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Accusers stepped forward in 2018, as the #MeToo movement was taking off. Victims of sexual violence, consequently, often say they feel less isolated than they used to. Join us on Twitter and FacebookThere is, perhaps, one way in which the detractors of the #MeToo movement have a point. All of them — colleagues, neighbors or blood relations — more often than not, are able to maintain their status and privilege of their professions, despite allegations of sexual violence. It remains unclear whether the French will at long last “cancel” Gérard Depardieu, even if one or both trials find him guilty of sexual violence.
Persons: Caroline Séquin, , Gérard Depardieu, Caroline Sequin, Depardieu, Jacques Chirac, “ Depardieu, , Le Figaro, it’s, ” Depardieu, Emmanuel Macron, “ I’m, he’s, , ” Macron, Carla Bruni, Nicolas Sarkozy, Harvey Weinstein’s, Sandra Muller, , she’s, Le, Catherine Deneuve, men’s, that’s, MeToo, Camille Kouchner’s, ” Gérard Depardieu Organizations: Lafayette College, CNN, CNN —, Legion, Mediapart, France, Le Monde, French Interior Ministry, Twitter Locations: Easton , Pennsylvania, France, French, Colonial Senegal, CNN — France, United States, Familia Grande
CNN —Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is the new boss in town. Greene is intent on blocking funding to Ukraine — a massive blow to both NATO and the US’ own commitment to the post-World War II international order. This standoff demonstrates just how far the Republican Party has moved from the era of Ronald Reagan. Long before Greene, a growing number of Republicans began expressing increased skepticism toward international institutions like the United Nations. With Greene keeping Johnson’s feet to the fire when it comes to aid to Ukraine, the GOP’s revolution is almost complete.
Persons: Julian Zelizer, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Mike Johnson, Johnson, Greene, ” Greene, , we’ve, Ronald Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Long, , John Bolton, New York “, Jesse Helms of, George W, Bush, Saddam, Frances’s Jacques Chirac, Donald Trump, Bush’s, Putin, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Trump, MAGA Organizations: CNN, Princeton University, The New York Times, America, CNN — Republican, Republican, Ukraine, NATO, Republican Party, Soviet, United Nations, GOP, Republicans, UN, Senate Foreign, Iraq, Trump, Caucus Locations: Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Ukraine, United, United States, New York, Jesse Helms of North Carolina, Kyoto, Iraq, Russia, Helsinki, America
CNN —Populist firebrand Geert Wilders has conceded that he will not become the next prime minister of the Netherlands because his potential coalition backers have refused to back him. “I can only become Prime Minister if ALL parties in the coalition support it. Similarly, Swedish Prime Minister Ulif Kristersson relies on the votes of the increasingly Euroskeptic, anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats. Despite admitting defeat this time, Wilders pledged to continue his push to become prime minister in the future. “Don’t forget: I will still become Prime Minister of the Netherlands.
Persons: Geert Wilders, Wilders ’, , Wilders, ” Wilders, , Mark Rutte, Pieter Omtzigt, sanitaire, Jean, Marie Le Pen, Marine, Lionel Jospin, Jacques Chirac, Petteri Orpo, Sanna Marin, Ulif Kristersson, Robert Fico, “ Don’t Organizations: CNN, Democracy Party, Social Contract Party, European Union, National, Socialist, Socialists, Finns Party, Swedish, Sweden Democrats, Georgia Meloni Locations: Netherlands, Europe, Ukraine, Finland, Sweden, Georgia, Italy, Slovakia
Perhaps not, supposes Kehinde Wiley in his latest collection, “A Maze of Power,” which, in the artist’s own indelible style, casts plenty of light of its own. We’re now learning that before and after that commission, he had been on a secret, decade-long odyssey across the African continent, painting its current and former heads of state. This series narrows the gap further, with subjects commanding a similar power to some of Wiley’s artistic reference points. Tanguy Beurdeley/© Courtesy Kehinde Wiley and Galerie TemplonHery Rajaonarimampianina, the former president of Madagascar, sits astride a horse in one painting. Some might wrinkle their nose at seeing certain heads or former heads of state depicted in such triumphant fashion.
Persons: Kehinde Wiley, Wiley, Barack Obama, We’re, Jacques Chirac, Obama, Sarah Ligner, Black, Old, Olusegun Obasanjo, Paul Kagame, Tanguy, Hery Rajaonarimampianina, Alpha Condé, , , Rajaonarimampianina –, , “ it’s, Andy Warhol’s, Mao Organizations: CNN, Old Masters, Democratic, Wiley Locations: Africa, Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, Los Angeles, Senegal, Nigeria, New York, Paris, France, Rwanda, Madagascar, Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Guinea, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Democratic Republic of Congo
Humble beginningsPutin and Prigozhin share relatively humble beginnings, and the Wagner chief grew up in the tougher neighborhoods of St. Petersburg, which is also the president’s hometown. Prigozhin founded Wagner that year as a mercenary outfit that fought both in Ukraine and, increasingly, for Russian-backed causes around the world. In recent months, Prigozhin has created a dilemma for Putin by becoming an outspoken critic of Russia’s military leaders. The Wagner mutiny began when Prigozhin unleashed a fresh tirade against the Russian military and then marched his troops into the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. Prigozhin responded on Telegram saying that Putin was “deeply mistaken.”“We are patriots of our Motherland, we fought and are fighting,” the Wagner chief said.
Persons: Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, Vladimir Putin, Alexander Lukashenko, Putin, , Humble, George Bush, Jacques Chirac of France, ” Prigozhin, Defense Yunus, Bek Yevkurov, Wagner –, , Mark Hertling, Misha Japaridze, Sergei Shoigu, Valery Gerasimov, , Don Organizations: CNN, Kremlin, Russian, Moscow Times, Defense, Reuters CNN, Central African, Internet Research Agency, US Treasury Department, United, Russian Defense Locations: Moscow, Ukraine, Russian, Belarus, St . Petersburg, Africa, Central African Republic, Sudan, Libya, Mozambique, Mali, Syria, Soledar, Prigozhin's, Russia, Bakhmut, Rostov
Olympic triathletes test swimming in the Seine
  + stars: | 2023-08-16 | by ( Yiming Woo | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
PARIS, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Olympic triathletes tested swimming in the Seine in Paris on Wednesday, 10 days after heavy rainfall caused the water quality to dip below minimum health standards and forced the cancellation of another open water competition. The Seine is in the spotlight as the river - where swimming has long been banned - is due to be the venue for marathon swimming at next year's Olympic Games. Blummenfelt and others were jumping in to get used to the course and the currents before an official Paris 2024 test event scheduled for Thursday. Bathing in the Seine has been banned since 1923, with promises to restore water quality going back to 1990, when Paris mayor Jacques Chirac - later French president - vowed to make the Seine safe for swimming again. Reporting by Yiming Woo; Writing by Ingrid Melander, editing by Pritha SarkarOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: Kristian Blummenfelt, Jacques Chirac, Yiming Woo, Ingrid Melander, Pritha Sarkar Organizations: Paris, Triathlon, Thomson Locations: Seine, Paris
Paris 2024 Olympics - Training for test swimming event for Paris 2024 - River Seine, Paris, France - August 4, 2023 A tourist boat is pictured on the River Seine beside the Pont Alexandre III bridge REUTERS/Stephanie LecocqPARIS, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Participants of this weekend's Open Water Swimming World Cup were barred from a Friday morning training session in Paris' river Seine as heavy rainfall caused water quality to dip below health standards, the French Swimming Federation (FFN) said. The women's 10 kilometre race on Saturday - a qualifying event for marathon swimming at the Paris 2024 Olympics - is still scheduled to go ahead, pending a new river water quality test on Friday evening. "The water quality tests are done regularly, and they are progressively improving," the spokesperson added. International federation World Aquatics did not immediately respond to a request for comment about further backup plans for the races if Seine water quality does not improve this weekend. The city has been working on clean-up efforts to make the Seine swimmable again, as it was during the 1900 Paris Olympics more than a century ago.
Persons: Pont Alexandre III, Stephanie Lecocq PARIS, Jacques Chirac, America Hernandez, Geert De Clercq Organizations: Paris, French Swimming Federation, Olympics, Thomson Locations: Seine, Paris, France, Villette, Egypt, Italy
Paris CNN —Back in the 1980s, when I first began living in Paris, I once had to clamber onto the tiny exterior staircase that surrounds the Eiffel Tower and is used to paint or repair it. Still, at that time, nothing could have impelled me to risk a swim in that other iconic Parisian sight — the Seine River — not without a full biohazard suit. Today’s Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has made a similar promise, and local authorities have put 1.4 billion euros ($1.55 billion) behind it. Paris has indeed made strides in cleaning up its famous river — water samples from June showed “excellent results” in complying with European regulation, according to city hall. In 1972’s “Last Tango in Paris,” Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider first meet on a Seine bridge.
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Far-right parties are propping up coalitions in Finland and Sweden. Afraid of losing voters to UKIP (and other far-right parties), the governing Conservatives ended up adopting many of its positions. Chesnot/Getty Images Europe/Getty ImagesConversely, far-right parties have attempted to sanitize some of their rhetoric, hoping to appear a more credible electoral prospect. Leon Neal/Getty ImagesA different type of populismAnd so the recent successes of far-right parties cannot be explained by dramatic shifts in public opinion. A lot depends on the ability of mainstream parties – particularly on the left – to build tents big enough to accommodate their differences, rather than compromising with far-right parties to prop up their coalitions.
Persons: Donald Trump, , Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel’s, Mario Draghi, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Viktor Orban, Andrej Babis, Czech Michael Bloomberg, Czech Donald Trump, Meloni, Mussolini, Nigel Farage, Jack Taylor, Farage, Jean, Marie Le Pen, Marine, Lionel Jospin, Jacques Chirac, Petteri Orpo, Sanna Marin, Vilhelm Junnila, Ulif Kristersson, Mark Rutte’s, Pen, Chesnot, Philippe Marlier, ” Le, Matteo Salvini, Vladimir Putin, Tino Chrupalla, Alice Weidel, Thomas Lohnes, Omer Messinger, Larry Bartels, Boris Johnson, Leon Neal, Giorgia Meloni, Odd Andersen, Orban, Kaczynski, Rutte’s, Pedro Sanchez Organizations: CNN, White, Channel, European Central Bank, Italy’s, Vox, UK Independence Party, UKIP, European Union, EU, Conservatives, National, Socialist, Socialists, Finns Party, Swedish, Sweden Democrats, Rassemblement National, University College London, Lega, Ukraine, Russia, Former British, Italy's, NATO, Getty, Spain’s Locations: United Kingdom, United States, Europe, Brussels, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Czech, France, Finland, Sweden, Austria, European, Netherlands, Russian, Oxfordshire, Vilnius
His death, caught on video, has reignited longstanding complaints by poor and racially mixed urban communities of police violence and racism. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said early on Saturday that 270 people had been arrested on Friday night, bringing the total to more than 1,100 since unrest ignited. In Lyon, France's third-largest city, the gendarmes police force deployed armoured personnel carriers and a helicopter to quell the unrest. Darmanin asked local authorities across France to halt bus and tram traffic from 9 p.m. (1900 GMT) and said 45,000 officers were being deployed, 5,000 more than on Thursday. In Paris, police cleared protesters from the iconic central Place de la Concorde square on Friday night after an impromptu demonstration.
Persons: Nahel, Juan Medina, Macron, Emmanuel Macron, Gerald Darmanin, France's, Benoit Payan, Darmanin, we're, Snapchat, Mohamed Jakoubi, Enzo Santo Domingo, Ravina Shamdasani, Laurent, Franck Lienard, didn't, Lienard, Jacques Chirac, Dominique Vidalon, Marc Leras, Jean, Stephane Brosse, Pascal Rossignol, Elizabeth Pineau, Layli Foroudi, Gabrielle Tetrault, Farber, Charlotte Van Campenhout, Alison Williams, Sandra Maler, Dan Wallis, Cynthia Osterman Organizations: REUTERS, Government, Marseille, TF1, French soccer, Stade de France, de, Meta, Twitter, Thomson Locations: Nanterre, Paris, France, PARIS, Marseille, Lyon, Toulouse, Strasbourg, Lille, Spanish, Bilbao, Brussels, Aubervilliers, U.S, Geneva, Amsterdam
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who had deployed 40,000 officers on Thursday night in a bid to quell a third night of unrest, said on Twitter that police made 667 arrests. Macron will meet with his cabinet at 1100 GMT in Paris, likely cutting short his attendance at a European Union summit in Brussels, his office said. Twelve buses were set on fire and destroyed overnight in a depot in Aubervilliers, in northern Paris. They said they had made 307 arrests in and around the city and that nine police and fire officers had been injured. In Roubaix, in northern France, a fire destroyed the office of the TESSI company and several cars were set on fire.
Persons: Nahel, Emmanuel Macron, Gerald Darmanin, Macron, Elisabeth Borne, Clement Beaune, Laurent, Franck Lienard, didn't, Lienard, Jacques Chirac, Dominique Vidalon, Sudip Kar, Gupta, Jean, Stephane Brosse, Benoit Van Overstraeten, Pascal Rossignol, Elizabeth Pineau, Marc Leras, John Stonestreet Organizations: Firefighters, Twitter, Nationwide, Transport, RMC, Les, Nike, Police, Thomson Locations: Nanterre, Alma, Roubaix, France, Brussels, PARIS, Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse, Lille, Paris, Algerian, Aubervilliers, NANTERRE, Paris's, Rue, Rivoli, France's, Le Vieux, Clichy
Paris police shooting: why are there riots in France?
  + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
PARIS, June 29 (Reuters) - Riots have convulsed France after police shot dead a teenager of North African descent at a traffic stop in a Paris suburb. He was known to police for previous incidents in which he failed to comply with traffic stops, the local prosecutor Pascal Prache said. Tuesday's killing was the third fatal shooting during traffic stops in France so far in 2023, down from a record 13 last year. In 2005, violence erupted in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois and spread across France after two teenagers of African descent were electrocuted in a power substation as they hid from police. That unrest convulsed France for three weeks and forced then President Jacques Chirac to declare a state of emergency.
Persons: Moroccan, Pascal Prache, Nahel, Prache, Emmanuel Macron, Jacques Chirac, Richard Lough, Andrew Cawthorne Organizations: WHO, Police, Paris . Police, Mercedes, Authorities, Thomson Locations: France, North, Paris, Algerian, Nanterre, United States, Clichy
The shooting of the 17-year-old, identified as Nahel, took place in Nanterre, on the western outskirts of Paris. The teenager, who was too young to hold a full license in France, was driving illegally, a source familiar with the investigation said. The Nanterre prosecutor said he was known to police for previously failing to comply with a traffic stop order. The unrest has revived memories of riots in 2005 that convulsed France for three weeks and forced then-president Jacques Chirac to declare a state of emergency. Tuesday's killing was the third fatal shooting during traffic stops in France so far in 2023, down from a record 13 last year, a spokesperson for the national police said.
Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Gerald Darmanin, Macron, Darmanin, Elisabeth Borne, Pascal Prache, Nahel, Stephanie Lecocq, Jacques Chirac, Benoit Van Overstraeten, dominique Vidalon, John Stonestreet, Frank Jack Daniel Our Organizations: Government, . Police, REUTERS, Reuters, Prosecutors, Police, Thomson Locations: Paris, PARIS, France, North, Nanterre, Paris suburb, Republic, Lille, Toulouse, Amiens, Dijon, Clichy
National police said on Thursday night that officers faced new incidents in Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse and Lille, including fires and fireworks. The local prosecutor said the officer involved had been put under formal investigation over voluntary homicide and would be held in prison in preventive detention. Under France's legal system, being placed under formal investigation is akin to being charged in Anglo-Saxon jurisdictions. He said the officer had aimed down towards the driver's leg but was bumped, causing him to shoot towards his chest. The unrest has revived memories of riots in 2005 that convulsed France for three weeks and forced then-president Jacques Chirac to declare a state of emergency.
Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Pascal Prache, Mercedes, Nahel, Gonzalo Fuentes, Laurent, Franck Lienard, didn't, Lienard, Prache, Macron, Jacques Chirac, Benoit Van Overstraeten, Layli, Noemie Olive, Leigh Thomas, Michel Rose, Richard Lough, John Stonestreet, Frank Jack Daniel, Alexandra Hudson, Daniel Wallis, Gerry Doyle Organizations: Nike, National, Lille, Le Vieux Port, REUTERS, Reuters, Thomson Locations: France, Paris suburb NANTERRE, Algerian, Nanterre, Paris, Rivoli, Marseille, Lyon, Pau, Toulouse, France's, Le Vieux, Provence, Paris suburb, Clichy, Blanc Mesnil
Françoise Gilot, a tireless artist who defied simple categorization — and efforts to define her merely as a footnote in the story of her former lover Pablo Picasso — died Tuesday in New York. The early years of her career coincided with World War II and the Nazi occupation of Paris. In 1970, Gilot married her second husband, Jonas Salk, a virologist who developed one of the first polio vaccines. "Paloma à la Guitare" by Francoise Gilot (1965) was part of Sotheby's (Women) Artists Sale in 2021 in London, England. In 2012, Gagosian staged the first exhibition of Gilot’s work alongside Picasso’s, “Picasso and Françoise Gilot: Paris–Vallauris 1943–1953,” which focused on works made during their relationship.
Persons: Françoise, Pablo Picasso —, Aurelia Engel, Gilot, Engel, Madeleine Decre’s, Picasso, Carlton Lake, , Picasso’s, Pablo Picasso, Francoise Gillot, Roger Viollet, ” Gilot, , Claude, Paloma Picasso —, Luc Simon, Paris ’ Galerie Louise Leiris, York’s David Findley, Simon, Engel’s, Jonas Salk, Salk, Paloma, Francoise Gilot, John Phillips, Gerald Joyce, Jonas Salk —, Jonas, Gagosian, “ Picasso, John Richardson, Richardson, John Bright, , Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy, WHYY’s Terry Gross Organizations: The Art, CNN, The New York Times, Paris ’ Galerie, United, Galleria Santo, Galerie Coard, Salk, Salk Institute, Acatos Publishing, New York, Penske Media, Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, ville de, New Orleans Museum of Art, National Museum of Women, Arts, of Arts, National Merit, Legion Locations: New York, Paris, Neuilly, Seine, Nazi, Europe, United States, Venice, Dantesca, Turin, Pierre, , San Diego , California, Sotheby's, London, England, California, Antibes, ville de Paris, Washington , DC, France
PARIS, May 31 (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged on Wednesday that France should have paid more attention to Eastern European nations, which warned about a belligerent Russia before Moscow's forces invaded Ukraine. Macron told a security forum there should be no division between "Old Europe" and "New Europe", referring to enduring divergences between eastern and western European Union members over matters such as Russia. "Let's be grateful and say thank you to the United States. Macron said Russia had suffered clear setbacks in the war, including Finland's accession to NATO and losing legitimacy on the global stage. We can see that what was supposed to be a 'special operation' is already a geopolitical failure," Macron said.
Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Macron, Jacques Chirac, EU's, Vladimir Putin, Let's, Donald Trump, Michel Rose, Mark Heinrich, Jon Boyle Organizations: PARIS, Eastern, European Union, Russia, NATO, Thomson Locations: France, Russia, Ukraine, Europe, Slovak, Bratislava, United States, Britain, Iraq, Germany, Paris, Poland
Sarkozy, 68, who served one term as French president from 2007 to 2012, has constantly denied any wrongdoing. In 2013, investigators looking into the Libyan connection decided to wire-tap two of Sarkozy's phone lines. As they did, they discovered a secret phone line used by the ex-president and his lawyer, ultimately leading to the corruption investigation. During the appeals trial, Sarkozy said "I'm here to defend my honour, which has been violated. The only other president during the course of France's 64-year-old Fifth Republic to be convicted by a court was Sarkozy's conservative predecessor, the late Jacques Chirac, who was found guilty of corruption in 2011.
Trump and his sons are decrying his indictment as a sign the US is now a "third world" country. But other democracies across the world have prosecuted, convicted, and even jailed former leaders. Trump's sons offered similar takes, portraying the charges against the former president as a political attack orchestrated by his opponents. Trump is the first former US president to be criminally charged, and his indictment comes amid a period of historic political polarization. The researchers said that in "mature democracies, prosecutions can hold leaders accountable and solidify the rule of law."
Here is why:WHAT CHANGES TO THE PENSION SYSTEM DOES MACRON WANT TO MAKE? Failure to act would see the pension system record an annual deficit of 13.5 billion euros by 2030, the government forecasts. The government calculated that "accompanying measures" to smooth the way would cost 4.8 billion euros, creating a 0.3 billion euros surplus in 2030. France's pension system costs nearly 14% of GDP, the third highest within the OECD behind Italy and Greece. He could call a referendum on the pension reform and risk it becoming a plebiscite on his presidency.
Fostul preşedinte Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, promotorul unor reforme profunde în Franța și un susținător fervent al proiectului european, a decedat miercuri seara „ca urmare a COVID”, a informat într-un comunicat familia înaltului demnitar. „Valéry Giscard d'Estaing s-a stins miercuri, 2 decembrie, în locuinţa familiei sale din Loir-et-Cher. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing a exercitat un singur mandat, fiind învins la scrutinul din 1981 de socialistul François Mitterrand. Votul negativ al francezilor acordat acestui proiect la referendumul din mai 2005 a fost o dezamăgire imensă pentru Giscard d'Estaing. El a înființat G7Valéry Giscard d'Estaing a instituit în 1975 reuniunea anuală la nivel înalt a ţărilor celor mai industrializate, devenită ulterior G8.
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,,Valéry Giscard d'Estaing s-a stins miercuri, 2 decembrie, în locuinţa familiei sale din Loir-et-Cher. Starea sa de sănătate se deteriorase şi a murit de Covid-19”, a scris familia sa într-un comunicat. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing a exercitat un singur mandat, fiind învins la scrutinul din 1981 de socialistul François Mitterrand. În memoriile sale, ,,Le Pouvoir et la vie” (Puterea şi viaţa), Valéry Giscard d'Estaing scrie că personalităţile politice care l-au impresionat cel mai mult au fost Charles de Gaulle şi Jean Monnet. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing a instituit în 1975 reuniunea anuală la nivel înalt a ţărilor celor mai industrializate, devenită ulterior G8.
Persons: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Loir - et - Cher, Valéry, Georges Pompidou, François Mitterrand, Giscard, G . Pompidou, Jacques Chirac, Le, Charles de Gaulle, Jean Monnet, Giscard d'Estaing Organizations: Uniunea Europeană, Comunitatea Economică Europeană Locations: Loir - et -, Authon, Tours, preşedinte, Paris, secţia, Britanii, Château, Rambouillet, SUA, RFG, Japonia, Britanie, Franţa, Italia, Italiei, Canadei, Rusia
Denunţând un ''scandal care va rămâne în istorie'', fostul şef de stat, în vârstă de 65 de ani, promite că va fi ''combativ'' în faţa instanţei în acest proces fără precedent.Înaintea lui, un alt fost preşedinte francez, Jacques Chirac, a fost judecat - şi condamnat în anul 2011 la doi ani de închisoare cu suspendare - pentru angajări fictive la primăria Parisului făcute pe vremea când fusese edilul capitalei franceze. Însă acum este pentru prima dată când un fost preşedinte al Franţei este judecat pentru corupţie.Retras din politică după ce a pierdut cursa internă a dreptei franceze pentru alegerile prezidenţiale din 2017, Sarkozy riscă zece ani de închisoare şi o amendă de un milion de euro pentru corupţie şi trafic de influenţă, la fel şi ceilalţi doi inculpaţi, judecaţi în plus şi pentru încălcarea secretului profesional.Dosarul ''interceptărilor'' îşi are originea într-un alt dosar judiciar care-l ameninţă pe Sarkozy, acela legat de suspiciunile privind finanţarea campaniei sale prezidenţiale din anul 2007 cu bani primiţi de la fostul dictator libian Muammar Gaddafi.În luna martie 2012, site-ul de investigaţii Mediapart a publicat un document din care reiese că, în anul 2007, Franţa a vândut Libiei echipamente de control pe internet, contract ce ar fi fost folosit pentru finanţarea respectivei campanii electorale printr-un comision de 50 de milioane de euro. În timpul procedurii legate de această sesizare Sarkozy ar fi încercat în 2014 să obţină respectivele informaţii secrete de la Gilbert Azibert, la acea vreme judecător la Curtea de Casaţie.Validarea interceptărilor, în martie 2016, de către cea mai înaltă instanţă a Franţei a fost o înfrângere majoră pentru fostul preşedinte, care a susţinut că transcrierea discuţiilor între un avocat şi clientul său este ilegală.O altă anchetă contestată a PNF revine acum în atenţie. Clasată în anul 2019, aceasta urmărea să identifice ''cârtiţa'' care i-ar fi avertizat pe Nicolas Sarkozy şi pe Thierry Herzog că linia lor secretă 'Bismuth' era interceptată.În cadrul acestei anchete magistraţii au analizat facturile telefonice detaliate ale unor avocaţi celebri, unii dintre aceştia fiind apărătorii ai inculpaţilor la procesul care începe luni. Printre ei se numără şi actualul ministru francez al justiţiei, Eric Dupond-Moretti, care la jumătatea lui septembrie a deschis o anchetă administrativă împotriva a trei magistraţi ai PNF.Pe Nicolas Sarkozy îl mai aşteaptă un proces în primăvară, şi anume dosarul ''Bygmalion'' legat de finanţarea campaniei sale prezidenţiale din 2012.Fostul preşedinte consideră că acţiunile judiciare împotriva lui sunt motivate politic, punând inculparea sa pentru corupţie pe seama 'instrumentalizării politice a unei părţi a justiţiei'.
Persons: Jacques Chirac, Sarkozy, Muammar Gaddafi.În, Paul Bismuth, Thierry Herzog.Conform, prezidenţial Sarkozy, Thierry Herzog, Gilbert Azibert, Nicolas Sarkozy, Eric Dupond Locations: Denunţând, francez, Parisului, Franţa, Libiei, franceză, Monaco, preşedinte
Înaintea lui, un alt fost preşedinte francez, Jacques Chirac, a fost judecat - şi condamnat în anul 2011 la doi ani de închisoare cu suspendare - pentru angajări fictive la primăria Parisului făcute pe vremea când fusese edilul capitalei franceze. Însă acum este pentru prima dată când un fost preşedinte al Franţei este judecat pentru corupţie. Validarea interceptărilor, în martie 2016, de către cea mai înaltă instanţă a Franţei a fost o înfrângere majoră pentru fostul preşedinte, care a susţinut că transcrierea discuţiilor între un avocat şi clientul său este ilegală. Pe Nicolas Sarkozy îl mai aşteaptă un proces în primăvară, şi anume dosarul „Bygmalion” legat de finanţarea campaniei sale prezidenţiale din 2012. Fostul preşedinte consideră că acţiunile judiciare împotriva lui sunt motivate politic, punând inculparea sa pentru corupţie pe seama „instrumentalizării politice a unei părţi a justiţiei”.
Persons: Jacques Chirac, corupţie, Sarkozy, îşi, libian Muammar Gaddafi, Paul Bismuth, Thierry Herzog, prezidenţial Sarkozy, Gilbert Azibert, Nicolas Sarkozy, Eric Dupond Locations: francez, Parisului, libian, Franţa, Libiei, franceză, Monaco, preşedinte
watch nowFrance is experiencing one of its biggest strikes in decades as public sector workers protest against changes to the pension system. According to the French newspaper, Le Monde, more than 180 000 people are taking to the streets in 30 different parts of France. Prior to his election in 2017, President Emmanuel Macron vowed to reform France's pension system. watch nowPrevious attempts to change the pension system have also been met with strong opposition from public sector workers. However, transport workers argue that the new system would mean they would have to work longer into old age or see their pension reduced.
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