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The call to Celine Dion to find treatment
#MONTPELLIER Christian Jorgensen, director of the IHU (Immun4cure university hospital institute) has launched an appeal to Celine Dion. He believes that with financial help from the singer, his teams would be able to develop a treatment for the disease she suffers from, stiff person syndrome.
“It’s not a joke, if someone comes today with 10 million euros and says make me a biomedicine, I’ll do it. In two years, it will be ready,” he declared to France Bleu.
An amount which does not represent “not much” for Celine Dion. The professor says he came into contact with the singer’s teams, but this “did not follow up”.
L’escale de Zuckerberg
#GARD Returning from the Balearic Islands, Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, stopped off this weekend in Port-Camargue before heading back to Monaco. His two yachts, which he is said to have recently acquired, are currently sailing in the Mediterranean.
The impressive 118-metre-long, 5,000-ton boat, escorted by its support vessel designed to accommodate helicopters or jet skis, was stationed on our coast, near Espiguette in Grau-du-Roi, spending the weekend sheltered from the mistral.
The Launchpad, originally built for a Russian oligarch, requires a crew of nearly 50 people, and has on board a swimming pool, bars and panoramic lounges, but also a diving center equipped with a hyperbaric chamber.
The number of the day: 90
#LOZERE These Saturday June 29 and Sunday June 30, 2024, ninety old vehicles at least 35 years old will cover nearly 350 kilometers throughout the department for the Pays de Lozère rally.
Organised by the Lozère association Écurie Gévaudan, this event is above all an open regularity car ride to which a navigation part is added. 47 duos are taking part in the regularity category event and 43 in the leisurely navigation category.
A family’s call for help after a fire
#HERAULT After a house fire in Salelles-du-Bosc, a family was urgently rehoused. Donations of clothing and food poured in thanks to a wonderful outpouring of generosity.
Close friends launched an appeal for crowdfunding to support the couple and the four children but five days after the disaster which ravaged their house Anouck and Guillaume are still in shock.
With the help of the town hall and the efforts of the Relais du Salagou lodge in Salelles, the family was urgently rehoused in a warm chalet until July 20. After that, they would have to leave.
The search is underway, the family is launching an appeal. She wants to stay in the area so as not to further disturb the children. : “The older ones go to college in Lodève. The little one is at school in Saint-Martin-du-Bosc. The children have already lost a lot. We really hope that they can keep their habits, their friends, their bearings”analyzes the couple.
Canadairs unavailable
#NIMES Of the twelve Canadairs available to Civil Security based in Nîmes-Garons, “six should have been available at the beginning of June.” But at this period,“between 0 and 2” were actually usable, regrets in Var matin Benoît Quennepoix, general secretary of the national union of civil aviation flight crew.
A lack of serious consequences since, during the fire in Vidauban (Var) on June 11, only three devices were able to be dispatched. Most of the fleet’s air tankers date from 1995 and should have been replaced after 25 years.
