Thursday, February 28, 2013

Frédéric Bonnaud Audrey Pulvar replaces head of Inrocks

L'annonce should be made this afternoon: journalist Frédéric Bonnaud will be appointed editor of Inrockuptibles. For several days, the former film critic of the weekly cultural figure was "serious candidate."

A figure of Radio France

Frédéric Bonnaud has a long part of his career at Radio France, where he entered as a film critic for "The Party Continues", issuing Albert Algoud on France Inter. In June 2003, Jean-Luc Hees assigned slice 18h/19h France Inter, where he has three seasons the daily "Charivari", then in 2006, "La Bande à Bonnaud" which will not be renewed in June 2007. After two seasons in Europe 1 where he had taken refuge, the reporter returned to Radio France since 2010 where he hosts "Plan B Bonnaud" on The Mov '.

Il should take over Audrey Pulvar who announced his resignation in late December the direction of the weekly. Journalist, former partner Arnaud Montebourg, was in conflict with Pigasse Matthew, the owner of the title. The journalist had failed to be accepted internally. Columnist Thomas Legrand had, for example, slammed the door after the announcement of his appointment in July, indicating that weekly which has shifted its editorial line towards the political "can not be headed by someone and also personally involved in the political life of the country. " The editor feared that because of the mix of genres, "everything is interpreted" by the readers. With his cap of cultural journalist, Frédéric Bonnaud should put an end to this kind of controversy. Find this item on PuremediasAudiences: RIS weak leader TF1 Star Academy NRJ12 slightly baisseZapping: Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj is écharpent in American IdolSkyfall censored ChineProgramme TV: Thrones and forensic allumetteCharts U.S.: Christian music singer The dethroned Misérables

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Judge Holland's response to the Algiers hostage adaptée

TULLE (Reuters) - Francois Hollande held Saturday "adapted" the intervention of the Algerian authorities to put an end to a hostage situation in south-eastern Algeria, a bloody episode that justifies According to him the action of France "against terrorism" Mali.

The African situation dominated the short visit of the Head of State in Correze, where he intervened on several occasions where he met with members of the 126th Infantry Regiment of Brive-la-Gaillarde, bound for the Afrique.

The day was marked by incomplete information about the "final assault", according to the formula of the Algerian news agency APS, launched by the Algerian special forces against Islamists holed up on the site Tiguentourine scene of the hostage since mercredi.

Captives, one French and several other Westerners were killed, as well as ravisseurs.

several capitals, including London and Tokyo, regretted not having been notified by the Algerian authorities of their intention to intervene .

François Hollande has meanwhile said to trust in these Algerians circonstances.

"We do not have all the elements but when there is a hostage situation with so many people involved, and terrorists as coldly determined, ready to kill - which they did - their hostages, a country like Algeria has the answers that seem, to me, the most appropriate because it could not be any negotiation, "said the French president told reporters in the prefecture Tulle.

"Everyone has plagued Algeria, but the Algerians are sovereign home," was one out in the president's entourage. "France is aware that this is hostage to Algeria, a country that has experienced terrorism."

"THE TIME NECESSARY" IN MALI

The President had mentioned earlier the vagueness surrounding the information from South algérien.

"I know that the hostages are dead, they were brutally murdered," he déclaré.

"If there was a need to justify the action we commit against terrorism, we would then still another argument," he ajouté.

François Hollande will

Sunday families of seven hostages still being held in the Sahel, some for more than two years and demi.

the eighth day of the operation "Serval", the Head of State said that armed intervention in Mali last "time to that terrorism is defeated in this part of Africa" ​​.< / p>

Terrorism in the Sahel "takes many forms more formidable" and its actors "know no borders: Mali, Niger, Libya, Algeria or South," he said to the soldiers of the regiment Brive.< / p>

François Hollande tribute to the memory of three soldiers killed in Nîmes accident while traveling to Clermont-Ferrand from the Mali.

"France is not alone, supported by the European countries that we provide assistance in all its forms," ​​he replied to those who regret the absence of involvement of other Western powers in Mali.

"Secondly, because we are working with African countries themselves will form the core of the international force (which) will be deployed as soon as possible."

Jean-Baptiste Vey Paris

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Joe Biden will receive the NRA this semaine

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Barack Obama instructed by a reflection on violence related to guns after the shooting in Newtown last month, will this week the National Rifle Association (NRA), a powerful organization of the pro-gun lobby, said Tuesday the House blanche.

Joe Biden and his staff will also be in the week of associations of victims, hunting federations, representatives of the entertainment industry and that of video games, said the spokesman of the Presidency, Jay Carney.< / p>

Barack Obama, who expects this month's recommendations Biden talk about the issue of guns in his speech on the State of the Union on 24 janvier.

After the massacre of 20 children and six adults December 14 in a primary school in Connecticut, the U.S. president has promised "significant actions" to avoid such tragédies.

He has lent its support to any bill in Congress to ban assault weapons .

While supporting the Second Amendment of the Constitution on the right of every citizen to be armed, Barack Obama said in his opinion the acquisition of assault weapons should not be as easy as it is currently Etats-Unis.

But according to the Washington Post last Sunday, the White House is working on a plan to control weapons much more ambitious than a simple return to the assault weapons ban was in force from 1994 to 2004.

According to the newspaper, the working group led by Biden seriously considering to impose checks on the identity of global buyers and arms control movements and arms purchases through a file national.

The plan would also strengthen controls on the mental balance of buyers and a tightening of sanctions against those who would bear arms in front of schools or who to entrust mineurs.

Roberta Rampton

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Friday, February 22, 2013

France condemned the trial for its management Agnelet

La European Court of Human Rights considers that the man convicted in 2007 for the murder of Agnes Le Roux, had no access to a trial équitable.

La European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday condemned France for violation of the right to a fair trial of Maurice Agnelet, sentenced in 2007 to 20 years imprisonment for the murder of Agnes Le Roux, the young heiress to a casino Nice.

Les European judges felt their judgment Agnelet Maurice was "not prepared sufficient guarantees enabling him to understand the guilty verdict pronounced against him." This judgment does not break the sentence in France Maurice Agnelet but it opens, according to his lawyer, the possibility of requesting a new procès.

"I'm going next week to enter the French Supreme Court an appeal for reconsideration of the conviction of Maurice Agnelet," said the lawyer Maurice Agnelet, François Saint-Pierre. According to him, "on the basis of such reasoning in the judgment of the European Court, the Supreme Court can only order the reopening of a new trial" .

"I will also request the immediate release of Maurice Agnelet which, I recall, is now held for five years on the basis of a trial deemed unfair" by the European Court of Human Rights, has it ajouté.

Trente-five years after the disappearance of Agnes Le Roux remains an enigma. At All Saints in 1977, the heir to the casino Nice Palais de la Méditerranée had vanished after being left with his car. Neither vehicle nor bodies were retrouvés.

Après have benefited from a non-place in 1985, the lover of Agnes Le Roux, former lawyer Maurice Agnelet Nice, was finally referred to the Assizes. Discharged in 2006, he was convicted in 2007 on appeal. His appeal was rejeté.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Vincent Peillon reminds Catholic schools in ordre

PARIS (Reuters) - Vincent Peillon fears import the debate on gay marriage in private schools and reminded of their duty to Friday neutralité.

Secretary General of Catholic Education sent a letter in December to its principals, reminding them of the Church's opposition to this government project, and suggesting the debates that sujet.

Minister of Education sees a "mistake" and said Friday in Le Monde sending a letter to the presidents asking them "the greatest vigilance" against these établissements.

"It does not seem appropriate to import in the school debate on marriage for all. Well as I consider sending a letter to principals, Secretary for Catholic Education has made a mistake" said Vincent Peillon.

"This course, which is under contract with the State, must comply with the principle of neutrality and freedom of individual conscience," ajoute-t-il.

"Never forget that we are dealing with teenagers and suicide attempts are five times more common in young homosexual who discover in others."

The UMP

Laurent Wauquiez has strongly condemned the remarks of Vincent Peillon.

"feel guilty CHRISTIANS"

"It is absolutely scandalous to suggest that the vision of Catholic education in the family would be responsible for suicides among young gay," he said in Figaro.

"This is at best ignorance and at worst contempt for Catholic education. This is a great political manipulation that seeks to blame the Christians and believe that opposition to gay marriage and the is the adoption of a minority, "he ajouté.

For him, the draft law on same-sex marriage "is the first reform of rejection, contempt and hatred against religions", and in particular catholiques.

"We never would have accepted these remarks on Islam and the Jews," he said about a particular tweet of the Minister Responsible for Seniors, Michèle Delaunay, who relayed December 28 remarks a guest on a radio statement that "Today Catholics condemn the Holy Family: A husband was not the father, a virgin mother."

A demonstration against the proposed gay marriage, which all monotheistic religions are opposed, is scheduled for Sunday 13 janvier.

The text introducing this reform was presented on 7 November in the Council of Ministers. Must be submitted to the Assembly late janvier.

Two million children, or almost one in five is enrolled in the private sector in France, said the Monde.

China Labbé, edited by Yves Clarisse

Monday, February 18, 2013

Giant failure in the Hauts-de-Seine: the situation remains précaire

A Following the huge power cut on Saturday, many residents of Levallois and Neuilly were still without power. Agents were still ERDF mobilisés.

Coupure current and recovery, and off again ... the inhabitants of Levallois and Neuilly, who have seen their products to freeze several times this weekend, had enough "crack up" .

Difficile miss ERDF vehicles in the streets of Neuilly and Levallois yesterday. Blue aliens, sometimes with orange flashing lights on, were surveyed, inspected the "problem areas". Problems, and there were different kinds. With a high consumption in the evening, exacerbated by past temperatures below zero, some groups have just ... tripped. Other groups simply were more serviceable, since the engine running with the fuel was not alimenté.

Au throughout the night, the tanks are emptied. ERDF then brought two tankers in Caldéo, a subsidiary of Total, to replenish groups. "I was Saturday morning at 4:49 requisitioned accurate Marlot Xavier laughed, exhausted by his fills the day. I used the 11000 to myself and a third truck arrives as reinforcements. "

Dans town halls, HQ ERDF, more than 200 technicians have shot all day Monday and to make points from the red zones. For these technicians, some manipulations have significant risks. "So we hung up the cables to the transformer of a building, they jumped, say two officers in full action Roul Street in Neuilly. A flame is produced to turn off so quickly. "The meter of the building, he was hors-service.

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Saturday, February 16, 2013

The UN report suggests a "shocking" of 60,000 deaths in Syrie

AMMAN/GENEVE (Reuters) - The conflict in Syria has already claimed more than 60,000 deaths, said Wednesday the United Nations, while violence, particularly in Damascus kill dozens of each additional victims jour.

Wednesday, mid-day, it is a government air raid on a suburb of Damascus, which transformed a huge service station blaze that killed thirty motorists trapped by flames, witnesses .

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has put the figure of 59,648 killed in Syria between March 15, 2011, the start of the uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, November 30, 2012.< / p>

This assessment is the result of five months of analysis of data from seven different sources, she précisé.

"The number of victims is much higher than what we expected and is really shocking," said Navi Pillay. "Given that the conflict has not decreased in intensity since the end of November, we can assume that in early 2013, more than 60,000 people were killed."

She showed no breakdown of victims between rebel and loyalist soldiers civilians, nor in terms of the origin confessionnelle.

This assessment is anyway much higher than the previous estimations.

The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH), a structure of the opposition, was to present state of 45,000 confirmed deaths but stressed that the real death toll is probably much élevé.

After nearly 22 months of uprising, initially largely peaceful and with weapons, Bashar al-Assad seems to gradually lose ground. It still controls the center of Damascus, but the rebels and their supporters are located in many suburbs on the outskirts of the capital forming an arc to the east and south of the ville.

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Mouleïha, residential and industrial locality covered by the aerial bombardment of Wednesday, and is located in the Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus where there is also an air base régime.

According to opponents, this rockets targeted the base station and a nearby residential area after the bombing aérien.

"Until the raid, Mouleïha was quiet. We were running out of gasoline for four days and the inhabitants of the town and the surrounding countryside rushed to the station delivery governmental When it arrived," said Abu Fouad, an opponent on the spot, told téléphone.

The OSDH reported another air strike had killed 12 members of a family, for most children, Moadamieh, a suburb southwest of Damascus where trying to install the rebellion .

information from Syria are almost impossible to verify with sources indépendantes.

rebels control large areas in the north and east by Syria and on the outskirts of Damascus, but progress is hampered by the mastery of the air retained by the régime.

According to the OSDH, insurgents, some from Islamist movements, attacked the military airfield near Afis Taftanaz base in the north of the country. They fired machine guns and mortars towards helicopter sol.

fighters of al Nousra Front, brigade Ahrar al-Sham and other units in Idlib province attacked the base itself, not far from the main highway linking the country to Damascus Aleppo city populated in Syria nord.

Syrian official media have not mentioned the fighting or air strikes reported Damas.

According to opponents

lives on site, the regime's forces also shelled with artillery the various suburbs of the capital, Douma, Harasta, and Irbine Zamlaka, where rebels are présents.

Both sides accuse each other of atrocities .

The last witness

dated arose on the internet through a video broadcast by the rebels. On these images, we see fighters, apparently supporters of Bashar al-Assad, torturing two men to death for several minutes stabs and blocks béton.

Bertrand Boucey for service français