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At the trial of the Nice attack, the silent pain in front of the extreme images. The horror. Absolute horror. How to describe, as a journalist, the rawest murderous obscenity? What words to use, what elements to show, and why? This Thursday, the specially composed Assize Court of Paris, before which the trial of the Nice attack opened on September 5, showed the images of the attack perpetrated on the Promenade des Anglais by Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian, shot dead by the police. Four minutes and seventeen seconds recorded by the city’s video surveillance cameras, this evening of July 14, 2016. A choice announced the day before, after several days of debate around this delicate question, President Laurent Raviot considering that this recording is “of such a nature as to enlighten the court on the facts”. Our article.
The overhaul of student grants on the agenda. The subject was inevitable for Sylvie Retailleau. In the middle of the academic year marked by record inflation, the Minister of Higher Education and Research is launching a major consultation to reform the system of student grants. “It is a question of thoroughly reviewing the system. We must prevent someone from losing their scholarship because of an increase of a few euros in their income. she justified this Thursday during her back-to-school conference.
For Federer, the affability is coming to an end. At 41, the Swiss legend, 20 Grand Slams on the clock, announced that he would end his professional career after a final tournament in London from September 23 to 25. He did it in his own way, pen and microphone, this Thursday in the middle of the afternoon, starting from his childhood memories, in Basel, Switzerland. A goodbye, but not a farewell, for this yellow ball that he «aime» so much and that he promises not to “never leave”. The tennis world hailed one of its brightest stars.
In Paris, complaints of sexual violence up 30% compared to 2021. “It must be clear, the number of complaints for sexual violence is on the rise.” Their number has increased by 30% in Paris compared to last year, said Thursday morning the public prosecutor of Paris Laure Beccuau on France Info. And this, while in 2021, a 33% increase in incidents had already been recorded compared to 2020, and throughout the territory, reported the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin.
Fire set in the Médoc. After three days and as many nights of struggle, the firefighters managed to fix, on Thursday, the fire which broke out on Monday in Saumos, in Gironde, a department already marked by three gigantic fires this summer in a context of historic drought. “We are on a stabilized fire, which remains within the limits which are those which we have known for more than 24 hours, which allows us to declare it fixed”, announced Thursday afternoon the sub-prefect of Lesparre- Médoc, Fabrice Thibier, during a press briefing. Our report on the spot.
The boss of Patagonia refuses to sell his box and puts it to good use in favor of ecology. Yvon Chouinard, the founder of the outdoor clothing brand, has decided to transfer his shares in the company to a trust responsible for donating all of the profits to an association fighting against the environmental crisis.
Ethereum, the second cryptocurrency in the world, is becoming less energy-intensive. Good news in the midst of an energy crisis. The Ethereum blockchain, the most important in the world of cryptocurrencies after that used for bitcoins, succeeded on Thursday in the technical mutation which should make it more efficient and less energy-consuming, according to the main players in the operation. Release takes stock of the scope of this operation.
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Trial of Bernard Laporte: Claude Atcher, governance subcontractor. The founder of the company Score XV, to whom the French Rugby Federation has entrusted various missions under the guise of consulting services, is being prosecuted for “concealment of breach of trust” in the trial of Bernard Laporte.
Ulf Kristersson, Jimmie Akesson, Magdalena Andersson… Overview of the new Swedish political landscape. The result of Sunday’s parliamentary elections, which put the far-right Sweden Democrats in first place on the right, is accelerating the reorganization of the political landscape in the country.
In Charleville-Mézières, runaway sheep, a vandalized shepherd and scandalized neighbors. Who wants the sheep of Sébastien Day? The urban shepherd, who does eco-grazing in the city of the Ardennes, has chained malicious acts in recent weeks, between open enclosures and disconnected battery.
Yaël Braun-Pivet: “It is imperative that the deputies can live their pregnancy serenely”. While a Nupes bill suggests amending the Constitution to allow substitutes to sit during the pregnancy of elected officials, the President of the National Assembly defends the voting delegation already in place, and returns to Release on the feminization of this high place of power that she is the first woman to chair.