2023-09-11 12:44:44
The information not to be missed
“We are at the disposal of Morocco”. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, announced this morning to release aid of “5 million euros” for NGOs present in Morocco, more than 48 hours after the earthquake which killed nearly 2,500 people according to a new report. The fact remains that the kingdom has, for the moment, not officially accepted support from Paris. He announced last night that he had responded favorably to offers from four countries “to send search and rescue teams”, France was not on the list.
Morocco “is sovereign, we must respect its choices”, underlined Catherine Colonna, seeing it as a “bad quarrel”. If the country “thinks that international aid can be provided, France will be there. (…) But I know that Morocco is capable of responding to this kind of difficulty on its own,” said Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin.
Small groups of rescuers from France still arrived on the spot, in particular firefighters from Lyon, civil protection specialists from Saint-Étienne, and dog teams from Nice. Moroccan rescuers continue a race against time to find survivors. Follow our live feed on developments in the situation on site.
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It concerns you
After an exceptional heat wave last week and temperature records broken this weekend, thunderstorms will hit part of France on Monday. Nine departments in the south-west of the country are placed on orange alert by Météo France (Gironde, Dordogne, Lot, Landes, Lot-et-Garonne, Tarn-et-Garonne, Gers, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and the Hautes-Pyrénées). Thunderstorms, sometimes strong with a risk of hail, will cross the Paris Basin in the evening.
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