Explosion in Paris, missing submarine and financial pact: the information to remember this afternoon

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2023-06-22 12:14:54

The info not to miss

At 4:55 p.m. Wednesday, an explosion ripped through the building at 277 rue Saint-Jacques in Paris, causing a fire. The fire spread to the building opposite, which also caught fire. The latest report, this Thursday at the end of the morning, reported six seriously injured, a person still wanted under the rubble and “fifty victims”.

The facts occurred in the building housing a private fashion school, the Paris American Academy, near the Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grâce church. Several witnesses and residents said they smelled gas and heard a “big explosion”. The Paris judicial police have been seized.

What else to remember

The search for the submarine is entering its critical phase. Hopes are dwindling to find the crew of the “Titan” in time, missing since Sunday as it approached the wreck of the Titanic, located nearly 4,000 m deep. The US Coast Guard is still “optimistic”, but rescuers believe that passengers could quickly run out of oxygen. Wednesday’s announcement of the detection of underwater sounds in the search area raised hopes. “I can’t tell you what those noises are,” the US Coast Guard captain said, however, after research by remotely operated underwater vehicles and a sonar-equipped surface vessel. Paris for a new global financial pact. Forty heads of state or government are meeting until Friday in the capital to unlock the overhaul of the global economic system. Emmanuel Macron, host of this summit, launched the “general mobilization”. “We have to take on a shock of public funding,” he said at the opening on Thursday morning, noting that there was “a lot of money”, but not necessarily in “the service of the progress of the planet”. storms still shake part of France. Météo France placed 12 departments on orange alert this Thursday morning. These are the Ardennes, Meuse, Marne, Aube or Rhône, Ain, Haute-Savoie, Savoie, Isère, Drôme, Vaucluse or Gard. “In the northeast of the country, the stormy episode that started yesterday lasted a few hours. A new stormy episode is setting up in the South-East and in the east of the Rhône valley around midday, “said Météo France, while 71 departments are also placed on yellow vigilance. The mayor of Toulouse said he was “violently taken to task”. Jean-Luc Moudenc (ex-LR) said in a press release published Wednesday evening that he, along with elected officials, “violently attacked” during a stroll in the city of Haute-Garonne, on the occasion of the Fête music. He writes that he was attacked by “an organized pack of the ultra-left”, which was part of the procession demonstrating against the dissolution of the movement of the Earth Uprisings, and speaks of insults, “throwing of projectiles” and “confrontation physical “.

it concerns you

The period of abundance should not be long for French fruits and vegetables. And their prices should be affordable. According to a study by the Pyrenees Chamber of Agriculture, nearly 126,000 tonnes of apricots should be harvested this summer, 16% more than the average for the past three years. A profusion that gives hope for prices up to 20% cheaper, according to Interfel, the organization that promotes trades in the fruit and vegetable sector. The quantities are also pouring in on the peaches and nectarines side. “Auchan has been using 100% French lines for bulk products for a few days”, explains to the Parisian Antoine Gricourt, the manager of the fruit and vegetable purchasing office of the brand, which also announces a promotion at 3 euros 49 the kilo at the end of the week.

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