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At least 5,000 dead in Mariupol since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “About 5,000 people were buried [à Marioupol]but people have not been buried for ten days because of the continuous shelling.” This is the grim toll on Monday in the port city in the south-east of the country, according to Tetiana Lomakina, adviser to the Ukrainian presidency in charge of humanitarian corridors. The latter even believes thatgiven the number of people still under the rubble […], there could be around 10,000 dead”. the The town hall’s previous report in mid-March reported more than 2,000 civilians killed since the start of the Russian offensive.
According to its mayor, Irpin would be freed from the Russians. The Ukrainian army is said to have regained control of Irpin. In any case, this was announced by Oleksandr Markushyn, the mayor of the small town at the gates of Kyiv in a short video published on Telegram on Monday afternoon. “We have good news today: Irpin has been released, hashe confirms, military fatigues on his back. NOTWe understand that there will be other attacks against our city and we will defend it courageously”. Since the start of the conflict, the resistance of the Ukrainian army has been organized in this city, which was particularly targeted by Moscow. It was here that a Ukrainian family trying to flee the war had been completely decimated by a Russian mortar fire.
Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich poisoned? Constantly and painfully weeping red eyes, peeling skin on face and hands. These are, according to wall street journal, the symptoms that Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich and at least two Ukrainian peace negotiators reportedly suffered from after they were allegedly poisoned in Kyiv earlier this month. The alleged attack was carried out by hardliners in the Kremlin who wanted to sabotage the peace talks the former Chelsea FC owner was taking part in at the behest of Vladimir Putin.
Presidential: start of the official campaign. Serious things begin. This Monday, which opens the last two weeks before the first round of the presidential election, the campaign became official. This means that a number of strict rules now apply to different actors in the campaign. The speaking and airtime of the twelve presidential candidates is, for example, henceforth counted according to the principle of strict equality. The start of the official campaign is also the arrival of campaign clips or professions of faith in mailboxes.
In Mexico, an armed group kills 20 people in an illegal cockfight. Sunday evening, 20 people who were killed in a shooting in the state of Michoacan, caught like many others in the war between rival drug trafficking groups. The killing took place on the sidelines of a cockfight in a room often used to host illegal bets in the city of Las Tinajas. A group of civilians dressed in military uniforms reportedly burst into the scene before opening fire on the participants.
Polysemic slap at the Oscars. On the right, there is Chris Rock, host of the event and author on stage of a bad joke on the shaved head of Jada Pinkett Smith, suffering from alopecia (premature hair loss), an autoimmune disease. On the left, there is her husband Will, at first hilarious, then who gets up to gratify Rock with a resounding slap. What we also saw last night was the clash between two African-American trajectories in Hollywood. Will Smith, the planetary star, vs Chris Rock, the stand-up comedian (but not only). “Stand-up creates offense and can therefore be dangerous” recalls the critic and filmmaker Guillaume Orignac in an interview. The case of the Oscars slap also reveals squared sexism: that of Chris Rock who finds nothing better to do than a seedy joke about the autoimmune disease of a woman who bravely stages her alopecia. And that of Will Smith who defends by virile violence the flouted honor of his wife, as in the time of the knights. Our ticket.
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France-Rwanda: what did Paris know about the role of French mercenaries during the genocide? Notes from the DGSE confirm that the French services tried to alert the State in 1994 to the presence of French mercenaries in Rwanda during the genocide. A report by the Survie association suggests that they were in fact acting with the support of Paris. More info here.
Urban violence in Sevran: “We are far from the chaos that some like to imagine”. Since a man in his thirties was killed by a BAC officer on Saturday, the popular district of Beaudottes has seen clashes between young people and the police every night. Our report.
Presidential: Emmanuel Macron ready to offer the illusion of a campaign. The outgoing President is still largely in the lead in terms of voting intentions. But weak signals encourage him to wet his shirt a little more than expected, with two trips this week and a big meeting at La Défense. Read here.