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☆ Marble bust bought for $6 and used as doorstop could sell for more than $3 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-12 | by ( Amarachi Orie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A sculpture bought for just £5 ($6) and used as a doorstop could sell for more than £2.5 million ($3.2 million) after a Scottish court gave the green light for its sale. In 1998, the bust was found being used to keep open a shed door on an industrial park, according to the Highland Council. In a May report on the proposed sale, the Highland Council said a private overseas buyer had contacted auction house Sotheby’s and put forward an offer of more than £2.5 million. Following a public consultation earlier this year, members of a council committee recommended that the bust should be sold. By June, the wider council had agreed to the proposal, the spokeswoman told CNN.

Persons: Edmé Bouchardon, John Gordon, Gordon, “, Invergordon, ” Organizations: CNN, Scottish Highlands, region’s Highland Council, Highland Council, Getty Museum, ” CNN, Central Michigan University Locations: Tain, Invergordon, Paris, Los Angeles

☆ Fact Check-Clip of French president slapped at meet-and-greet was filmed in June 2021, not November 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A clip of French President Emmanuel Macron being slapped across the face at a meet-and-greet with members of the public was filmed in June 2021, but users shared the clip in November 2022 with false claims that the president had been slapped again. In June, a court ordered Damien Tarel, the man who slapped Macron on June 8, to serve four months in jail, BFM TV reported at the time (here). The clip was not filmed recently, and instead, shows an angle filmed from the opposite side of a guard railing that separated the French president from members of the public on June 8, 2021. The earliest iteration Reuters found showing the fresh angle of the 2021 incident was uploaded to Twitter on Nov 12 by French lawyer, Juan Branco (archive.ph/LOlJZ). Branco told Reuters that he represents Tarel and confirmed that the clip showed a different angle of the same 2021 incident (here), (here).

De altfel, eu tocmai i-am scris unuia dintre primarii din departamentul Drôme, care a fost agresat", a adăugat Emmanuel Macron. Întrebat dacă se teme să mai aibă contacte cu cetăţenii, preşedintele Franţei a răspuns: "Nu, deloc. Preşedintele Franţei, Emmanuel Macron, a fost agresat de un individ, ieri, în cursul unei deplasări, iar agenţii serviciilor de securitate au anunţat reţinerea a doi suspecţi după incident. Incidentul a avut loc în timpul unei vizite pe care Emmanuel Macron a efectuat-o în localitatea Tain-l'Hermitage, situată în regiunea Drôme, în sud-estul Franţei. Palatul Elysée a comunicat că Emmanuel Macron a fost vizat de o "tentativă de pălmuire", sugerând că preşedintele a reuşit să se ferească de agresiune, potrivit cotidianului Le Parisien.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Emmanuel Macron ., Le, Opoziţia Organizations: Le, Doi Locations: Le Dauphiné, Republicii, Drôme, republican, Franţei, Franţa

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