Prisons attacks, American officials in Paris, Israeli offensive in Gaza … News from Wednesday, April 16 – Liberation
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Arrived this Wednesday in Paris for discussions on the war in Ukraine, the head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio, and the special emissary of Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, will be received Thursday at the Elysée by Emmanuel Macronsaid the presidency. The objective of this displacement of American representatives is « To advance the goal of President Trump to end the war between Ukraine and Russia and to stop the killing »according to a statement from the State Department, while relations between the United States and Europe are very degraded.
Emmanuel Macron raised the tone this Wednesday after the new degradations targeting the prison institution During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday. Fires have targeted several vehicles belonging to agents of prisons from Tarascon and Aix-Luynes (Bouches-du-Rhône). The building hall of a Seine-et-Marne supervisor was also targeted. « Some seek to intimidate our penitentiary staff And attack with an inadmissible violence to establishments. They will be found, judged and punished ”, assured the President of the Republic. The investigation has not yet allowed the arrest of suspect.
A shock sentence which sums up the situation in the Palestinian enclave: « Gaza has become a common pit for the Palestinians and those who help them », The NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounced this Wednesday, in reaction to military operations and the blockade imposed by Israel on humanitarian aid. The Israeli army has announced that it have Transformed into a buffer zone 30 % Gaza. About 500,000 Palestinians have been moved since the end of the ceasefire and the resumption of Israeli military operations, a spokesperson for the UN Secretary General said on Wednesday.
Six deaths « Linked to chikungunya » have been recorded since the start of the year in Reunion, announced on Wednesday Public Health France on Wednesday, when only two had so far been identified. The new victims are « people over the 70s carrying comorbidity ”, explain the health authorities. These also indicate a start of decrease in the epidemic on the island of the Indian Ocean with around 4,900 cases for the first week of April.
A Declaration of war in Parliament or almost. This Wednesday, all the leaders of the unions representative of liberal doctors and medical students, in the presence of a representative of the National Council of their order, displayed their common intention to obtain a transpartisan bill against the medical deserts, defended by the deputy PS Guillaume Garot. Its examination started on April 2 must continue on May 5 in the National Assembly.
Tensions with France: the weariness of Algerian youth in the face of an « unpublished proportions » crisis
If the Algerian press is shooting red balls on the French Minister of the Interior, deemed responsible for diplomatic escalation between Paris and Algiers, the young Algerians seem more indifferent to this rupture which is established between the two countries. Our article.
Rachida Dati and the jewelry case: proof by photo
The Minister of Culture, who has not declared a series of luxury objects to the High Authority for the transparency of public life, regularly sports around the neck one of the necklaces which she has had since 2020, and whose existence she should have revealed by entering the government. Read here.
Pedocrime, the Lévêque system told by its victims: revelations about forty years of impunity of the plastic artist
Through unpublished testimonies, Release dissect the grip of this icon of contemporary art. Several men abused by the artist denounce for the first time not prescribed facts, opening the possibility of a trial. Read here.
