the Middle East on alert, two homicides against a backdrop of drug trafficking involving minors in Marseille…

The Middle East on alert on the eve of the first anniversary of the October 7 massacres; Israeli raids continue in Lebanon and Gaza

The Israeli army declared, Sunday, October 6, to deploy additional troops in the surroundings of the Gaza Strip on the eve of the first commemoration of the Hamas attack which sparked the war, on October 7, 2023. Israeli operations have left more than 40 dead this weekend in the Palestinian enclave.

In Israel, a woman was killed and ten people injured in an armed attack in Beersheba, in the south of the country.

In Lebanon, Israeli raids continued with intensity. The official Lebanese news agency ANI reported more than “30 strikes” during the night from Saturday to Sunday on several sectors of the southern suburbs, a stronghold of Hezbollah, and an Agence France-Presse correspondent reported strikes in the east of the country. At least twenty-three people were killed and ninety-three others injured in bombings on Saturday, according to the Lebanese health ministry. The start of the school year has been postponed from October to November 4 “in the face of threatening danger” students and teachers, said the Lebanese Ministry of Education. Najib Mikati, the Lebanese Prime Minister, urged “put pressure on Israel” for a ceasefire.

Emmanuel Macron, in favor of stopping arms deliveries to Israel used in the Gaza Strip, provokes the anger of Benjamin Netanyahu

On Saturday, Emmanuel Macron said he was in favor of stopping arms deliveries to Israel which are used in the conflict in the Gaza Strip. “France does not deliver any”he added during this interview given on France Inter and recorded on 1^is October – it was in fact directly aimed at the United States.

These comments aroused the anger of the Israeli Prime Minister. ” Shame “reacted Benyamin Netanyahu to the French president and other Westerners calling for arms embargoes against his country. “As Israel fights the forces of barbarism led by Iran, all civilized countries should stand firmly with Israel”he continued. The Elysée published an update in the evening ensuring that France “is the unwavering friend of Israel” and lamenting the words “excessive” of Mr. Netanyahu.

In France, the president of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, judged on Sunday that it “We must not disarm Israel”. “Everyone is doing their utmost to ensure that there is finally a ceasefire. But it is clear that today the refusal of the ceasefire comes from Hamas (…) And therefore, unfortunately, we must not disarm Israel in these circumstances”she insisted on BFM. On the contrary, the deputy (La France insoumise) Eric Coquerel estimated on RTL that Mr. Macron’s declaration was « tardive » and that“It has been a long time since we actually had to stop arming Israel, at least with all the weapons used for the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”

Four migrants, including a 2-year-old child, died trying to cross the Channel

Two separate boats are involved. On Saturday morning, a canoe “overloaded”carrying nearly 90 people and suffering an engine failure, requested assistance. Fourteen people who were on board this boat were recovered, including a 2-year-old child found unresponsive, announced the prefect of Pas-de-Calais, Jacques Billant, on Saturday afternoon. According to the public prosecutor of Boulogne-sur-Mer, Guirec Le Bras, the first elements suggest that the child is dead ” crushed “ in the canoe.

On a second boat, also overloaded, “several engine failures generated panic” off the coast of Calais, and migrants fell into the sea but were able to be rescued, said the prefect. Three people, two men and a woman around 30 years old, were then discovered unconscious at the bottom of the boat, “probably crushed, suffocated and drowned during the stampedes, in the 40 centimeters of water present at the bottom of the inflatable boat”according to the prefect’s account.

A total of 973 migrants crossed the Channel on Saturday to reach the United Kingdom illegally on makeshift boats, the highest figure of the year. These arrivals, which were announced on Sunday, bring to 26,612 the number of migrants who have reached English shores this year, mainly from France.

In Marseille, a 15-year-old teenager killed and another 14-year-old suspected killer in two linked narchomicides

“Unprecedented savagery” et “ultrarejuvenation”. Nicolas Bessone, public prosecutor of Marseille, specified, Sunday October 6, that the victim of a narchomicide which occurred on Wednesday, “stabbed with fifty stab wounds and burned alive”was a 15-year-old teenager, and that the suspect in another murder committed Friday is 14 years old. These two cases are linked, specified the magistrate, stressing that the victim of the second homicide, a 36-year-old father, VTC driver and amateur footballer known in the region, was “totally external to drug trafficking” which are plaguing the second largest city in France.

On Wednesday, a teenager was killed as part of the execution of a contract for which he had been recruited for 2,000 euros by a 23-year-old man detained at the Luynes penitentiary center, near Aix-en-Provence, and presenting himself as belonging to the criminal organization DZ Mafia. Supposed to go and intimidate a competitor, the teenager is finally “stabbed with fifty stab wounds and taken to the city of Fonscolombes where (…) he will be burned alive in a scene of unprecedented savagery”.

Following this death, the same inmate from Luynes sponsored a second ” CONTRACT “ to take revenge and kill a member of the “Blacks” gang, for 50,000 euros this time. Having left to carry out his mission aboard a VTC, a 14-year-old teenager allegedly asked the driver to wait for him. But he refused, provoking the anger of the minor, who fired “a fatal bullet to the back of the head” with the 357 Magnum pistol with which he was armed, before fleeing and hiding nearby. He asked the sponsor for an exfiltration, but the latter called the police and reported him, which led to his arrest.

Donald Trump returns to Butler, at the scene of the assassination attempt on him

The 45^e President of the United States and current contender for the White House, returned on Saturday to Butler, Pennsylvania, to the scene of the assassination attempt on him on July 13. In front of a crowd committed to his cause, the Republican candidate assured, in a provocative tone, that he would not abandon ” Never “.

“Twelve weeks ago, right here, an assassin tried to silence me and our movement. This vicious monster (…) was close to achieving this, but the hand of Providence prevented him.”Donald Trump claimed. “I will never give up, never bend, never break”he said. He was speaking to several thousand people gathered in this town located in the crucial state of Pennsylvania, one month to the day before the presidential election on November 5 in which he will face Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris.

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