2023-12-03 21:39:41
Have you caught any news in the last two days? “The Obs” offers you a summary of the main information to remember from December 2 and 3.
Deadly attack in Paris
A German-Filipino tourist died this Saturday evening, December 2 near the Eiffel Tower, under the blows of an assailant armed with a knife and a hammer, known to the French authorities as a radical Islamist with a mental state. “unstable” and who has already served time in prison after a planned act of terrorism in 2016.
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Knife attack in Paris: Armand R., a previously convicted terrorist who swore he had become a “radical anti-Islamist”
The attack took place on the banks of the Seine shortly after 9 p.m. between the Quai de Grenelle and Bir Hakeïm, in the wealthy 15th and 16th arrondissements. He cried “Allah is great” on several occasions, according to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
After killing the 23-year-old German tourist, he then attacked two men with a hammer, a 60-year-old Frenchman and a 66-year-old British man, whom he injured in the eye, according to the anti-terrorist prosecution (Pnat) before being arrested near a square after two shots from an electric pulse gun. He has since been in police custody in the anti-terrorist section (SAT) of the Paris criminal brigade. The Paris anti-terrorism public prosecutor indicated that he had pledged allegiance to ISIS in a video.
Knife attack: what we know about the three victims
Armand Rajabpour-Miyandoab is a 26-year-old Franco-Iranian, born in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine) to Iranian refugee parents. He is described as a man with “very unstable profile, very easily influenced”, according to a security source at AFP. Released from prison in 2020, he lived with his parents in Essonne and was being monitored for significant psychiatric disorders. As of March 2022, he stopped his drug treatment in agreement with his doctor, according to a source close to the investigation.
Resumption of bombings in Gaza
The war between Israel and Hamas entered its 58th day on Sunday. Israel carried out new strikes on the Gaza Strip on Saturday and Sunday, particularly in the south of the enclave, where civilians who fled the north took refuge.
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The Health Ministry of Hamas, in power in the overpopulated Palestinian territory, deplored on Saturday more than 240 dead and 650 injured since the resumption of fighting on December 1. In total, according to Hamas, Israeli bombings have left 15,523 people dead – 70% of them women and children – and 41,316 injured in the Gaza Strip since the start of the conflict.
The town of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, was bombed this Sunday, December 3, 2023. (SAID KHATIB / AFP)
The Israeli army, for its part, announced the death of two additional soldiers in the fighting, bringing the total to 72 deaths since October 7.
From Dubai, Emmanuel Macron questioned “the objective” Israeli war: “The total destruction of Hamas”requested by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “does anyone think this is possible?” »launched Emmanuel Macron in front of the press in Dubai. ” If that’s so “the objective, “the war will last ten years”he warned, calling on the Israeli authorities to ” to specify “.
Gaza: 4 questions about Israel’s strategy since the end of the truce
“The right response against a terrorist group is not to eliminate an entire territory or bomb the entirety of civilian capabilities”he insisted, believing that the “sustainable security” of Israel cannot be guaranteed if it “comes at the cost of Palestinian lives, and therefore the resentment of all public opinion in the region”.
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Ghassan Salamé: “How to get Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and Netanyahu to discuss? »
Bodies burned in Isère: arrested, young Valentin confesses
Valentin, 15, was arrested this Saturday after the discovery of two bodies in his burned house in Chateauvilain in Isère. “confessed” having killed his parents, the prosecution said on Sunday. His confession caused shock and incomprehension in his village, Châteauvilain, located between Lyon and Grenoble.
Born in 2008 and the youngest son of a family of four described as “normal, no fuss” and very well integrated into his village, Valentin was arrested in Montpellier and placed in police custody as part of the investigation into “assassination” opened by the Grenoble public prosecutor’s office.
The two bodies “almost completely charred” found at his home, are “probably those of the parents”, according to investigators. They wore “gunshot wounds to the skull” and to the thorax for one of the two.
Expertise is still underway for their identification, a judicial investigation for assassinations and destruction by fire was opened on Friday.
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COP28: tripling nuclear or tripling renewables?
“Triple” ! This was the commitment this Saturday, at COP28 in Dubai. “Triple” the capabilities of nuclear energy on the one hand, “triple” the renewable energy capacities of the other…
Early this Saturday, around twenty countries including the United States, France and the United Arab Emirates called in a joint declaration to triple nuclear energy capacities in the world by 2050, compared to 2020, to reduce dependence on coal and gas.
A call that sounds like a response (in anticipation) to the non-binding commitment signed by at least 118 countries a few hours later to, this time, triple renewable capacities in the world by 2030!
COP28: triple renewable energies, triple nuclear, or both?
Emmanuel Macron defended the two calls: “No credible strategy, either nationally or globally, allows us to move away from coal and fossils by relying solely on renewables. (…) Nuclear power is a clean energy, it must be repeated. »
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The summit was marked this Sunday by a controversial outing from the controversial Emirati president of COP28, Sultan Al Jaber, who estimated that “uA reduction and an exit from fossil fuels are, in my opinion, inevitable”but none “road map for an exit from fossil fuels” was not “compatible with socio-economic development, without sending the world back to the cave age”.
Sultan Al Jaber combines his functions with those of boss of the national oil company Adnoc.
Euro 2024: France in the group of Austria and the Netherlands
The Blues know their opponents for Euro 2024 which will take place in Germany from June 14. Didier Deschamps’ men will have to face Austria, the Netherlands and a play-off from Group A, namely Poland, Wales, Finland or Estonia.
Didier Deschamps, in November 2022. (CHRISTOPHE ENA/AP/SIPA / CHRISTOPHE ENA/AP/SIPA)
A group that coach Didier Deschamps immediately described as « difficile ». He declared on TMC: “Of course we beat the Netherlands in the last two matches but their draw from hat 3 makes for a difficult group. It’s a dense group. Potentially, the Netherlands have more qualities but the Austrians are not easy to play. »
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