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Nordahl Lelandais sentenced to life imprisonment. The Assize Court of Isère heavily punished the former dog master this Friday for the murder of little Maëlys de Araujo, matching the sentence with a security period of twenty-two years. This Friday evening, his lawyer, Me Alain Jakubowkicz, announces that his client will not appeal the decision. Until the end, the man, despite half-formulated confessions, kept silent about the exact circumstances of his crime. A look back at this trial through five key moments.
In Ukraine, bombardments break out on the Eastern front. Journalists noted this Friday bombardments near Stanytsia Luganska, in the east of the country. The city is under the control of government forces fighting pro-Russian separatists. Separatist leaders in Lugansk and Donetsk have announced the evacuation of civilians to neighboring Russia, while many Western observers fear that this renewed clashes is the pretext sought by the Russian neighbor to launch military action.
At the RATP, a very well-attended strike. If the importance of the social conflict will be measured over time, the day of strike within the autonomous Paris transport authority this Friday is one of the most important in recent decades, for an internal subject to the company. The discussions seem to be at a standstill, letting users of Ile-de-France transport augur new days of mobilization.
The unemployment figures at their lowest since 2008, not really the precarious contracts. According to INSEE, unemployment reached its lowest level since 2008 at the end of 2021. A decline that attests to the extent of the economic recovery, even if it is also due to a subsidy very generous of youth employment and an increase in precarious contracts.
100 billion euros in profits last year for the CAC 40. From planes to luxury jewellery, via oil and banks, the forty largest French companies in terms of market capitalization have made staggering profits in 2021 and have reached a new level. And still, only 27 groups have published their results so far…
The Malian junta demands the “immediate” departure of French troops. After the announcement of the withdrawal of French and European forces from Mali on Thursday, the reaction of the Malian authorities was particularly expected. They estimated this Friday that “The obtained results” by operations Serval, Barkhane and Takuba “were not satisfactory” and demanded that French forces leave the country immediately.
In the Senate, Xavier Niel torpedoes the TF1-M6 merger project. Before the commission of inquiry into media concentration, the founder of Free tried to warn about the concentration of audiences rather than that of companies, while accusing the State of intervening to promote the rapprochement of the two major channels. private.
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Trial of the Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray attack: Kermiche, a “crazy” and “boastful” radicalized. The specially composed Assize Court of Paris examined this Friday the itinerary and the motivations of the terrorist – killed during the assault by the police – who murdered Father Hamel, in 2016, with Abdel-Malik Petitjean . Our report.
In Dijon, the backyard of a last tower. In Les Grésilles, a district undergoing renovation and the scene of a mediatized and politicized confrontation in 2020, the last large bar is slated for demolition. The last inhabitants oscillate between nostalgia, the desire to move forward and regrets. Our report.
Fabien Roussel “will vote Mélenchon”: the campaign seen by the namesakes of the candidates. Fabien Roussel, Anne Hidalgo, Florian Philipot, François Asselineau… If those who share their name with pretenders to the Elysée Palace do not suffer the same setbacks as Eric Zemmour from Nice whose hairdressing salon was vandalized, their daily life is disturbed by the campaign. Our article.
In Nice, the uncontrolled explosion of the right. Support for Macron, rallying to Zemmour, legislative battle… Benoît Kandel, Christian Estrosi’s first deputy from 2008 to 2013, chose to join the far-right polemicist for the presidential election and encourages Eric Ciotti to do the same. Implicitly, a breathless battle is preparing for the legislative elections. It is to be read here.
“Zemmour revives the spirit of Lepenism: misogyny, homophobia and verbal violence”. The researcher Cécile Alduy analyzed the speech of Eric Zemmour, between obsession with race and war, twisting of the meaning of words, paraphrases of authors dear to the far right. She pulls out a book, the Language of Zemmour, which deciphers a rhetoric that is both fascinating and fascinating. Our interview.
Femicide by Aissatou Sow: “He killed her because he felt that she was escaping him”. Since Tuesday, Gianni D, 26, has been appearing on appeal before the Assize Court of Evry (Essonne), for the assassination of his girlfriend Aïssatou Sow, killed in the fall of 2016. He faces life imprisonment . Our report.
Heino Falcke: “Black holes ask to be looked at”. They are probably the most fascinating astrophysical objects in the universe and, thanks to the Event Horizon Telescope, we were able, in 2019, to see one of them with our eyes. In an essay, the Dutch astrophysicist, who led the project, returns to this quest that seemed impossible: to make visible what absorbs everything, even light. Our interview.