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Return match for the Macron-Le Pen debate. Five years after their first televised duel in 2017, the two finalists meet again this Wednesday evening for the unmissable contest between the two rounds of the presidential election, scheduled at 9 p.m. on TF1 and France 2. If the exercise does not usually upset the dynamics of voting intentions, this time it could remobilize certain electorates. An evening to follow live, with analyzes and reporters from Release with voters of Macron, Mélenchon and Le Pen.
In Ukraine, fighting intensifies in the east and south, Mariupol close to falling. Russian troops continue their major offensive towards Donbass, and seem on the verge of seizing the strategic port of Mariupol, which is in agony after a long siege. In support of Ukraine, the President of the European Council Charles Michel was in Kyiv on Wednesday. To show the muscles, Russia announced the first test firing of its Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, a new generation weapon that President Vladimir Putin describes as “without equal”. Follow our live.
For Julian Assange, the noose of the threat of extradition is tightening a little more. The British justice formally authorized, this Wednesday, the surrender of the founder of WikiLeaks to the American authorities. The United States wants to try him for espionage, after years of legal arm wrestling. His file is now in the hands of the Secretary of State for the Interior, the ultimate decision maker in the matter. But the legal journey is far from over, the defense lawyers can still appeal. Our analysis.
“Blue Night” in Corsica in 2019: two defendants sentenced to six years in prison. Justice pronounced six-year prison sentences on Wednesday against the two main defendants at the trial of a “blue night” which had led to the degradation of several second homes in Corsica in March 2019. For the other four, the sentences are are staggered from two months suspended to five years in prison, two of which are closed, which can be fitted with an electronic bracelet.
Olivier Dubois’ family requests the opening of an investigation into his abduction. The French journalist, detained for more than a year by an armed group affiliated with Al-Qaeda, appeared on March 13 in a video. He asked the French authorities to “continue to do their best” to secure his release. His relatives fear a stalemate in the situation and want the appointment of an independent magistrate. Our article.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, master of alliances on the left for the legislative elections. On the strength of his good score in the presidential election, the leader of La France insoumis offers other leftist parties, including the Socialists, agreements for the legislative elections, under the banner of the People’s Union. On his terms. Read the decryption.
A festival canceled in Lorraine after the extreme right vote of the inhabitants. For nearly twenty years at the head of the small town of Xirocourt, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Alain Delhotal, a man on the left, could not bear to see his village vote for Marine Le Pen in the first round and did so. know by refusing to organize a jazz festival that was close to his heart. “Wheelbarrows, we don’t talk to them, we push them”, he asserts. Our article.
The oligarch Dmitri Rybolovlev, eel under Rock at AS Monaco. Majority shareholder of the Monegasque club, the Russian businessman claims to no longer have any ties with the Kremlin in order to escape the sanctions against those close to Putin, taken following the invasion of Ukraine. The European Union has not yet blacklisted it. Our survey.
Death of Hermann Nitsch, blood return. Co-founder of Viennese Actionism, the artist and performer was known for his pagan spirit and his taste for excess sprinkled with bodily fluids. He died Monday at age 83. His obituary.