arrivée d'air polaire en provenance du nord-est de l'Europe.

Seule l'extrême sud-est de l'Europe devrait échapper à cette période froide.

Mais elle ne battra pas les sibériens records de 1985.

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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AU MOINS 3 624 PERSONNES SANS-ABRI A PARIS

 

En France, il n’existe pas de recensement officiel des SDF. Selon une enquête de l’Insee remontant à 2012 on comptait déjà 143.000 personnes sans domicile en France, dont 28.800 adultes francophones dans l’agglomération parisienne.

Après une polémique sur le nombre de sans- abri entre les associations et les pouvoirs publics, la Ville de Paris a pris l'initiative de faire un recensement des SDF, de plus en plus nombreux, dans Paris intra-muros.

Lors de la Nuit de la solidarité, dans la nuit du 15 au 16 février, trois cent cinquante équipes ont couvert les vingt arrondissements pendant trois heures. Chaque équipe avait des questionnaires qu’elle a soumis aux SDF.

Ces 2 000 bénévoles sont allés au contact de 2 025 sans-abri dormant dans la rue. 200 personnes ont été recensées par la SNCF dans les gares, 49 dans les services d’urgence des hôpitaux de l’Assistance publique, 377 dans les stations de métro et de RER, 112 dans les parkings gérés par Vinci, sans oublier les 129 personnes qui passaient la nuit dans le Bois de Vincennes, 20 autres dans le Bois de Boulogne, et 40 dans le parc de La Colline.

Un total  de près de 3000 « invisibles » sans compter les 672 hébergées de façon très provisoire pendant cette période de grand froid.

« Dès que nous ne serons plus en plan Grand froid, ces 672 personnes reviendront à la rue et porteront le total à 3 624 », a précisé Dominique Versini.

Ce chiffre doit être considéré comme un minimum puisque non seulement 1 600 places seront fermées dès le 31 mars, mais aussi parce que certains espaces n’ont pas été explorés.

« Toutes les personnes n’ont pas été comptées », a concédé Bruno Julliard, premier adjoint de la maire socialiste Anne Hidalgo. En effet dans le respect de la propriété privée et l’intimité des personnes, les parkings et l’ensemble des cages d’escalier d’immeuble n’ont pas été pris en compte.

« Nous n’avons pas, non plus, réveillé les sans domicile fixe. Nous n’avons pas ouvert les tentes dans lesquelles il pouvait y avoir plusieurs personnes. » a-t-il poursuivi.

Selon Eric Pliez, le président du Samu social ayant pris part à l’opération, « si on rajoute les personnes qui sont abritées pour les mois d’hiver, on est plutôt à 5 000 SDF dans la capitale. »

Tous les arrondissements de la capitale sont touchés même si la géographie des sans-abri reste plus dense dans les arrondissements du nord et de l’est de la capitale.

Pourquoi un tel décompte de ces hommes et femmes confrontés à la grande exclusion ? Il s'agit de mesurer l’efficacité des dispositifs d’aide et les améliorer le cas échéant.

« Pour accueillir tout le monde, il nous manque bien 3 000 places pérennes. Il faut donc conjuguer les efforts de l’Etat et de la Ville. », a conclu Dominique Versini, adjointe à la maire de Paris chargée des solidarités et de la lutte contre l’exclusion.

L’analyse des questionnaires soumis aux SDF demandera, quant à elle, davantage de temps.

Tous les volontaires seront réunis, courant mars, pour un bilan et la préparation de la Nuit de la solidarité 2019.

Ce recensement sert certes de « point de départ essentiel d’une évaluation objective » mais une coopération étroite entre l’État et les collectivités régionales s'avère indispensable pour faire face à la grande précarité et s'attaquer aux origines de cette exclusion croissante et inadmissible dans un pays développé .

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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UNE EXPLOSION DANS UNE USINE

DE DIEPPE A FAIT DEUX MORTS

Deux techniciens ont été tués par une explosion survenue samedi en fin de matinée dans une usine de traitement d’huile en Seine-Maritime.

Le bilan humain est au total de « onze personnes impliquées », dont un blessé léger et sept autres choquées, a précisé la préfecture de Seine-Maritime.

L'incendie est maîtrisé mais l'inquiétude reste grande chez les riverains de l'usine à cause de ses stocks de matières inflammables ..

L'accident s'est produit lors « d'une opération de maintenance » dans cette usine Saipol, qui appartient au groupe Avril (ex-Sofiprotéol).

L’explosion s'est déclenchée au niveau de l’atelier d’extraction, un local où est extraite, à l’aide d’un solvant, l’huile contenue dans les résidus solides issus des presses, a expliqué le groupe Avril, propriétaire de l’usine.

L’usine avait été arrêtée depuis vingt-quatre heures pour une opération classique de nettoyage.

Le groupe Avril a assuré que « toutes les procédures habituelles de prévention et de sécurité étaient conformes »

« Les causes de l'explosion sont inconnues à ce stade », a précisé la préfecture.

Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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AFFAIRE MAELYS LES RECHERCHES TERMINEES

APRES LA DECOUVERTE D'AUTRES ELEMENTS

Depuis la découverte du crâne et d’un os de la petite Maëlys mercredi après-midi, d’autres ossements ont été trouvés à l’endroit indiqué par Nordhal Lelandais.

La « quasi-totalité » des restes de Maëlys ont été retrouvés jeudi au cours des recherches engagées sur les indications du principal suspect, Nordahl Lelandais, a annoncé jeudi le procureur de la République de Grenoble, Jean-Yves Coquillat.

« La quasi-totalité du squelette, ainsi que les vêtements et une chaussure » ont été retrouvés à l'endroit où, la veille, le crâne et un os de la petite fille disparue depuis la fin août avaient été découverts, a précisé le procureur. Le procureur a précisé que les opérations de recherche étaient terminées dans l'immédiat.

Après six mois de silence, Nordahl Lelandais a avoué mercredi avoir tué la petite Maëlys et a fourni aux enquêteurs les indications permettant de retrouver des restes de la fillette à l’issue de difficiles recherches dans la montagne enneigée.

L’ex-militaire de 34 ans a affirmé que le décès de l’enfant était « involontaire » mais a refusé dans l’immédiat de s’exprimer sur les circonstances de sa mort, a indiqué le procureur de la République de Grenoble Jean-Yves Coquillat devant la presse. Plusieurs indices accablaient depuis près de six mois l’unique suspect de l’enlèvement et du meurtre de la fillette de 8 ans.

Une trace ADN de la fillette sur le tableau de bord de son véhicule ainsi que des images d'une frêle silhouette vêtue de blanc dans la voiture filmées par une caméra de surveillance dans la nuit de sa disparition avaient donné des suspiscions aux enquêteurs.

Mais Lelandais niait les fait trouvant toujours des alibis puis s'était muré dans le silence.

Selon le procureur, Nordahl Lelandais sera réentendu "prochainement" par les juges d'instruction. L'ancien maître-chien a refusé dans l'immédiat de s'exprimer sur les circonstances de la mort de la fillette.

Lelandais, au  profil psychologique déroutant, est également mis en examen depuis le 20 décembre pour l'assassinat d'Arthur Noyer en avril, toujours dans cette même région proche de Chambéry.

Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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CARNAGE DANS UN LYCEE

DE FLORIDE AUX ETATS-UNIS

Au moins17 morts sont à déplorer dans une fusillade d'une école en Floride peu avant la fin des cours. Le tireur, "un ancien élève", a été interpellé  et identifié.

La Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School de Parkland, une localité située à 70 km environ au nord de Miami, a été le théâtre d'une fusillade sanglante ce mercredi après-midi. Douze personnes ont été tuées à l’intérieur du lycée, trois autres étaient à l'extérieur quand elles sont décédées. Deux autres victimes sont mortes à l'hôpital .

Le tireur, armé d’un fusil d’assaut de type AR-15 très facile à se procurer dans la majeure partie de l'Etat, s’est rendu sans résistance à la police dans la localité proche de Coral Springs.

Cet ancien élève ,qualifié de « solitaire » et d’« élève à problèmes » avait été renvoyé de l’établissement pour raison disciplinaire. Il a été identifié comme Nikolaus Cruz, né en septembre 1998, dont les publications sur les réseaux sociaux étaient « très alarmantes » selon le shérif du comté de Broward .

Une alarme incendie aurait été déclenchée vers le début de la tuerie si bien une partie des 3 300 élèves auraient évacué les classes pensant à un exercice alerte incendie avant de se retrancher dans leur salle. Des témoins, élèves et professeurs, ont rapporté s'être cachés jusque dans les placards lorsque les coups de feu ont retenti peu avant la fin des cours.

Des ambulances, des camions de pompiers ainsi qu'une longue cohorte de voitures de police et plusieurs véhicules blindés d'un groupe d'intervention étaient stationnés près du lycée. Des victimes-13 survivants blessé par balles, dont cinq dans un état critique- ont été évacuées par hélicoptère.

Le sénateur de Floride Bill Nelson a indiqué sur CNN que le tireur portait un masque à gaz et possédait avec lui des grenades fumigènes. Il a déclenché une alarme incendie pour faire sortir les lycéens des salles de classe et les attirer dans les couloirs. « Alors, le carnage a commencé », a déclaré le sénateur.

« Depuis janvier 2013, il y a eu au moins 283 fusillades à travers tout le pays, ce qui revient à une fusillade en milieu scolaire par semaine », constatait fin janvier « Everytown for Gun Safety », une organisation luttant contre la prolifération des armes aux Etats-Unis.

Le président Donald Trump « a été informé de la fusillade dans une école en Floride », a indiqué la Maison-Blanche, et a adressé sur Twitter ses condoléances aux familles de victimes.

Le drame survenu mercredi est le dernier en date d'une longue série de fusillades qui ensanglante particulièrement les écoles ces dernières années. En janvier, un adolescent de 15 ans a tué deux élèves dans un lycée de Benton, dans le Kentucky.On en compte 18 en 2018 avec celle du lycée Marjory Stoneman.

Depuis le massacre de Sandy Hook, une école primaire du Connecticut où furent froidement tués 20 enfants âgés de 6 et 7 ans, les procédures d'alerte et les exercices d'entraînement se sont multipliés dans les établissements scolaires américains.

« Aucun enfant, enseignant ou quiconque, ne devrait jamais se sentir en danger dans une école américaine », a tweeté le président Donald Trump.

Alize Marion pour DayNewsWorld
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AFFAIRE MAELYS OU LE CORPS RETROUVE

DE LA FILETTE DE 9 ANS

Nordahl Lelandais vient d'avouer .Ce que tous redoutait. Il a avoué avoir tué "involontairement" la filllette sans donner d'explication sur les circonstances de sa mort. Les restes de la petite fille sont enfin localisés, six mois après sa disparition

.Me Alain Jakubowicz a pris la parole lors d'une autre conférence de presse. "Retrouver le corps de cette petite était la chose la plus importante. J'ai rendu visite à Nordhal Lelandais hier et je l'ai prévenu des nouvelles découvertes de l'instruction. Lorsque je l'ai quitté à l'issue de cet entretien, il m'a demandé de prévenir les juges d'instruction de son souhait d'être entendu rapidement."

Le corps de la jeune Maëlys, 9 ans, disparue dans la nuit du 26 au 27 août lors d'une fête de mariage à Pont-de-Beauvoisin, a été retrouvé mercredi en fin d'après-midi, a annoncé le procureur de la République de Grenoble

Nordahl Lelandais, ex-militaire de 34 ans soupçonné d'être impliqué dans la disparition de la petite Maëlys, a été entendu, à sa demande, par les juges d'instruction mercredi matin. Il a reconnu avoir tué Maëlys "involontairement"

Après avoir nié les faits pendant six longs mois, il se montre coopératif avec la police. Le suspect aurait indiqué à celle-ci l'endroit où il a déposé le corps de la victime.

Ce sont des traces de sang retrouvées dans sa voiture qui ont poussé Lelandais à changer d'attitude.

L'homme a quitté sa cellule de la prison de Saint-Quentin-Fallavier peu avant 08h00 mercredi en direction du palais de justice de Grenoble, où il a été entendu par deux juges d'instruction. Après cette audition, le convoi s'est rendu au domicile de la famille Lelandais à Domessin, où les enquêteurs et le magistrat ainsi que le suspect se sont arrêtés une trentaine de minutes.

Les restes de la petite Maëlys ont été découverts ce mercredi 14 février en Savoie dans la commune de Saint Franc située à une vingtaine de minutes de route du lieu de la disparition de la fillette.

Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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CRASH D'UN AVION RUSSE AVEC 71 PERSONNES A BORD

 

Le biréacteur, un Antonov An-148 de la compagnie Saratov, transportait 65 passagers et 6 membres d’équipage, selon les agences russes.

Il s’est écrasé près de Moscou, dimanche 11 février, peu après avoir décollé de l’aéroport international Domodedovo en direction d’Orsk, une ville de l’Oural..

Les 71 passagers et membres d’équipage

« n’ont eu aucune chance » de survivre, selon l’agence de presse Interfax, la carlingue de l’appareil étant

« disséminée sur environ un kilomètre », a précisé à Interfax.

« A l’heure actuelle, les sauveteurs ont réussi à arriver sur le lieu du crash. Il y a beaucoup de corps et de fragments de corps », a déclaré une source à l’agence Interfax.

Selon les agences, des témoins ont vu l'appareil en flammes tomber dans le village d'Argounovo.

Le ministre russe des transports, Maxime Sokolov, est également sur place, ont annoncé les médias russes, ajoutant qu’une enquête avait été ouverte et que plusieurs causes pour le crash étaient envisagées.

Depuis son exploitation l'avion a connu au moins cinq incidents impliquant le train d'atterrissage, le système électrique et le système de guidage.

Les autorités russes n’ont pas évoqué pour le moment l’hypothèse d’un acte terroriste.

Paul Emison pour DayNewsWorld
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ORGIES ORGANISEES EN HAITI

PAR L'ORGANISATION HUMANITAIRE OXFAM

Des prostituées, dont certaines étaient mineures, auraient été engagées par des responsables d'Oxfam, organisation anglaise, en Haïti pendant une mission humanitaire après le séisme de 2010 avec l'argent de l'ONG ,rapporte vendredi le journal britannique The Times. « On aurait dit une orgie à la Caligula avec des prostituées en tee-shirts Oxfam », ainsi titre le quotidien britannique The Times offusqué. « L’une des plus grandes organisations caritatives britanniques a dissimulé le recours aux services de prostituées par ses cadres dans l’île d’Haïti dévastée par le tremblement de terre. », ajoute le média.

En 2010, Port-au-Prince connaît en effet un séisme de grande ampleur qui fait plus de 220 000 morts, 300 000 blessés et 1,5 million de sans-abri. De nombreuses associations humanitaires ont été dépêchées sur place dont l’organisation caritative Oxfam.

Période pendant laquelle des filles de la nuit se seraient rendues dans les résidences payées par l'ONG pour y délivrer leurs services.

Agissement de la part des humanitaires d'autant plus graves que la prostitution est illégale à Haïti et que l’âge du consentement est de 18 ans. De plus le sexe tarifé contrevient au code de conduite d’Oxfam. Enfin Oxfam, la cinquième plus grande association britannique, reçoit 300 millions de livres (environ 338 millions d’euros) par an de fonds gouvernementaux britanniques et de donations publiques. Or c'est avec cet argent qu'auraient été rémunérées les travailleuses du sexe .

Une enquête interne en 2011 a mis à jour « une culture d'impunité » parmi les employés. Le responsable d'Oxfam à Haïti, Roland van Hauwermeiron, a démissionné sans subir de sanctions disciplinaires ayant pourtant reconnu les faits.

« Certains employés ont été renvoyés à la suite de l'enquête, et d'autres ont quitté l'organisation avant que celle-ci ne soit terminée », a précisé la porte-parole de l'ONG. « Le directeur local a endossé toute la responsabilité pour les événements qui se sont déroulés sous sa conduite, et il avait été autorisé à démissionner car il avait soutenu et coopéré à l'enquête sans réserve », a ajouté la porte-parole. L'organisation humanitaire aurait agi ainsi pour ne pas entacher sa réputation.

La justice haïtienne n'ayant pas été informée de l'affaire, aucune action en justice n'a été engagée.

Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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LES JEUX OLYMPIQUES OU LES JEUX DE LA PAIX

Les 23es Jeux olympiques d'hiver se sont ouverts vendredi 9 février, à Pyeongchang (Corée du Sud) avec la participation de quatre-vingt-douze pays et de près de 2 900 athlètes et pour 102 titres en jeu. Le défilé de la cérémonie d’ouverture a été somptueux. Les 22 sportifs de Corée du Nord se sont joints aux 121 athlètes sud-coréens pour un défilé commun, drapeau de l’unification coréenne au vent comme clou du spectacle du défilé des athlètes et de la cérémonie d'ouverture.

Deux hockeyeuses de l’équipe unie de Corée, main dans la main, ont participé à l’allumage de la vasque olympique. Jong Su-hyon, pour le Nord, et Park Jong-ah, pour le Sud, ont gravi ensemble l’escalier lumineux qui menait à la vasque. Puis elle ont  passer le relais à la championne olympique 2010 de patinage artistique Kim Yu-na -et médaille d'argent aux JO de Sotchi en 2014- pour le geste final.

Le geste tant attendu s'est bien déroulé sous les yeux des 35 000 spectateurs !!!

La cérémonie d'ouverture a déployé ses plus beaux atours, chants, danses et autres créations. Des acteurs adultes et enfants, des artistes, danseurs ont présenté des tableaux durant toute la cérémonie. Les uns représentant la paix, l'unification, d'autres à la gloire de l'art coréen.

Les délégations des différents pays ont défilé devant les spectateurs sous un froid polaire.

Et certains n'ont pas eu froid aux yeux. Le sportif tongien Pita Taufatofua, de la délégation des Iles Tonga, a défilé le torse nu huilé tel un Apollon .

« Je déclare les Jeux olympiques de Pyeongchang ouverts », a lancé Moon Jae-in de la tribune pour sceller l'officialisation des débuts de la quinzaine sportive sous les applaudissements sans fin des spectateurs...

« Vous allez tous nous inspirer, pour vivre en paix et en harmonie, malgré nos différences », avait lancé juste avant Thomas Bach, président du Comité olympique international (CIO).

Autre symbole fort, une heure plus tard lors du défilé des athlètes : le passage en commun des sportifs des deux pays, vêtus de blanc et dont les tenues portaient seulement le mot « Corée » dans le dos.

Une trêve olympique qui a demandé des semaines de tractations.

Les JO 2018, du 9 au 25 février, sontdéjà témoins d’un spectaculaire rapprochement entre les deux Corées, ennemies historiques.Il faut savoir qu' officiellement les deux Corée sont en guerre depuis 1953.

Au début de la cérémonie d’ouverture, Kim Yo-jong, la sœur de Kim Jong-un , a foulé le sol du grand rival depuis la fin de la guerre de Corée, en 1953 pour serrer ensuite la main de Moon Jae-in, président de la Corée du Sud. Un geste d’une grande symbolique au regard de la situation géopolitique.

Déjà avant la cérémonie d’ouverture, le président sud-coréen, Moon Jae-in, et le président de l’Assemblée populaire suprême de la Corée du Nord, Kim Yong-nam, s’étaient par ailleurs rencontrés et avaient échangé une poignée de main historique.

Un petit bémol cependant : le vice-président américain, Mike Pence, a esquivé le dîner organisé en amont. M. Pence aurait dû partager la même table que les chefs de l’Etat sud-coréen et nord-coréen.Il serait arrivé en retard...

"C'est ainsi que vous montrez le pouvoir unique du sport d'unir les gens. Un grand exemple de ce pouvoir d'unification est le défilé commun ce soir entre les deux équipes des comités nationaux olympiques de Corée du Sud et de Corée du Nord. Nous vous remercions", a souligné Thomas Bach, président du CIO.

Joanne Courbet pour DayNewsWorld
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COUP DE FROID SUR LA FRANCE OU VINGT- CINQ DEPARTEMENTS PLACES EN VIGILANCE ORANGE

 

Météo France surveille douze départements pour des chutes de neige qui pourraient « rendre les conditions de circulation difficiles »

Douze sont sous surveillance pour neige-verglas :

l'Ain, l'Allier, l'Ardèche, le Cantal, la Drôme, le Gard, l'Isère, la Loire, la Haute-Loire, la Lozère, le Puy-de-Dôme et le Rhône.

Un coup de froid après un mois de janvieux pluvieux et gris.

Onze le sont pour inondations.

Il s'agit de:

l'Aube, l'Eure, la Marne, Paris, Seine-Maritime, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne et Val-d'Oise.

Ces mêmes départements sont suivis pour des risques de crues.

Les déchets s'accumulent, et des communes entières deviennent des poubelles.

Début de l'alerte dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi, à partir de 4 heures.

L'épisode devrait durer au moins jusqu'à lundi 16 heures.

Si l'épisode neigeux n'est pas "exceptionnel pour les régions concernées", il est "suffisamment notable pour rendre les conditions de circulation difficiles", précise Météo France.

Les quantités de neige attendues sont de l'ordre de 2 à 5 cm en plaine, avec localement 10 cm. En montagne, on pourra atteindre 10 à 20 cm au-dessus de 500 m, 20 à 30 au dessus de 1 000 m.

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LE SCANDALE TARIK RAMADAN

MISE EN EXAMEN ET INCARCERATION

Le théologien musulman controversé Tariq Ramadan a été mis en examen pour viols sur personne vulnérable commis en France en 2009 et 2012 et incarcéré après deux jours de garde à vue.

Cette incarcération n'a pas manquer d' ébranler la communauté musulmane de gauche en France et de provoquer la chute du théologien .

« Après une enquête minutieuse de trois mois, une garde à vue de 48 heures, une confrontation avec ma cliente qui a permis de confondre Tariq Ramadan sur certains points, on a franchi une étape importante avec cette double mise en examen », a commenté Me Éric Morain, conseil de « Christelle », l'une des plaignantes.

« S'il y a d'autres victimes en France ou ailleurs, elles savent maintenant que la justice peut prendre en compte ce qu'elles ont vécu », a ajouté Me Jonas Haddad, avocat d'Henda Ayari,ex-salafiste et première femme à avoir porté plainte.

Un détail qui ne ment pas a été révélé par une des plaignantes, à savoir une cicatrice à l'aine de cet orateur brillant qui mettait les femmes sous son emprise. Son témoignage s'avère des plus saisissants:

« Coups sur le visage et sur le corps, sodomie forcée, viol avec un objet et humiliations diverses, jusqu'à ce qu'elle se fasse entraîner par les cheveux vers la baignoire et uriner dessus, ainsi qu'elle l'a décrit dans sa plainte », rapporte le magazine Vanity Fair

Le placement en détention provisoire a fait l'objet de la part de cet intellectuel au double visage d'une entre le juge des libertés et de la détention (JLD) et sa défense. Dans l'attente de ce débat qui doit avoir lieu dans les quatre jours, il a été incarcéré.

Andrew Preston pour DayNewsWorld
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VIOLENCE CONTRE VOTRE PORTEFEUILLE

EN CE MOIS DE FEVRIER

Le Racket Continue !!

Gaz, péages, banques..des hausses, des réglementations...

Hausse des prix du gaz naturel :

Une hausse général du gaz de 6,9% en général avait eu lieu déjà au mois de janvier.

A croire que les prix n'avaient pas suffisamment flamber, une nouvelle hausse pour le mois de février de 1,3% en moyenne pour près de dix millions de Français !

Voici les augmentation dans le détail :hors taxe, hausse de 1,4% pour les consommateurs utilisant le gaz pour se chauffer, de 0,4% pour ceux qui l'utilisent pour la cuisson et de 0,8% pour ceux qui ont un double usage cuisson et eau chaude.

Augmentation des péages autoroutiers

Après les 80kms /h imposés aux automobilistes alors que rien ne vient justifier cette baisse de vitesse, l'automobiliste va subir la hausse des péages d'autoroute.

Une hausse est annoncée sur l’ensemble du réseau autoroutier français. Celle-ci sera comprise entre 1 et 2% en moyenne sur les principaux axes. Tout cet argent pour les concessionnaires historiques que sont Vinci, Sanef et APRR.

Selon l’Autorité, « les augmentations des tarifs de péages prévues excèdent le juste niveau qu’il serait légitime de faire supporter aux usagers. Elle estime notamment que le niveau de rémunération des sociétés concessionnaires devrait être plus conforme aux risques supportés. » .Au total, les prix des péages ont augmenté de 20% en 10 ans, selon les calculs de RTL.

Une bagatelle ! Le magazine 60 millions de consommateurs avait évalué que sur 29 axes autoroutiers étudiés, 28 d’entre eux avaient augmenté leurs tarifs de plus de 5 % entre 2011 et 2017. En 2017, les tarifs avaient progressé en moyenne de 0,76 %.

Et les services rendus, les investissements sur le parc autoroutiers sont-ils à la hauteur? Pas vraiment alors ces compagnies concessionnaires ont largement rentabilisé leurs dépenses et depuis longtemps.

Restriction de l'aide à l'achat d'un vélo électriquestriction de l'aide à l'achat d'un vélo électrique. Alors que Ségolène Royal ex- ministre de l'écologie, avait instauré l'aide de 200 euros en moyenne pour l'achat d'un vélo électrique pour promouvoir l'économie verte, la ministre des Transports Élisabeth Borne a annoncé que seules les personnes non-imposables sur le revenu bénéficieront de l'aide. Et une couleuvre de plus pour Nicolas Hulot qui semble les avaler sans trop de difficultés.

.Une fois au gouvernement!

Jusqu'à quand les Français vont-ils accepter de nouvelles réglementations qui leur sont défavorables ? Ou les Français sont-ils redevenus « des veaux » selon l'élégante formule du Général de Gaulle ?

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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MEURTRE:ALEXIA DAVAL A LA PERSONNALITE DOMINANTE ET VIOLENTE ?

L'avocat de ses parents, Me Jean-Marc Florand, décrit la jeune femme retrouvée morte le 30 octobre comme ayant une forte personnalité.

«C'est certainement elle qui avait la personnalité la plus forte du couple», a-t-il précisé lors d'une conférence de presse mercredi matin, alors que le conseil de son mari évoque une «personnalité écrasante» et «violente».

Jonathann Daval a été mis en examen et placé en détention provisoire mardi soir pour meurtre. Un gendre irréprochable ?

Mais que sait-on réellement de ce qui se passe au sein d'un couple ?

Alexia Daval violente avec des sautes d'humeur à cause de traitements médicaux lourds pour un fécondation in vitro ?

Le résultat : la jeune femme censée être partie courir n'était jamais partie de chez elle ou si les deux pieds devant comme l'on dit familièrement .

Alexia Daval a grandi dans la ville de Gray, petite commune de 5000 habitants située dans le département de la Haute-Saône faisant les quatre cents coups avec une bande de copains. Ses parents tenaient le café PMU La Terrasse.

Jonathann Daval et Alexia s’étaient rencontrée au lycée il y a dix ans avant de se marier il y a deux ans. Un couple heureux vu de dehors. Avec des hauts et des bas comme dans tous les couples.

Des versions contradictoires : «C'était une petite jeune super, sympathique, discrète», témoignait une voisine dans l'Est Républicain en novembre.«C'était une belle personne», commentait pour sa part un ami qui participait à une battue fin 2017 pour la retrouver.

Des témoignages radicalement opposés de ceux des avocats de son mari Jonathann Daval, qui a menti pendant près de trois mois.

«Ils avaient une relation de couple avec de très fortes tensions. Alexia avait une personnalité écrasante, il se sentait rabaissé, écrasé.

À un moment, il y a eu des mots de trop, une crise de trop, qu'il n'a pas su gérer», a dit Me Schwerdorffer.

«C'est un couple dont malheureusement l'un des conjoints était violent mais ce n'est pas celui auquel on pense, c'est-à-dire qu'Alexia, en période de crise, pouvait avoir des accès de violence.

Alexia, du fait notamment du désir de maternité et du retard dans cette maternité, pouvait ne pas être toujours facile. Il n'a pas su gérer ...

Des affirmations un peu déplacées, la strangulation c'est un geste très rapide certes mais cela se nomme tout de même un meurtre.

L'avocat des parents de la victime, Me Jean-Marc Florand,a usé de prudence quant à ces affirmations. Si Me Schwerdorffer le dit, «ce n'est pas un effet de manche (…) pour scandaliser la ministre des Droits de femmes, s'il le dit, c'est qu'il le pense et qu'il le sait».

Une «personnalité écrasante celle d'Alexia Daval ?

«Dans ce couple, Jonathan avait une personnalité beaucoup plus effacée, beaucoup plus timide» et il reconnaît qu'elle pouvait tenir un rôle dominant. C'était «une fille énergique, sportive, battante, engagée. Lui était certainement en retrait (…)

C'est certainement elle qui avait la personnalité la plus forte du couple».

Les parents d'Alexia "espèrent qu'il sera sévèrement condamné et espère que la comédie qu'il a jouée lui coûtera cher. Ils se demandent comment c'est possible. Ils n'ont rien remarqué d'alarmant. Ils n'ont pas pensé que cela pouvait être lui le meurtrier." ajoute le conseil. Pendant les trois mois, "il n'a eu aucun changement de personnalité, c'était un garçon parfait."

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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GREVE SANS PRECEDENT DANS

LES MAISONS DE RETRAITE

 

Le mouvement de grève est unitaire et réunit CGT, CFDT, FO, Unsa, CFTC, CFE-CGC et SUD, soutenus par l'association des directeurs au service des personnes âgées (AD-PA) et l'association de retraités.

Des rassemblements sont prévus à Marseille et à Paris, des des débrayages également  dans les établissements pour assurer la continuité des soins.

« Il n'y aura pas un grand rassemblement unique mais une diversité de petites mobilisations », avaient déclaré des représentants de l'intersyndicale, car

"il est nécessaire d'assurer la continuité des soins et de ne pas abandonner les aînés".

Faits rarissime que de voir une telle unité !

 

Pourquoi un tel appel unitaire à la grève ?

Un manque de moyens et de personnels criant est dénoncé dans certains établissements médicalisées accueillant les personnes âgées (Ehpad ) si bien que certaines personnes âgées peuvent se retrouver dans des situations d’humiliation voire de maltraitance.

L'année 2017 avait déjà connu une centaine de grèves dont la plus médiatique celle des Opalines à Foucherans (Jura) qui avait duré presque trois mois.

«Personnes abandonnées des journées entières dans leur chambre, plateaux-repas laissés intouchés faute d'aide, absence de toilette intime pendant plusieurs jours… Une partie des résidents ne voit plus personne en Ehpad.

Les familles qui s'y rendent nous rapportent souvent des situations épouvantables alors que le personnel est pris dans un marathon infernal.

Les prix sont exorbitants et nous n'avons aucune visibilité sur la qualité de chaque établissement», déclare Joseph Krummenacker, président de la Fédération nationale des associations de personnes âgées et de leurs familles.

Et d'ajouter sans mâcher ses mots :

«Notre société n'entend pas les personnes âgées. Beaucoup ont la sensation d'être traitées comme des objets et non plus comme des êtres humains».

De plus se profile une nouvelle réforme du financement des Ehpad (établissements d'hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes) visant à faire encore 400 millions d'économie dans la continuité du quinquennat de François Hollande !!

 

Il faut savoir qu'actuellement le système repose sur trois sources de financement:

1° Le budget «soins», intégralement à la charge de l'Assurance maladie, sert à financer le personnel soignant et les équipements médicaux.

2° Le budget «dépendance», financé majoritairement par les départements et en partie par les résidents, sert aux prestations d'aide et de surveillance des personnes âgées en perte d'autonomie (aide-soignants, psychologues ...).

3° Le budget d'hébergement (hôtellerie, restauration, animation ...) est à la charge du résident qui,en fonction de sa situation financière, peut percevoir des aides publiques.

Reste à charge pour les résidents après ces aides 1.758 euros par mois en moyenne selon les calculs de la Drees, alors que la pension de retraite moyenne est de 1.376 euros bruts.

On voit donc déjà le problème de financement pour les classes moyennes. Si les enfants ne peuvent pas subvenir financièrement pour aider leurs parents, que faire ?

Et la réforme à venir ne va pas dans le bon sens même si Agnès Buzyn, ministre des Solidarités et de Santé, fait valoir que les moyens alloués aux Ehpad par l'Etat «sont passés en dix ans de 5 à 10 milliards d'euros par an».

Quelle réforme ?

La réforme qui fait polémique vise à faire converger peu à peu, de 2017 à 2023, les budgets des Ehpad publics (43% des établissements) avec ceux du privé sur les enveloppes «soins» et «dépendance». Pour un gain en sept ans de près de 400 millions d'euros aux établissements...

Cette réforme est considérée comme équitable puisqu’elle reposerait sur le degré de dépendance des résidents, selon la Caisse nationale de Solidarité pour l'autonomie (CNSA).,.

Mais là où le bât blesse c'est que les trois quarts de ces gains vont au secteur privé (commercial ou associatif). Il est évident que le Syndicat national des établissements et résidences privés pour personnes âgées (Synerpa) défende une réforme «de bon sens, de simplification, qui prend en compte des paramètres objectifs».

Mais il n' en est pas de même pour le secteur public. «Il est inacceptable qu'on prenne à des établissements pour donner à d'autres, dans un secteur notoirement sous-doté», pointe Pascal Champvert, président de l'association des directeurs au service des personnes âgées (AD-PA).

Selon le ministère, la réforme ferait, sans mesure de compensation, 80% de gagnants et 10% de perdants, «la majorité dans le secteur public» et n'aurait aucune conséquence pour les 10%restant .

La Fédération hospitalière de France (FHF) estime que le nouveau mode de calcul des budgets «dépendance» va faire perdre 200 millions d'euros en sept ans aux établissements publics ce qui contraindra de nombreuses structures en difficultés à la réduction de leur personnel.

La maire PS de Paris Anne Hidalgo, quant à elle, s'est dite mardi "inquiète" de la réforme des Ehpad et estime dans une lettre à Agnès Buzyn qu'elle "met à mal l'accueil social" du secteur public.

"Cette réforme met à mal l'accueil social porté par le secteur public et privé associatif puisqu'elle se fait au détriment du financement des Ehpad (établissements d'hébergement pour personnes âgées dépendantes) publics", écrit la maire de la capitale dans une lettre ouverte à la ministre des Solidarités et de la Santé.

La CNSA estime de son côté que la perte du secteur public sur la partie dépendance à 65,6 millions d'euros sera compensée par les gains sur le forfait «soins».

Telle distorsion de chiffres interpelle si bien que le le gouvernement a dû annoncer la nomination d'un médiateur pour avoir une idée plus claire du nombre d'Ehpad mis en difficulté par la réforme.

Pour 2018, « ces besoins ont été anticipés » et « beaucoup plus d’argent est prévu », a dit la ministre qui évoque les « 100 millions d’euros supplémentaires » prévus par le budget de la Sécurité sociale, auxquels elle a « rajouté » la semaine dernière 50 millions d’euros pour les établissements en difficulté.

« Le budget des Ehpad » est celui qui va « le plus augmenter dans tout le budget » de la Sécurité sociale, estime la ministre. Cette nouvelle enveloppe de 10 millions irait à la création de postes d'infirmières de nuit, et 28 millions aux Ehpad en difficulté.

Mais force est de constater la réalité en face : il faudra « travailler avec l’ensemble des acteurs pour réfléchir au modèle de financement de la dépendance de demain », alors que le nombre de « personnes âgées de plus de 85 ans » doit passer de « 1,5 million » à « 5 millions » en 2050, a reconnu la ministre !!!

Soyons clair : notre société doit faire des choix douloureux certes, mais les aînés ne doivent pas être des laissez-pour-compte après une vie de travail !!!

Laissons-leur d'ailleurs la parole : Des résidents d'une maison de retraite de Lorraine ont adressé une lettre ouverte à Emmanuel Macron.

«Monsieur le Président, nous sommes vieux, malades, notre voix ne porte pas bien loin mais nous vous demandons de ne pas être les oubliés de la France. Qu'allez-vous faire pour nous?» écrivent-ils.

Joanne Courbet pour DayNewsWorld
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MEURTRE D'ALEXIA DAVAL PAR SON MARI

L'époux de la joggeuse de 29 ans retrouvée morte dans un bois en octobre a avoué mardi l'avoir tuée «par accident».

Jonathann Daval a avoué mardi le meurtre d'Alexia, dont le corps brûlé avait été retrouvé le 30 octobre dissimulé sous des branchages dans un bois près de la localité du Gray, dans l'est de la France, près du domicile du couple.

C'est le mari de la jeune femme qui avait alerté et signalé sa disparition tout en affirmant qu'elle était partie courir mais n'était pas rentrée. 

Selon l' autopsie la jeune femme avait été victime de violences, de coups et avait été asphyxiée.

L'informaticien de 34 ans, placé en garde à vue depuis lundi, «a reconnu avoir tué son épouse, mais il a dit que c'était un accident, qu'il ne voulait pas et il regrette», ont déclaré ses avocats, Maîtres Ornella Spatafora et Randall Schwerdorffer.

« Nous ne défendrons pas un meurtrier, un assassin. Nous défendrons un jeune garçon qui, dans une crise de couple, a tué son épouse par accident », a précisé l'un d'eux, Randall Schwerdorffer.

Me Schwerdorffer, assure que son client n'avait «pas été dans une logique criminelle» et «n'avait impliqué personne d'autre».

«Il n'a jamais essayé de mettre le feu au corps d'Alexia», a ajouté l'avocat.

La procureure de la République de Besançon, Edwige Roux-Morizot, a annoncé qu »elle tiendrait 'une conférence de presse mardi soir pour «faire état des plus récents développements de l'enquête».

Rappelons simplement qu'en France une femme tous les trois jours meurt tuée par son compagnon.




Steve McQuillan pour DayNewsWorld
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LE CONJOINT DE LA JOGGEUSE ASSASSINEE

ALEXIA DAVAL EN GARDE A VUE

 

Le mari d'Alexia Daval, la jeune femme dont le corps avait été retrouvé calciné le 30 octobre en Haute-Saône, a été interpellé et placé en garde à vue lundi matin par les gendarmes à son domicile de Gray, a déclaré la procureure de Besançon Edwige Roux-Morizot. Une perquisition a eu lieu à son domicile et la maison a été mise sous scellés.

D'après son mari, la jeune femme était partie courir et n'est jamais revenue.

C'est lui-même qui avait appelé la gendarmerie pour signaler la disparition de sa conjointe.

Une marche blanche avait été organisée réunissant entre 8 000 et 10 000 personnes.Son conjoint semblait très affecté.

« Elle était ma première supportrice, mon oxygène. La force de notre couple nous faisait nous dépasser, dans nos sorties et dans notre vie commune. Cette plénitude me manquera terriblement », avait-il confié après la marche.

Le couple avait des difficultés à avoir un enfant ce qui selon plusieurs sources concordantes provoquait « de vives tensions » au sein de ce dernier.

C'est pourquoi les enquêteurs explorent l'hypothèse d'une « dispute conjugale » qui aurait dégénéré .

Jonathann Daval avait d'ailleurs évoqué une dispute avec sa compagne la veille de sa disparition. Cette altercation expliquait, selon lui, les marques de griffures, voire de morsures, sur ses mains.

L'avocat des parents et de la sœur d'Alexia Daval, Me Jean-Marc Florand, a insisté sur le fait qu'il fallait « être très prudent dans ce dossier et attendre l'issue de la garde à vue ». « Il ne faut pas oublier que M. Daval, jusqu'à aujourd'hui, est victime, partie civile, et bénéficie pour le moment de la présomption d'innocence », a déclaré Me Florand

Selon lui, les parents d'Alexia Daval sont « confiants » et ne soupçonnent pas leur gendre dans l'assassinat de leur fille.

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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LARMES DE JOIE DE ROGER FEDERER

POUR SON VINGTIEME GRAND CHELEM

 

Après son discours de remerciements, Roger Federer n'a pu retenir ses larmes de joie dimanche à l'Open d'Australie.

Le voilà vainqueur de son vingtième tournoi du Grand Chelem à 36 ans.

Le Suisse a conservé la couronne remportée l'an dernier devant Rafael Nadal à la faveur de son succès 6-2 6-7 (5/7) 6-3 3-6 6-1 devant Marin Cilic dans une rencontre disputée en indoor.

Le Suisse a joué cinq manches contre le Croate, lequel a réussi à prendre les deux premiers sets du tournoi au maestro.

Ce sixième titre à Melbourne vient confirmer qu'à 36 ans, Roger Federer est redevenu le patron du circuit puisqu'il s'agit de son 3e succès en grand chelem sur les 5 derniers tournois.

Sacré après un effort de 3h07, il se rapproche à 155 points seulement de la tête du classement ATP, toujours occupée par Nadal.

Peut-être pourrait-il à nouveau se hisser à la première place.

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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DOUZE DEPARTMENTS EN VIGILANCE

ORANGE INONDATION

 

La Seine continue à monter Paris et le pic est prévu dans la nuit de dimanche 28 janvier, tandis que la situation s’améliore progressivement en amont de la capitale, a indiqué Vigicrues

Mais douze départements restent cependant en vigilance orange inondation et 241 communes du bassin de la Seine ont les pieds dans l'eau.

D'après l’organisme de surveillance on attend environ 5,95 mètres d’eau dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi dans la capitale, soit moins que la crue de juin 2016 (6,10 mètres).

À la station du pont d'Austerlitz, samedi aux environ de 13 heures la Seine était à 5,72 m. Péniches et bateaux-mouches restent à quai, la navigation n'étant autorisée qu'aux sapeurs-pompiers.

Si en amont de Paris la situation s'améliore progressivement il n'en est pas de même en aval. « En aval de Paris, sur les boucles de la Seine, la hausse se poursuivra jusqu'en début de semaine », a noté l'organisme de surveillance.

Au total, en Île-de-France, 666 personnes ont été évacuées, selon la préfecture de police.Quelque 1.500 foyers sur 6,2 millions sont privés d'électricité, selon Enedis,

Ce phénomène de crues touchant plusieurs régions en France provient de la tombée d'importantes pluies tout au long du mois de décembre et de janvier sur des sols déjà gorgés d'eau avec un cumul pluviométrique deux fois plus élevé que la normale entre le premier décembre et le vingt-un janvier..

Globalement, "les décrues sont désormais bien amorcées sur la majorité des parties amont des cours d'eau. Les pics de crue poursuivent leur propagation vers les parties aval, propagations plus ou moins lentes en fonction des secteurs", a résumé Vigicrues.

Il va falloir compter plus d'un mois pour une décrue totale.

Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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DIX-HUIT DEPARTEMENTS

EN VIGILANCE ORANGE

POUR

INONDATION ET NEIGE

Dix-huit départements français sont toujours en vigilance orange, quinze pour le risque d'inondations et trois pour "neige-verglas". A Paris la crue de la Seine s'annonce moins élevée que prévue .

.Quinze départements sont toujours en vigilance orange en raison des crues jusqu'à samedi 16H00 sur les bassins de la Seine, de la Saône et de leurs affluents, ainsi que la Meuse pour les rivières Saulx et Ornain.  Il s'agit de l'Aube, de l'Eure, du Jura, du Loiret, de la Marne, de la Meuse, de la Saône-et-Loire, de Paris, de la Seine-et-Marne, des Yvelinesde l'Yonne, des Hauts-de-Seine, de la Seine-Saint-Denis, du Val-de-Marne et du Val-d'Oise.

Trois départements en vigilance neige-verglas. Loire, Haute-Loire, Ardèche sont en vigilance orange pour neige et verglas jusqu'à samedi 10h00. Plus de 50 à 70 cm de neige est tombée sur les Cévennes et le Vivarais.

Ce phénomène de crue touchant diverses régions de la France depuis quelques jours, est dû aux précipitations importantes sur des sols gorgés d'eau avec un bimestre décembre-janvier parmi les trois plus pluvieux depuis le début des relevés en 1900, selon Météo-France.

Le Bureau de recherches géologiques (BRGM) surveille de près les nappes phréatiques proches de leur maximum.

La descente de l'eau devrait s’effectuer tout aussi lentement que la montée des derniers jours et le niveau de la Seine devrait resté élevé plusieurs jours après le pic.

 

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INCENDIE MEURTRIER

DANS

UN HOPITAL EN COREE DU SUD

L'hôpital de Miryang, dans le sud-est de la Corée du Sud a été ravagé par les flammes: à 7h30, heure locale, l'incendie s'est déclenché dans la salle des urgence . 37 morts sont à déplorer.

Cent trente personnes ont également été blessées sur les 200 personnes présentes .

"Le feu a fait beaucoup de victimes et malheureusement, le nombre de morts peut encore augmenter", a déclaré le porte-parole du président sud-coréen.

Certains patients ont été évacués par hélicoptère, en direction d'hôpitaux voisins.

D'autres sont sortis du bâtiment à l'aide d'échelles placés aux fenêtres.

L’évacuation de 15 patients hospitalisés dans l’unité des soins intensifs, a pris du temps les secours opérant sous supervision médicale.

En plus de l’hôpital, le bâtiment abritait une maison de repos pour personnes âgées.

Le président sud-coréen, Moon Jae-in, a exprimé ses condoléances lors d’une réunion d’urgence avec ses conseillers appelant à trouver rapidement les causes du drame « pour éviter la confusion au sein des familles », a ajouté son porte-parole.

C'est le pire sinistre qu'ait connu le pays depuis une décennie.

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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TREIZE DEPARTEMENTS PLACES EN VIGILANCE ORANGE CRUE-INONDATIONS

SEPT AUTRES EN VIGILANCE NEIGE-VERGLAS

Le bimestre décembre-janvier est l’un des trois les plus pluvieux depuis le début des relevés en 1900, selon Météo-France

.Vendredi matin, Météo-France a placé 20 départements en vigilance orange. L'alerte prendra fin samedi matin.

La Seine poursuit sa crue. Elle devrait atteindre son plus haut niveau durant le week-end. « On attend le maximum de crue ce week-end, avec une hauteur entre 5,80 m et 6,20 m », a précisé Bruno Janet, expert de l’organisme de surveillance des crues.

Ce niveau est comparable à celui de juin 2016 (6,10 m) mais très loin de la crue historique de 1910 (8,62 m).

13 départements ont été placés en vigilance crue-inondations, principalement autour du bassin de la Seine, et dans une moindre mesure de la Saône.: Eure, Yvelines, Val d'Oise, Paris et sa petite couronne, Seine-et-Marne, Aube, Yonne, Marne, Jura et Saône-et-Loire.

Le tronçon central de la ligne C du RER à Paris est fermé au moins jusqu’au 31 janvier.

Les Voies navigables de France ont interdit la navigation notamment sur toute la Seine amont, Paris inclus .

Des communes, comme Créteil, ou des zones en aval de Paris pourraient être touchées .

L’Yonne connaît toujours des « crues importantes » selon la préfecture tandis que la Saône, qui voit arriver les eaux du Doubs, est placé lundi en vigilance rouge

Un épisode neigeux « remarquable en quantité et en durée » est d’autre part attendu sur le Massif central, selon Météo-France qui a placé sept départements en vigilance orange « neige-verglas ».

Le début de l’épisode a commencé dans la nuit où il est déjà tombé jusqu’à 50/60 cm de neige en Lozère. La fin de l’épisode est prévue pour samedi 07h00.

"D'ici vendredi soir, les épaisseurs (de neige, ndlr) pourront atteindre ou dépasser 30/40 cm en Haute-Loire, Monts du Cantal et Sancy, Forez entre 800 et 1500 m, 10 à 20 cm en Stéphanois, Vivarais entre 500 et 800 m", précise Météo-France dans son bulletin national.

"En Lozère, sur la quasi totalité du département, excepté l'extrême sud-et cévenol, on devrait relever sur l'épisode de 20 à 40 cm de neige, et jusqu'à 50/60 cm sur l'extrême nord-est du département (Margeride). Sur la zone cévenole, on pourrait relever dans l'après-midi de 15 à 25 cm au dessus de 600/700 m"

Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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UN HASHTAG AU VIF  SUCCES#BalanceTonHosto

Quand le personnel soignant commence à se confier sur les absurdités et le manque de moyens dans les hôpitaux on n'arrête pas d'écarquiller les yeux. Mais parle-on-bien de ce grand et hôpital rennomé Cochin ?

De celui d'Edouard Herriot à Lyon ?

Mais oui,mais oui .Dans #BalanceTonHosto. , le personnel hospitalier tient à faire entendre son épuisement face au manque de moyens dont souffrent les établissements de souffrent .« Balance les absurdités de ton hôpital » tel a été l'appel de François, animateur d’une chaîne de vulgarisation médicale sous le nom de Primum Non Nocere sur Youtube mais aussi médecin hospitalier.

Lui aussi en avait gros sur le cœur

"Quand ils ont construit le nouveau bloc opératoire de mon chu ils ont pensé à tout sauf aux couloirs pour transporter les malades. Sauf que le bloc est au 7ème étage... Ils ont donc construit un coffrage autour de l'étage pour faire le couloir."Ubuesque !

« Bon, je tente le hashtag de l’humour. Balance les absurdités de ton hôpital. #BalanceTonHosto », a-t-il lancé sur son compte Twitter le 12 janvier.

Et ça n'a fait qu'une traînée de poudre. A chaque internaute démoralisé après sa garde de nuit, son travail de la journée, de se ruer sur son hashtag salvateur, son exutoire !!!

Depuis, de nombreux internautes se sont emparés de ce «mot dièse» pour décrire les situations des plus scandaleuse.

« Quand ton patient décède en soin palliatif et que tu dois l’amener à la morgue, tu es obligé de passer par la maternité.

Logique », tel est le genre de situations dénoncées sur le réseau socialou encore. « #BalanceTonHosto quand tu dois faire 46 toilettes à 3 en Ehpad.. pour moi c’est de la maltraitance… que nos politiques ne vieillissent pas, ils tomberont de haut !! » peut-on lire sur Twitter.

Des problèmes de configuration des établissements au manque de personnel en passant par les conditions de travail désagréables, de nombreux dysfonctionnements sont pointés du doigt

Ces hashtag symbolisent parfaitement le sentiment de désillusion que connaît chaque soignant. On ne s’engage pas pour servir une 'usine à soins', A cause du manque de moyens, de la pénurie de médecins et des problèmes liés au temps de travail, le moindre problème technique peut paralyser tout un service !!!

Et il s'agit de vie humaines...

A cause du manque de moyens, de la pénurie de médecins et des problèmes liés au temps de travail, le moindre problème technique peut paralyser tout un service.C'est ainsi que le 12 janvier dernier un internaute a créé le hashtag #BalanceTonHosto utilisé par les chirurgiens, médecins, infirmiers, personnels soignants et autres salariés des hôpitaux pour évoquer toutes les absurdités qui les handicapent dans leur travail.

Tant au niveau des infrastructures, que des salaires ou des conditions d'accueil des malades.

A cause du manque de moyens, de la pénurie de médecins et des problèmes liés au temps de travail, le moindre problème technique peut paralyser tout un service.

Sous l'humour de certains messages se cachent donc un vrai problème de fond et des revendications, alertant sur l'état des hôpitaux et services d'urgences français.

Heureusement qu'Agnès Buzyn avait assuré que réduire le nombre de personnels soignants n'étaient pas dans les projets du gouvernement."Je pense qu’on ne peut pas baisser les effectifs de soignants. Ces équipes sont sous une énorme tension, et on ne peut pas leur imposer un rythme d’activité encore plus élevé", avait-elle notamment déclaré.

Mais quand le ministère de la Santé annonce le besoin de faire des économies dans l'hôpital public, l'on se demande franchement où car même l'état des lieux des bâtiments hospitaliers laissent à désirer.

Espérons que ce mode de communication qui peut parfois dériver vers de la délation ne soit pas le seul lien que les citoyens puissent avoir comme caisse de résonance vis-à-vis de ceux qui nous gouvernent. Cela ne laisserait pas d'être inquiétant!

Joanne Courbet pour DayNewsWorld
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TRENTE DEPARTEMENTS

EN ALERTE INONDATION ORANGE

Cette vigilance porte sur un risque d'inondations pour l'Ain (01), l'Isère (38), la Savoie (73), le Calvados (14), la Charente (16), la Charente-Maritime (17), la Dordogne (24) l'Eure (27), la Gironde (33), le Lot-et-Garonne (47), la Haute-Marne (52), la Meurthe-et-Moselle (54), la Meuse (55), la Nièvre (58), l'Oise (60), l'Orne (61), le Rhône (69), la Haute-Saône (70), Paris (75), la Seine-Maritime (76), la Seine-et-Marne (77), les Yvelines (78), l'Yonne (89), les Vosges (88), et le Val-d'Oise (95). di à Ornans, Quingey, Port-Lesney et Pagnoz, faute de transports scolaires. A Doubs, l'école maternelle sera fermée à cause du risque d'inondation.

Le Doubs, la Haute-Saône et le Jura sont à nouveau en vigilance orange ce mardi après avoir été en rouge une partie de l'après-midi et de la nuit.

Dans ces départements, c'est la Loue qui est largement sortie de son lit. La rivière monte encore en amont du Doubs.

La Haute-Saône est également en vigilance orange.

Le pic de crue de la Loue est situé à Champagne-sur-Loue, en aval de Quingey.

Le pic de crue du Doubs est attendu dans la journée à Besançon, le pic de la Saône à Gray ce mardi aussi.

Les autorités appellent la population à la prudence :

ne pas s'approcher de la rivière en crue, ne pas emprunter les routes inondées, éviter si possible les déplacements

Certaines mesures de précaution sont à prendre.

"Dans la mesure du possible, restez chez vous ou évitez tout déplacement dans les départements concernés (...)

Respectez en particulier les déviations mises en place. Ne vous engagez en aucun cas, à pied ou en voiture, sur une voie immergée", peut-on lire sur le site Météo France

Boby Dean  pour DayNewsWorld
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PAUL BOCUSE

LE "PAPE DE LA GASTRONOMIE"

ET "CUISINIER DU SIECLE" EST DECEDE

La gastronomie française perd un monument. Paul Bocuse est mort, samedi 20 janvier, à l'âge de 91 ans. Paul Bocuse s'est éteint dans sa célèbre auberge de Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or, près de Lyon.

Le grand chef cuisinier devait bientôt fêter ses 92 ans.

Désigné "pape de la gastronomie" et "cuisinier du siècle", il était l'un des précurseurs de la nouvelle cuisine. Il détenait trois étoiles au Guide Michelin depuis plus de 50 ans, un record.

Le chef cuisinier était considéré comme le maître de la cuisine traditionnelle et de la grande cuisine. Il a dirigé de nombreux restaurants dont L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges près de Lyon où il est décéde.

Paul Bocuse était aussi le plus ancien des trois étoiles au monde !!

Le ministre de l'Intérieur Gérard Collomb, ancien maire de Lyon, lui a rendu hommage sur Twitter.

Né le 11 février 1926 dans une famille de cuisiniers de père en fils à Collonges-au-Mont d'Or,Paul Bocuse a consacré sa vie à la gastronomie.

Il obtient sa première étoile au Michelin en 1958, puis une deuxième deux ans plus tard en transformant l'auberge familiale qui deviendra le temple de la gastronomie française. Meilleur Ouvrier de France en 1961, Paul Bocuse décroche sa troisième étoile en 1965, consacrant sa fulgurante ascension.

"Je travaille comme si j'allais vivre 100 ans et je savoure la vie comme si chaque jour était le dernier", se plaisait à dire ce séducteur invétéré, qui arborait fièrement un coq tatoué sur son épaule par les Américains pendant la guerre.

Son incroyable appétit de vivre s'exprimait aussi dans la vie privée de ce polygame assumé: Marié depuis 1946 à Raymonde, qui lui a donné une fille, Bocuse a également partagé sa vie pendant plus de 60 ans avec Raymone, la mère de son fils Jérôme, et pendant plus de 40 ans avec Patricia, qui gère sa communication.

La gastronomie perd sa première star internationale, la figure par excellence du grand chef, coq gaulois tatoué sur l'épaule et toque toujours vissée sur la tête!

Paul Bocuse était "l'incarnation de la cuisine française", a déclaré le président Emmanuel Macron dans un communiqué.

"Son nom seul résumait la gastronomie française dans sa générosité, son respect des traditions mais aussi son inventivité", a-t-il souligné, estimant que la gastronomie française perdait "une figure mythique qui l'aura profondément transformée". "Les chefs pleurent dans leurs cuisines, à l'Élysée et partout en France. Mais ils poursuivront son travail", a ajouté le président français.

"Monsieur Paul, c'était la France. Simplicité & générosité. Excellence & art de vivre. Le pape des gastronomes nous quitte. Puissent nos chefs, à Lyon, comme aux quatre coins du monde, longtemps cultiver les fruits de sa passion", a écrit M. Collomb sur le réseau social.

Dans l'auberge de Collonges, rien ne laissait soupçonner la nouvelle de ce samedi 20 Janvier 2018, le personnel restant souriant.

Son épouse Raymonde Bocuse et leur fille Françoise étaient présentes samedi à l'auberge où Jérôme Bocuse devait les rejoindre, Paul Bocuse est mort entouré de sa famille

Paul Bocuse souffrait depuis plusieurs années de la maladie de Parkinson.

Toute la rédaction et tout le DayNewsWorld est émue et se joint au deuil de la famille.

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DIX-HUIT DEPARTEMENTS EN VIGILANCE ORANGE

L'alerte est multiple : un épisode neigeux en cours sur les Alpes, de forts vents en Méditerranée ou encore des crues redoutées pour la Meuse et sur la Marne.

Sept départements du Sud-Est risquent de subir des vents violents. Quatre autres devraient être concernés par la neige et le verglas. Enfin, sept départements sont en risque "inondations".

Sur la façade Ouest

« Un coup de vent est prévu ce samedi sur un axe s’étendant de la Bretagne à la Nouvelle Aquitaine avec des rafales voisines de 80km/h dans terres, autour de 90km/h en bordure littorale, ponctuellement 100km/h sur les caps exposés, indique Agate Météo. Pour la partie marine, nous attendons une mer forte à très forte avec des vagues comprises entre 3 et 5 mètres ponctuellement 6 mètres et une houle entre 3 et 5 mètres. Avec la remontée des coefficients de marée, on peut s’attendre à risque de submersion marine sur toute la façade atlantique y compris sur les côtes bretonnes ».

Sur la face ouest, plusieurs départements ont été placés en vigilance orange pour inondations par Météo-France samedi 20 janvier en milieu de matinée : la Corrèze, la Dordogne, les Landes et les Pyrénées-Atlantique.

Sur la façade Est trois départements de l'Est sont eux aussi concernés parla vigilance orange pour risque inondation : la Haute-Marne, la Meuse et les Vosges.

Sept départements du Sud-Est ont par ailleurs été placés en vigilance orange par Météo-France en raison d'un risque de vents violents : les Alpes-Maritimes, l'Aude, l'Hérault, les Pyrénées-Orientales, le Var, la Corse-du-Sud et la Haute-Corse. Les rafales de vent pourraient atteindre les 130 km/h, voire 160 km/h sur le Cap Corse.

Enfin, quatre autres département sont en vigilance orange pour la neige et le verglas, à savoir les Hautes-Alpes, l'Isère, la Savoie et la Haute-Savoie. « Les quantités de neige iront de quelques cm temporaires en plaine du nord Isère à l'avant-Pays Savoyard en début d'après-midi, à 10 cm en vallées intérieures des massifs, 20/30 cm vers 1500m , 30/50 cm en haute montagne d'ici samedi minuit »ndique Météo-France précisant que la neige continuera de tomber sur les Alpes vers 800 m la nuit suivante et la journée de dimanche. »

Au total dix-huit départements du nord-est de la France, des Alpes, du bassin méditerranéen, et du sud-ouest du pays ont été placés en vigilance orange ce samedi matin par Météo-France.

Météo France conseille de « limiter ses déplacements » dans les départements touchés par le vent et de prendre particulièrement "garde aux chutes d’arbres ou d’objets divers. L’épisode neigeux, lui, est « suffisamment notable pour engendrer des difficultés de circulation et perturber certaines activités économiques ».

Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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LA BIOETHIQUE DANS TOUS SES ETATS

Les Etats généraux de la bioéthique s'ouvrent ce 18 janvier dans toute la France.Depuis la dernière loi de 2011, le parlement doit se préoccuper tous les sept ans de ces questions bioéthiques.

La société civile est invitée dans la discussion janvier avec une plateforme de discussion, chapeautée par le Comité consultatif national d'éthique (CCNE). Les discussions sont appelées à durer durera près de six mois pour se se conclure par l'examen d'une nouvelle loi au Parlement.

Elles « ont pour objet de permettre à tous de débattre largement sur les enjeux bioéthiques et ne doivent pas être restreints à des débats d'experts », selon une circulaire du ministère des Solidarités et de la Santé.

« Par ailleurs, le CCNE mènera ses propres auditions, explique Jean-François Delfraissy, le président du CCNE. Nous avons prévu de recevoir les sociétés savantes, le milieu associatif au sens très large, les grands courants de pensée religieux et sans doute aussi quelques acteurs du secteur privé. Au total, nous entendons mener environ 150 auditions entre la mi-février et la fin avril. Je souhaite souligner que toutes les associations qui désirent être auditionnées seront les bienvenues. »

Dans un seul but : répondre à la question : Quel monde voulons-nous pour demain ? La clôture de ces discussions est prévue par le gouvernement en juillet prochain.

Bien sûr la PMA et la GPA sont au cœur des débat .

Selon un récent sondage paru dans La Croix, 6 français sur 10 sont favorables à la PMA pour les couples de femmes alors qu'ils étaient un peu moins d'un quart en 1990. Presque autant sont pour que les femmes célibataires en bénéficient.Plus étonnant voire préoccupant ce même sondage montrerait également que près des 2/3 des français sont aussi favorables au recours à une "mère porteuse" ou GPA (Gestation pour autrui) alors que la pratique est aujourd'hui interdite en France.

Mais d'autres sujets comme la manipulation du génome, la robotisation de la médecine, le don d'organes ou de gamètes, les tests génétiques, don cellules souches, diagnostics pré-natal et préimplantatoire, l'interruption de grossesse,l'assistante médicale à la procréation, la recherche sur l'embryon, l'utilisation de l'imagerie cérébrale, tous ces sujets hautement sensibles sont légiférés en France par la loi n° 2011-814 du 7 juillet 2011 relative à la bioéthique. Cette loi devant être ré-examinée tous les sept ans va donc être révisée en 2018, à l'initiative du Comité Consultatif National d'Ethique (CCNE) .

Plus de questions que de réponses

Les débats sur l'ouverture de la procréation médicalement assistée (PMA) aux lesbiennes, promesse de campagne d'Emmanuel Macron, et la fin de vie, seront évidemment au centre des préoccupations.

Mais pour la PMA le don de gamètes doit-il rester anonyme ? En France, tout don médical est anonyme et gratuit. René Frydman, l'obstétricien qui a permis la naissance du premier bébé éprouvette en France en 1982, demande désormais l'assouplissement de ces conditions. Selon le gynécologue, laisser le choix au donneur de livrer ou non son identité permettrait de réduire les cas d'anonymat ou de révélations forcés.

Comment protéger nos données de santé ? Aujourd'hui, les informations médicales des Français sont réunies sur la base de la Sécurité sociale. Personne d'autre ne peut les consulter. Mais ne pourraient-elles pas servir à faire avancer la recherche médicale ?

A-t-on le droit de manipuler un génome ? La manipulation s'appelle le Cripsr-Cas9, et permet d'intervenir directement dans l'ADN pour couper un gène et le remplacer. Utilisée autant dans la recherche agricole qu'animale, voilà que le Crisr-Cas9 a été utilisé par un ancien biochimiste de la Nasa, Josiah Nayser, qui l'a testé sur lui-même afin de faire augmenter la taille de ses muscles...Mais le Crisr-Cas9 pourrait-il aider à soigner le cancer ? Mais a-t-on le droit d'intervenir ainsi pour modifier l'ADN humain ? Le risque d'eugénisme ne se profile-t-il pas Dans le meilleurs des mondes .

La recherche sur les cellules souches sera également au cœur du débat. Est-il éthique d'utiliser les cellules d'embryons humains dans un but thérapeutique ? En France, les chercheurs de l'Inserm et du CNRS ont avancé à grands pas dans ce domaine puisque une équipe de scientifique a réussi à agréger des cellules souches embryonnaires dans le but d'aide la médecine régénérative...

Faut-il élargir le nombre de maladies pouvant être détectées au stade embryonnaire ? la technique du diagnostic préimplantatoire (DPI)est autorisée en France depuis 1999, servant à détecter des anomalies chromosomiques chez les embryons après une fécondation in vitro. Le DPI est également accessible aux couples avec un risque de transmissions de maladies graves à leurs enfants. sujet Mais pour quelle issue du DPI? Pour l'instant il ne propose qu'une solution lorsque l'embryon est en danger : l'avortement. Mais dernièrement, plusieurs interventions menées sur le fœtus ont trouvé une issue concluante. Peut-on alors de soigner des embryons après un DPI ?

Autant de questions d'éthique souvent face à une médecine de plus en plus prédictive.

Joanne Courbet pour DayNewsWorld
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ENQUETE OUVERTE

APRES LA MORT DE SIX LEGIONNAIRES

DANS UNE AVALANCHE

Une enquête pour homicides involontaires a été ouverte après la mort de six légionnaires, dans une avalanche, en Savoie, en janvier 2016... L'entraînement était-il trop risqué?

Une enquête ouverte après la mort de six militaires dans une avalanche.

La grande Muette est sur la sellette.

Cinq légionnaires - un Albanais, un Malgache naturalisé Français, un Italien, un Moldave, un Népalais - sont morts sur le coup, un sixième, hongrois, une semaine plus tard des suites de ses blessures. Sept autres soldats ont été blessés.

Pas moins de six militaires ont péri dans une avalanche à Valfréjus ( Savoie), en janvier 2016, lors d'un entraînement en ski de randonnée.

Le 18 janvier 2016, 51 militaires du 2e régiment étranger de géniede Saint-Christol (Vaucluse), appartenant à la 27e Brigade d’infanterie de montagne (BIM), participaient à une sortie en ski de randonnée dans le cadre d’un stage d’aguerrissement en montagne.

Les militaires étaient presque parvenus au sommet quand une plaque à vent – une plaque de neige formée par le vent qui peut se détacher facilement de la couche inférieure de la neige – a cédé. Le jour des faits, Météo-France affichait un risque d’avalanche de 3 sur une échelle de 5, notamment dans le type de pente raide où le groupe s’était engagé, sous le col du Petit Argentier (2.599 m).Initialement, un itinéraire beaucoup moins exposé était prévu mais le programme avait changé.

Un itinéraire, qualifié de « suicidaire » par plusieurs professionnels...

Or le régiment avaient déjà été endeuillé en février 2012 à Valloire (Savoie), où une avalanche avait emporté cinq légionnaires dont un Polonais, décédé.

Rendant hommage aux militaires tués, le ministre de la Défense de l'époque, Jean-Yves Le Drian, avait souhaité que « L’enquête démontre si les risques pris ont été appréciés avec les précautions qui s’imposaient », avait déclaré le ministre de la Défense

Plus de 20 mois après le drame, le parquet d’Albertville, chargé des premières investigations, s’est dessaisi de ce dossier, au profit de la juridiction interrégionale lyonnaise, compétente en matière militaire.

Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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PAS UNE SEULE GRIPPE MAIS TROIS !

La grippe s'est bien installée dans l'Hexagone !

Lors de la dernière semaine de l’année 2017, dernier point épidémiologique avant celui qui sera publié ce mercredi, la grippe a représenté 15 % de l’activité totale de SOS médecin.

«Le virus le plus répandu cet hiver reste pour l’instant le AH1N1, bien connu depuis 2009, qui mute très peu et qui est dans le vaccin anti-grippe.Il touche principalement les jeunes adultes », explique le Dr Wyndels.

Cette année le vaccin contre la grippe protège donc bien contre le virus. On s’attend donc à une efficacité vaccinale pouvant atteindre 60 à 70 % ;

Il ajoute cependant qu'« il y a une co-circulation des souches AH1N1 et AH3N2 avec la souche B, pour 23 % des cas, alors que la grippe B est observée davantage en fin d’épidémie habituellement.

Cette souche B Yamagata, qui n’est pas dans le vaccin de cette année, touche notamment les sujets les plus jeunes ».Beaucoup d’enfants en bas âge ont consulté les urgences pédiatriques

L'évolution de la situation est difficile à prévoir la transmission se faisant beaucoup en milieu scolaire.

Tous les ans pourtant la composition du vaccin antigrippal se voit modifier en fonction des virus les plus susceptibles de circuler pendant l’hiver.

Mais ceux-ci sont capables de muter rapidement.

Quant au virus H3N2, connu pour provoquer des complications chez les personnes âgées, il ne représente que 10 % des virus détectés, selon Santé Publique France.

Le vaccin bien qu’imparfait reste la meilleure façon de se protéger de la grippe.

Même si la couverture n’est pas efficace à 100 %, mieux vaut se faire vacciner contre la grippe.

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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LE TOP DES GALETTES DES ROIS

L'Épiphanie sera cette année le dimanche 7 janvier.

Connaissons-nous l'origine de l'Épiphanie?

Le mot Epiphanie est d'origine grecque. Il signifie l'apparition. La fête de l'Épiphanie correspond au jour où les trois mages, guidés par la lumière d'une étoile, arrive jusqu'à Jésus, dans l'étable où il est né. Pour célébrer son arrivée et en guise de respect, les mages offrent des cadeaux à Jésus : De l'or, de la myrrhe et de l'encens.

De nos jours on réunit toute la famille et les amis autour de cette fameuse galette des rois. Généralement, on met le plus jeune enfant de la famille sous la table histoire qu'il ne voit pas où se trouve la fève dans la galette. Puis en prenant une part on demande pour qui elle est, et l'enfant donne un prénom. Celui qui a la fève est le roi ou la reine. Et doit en mettant dans un verre sa fève, choisir un roi ou une reine. Normalement si c'est un adulte qui tombe sur la fève,il a comme devoir d'acheter une galette des rois. Et cela peut continuer jusqu'à la fin janvier. Attention aux poignées d'amour qui s'élargissent.

Pour les pâtissiers, pour les grands palaces, pour les grandes maisons comme Fauchon Lenôtre etc..c'est le moment de nous faire découvrir leur galette des rois en la différenciant aussi bien par son goût que par sa forme. Ils essayent tous d'obtenir le prix de la meilleure galette des rois. C'est comme cela qu'on retrouve la galette des rois façon sud en brioche revisitée par Cyril Lignac un délice pour nos papilles.

La galette de La Maison du Chocolat a comme base une ganache noire mélangée à la crème d'amande.

Pierre Hermé a aussi jouer sur une galette tout chocolat.

La maison Dalloyau joue plutôt sur la forme. Ce qui plaira certainement à vos petits, recette Galette à une forme de chat.

Chez Angelina il faut aimer la crème de marron mélangé à du chocolat.

Chez Hugo et Victor la galette des rois prend un air oriental elle est parfumée de fleur d'oranger et de zeste d'orange.

Chez Fauchon, elle reste un peu plus traditionnel : le chef Fabien Rouillardancien a voulu garder la recette de Gérard Mulot qui était une institution de la maison, elle est incrustée d'amande et de pistache un brin plus original

.A Lyon, la célèbre Kitchen café ou la Kaeser et encore la Sève! A Lille la Patrick Hermand une valeur sûre,ou encore carrément plus méridional Le péché mignon...

Pour ceux qui restent traditionnels comme moi. Le chef étoilé Thierry Marx a fait la vraie galette des rois avec la saveur de notre enfance la bonne frangipane, la maison Lenôtre aussi est très douée pour la galette des rois. N'oublions pas que le plus gros chiffre d'affaire dans la pâtisserie chez Lenôtre c'est au mois de janvier grâce à leur fameuse galette.

Vous pouvez aussi aller déguster une galette des rois dans les grands palaces qui ont essayé aussi de nous surprendre.

À l'hôtel Meurice elle est légèrement poivrée, elle est en miniature à l'hôtel du Buddha Bar. Au Prince de Galles la galette a un subtil goût sur le retour de vanille.

Si vous désirez une galette faite par les stars de la pâtisserie, par les grands chefs pâtissiers ou cuisiniers étoilés à un prix abordable: rendez-vous samedi matin place Saint-Germain-des-Prés Thierry Marx Hélène Darroze Éric Fréchon Guy Savoy Pierre Hermé ....ont concocté des galettes des rois au profit de l'association des Poic (Pseudo Obstructions Intestinales Chroniques) toute l'intégralité de la recette leur sera reversée.

J'espère être la reine. Vive les roissss !

Mia Kennedy pour DayNewsWorld
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LA TEMPETE ELEANOR

TOUCHE ENCORE

LA FRANCE

La tempête Eleanor n'a pas fini de toucher la France. 29 000 foyers étaient encore privés d'électricité jeudi 4 janvier dans la matinée, selon EDF et Enedis, le gestionnaire du reséau.

Météo France a levé la vigilance orange en Haute-Corse, en Corse-de-Sud, dans les Alpes-Maritimes et dans le Var, au matin du jeudi 4 janvier.

Mais 21 départements restent encore concernés par le risque d'inondations, de crues, de vagues dangereuses ou encore risque d'avalanches dans les Alpes.

Douze d'entre-eux sont en vigilance orange pour des vagues dangereuses :

la Charente-Maritime, les Côtes-d'Armor, le Finistère, la Gironde, l'Ille-et-Vilaine, les Landes, la Manche, le Pas-de-Calais, les Pyrénées-Atlantiques, la Seine-Maritime, la Somme et la Vendée.

Un risque d'inondations et de crues menace le Doubs, l'Eure, la Gironde, le Jura, la Haute-Saône, la Seine-Maritime et le Territoire de Belfort.

L'Isère, la Savoie et la Haute-Savoie sont en vigilance orange pluie/inondation, et ces deux derniers départements sont aussi concernés par une alerte aux avalanches, de même que les Hautes-Alpes.

En pleine période de vacances scolaires, les massifs du Mont-Blanc, du Beaufortin, de la Vanoise, de la Haute Tarentaise, de la Haute Maurienne, de Thabord, de Pelvoux et de Champsor ont été placés en alerte 5, niveau maximal sur l'échelle de risque d'avalanches.

La tempête Eleanor a atteint dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi la moitié sud de la France avec des vents violents et un risque maximum d’avalanches dans les Alpes.

Vingt-et-un départements sont en vigilance orange ce jeudi matin pour pluie-inondation, vagues-submersion et avalanches.

À 9 h, Enedis a indiqué que 18 000 de ses clients étaient toujours privés d'électricité et 11 070 pour les clients EDF en Corse.

Mercredi, les intempéries ont tué un skieur par la chute d'un arbre en Haute-Savoie et blessé 26 personnes dont quatre gravement. En Corse, elle a favorisé le développement d'incendies qui ont fait trois blessés.

Trois incendies en Haute-Corse se sont déclenchés dont l'un d'eux, déclenché par la chute d'une ligne électrique mercredi soir, a blessé trois habitants du village de Chiatra.

Le passage de la tempête dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi a attisé plusieurs incendies dans la plaine orientale de l'île.

Deux d'entre eux ne sont pas encore maîtrisés.

Trois personnes ont été blessées, 1600 hectares ont été brûlés.

Pompiers et gendarmes sont mobilisés pour lutter contre les flammes et protéger la population.

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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TEMPETE CARMEN SUR

LA FRANCE

POUR LE NOUVEL AN

Une nouvelle tempête, «Carmen», pourrait frapper la France pendant le Nouvel an.

Après «Ana» les 10 et 11 décembre qui a soufflé jusqu'à 161 km/h sur l'Île de Ré, puis «Bruno» les 26 et 27 décembre qui a provoqué des rafales de plus de 150 km/h au Cap Béar , la tempête «Carmen» est annoncée pour ce premier janvier.

«Une tempête devrait balayer la France pour le jour de l'An, lundi, des côtes de la Manche à la côte aquitaine avant de se diriger vers le sud-est», prévoit Météo

«La tempête n'est pas encore confirmée» , précise Jérôme Lecou, prévisionniste chez Météo-France.

«Il faut rester prudent sur sa trajectoire éventuelle.

Elle pourrait toucher l'Irlande, l'Espagne ou la France en premier.  En revanche, en termes de vents, si elle se confirme, il s'agirait d'une tempête classique de décembre ou janvier avec des vents de 90 à 100 km/h à l'intérieur des terres».

Un facteur aggravant pour la façade Atlantique: les forts coefficients de marée.

La préfecture de Bretagne a appelé à la vigilance de samedi à lundi sur les côtes de la Manche sur son compte Twitter, et des animations du Nouvel an, notamment des baignades, ont déjà été annulées dans la région en raison des conditions météo territoire français en cette fin de semaine.

Les effets de la tempête Carmen pourraient être accentués par les forts coefficients de marée :

80-87 samedi, 92-97 dimanche, 101-104 lundi.

Le littoral pourrait être placé en vigilance jaune Vagues Submersion le 31 décembre voire en vigilance orange le 1er janvier en raison du risque de surcôte par endroits.

Larry Ricky pour DayNewsWorld
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QUE SAIT-ON DE LA COLLISION MORTELLE

ENTRE

UN CAR SCOLAIRE ET UN TRAIN ?

Un TER qui circulait sur la ligne Perpignan–Villefranche–Vernet-les-Bains a heurté jeudi 14 décembre à 16 h 10 un car de la compagnie Faure au passage à niveau no 25, à Millas (Pyrénées-Orientales).

Le car scolaire, qui transportait une vingtaine de collégiens de l’établissement Christian-Bourquin de Millas, a été littéralement coupé en deux.

Vingt-cinq passagers se trouvaient dans le train régional ainsi qu’un conducteur et un agent en cours de formation. Il n’y aurait eu ni blessé grave ni mort parmi les occupants du train.

L’entreprise ferroviaire a précisé que le passage à niveau en question n’était pas concerné par le plan de sécurisation des passages à niveau actuellement mis en place par SNCF Réseau. « Il était muni de demi-barrières et d’une signalisation lumineuse automatique, selon les normes de sécurité en vigueur. »

Selon Edouard Philippe, qui s’est rendu dans la soirée à Millas, la collision a fait au total vingt-quatre victimes, dont quatre sont mortes, onze en situation d’« urgence absolue » et neuf en « situation d’urgence relative ». Le premier ministre a ajouté que le processus d’identification des victimes « a[vait] commencé mais [était] extrêmement difficile ».

La prise en charge des victimes « a été réalisée dans des conditions difficiles avec l’obscurité tombante », selon le préfet. Il a fallu désincarcérer des enfants, victimes de graves blessures. Le préfet a parlé de « véritable scène de guerre ».

D’importants dispositifs de secours ont été mobilisés : 95 sapeurs pompiers, 52 gendarmes et 12 personnels du Samu. La prise en charge des victimes et leur évacuation ont aussi nécessité quatre hélicoptères de la sécurité civile et de la gendarmerie. Le plan blanc élargi et le plan rouge ont été déclenchés.

« La mobilisation de l’Etat est totale pour [leur] porter secours », a tweeté Emmanuel Macron, qui a adressé ses pensées aux familles victimes de « ce terrible accident ».

Une enquête judiciaire pour « homicides et blessures involontaires » a été ouverte, a indiqué le procureur. Elle permettra de « mettre toute la lumière sur les circonstances exactes de la survenue de cet accident », a-t-il ajouté. Une enquête administrative également. Les investigations seront vraisemblablement très longues.

« Il y a beaucoup d’incertitudes à ce stade de l’enquête », a déclaré à Jean-Valéry Letterman, commandant adjoint de la région gendarmerie Occitanie, responsable de l’ex-Languedoc-Roussillon. « 30 enquêteurs de la gendarmerie ont été mobilisés pour les investigations », a précisé le procureur. Le TER et le car vont être placés sous scellés.

Un possible dysfonctionnement du passage à niveau?

« Il est largement prématuré d’indiquer si les barrières étaient levées ou baissées », a précisé le procureur, interrogé sur un éventuel « dysfonctionnement » des barrières du passage à niveau et un possible « vol de batteries » qui aurait conduit à un mauvais fonctionnement.

De son côté, une porte-parole de la SNCF a indiqué que « le train circulait à 80 km/h, vitesse réglementaire sur cette voie, au moment de l’accident, sous réserve de confirmation de l’enquête ».

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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COLLISION ENTRE TER ET UN CAR SCOLAIRE PRES

DE PERPIGNAN CINQ ENFANTS TUES ET

19 BLESSES DONT 7 TRES GRIEVEMENT

La collision s'est produite vers 16 heures, à Millas, dans les Pyrénées-Orientales, sur un passage à niveau. Le plan blanc a été déclenché.Un bus scolaire a été percuté par un TER, à Millas, près de Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) faisant au moins quatre morts et 24 blessés "graves et très graves", jeudi 14 décembre .

Le bilan provisoire fait état d'au moins quatre morts, tous des enfants et de 19 blessés. Parmi les blessés, trois sont des personnes qui se trouvaient dans le TER, a-t-il précisé.

Le bus transportant des enfants entre le collège de Millas et les communes de Saint-Féliu-d'Amont et Saint-Féliu-d'Avall, était engagé sur la voie alors que la barrière était baissée et aurait été percuté à l’arrière par le train.

Les blessés sont "répartis dans différents hôpitaux, principalement dans celui de Perpignan",selon le préfet qui a listé les moyens de secours sur place : 80 sapeurs-pompiers ainsi que de "moyens hélicoptères". "Un poste médical avancé a été installé à proximité", a-t-il indiqué, demandant "des renforts nationaux pour la sécurité du site."

Le Premier ministre, Edouard Philippe, ainsi que la ministre des Transports, Elisabeth Borne, vont se rendre sur place.

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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SCOOP

PATRICK TIMSIT QUI A PERDU SON PAPA CE MATIN

Patrick Timsit artiste aux multiples talents,est en deuil !

Nous présentons toutes nos condoléances à Patrick Timsit qui a perdu son papa ce matin.


On compatit à sa douleur, nos parents étant souvent notre refuge et leur départ une déchirure douloureuse même si nous avons grandi.

Nous l'accompagnons Patrick Timsit et nous joignont a sa douleur, et par nos prières et nos pensées.

Mia Kennedy pour DayNewsWorld
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CINQ ANS DE PRISON

POUR CELUI

QUI AURAIT PU SAUVER LE PERE HAMEL

Le père Jacques Hamel a été égorgé le 26 juillet 2016 : deux terroristes islamistes ont ensuite été abattus par les forces de l'ordre. Un paroissien a également été grièvement blessé lors de cette attaque.

Or quelques jours avant l'attaque de Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray en juillet 2016, Omar avait reçu une vidéo de l'un des deux terroristes de revendication de l’attentat de Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, quelques jours avant

Il a été condamné à 5 ans de prison pour son silence.

«Mamadou Segpa», le personnage qu'il incarnait sur Youtube a donc été condamné ce vendredi à cinq ans de prison pour association de malfaiteurs à visée terroriste assortis d'un suivi socio-judiciaire de cinq ans alors que le procureur avait demandé sept ans, avec une période de sûreté des deux tiers...

Les magistrats du tribunal correctionnel de Paris l'ont reconnu coupable de ne pas avoir donné l'alerte quand, quelques jours avant l'attaque de Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, il a reçu une vidéo de revendication annonciatrice de l'attentat coûtant la vie au père Hamel, égorgé dans son église en juillet 2016.

Omar vit avec sa mère à Mantes-la-Jolie et consacre son temps libre à la réalisation de sketchs qu'il diffuse sur sa chaîne Youtube pour gagner un peu d'argent.

Avant d’être « hypnotisé » par la propagande djihadiste, Omar réalise des sketches humoristique sur YouTube.

Mais une de ses saynètes titrée «Mamadou Segpa rejoint Daech» aurait du attirer l'attention : A l'humour fait place un début de radicalisation. Omar commence à visionner des vidéos diffusées par l'État islamique, des documents de propagande, télécharge des dizaines de fichiers d'attentats, de documents, de conseils pour les apprentis terroristes...?

Il devient tout simplement un djihadiste potentiel : d'ailleurs ne voulait-il passe rendre en Syrie ? Ne correspondait-il pas avec le propagandiste Rachid Kassim notamment ?

Il discute avec Rachid Kassim sur la messagerie cryptée Telegram ! Début 2015, il s’abonne à plusieurs chaînes en lien avec le jihad et, en juillet 2016, il commence à échanger avec le propagandiste Rachid Kassim.

Le 23 juillet 2016, soit trois jours avant l’assassinat du père Hamel, le cyber-jihadiste, qui se cache alors en Syrie ou en Irak, va jusqu'à lui adresser une vidéo dans laquelle un homme annonce une « attaque dévastatrice », prêtant dans le même temps allégeance à l'Etat islamique. Kassim lui demande de la diffuser.

Le lendemain, la police débarque chez lui pour une perquisition administrative, et saisit cette vidéo. Il est interpellé le 25 juillet 2016. Le 26, alors qu’il est toujours en garde à vue, les jihadistes Abdel Malik Petitjean et Adel Kermiche égorgent le père Jacques Hamel dans son église de Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray. Le jeune homme découvre alors que l'un des terroristes est l'homme présent sur la vidéo qu'il a reçue trois jours plus tôt, Abdel Malik Petitjean.

«Il n'y a aucune différence entre la cocaïne et les vidéos de Daech, à chaque fois on veut savoir ce qui va se passer», explique Omar.

« On va dire que c'était une radicalisation cinématographique », poursuit-il. Attiré par le mirage d'une vie confortable en Syrie, il avait projeté avant son interpellation de s'y installer pour y faire « des vidéo-montages »

Certes mais un peu facile...comme défense pour un youtuber influent!!! .

Le discours et les thèses jihadistes lui collent désormais à la peau. Mais malgré des faits « d'une gravité évidente» comme «vouloir partir en Syrie après les attentats de 2015 et 2016» le tribunal s'est dit «confiant» s'agissant de sa « prise de conscience »...

Une procédure en béatificatio

Si ce jeune djiadiste en devenir avait parlé, le père Hamel, égorgé en juillet 2016 dans son église à Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, n’aurait sans doute pas connu un tel sort.

Sur proposition de l'archevêque de Rouen, un procès en béatification a été ouvert le 2 octobre 2016 pour le religieux assassiné. Elle suit toujours son cours.

Alize Marion pour DayNewsWorld
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BRAVO LA FRANCE GAGNE LA COUPE DAVIS

La plus prestigieuse des compétitions internationales annuelles du Tennis masculin par équipe est sans aucun doute la Coupe Davis

En ce mois de novembre 2017 c’est l’équipe de France qui a gagné avec en symbole le fameux « saladier » !!!

Oui bravo à toute l’équipe et Merci pour la France et pour tous ceux qui ont suivi avec plaisir cette merveilleuse compétition !!!

Les mauvais esprits pourront toujours vous dire qu’au nom de la parité on se demande pourquoi il n’y a pas de femme dans cette compétition !!! Hi hi hi !!!

Larry Ricky pour DayNewsWorld
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UN TIGRE ABATTU EN PLEIN PARIS

 

Vendredi 24 novembre, un tigre s'est échappé d'un cirque dans le 15e arrondissement de Paris .

Une enquête a été ouverte et le propriétaire de l'animal, qui a tué le fauve, a été placé en garde à vue pour mise en danger de la vie d'autrui.

Le cirque Bormann venait de s'installer dans le 15e arrondissement.

En prenant la fuite le fauve s'est dirigé vers des rames désaffectées situées face au cirque et à proximité de France Télévisions.

Le tramway a dû s'arrêter. L'animal de 200 kg a finalement été abattu rapidement par son propriétaire comme le veut la règle. .Ce dernier pris en charge par les pompiers, en état de choc,a été placé en garde à vue pour mise en danger de la vie d'autrui. Abattu et non pas endormi alors que c'est une race menacée d'extinction.

"La règle administrative [c'est que] quand un animal sauvage s'échappe, il doit être abattu par son propriétaire"a rétorqué le maire du XV° arrondissement de Paris inquiet qu'un tigre puisse ainsi se promener en liberté quelques minutes dans les rues de la capitale.

Des questions reste sans réponses. Comment l'animal s'est échappé ? Une enquête sur les circonstances de l'évasion a été ouverte par le commissariat du XVe arrondissement.

Le tigre abattu à Paris relance cependant le débat sur les cirques sans animaux et les associations de défense des animaux n'ont pas manqué de rappeler que si 29 pays dans le monde ont interdit les cirques mettant en scène des animaux sauvages, ce n'est pas le cas de la France, même si 63 villes ont interdit les spectacles avec tigres, éléphants, lions ou chameaux !

"Les cirques, par définition, ne peuvent pas répondre aux besoins des animaux sauvages, explique Christophe Marie, le porte-parole de la fondation Brigitte Bardot.

Ces animaux parqués dans des conditions de captivité extrêmes -petites cages, petits enclos-,développent des maladies comme la stéréotypie, qui se traduit par des comportements répétitifs.

Ce sont les tigres qui tournent en rond dans leur cage ou les éléphants qui se balancent d'une patte à une autre. Pour les défenseur des animaux il s'avère impératif d'interdire la captivité d'animaux sauvages en général, et plus particulièrement dans les cirques.

Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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LE SECRET DES AMISH POUR VIVRE LONGTEMPS

OU

UNE MUTATION GENETIQUE

Pourquoi les Amish , au mode de vie très simple, vivent-ils plus longtemps d'une dizaine d'année par rapport aux autres Américains ?

Une mutation génétique très rare vient d'être découverte chez des Amish , vivants à l'écart du progrès, aux Etats-Unis qui explique leur longévité supérieure

L'étude a été menée pendant plusieurs mois sur 177 Amish âgés de 18 à plus de 85 ans appartement à la communauté de Berne, dans l'Indiana (nord des Etats-Unis) et les conclusions dans la revue "Science Advances" révèlent que les 43 hommes et femmes porteurs de la mutation du gène Serpine1 – responsable d'une forte réduction de la production de la protéine PAI-1 – étaient en meilleure santé et vivaient en moyenne dix ans de plus (85 ans) que leurs congénères privés de cette variation génétique. Il faut savoir que l'espérance de vie aux Etats-Unis est de 78,8 ans.Ces Amish vivent en moyenne 10 ans de plus que les autres, autour de 85 ans, et en très bonne santé. Autre découverte : il s'agit d'un héritage génétique.

De plus sur leurs chromosomes, de petits capuchons, les télomères, qui raccourcissent lorsque l'on vieillit, sont plus longs de 10%. . Le télomère est un morceau d'ADN situé à l'extrémité de chaque chromosome pour le protéger et qui se réduit à chaque division cellulaire ce qui contribue au vieillissement.

"C'est la première mutation génétique humaine qui se révèle avoir un impact multiple sur les changements biologiques résultant du vieillissement"explique le professeur Douglas Vaughan, président de la faculté de médecine Feinberg de l'université Northwestern à Chicago.

La réduction de la protéine PAI-1 semble agir sur la longévité des humains en augmentant leur espérance de vie . De plus leur profil métabolique s'avère aussi plus sain souffrant nettement moins de diabète et de maladies cardiovasculaires.

Des études précédentes menés en particulier sur des souris ont montré le rôle important de la PAI-1 dans le sénescence et avaient également montré qu'une hausse du taux de cette protéine dans le sang et les tissus de souris génétiquement modifiées provoquait un vieillissement accéléré.

Parallèlement des observations chez les humains ont montré que le niveau de cette protéine était plus élevé chez les obèses et les diabétiques, mettant donc en évidence le rôle fondamental du métabolisme dans la biologie du vieillissement.

Nul doute que cette découverte ouvre la voie à la conception de traitements contre la dégénérescence liée à l'âge !

Il existe déjà des traitement contre le diabète réduisant la protéine PAI-1 comme la Metformine et le Resvératrol, un anti-oxydant abondant dans le raisin.

Au Japon il existe déjà une molécule expérimentale : la "TM5614". Cette dernière neutralise cette protéine.

Elle a été à l'étude dans un essai clinique de phase I au Japon, a précisé Douglas Vaughan.et les autorités nippones ont déjà autorisé un essai clinique de phase II. Des souris traitées avec cette molécule ont été épargnées de toutes les pathologies liées à l'âge et ont vu leur durée de vie quadrupler.

Cette molécule antivieillissement représente donc un solide espoir pour le traitement ou la prévention des maladies humaines résultant de la sénescence. "Nous pensons que ce médicament peut avoir un double effet en agissant sur les processus moléculaires du vieillissement mais aussi sur les maladies qui y sont liées", a souligné le professeur Vaughan.

Bientôt une pilule anti-âge pour réparer notre ADN endommagé ?
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LA COMMERCIALISATION DU

PREMIER MEDICAMENT CONNECTE

AUX ETATS-UNIS

 

On en parle depuis longtemps, c’est désormais une réalité. La première pilule connectée vient d’être autorisée aux Etats-Unis.

En effet La Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – agence américaine du médicament – vient d'autoriser la commercialisation sur le territoire américain d'une pilule connectée.
Il s'agit d'un antipsychotique doté d'un capteur connecté qui indique le moment où il est ingéré par le patient.

Avaler de la technologie pour son bien, voilà ce que propose Abilify MyCite pour un médicament soignant les troubles bipolaires , la schizophrénie et la dépression, des maladies qui implique des traitements réguliers .

Fruit d' étroite collaboration entre le laboratoire japonais Otsuka qui fabrique l'antipsychotique et l'entreprise californienne Proteus Digital Health, qui le transforme en médicament , on ne connaît pas encore son prix.

C’est une pilule normale en apparence mais qui renferme un minuscule capteur en silicium, cuivre et magnésium.

Au contact des sucs gastriques un signal électrique est envoyé à un patch placé sur le corps. Ensuite, ce patch transmet les données par Bluetooth à une application mobile sur smartphone.

Le sujet peut choisir jusqu'à cinq personnes à qui envoyer ces informations.

Il ne fait aucun doute que cette technologie permet une amélioration du suivi de patients mais elle pose néanmoins quelques questions éthiques.

D'ailleurs une partie du corps médical et de la justice s'inquiète du caractère espion de cette pilule neuroleptique. Ce procédé assez intrusif ne risque-t-il pas de poser des problèmes de respect de la vie privée ?

En théorie, des mesures de confidentialité sont mises en place. Les données sont consultables uniquement par le médecin traitant.

En France la législation est stricte

« La liberté individuelle prime en France. Avec le règlement général sur la protection des données (RGPD) – applicable à compter du 25 mai 2018 dans tous les pays de l'UE – qui interdit formellement de communiquer les données d'un individu sans son consentement, on évite que le remboursement d'un traitement soit conditionné par la rigueur de sa prise en France », rassure une avocate

Pour autant la France a son rôle à jouer en e-santé. Jusqu'alors spécialisé dans les produits pour athlètes, BodyCap proposera dès 2018 sur le marché médical ce type de médicaments connectés, principalement à destination de l'oncologie et de l'infectiologie. « Notre offre propose un dispositif ingérable qui récolte des informations physiologiques », explique Sébastien Moussay, président de la société, « il permet de remonter les données du patient jusqu'à l'hôpital »

Le médicament communicant devient une réalité

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DES AVANCEES DANS L'ENQUETE

SUR LA MORT

D'ALEXIA DUVAL

Concernant la mort d'Alexia, une information judiciaire pour "assassinat" a été ouverte la semaine dernière. Alexia Daval a disparu samedi 28 octobre pendant son footing peu après avoir quitté son domicile.

Son corps retrouvé lundi, calciné, gisait caché sous des branchages dans un bois près de la ville, à plusieurs kilomètres du parcours habituel de la joggeuse.

Dimanche, plus de 8000 personnes se sont rassemblées à Gray pour rendre hommage à Alexia. Un e marche silencieuse en présence du mari, des parents ainsi que de la sœur d'Alexia.

La procureure de la République, Edwige Roux-Morizot , a tenu une brève conférence de presse ce lundi 6 novembre à 11h au tribunal de grande instance de Besançon dans le cadre de l'affaire Alexia pour tenter de calmer les peurs des habitants de cette commune de Haute Saône.

Elle a expliqué devant les journalistes que « le corps d'Alexia Daval n'est pas suffisamment calciné pour nuire aux recherches scientifiques. »

La cause de sa mort n'est pas encore établie avec certitude.

« Son décès est probablement dû à une asphyxie, sans que l'on connaisse encore le mécanisme de cette asphyxie.

Il n'est pas possible, comme il a été dit, d'affirmer qu'elle n'a pas été violée. Là encore des analyses sont en cours afin d'accréditer ou non l'existence d'un viol » a précisé Edwige Roux-Morizot.

Par contre la jeune femme a subi des violences physiques. Et à la procureur d'ajouter concernant un ou des potentiels suspects :

"Si j'avais des pistes je vous ne le dirais pas".

"On pourra savoir" ce qu'il s'est réellement passé, a confirmé la procureure de la République, qui a également demandé à ce que le travail des enquêteurs soit respecté. «Ce serait le plus bel hommage à rendre à Alexia», a-t-elle déclaré.

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ABDELKADER MERAH JUGE SEULEMENT COUPABLE D'ASSOCIATION DE MALFAITEURS TERRORISTE

La cour d'assises de Paris a condamné hier, jeudi 2 novembre, Abdelkader Merah à 20 ans de réclusion criminelle avec sûreté pour deux tiers de la peine, pour l'association de malfaiteurs terroriste qui a permis à son frère Mohamed de commettre sept assassinats .

Au bout de cinq semaines d’un procès sous très haute tension, Abdelkader Merah a cependant été acquitté de complicité "d’assassinats". « Il n’est pas démontré l’existence d’une aide ou d’une assistance, a expliqué le président de la cour. (…) Mohamed Merah a toujours été seul lors de la réalisation de ses crimes. Abdelkader Merah a pu ignorer lors du vol du scooter T-Max qu’il allait servir à commettre les actes de son frère. » Pour le président de la cour, rien ne prouve une « provocation à l’acte » de la part d’Abdelkader Merah.

La cour s'est efforcé de rendre un jugement très motivé dans la mesure où elle n'a pas condamné ce dernier pour complicité d'assassinats .

La condamnation d'Abdelkader Merah à une peine de 20 ans de réclusion criminelle mécontente certains proches des victimes de Mohamed Merah. Les avocats des parties civiles sont eux plutôt satisfaits.

"Un jugement de Salomon." Voilà de quelle façon, Patrick Klugman, avocat de Samuel Sandler, père et grand-père de trois victimes abattues par Mohamed Merah au collège-lycée juif Ozar Hatorah de Toulouse, a qualifié sur Twitter le jugement rendu par la cour d'assises spéciale. Maître Dupont-Moretti, l'avocat d'Abdelkader Merah, s'est dit satisfait. "Les juges, et c'est leur honneur, ont résisté à la pression de l'opinion publique", a déclaré satisfait l'avocat.

Ayant déjà réalisé cinq ans de prison il ne reste au condamné que quinze ans de prison à faire au pire des cas. Comme l'a déploré une mère de victime « dans moins de quinze ans il sera dans la rue et sera un danger pour nos jeunes ».

La cour a tenu à motiver avec précision sa décision.

Pour la cour "aucun élément de la procédure ne montre" qu'Abdelkader Merah "connaissait les objectifs visés et les crimes commis par son frère". Par ailleurs, les juges ont estimé que "l'ascendant qu'Abdelkader Merah a pu avoir sur son frère" à l'adolescence, pas plus que l'exercice d'une "influence indirecte à l'époque des faits", "ne sauraient être retenus au titre d'un élément de la complicité punissable".

Dans la mesure où aucune trace d'ADN n'a été trouvée sur les armes la cour n'avait aucune preuve de son absence ou présence lors de l'acquisition de l'arsenal détenu par son frère. Des zones d'ombre demeurent sur de nombreux points. L'on ne sait ni qui a réalisé le montage du film de l'attaque de Mohamed Merah ni qui a revendiqué les faits auprès d'une journaliste à France 24 après l'attaque.

Le co-accusé de Merah, Fettah Malki, 35 ans, est reconnu coupable d'association de malfaiteurs terroriste criminelle. Il est condamné à 14 ans de réclusion criminelle avec une peine de sûreté des deux tiers. Pour la justice, il a fourni un gilet pare-balles portant le logo de la police, volé en 2011, et un pistolet-mitraille. à Mohamed Merah. [L’accusé] ne pouvait ignorer qu’en cédant une arme de guerre [à Mohamed Merah], il était susceptible de perpétrer des exactions. Il connaissait parfaitement la famille Merah depuis le début des années 2000 et était conscient de leur engagement religieux », selon le président de la cour.

Fettah Malki a décidé de faire appel de sa condamnation, selon son avocat .

« Justice a été rendue et nous respectons la justice car c’est la justice que nous attendions », a déclaré Patrick Klugman, l’un des avocats de victimes de Mohamed Merah, tout en « regrettant que la cour n’ait pas été au terme de sa propre démarche », car « il était possible sereinement, juridiquement de condamner l’accusé pour la complicité d’assassinats » pour les trois militaires, et « celui de l’ennemi juif », pour l’enseignant et les trois enfants tués à l’école Ozar Hatorah à Toulouse.

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CORPS CALCINE DE LA JOGGEUSE ALEXIA DAVAL

 

Le procureur de la République l'a annoncé dans un communiqué.ADN a permis d'identifier la victime.

Le corps calciné retrouvé lundi 30 octobre sur la commune d'Esmoulins est bien celui d'Alexia Daval, la joggeuse de 29 ans qui a disparu depuis samedi, en Haute-Saône.

L'ADN a permis d'identifier la victime

"Les constatations réalisées sur le corps, dans la scène de crime, par les techniciens en identification criminelle, ont été adressées dès hier à un laboratoire de police technique et scientifique.

Leur exploitation ADN confirme que le cadavre découvert est bien celui d'Alexia Daval, la joggeuse disparue à Gray", a indiqué le communiqué.

Partie sans son téléphone portable vers 9 heures samedi matin sur les bords de Saône ,elle faisait son footing habituel d'une quarantaine de minutes.

Son mari qui ne la voyait pas revenir, avait contacté la gendarmerie.

Lundi, "un corps a été découvert dans un bois assez isolé", avait annoncé le procureur de la République.

"Il a été volontairement brulé par l'auteur des faits (...)", avait-il ajouté.

Aucun suspect pour l'instant. Une enquête pour "assassinat" est ouverte.

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NOUVELLE REVALORISATION DES MEDECINS

LE 1ER NOVEMBRE

Après le passage de la consultation de base chez un généraliste à 25 euros, le 1er mai, ce sont de nouvelles revalorisations qui entrent en vigueur le 1er novembre, conformément à l'accord conclu il y a plus d'un an entre l'Assurance maladie et les syndicats de médecins libéraux.

La nouvelle grille des tarifs des prestations médicales vient d’être publiée au Journal Officiel .

La convention médicale instaure deux nouveaux niveaux de consultations pour les actes « complexes » ou « très complexes » : les premières à 46 euros et les secondes à 60 euros .

Des consultations qui seront remboursées en intégralité.

La première d’entre elles est la consultation dite « complexe », facturée 46 euros et qui tente de répondre à de « forts enjeux de santé publique », comme la lutte contre l’obésité ou la prévention sexuelle.

Aussi concerne-t-elle le suivi des nouveaux-nés (trois consultations obligatoires) , des enfants de 3 à 12 ans en risque de surpoids, ou la première visite d’une jeune fille chez le médecin pour sa contraception. Ces consultations "longues", s’inscrivent dans un contexte de « méfiance envers la pilule nécessitant des discussions de plus en plus serrées », souligne Claude Leicher, président de MG France, premier syndicat des médecins généralistes.

La deuxième dite « très complexe » à 60 euros, comprend notamment l'information sur la mise en place d'un traitement pour un patient nouvellement atteint de cancer, d'une pathologie neurologique grave (maladie d'Alzheimer, Parkinson...) ou encore d'une infection par le VIH.Les cas de malformations graves du foetus sont également concernés.

Les affections longue durée (ALD), prises en charge à 100% par la Sécurité sociale représenteraient "deux tiers" des cas concernés par ces nouveaux tarifs, selon l'Assurance maladie. Aux patients de demander le tiers payant (dispense d'avance de frais), tout comme ceux bénéficiant de la Couverture maladie universelle complémentaire et de l'Aide à l'acquisition d'une complémentaire santé.

Pour le reste de la population, la dispense d'avance de frais sera soumise au bon vouloir du médecin. En effet, l'obligation d'appliquer le tiers payant sur la partie Assurance maladie représentant 70% du montant de la prise en charge (contre 30% pour les complémentaires santé), et qui devait entrer en vigueur le 1er décembre, vient d'être supprimée

De son côté, le collectif d'associations de patients, France association santé, dénonce le fait que "les consultations onéreuses ne font qu'aggraver les renoncements aux soins".

Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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HALLOWEEN 2017

C'est le 31 octobre. Alors pour entendre dire par les enfants''Trick or treat'' des bonbons ou un sort.

Il faut préparer sa maison en fabriquant des citrouilles pour y mettre sa lanterne Jack-o'-lantern.

Celle- ci vient des traditions anglo-saxones comme l'Irlande ou l'Écosse pour arriver aux États-Unis.

Achetez un potiron assez gros lui découper un chapeau. Videz le, récupérer la chair, cela vous fera une excellente soupe.

Puis dessinez deux triangles pour les yeux un pour le nez puis pour une bouche sur l'un des côté de la citrouille au feutre noir.

Découpez ensuite vos dessins avec un cuter ou couteau.

Puis le soir mettez un mini photophore et allumez le.

Cela donne une ambiance.

Vous pouvez mettre des fausses araignées un peu partout sur des feuilles d'arbres ramassées dans la rue.

Avec du tissus blanc découpez des petits carrés, pliez- les en deux dessinez deux yeux une bouche puis accrochez les avec des ficelles voilà pleins de petits fantômes.

Ne pas oublier de prévoir des friandises.

Déguisez vos enfants et vous aussi !! Et happy Halloween. Des soirées sont organisées un peu partout pour adultes Gard Rock Café, pour enfants Disney land, on peut même mettre des films d'horreur pour soirée maison avec adultes et adolescents.

Avant l'heure pour faire peur elle ne fait rien comme les autres Kim Kardashian a déjà mis une photo d'elle avec son déguisement, elle s'est déguisée en Cher puis en Aaliyad.

A la Maison Blanche on l'a fêté avant. Le Président Donald Trump a convié les enfants .

Joyeux Halloween hahaha...

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DES COSMETIQUES AUX SUBSTANCES DANGEREUSES

Plus de 140 produits cosmétiques contiennent des substances dangereuses .

Déodorant, gel douche, maquillage, parfum...nous les utilisons chaque jour pour notre hygiène, y compris intime et pourtant. Suite aux contrôles effectués par la DGCCRF chez des fabricants et au niveau de la distribution, le constat est déconcertant : plus de 140 références de produits cosmétiques contiennent des substances rigoureusement prohibées.

Cette dernière n'a cependant pas donné de liste. L'enquête de la DGCCRF a notamment permis l'identification des traces de methylisothiazolinone(MIT) et d'isobutylparaben, deux conservateurs interdits depuis respectivement le 12 février 2017 et depuis le 30 juillet 2015 .

"Ces contrôles, menés chez des fabricants et au niveau de la distribution, ont conduit au retrait des rayonnages de plus de 140 références de produits cosmétiques contenant des substances prohibées"

vient d'annoncer la DGCCRF. Les fabricants dans l'ensemble avaient modifié en amont la composition de leurs produits retirant le conservateur incriminé . Mais deux fabricants ont été épinglés qui continuaient l'utilisation et la commercialisation de ces conservateurs interdits dans la formulation de leurs produits cosmétiques. « Des procès-verbaux d'infraction seront transmis prochainement à la justice ».

Ces nombreux composés chimiques peuvent provoquer des réactions indésirables quasi immédiates mais aussi, au fil du temps, migrer dans notre organisme.

Les principaux risques associés aux cosmétiques sont le plus souvent cutanés comme les irritation plus ou moins fortes, les allergies, la photosensibilisation.

Mais la multiplication des ingrédients chimiques dans de nombreux produits appliqués quotidiennement favorise "l'effet cocktail" et ne sont pas sans conséquences sur notre santé comme en témoignent la progression inquiétante des cancers hormonaux, des maladies chroniques

Aux consommateurs de rester vigilants

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SUGAR BABY A LA LIMITE DE LA PROSTITUTION

Le procureur de Paris a été saisi hier pour que soit fermé un site qui, à grands renforts de publicité, propose des mises en relations entre étudiantes ou étudiant (sugar babies) et « mécènes » fortunés d’âge mûr (sugar daddies).

,Ces plateformes accusées de proxénétisme ont déjà été interdites en Belgique fin septembre confrontée également au problème.

Les camions publicitaires de “RichMeetBeautiful.com” font du racolage depuis le début de la semaine aux alentours des universités parisiennes notamment le campus de Paris Descartes et de l’université Pierre et Marie Curie .

En trois jours, le site norvégien de rencontre entre sugar daddies (des hommes âgés et riches) et sugar babies (des jeunes femmes étudiantes) aurait déjà enregistré 6 000 inscriptions !

Pour l’association Équipes d’action contre le proxénétisme, « Internet permet à la prostitution d’avancer masquée ». Pour la justice américaine les sites de rencontres entre « sugar babies » et « sugar daddies » ne proposent pas du sexe tarifé.

Même si services ressemblent à ceux des escorts, c'est une forme particulière de prostitution, où des hommes s’offrent la compagnie de jeunes femmes payées.

« La frontière entre la prostitution et la recherche de “mécènes” pour financer des études est ténue », souligne la sénatrice communiste Brigitte Gonthier-Maurin, dans un rapport qui n’a pas abouti à une loi délimitant cette frontière et distinguant la rencontre de l’activité d’escort.

A l'élue de conclure « Les difficultés matérielles et la précarité des conditions de vie des étudiants peuvent rendre attractifs les revenus susceptibles d’être rapportés par la prostitution de luxe : 2 000 euros la nuit, 4 000 à 5 000 euros le week-end ».

Plusieurs enquêtes menées auprès d'étudiantes avaient montré que la prostitution existait bien pour au moins environ 2% d'entre elles qui monnayaient leur charmes.

La mairie de Paris a saisi le procureur de la République pour demander des poursuites contre le site internet.

Indigné par cet «appel à la prostitution», Frédéric Dardel va consulter son service juridique pour évaluer ses possibilités. «Si j’ai un levier d’action, je porterai plainte» assure-t-il.

La mairie de Paris a saisi mercredi le procureur de la République pour demander des poursuites contre le site internet et travaille, en coordination avec la préfecture de police de Paris, pour les faire retirer.

Nous condamnons avec fermeté cette publicité honteuse. Nous travaillons avec la @prefpolice pour la faire disparaître de nos rues. pic.twitter.com/GIAxsVBllH

— Paris (@Paris) 25 octobre 2017

. «J’ai saisi le procureur de la République et la plateforme de signalement Pharos» (qui permet de porter à la connaissance des autorités les contenus ou comportements illicites sur internet) pour demander la fermeture du site RichMeetBeautiful.fr», a indiqué sur Twitter Hélène Bidard, adjointe PCF chargée de la lutte contre les discriminations de la maire PS de Paris Anne Hidalgo. «Nous voulons une enquête qui pourrait amener à des poursuites pour proxénétisme», a-t-elle ajouté.

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UNE LOI

CONTRE LE HARCELEMENT

NE SUFFIT PAS!!!

Affaire Weinstein oblige !

Depuis plusieurs jours, les langues des victimes se délient.

Sur Twitter ou dans les médias, elles prennent la parole pour raconter des violences sexistes ou sexuelles dont elles ont été la cible.

Un sondage qui révèle l'ampleur de ce type d' agressions en France...

Une Française sur deux victime d'agression et/ou de harcèlement sexuel!

Pour 91% des personnes interrogées, la question du harcèlement et des agressions sexuelles est un problème aujourd'hui "important".Voire récurrent .

Les chiffres donné par le dernier sondage Odoxa-Dentsu de ce vendredi ne laisse aucun doute sur ce fait de société qui doit être pris à bras le corps !

Les chiffres ne mentent pas :

Une Française sur deux (53%) dit avoir été victime d'agression sexuelle comme des attouchements sexuels, la main aux fesses, un baiser forcé...et/ou de harcèlement sexuel notamment des propos déplacés, dégradants, insultes à connotation sexuelle ..

Entrons dans le détail : ce sont 36% des femmes qui se disent avoir "été victimes d'agression sexuelle", 38% "de harcèlement sexuel en dehors du lieu de travail" et 17% "au travail." 6% des hommes se disent également victimes d'agression sexuelle.

L'initiative #balancetonporc qui permet de libérer la parole des femmes, même si elle peut être contestable, confirme cependant ce phénomène sociétal.

Il faut savoir qu'il existe déjà dans le Code Pénal une loi contre le harcèlement sexuel.

Le harcèlement sexuel est défini dans Code pénal comme une façon « d'imposer à une personne, de façon répétée, des propos ou comportements à connotation sexuelle qui soit portent atteinte à sa dignité en raison de leur caractère dégradant ou humiliant, soit créent à son encontre une situation intimidante, hostile ou offensant ».

En théorie, le harcèlement sexuel est passible d'une peine de deux ans de prison et de 30.000 euros d'amende.

Mais comment mettre des limites entre la drague et le harcèlement sexuel ?

Selon la porte-parole de "Paye ta Shnek" Anaïs Bourdet, la définition juridique du harcèlement juridique dans le Code pénal mérite d'être revue.

On ne peut nier la difficulté de définir le harcèlement de rue, la loi peut être améliorée en prenant en compte les notions de "consentement" et d’"insistance".

Elle doit aussi revoir la notion de "répétition", fait encore valoir "Paye ta Shnek".

Le fait d'être harcelé une seule fois dans la rue par plusieurs homme en est un exemple n'est pas pris en compte par la loi.

Ce constat la juriste Marilyn Baldeck, déléguée générale de l’association européenne contre les violences faites aux femmes au travail le partage.

"Avec le harcèlement de rue, on parle d’infractions, de propos ou de comportements à caractère sexuel commis dans la rue, qui portent atteinte à la dignité.

C’est la définition du harcèlement sexuel, et il n’y a aucune raison de créer une infraction en fonction du lieu où elle est commise", selon Marilyn Baldeck.

 

Un projet de loi au plus vite ?.

L’exécutif planche sur un projet de loi « sur les violence sexistes et sexuelle » , qui prévoit entre autres de verbaliser les harceleurs de rue en flagrant délit.

Emmanuel Macron a promis une "procédure de verbalisation plus simple" des actes de harcèlement "pour qu'il y ait une réponse immédiate"

C'est la police de sécurité quotidienne qui s'en chargerait...Mais au-delà de faire des lois dans l'urgence, la véritable

Elle verbaliserait en flagrance, avec une amende à payer directement sur les lieux de l’infraction.

Marlène Schiappa, lucide, a précisé que cette loi aura aussi et surtout "une valeur symbolique, pour dire que les lois de la République interdisent le harcèlement de rue", reconnaissant toutefois que là ne réside pas la véritable solution.

Il s’agirait bien évidemment à la fois d'un outil de condamnation et de dissuasion .

Mais au-delà de faire des lois dans l'urgence, la véritable solution semble se trouver dans l'éducation des enfants dès le plus jeune âge !!!

Britney Delsey DayNewsWorld

 

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CONDAMNES

POUR « UN BISOU »

PAR LA JUSTICE TUNISIENNE

La justice tunisienne est restée de fer dans l'affaire très médiatisée du «bisou» entre un trentenaire français et une quadragénaire tunisienne.

Un couple a été condamné en appel mercredi à Tunis pour «atteinte à la pudeur» alors qu’ils étaient enlacés dans une voiture malgré une importante mobilisation et médiatisation de cette affaire du «bisou».

Il s'agit d' un trentenaire français et d'une quadragénaire tunisienne que les policiers avaient arrêtés alors qu'ils étaient enlacés dans une voiture.

Les deux prévenus assurent ne s'être même pas embrassés.

«C'est une décision indépendante», a déclaré le porte-parole du parquet, Sofiène Sliti qui a également souligné que « ce qui a été véhiculé au niveau national et international est faux, ils n'ont pas été arrêtés pour un baiser, le couple était nu».

Le président a lu devant une salle comble la déposition des policiers qui décrivaient un acte sexuel en cours lors de l'interpellation la nuit du 1er octobre dans une banlieue chic de Tunis.

Le couple venait de sortir dernier d'une boîte de nuit et s'était arrêter sur le bas-côté de la route.

Lui a été condamné à quatre mois de prison ferme pour «atteinte à la pudeur» et «outrage à fonctionnaire dans l'exercice de ses fonctions», et elle à deux mois pour le seul premier chef d'inculpation.

Elle assure que son ami l'avait juste prise dans ses bras lorsque des policiers en civil ont mené un contrôle et l'ont sorti de la voiture sans ménagement.

Une dizaine d'avocats de la défense avaient réclamé un acquittement listant d'innombrables manquements à la procédure pénale,comme des auditions menées avant le placement en garde à vue, et en arabe, alors que le Français ne comprend pas cette langue.

«Cette affaire concentre un peu tous les problèmes de la justice et de la police. Les abus de pouvoirs, […] le non-respect du citoyen et de ses droits, les atteintes à la liberté individuelle», a estimé l'ancienne députée de la Constituante Nadia Chaabane, membre du comité de soutien aux deux condamnés.

Depuis, de nombreuses personnalités, intellectuels tunisiens tels que Raja Ben Slama, ou simples citoyens, ont déposés sur les réseaux sociaux des photos de bisous. Un mouvement que le député indépendant tunisien Raouf el May a relayé en postant sur Facebook une photographie de lui embrassant sa compagne.

Joanne Courbet pour DayNewsWorld
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D'UN MYTHIQUE 36 QUAI DES ORFEVRES

A

UN AUTRE 36

C'est la fin d'une époque pour la police judiciaire parisienne. Le célèbre 36, Quai des Orfèvres, a fermé ses portes.

Depuis plus de trois semaines le déménagement est fait mais le Bastion, nouveau siège de la police judiciaire parisienne, déroute un peu quand on sait qu'il accueille pas moins de 1.700 fonctionnaires.

Un concentration des effectifs qui contraste avec les structure éparpillées aux quatre coins de la capitale, la Crim’, les Stups’, la répression du banditisme, du proxénétisme sans parler des autres services de la police .

Une première dans la longue histoire de la PJ parisienne.

"C'est un gain de temps, un gain d'efficacité et un gain humain", se félicite M. Espinasse.

Seule la BRI, la brigade de recherche et d’intervention reste sur le quai des Orfèvres pour pouvoir intervenir rapidement aux quatre coins de Paris en cas d’attaque terroriste.

Ce bâtiment ultra-moderne de plus de 32.500 mètres carrés est inauguré ce jeudi, en présence du ministre de l’Intérieur, Gérard Collomb.,.

Ce nouveau « 36 » - situé dans la rue du Bastion, au cœur des Batignolles – en impose.

La modernité est partout et fera gagné en efficacité.

Finies les traversées de la capitale pour aller s’entraîner au tir ou dans une salle de sport.

Fini les victimes, témoins et suspects qui se croisaient dans l’étroit escalier du 36 quai des Orfèvres.

Finie la mise en place en cas de crise majeure, les policiers parisiens d' une salle de commandement.

 

 

 

 

La salle de commandement existe déjà directement relié à celle des

« appels » qui centralise tous les témoignages déterminants en cas d’attentats ou d’alerte enlèvement.

Le bâtiment accueille également une cabine cyanoacrylate unique en France qui permet de mettre de détecter les empreintes digitales sur les voitures ou les objets de gros volumes. Du quatrième sous-sol jusqu'au huitième étage, le "Bastion" regorge encore d'innovations !!

Reste à attendre que le palais de justice jouxtant le Bastion soit terminé d'ici le printemps.

Andrew Preston pour DayNewsWorld
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INDIGNATION DE LA PARTIE CIVILE

FACE AUX PROPOS DE

LA MERE DE MOHAMED MERAH

Zoulikha Aziri a chargé l'un de ses fils afin de mieux défendre l'autre. Elle a chargé jusqu'à l'absurde, mercredi, le tueur de Toulouse et Montauban pour protéger son frère Abdelkader, soupçonné d'avoir été son mauvais génie et son complice et jugé par une cour d'assises spéciale. Mohammed Merah a été tué le 22 mars 2012 dans l'assaut donné à l'appartement où il s'était retranché, après avoir abattu trois militaires, trois écoliers juifs et le père de l'un d'eux.

La mère de la fratrie Merah, n'a donc pas hésité à se lancer, mercredi 18 octobre, dans une défense acharnée mais invraisemblable de son fils Abdelkader, jugé aux assises de Paris pour complicité.

"Abdelkader est innocent", a dit, dès ses premiers mots à la barre Zoulikha Aziri, foulard sur la tête, s'exprimant tantôt en arabe par l'intermédiaire d'une interprète, tantôt en français.

"Abdelkader n'a rien à voir dans l'histoire qui s'est passée. Ce qu'a fait Mohamed, c'est très grave mais il est mort", a d'emblée déclaré, vêtue d'une djellaba beige et d'un foulard moutarde, donnant le ton à ses 3h30 de témoignage.

Le ton est donné : pour la mère Abdelkader n' a jamais posé de problème, c'est un jeune homme normal alors que Mohamed était la brebis galeuse qui dès son enfance posait des problèmes.

Elle va jusqu'à brosser le portait idyllique d'un accusé "gentil à la maison", pratiquant "un islam normal".

D'après le dossier et les témoignages de ses proches mêmes-même, la violence et le prosélytisme salafiste Abdelkader ne font pourtant aucun doute.

Son mariage avec Mohamed Essid, père de Sabri Essid, parti combattre en Syrie? C'est à cause de la volonté de Mohamed qu'elle l'a contracté. Pourtant qu'Abdelkader lui-même a reconnu l'avoir organisé. Son antisémitisme connu ? "Tous mes médecins sont juifs" assure-t-elle.

Elle a multiplié les déclarations contradictoires par rapport à ses dépositions faites pendant l'enquête, tentant de gommer les éléments à charge à l'encontre d'Abdelkader et n'a pas permis d’élucider un point important de l'enquête :à savoir qui a consulté à deux reprises le 4 mars 2012 sur un compte internet de Zoulikha Aziri l'annonce d'Imad Ibn-Ziatem, le soldat qui voulait vendre sa moto et sera le premier tué par Mohammed dans un guet-apens.

les connexions effectuées à son domicile le 4 mars 2012, vers 23 heures, à une annonce postée par la première victime, un militaire, sur le site Le Bon Coin pour vendre sa moto.

Face à cette mauvais fois et ses mensonges éhontés la partie civile a jugée son attitude insupportable, elle qui attend la vérité

."Les familles attendent la vérité depuis cinq ans", lui a hurlé Mehana Mouhou, avocat de la famille d'Imad Ibn Ziaten, le premier soldat tué par Mohamed Merah. "Vous êtes méchants, vous êtes de la merde", a lancé à la mère de Mohamed Merah

A Me Géraldine Berger-Stenger, une avocate des parties civiles de conclure."Elle ment comme une arracheuse de dents pour couvrir Abdelkader en chargeant Mohammed Merah", at-elle résumé.

Et l'avocat de la défense Me Eric Dupond-Moretti n'a pu qu'admettre qu'"entre son fils et la justice, elle a choisi son fils"

Alyson Braxon pour DayNewsWorld
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UN HOMME EN PRISON

DEPUIS SON ADOLESCENCE

EXECUTE AU TEXAS

Robert Pruett n’avait que 15 ans quand il a été arrêté pour complicité d’un homicide commis par son père. Condamné à une peine de 99 ans derrière les barreaux, selon une loi très controversée du Texas qui fait encourir une sanction identique au principal acteur d’un homicide et à ses complices,.

Cette sentence équivaut à une réclusion à perpétuité. Ce système pénal ultra-répressif n'offre aucun espoir à un adolescent à l’enfance ballottée entre une mère toxicomane et un père souvent emprisonné.

Cet adolescent avait commencé à l’âge de 7 ans à consommer des stupéfiants et il en vendait dès l’école primaire.

Tout en étant mineur, il avait été incarcéré dans une prison pour adultes. Puis, à l’âge de 20 ans, il s’est retrouvé accusé du meurtre d’un agent pénitentiaire qui venait d’écrire un rapport disciplinaire sur Robert Pruett. Depuis 2013, Robert Pruett a échappé à plusieurs reprises à une exécution programmée, en exigeant des analyses ADN sur les vêtements, l’arme du crime et le rapport disciplinaire déchiré.. Aucune trace d'ADN n'a été retrouvée !

L’Etat américain du Texas a cependant exécuté jeudi cet homme qui n'a cessé de clamer son innocence et ce malgré l’absence de preuves matérielles établissant l’implication directe du détenu dans cet homicide.

Robert Pruett, 38 ans, n’aura pas vécu un seul jour de sa vie d’adulte hors d’une prison. Il a été exécuté à 18h46 locales, une heure environ après que la Cour suprême des Etats-Unis a rejeté les ultimes recours en clémence lancés par ses avocats.

La famille de Daniel Nagle a réagi à l’annonce de l’exécution. Sa sœur Nora Oyler a été citée dans le communiqué des autorités texanes: «Même si cela fait dix-huit ans qu’on nous l’a enlevé, Daniel nous manque encore chaque jour et l’exécution ne diminuera en aucune façon notre perte. Nous avons choisi de passer ce moment loin des médias pour pouvoir célébrer la vie de Daniel et non pas la tragédie de sa mort.»

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

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MACABRE DECOUVERTE:

LA TETE ET LES JAMBES RETROUVEES

DE LA JOURNALISTE KIM WALL

La journaliste indépendante suédoise Kim Wall a été tuée le 10 août dernier à bord d'un sous-marin danois artisanal en compagnie du concepteur de l'engin, Peter Madsen. Elle était venue interviewer cet inventeur danois à bord de son sous-marin artisanal. Un sujet passionnant pour cette journaliste suédoise de 30 ans, qui veut brosser le portrait d'un passionné par les abysses marins et par l'espace .Le Nautilus, était un appareil de 18 mètres construit "artisanalement".

Depuis, le doute plane sur les conditions et les raisons de sa mort.

Vendredi 6 octobre 2017, dans la baie de Køge, à une cinquantaine de km au sud de Copenhague, une macabre découverte a eu lieu : la tête et les jambes de Kim Wall, cette journaliste âgée de 30 ans sont retrouvées par des plongeurs dans la baie de Køge .

Selon la police, un premier sac a été retrouvé contenant les vêtements de la reporter âgée de 30 ans. "Dans le même sac, il y avait un couteau et des tuyaux en plomb pour lester le sac", a expliqué l’inspecteur de police Jens Moller Jensen. Les deux jambes ont ensuite été découvertes ainsi qu'"une tête qui se trouvait également dans un sac, lequel était également lesté de multiples pièces de métal". L'inspecteur Jensen a ajouté que la police poursuivrait ses recherches pour retrouver ses bras.

Retour sur une histoire proche d'un polar :

Le lendemain du départ du Nautilus le vendredi 11 août le compagnon de Kim Wall ne la voyant pas rentrer avertit la police. Mais le sous-marin ne disposant pas de système satellite, il est impossible de savoir où il se trouve. Il faudra attendre le matin pour que les policiers parviennent enfin à localiser le submersible, dans la baie de Køge. Vers 11 heures, les secours rejoignent le sous-marin… qui est en train de couler. Peter Madsen est sauvé, avant d'être interrogé par les médias."Je vais bien, je suis un peu triste parce que le Nautilus a coulé. (…) J'ai essayé de le réparer, mais en trente secondes, le Nautilus a coulé. Je ne pouvais même pas fermer les portes." Aux policiers, il assure avoir déposé Kim Wall la veille vers 22h30.

Mis en détention depuis le 12 août, Peter Madsen a par la suite changer sa version des faits. Il révèle à la police et au tribunal qu'il y a eu un accident à bord du sous-marin, conduisant à la mort de Kim Wall. L'homme explique qu'il a jeté le corps de la jeune femme à la mer, dans un lieu encore indéterminé dans la baie de Køge. D'importants moyens sont déployés pour la retrouver. Le Nautilus, renfloué, les enquêteurs détectent à l'intérieur des des traces de sang. Peu de temps après c'est le tronc décapité et amputé de Kim Wall , échoué sur une plage que découvre un cycliste

Le tronc de la jeune femme a été lesté d'une pièce en métal, dans le but manifeste qu'elle demeure au fond de l'eau et des "blessures" font penser à "une tentative de s'assurer que l'air et les gaz s'échappent du corps pour qu'il ne remonte pas à la surface", a précisé le policier. Le sang de Kim Wall a par ailleurs été retrouvé en abondance à bord du sous-marin.

Le parquet danois a annoncé jeudi son intention de demander la requalification en "meurtre" des poursuites engagées contre le suspect Peter Madsen. Ce dernier nie en bloc.

Peter Madsen ne sort de son silence que le 5 septembre. Devant le tribunal de Copenhague il a réitéré ses explications selon lesquelles Kim Wall était décédée accidentellement .Peter Madsen, 46 ans, affirme que la journaliste a été tuée par la chute accidentelle d'une porte étanche à bord de son sous-marin. Glissant brutalement, il aurait lâché prise et l'écoutille de 70 kilos serait retombée sur la tête de la jeune femme qui aurait lourdement chuté. Il dit n'avoir en aucun cas mutilé le corps.

.Pris de panique, il aurait alors jeté son corps par-dessus bord. "Dans l'état de choc dans lequel je me trouvais, c'était la meilleure chose à faire", a plaidé M. Madsen, ajoutant qu'il ne l'avait en aucun cas mutilé. Pourquoi ne pas avoir alors contacté les secours alors ?

Mais le procureur Jakob Buch-Jepsen révèle au cours d'une audience qu'un disque dur retrouvé dans l'atelier du suspect contenait des films "fétichistes" dans lesquelles des femmes "réelles" étaient torturées, décapitées et brûlées. Peter Madsen a nié que ce disque lui appartenait.

, la police danoise a annoncé que la tête et les deux jambes de la journaliste avaient été retrouvées dans un sac, alors que les vêtements de la jeune femme étaient rassemblés dans un second sac. Des plongeurs les ont retrouvés vendredi dans la baie de Køge, à une cinquantaine de km au sud de Copenhague.

L'autopsie n'a pas permis d'établir les causes de la mort. L'inspecteur Jensen a souligné qu'il n'y avait "aucun signe de fracture sur le crâne ni aucun signe d'autre violence brutale sur le crâne".

Journaliste indépendante, Kim Wall avait collaboré avec The Guardian et le New York Times. Diplômée de l'Ecole supérieure de journalisme de Columbia, elle était basée à New York et en Chine.

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

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DES CHANGEMENTS

AU 1 ER OCTOBRE

EN FRANCE

Découvrez ce qui va changer au 1er octobre en France

1°Baisse des APL

Les bénéficiaires de l'aide personnelle au logement (APL) vont toucher 5 euros de moins chaque mois. Cette mesure va concerner environ 6,5 millions de bénéficiaires, dont 800 000 étudiants. Selon le décret daté du 28 septembre et publié vendredi, le montant de ces aides est minoré d’un montant forfaitaire fixé par arrêté, une baisse qui s’applique "aux prestations dues à compter du 1er octobre". Pour compenser cette baisse, le Président français a demandé aux propriétaires de logement à diminuer les loyers de 5 euros mensuels.

2°Plafond relevé pour les paiement sans contact par carte bancaire

Le plafond autorisé pour le paiement sans contact va être relevé. Il passe de 20 à 30 euros. Pour bénéficier de ce nouveau plafond, il convient de posséder une nouvelle carte lors du renouvellement par votre banque. Le parc soit entièrement renouvelé en 2020. Aujourd'hui, 70 % des cartes bancaires en circulation permettent le paiement sans contact. Le paiement sans contact est une technologie mise en circulation en 2012 permettant le paiement d'un achat en approchant sa carte bancaire du terminal .

3°Revalorisation des retraites de 0,8%.

Les pensions versées par tous les régimes de base (salariés du privé, indépendants, fonctionnaires) connaissent une revalorisation de 0,8% le 1er octobre, après un gel l’an dernier. Une hausse plus significative qu'auparavant..

4°Augmentation des tarifs de gaz

Les tarifs réglementés de vente du gaz hors taxe d'Engie augmentent en France en moyenne de 1,2% au 1er octobre. La Commission de régulation de l'énergie (CRE) a communiqué différentes augmentations selon l'usage : 0,4% pour les utilisateurs de gaz pour la cuisson, de 0,7%pour la cuisson et l'eau chaude et 1,2% pour les foyers qui se chauffent au gaz. La Commission a tenu à préciser que malgré cette hausse, consécutive à l'augmentation de l'indice mensuel du prix du gaz sur le marché de gros des Pays-Bas et sur le marché français PEG Nord, les taris réglementés de gaz avaient baissé en moyenne de 19,5% depuis le 1er janvier 2014.

5°Entrée en vigueur de la nouvelle assurance-chômage

Un accord a été trouvé par les partenaires sociaux sur la nouvelle convention d'assurance-chômage Au 1er octobre interviennent donc plusieurs changements.

On entre dans la filière senior, lors de l'inscription à Pôle emploi, à 55 ans au lieu de 50. Cette filière donne droit à 36 mois d'allocation au lieu de 24 pour les 55 ans et plus tandis que pour les autres l'indemnisation s’établit à 30 mois et 6 mois supplémentaires si ces derniers suivent une formation. Les cotisations employeur augmentent de 0,05%

6°Nouvelles interdictions pour la cigarette

L'interdiction s'étend aux lieux publics comme "les établissements scolaires et les établissements destinés à l’accueil, à la formation et à l’hébergement des mineurs", et "dans les moyens de transport collectif fermés". Une amende de 150 eurosest prévue pour les récalcitrants.

7°Obligation de mentionner si une photo est retouchée

Les photographies à usage commercial doivent désormais comporter la mention "photographie retouchée" si l'apparence du mannequin a été modifiée par un logiciel de traitement d'image, pour affiner ou épaissir leur silhouette. Ce décret concerne les messages publicitaires dans la presse, sur des affiches, sur internet ou encore dans les catalogues et prospectus Selon le ministère de la Santé, cette mesure affiche l'intention d' éviter « la promotion d’idéaux de beauté inaccessibles et prévenir l’anorexie chez les jeunes »

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

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LA TRAQUE DES RESQUILLEURS A LA SNCF

Le groupe SNCF a dévoilé fin juillet des résultats positifs, avec un retour des voyageurs dans ses trains sur les six premiers mois de l'année. La compagnie affiche 16,6 milliards d'euros de chiffre d'affaires au premier semestre 2017, en évolution de +3,7% par rapport à la même période en 2016. Mais pour autant la SNCF perd chaque année 300 millions d’euros à cause de la fraude.

Un manque à gagner que la société tente de limiter par de nouveaux dispositifs.

Elle teste une nouvelle méthode sur le réseau francilien.

En effet sur les trois millions d'usagers quotidiens en Île-de-France, le taux de fraude est encore de 8,4%, soit 250.000 usagers.

Cette dernière continue à coûter 63 millions d'euros par an à la SNCF sur le réseau Transilien sur les 300 millions pour l'ensemble du réseau.

Face à ces chiffres la SNCF teste dans la région Ile-de-France depuis quelques semaines, une nouvelle forme de contrôle.

Elle fait intervenir des contrôleurs en civil pour piéger les fraudeurs."Des contrôleurs en uniforme sont postés à un bout de la rame et font office de rabatteurs", a-t-on comme explication. En les voyant, les fraudeurs quittent leur place pour se diriger vers le piège tendu de la SNCF,là où se trouvent les fameux agents en civil.

Cette opération, pour le moment testée sur le réseau Transilien de la SNCF en Île-de-France, à vocation à s'étendre dans les TER de certaines régions.

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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UN « BARON DE LA DROGUE »

BRETON SUR LE DARKNET

Fin août, un trentenaire des Côtes-d'Armor se rend à Atlanta pour participer aux championnats du monde des barbes. Il est accusé d'être l'un des administrateurs d'un site de vente de drogues, d'armes et d'autres produits illégaux sur le dark web.

Un homme très discret roulant en twingo vivant dans une petite maison ,depuis deux ans et demi au fin fond de la Bretagne, à Plusquellec (entre Guingamp et Carhaix) et depuis plusieurs années dans les Côtes d 'Armor peut-il être « un baron de la drogue » comme on le surnomme aux Etats-Unis ?

Dans le Centre-Bretagne où il vit, on tombe des nues.

Gal Vallerius s'est rendu aux États-Unis, en août dernier, pour participer aux championnats du monde de barbes et moustaches. Ce trentenaire n'en est pas à son coup d'essai : son imposante barbe rousse lui a valu la huitième position du concours mondial.

Gal Vallerius ne passait pas inaperçu certes physiquement avec sa dégaine de hisper si bien que certains le prenaient pour un biker . Mais il ne montrait aucun signe de richesse extérieure.

Sur les réseaux sociaux Twitter et Instagram – qui ont été supprimés le 28 septembre , son profil apparaissait également un peu moins discret. Il affichait sa très longue barbe sous tous les angles , se vantait d'aimer les femmes, le bon vin et l'informatique.

D’après la presse américaine, Gal Vallerius , ce franco-israélien breton d'adoption, est soupçonné par la police anti-drogue des États-Unis d’être OxyMonster, l’administrateur d’un supermarché international de la drogue en ligne appelé Dream Market.  Après la fermeture cet été d’AlphaBay, énorme site de vente de drogue et d’armes, Dream Market est devenu l’un des leaders du marché et a attiré les enquêteurs de la DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), les stups américains.. Il n’aurait d'ailleurs pas nié son implication dans un trafic de drogue sur la face cachée du web.

Au moment de son arrestation , OxyMonster avait réalisé 70 ventes, selon les enquêteurs, en Europe mais aussi aux Etats-Unis. Un total faible au regard des accusations qui pèse sur lui . Il était inconnu des services français.

L'inspection de son ordinateur à l'aéroport d'Atlanta où il est appréhendé confirme que Gal Vallerius et OxyMonster sont la même personne. Des identifiants pour se connecter à Dream Market, une clé de chiffrement nommée «OxyMonster» et «l'équivalent de 500.000 dollars en bitcoins» sont retrouvés sur son bureau numérique.

Ce Franco-Israélien était dans le collimateur de la Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), depuis janvier dernier. C'est en recoupant ses échanges sur les forums du site interdit et ses posts sur les différents réseaux sociaux que les enquêteurs ont pu confirmer l'identité de Gal Vallerius.

En France, les policiers de la Direction interrégionale de la police judiciaire auraient découvert plus de 50.000 euros en espèces et des stupéfiants lors de la perquisition d'une de ces trois maisons, et des permis de conduire de plusieurs nationalités.

Mais les enquêteurs américains n'ont pas précisé son degré d'implication dans l'administration du site. Il agissait comme modérateur du forum et il répondait, en sa qualité de modérateur sur le forum, aux plaintes des utilisateurs, mais aussi publié des conseils pour rester anonyme en ligne. OxyMonster a publié un millier de messages en deux ans sur le forum de Dream Market. Mais à quel point était-il impliqué dans le fonctionnement du site ? Etait-il rémunéré pour son rôle de modérateur et, si oui, à quelle échelle ? Si Gal Vallerius était bien OxyMonster, s’agirait-il pour autant d’un « baron de la drogue », comme l’a surnommé la presse américaine ?

L’homme a été inculpé aux Etats-Unis pour « conspiration en vue de distribuer des substances contrôlées ». En France, la qualification « sera à affiner, mais on s’oriente vers trafic international de produits stupéfiants », précise le parquet de Saint-Brieuc.

Il a été transféré à Miami où il sera jugé. Il risque une peine de prison à perpétuité.

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UN « BARON DE LA DROGUE » BRETON

SUR LE DARKNET

Fin août, un trentenaire des Côtes-d'Armor se rend à Atlanta pour participer aux championnats du monde des barbes. Il est accusé d'être l'un des administrateurs d'un site de vente de drogues, d'armes et d'autres produits illégaux sur le dark web.

Un homme très discret roulant en twingo vivant dans une petite maison ,depuis deux ans et demi au fin fond de la Bretagne, à Plusquellec (entre Guingamp et Carhaix) peut-il être « un baron de la drogue » comme on le surnomme au Etats-Unis ?

Dans le Centre-Bretagne où il vit, on tombe des nues.

Gal Vallerius s'est rendu aux États-Unis, en août dernier, pour participer aux championnats du monde de barbes et moustaches. Ce trentenaire n'en est pas à son coup d'essai : son imposante barbe rousselui a valu la huitième position du concours mondial.

Gal Vallerius ne passait pas inaperçu certes physiquement avec sa dégaine de hisper si bien que certains le prenaient pour un biker . Mais il ne montrait aucun signe de richesse extérieure.

Sur les réseaux sociaux Twitter et Instagram – qui ont été supprimés le 28 septembre , son profil apparaissait également un peu moins discret. Il affichait sa très longue barbe sous tous les angles , se vantait d'aimer les femmes, le bon vin et l'informatique.

D’après la presse américaine, Gal Vallerius ,ce franco-israélien breton, est soupçonné par la police anti-drogue des États-Unis d’être OxyMonster, l’administrateur d’un supermarché international de la drogue en ligne appelé Dream Market. Après la fermeture cet été d’AlphaBay, énorme site de vente de drogue et d’armes, Dream Market est devenu l’un des leaders du marché – et un point d’intérêt considérable pour les enquêteurs de la DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), les stups

américains.. Il n’aurait d'ailleurs pas nié son implication dans un trafic de drogue sur la face cachée du web.

Au moment de son arrestation, OxyMonster avait réalisé 70 ventes, selon les enquêteurs, en Europe mais aussi aux Etats-Unis. Un total faible au regard des accusations qui pèse sur lui . Il était inconnu des services français.

L'inspection de son ordinateur à l'aéroport d'Atlanta où il est appréhendé confirme que Gal Vallerius et OxyMonster sont la même personne. Des identifiants pour se connecter à Dream Market, une clé de chiffrement nommée «OxyMonster» et «l'équivalent de 500.000 dollars en bitcoins» sont retrouvés sur son bureau numérique.

Ce Franco-Israélien était dans le collimateur de la Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), les stups américains, depuis janvier dernier. C'est en recoupant ses échanges sur les forums du site interdit et ses posts sur les différents réseaux sociaux que les enquêteurs ont pu confirmer l'identité de Gal Vallerius.

En France, les policiers de la Direction interrégionale de la police judiciaire auraient découvert plus de 50.000 euros en espèces et des stupéfiants lors de la perquisition d'une de ces trois maisons , et des permis de conduire de plusieurs nationalités.

Mais les enquêteurs américains n'ont pas précisé son degré d'implication dans l'administration du site.Il agissait comme modérateur du forum et il répondait, en sa qualité de modérateur sur le forum, aux plaintes des utilisateurs, mais aussi publié des conseils pour rester anonyme en ligne. OxyMonster a publié un millier de messages en deux ans sur le forum de Dream Market. Mais a quel point était-il impliqué dans le fonctionnement du site ? Etait-il rémunéré pour son rôle de modérateur et, si oui, à quelle échelle ?

Si Gal Vallerius était bien OxyMonster, s’agirait-il pour autant d’un « baron de la drogue », comme l’a surnommé la presse américaine ?

L’homme a été inculpé aux Etats-Unis pour « conspiration en vue de distribuer des substances contrôlées ».

En France, la qualification « sera à affiner, mais on s’oriente vers trafic international de produits stupéfiants », précise le parquet de Saint-Brieuc.

Il a été transféré à Miami où il sera jugé. Il risque une peine de prison à perpétuité.

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ENFIN LES FEMMES AU VOLANT

EN ARABIE SAOUDITE

Un décret royal, publié mardi 26 septembre, autorise les femmes du royaume à prendre le volant. La monarchie, régie par une interprétation ultrarigoriste de l’islam, le wahhabisme, était le seul pays au monde à interdire à ses ressortissantes de conduire.

La levée de cette restriction, qui a lourdement pesé sur la perception de l’Arabie saoudite dans l’opinion publique internationale, est l’aboutissement d’une lutte entamée il y a près de trente ans.

La couronne saoudienne a pris soin de préciser, dans le décret, qu’elle dispose du soutien du Conseil suprême des oulémas, la plus haute autorité religieuse du pays.

Elle participe du programme de modernisation économique et social mené rondement par Mohamed Ben Salman, le prince héritier, fils du roi Salman, qui est l’homme fort du régime. « C’est un jour d’espoir, s’exclame Hodal Al-Helaissi, membre du Majlis Al-Choura, l’Assemblée consultative. En ne dépendant plus d’un chauffeur pour se déplacer, les Saoudiennes vont pouvoir prendre une plus grande place dans la société et dans l’économie. Il était temps. »

Les femmes font encore l'objet de sévères restrictions en Arabie où elles sont notamment soumises à la tutelle d'un homme de leur famille pour faire des études ou voyager.

En novembre dernier, le prince et milliardaire saoudien Al-Walid ben Talal, avait lancé un vibrant appel pour l'obtention du permis des femmes déplorant "le coût économique" de l'interdiction de rouler des Saoudiennes.

La décision "pourrait avoir un impact économique important en augmentant la participation très faible des femmes à l'économie et en stimulant la croissance potentielle du PIB", a relevé l'institut de recherche Capital Economics.

"C'est la concrétisation du courage de militantes qui ont fait campagne pendant des années"selon Amnesty International.

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REACTIVATION DU CERVEAU D'UN PATIENT

EN ETAT VEGETATIF NON REPONDANT

En état végétatif « non-répondant » depuis 15 ans , un patient des Hospices civils de Lyon après un mois de stimulation nerveuse a montré des améliorations significatives dans l’attention, le mouvement et l’activité cérébrale selon les chercheurs.

Dans un article publié dans Current Biology, la chercheuse Angela Sirigu démontre en effet que l'état de conscience du malade s'est significativement amélioré.

Il est désormais capable de répondre à des ordres simples, comme suivre des yeux un objet ou tourner la tête, ce qu'il ne faisait pas auparavant. Il a également semblé capable de rester éveillé à la lecture d'un livre.

Nous avons volontairement choisi le cas le plus difficile pour mener cette intervention. Un patient diagnostiqué en état végétatif selon les critères internationaux, ne montrant aucun signe depuis de très longues années. Ainsi, si des changements étaient observés après cette intervention, ils ne pouvaient être attribués au hasard » explique la chercheuse

Les neurochirurgiens ont implanté dans le thorax de cet homme de 35 ans un stimulateur- c-àd une double électrode de stimulation- sur le nerf du nerf vague. Le nerf vague est ce nerf crânien qui connecte le cerveau aux organes: un long nerf crânien, le dixième partant du cerveau et innervant de nombreux organes et muscles du système cardiaque, digestif et respiratoire pour en réguler le fonctionnement. En outre, l'activité du nerf vague augmente la neurotransmission de l'adrénaline, également importante pour la vigilance notamment.

D’un état végétatif le patient est donc passé à « état de conscience minimale », sans toutefois retrouver son état de conscience normal.

Les chercheurs ont observé sur la base de scanners cérébraux des améliorations dans les zones du cerveau impliquées dans le mouvement, la sensation et la conscience.

Cela signifie que « la conscience demeure sévèrement altérée, mais contrairement à l’état végétatif, il existe des signes comportementaux minimums mais confirmés de la conscience de soi et de son environnement », a expliqué Tom Manly, un expert en sciences de la connaissance et du cerveau à l’Université de Cambridge.

La chercheuse Angela Sirigu pense que ce traitement pourrait s'avérer important pour les patients en conscience minimale à qui l'on donnerait plus de chances de communiquer avec le monde extérieur...

Ce résultat, obtenu sur un cas unique, ne manquera pas de soulever également d'importantes questions éthiques En effet que dire aux familles dont les proches sont dans cet état d'éveil non répondant sans amélioration, et qui sont de potentiels donneurs d'organes ? De plus pour quelle qualité de vie ? Voulons-nous être tous des Vincent Lambert en état de conscience minimale depuis 2008 et faisant l'objet d'une bataille judiciaire pour l'arrêt des soins. ?

Cette recherche «  montre (en tous cas) la capacité incroyable du cerveau à se remodeler. Même quand les dommages sont importants, même quand il n’y a plus d’espoir, le cerveau peut se réactiver, se réorganiser. » conclut Angela Sirigu

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VIOL OU ATTEINTE SEXUELLE UNE FILLETTE DE 11ANS JUGEE« CONSENTANTE » APRES UNE RELATION SEXUELLE PAR UN HOMME DE 28 ANS

Un homme de 28 ans est jugé ce mardi 26 septembre 2017 devant le tribunal correctionnel de Pontoise pour avoir eu deux rapports sexuels avec une fillette de 11 ans.

Mais le parquet a choisi de le poursuivre pour «atteinte sexuelle» et non pour «viol», considérant que l’enfant était consentante malgré son jeune âge.

Le procès est renvoyé au 13 février, la famille de la victime ayant demandé la requalification des faits en «viol», alors que la justice n'a reconnu qu'une «atteinte sexuelle».

Le procès de cette affaire a été révélée par Médiapart.

Les faits remonte au 24 avril à Montmagny, dans le Val-d'Oise Ce jour-là, une enfant de 11 ans, a suivi un homme, qui l'avait déjà abordée à deux reprises, jusqu'à son appartement.Ils ont ont eu une relation sexuelle. La fillette a immédiatement appelé sa mère en quittant l’appartement, choquée et apeurée.

Mais les enquêteurs ont considéré que cette relation était consentie : aucune contrainte physique n'a été exercée sur la mineure. Le parquet de Pontoise a donc estimé «que dans le cas d'espèce, il n'y avait eu ni violence, ni contrainte, ni menace, ni surprise», selon une source proche du dossier. Le ministère public s'est fondé sur l'article 227-25 du code pénal, qui stipule que «le fait, par un majeur, d'exercer sans violence, contrainte, menace ni surprise une atteinte sexuelle sur un mineur de 15 ans est puni de cinq ans d'emprisonnement et de 75.000 euros d'amende».

La relation subie correspond pourtant pénalement à un viol puisqu'il y a eu pénétration. La famille réclame donc une requalification des faits.

Pour Me Carine Diebolt, l'avocate de la plaignante, «dans ce dossier on peut retenir l'absence de consentement» et tous les critères qui fondent l'agression sexuelle, sinon le viol: «la contrainte morale», «l'effet de surprise», «la violence» -«il s'est montré agressif dans l'ascenseur»- et même «la menace» -«il a menacé de ruiner sa réputation dans la cité si elle parlait»-.

Cité par Mediapart, une spécialiste de ces questions, fait l'analyse suivante: «Beaucoup de magistrats n'ont pas été formés à ces questions et ne connaissent pas les mécanismes du cerveau lors d'un viol. La sidération et la dissociation conduisent à l'anesthésie. On ne ressent plus sa peur » La psychiatre Muriel Salmona l'a fort bien expliqué. C'est d'autant plus vrai pour un enfant qui reste souvent tétanisé face à de telles situations. Comme le disait Gisèle Halimi, “subir, ce n'est pas consentir”.

L'âge de la majorité sexuelle est fixé à 15 ans en France, en référence à l'âge de la puberté. En-dessous de cette limite, toute relation sexuelle avec un majeur équivaut à une «atteinte sexuelle», même si le mineur est consentant. Quant au viol, il se caractérise par la violence, la contrainte ou la surprise - donc l'absence de consentement - et est passible, quand la victime est mineure, de 20 ans de réclusion criminelle.

Or «la question du consentement ou de son absence ne devrait jamais se poser pour les mineur(e)s victimes de viol», a assené l'association La Voix de l'Enfant dans un communiqué. Comme il l'avait déjà fait dans un avis publié en octobre 2016, le Haut Conseil à l'égalité entre les femmes et les hommes a une nouvelle fois réclamé qu'un seuil soit fixé par la loi en dessous duquel on ne puisse pas présumer que le mineur a consenti à l'acte sexuel.

Ce qui d'ailleurs existe dans nombre de pays voisins. Muriel Salmona, psychiatre et présidente de l'association Mémoire Traumatique et Victimologie, estime que ce seuil devrait être porté à quinze ans.

Si la famille conteste cette qualification"d'atteinte sexuelle", la loi française ne fixe pas d’âge de discernement, ce sont aux juridictions de dire si le mineur était consentant ou non.

Pourtant, d’autres pays voisins ont adopté une «présomption irréfragable d’absence de consentement du mineur victime d’actes sexuels» :

12 ans en Espagne et aux Etats-Unis, 14 ans en Allemagne, en Belgique et en Autriche, et 16 ans en Angleterre et en Suisse. Ce qui veut dire qu'en dessous de cet âge, la justice estime qu'il ne peut y avoir de consentement. C'est donc la qualification de viol qui est automatiquement retenue.

Rebondissant sur cette affaire, le Haut Conseil à l'égalité entre les femmes et les hommes a une nouvelle fois réclamé, comme il l'avait déjà fait dans un avis publié en octobre 2016, qu'un seuil soit fixé par la loi, par exemple l'âge de 13 ans, et qu'en dessous de cet âge, on ne puisse présumer que le mineur a consenti à l'acte sexuel.

La fixation d'un tel seuil aurait pour effet d'écarter la qualification d'atteinte sexuelle (passible de 5 ans d'emprisonnement), au profit de celle d'agression sexuelle ou de viol s'il y a pénétration (20 ans de réclusion quand la victime est mineure).

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DISPARITION DE

LILIANE BETTENCOURT

UNE FEMME HORS NORME !!!

Liliane Bettencourt est décédée le 21 septembre 2017 à 94 ans ; elle aurait eu 95 ans en octobre.

Une femme hors norme ! C’est le qualificatif qui nous a semble le plus approprié pour la décrire, tant sa vie de sa naissance à sa mort a été ponctuée d’événements exceptionnels, de relations au plus haut niveau, de gestes d’une incroyable générosité, de décisions défiant la normalité des règles habituelles d’une vie bien remplie.

Hors norme tout d’abord les circonstances de son décès, qui a eu lieu paisiblement selon sa fille unique Françoise Bettencourt Mayer, à son domicile de Neuilly sur Seine, entourée par sa famille, ceci alors même que les relations mère fille ont été plus que chaotiques et agitées, notamment sur les dix dernières années de sa vie, avec les conséquences que l’on peut imaginer sur les autres membres de la famille. Intuitivement nous pressentons qu’ elle a aussi du mourir soulagée de la réconciliation engagée dès 2010 au sein de sa famille, un but pour la cohésion familiale qu’elle avait tant recherché sur les dernières années de sa vie.

Savait-elle aussi à cet instant, que « l’affaire » qui l’avait secouée et secoué tout son entourage , proches ou plus éloignés, venait, quelques jours plus tôt de se terminer par un nouveau classement sans suite (celui concernant son majordome)

Hors norme ses premiers pas dans la vie où à l’âge de 5 ans elle eu la grande tristesse de perdre sa mère (artiste et pianiste dont elle a hérité son gout pour les arts) . Pendant de longues années, elle a, par suite, été privée de ces relations mère fille qui par principe assure pour l’avenir la plénitude et l’équilibre d’une femme, devenue mère aussi . A la suite de cet événement dramatique, elle a été élevée de façon très rigide chez les Dominicains . Elle était catholique.

Hors norme son amour et son admiration pour son père, drôle, imprévisible, imaginatif, qui pourtant avait été antisémite et proche des fascistes . Cet amour paternel inconditionnel l’avait rendu autiste sur cette page d’histoire de la famille , dont la vie pendant des décennies a toujours été tenue extrêmement secrète. Cet épisode de l’histoire de la famille Schuller Bettencourt a du très certainement alimenter les nombreux désaccords qu’elle a eus avec sa fille , Françoise , qui le 6 avril 1984, se maria à Fiesole en Toscane, avec Robert Meyer, fils de l’ancien rabbin de Neuilly, déporté avec son épouse à Auschwitz pendant la guerre de 1939-1945..

Hors norme le niveau de sa fortune. En 2016, selon le classement de la Revue FORBES , elle était la femme la plus riche du monde, à la tête d’une fortune chiffrée à 36 milliards d’euros, qui très étrangement s’est gonflée de 1 milliards d’euros supplémentaires après l’annonce de son décès

Hors norme son dévouement et l’attention qu’elle a toujours porté à L’OREAL, l’entreprise créée par son père Eugene Schuller, un chimiste génial qui inventa les shampoings DOP et les formules de coloration des cheveux. A l’origine la Société s’était appelée « Société Française de Teintures inoffensives pour les cheveux ». Liliane Bettencourt qui avait hérité de la firme au décès de son père en 1957, l’a sans cesse codirigé de 1957 à 2012, date à laquelle, face à ses problèmes de santé , elle dut démissionner du Conseil d’Administration. Elle a au demeurant , constamment eu pour objectif de défendre le groupe et de le maintenir dans le giron de la France, même si dans la perspective d’une probable nationalisation elle avait été contrainte de réaliser un échange d’actions avec le Groupe Suisse Nestlé . Elle n’a eu de cesse néanmoins de développer l’OREAL en faisant entrer dans le groupe de nombreuses marques connues : Lancôme, Cacharel, Giorgio Armani, Biotherm, Ralph Lauren, Diesel, Kerastase, La Roche Posay, et depuis 2007 Yves Saint Laurent.

Hors norme ses relations fascinantes avec François Marie Banier un artiste, photographe, écrivain, dandy aux mille vies, spirituel et drôle, une sorte de Lucien de Rubempré à la Balzac, coqueluche des vielles dames (avant Liliane Bettencourt , Marie Laure de Noailles par exemple). Elle même avait l’habitude de dire qu’elle avait eu deux amours dans sa vie, son mari André Bettencourt, ancien ministre du Général de Gaulle , académicien, décédé en 2007 et François Marie Banier !

Hors norme sa générosité vis à vis de ce dernier à qui elle fit don d’une fortune de 1 milliard d’euros.

Hors norme son caractère bien trempé, sa détermination et sa recherche constante de la liberté, dans sa façon de vivre, dans ses choix personnels. Elle a toujours vécu dans l’opulence , selon son bon vouloir, tout en aidant les autres, mais en finissant sa vie ... sous tutelle juridique...

Hors norme les accusations portées contre elle , prétextant qu’elle avait perdu la tète sur la fin de sa vie , du fait de son extraordinaire prodigalité , autorisant ainsi ses proches à la mettre sous tutelle. Selon certains, elle n’était pas si irresponsable que cela....

Hors norme son incroyable générosité et sa compassion, . Elle s’était certes à la fin de sa vie mise à distribuer ses millions, mais elle avait aussi très tôt crée une fondation , la Fondation Bettencourt Schuller , dédiée au mécénat. Cette fondation a financé la lutte contre le Sida au travers d’une ONGI , Soltis , ce qui lui a valu la Légion d’Honneur. Parallèlement elle a financé l’innovation technologique au travers d’une Chaire Annuelle au Collège de France qui porte son nom. Fin mai 2011, elle a également fait une donation de 10 millions d’euros à l’Institut de France ...

Hors norme enfin, son avis de décès dans la nécrologie du Figaro qui occupe une colonne complète.

Nous souhaitons à cette vielle dame , qui était bien loin d’être indigne, tous nos souhaits pour qu’elle repose désormais en Paix et que son souvenir reste gravé dans l’esprit de tous les membres de sa famille mais aussi ceux à qui , par ses engagements , son travail et sa générosité , a permis de vivre, de se soigner et de se réaliser (ses milliers de salaries en particuliers)

Madame Liliane Bettencourt sera enterrée demain , mardi 26 septembre 2017 en l’Eglise de Neuilly sur Seine.

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UN TIERS DES FRANCAIS MAL DANS LEUR PEAU EN CAUSE LES MALADIES DE PEAU

En France, 16 millions de personnes de plus de 15 ans sont touchées par une maladie de peau, et près de la moitié est affecté psychologiquement !

La Société française de dermatologie (SFD) a mené une grande étude épidémiologique.

C’est une personne sur trois ! Les femmes sont plus touchées que les hommes (33 %, contre 28 %).

Et dans quatre cas sur cinq, les personnes touchées souffrent de deux maladies.

Les maladies de la peau sont fréquentes.

« Parce qu'elles engagent moins souvent le pronostic vital, elles sont actuellement les grandes oubliées de la santé publique.

Elles sont pourtant au quatrième rang mondial des pathologies reconnues comme affectant le plus la qualité de vie », s'inquiète la Société française de dermatologie (SFD). Cette vaste enquête menée sur plus de 20 000 Français a pour d'alerter les pouvoirs publiques.

Dans le détail, l’acné se veut la maladie de peau la plus fréquemment rencontrée chez les Français de plus de 15 ans, avec 3,3 millions de patients. Viennent l’eczéma (2, 5 millions), le psoriasis (2,4millions), les maladies du cuir chevelu (2,3 millions) puis les mycoses (2,2 millions).

Parmi les personnes infectées, 54 % disent souffrir d'anxiété ou de dépression et 45,2 % gênées dans leur vie personnelle.

« Les maladies de peau sont parmi les plus stigmatisantes qui soient. Il n'est pas si rare qu'un patient atteint d'une maladie de peau chronique et invalidante envisage le suicide. Parce que, tout simplement, le regard des autres, ajouté aux souffrances dans sa chair, aux lourdeurs des traitements, est au-delà du supportable », explique à Sciences et avenir le sociologue Stéphane Héas.

Les impacts psychologiques s'avèrent donc aussi lourds que sous-estimés.

L’étude « Objectifs peau » de la Société française de dermatologie sur ces maladies dermatologiques dévoile combien les Français sont mal dans leur peau. La souffrance n’est pas uniquement physique car, dans plus de la moitié des cas (54%), le patient se voit également atteint au niveau psychologique.

« La plupart du temps, dans les maladies de peau, la dimension physique est préservée, mais la santé psychologique est atteinte », analyse Charles Taieb, chef de projet de cette étude.

D'autant que les maladie de la peau sont souvent l'objet de clichés et de jugements négatifs de la part des autres qui relient la maladie à des problèmes d'hygiène ou à la peur de la contagion. « Certains patients qui souffrent d’unes maladie de peau peuvent être mis à l’écart parce qu’on les croit sales, souligne Stéphane Héas, sociologue et membre de la Société française des sciences humaines sur la peau. Ce rejet redouble la souffrance déjà présente dans l’atteinte corporelle. »

« La maladie dermatologique peut être un réel fardeau »

Et les causes sont multiples. Ces pathologies peuvent être d'ordre génétiques mais aussi liées à la pollution ou au stress.

Les dermatologues tirent la sonnette d'alarme : les traitements tels que les crèmes, les lotions, ou les pommades, « demeurent trop voire pas du tout remboursés par l'assurance maladie » si bien que « les plus démunis s'en privent, et voient leur maladie s'aggraver » et le manque de dermatologues s'avère dommageable ne permettant pas une prise en charge rapide.

« La France compte environ 3 500 dermatologues alors qu'il y a 7 000 cardiologues, c'est insuffisant. Plus alarmant encore, l'évolution de la démographie des dermatologues : la réduction, au fil des années, du numerus clausus des étudiants en médecine pouvant accéder à cette spécialité risque de provoquer, à terme, un manque crucial », alerte la SFD.

Pour Charles Taieb, les maladies de peau pourraient être parfois officiellement considérer comme des handicaps :

Aujourd’hui, le handicap de peau n’est pas reconnu. Par exemple, dans les dossiers de la MDPH [Maison départementale des personnes handicapées] pour faire reconnaître un handicap, il n’y a même pas de“Aujourd’hui, le handicap de peau n’est pas reconnu.

Par exemple, dans les dossiers de la MDPH [Maison départementale des personnes handicapées] pour faire reconnaître un handicap, il n’y a même pas de chapitre peau !

Quand un enfant a une maladie de peau sévère qui lui interdit d’aller à l’école, les parents se retrouvent totalement démunis. Aujourd’hui, on ne meurt pas de ces maladies de peau, mais le désarroi des familles est réel face aux clichés, aux moqueries et à un parcours de soin délirant.”

Alyson Braxton pour DayNewsWorld
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NOUVEAU TREMBLEMENT DE TERRE

AU MEXIQUE

 

Alors qu’un séisme avait déjà touché le Mexique mardi 19 septembre 2017, Mexico a à nouveau tremblé ce samedi 23 septembre 2017.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Un institut sismologique indique qu’un nouveau tremblement de terre, de magnitude 6,2 dans la capitale.

L’épicentre de cette secousse a été localisé dans l’État de Oaxaca, dans le sud du Mexique, a indiqué l’institut, qui avait dans un premier temps évalué la magnitude à 6,4.

La secousse intervient quatre jours seulement après un tremblement de terre de magnitude 7,1, qui a fait près de 310 morts.

A suivre...

Paul Emison Mexico pour DayNewsWorld
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NOUVEAU REBONDISSEMENT DANS

L'AFFAIRE MAELYS

Nouveau rebondissement dans l'affaire la disparition de Maëlys, une fillette âgée de neuf ans. La voiture du principal suspect a été flashée par un radar automatique le soir du mariage.

Selon les informations du Dauphiné Libéré , les enquêteurs disposeraient désormais d’éléments qui pourraient se révéler accablants pour le suspect .

En effet les enquêteurs savent avec certitude que l’ex-militaire Nordahl Lelandais, suspect n° 1 dans l’affaire de la disparition de la petite Maëlys, s’était absenté à trois reprises de la soirée de mariage.

Selon ses dires, ce serait pour se fournir en cocaïne. De plus au cours de l’un de ces trajets, son Audi A3 a été flashée par un radar automatique.

Le cliché pris par l’appareil est désormais au cœur de l’enquête. Cette photo est en cours d’analyse.

Concrètement, des spécialistes tentent de déterminer qui apparaît sur l’image.

Les enquêteurs continuent également de s’intéresser au nettoyage très soigneux du véhicule.

L'homme, révoqué de l'armée pour un comportement psychologique instable, aurait fait monter Maëlys dans sa voiture (l'ADN de la fillette a été retrouvé par les gendarmes), mais persiste à nier avoir quoi que ce soit à voir avec sa disparition. Par ailleurs, son comportement avant sa garde à vue intrigue.

L’ex-militaire a été pris en filature par des gendarmes en civil jusqu’à son placement en garde à vue, le jeudi matin suivant la disparition de Maëlys. Se rendant compte qu’il était suivi, au volant de son Audi A3, il avait tenté de semer les gendarmes. Un comportement toutefois justifiable avec une activité de vente de stupéfiants.

Mais le trentenaire, lors de la filature, est monté également dans une voiture, discutant très longuement avec son conducteur.Les enquêteur se demande si un complice, voire un commanditaire, ne serait pas impliqué dans la disparition de la fillette voilà bientôt un mois. « Je ne souhaite pas m’exprimer sur le dossier », a simplement déclaré maître Jakubowicz, du barreau de Lyon, qui défend désormais le trentenaire de Domessin.

Douze enquêteurs restent mobilisés, jour et nuit, afin de retrouver le moindre indice qui pourrait les mener jusqu’à Maëlys.

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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RISQUE D'ERUPTION A BALI

L'ETAT D'ALERTE MAXIMALE DECRETE

PAR L'INDONESIE

L’Indonésie est située sur l’« Anneau de feu »du Pacifique, une région propice aux tremblements de terre et aux activités volcaniques. L’« Anneau de feu » du Pacifique se trouve dans le bassin de l’océan Pacifique et compte quelque 450 volcans. Environ 90 % des tremblements de terre mondiaux se situent le long de cet Anneau de feu.

Les autorités indonésiennes ont décrété vendredi l'état d'alerte maximale sur l'île touristique de Bali, craignant l'éruption d'un volcan endormi depuis plus de 50 ans, après que des séismes avaient poussé des milliers de personnes à fuir.

Cette semaine, des centaines de séismes de faible intensité ont secoué la montagne.

Endormi depuis plus de 50 ans, le volcan Agung gronde depuis plusieurs semaines.

Les autorités ont recommandé à la population de rester à plus de neuf kilomètres de son cratère. Sa dernière éruption remontant à 1963 avait fait plus de 1000 morts.

"Les secousses tectoniques provoquées par le volcan Gunung Agung dans la région de Karang Asem ont fait fuir les habitants vivant aux alentours vers des endroits plus sûrs", a indiqué Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, porte-parole de l'Agence nationale de gestion des catastrophes (BNPB). Il a déclaré que la BNPB surveillait attentivement l'activité du volcan et avait invité les habitants de la région à rester calmes mais vigilants

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MARIA CONTINUE A DEVASTER SUR SON PASSAGE

L 'ouragan frappe actuellement les Iles Vierges américaines. Des vents violents à plus de 200 km/h balaient les îles qui reçoivent des trombes d'eau.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maria est de catégorie maximale 5 (vents de plus de 250 km/h), un niveau « potentiellement catastrophique », d'après le National Hurricane Center (NHC) américain.

Porto Rico est sur la trajectoire de l'ouragan ce mercredi.

Sur ce territoire américain, 50 000 foyers sont toujours privés d'électricité depuis le passage d'Irma.


Le gouverneur Ricardo Rossello Nevares a demandé à la population de quitter les zones les plus sensibles de l'île L'ouragan, selon le gouverneur de l'ancienne colonie espagnole,

« pourrait être le pire du siècle (dernier) à Porto Rico ».

Clara Mitchell pour DayNewsWorld
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UN NOUVEL OURAGAN MARIA FRAPPE LA PLANETE.

LA MARTINIQUE PLACEE EN ALERTE MAXIMALE

Les compagnies aériennes Air France, Air Caraïbes et Corsair ont dû décaler des vols à destination ou en provenance de Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe) et Fort-de-France (Martinique) prévus dans les prochaines en raison de l’ouragan Maria.

Classé en catégorie 1 (vents jusqu’à 150 km/h), Maria va augmenter en intensité jusqu'à atteindre la catégorie 3 (jusqu’à 210 km/h) et sa trajectoire, passant plus au sud que celle de l’ouragan Irma, va percuter de plein fouet la Dominique . La Martinique et la Guadeloupe seront également touchées la première à la mi-journée ou en début d’après-midi de ce lundi, la seconde dans la nuit de lundi à mardi.

La Martinique vient d'être placée en alerte maximale. La Guadeloupe et la Dominique un peu plus tôt sont placées en vigilance rouge cyclonique.

Le bulletin émis par Météo France ce lundi matin à 5 h (heure de Paris) est clair : « La Guadeloupe et la Dominique semblent les îles les plus exposées de l’Arc antillais et il faut prendre cette menace très au sérieux, des conditions dangereuses sont attendues ».

Météo France et le NHC prévoient pour la Martinique ,la première exposée, pour le moment de 60 à 100 km/h de vent de secteur ouest au plus fort du passage ce lundi après-midi et jusqu’à 130 km/h de vent au nord-est de l’Île (la Caravelle et au-dessus).

La Guadeloupe va se retrouver dans la zone des vents forts. Selon Météo France « les incertitudes sur la trajectoire et l’intensité finale à cette échéance rendent difficile une localisation précise des impacts sur la Guadeloupe, mais il semblerait que le Sud de l’archipel soit nettement plus exposé ».On prévoie de130 à 170 km/h au sud et à Basse-Terre et de 100 à 150 km/h ailleurs.

La Dominique est pour juste sur la route de l’œil de Maria par conséquent très exposée.

Pour les îles françaises, le préfet de Guadeloupe a donné pour consigne la fermeture jusqu’à nouvel ordre des écoles à partir de lundi matin, celle des administrations et des entreprises à partir de midi (heure locale, 18 h en France) exhortant « chacun de ne plus se déplacer, de se mettre à l’abri, soit dans son habitation, soit dans un abri sûr, et de s’informer des conditions météo à la radio ».

Des consignes pour rester autonomes plusieurs jours ont également été données.

En ce qui concerne Saint-Barthélémy et Saint-Martin, déjà ravagées par l’ouragan Irma, « le passage au plus près, probablement entre 100 et 150 km au Sud des îles de Saint-Martin et Saint-Barthélemy devrait avoir lieu dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi » selon Météo-France et devraient échapper au cœur de l'ouragan mais des vents violents avec des rafales de l’ordre de 150 km/h sont à prévoir.

Les autorités françaises ont pris les mesures nécessaires et se veulent rassurantes, elles à qui on a reproché un manque d’anticipation lors du passage de l’ouragan Irma.

« Nous avons anticipé ce qui peut se produire, a assuré le ministre de l’Intérieur. Nous avons réuni une cellule interministérielle de crise à midi et nous en tiendrons une lundi », a-t-il ajouté. Une réunion interministérielle est prévue mercredi.

« Nous avons depuis samedi envoyé de nouveaux moyens de la protection civile » et « ce dimanche soir 110 militaires de la protection civile sont partis sur zone et « environ 3 000 personnes » sont sur place « pour gérer les problèmes de sécurité, recommencer la reconstruction et veiller à l’approvisionnement ».

De quoi rassurer la population et ne pas revivre les terribles jours de l'ouragan Irma.

Boby Dean pour DayNewsWorld
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SCANDALE DU LEVOTYROX

Et un scandale sanitaire et pharmaceutique de plus !

Mais jusqu’où ira -t -on en matière de santé publique ?

Enfin ! Scandale ! Nous disons scandale ! Mais Agnès Buzyn vient de répondre à l’actrice Annie Duperrey, victime elle aussi du Levothyrox, qui a pris la tête de la protestation et qui vient d’interpeller fermement la ministre

« qu’il n’y avait pas de scandale sanitaire » !!!

« Je ne sais pas quelle magouille il y a derrière cette affaire »,vient de déclarer l’actrice qui estime que

« la Ministre de la Santé couvre quelque chose, pour insister à ce point dans le déni et le mécontentement de milliers de personnes. »

Alors ! Quelle est cette affaire du Levothyrox ?

Le Levothyrox est un médicament prescrit à environ 3 millions de malades (hommes et femmes) qui le prennent quotidiennement.

Le Levothyrox contient un principe actif qui est une hormone de substitution, la Levothyroxine.

C’est le laboratoire allemand Merck Sorono qui fabrique ce médicament et qui a la quasi exclusivité de sa vente en France.

Or ce laboratoire vient de mettre sur le marché (mars 2017), une nouvelle formule du médicament, ceci à la demande de l’ANSM (Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament) qui recherchait une formule « plus stable ».

Le changement de formule du nouveau Levothyrox porte essentiellement sur les excipients : le mannitol et l’acide citrique anhydre, déjà présents dans de nombreux autres médicaments et dans l’alimentation ( ?).

Prés de 9000 patients ont dénoncé depuis qu’ils ont commencé à prendre la nouvelle formule du médicament, des effets secondaires indésirables, souvent graves et en tout état de cause très inconfortables : vertiges, palpitations, perte de cheveux, fatigue intense, maux de tête etc.

Deux personnes seraient décédées récemment parce qu’ayant décidé d’abandonner la prise du médicament, les effets secondaires  étant trop douloureux. Leur vie était devenue un enfer !

Comme le Laboratoire Merck Serono a le quasi monopole de la vente de ce médicament, les malades n’ont pas eu la possibilité de se tourner vers un autre médicament de substitution à l’exception de quelques cas où ils ont pu se rabattre sur un produit présenté sous forme liquide et pris en gouttes, mais destiné habituellement .... aux enfants et aux personnes ayant des difficultés de déglutition.

Les Laboratoire Merck et l’ANSM prétendent avoir adressé dès février, aux 100 000 médecins une lettre pour leur signaler le changement de composition du médicament et les inciter à accompagner les patients éventuellement victimes de troubles secondaires.

Dans les faits, l’information n’a pas été diffusée aux patients.

Très rapidement, en ces circonstances, plusieurs milliers de malades ont donc rapporté ces effets indésirables !

Et c’est à partir de là que le scandale a démarré :

1) Parce que l’ANSM , qui reconnaît la possibilité de ces effets indésirables, affirme qu’il n’y a aucun risque avéré, l’enquête de pharmacovigilance ayant conclu qu’il n’y avait aucun danger !!

2 ) En raison de la position quasi monopolistique du Laboratoire Merck , fermant toute possibilité d’accès à un médicament de substitution

3) En raison de l’entêtement de la Ministre, Agnès Buzyn, qui tout en reconnaissant elle aussi les 9000 cas de victimes d’effets indésirables est restée pendant plusieurs semaines campée sur le fait « qu’il n’y avait aucun risque » et que les effets secondaires n’étaient liés qu’à des difficultés= de redosage lesquels devaient permettre d’estomper ces effets indésirables ?

4  )En raison des déclarations de la Ministre disant qu’il n’y a pas eu d’hospitalisation

5 ) En raison du fait qu’Agnès Buzyn s’est contentée de mettre à disposition un N° vert constamment embouteillé

6 ) Et pour finir, en raison du fait que la Ministre avait exclu tout retour à l’ancienne formule.

A la suite de quoi, le mécontentement des patients n’a fait qu’empirer. Une pétition recueillit 300 000 signatures.

Des associations de malades de la thyroïde et des victimes de la nouvelle formule du Levothyrox sont très vite montés au créneau, exigeant en premier lieu des rendez- vous avec la Ministre qui a fini, enfin, par les recevoir.

Toutes ces associations encouragent les citoyens à continuer à se battre pour exercer leurs droits. « Il s’agit d’un acquis social » dit Chantal l’Hoir , Présidente de l’une d’entre elles, ajoutant « que les gens doivent comprendre que l’on peut faire changer les choses et que la révolte est un mouvement destiné à en découdre avec une injustice sociale ».

L’Association des malades de la Thyroïde vient même de confier le dossier à Marie Odile Bertolla Geffroy, avocate, qui a accepté de conseiller juridiquement l’association et ses adhérents.

Marie Odile Berthola Geffroy a été dans une autre vie, Présidente du TGI de Paris (magistrate). Pendant 15 ans, en qualité de juge d’instruction du Pôle de santé publique au TGI de Paris, elle a instruit divers dossiers ultra sensibles tels que ceux de l’hormone de croissance, de la maladie de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, de la légionellose de l’Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou ou encore celui de l’amiante, dossier dont elle a été dessaisie et à la suite duquel elle a été mutée d’office.

Déjugée par le gouvernement de l’époque (2013) désigné par François Hollande elle a finalement quittée la magistrature.

En 2015, l’ancienne magistrate qui a prêté serment a ouvert un cabinet d’avocat.

Les malades peuvent désormais compter sur une défense avisée et compétente.

En quelques jours (depuis le 15/09) une centaine de malades ont déposé une plainte pénale, ceci dans le cadre d’une action collective (class action dans le monde anglo-saxon) obligeant corrélativement le parquet à ouvrir une enquête.

De son côté Agnès Buzyn, Ministre de la Santé qui a été amenée à admettre le problème et cherche à rassurer, vient enfin de faire des annonces promettant que l’ancienne formule du Levothyrox serait accessible dans 15 jours et que des solutions alternatives seraient disponibles d’ici un mois.

Le vent de fronde et de colère a commencé à inquiéter le « gouvernement d’experts » nommé par Emmanuel Macron qui est enfin revenu en arrière...

A moins que ??

 

Clara Mitchell pour DayNewsWorld
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IRMA VA FRAPPER CUBA PUIS LA FLORIDE

Quelque 1,2 million de personnes ont déjà souffert de l'ouragan, un nombre qui pourrait grimper à 26 millions, selon la Croix-Rouge.

Certes l'ouragan de force 5 a perdu un peu de son pouvoir de destruction cependant des dégâts importants sont encore à prévoir .

Après avoir dévasté les îles de Barbuda, Saint-Barthélemy et Saint-Martin causant au moins 12 morts, la tempête tropicale menace désormais Cuba et la Floride.

A Cuba,on attend l'ouragan pour vendredi soir si bien que les autorité ont demandé aux 10000 touristes présents sur l'île de quitter leurs hôtels ou résidences sur les côtes les plus exposées.

Irma suivra sa trajectoire vers la côte sud-est des Etats-Unis comme prévu pour atteindre la Floride puis la Géorgie et la Caroline du Sud, .Des marées de plus de 8 mètres menacent d'inonder une partie de la côte engendrant «un danger d'inondations mortelles» durant les 36 prochaines heures.

Au président américain Donald Trump d' exprimer depuis Washington jeudi sa «vive inquiétude». L'ouragan Irma va «être réellement destructeur» lors de son arrivée sur les côtes de Floride selon Brock Long, le chef de l'agence américaine des situations d'urgence (Fema)

Les populations des zones côtières de Floride et de Géorgie soit environ un million de personnes ont reçu des ordres d'évacuations obligatoires pour de pas revivre le cauchemar de Harvey. «Nous disons à tout le monde: quittez Miami Beach. Je n'aurais jamais pensé devoir dire ça, mais je le dis aujourd'hui», a ordonné e maire de Miami Beach, Philip Levine sur la chaîne Fox News.

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

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AU MOINS 9 MORTS, 7 DISPARUS ET 112 BLESSES

A  SAINT-BARTHELEMY ET SAINT-MARTIN DEVASTEES PAR L'OURAGAN IRMA

Saint-Barthélemy et de Saint-Martin, au lendemain du passage de l’ouragan Irma , offrent un paysage apocalyptique .

Classé en catégorie 5, la plus importante, Irma qui longe désormais le long de la côte nord-américaine a frappé de plein fouet Saint-Barthélémy puis Saint-Martin ce mercredi en faisant de nombreux dégâts .

UN LOURD BILAN HUMAIN VENDREDI DE 9 MORTS, 7 DISPARUS ET 112 BLESSES DANS LES ILES FRANCAISES.

Le bilan est effrayant: l'ouragan a tout balayé sur son passage arrachant les toitures, renversant les voitures déracinant les équipes d’EDF et d’Enedis  les arbres .

Des tôles jonchent les rues, les routes sont devenues impraticables,,les bateaux ont coulé ...

La caserne des pompiers a également subi des dégâts ainsi que l'hôpital tandis que la préfecture a également été totalement rasée.

Sur les réseaux sociaux, l’angoisse monte, jeudi 7 septembre, parmi nombre de Guadeloupéens, sans nouvelles de leurs proches établis à moins de 300 km, à Saint-Martin ou à Saint-Barthélemy,

Les deux centrales au fioul ont été inondées.

Les deux îles sont chacune alimentées par des centrales thermiques au fioul récemment modernisées.

Celle de Saint-Martin a trois tranches pour une puissance totale de 46 mégawatts (MW), tandis que celle de Saint-Barthélemy dispose de deux unités de 18 MW chacune.

Toute deux sont inondées et fortement endommagées et sont plus en état de fonctionner.La station de traitement des eaux usées, aurait également été « détruite à 80 % »

Donc plus d'électricité, d'internet, d'eau potable à Saint-Barthélémy puisque sans électricité les deux usines de dessalement d'eau de mer ne peuvent plus fonctionner. Les îles sont coupées du monde.

Il faudra « des semaines et des mois » avant un retour à la normale de l’électricité, a estimé Jean-Bernard Lévy, le PDG d’EDF, interrogé sur Europe 1.

Actuellement aucun chiffrage des dégâts ne peut encore être établi.

Le plus rapidement possible les équipes d'EDF et du gestionnaire de réseau Enedis vont rétablir le courant dans les bâtiments prioritaires, comme les hôpitaux, les stations d’eau et d’assainissement en installant ou réparant des groupes électrogènes.

« Nous aurons sans doute à mettre en place des moyens provisoires, peut-être en utilisant des réseaux électriques posés à même le sol pour desservir en électricité les gens, les installations, les entreprises et ensuite nous aurons à rétablir le courant définitivement », explique Jean-Bernard Lévy.

D’importants moyens sont dépêchés sur place: 140 tonnes de matériel allant de 95 groupes électrogènes aux cinq remorques motopompes en passant par dix kits de pompages et de nettoyage.

Ces moyens vont partir depuis la base militaire de Châteauroux à bord d'un gros-porteur affrété par EDF qui décollera samedi 9 septembre, à destination de la Guadeloupe.

Le pont aérien sur l’île mis en place pour acheminer du matériel et des secouristes s'avère indispensable. Ces derniers seront appelés à quadriller les zones les moins accessibles où de nouvelles victimes pourraient se trouver.

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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ARRIVEE FULGURANTE DE L'OURAGAN IRMA

SUR LES PETITES ANTILLES

Météo France parle "d'une intensité sans précédent sur l'Atlantique" de l'ouragan Irma. Les îles françaises Saint-Barthélemy et Saint-Martin sont placées en alerte violette, le degré maximal, en prévision de l'arrivée de l'ouragan Irma qui impose le confinement total de la population. L'ouragan se déplace à la vitesse de 24 km/h.

À 00h49 heure locale (6h49 heure de Paris), le centre de l'ouragan été à 140 km de Saint Barthélemy, précise Météo France.

L'oeil devrait donc passer sur Saint-Martin et Saint-Barthélemy aux alentours de 6h heure locale (12h heure de Paris).

"Une houle dont les creux dépasseront 12 mètres et un déferlement d'une extrême violence sur les rivages ainsi qu'une submersion majeure des parties basses du littoral sont attendus.

Les villes de Marigot, Grand Case et Gustavia -sur les côtes des deux îles- seront particulièrement impactées."

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

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L 'OURAGAN IRMA " EXTREMEMENT DANGEREUX" VA SEVIR JUSQU'A LUNDI

L'ouragan Irma, qui s'est formé au large du Cap Vert la semaine dernière, est devenu «extrêmement dangereux » selon le Centre américain de surveillance des ouragans (NHC) et a été placé en catégorie 5, soit le maximum de l’échelle qui mesure ces phénomènes, a annoncé le Centre américain des ouragans (NHC). Il s'annonce plus violent que Harvey. Les préparatifs à l’arrivée de l’ouragan « doivent être accélérés et complétés dans la zone d’alerte de l’ouragan », insiste le NHC .

Dans les prochains jours, la tempête tropicale s’apprête à frapper une zone allant de l’Est des Caraïbes jusqu’à la Floride, aux États-Unis.

L’impact n’étant plus qu’une question d’heure, les autorités caribéennes ont également déclenché un premier niveau d’alerte face à « des menaces de fortes pluies, de forts vents, de fortes houles et des risques d’éboulement, de glissement de terrain et d’inondation », selon un communiqué de la protection civile.

Il atteindra les Antilles entre mardi et mercredi soir frappant particulièrement les îles de Saint-Martin et de Saint-Barthélémy . D'ailleurs la rentrée scolaire.e a été reportée au lundi matin. «On y attend des rafales à près de 200 km/h, jusqu'à deux mois de pluie en 24 heures et des vagues d'une hauteur de sept à dix mètres avec un risque maximal de submersion littorale»,selon La Chaîne Météo. «Il faut absolument que les personnes prennent tout de suite toutes les mesures pour aller ailleurs», a annoncé la préfète déléguée de Saint-Martin et Saint-Barthélemy, Anne Laubies, lors d'une conférence de presse à Saint-Martin.

La Martinique ne devrait pas être trop impactée, la Guadeloupe par contre pourrait subir «des vents à 120 km/h, des pluies intenses et des vagues de cinq à sept mètres sur la côte atlantique»

. Les « habitations situées sur les côtes basses » ,où les risques sont  les plus importants, ont ainsi été évacuées vers des gymnases ou des abris.

.En Haïti, les autorités ont mis en place le premier niveau d'alerte. Des alertes d'ouragan sont également lancées pour les îles d'Antigua-et-Barbuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, Saint-Kitts-et-Nevis, Saba et Saint-Eustache, où le passage d'Irma est attendu dans les 36 heures.

La tempête tropicale est ensuite attendue au nord de Porto Rico aux alentours de 13 heures mercredi (heure française), et provoquera une montée du niveau de la mer pouvant atteindre 3 mètres au dessus de la normale et des précipitations record (25cm )le phénomène cyclonique est ainsi devenu, jeudi, le deuxième ouragan majeur de la saison 2017. Le gouverneur Ricardo Rosselló a décrété l'état d'urgence et mobilisé la Garde nationale

Irma devrait continuer sa route vers Cuba, qu'il atteindra vendredi et samedi, puis toucher le sud de la Floride, de dimanche soir à lundi soir. grandes vagues destructrices »

De nombreuses mesures de précautions ont été prises par les autorités concernées.

Un porte-avions américain avec un hôpital de campagne et des dizaines d’appareils pour mener des missions de sauvetage et d’approvisionnement, a été dépêché par précaution dans la région, a indiqué Alejandro de la Campa de la division Caraïbes de l’Agence fédérale des situations d’urgence (Fema).

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

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AFFAIRE MAELY : PROGRESSION DE L'ENQUETE

L' enquête de la petite Maëlys 9ans, disparue il y a une semaine lors d'un mariage le 26 aout à Pont-de Beauvoisin (Isère), progresse à grand pas. En effet une trace ADN de la fillette a été relevée dans sur le tableau de bord de la voiture de l'homme de 34 ans. Il s'agit d'un des deux trentenaires placés en garde à vue la semaine dernière, puis remis en liberté vendredi. Sa maison et sa voiture ont été fouillées la semaine dernière.

Ce dernier a a été placé en détention provisoire dimanche soir et mis en examen pour pour les chefs "d'arrestation, enlèvement, séquestration ou détention arbitraire de mineur de 15 ans" à la suite de "résultats de (la) police technique et scientifique", a indiqué le parquet de Grenoble dans un communiqué publié dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi .

D'après son avocat l'homme a reconnu que Maëlys et un autre enfant, étaient montés à bord de son véhicule le soir de sa disparition pour voir "ses chiens". Mais le gardé à vue, qui était présent au mariage invité au vin d'honneur, a contesté lors de sa nouvelle audition avoir commis les faits, selon un communiqué du parquet de Grenoble mais ses explications « n'ont pas convaincu les juges d'instruction qui ont décidé de le mettre en examen », ajoute le texte.

La fillette reste toujours introuvable.

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

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LE PLAN BLANQUER POUR L'ECOLE

J-7. Dans une semaine , plus de 12 millions d'élèves vont reprendre le chemin de l'école en France .Face à une baisse de la France dans les classements internationaux depuis les années 2000, il est temps de prendre le taureau par les cornes et de réformer le système éducatif.

Plusieurs réformes sont donc envisagées par le Ministre de l'Education nationale Jean-Louis Blanquer.

Il annonce une hausse du budget de l'Éducation nationale pour mener à bien sa réforme . "On sera au-dessus des 50 milliards" a-t-il promis. «L'Éducation nationale a été définie comme une priorité par le président de la République et le Premier ministre. Cela se traduira par une augmentation du budget de l'Éducation nationale», a-t-il dit. Dès lors, la rue de Grenelle fait un peu office d'exception alors que même le budget de la défense a été revu à la baisse en période de menace terroriste au grand dam de la Grande Muette .

Pour sa première rentrée scolaire, le ministre de l'Education nationale Jean-Michel Blanquer détaille les mesures du gouvernement pour l'école primaire

Le ministre a insisté sur le rôle primordial de l'école élémentaire. La première hypothèse est peut-être la fragilisation pédagogique de l'école primaire. C'est pourquoi l'école primaire est la grande priorité de ce quinquennat. En tout cas, l acquisition des savoirs fondamentaux chez les élèves s'avère nécessaire. Ainsi le dédoublement des classes de CP en zone d'éducation prioritaire renforcée REP+ sera mis en place. Dans 85% des écoles ciblées, deux classes ont été créées. «Ailleurs, deux professeurs interviendront en petit groupe dans une même salle», précise-t-il. «Les enfants qui sont en éducation prioritaire doivent démarrer dans leur vie d'élève avec plus d'atouts qu'aujourd'hui», commente-t-il. Selon lui, tous les premiers effets de cette réforme devraient se faire au bout d'une année.Le dédoublement des CE1 des écoles « REP » est prévu à la rentrée 2019.

Jean-louis Blanquer a condamné la méthode globale au profit d'un retour à la méthode syllabique pour l'apprentissage de la lecture. Si cette idée est l'objet d'un vif débat entre les experts depuis des années, le ministre de l'Education a considéré que la question était désormais tranchée.

Parmi les réformes qu'il souhaite engager, le ministre de l'Education s'est également exprimé sur la durée des vacances scolaires. Confirmant ses doutes sur le système actuel, Jean-Michel Blanquer a surtout évoqué le cas des congés d'automne passé de 1o jours à 2 semaines sous le Ministre Peillon en 2012. Pour le ministre de l'Education nationale la durée de ces vacances scolaires de l'automne peut être un facteur de "décrochage".

Le rythme scolaire fait également partie des changement à venir. Déjà pérennisé pour l'année 2017-2018 pour les communes à quatre jours et demi de classe une réflexion globale sur les activités périscolaires en France va être conduite avec l'ensemble des acteurs concernés pour organiser le périscolaire le mercredi.

Le nouveau locataire de la rue de Grenelle va également s'attaquer au vaste chantier de la réforme du bac. La réforme du baccalauréat devrait être effective en 2021. Les concertations sur les sujet devraient débuter «en octobre prochain», selon le ministre, qui espère obtenir les premières conclusions au début de l'année 2018, afin d'avoir des conclusions au début de l'année 2018, avec un baccalauréat réformé en 2021 . «Les programmes de l'école et du collège ont été modifiés récemment. Cela ne signifie pas que l'on n'améliorera pas certains aspects. Mais ce sera en finesse et en douceur. Les évolutions, quand il y en aura, concerneront surtout le lycée, pour être cohérents avec la réforme du baccalauréat». La réforme du baccalauréat doit permettre une économie d'argent sur son organisation. La mutualisation des options entre lycées ou entre le lycée et l'université permettra une plus grande richesses d'offres dans les options. Mais tout cela devra résulter de la concertation.

L'introduction du numérique, de l'intelligence artificielle pourront également venir en soutien des démarches pédagogiques dans le second degré mais aussi à l'école primaire.

La laïcité reste un pilier fondamental à l'école. Interrogé sur le livre alarmant d'un principal de collège décrivant une dérive de l'islamisme à l'école, le ministre a déclaré que le principe de laïcité était . «Cela signifie que l'on doit regarder le problème en face, que l'ensemble des acteurs scolaires doivent être unis pour faire respecter notre devise républicaine et la laïcité, faire respecter la loi de 2004 et empêcher toute dérive communautariste dans nos établissements» a-t-il conclu.

Joanne Courbet pour DayNewsWorld
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GRAND MERCATO TELEVISUEL

OU LA RECONVERSION DES POLITIQUES

EN CHRONIQUEUR DE TELEVISION

Les chaînes de télévision sont de plus en plus nombreuse à jouer la carte des politiques. Une spectaculaire reconversion pour ces politiques qui ont perdu leur mandat électoral.

En cette rentrée 2017, les grands groupes se sont empressés de programmer dans leurs grilles quelques ex-grands fauves de la politique !

Ainsi, sur France 2, un ancien Premier ministre Raffarin devient chroniqueur de «19 heures le dimanche» sous la houlette de Laurent Delahousse. Julien Dray se retrouvera dans une émission politique hebdomadaire sur LCI. Aurélie Filippetti et Gaspard Gantzer rejoignent Marc-Olivier Fogiel dans " On refait le monde" sur RTL .

Moins connue du grand public, Raquel Garrido de La France Insoumise, porte-parole de Jean-Luc Mélenchon- déontologiquement critiquable- est annoncée comme chroniqueuse dans «Les Terriens du Dimanche», l'émission de Thierry Ardisson, sur C8 .

Et même Henri Guaino ,l'ancienne plume de Nicolas, et celui qui avait dit qu'il préférait se "suicider" plutôt que passer 24 heures 'dans la peau de Roselyne Bachelot' sera quant à lui dès septembre sur Sud Radio.

Des politiques …vont jouer au chroniqueur de télévision ? Ce métier s'improvise-t-il  donc?

Bien-sûr il y a de célèbres précurseurs qui ont fait leur preuve :

Roselyne Bachelot qui a ouvert le bal en 2012 voulant changer de métier, Cohn-Bendit, Jean-Louis Debré Chacun a réussi a tracé sa voie.

Lancien soixante-huitard, et député écologiste européen Daniel Cohn-Bendit tient une chronique tous les matins sur Europe 1 également tout en restant sur son terrain de prédilection, l'analyse sociétale, notamment de l'Europe.

Jean-Louis Debré un homme qui a occupé les plus hautes fonctions de l'État s'est retrouvé comme chroniqueur dans une émission de pur divertissement sur Europe 1, «La Cour des Grands» d'Alessandra Sublet. Reconversion réussie !

Et bien sûr, Roselyne Bachelot qui mettait un terme à sa carrière politique et rejoignait en tant que chroniqueuse l’équipe de Laurence Ferrari dans l’émission Le Grand 8 sur D8. Et Roselyne Bachelot avec son élocution si particulière et une langue qui ne reste pas dans sa poche, a un regard décapant sur l'actualité sans langue de bois et a fait mouche.

Elle a présenté en 2016, "100 % Bachelot" sur RMC. A la rentrée, elle présenterait une émission d'actualité avec Julien Arnaud, sur LCI.

Mais l'ancienne ministre des Solidarités et de la Cohésion sociale durant les gouvernements Raffarin puis ministre de la Santé sous la présidence de Nicolas Sarkozy prévient ses petits camarades en herbe, ancien contempteurs pour certains :

«Ils vont devoir bosser et tous ne réussiront pas, il va y avoir des morts! Bonne chance à eux, il faudra faire preuve d’humilité... Même si je sais que la modestie n’est pas la qualité la plus partagée dans le monde politique».

Et pourquoi un tel engouement des chaînes pour ces hommes et femmes politiques ?-

Pour Roselyne Bachelot

« Celui ou celle qui fait de la politique est devenu un objet médiatique en soi. Le succès des séries comme "Baron noir" ou "House of Cards" le démontrent .

Mais elle souligne également que le public « se passionne pour le jeu politique si on lui offre de la "substance" et des personnalités fortes ». C'est certainement ce qui manque le plus à nos hommes politiques, non plus hommes d' Etat, et qui n'incarnent plus aucune vision forte pour la France !!

Alors mieux vaut squatter les médias...

Joanne Courbet pour DayNewsWorld

 

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LE PALMARES

DES MEILLEURS HOPITAUX ET CLINIQUES

DE FRANCE

Le Point a dévoilé le palmarès des 50 meilleurs hôpitaux publics de France, étudiés pour la qualité de leurs spécialités médicales ou chirurgicales.

Cela fait vingt ans que Françoise Malye et Jérôme Vincent publie ce type de palmarès en santé. Auparavant ils avaient opté pour un palmarès négatif « liste noire » des hôpitaux, en 1997 dans Sciences et Avenir.

Les CHU de Bordeaux (1er) et Toulouse (2e)et de Lille (3e) arrivent en tête de la nouvelle édition du palmarès des 50 meilleurs hôpitaux publics étudiés pour la qualité de leurs spécialités médicales ou chirurgicales. Pour la 8e année consécutive, le centre hospitalier privé Saint-Grégoire, dans l’agglomération rennaise, est en tête des 50 meilleures cliniques de France. « Notre force est de proposer des durées moyennes de séjours assez courtes, explique Nicolas Bioulou, le directeur. On le doit par exemple à l’utilisation d’un robot avec vision 3 D qui ne fait que quatre micro-incisions mais aussi par l’utilisation du laser. Ça permet de limiter les suites opératoires et optimise le retour à domicile. »

Les hôpitaux universitaires de Strasbourg (4e), le CHU de Tours (5e, en hausse), l’hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière à Paris (6e, en baisse), le CHU de Grenoble (7e), le CHU de Nantes (8e, en baisse), le CHU de Nancy (9e, en hausse), le CHU de Rennes (10e) arrivent ensuite.Le ChU de Rouen est 12e, celui d’Angers 17e et celui de Caen 21e, le centre hospitalier du Mans 35e, le CHU de Brest 43e, le centre hospitalier de La Roche-sur-Yon 48e .

.Dans ce Top 50, on trouve 37 CHU, 6 hôpitaux généraux et 7 établissements privés participant au service public. 40 établissements sont situés en province. Dans le privé, on trouve outre le CHP Saint-Grégoire (Ille-et-Vilaine, groupe Vivalto Santé), la clinique Jean-Mermoz (Lyon), la clinique de l'Anjou (Angers), les Nouvelles Cliniques nantaises, la polyclinique de Courlancy (Reims), celle de l'Union (Saint-Jean) et la polyclinique de Limoges.

Pour figurer au classement final de ce palmarès indépendant, publié jeudi dans Le Point, un établissement doit fournir un service médical et chirurgical complet En tout, l prise en charge de 68 et 42 disciplines médicales est respectivement analysée dans les secteurs public et privé.

.Pour ce nouveau classement, six nouvelles activités ont été intégrées parmi les critères telles que la chirurgie de la cornée, la chirurgie oral ainsi que celle des neurinomes, des tumeurs au cerveau, des traumatismes crâniens et des leucémies pédiatriques.Huitcrit sont ensuite évalués : l'activité, la notoriété, l'ambulatoire, la technicité, la spécialisation, la coeliochirurgie, l'indice de gravité des cas traités et la mortalité. Comme chaque année, le Point a tenu à rappeler que ses journalistes ont travaillé en totale indépendance, sans « aucun accord avec le ministère de la Santé ou l'une de ses agences, aucun lien avec une société privée du monde de la santé ni avec quelque fédération professionnelle, syndicat, académie ou association médicale ».

Parmi ces articles, une enquête sur un "fléau bien trop négligé en France" : "à cause de plaies mal ou pas du tout soignées, chaque année près de 8.000 malades sont amputés d'un membre inférieur". Des amputations qui seraient trois fois plus fréquentes en France qu'en Italie, deux fois et demie plus courantes qu'au Royaume-Uni ou en Suisse d'après le Panorama de la santé 2015 de l'organisation pour la coopération et le développement économique (OCDE). Pour un spécialiste, le Dr Pierre Sérusclat, "il faut construire des centres du pied diabétique spécialisés" afin que cessent ces résultats peu gratifiants.

L’enquête menée par François Malye et Jérôme Vincent a porté sur 1400 établissements publics et privés de France, dans lesquels 70 spécialités ont été évaluées.

Alize Braxon pour DayNewsWorld

 

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SCANDALE  L'EX-PATRON DES STUP

MIS EN EXAMEN POUR COMPLICITE DE STUP

L’ex-patron de la lutte anti-drogue trafic de stupéfiants, François Thierry a été mis en examen pour complicité de trafic de stupéfiants dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi, selon une information du parquet de Paris.

François Thierry avait été convoqué jeudi dans le bureau des juges d’instruction au sujet de la saisie record de plus de sept tonnes de cannabis le 17 octobre 2015 à Paris boulevard Exelmans dans le cossu arrondissement du XVIe arrondissement.

La saisie avait été opérée par la Direction nationale du renseignement et des enquêtes douanières (DNRED), rattachée au ministère des Finances. Un coup de filet qui avait déjà valu au policier d'être placé en garde à vue fin mars à l'IGPN, la "police des polices".

A l'issue de son audition d'hier qui s'est terminée tard dans la soirée, l'ancien chef de l'office spécialisé a été mis en examen pour "complicité de détention, transport, acquisition de stupéfiants et complicité d'exportation de stupéfiants en bande organisée", a précisé la source proche du dossier.mais il a été libéré sans contrôle judiciaire.

La justice soupçonne le policier d’avoir favorisé l’entrée de drogue en France sans en informer totalement l'autorité judiciaire.Ce dernier aurait profité de ses relations avec un important indicateur de l'Office central pour la répression du trafic illicite des stupéfiants (Ocrtis), considéré comme un trafiquant notoire et l'un des plus gros trafiquants de drogue européen , Sofiane Hambli.

En 2011, le tribunal correctionnel de Mulhouse condamne le prévenu de 35 ans Sophiane Hamli à treize ans de prison et deux millions d'euros d'amende pour complicité de trafic de stupéfiants en récidive légale.Or Sofiane Hambli est défendu en 2011 par la compagne de François Thierry, Anne-Claire Viethel. L'avocate qualifiant la peine de "sévère" parvient à faire sortir son client de prison au bout de trois ans. Etonnant !

C'est que le commissaire Thierry couvrirait l'un des plus gros trafiquants d'Europe Sofiane Hambli. lui permettant d'importer ainsi chaque mois plusieurs tonnes de cannabis "en livraison surveillée", lui garantissant un degré d'impunité rarissime. D'ailleurs le patron de l'Octris traitait directement avec ses informateurs, contrairement aux méthodes qui prévalent depuis la promulgation de la loi Perben II en 2004 ; Cette dernière exige un fichage systématique des indics et un contrôle très poussé par la hiérarchie de la gestion de ces "tontons"...

Le nom de l’ex-patron de l’Ocrtis, actuellement en poste à la sous-direction antiterroriste de la PJ (Sdat), apparaît déjà une première fois dans une enquête ouverte à l’été 2013 sur un trafic de stupéfiants laissant soupçonner une provocation policière. Il fait par ailleurs l’objet d’une plainte d’un ancien informateur pour « mise en danger de la vie d’autrui » et « escroquerie en bande organisée » une enquête étant ouverte depuis 2015 à la suite du témoignage d’un homme se présentant comme un « infiltré » - un indicateur ne venant pas du « milieu ».

Celui-ci avait alors déclaré au journal Libération avoir « gardé » début 2012 une villa dans le Sud de l'Espagne, à Estepona, à la demande de François Thierry. Il aurait été missionné pour surveiller une villa pour le compte de François Thierry. Pendant 20 jours, il aurait fait le guet pour couvrir les aller et venues de cinq policiers français déchargeant des sacs de cannabis sur la plage apportée à bord de Zodiac venant du Maroc . Pas moins de 19 tonnes de drogue auraient ainsi transité par ce canal avant d’être convoyée en voiture vers la France où seule une partie était intercepté

Alize Marion pour DayNewsWorld

FALL OF AN OAK CAUSING THE DEATH OF THIRTEEN PEOPLE AND MANY WOUNDED IN MADEIRA DURING A RELIGIOUS FESTIVAL

A bicentennial oak tree has fallen on a crowd of worshipers gathered in a botanical garden for the Monte Feast on Madeira Island, five kilometers from the center of Funchal, the capital of the archipelago.

Thirteen people died crushed and about fifty were injured on Tuesday, August 15, of which seven are in serious condition.

A 42-year-old Frenchwoman and a 31-year-old Hungarian woman were among the dead, and three Frenchmen were also among the wounded.

A security perimeter was established around the place of worship. The tree "was not listed as presenting a risk of falling and no cable held it", indicated the mayor of Funchal, Paulo Cafôfo

Three days of regional mourning were declared, announced the president of the regional government Miguel Albuquerque. Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa immediately expressed his condolences "to the families and friends of the victims of the accident in Madeira", while the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, had come to the scene of the tragedy to "deliver a message of solidarity and comfort in this moment of pain".


The prosecution has decided to open an investigation following the tragedy. Madeira the most important island of an archipelago of volcanic origin is located in the Atlantic Ocean off the Moroccan coast. This island is very popular with foreign tourists because of its natural beauty and the mild climate.



Britney Delsey for DayNewsWorld
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UN CONDUCTEUR FONCE DELIBEREMENT SUR UNE TERRASSE DE PIZZERIA FAISANT UN MORT ET 12 BLESSES EN SEINE-ET-MARNE

Aux alentours de 20 h 30, lundi 14 août, une voiture de type BMW a foncé intentionnellement sur la terrasse d’une pizzeria, située à Sept-Sorts (Seine-et-Marne) à une vingtaine de kilomètres de Meaux.

Une fillette de treize ans est décédée et douze personnes ont été blessées, dont cinq sont "en état d'urgence absolue" a indiqué le procureur de Meaux. Un garçon de 3 ans dont le pronostic vital est engagé a été héliporté vers l'hôpital Necker à Paris.

Le conducteur, un homme âgé français de 31 ans, inconnu des service de justice de police, ou de renseignement , n'a opposé aucune résistance lors de son interpellation selon le porte-parole du ministère de l'Intérieur.

Il a expliqué aux gendarmes "qu'il avait fait une tentative de suicide la semaine dernière". "Nous en saurons davantage sur son mobile dans les heures qui viennent", au fil de sa garde à vue, a estimé le procureur adjoint de Meaux.

Le mobile terroriste est écarté "à ce stade de l'enquête",selon le procureur adjoint, qui a annoncé l'ouverture d'une enquête de flagrance pour "homicide volontaire avec arme", "tentative d'homicide volontaire avec arme" et "conduite sous l'emprise de stupéfiants".

Les gendarmes de la section de recherches de Paris ont été saisis et non le parquet antiterroriste

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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ALERTE AUX PARISIENS EN VACANCES !!

Pendant que vous vous trouvez à la montagne au bord de la mer que vous vous détendez Paris est devenu un réel chantier.
Et oui à la rentrée vous allez vite comprendre que d'utiliser sa voiture à Paris devient mission impossible.


Allez vite chez Go Sport ou Decathlon
vous acheter un vélo. Pas mal de rues perdront une voie de circulation routière ou  ne seront plus à double sens pour permettre aux vélos de circuler librement.
Paris est en train de s'enrichir de 2 pistes cyclables bidirectionnelles.
C'est vrai que pour la pollution cela va aider.

Mais pour toutes les personnes ayant besoin obligatoirement de la voiture cela va devenir catastrophique. Les taxis ne pourront plus circuler, les livreurs n'arriveront plus à l'heure etc...


C'est ainsi que la voie Georges-Pompidou ( les quais de Seine) va être réduite à une voie à la place de deux pour faire bien-sûr une piste cyclable.
La Grande Armée va être réduite aussi pour faire une piste cyclable.
Rue Saint-Marc, rue d'Amboise, rue Vivienne, boulevard des Capucines, bd Gaillon, bd saint-Augustin, bd la Michodière, bd de Louvois auront désormais des pistes cyclables à double sens donc une circulation limitée à 30 kilomètres heure
circulation limitée à 30 km heure.

Le quartier Verbois aura aussi sa piste cyclable à double sens donc limitation à 30 km heure pour les voitures.
Rue Blanche, rue jean-Baptiste, rue Pigalle, rue Saint-Lazare vont également posséder leurs pistes cyclables.
N'oublions pas le trajet allant  de la place de la République à la place Léon Blum.
N'oublions pas non plus l'avenue Raymond-Poincaré qui va devenir à sens unique.

Messieurs et Mesdames les Parisiens: cerise sur le gâteau ce n'est pas encore fait mais la rue de Rivoli devrait avoir une seule voie pour les véhicules.

Il serait peut-être utile avant tout de posséder des transports en commun propres, efficaces, et non bondés aux heures de pointe pour que l'on puisse oublier son véhicule de bon coeur quand on ne peut pas utiliser de vélo!!!

Mia Kennedy pour DayNewsWorld

DEVASTORY FIRES IN SOUTHERN FRANCE

AND HIGH CORSICA

Nearly 4,000 hectares have already gone up in smoke in Corsica and in the south-east of France and particularly in the Var. Firefighters generally manage to contain fires with the exception of several fireplaces in the Var, including the main one at La Croix-Valmer, near Saint-Tropez

Due to high winds, fires spread rapidly. Twenty wounded rescuers fired on Tuesday for the second consecutive day against fires, still fueled by strong winds.

One hundred and sixty hectares of pine groves on the Verde Pass at the edge of Upper Corsica were devastated by the Palneca fire in southern Corsica, near several hiking trails including the GR20, which were Partially closed.

 

 

 

Four Canadair, one Dash, three helicopters and 200 firefighters were dispatched to the scene. The fire is running on several fronts and the mountainous and steep region gives the soldiers fire a hard time. Not sure that they managed to put out the fire today.

According to the mayor of Palneca, Pierre Santoni, the investigation "is moving towards the criminal track".

"Firefighters are working hard, but they are unfortunately unable to contain the fire," Pierre Santoni said on franceinfo.

In order to contain these fires that last two days, France has solicited two Canadair aircraft in the framework of European aid

France currently has 19 water bombers - 10 Canadair, 7 Tracker and 2 Dash - and more than 4,000 civilian firefighters and soldiers are fighting fires. At least 15 policemen and 7 firefighters were injured.

Boby Dean for DayNewsWorld
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TEENS IN DANGER


The Blue Whale come straight from the head of a crazy designer is a new game that can push our teens toward death.
So alert!
If you see them draw a whale alert the authorities and get out of there as quickly as possible.
This game is born in Russia it consists of carrying out a series of fifty challenges which initially seem of little importance then become more and more terrifying.

If you see them draw a whale alert the authorities and get out of there as quickly as possible.
This game is born in Russia it consists of carrying out a series of fifty challenges which initially seem of little importance then become more and more terrifying.

In Russia several teenagers died, in France cases were fortunately arrested in time.
For the creator, the blue whales are capable of committing suicide by running aground on the beaches from which the idea of ​​the fiftieth challenge: to throw themselves from the top of a building.
The target of this game is the 13-16 years old a little lost, addicted to social networks. The game gives them a sponsor who gives them their challenge by mail or text.
The first challenges are often to draw a whale on a sheet or to write F57 on the hand from which the eye is opened.
For after they are asked to carve a whale on the skin, not to feed themselves, to insult their parents to isolate themselves from you.
Listen to morbid music at night to demoralize.
This game is becoming more and more dangerous over the challenges

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Philippe Boudeikine in Russia was arrested for creating this game which he pushed 15 young people to commit suicide. But the game continues.
Attention: life is worth living even if sometimes the road seems arduous! Better to confide in a loved one ...

Mia Kennedy for DayNewsWorld

FIRE IN THE VAR

Nearly 10,000 people were evacuated during the night from Tuesday to Wednesday due to a new fire near Bormes-les-Mimosas in the Var.

Firefighters had to evacuate many campsites and dwellings.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"At least 800 hectares were burned" in Bormes-les-Mimosas, in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, according to the prefecture.

 

"The fire started around midnight from La Londe-les-Maures and progressed towards Cap Bénat. The virulent side of the fire is now found at Cap Bénat. The evacuations, at least 10,000, followed the progression of the fire.

It is an inhabited area that double or triple its population in the summer, "according to firefighters in the Var.

More than 600 firefighters are mobilized to fight the flames that spread at a dazzling pace due to the wind.

Air assets have been mobilized since 7am, 4 trackers and a dragon 83, said the prefecture.

An Italian Canadair came to lend a strong loan after a request for European aid from France.

Nearly 4,000 hectares have already burned since Monday in the Southeast and Corsica. The fires continue to multiply in the south-east of France, on the Mediterranean coast, and in Corsica,

Firefighters remain mobilized on many fronts.

Carl Delsey for DayNewsWorld

 

WHAT TOUR OF FRANCE!

The 104th Tour de France arrived this Sunday, July 23 in Paris more exactly at the Champs-Élysées.

This is the third most popular sporting event in the world.

The Tour de France includes 21 stages and 3540 km.

This year the famous yellow jersey was won by British cyclist Christopher Froome, green jersey by Mickael Mattews, polka dot jersey Warren Barguil, white jersey Simon Yates.

Upon arrival on Paris, we saw all sponsors screaming it was grand.
All the caravans were gorgeous and cheerful

 

 

All the caravans were gorgeous a jolly atmosphere personally I liked the caravan of Vittel Krys Carrefour big game the St. Michael's pancakes and the Haribo sweets that were thrown on the public.

Before the runners arrived we could see the colors of France in the sky. Another fantastic thing all runners have crossed the Grand Palais. A great first! Congratulations to all the riders !!. Next year I come back to see you.

Mia Kennedy for DayNewsWorld

RESEARCH SUMMIT IN PARIS ON AIDS

The number of AIDS-related deaths in the world has halved in just over a decade: there were 1.9 million deaths in 2005 and only 1 million in 2016. This drop can be a source of satisfaction for the 6,000 researchers gathered Conference of Paris.

But the number of new contamination decreases only slightly: from 1.9 million in 2010 to 1.8 million!

The African continent remains the most affected with an average of 2 out of 3 infections. And there are still close to 3.7 million people living with HIV worldwide.

There has been tremendous progress in treating HIV-positive people with tritherapy, a combination of different classes of antiretroviral drugs, a discovery dating back to 1995-1994. But at the cost of many side effects in heavy treatments that must be taken for life and at very high cost.

We can not yet speak of healing.

"Eradicating a patient's body completely is difficult, if not impossible," according to Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States. "So we're focusing on remission without antiretrovirals."

Indeed, some cases of remission without antiretrovirals intrigue the researchers.

A South African girl in remission was born HIV-positive, and after taking an HIV treatment for 8 months the girl only the 9-year-old girl is healthy, HIV remains dormant.

 

This rare case, called "functional remission", is one of the main avenues of research in the fight against AIDS.

"We are trying to understand why some patients manage to control the infection and how to get everyone to do it,

"Said Asier Saez-Cirion, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur in Paris.

 

 

But cases of remission are too rare.

There are currently three promising new therapeutic approaches:

1. Injection of antibodies for the neutralization of the virus

2. The strengthening of the immune system by a therapeutic vaccine

3. New long-term antiretrovirals

In the absence of being able to eradicate the evil, we must continue talking about prevention: researchers are on the trail of the vaginal rings impregnated with antiretrovirals.

In the meantime, the condom protects not only HIV, but many other sexually transmitted infections, as well as many other sexually transmitted infections such as syphilis, which records hundreds of cases each year in France.

Healing remains the challenge of researchers in the years to come, 37 years after the discovery of the virus. But Donald Trump's desire to reduce AIDS funding is a major concern for researchers who have not failed to publish a "Paris Declaration"
"No end of HIV without research and no research without permanent investment"

Paul Emison for DayNewsWorld
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UNE PRISE EN CHARGE COMPLETE DE

L'I.V.G POUR LES FEMMES.

OU LE DROIT INALIENABLE DES FEMMES

A DISPOSER DE LEUR CORPS.

 

A l'heure où les femmes occidentales doivent se battre contre les conservateurs en Espagne pour l'IVG ;

Où, plus inquiétant encore en Europe depuis la nuit du 31 décembre 2016 à Cologne,

la civilisation européenne doit réaffirmer les droits inaliénables des femmes face à l'obscurantisme de certains réfugiés pétris d' islam, l'annonce du ministre de la Santé Marisol Touraine du 15 janvier sonne comme une victoire :

l'ensemble des actes de l'IVG sera remboursé à 100% dés le 1er avri 2017 !!

La prise en charge à 100% de l'acte lui-même était déjà en vigueur depuis 2013 mais pas les actes autour de l'IVG (consultations, analyses, échographies...) . Et ce, pour toutes les femmes sans distinctions de ressources ou d'âge.

 

 

Le projet de loi de modernisation du système de santé, voté en décembre, comprend aussi d'autres mesures destinées à améliorer l'accès à l’IVG.

On pense notamment à la suppression du délai de réflexion d'une semaine, imposé jusqu'ici, et au renforcement de l'offre de proximité.

Ainsi les sages-femmes pourront réaliser des IVG médicamenteuses et les centres de santé des IVG instrumentales,

Une campagne d'information renforcée a été lancée

avec un numéro national d’information (0800.08.11.11)

une campagne d’information, intitulée IVG, mon corps, mon choix, mon droit, et un système de référencement performant pour le site IVG ministériel.

 

Gageons que ces nouvelles mesures réaffirme haut et fort le droit inaliénable des femmes à disposer de leur propre corps et d'elles même face à l’obscurantisme venu d’ailleurs.


Joanne Courbet  pour DayNewsWorld

 

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DEJOUONS LE CAMBRIOLAGE !

Nous le savons tous, les voleurs ne prennent pas de vacances, encore moins pendant la haute saison. Résidences secondaires, maisons isolées ou biens immobiliers inoccupés, personne n’est épargné !! Sachons déjà que l'on peut sur le site du ministère de l’Intérieur de télécharger un formulaire pour s’inscrire à l’opération tranquillité vacances. Le document complété,déposons le à la gendarmerie la plus proche.

Au total, chaque jour, huit heures sont consacrées au bon fonctionnement de l’opération.

Mais restons vigilants, les cambrioleurs ont leurs techniques . A nous de les déjouer !!!

Des gens rentrent dans les immeubles en journée et collent leurs oreilles aux portes pour écouter s’il y a du bruit dans l’appartement : montrons que ça vit pour faire croire à une présence en programmant lumière ou musique.

On guette les boites aux lettres : profitons du voisin présent pour qu'il lève le courrier. A charge de revanche.

Ouvrir de temps à autre les volets ou étendre un peu de linge dans le jardin si c'est une maison ...

Tout est bon pour essayer de dissuader les plus malveillants et déjouer les repérages que les cambrioleurs dans un premier temps en effectuent !

Les alarmes de protection à base de caméras par exemple va réduire leur temps pour rentrer dans la maison ou l’appartement et ressortir avec des biens.

L’été, les voleurs ne sont pas qu’à l’affût des maisons.

Un autre terrain de prédilection :les voitures. C’est le vol à la roulotte. Alors évitons les mauvaises surprises et enlevons du véhicule tous les sacs et autres objets de valeurs. Une tentation de moins pour les voleurs !

Car les cambrioleurs cherchent ce qui s’écoule facilement : Argent, bijoux, ordinateurs portables, téléphones portables, tablettes et à la limite consoles de jeu mais pas de gros objets qui nécessitent une grosse logistique. Ils emportent avec eux tout ce qui est facile à transporter et qui de plus se revend vite.

Pour ce qui est des méthodes de braquage, elles sont des plus simples, avec un matériel peu élaboré . De façon violente défonçage des portes blindées et si une porte ou une fenêtre demandent trop de temps, on passe à une autre cible...

Larry Ricky pour DayNewsWorld

 

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AGRESSION DE TOURISTES DEVANT LEUR HOTEL PAR DES MALFAITEURS ENGAGOULES!

 

Attendre des navettes pour rejoindre l'aéroport de Roissy devient dangereux pour les touristes. En effet pas moins de 20 touristes ont été agressés et dévalisés devant leur hôtel situé dans la commune de Roissy-en-France (Val-d'Oise), lorsqu'au moins deux véhicules sont arrivés

Gagoulés, vêtus de noir et munis de gaz lacrymogène ils ont sauté de leur véhicule pour dépouiller des touristes Français, Américains et Marocains qui attendaient la navette pour l'aéroport.

Revient-on au temps des diligences régulièrement agressées par des bandits de petits chemins ?

Comment peut-on tolérer de telles agressions lâches en France ?

Et une image de plus en plus écornée pour les touristes étrangers ?!

 

Les hôtels situés aux abords de Roissy comme les axes routiers entre l'aéroport et Paris sont régulièrement le théâtre de telles agressions !!!

La section de recherches de Versailles et la brigade de recherches de Montmorency sont saisies de l'enquête.

Le laxisme de la justice rend toute impunité à ces actes odieux ! Que cela cesse une bonne fois pour toutes en ayant une justice à la hauteur!!!

Joanne Courbet pour DayNewsWorld

 

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ALERTE ORAGES

DANS 8 DEPARTEMENTS DU NORD

Averses de grêles dans les départements concernés.

Ces départements sont l'Aisne, les Ardennes, le Nord, L'Oise, le Pas-de-Calais, la Seine-Maritime, la Somme, et le Val-d'Oise.

Une dépression remontant du golfe de Gascogne versla Manche avec les fortes chaleurs de ces derniers jours, une forte dégradation orageuse

Ailleurs les températures seront très élevées avec des maximales qui L'accalmie est ensuite assez rapide en début de nuit.e son côté,

Météo France a aussi placé huit départements du nord de la France en alerte orange aux orages: l'Oise, la Somme, l'Aisne, les Ardennes et la Marne, la Seine-Maritime, le Nord et le-Pas de-Calais.

L'alerte commence à partir de 16 heures et devrait prendre fin dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi.

Les températures élevées avec des maximales atteignant les 35 degrés dans la vallée du Rhône et en Ile-de-France sont également caniculaires dans 8 départements placés en vigilance orange :

départements d'Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes et de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté en raison des fortes chaleurs: l'Ain, l'Allier, l'Isère, le Jura, la Loire, le Puy de Dôme, le Rhône et la Saône-et-Loire.

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

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AU MOINS DEUX DECES DE MINEURS

PAR « LEAN »

LES COCKTAIL A LA CODEINE

UNE MODE DANGEREUSE CHEZ NOS ADOS

Au moins deux mineurs sont décédés après avoir pris ce cocktail aujourd’hui dénommé "lean""La codéine, ça fait planer." Cédant à une "mode", de plus en plus d’adolescents consomment des cocktails à base de codéine, détournée en drogue . Mais il ne sont pas conscients sur les conséquences d’une surconsommation de médicaments : surconsommation qui peut entraîner la mort par overdose.

La codéine est un antidouleur de la même famille que l’opium. Il est aujourd’hui disponible en vente libre en France sous forme de sirops contre la toux et en comprimés (antalgiques), si la dose ne dépasse pas 30 mg par comprimé.

Apparus il y a quelques années sous le nom de "purple drank", ces "boissons-défonce" à la codéine sont redevenues populaires aujourd’hui, notamment sur les réseaux sociaux, sous le nom de "lean".

Un mélange composé de sirop contre la toux et de soda, après en avoir entendu parler "par le bouche-à-oreille".

Selon l’Observatoire français des drogues et des toxicomanies (OFDT), qui n’a pas encore de données quantitatives sur le phénomène, "les observations de terrain permettent de constater une augmentation des consommations chez les jeunes des médicaments codéinés et on note un regain d’intérêt pour le 'lean’ sur les forums de discussion sur internet".

"La consommation de codéine est considérée par la plupart des jeunes comme totalement anodine car il s’agit de médicaments. Ils ignorent le risque de surdose et d’hospitalisation et cette consommation est valorisée car le phénomène vient des Etats-Unis et a été mis en avant dans certains morceaux de hip-hop"a déclaré Agnès Cadet Taïrou, épidémiologiste et spécialiste de la veille sur les phénomènes émergents à l’OFDT.

L’Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament (ANSM) a récemment annoncé réfléchir aux moyens de "restreindre l’accès" aux médicaments contenant de la codéine.Depuis le début de l’année, l’ANSM a reçu cinq signalements d’utilisation abusive de codéine chez des mineurs, dont deux ont entraîné le décès. "pas exhaustifs : il est fort probable qu’il y ait d’autres cas pas déclarés"

Et ces chiffres ne sont , explique Nathalie Richard, directrice adjointe du pôle de l’ANSM chargé des antalgiques et des stupéfiants.

Selon Maitena Milhet, chargée d’étude à l’OFDT et auteure d’une enquête qualitative "Jeunes et médicaments psychotropes" publiée en mai 2016, "la mode" des cocktails codéinés chez les jeunes en France "est à relier à la consommation très élevée de médicaments par la population en général".

Comme on le sait la France se situe parmi les pays les plus consommateurs de médicaments en Europe. Pour la consommation de médicaments contre l’anxiété ou l’insomnie par exemple, elle se place au deuxième rang derrière l’Espagne, selon un rapport cette année de l’ANSM.

Jenny Chase pour DayNewsWorld
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AFFAIRE GREGORY:

LA HAINE REGNE AU SEIN DE LA FAMILLE

Murielle Bolle mise en examen en enlèvement.

Ce témoin clé a été mis en examen après son audition auprès de la juge Claire Barbier jeudi. Elle était entendue pour complicité d'assassinat.

Murielle Bolle a été mise en examen jeudi pour enlèvement. Le matin cette témoin clé de l'affaire Grégory a été déférée à Dijon, puis présentée à la juge qui instruit le dossier, Claire Barbier. Agée aujourd'hui de 48 ans, elle avait été interpellée mercredi à son domicile de Granges-sur-Vologne (Vosges) et conduite dans des locaux de la gendarmerie à Saint-Etienne-lès-Remiremont, pour être interrogée une nouvelle fois sur la mort de Grégory Villemin, retrouvé mort à 4 ans dans la Vologne.

Murielle Bolle était entendue pour complicité d'assassinat. Selon son avocat, interrogé avant son audition, le seul «élément nouveau» abordé lors de cette garde à vue, reprise plus de 32 ans plus tard, sont les déclarations d'un cousin éloigné à qui Murielle Bolle aurait affirmé que la version incriminant Bernard Laroche était vraie. Ce témoin aurait indiqué aux enquêteurs que Murielle Bolle avait été molestée par des membres de sa famille, en 1984, pour revenir sur ses aveux. « un de ces témoins serait néanmoins allé plus loin très récemment, assurant sur procès-verbal que l’adolescente avait été molestée par des membres de sa famille dans la nuit du 5 au 6 novembre 1984 pour revenir sur ses aveux. ».

"Elle a paru déstabilisée mais elle n’a pas vacillé, indique une source proche du dossier. Elle a vigoureusement démenti cette version."

Des témoignages ont assuré que Murielle Bolle aurait été victime de pressions : «Il est constant que Murielle Bolle a subi des pressions inadmissibles imputables à son entourage familial pour l’amener à des rétractations au début de l’enquête»

«Il est acquis également que (...) Murielle Bolle a été surveillée et contrôlée de façon constante par son entourage pour qu’elle persiste dans la voie des déclarations contraires à la vérité», poursuit l'avocat mulhousien. «Depuis quelques jours, la vérité est en marche dans le dossier Villemin. (...) Les morceaux du puzzle se mettent en place progressivement et je réaffirme avec beaucoup de force ma confiance en l’issue des investigations menées par la juridiction de Dijon», conclut l’avocat !!

A suivre ...
Carl Delsey cpour DayNewsWorld

 

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AFFAIRE GREGORY

MURIELLE BOLLE

DEFEREE A DIJON EN VUE D'ETRE

PRESENTEE A UN JUGE

En 1984, Murielle Bolle avait mis en cause son beau-frère, Bernard Laroche, avant de se rétracter.

Le couple Jacob déjà mis en examen. Murielle Bolle est la quatrième personne placée en garde à vue depuis deux semaines dans cette affaire aux multiples rebondissements. Murielle Bolle n'est pas ressortie libre.

Elle serait un témoin clé de l'affaire Grégory.

La belle-soeur de Bernard Laroche est déférée au devant le parquet général avant d'être présentée à la juge d'instruction qui instruit le dossier au tribunal de Dijon.

La juge qui instruit le dossier, Claire Barbier, pourrait la mettre en examen ou la placer sous le statut de témoin assisté.

L'adolescente avait alors été à l'origine de l'arrestation du premier suspect, son beau-frère Bernard Laroche dont les époux Jacob étaient proches, en livrant un témoignage accablant à son encontre, avant de se rétracter brusquement.

Le lendemain, la jeune fille se rétractait devant la presse et assurait avoir menti sous la pression des gendarmes. “Il y a un gendarme qui a levé la voix et puis j’ai eu peur. Puis ils m’ont dit que Bernard Laroche avait fait ça et j’ai montré pareil (sic). Bernard est innocent. Mon beau-frère est innocent", s'est-elle alors exclamée. Ces derniers soupçonnent eux le rôle de son entourage dans son démenti. Aujourd'hui, elle affirme ne pas s'être rendu compte des conséquences de ses dires sur sa famille.

Cette femme de 48 ans, témoin clé de l'affaire en 1984, a été interpellée mercredi à son domicile de Granges-sur-Vologne pour un interrogatoireplus de 32 ans après la mort du petit garçon de 4 ans.

Ayant déjà entendu Murielle Bolle en 1984 sous le régime de la garde à vue, les enquêteurs n'avaient à leur disposition qu'un crédit d'heures limité. Au cours des auditions, cette femme, aujourd'hui âgé de 48 ans, a "répondu aux questions", a affirmé son avocat.Ce dernier ayant été remis en liberté début 1985 a été tué par son cousin Jean-Marie Villemin, le père de Grégory.

32 ans après, Murielle Bolle est entendue depuis mercredi en garde à vue pour "des faits de complicité d'assassinat, non-dénonciation de crime", a déclaré son avocat, Me Jean-Paul Teissonnière. « Le travail fait par ceux qui ont préparé l’interrogatoire est désespérant, a déploré ce jeudi matin Me Teissonnière. Le niveau de l’enquête est très bas. Je m’attendais à quelques éléments qui seraient susceptibles de relancer d’une manière ou d’une autre l’enquête, manifestement ce n’est pas le cas. »

Comme les autres protagonistes dans cette affaire, Murielle Bolle donne aux enquêteurs des réponses évasives souvent par l'absence de souvenir, nuance toutefois une source proche de l'enquête.

"Elle ne répond pas de façon évasive, elle répond de façon très lacunaire, martèle l'avocat. Le mode d’expression de Murielle Bolle, ce sont des phrases très courtes."Et de poursuivre: "Souvent elle dit qu’elle ne se souvient pas, il y a des problèmes de mémoire qui peuvent exister. »

D'ailleurs comment ne pas comprendre que la mémoire retravaille, redéfinit, réinvente à chaque instant ? Ce travail de la mémoire ne doit pas être nié !!

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

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UNE JEUNE FILLE TUEE

A L'ARME BLANCHE PAR

UNE AUTRE ADOLESCENTE A MARSEILLE

Une nouvelle rixe a éclaté dans le 2e arrondissement de Marseille, dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi. Une jeune fille de 17 ans a été tuée, d'un coup de couteau à l'abdomen, par une autre adolescente du même âge.

L'agresseur a pris la fuite, avant d'être interpellé par la police. Selon La Provence, la victime a été touchée au cœur par un coup de couteau. A l'arrivée des secours, celle-ci n'a pu être réanimée.

La victime était en arrêt cardio-respiratoire à l'arrivée des marins-pompiers, qui ne sont pas parvenus à la réanimer.

Les faits se sont produits rue Gourjon, dans le quartier de la Joliette, dans le IIe arrondissement.

Les deux jeunes femmes ont eu un différend dimanche vers 22 h 40, indique une source policière.

L'auteure présumée est allée chercher un couteau chez elle avant de revenir frapper l'adolescente. Une rixe entre plusieurs jeunes filles sur la voie publique aurait eu lieu avant l'agression mortelle.

Les policiers ont procédé aux premières constatations et au prélèvements des indices. Rapidement identifiée, l'auteure présumée du meurtre a été arrêtée vers 0 h 30 et placée en garde à vue.

Le mobile de cette violente agression n'a pas encore été déterminé.

Les enquêteurs de la Sûreté départementale des Bouches-du-Rhône ont été saisis.

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

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J'AI TUE LA PRINCESSE

DIANA !!!

John Hopkin a 80 ans … il est sorti Mercredi dernier d'un Hôpital de Londres dans lequel on vient de lui dire qu'il ne lui restait plus que quelques semaines à vivre ….

John Hopkin vient d'avoir envie de soulager sa conscience avant de mourir …

John Hopkin est un agent retraité du MI 5 pour lequel il a travaillé pendant 38 ans ….en tant qu'opérateur !

Ingénieur en mécanique et expert en munition , M. Hopkin affirme avoir une vaste expérience en méthodes pas très conventionnelles pour « infliger la mort et la destruction » . Il prétend avoir été souvent utilise pour assassiner discrètement des individus considérés comme une menace pour la sécurité intérieure du Royaume Uni.

Ente 1973 et 1999 il aurait souvent été utilisé comme tueur à gages par l'agence.

Parmi « les victimes » …. la princesse DIANA ..morte le 30 août 1997, qui selon lui a été la seule femme qu'il ait assassinée.... sur ordre direct du Prince Philip.  Selon lui, la princesse Diana mettait en danger la Couronne Britannique

« La famille royale avait la preuve que la Princesse Diana qui avait obtenu le divorce en août 1996 ,qui connaissait trop de secrets royaux, et qui avait une énorme rancune , avait l'intention de déballer en public tout en présentant toutes sortes de prétentions sauvages (?) »

C'est alors que « son patron » lui fit savoir qu'elle devait mourir .

« J'ai obéi aux ordres » avoue-t-il aujourd'hui , soit 20 ans plus tard et alors que ses jours sont comptés.

Il a fallu « bien ficeler l'histoire, bien la gérer surtout ».

C'est la raison pour laquelle ce assassinat a ressemblé à un accident ...

Pour arriver à ses fins, le MI 5 a du s'assurer de la complicité de la Presse .

Aujourd'hui , John Hopkin déclare que « les journalistes britanniques répondent tous aux rédacteurs, qui eux mêmes répondent aux oligarques qui eux mêmes à leur tour sont tous les chevaliers servants de la famille royale anglaise , une famille criminelle du Palais de Buckingham » . Il n'y a pas de presse libre en Grande Bretagne ajoute t il ..

Pour ces révélations et malgré son état de santé , il s'attend à être mis en examen , car il reste le témoin le plus important de l'affaire , après que son chef est décédé d'une crise cardiaque en 2000.

L’enquête prendra cependant selon lui une éternité et sera très compliquée...

En effet, le Prince Philip qu'il décrit comme un psychopathe ne pourra pas être inquiété selon lui …

John Hopkin que la famille royale pourrait poursuivre pour haute trahison ,pense que cette dernière pourrait concevoir un sort horrible pour lui … menace qui lui a fait grand peur pendant deux décennies , mais qui ne l’atteint plus aujourd'hui, compte tenu de son état de santé

Clara Maybac pour DayNewsWorld

 

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ETTOUFANTTE CANICULE

Canicule : 16 départements en alerte, près de 40°C attendus

ALERTE CANICULE EN FRANCE!!!

Revu à 17H20 Météo : 16 départements placés en vigilance orange "canicule"

La vigilance, qui a commencé dimanche à 16 heures, concerne une partie de la façade atlantique, Paris et trois départements de l'Ile-de-France.

Le mercure va très rapidement grimper. S'oriente-t-on vers un épisode de canicule ? Tout dépendra des températures nocturnes.

Il va faire très chaud. La France métropolitaine va connaître, à partir de dimanche, un pic de chaleur, indique Météo France, vendredi 16 juin. « Ce pic de chaleur va durer plusieurs jours sur tout l'Hexagone, et au moins jusqu'à vendredi pour la partie sud , selon le prévisionniste Frédéric Nathan. Il faudra surveiller de près les températures nocturnes », ajoute-t-il, interrogé sur le risque de canicule. En effet il y a une canicule si les journées et les nuits chaudes persistent (au-delà de 20°C, voire plus selon les départements) plus de deux jours d'affilée.

Dès ce week-end, les températures auront "un caractère estival", et dès dimanche les températures atteindront 31-32 °C au nord, 34 °C dans le sud-ouest. Localement il devrait faire plus de 35 °C. Lundi on peut s'attendre en moyenne à 33 °C au nord, et au moins 34 °C au sud, et mardi 33 °C partout. Le mercure descendra légèrement au Nord en milieu de semaine, mais restera au-dessus des moyennes de saison.

La présence de nuages élevés qui bloque la chaleur, et un vent de nord-ouest faisant pression en retombant des Cévennes expliquent que dans le Sud-est les températures restent autour des 25° C la nuit.

"On a davantage de pics de chaleur qu'avant, et ces dernières années, on bat davantage de records de chaleur que de froid, selon le prévisionniste. Qu'on batte régulièrement ces records, et ce plus qu'il y a 100 ans, c'est caractéristique du changement climatique."

Cette fois pas de doute la canicule s'nstalle au moins jusqu'à jeudi.le 27 mai 2017.

. Météo France a placé seize départements en vigilance orange "canicule" depuis 16 heures, dimanche 18 juin. Cela concerne une partie de la façade atlantique, Paris et trois départements de l'Ile-de-France.

Dans le détail, les départements concernés sont : la Charente, la Charente-Maritime, les Deux-Sèvres, la Dordogne, la Gironde, la Haute-Vienne, les Hauts-de-Seine, les Landes, le Lot-et-Garonne, le Maine-et-Loire, Paris, les Pyrénées-Atlantiques, la Seine-Saint-Denis, le Val-de-Marne, la Vendée et la Vienne.

Les températures maximales atteignent jusqu'à 36 °C, dimanche Les fortes chaleurs vont s'intensifier en début de semaine prochaine. Lundi, les températures de l'après-midi atteindront entre 34 et 37 °C sur les départements en vigilance orange. Des Landes aux Charentes, le thermomètre pourrait même frôler les 40 °C à l'ombre. Selon Météo France, la canicule devrait persister jusqu'à jeudi.

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld
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TERRIFIANTE AFFAIRE GREGORY

ENFIN "SUR LE CHEMIN DE LA VERITE"

33 ANS APRES? Réactualisé le 17 juin

Jean-Jacques Bosc, le procureur général de la Cour d'appel de Dijon, a organisé une conférence de presse, ce jeudi après-midi.

Il a expliqué ce qui avait conduit les enquêteurs à interpeller, ce mercredi, Marcel Jacob, l'oncle maternel de Jean-Marie Villemin - le père du petit Grégory - et sa femme Jacqueline qui pourraient être impliqués dans l'assassinat du petit garçon de quatre ans en 1984.

La consternation règne à Granges-Aumontzey, commune où ont eu lieu plusieurs arrestations .

Les propos du procureur général ont révélé que d'autres personnes ont été impliqué dans l'affaire Grégory.

Le 16 octobre 1984, Grégory Villemin, âgé de quatre ans, disparaissait, il jouait dans le jardin de la maison de ses parents à Lépanges-sur-Vologne, dans la même vallée où a été arrêté le couple.

Le corps de l’enfant noyé avait été retrouvé quelques heures plus tard dans la Vologne.

Cette vilaine affaire fascine toujours autant les Français alors qu'elle date de 1984. Pourquoi?

Certes comme bien d'autres , elle est restée non résolue, mais cette affaire familiale de rivalité, haine et jalousie conduisant au meurtre d'un enfant innocent de 4 ans touche à l'imagerie populaire "

.C'est un enfant. Tout le monde a eu son âge et peut donc se projeter. Ceux qui sont parents peuvent aussi se dire: 'Ça aurait pu arriver à notre enfant'",selon la sociologue

Plus troublant encore, l'image sordide d'un petit corps ligoté et livide sorti de l'eau contrastant avec la photo du petit garçon vivant. Un contraste saisissant "qui heurte l'imaginaire collectif et renforce la rhétorique de l'insécurité", estime Lucie Jouvet-Legrand.

SUITE: Le grand-oncle et la grand-tante du petit Grégory sont inculpés pour enlèvement et séquestration suivie de mort. Interrogés par la police, ils ont nié les faits qui leur sont reprochés, mais ils n'ont pas d'alibi confirmé d'après le procureur. Ils sont actuellement en détention provisoire.
Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

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DISPARITION D'UN AVION MILITAIRE EN BIRMANIE

Un Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 de l'armée birmane

Un avion militaire avec 116 personnes à bord, dont des familles de soldats, a disparu mercredi des écrans radars en Birmanie, et des débris de l'appareil ont été retrouvés en mer.

Il avait décollé un peu plus tôt de la ville de Myeik, dans le sud de la Birmanie, où étaient basés les militaires et leurs familles, et devait atterrir à Rangoun, la capitale économique.

«On a désormais retrouvé en mer des pièces de l'avion», à 218 kilomètres de la ville de Dawei (sud-est de la Birmanie), a déclaré dans la soirée à l'AFP Naing Lin Zaw, un responsable de l'armée de l'air.

«La communication a été perdue soudainement vers 13h35» (3h05 HE), a annoncé un peu plus tôt le général Min Aung Hlaing, chef de l'armée, sur sa page Facebook.

«Des opérations de recherche et de sauvetage sont en cours, avec l'appui d'avions et de navires militaires», a ajouté le chef de l'armée.

«Nous penchons pour un incident technique. La météo était bonne», a ajouté ce responsable, alors que l'entretien du matériel militaire, dans ce pays qui reste l'un des plus pauvres d'Asie du Sud-Est, reste problématique.

Ce n'est malheureusement le premier accident de transport en Birmanie.

pays qui s'est ouvert au monde à partir de 2001, après la dissolution de la junte militaire qui a isolé le pays pendant des décennies.

Des naufrages meurtriers sont fréquent également en Birmanie de nombreuses personnes vivant en bordure de rivières et se déplaçant dans des bateaux surchargés.

Carl Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

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ALERTE ORANGE METEO

DANS LE SUD-OUEST.

Encore clément ce dimanche matin, mais attention à l’évolution dans l’après-midi.

Météo France a placé 22 départements du Sud-Ouest en vigilance orange aux orages jusqu’à lundi matin 6 heures . Il s'agit des départements suivants : Ariège, Aude, Aveyron, Charente, Charente-Maritime, Corrèze, Creuse, Dordogne, Haute-Garonne, Gers, Gironde, Hérault, Landes, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne,Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Hautes-Pyrénées, Deux-Sèvres, Tarn, Tarn-et-Garonne, Vienne et Haute-Vienne.

La ligne orageuse s’est constituée dans le golfe de Gascogne et s'approchera du grand quart sud-ouest de la France jusqu’au Golfe du Lion en début d'après-midi.

Les perturbations sont attendues en début d’après-midi, sur la côte ouest, jusqu’à atteindre la Méditerranée en soirée. Elles devraient traverser l’Aquitaine, le Poitou-Charentes, le Limousin et le Midi-Pyrénées

Dans l'après-midi, les pluies orageuses arrivées par l’Atlantique se renforcent de l’Aquitaine au Limousin en s'accompagnant de puissantes rafales de vent jusqu'à 90-100 km/h le long du littoral.

En soirée, ces pluies orageuses et de puissantes rafales de vent vont des Pyrénées à l’Auvergne jusqu’au Berry et au val de Loire. Les pluies orageuses se renforcent sur le haut-Languedoc et les Cévennes.Arrivée de ces fortes pluies précédée de puissants vent sud à 80-100 km/h entre les monts du Vivarais, le massif du Pilat, la région stéphanoise et les monts du Lyonnais. Des chutes de grêle significatives par endroits à prévoir également.

Dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi, ces fortes pluies orageuses atteignent l’est du Rhône et de la Saône. Entre la basse vallée du Rhône, les préAlpes du sud et la Provence, orages et vents forts.

Lundi matin, des orages éclatent en côte d’Azur et il neige abondamment dans les Alpes dès 700 mètres accompagné du blizzard en altitude.

Après le passage de la ligne orageuse, des pluies moins fortes persisteront.

Les autorités conseillent de :

– Mettre à l’abri les objets sensibles au vent

– Ne pas s’abriter sous les arbres

– Eviter les promenades en forêt et les sorties en montagne

– Eviter d’utiliser le téléphone et les appareils électriques

– Signaler sans attendre les éventuels départs de feux

Joanne Courbet pour DayNewsWorld

 

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Bonne fete du 1er Mai a tous.

Bonne fête

du 1 er Mai à tous!

Le paradoxe de cette fête

c'est que l'on ne travaille pas !

Sauf certains.

Paul Emison pour DayNewsWorld
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TERRIFIANT RECIT DU MEURTRE DES TROADEC

Le suspens sur la terrifiante affaire des TROADEC semble prendre fin : Hubert Caouissin a décrit froidement et méticuleusement son quadruple meurtres aux enquêteurs il y a quelques jours à peine. Son récit, glaçant s'étire sur 17 pages, dont le contenu est révélé par Le Télégramme jeudi.

Le drame : le meurtre d'une famille entière les Troadec d'Orvault, en périphérie de Nantes .

Durée : trois heures, le 17 février dernier

Le mobile : on le connaissait déjà, une histoire d'héritage, plus précisément des lingots et des pièces d'or, dont sa femme et sa belle-mère aurait été privées.

Le meurtrier : Hubert Caouissin, beau-frère des Troadec .

Le Télégramme relate ce que le beau-frère de Pascal Troadec a raconté, ce jour-là, aux enquêteurs.

Le fameux soir 17 février, à Orvault (Loire-Atlantique), il profite d’une porte ouverte par Brigitte Troadec pour pénétrer à 23h30 dans la maison et se cacher dans la buanderie. Mais les époux ne dorment pas et entendant du bruit ils descendent au rez-de-chaussée pour se retrouvent nez à nez à leur beau-frère.

La suite : Les deux hommes s’empoignent. Pascal Troadec prend un pied de biche mais Hubert Caouissin parvient à l’en déposséder et frappe les deux époux. Brigitte Troadec se réfugie dans la salle de bains, en vain.

Les enfants, alertés par le bruit, sont eux aussi descendus. Sébastien, 21 ans, reçoit un coup en pleine tête. Charlotte, 18 ans, est tuée dans sa chambre où elle s’était réfugiée. Le beau-frère redescend, achève Pascal puis Brigitte.

Trois heures et un pied-de biche auront suffi à perpétrer une telle boucherie.

Le meurtrier aura eu besoin de deux nuits pour tout nettoyer. Couvert de sang, il rentre chez lui à la ferme qu’il partage avec sa compagne Lydie Troadec à Pont-de-Buis (Finistère). Brûle une partie des corps dans le chauffage central à bois. Il enfouit restes un peu partout dans les 27 hectares de la propriété. Il revient plus tard afin de nettoyer la scène de crime les deux nuits suivantes. Telle est la version d'Hubert Caouissin

Kate White pour DayNewsWorld

 

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UNE SPECTACULAIRE DEFLAGRATION LORS

DU CARNAVAL A VILLEPINTE

Une spectaculaire explosion est survenue durant le carnaval à Villepinte (Seine-St-Denis) après qu'une personne a mis le feu au "bonhomme carnaval" .

C'est une effigie en bois et en paille qui est brûlée selon la tradition à l'issue du défilé organisé pour les enfants de la ville.

"Le dispositif était en contreplaqué, et quand il a été allumé à l'aide d'essence, il y a eu un effet "blast"", a expliqué une source policière. "

Des flammèches et des morceaux de bois ont été projetés, blessant plusieurs personnes dont la maire, qui a reçu un projectile à la jambe", selon cette source.

Les pompiers ont mobilisé130 hommes pour évacuer les participants au défilé, auquel avaient assisté un millier d’enfants.

18 personnes ont été blessées ce samedi, dont cinq gravement parmi lesquelles enfants blessés, dont un grièvement.

. C'est un "accident imprévisible", a souligné l'entourage de la maire (Les Républicains) Martine Valleton.

Le parquet de Bobigny a ouvert une enquête pour blessures involontaires.

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

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CE QUI NOUS ATTEND AU 1ER AVRIL !

Après une période d'essai de trois mois, le label Nutriscore entre en vigueur.

Un nouveau pictogramme coloré va décorer les emballage des produits.

Deviennent obligatoire à compter de ce 1er avril et l'inscription sur les étiquettes des produits de l’origine des viandes (les pays de naissance, élevage et abattage des animaux) dans les plats préparés et la provenance du lait (lieu de collecte et de conditionnement ou de transformation), dans les produits laitiers.

Les étiquetages nutritionnels Nutri-score , vignette qui va du vert à l'orange foncé, et de A à E,sera apposée en fonction de la qualité nutritionnelle du produit. Petit bémol :. Cette signalétique, choisie par le ministère de la Santé, est facultative.

Les cinq niveaux doivent permettre de classer les produits selon leur teneur en matière grasse, sel et sucre.

Transparence sur les contrôles d'hygiène des restaurants.

Voici disponibles sur Internet les résultats des contrôles d'hygiène effectués dans les restaurants, cantines et supermarchés. Pour cela allez sur le site www.alim-confiance.gouv.fr.

Halte aux arnaques en cas d’intervention d’urgence

Fin (peut-être) des tarifs approximatifs, faussement déclarées et des abus.

Pour lutter contre les tarifs approximatifs, des devis faits à l'emporte-pièce, des heures de nuit de certains plombiers, serruriers et autres professionnels qui interviennent au domicile, la loi prévoit que ces intervenants indique clairement leurs prix sur leurs publicités ou sites Internet. Les informations sur le taux horaire de main-d’œuvre (toutes taxes comprises), les modalités de décompte du temps estimé, les prix des prestations forfaitaires, les frais de déplacement, ou le caractère gratuit ou payant du devis, « doivent également être aisément accessibles sur tout espace de communication en ligne dédié au professionnel ». Paru en janvier au Journal Officiel , l'arrêté leur impose aussi de donner aux clients un devis qui récapitulent toutes ces informations avant le lancement des travaux.

Fin de la trêve hivernale.

Après cinq mois d'arrêt, les expulsions locatives vont reprendre.

Cette année, onze villes de banlieue parisienne ont pris des arrêtés « anti mise à la rue ». Pour ces communes, « Il ne s’agit plus de s’opposer aux expulsions mais de s’assurer que, lors de l’expulsion, le relogement des familles aura été assuré par l’Etat au regard de ses engagements internationaux et nationaux ». La publication d’une circulaire sur les dispositifs de prévention des expulsions locatives a été adressée aux préfets. Ce texte « doit permettre d’amplifier la coordination des acteurs concernés pour inverser la tendance et limiter au maximum le recours à l’expulsion », selon le ministère.

Mais la fin du mois de mars marque aussi la fermeture de places d’hébergement ouvertes que pour les mois d’hiver. Avec la création de 5.000 places supplémentaires le nombre s'élèvera à à plus de 125.000 places d’hébergement à la sortie de l’hiver.

Diminution des tarifs du gaz.

Les tarifs réglementés du gaz, appliqués par l'opérateur. Engie pour quelques 7 millions de consommateurs en France, baisseront de 0,73% en moyenne au 1er avril. C'est la Commission de régulation de l'énergie (CRE) qui est en charge de l'encadrement des prix du gaz. Les variations des prix du gaz sont en corrélation pour partie avec celui du pétrole;

La transparence des tarifs des agences immobilières

À partir de ce samedi, les agences immobilières doivent mieux informer les clients sur leurs tarifs. Toutes leurs prestations ont l'obligation d'être affichés sur leurs sites Internet et en vitrine. Sur les annonces de vente, doit également être mentionné le montant des honoraires à la charge de l'acheteur.

Pour les biens à louer, les annonces doivent expliquer clairement les frais à la charge du locataire (le prix TTC du loyer, l'éventuel dépôt de garantie, les honoraires d'agence, ou encore les modalités de décompte des charges locatives)

Tout ceci pour vérifier le respect du plafonnement des honoraires de location créé par la loi ALUR" (Accès au Logement et un Urbanisme Rénové)

Des prestations sociales en légère hausse.

.Un certain nombre d'allocations et minimas sociaux vont augmenter, très faiblement, au 1er avril, en alignement avec l'inflation: un +0,28%.

C'est le cas de la prime d'activité, du RSA (Revenu de solidarité active), de l'AAH (Allocation adulte handicapé), de l'ASS (Allocation de solidarité spécifique), des pensions d'invalidité, de l'Aspa (Allocation de solidarité aux personnes âgées), ou encore de l'Ata (Allocation temporaire d'attente). Les pensions de retraites ne sont, elles, pas concernées.

Kate White pour DayNewsWorld

 

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SPECTACULAIRE BRAQUAGE DE BIJOUERIE A MONACO

QUATRE INTERPELLATIONS

En plein après-midi de samedi trois hommes, attendus par un complice dans une voiture, ont braqué la bijouterie Cartier située au coeur de la Principauté de Monaco. place du Casino,dans le luxueux centre du quartier de Monte-Carlo .«Il n'y a eu ni tir, ni blessés, ni prise d'otage», avaient affirmé les autorités judiciaires du Rocher.

Immédiatement la zone a été bouclée par les forces de l'ordre monégasques

«L'intervention rapide des services de police a permis d'interpeller sans effusion (de sang) un des trois malfaiteurs et de récupérer une arme», ajoute la même source.

Le bouclage de la Principauté a également empêché toute fuite en voiture des deux autres individus et de leur complice qui les attendait avec un véhicule», se félicite le parquet général. La voiture, incendiée par les malfaiteurs, a été retrouvée par la police.

L'arrestation d’un premier homme à Monaco a eu lieu juste après le hold-up tandis que trois autres ont été interpellés dans la nuit, dont deux à Monaco grâce au maintien du dispositif policier, et un quatrième en France, à Roquebrune-Cap-Martin (Alpes-Maritimes). Ces arrestations ont permis aux policiers de retrouver « une grande partie » du butin.

Les braquages à main armée de bijouteries sont peu fréquents à Monaco . Pourtant en 2012, quatre Lituaniens armés avaient dérobé des montres de collection, pour un montant proche de 200 000 euros dans une bijouterie de la principauté. Arrêtés ils ont été condamnés à des peines allant de 5 à 13 ans de prison.

Souvenons- nous également que la célèbre marque de luxe Cartier a été la cible de braqueurs également sur Côte d'azur à Cannes, en mai 2015, peu de jours avant l'ouverture du festival de Cannes.

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

 

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UN CRIME D'UNE SAUVAGERIE INOUIE DES TROADEC

POUR DES PIECES EN OR !

La mystérieuse disparition des quatre membres de la famille Troadec a été enfin résolue après une enquête longue et méticuleuse de plus de trois semaines. Elle est liée à un simple différend pour un héritage. Quatre membres d'une même famille sauvagement assassinés par le beau-frère, qui a reconnu en garde à vue les avoir tués à cause d'une "rancœur" liée au partage de pièces d'or d'un héritage!

Ce dernier a reconnu les avoir assassiné à l'aide d'un pied de biche. Charlotte et Sébastien Troadec ainsi que leurs parents, Brigitte et Pascal, ont donc été tués par Hubert Caouissin, le beau-frère de ce dernier. Pierre Sennès, volontairement ne s'appesantit pas sur le déroulement de la scène.

Il indique que le couple est d'abord frappé et tué puis enfants peu après. Les jours suivants , il aurait dépecé les corps pour en enterrer une partie et brûler l'autre,a déclaré à la presse le procureur de la République de Nantes, Pierre Sennès.

Le suspect Hubert Caouissin n'a pas de casier judiciaire. Un"soupçon" de "disparition de pièces d'or", lors de la succession du père de Pascal Troadec et de sa sœur Lydie l'aurait conduit à ce geste d'une sauvagerie inouï .Le conflit familial à l'origine du drame remonterait "aux années 2006-2007".

Le parquet de Nantes a requis la mise en examen du principal suspect pour "assassinats" et "atteinte à l'intégrité d'un cadavre", et son placement en détention provisoire.l.

Le parquet a également demandé la mise en examen et le placement sous écrou de Lydie Troadec pour "modification de l'état des lieux d'un crime et recel de cadavres".

Le procureur évoque une "scène criminelle d'une grande violence" qui s'est passée dans la nuit du 16 février .Beaucoup de sang appartenant à trois des quatre membres de la famille souillait toute la maison. Hubert Caouissin 'a quitté le pavillon d 'Orvault le lendemain matin pour rejoindre son domicile Pont-de-Buis et informer sa compagne du crime.

Le 17 février dans la soirée il retourne sur les lieux du crime pour "nettoyer" la maison. Le lendemain soir, il dépose les cadavres dans le véhicule de Sébastien Troadec, puis s'efforce pendant "les deux, trois jours qui suivent" de (les) faire disparaître".

Le magistrat a salué le "gros travail" réalisé par la centaine d'enquêteurs de la police judiciaire mobilisés sur cette "affaire hors normes".

"Il y a maintenant un autre enjeu dans ce dossier, c'est bien évidemment (...) de découvrir l'endroit où les corps ont pu être enterrés", a souligné Pierre Sennès.

Joanne Courbet  pour DayNewsWorld
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ETRANGE DISPARITION D'UNE FAMILLE

LES TRACES DE SANG APPARTIENNENT BIEN

AU TROADEC

« A la suite des résultats du laboratoire que nous avions sollicité en urgence pour analyser les  prélèvements sanguins, je vous confirme que les traces de sang retrouvées appartiennent aux membres de la famille, mais je ne souhaite pas donner plus d'éléments », a déclaré ce dimanche le procureur de la République de Nantes Pierre Sennès

Les prélèvements ADN ont mis moins de 48 heures à parler .Il s'agit bien de celui « de membres de la famille Troadec.»

Pascal, sa femme Brigitte et leurs deux enfants, Charlotte, 18 ans et Sébastien, 21 ans, n'ont plus donné signe de vie depuis le 16 février. La soeur de la mère de famille, originaire du Finistère, inquiète de ne plus avoir de nouvelles avait contacté la police. La famille disparue se compose d'un couple et leurs deux enfants : un fils de 21 ans et une fille de 18 ans. Le père, âgé de 49 ans, est un employé dans une PME spécialisée dans la fabrication d'enseignes lumineuses, à Orvault tandis que la mère travaille dans un centre des impôts à Nantes. Les deux enfants sont étudiants en BTS .

Le parquet a décidé samedi d'ouvrir une enquête pour homicides volontaires, enlèvements et séquestrations. En effet des éléments troublants au domicile du couple à Orvault, près de Nantes. amènent les enquêteurs à privilégier le drame intra-familial. Des détails ne laissent aucun doute : traces de sang essuyées sous l'escalier , absence de drap sur les lits des chambres, vaisselle non lavée dans l'évier, frigidaire plein , paire de chaussettes et téléphone maculés de sang dans un bureau de la maison...

L 'on sait peu de choses sur la famille Troadec . Des disputes assez fréquentes entre les parents aux dires des voisins interrogés dans le cadre de l'enquête et des épisodes dépressifs du père

Cependant une interrogation se porte sur le profil psychologique de Sébastien, l’aîné des deux enfants. Le jeune homme, âgé de 20 ans, est apparu comme «instable.» et aurait eu des soucis par le passé. Il aurait «pété les plombs», menaçant de mort des tiers.

Sébastien était étudiant en BTS informatique en Maine -et-Loire. Les perquisitions dans le logement respectif de chacun des deux enfants n'ont rien donné

Mais la voiture du jeune étudiant reste introuvable.

Les investigations se poursuivent donc actuellement en différents endroits du territoire national .

«Il n'est pas possible à ce stade de déterminer avec précision le déroulement des faits, les enquêteurs de la police judiciaire retenant toutes les hypothèses envisageables», a précisé le procureur.

Kelly Donaldson pour DayNewsWorld
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DROLE DE DEBAT POLITIQUE!!!

Tout le monde en parle: Guillaume Durand se fait traiter de con en direct que son émission matinale sur Radio Classique.

En effet le célèbre avocat Gilbert Collard lui rétorque par deux fois je vous prends pour un con.

Guillaume Durand lui a répondu cela ne me dérange pas du tout et avec son professionnalisme il a continué l'interview.

On se demande bien où vont nous conduire ces présidentielles

Mia Kennedy pour DayNewsWorld

 

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LA MERE DES ENFANTS TROADEC

SORT DE SON SILENCE

Après la reconnaissance par Hubert Caouissin des meurtres des quatre membres de la famille Troadec, c'est au tour de la mère de Pascal Troadec d'éclaircir le mystère de ce quadruple meurtre. Elle s'est confiée au Parisien par téléphone.

« Cette affaire terrifiante trouve son origine dans un trésor composé de lingots et de pièces d’or que mon mari avait caché dans le garage de notre maison », explique la mère, Roberte, au journal, confirmant ainsi le mobile présumé des meurtres.

Son mari, alors ex-artisan plâtrier, aurait trouvé en effectuant des travaux chez une cliente habitant

un immeuble du vieux quartier de Recouvrance, à Brest, un butin d'or.

Ce trésor se composerait de pièces et de lingots d'or. Son fils Pascal, à la mort de son père, aurait « subtilisé » le magot. Depuis ces faits sont nées les dissensions entre les deux enfants de Roberte, Pascal et Lidye. D’ailleurs selon les voisins des Troadec assassinés les repas familiaux se terminaient toujours par de violentes altercations.

Lydie, sa fille, est mise en examen pour avoir modifié la scène des crimes commis par son compagnon Hubert Caouissin . Sa compagne aurait aidé ce dernier à couvrir ses traces.

Actuellement Roberte, 76 ans, vit cloîtrée pour protéger son petit-fils, âgé de 8 ans de cette tragédie familiale.

A Roberte de conclure : «Cet or a brisé notre famille», «Je sais que j'ai perdu Pascal. Et que Lydie, sa sœur, ma fille, risque de ne jamais revenir à la maison."

Joanne Courbet DayNewsWorld

 

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DISPARITION DE MAELYS OU UN SUSPECT

QUI NIE TOUJOURS

Près de trois semaines après la disparition de Maëlys à Pont-de-Beauvoisin en Isère, l’enfant de 9 ans reste introuvable. Les nombreuses recherches menées autour de Pont-de-Beauvoisin, où la petite fille de 9 ans a été vue pour la dernière fois, n'ont donné aucun résultat pour l'instant.Vendredi matin, six patrouilles en voiture, dix gendarmes sur le terrain et douze membres de la cellule d'enquête étaient mobilisés à la recherche la petite fille.

Le principal suspect dans cette affaire, Nordahl L. a dû être transféré de la prison de Varces à celle de Saint-Quentin-Fallavier jeudi en raison de menaces de codétenus . Ancien militaire dans la marine, l'homme de 34 ans qui a été mis en examen et écroué le 3 septembre pour «enlèvement et séquestration», après la découverte d’une trace ADN appartenant à Maëlys sur le tableau de bord de son Audi A3, continue de nier son implication dans l’enlèvement de la fillette.

Plusieurs éléments troublants semblent pourtant l'accabler de jour en jour.

En effet dès le début de l’enquête, les enquêteurs avaient été interpellé par des griffures sur les bras et les jambes du suspect. Ce dernier a alors expliqué s'être égratigné en jardinant au milieu de framboisiers...

Puis dès le lendemain de la disparition de Maëlys, Nordahl L. a nettoyé son Audi A3 de fond en comble dans une station de lavage pendant une heure et demie en insistant beaucoup sur la portière avant côté passager et en lavant notamment son coffre avec un produit normalement réservé aux jantes qui a pour effet de tromper l’odorat des chiens. Mais le suspect a déclaré avoir lavé son véhicule en vue de le vendre. Ce qui aurait été confirmé par le potentiel acquéreur.

L’homme a fini par avouer après la découverte d’une trace ADN appartenant à Maëlys que la petite fille était montée dans son véhicule le soir de la fête, en compagnie d’un petit garçon pour voir ses chiens et serait redescendue. Mais les enquêteurs n’ont pas trouvé la trace de ce petit garçon.

Il s'est absenté à trois reprise lors de cette soirée alors qu'au cours de sa garde à vue, l'homme avait affirmé avoir bougé durant la soirée. Or à trois reprises et à trois horaires différents des antennes-relais ne couvrant pas la salle des fêtes de Pont-de-Beauvoisin auraient capté le second téléphone du suspect. Ce dernier face à ces nouveaux éléments, a avoué avoir quitté la soirée du mariage trois fois pour aller chercher des doses de cocaïne . Nordahl L. est connu de la police pour des faits de petite délinquance touchant aux stupéfiants.

De plus il s'était fait invité au vin d'honneur du mariage en proposant en échange quelques « friandises », entendons de la drogue.Initialement il ne figurait pas sur la liste des 180 invités du mariage.

Malgré moult indices troublants, aucune preuve formelle n’existe contre Nordahl L

Britney Delsey pour DayNewsWorld

THE GREAT COLD PLAN IN FRANCE IS ACTIVE:

The Big Cold Plan has three levels.

1 ° Triggering level1 when temperatures fall at night between 0 and -5. In the possible accommodation centers.

2 ° Triggering of level 2 when the temperatures are less than 0 during the day and go down between -5 and -10 at night. Establishment of an increased vigilance of the social SAMU, the firemen, the police and the gendarmerie.

3 ° Triggering of level 3 if the temperatures are below -10 at night. Possible use of hospitals and gymnasiums for the homeless who did not obtain a place in the centers of accommodation.

Paul Emison for DayNewsWorld.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR !

Bonne année !bonne santé !

Alors comment c'est passé ton jour de l'an?

Celui de MIA?

Mémorial un peu bousculé.

Je te raconte.

On est partie à la soirée avec ma coloc un décor génial nous avions ramené une bouteille d'un litre de vodka pour notre consommation presque personnelle tout le monde était bien habillé des superbes nanas qui ressemblaient toutes à des mannequins d’où résolution 2017 faire régime jeter du placard nutella chips biscuits bonbons et miss coloc à approuvé ma décision l'année prochaine on fera partie du groupe de mannequins plus dimanche au lieu de légumer avec pot d'ice cream courir ou marcher dans central parc.

Les mecs plus beaux les uns que les autres de quoi trouver pour moi et ma coloc un plan pc. Début de soirée on a fait connaissance avec nos futurs pc on a ri, cela fait du bien de rire mais les conversations ne volaient pas très haut la vodka aidant aussi après avoir dîné on est devenue les reines du dance floor les autres suivaient nos chorégraphies un délire total on a même fait les claudettes car ma french colocataire nous avait ramené du Claude François comme elle dit je vais vous mettre cloclo «cette année là» tout le monde clapper des mains en se retournant et en sautant.


Mon pc blond qui venait de miami tout bronzé des yeux perçants des tablettes de chocolat un style surfeur me tenait pour pas que je tombe lorsque je saute avec mes talons dingdong j'étais bien.

Quelle soirée vivement ma chambre pour surfer tu vois le plan génial ! En plus ma coloc avait déjà embrassé son copain un beau black avec un corps de rêve à travers son pantalon on voyait ses muscles dessinés hummmm.

10,9,8,7 où la le compte à rebours commence vite je fonce au toilette je sens que je vais vo ouff au dessus des toilettes et la j 'entends crier bonne année et je vomis shit de shit de shit. Je me rafraîchis et y retourne.

Ma coloc mais MIA tu étais où? Moi je t'expliquerai, bonne année et je lui glisse à l'oreille plein de sexe elle me répond je vais déjà consommer un pc à notre retour à la maison YES.

On trinque de nouveau vodka et là je cherche mon pc ah il est là avec son sourire émail diamant. La fête recommence il est trois heures je ne contrôle plus rien quelle soirée je ne m'étais pas lâchée autant depuis des lustres allez j 'ai mal au pied ! Voilà Mia balance ses chaussures.

Elle grimpe sur la table et se déhanche en rythme endiablé we are the winner. Là un mec à lunettes vient me faire une leçon de morale je reprends un peu mes esprits. Quoi je ne comprends pas il faut que je remette mes chaussures!!! Moi mais j'ai mal aux pieds. Ma coloc me donne un petit verre de vodka, oups avalé. Alors lunettes tu me disais quoi? C'est dangereux car il y a plein de bouts de verre par terre okkeyyy. Moi merci. Je vois mon pc qui me fait signe je me prends un autre shot de vodka. Le 1er j'ai mal à la tête, je ne sais même pas comment je suis rentrée, je suis dans mon lit en string mes vêtements sont bien posés sur la chaise de mon bureau avec mes bas chaussures ha MIA n'est pas rentrée seule je suis désordonnée ma coloc aussi j’entends une voix de mal dans la cuisine. Je prends ma sortie de bain, me remets la tête à l'endroit pour sortir de chambre avale aspirine, vite passe salle de bain pour brossage de dents car j'ai l'haleine qui tue!!!J'arrive dans la cuisine il y a le beau black lui Hye Mia. Ma coloc salue, moi je dis : il est où le beau surfeur? Elle morte de rire. Mia qu'est ce qui t'arrive? Elle tu n'es pas rentrée avec le surfeur mais avec le mec à lunettes. Quoi? Mais j'ai fait quoi avec lui? Elle:ce matin quand il est parti Steve lui a demandé si c'était bien.Il lui a répondu un feu d'artifice.

Sur ce, je fonce dans ma chambre dans la poubelle aucun préservatif MA MERE VA ME TUER. Je regarde un peu partout ni mot disant son prénom ni son numéro de téléphone. Je retourne voir, il n'a rien laissé pour moi? Eux en duo:NON. Bravo Mia tu commences bien l'année tu prends le mec le plus moche de la soirée tu vas peut-être être enceinte de lui vue que tu ne supportes pas la pilule, tu ne sais même pas comment il se prénomme et le clou tu te souviens pas si c'est un bon ou mauvais coup au lit, ah si! tu sais qu'il est maniac! il t'a bien rangé tes vêtements!!!
Bonne année à tous.I kiss you
Mia Kennedy pour DayNewsWorld

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"EFFRAYANT ", "EFFARANT ", "COURAGEUX REPORTAGE"..

Caroline Sinz , journaliste au service société de France 2 a fait suite à la demande de David Pujadas

et devient l'auteure de l'enquête : ahurie elle constate un recul des droits des femmes partout en France...

Dans ce reportage, réalisé en banlieue parisienne et près de Lyon, on peut voir des femmes rejetées par des hommes dans des endroits pourtant officiellement ouverts à tous. Caroline Sinz, journaliste au service société de France 2 et auteure de l'enquête, explique à franceinfo les conditions de tournage et les obstacles qu'elle a rencontrés.

Son reportage est filmé dans des banlieues, mais de certaines campagnes en France auraient pu aussi être pris pour exemple.

Des difficultés à faire cette enquête

.Beaucoup de femmes pourtant membres d'associations n'ont pas envie de passer à la télévision. Elles ont peur même si elles ont déjà manifesté dans de nombreuses villes. Et alors elles ont été insultées et agressées. Alors pour ne pas subir des menaces, elles se taisent en s'autocensurant.

En banlieue parisienne et près de Lyon, des femmes sont tout simplement non admises par des hommes dans des endroits pourtant officiellement ouverts à tous.

Beaucoup de femmes pourtant membres d'associations n'ont pas envie de passer à la télévision. Elles ont peur même si elles ont déjà manifesté dans de nombreuses villes. Et alors elles ont été insultées et agressées. Alors pour ne pas subir des menaces, elles se taisent en s'autocensurant.

En banlieue parisienne et près de Lyon, des femmes sont tout simplement non admises par des hommes dans des endroits pourtant officiellement ouverts à tous.

Allez un peu de courage mesdames et messieurs nos gouvernants !!!
Paul Emison pour DayNewsWorld