Shooting in Tunisia, journalist killed in Ukraine and Internet regulation

by time news

2023-05-10 07:46:49

Did you miss the news this early morning? We’ve put together a recap to help you see things more clearly.

In Djerba, a religious celebration turned into horror on Tuesday evening. According to the Tunisian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “a 30-year-old Tunisian and a 42-year-old Frenchman” taking part in a Jewish pilgrimage and two gendarmes were killed by an agent of the Tunisian maritime guard who opened fire in front of the synagogue in the Ghriba. The attack took place in two stages. The gendarme who fired first shot and killed one of his colleagues and seized his ammunition. Then he went to the outskirts of the synagogue where he opened fire on the security forces ensuring the security of the place before being shot.

AFP “as a whole has collapsed”. Its video coordinator in Ukraine, Arman Soldin, was killed on Tuesday afternoon in a Russian rocket attack near the town of Bakhmout. In the evening, Emmanuel Macron paid tribute to him. “An Agence France-Presse journalist, one of our compatriots, Arman Soldin, was killed in Ukraine. With courage, from the first hours of the conflict he was at the front to establish the facts. To inform us, ”tweeted the head of state. The French political class, from all sides, has also expressed its emotion. In the National Assembly, the deputies of all the groups thus rose on Tuesday evening to applaud in tribute to the journalist.

The executive wants to better regulate the Internet. Access of minors to pornography, competition on the cloud market, online scams, cyberbullying… The government will unveil this Wednesday a bill against the multiple sources of insecurity on the Web. The Minister Delegate for the Digital Transition and Telecommunications Jean-Noël Barrot thus wishes to restore “confidence in digital technology” and protect the youngest, most vulnerable or less tech-savvy Internet users. To achieve this objective, the bill plans to strengthen the powers entrusted to Arcom, the audiovisual and digital media regulator, by allowing it, for example, to block “in a few weeks” and without a judge’s decision, pornographic sites. who do not verify the age of their visitors.

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