The evening between friends ends in blood
Once a month, Fatima leaves her husband and children for an evening with “girls”. They are accustomed to a restaurant in Haillan, with oriental cuisine and a dance floor. On January 16, she appeared before the Bordeaux criminal court, with a scar on her cheek. In the defendant's box, there is the man who broke a glass on his face. His story follows. “He kept rubbing himself, he wanted me to dance with him. He was drunk. » The group of men filmed her while she danced. “She asks them to stop, glares at them. The defendant calls her a prostitute and becomes very heavy. She doesn’t let it happen and he hits her,” relays the prosecutor. The man was sentenced to one year in prison, including six months, without a committal warrant. This court report by Elisa Artigue-Cazcarra has been read more than 1 million times.
Kendji Girac injured by gunshot, hospitalized in Pessac
The singer was shot and injured with an 11-caliber automatic pistol while trying to “simulate a suicide” on April 22 at a Traveler reception area in Biscarrosse. Kendji Girac, winner of “The Voice” in 2014, and originally from Saint-Astier (24), had undergone surgery after a serious chest injury in Haut-Lévêque in Pessac.
The area demarcated by the gendarmes around the caravan where Kendji Girac was shot and injured on the night of April 21 to 22, 2024, in the busy travel area at the entrance to Biscarrosse, in the Landes.
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The affair caused a stir. The next day, the 80 caravans of the community of travelers and his family headed towards Gironde to get closer to the star. A news item, and its legal consequences, widely read and commented on. Since then, Kendji Girac has released a new album “Vivre”. He will be in concert in the Dax arenas on July 27 and at the Arkéa Arena in Bordeaux on February 26, 2026.
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Kendji Girac signing at La Feuilleraie in Dordogne at the end of October for his latest album “Vivre”.
“I saw him 200 m from the shore, he was screaming”
It was after reading an article in “Sud Ouest” that neighbors of the young man, who had disappeared on Monday November 25 in Andernos-les-Bains, found him alive, but in hypothermia, in the mud. At the start of the afternoon, the thirty-year-old had swum in 13 degree water and had not reappeared. A letter had been found, suggesting that he may have wanted to end his life. It was after finding information on sudouest.fr that the couple went looking for him. “We were shocked. We said to ourselves that we would still look outside. She went out and heard a distant but terrible cry carried by the wind. She quickly warned me. I walked towards the sound and saw it, about 200m from shore, it was screaming. I stepped into the mud. He was lying there, in his underwear, in a state of severe hypothermia. Without this article, I would have stayed on my sofa,” Romain La Posta testified.
Water in the fuel at Leclerc?
The investigation began by reading numerous comments on social media. Motorists warn that their cars have broken down after refueling at Leclerc gas stations, in Sainte-Eulalie, Talence… The rumor is growing in April. Journalist Nicolas Laplume collected the words of disaster victims. “I had a starting problem. My vehicle had no power at all. I took it to the mechanic, and there he told me that there was 30% water in the diesel. The injection pump and injectors were ruined. » Damage assessment: 3,500 euros for repairs. “For a 73 euro fill-up of diesel, it hurts…” The article is widely read (776,000 views). To the point that the boss of E. Leclerc, Michel-Edouard Leclerc, interviewed on franceinfo, replied: “there are no traces of water. » “But there are many real people who have a problem and who have been told to go see Leclerc. Send us your files, we’ll see,” he suggested, after specifying that this concerned “around fifty customers in Gironde”, including “25 for the Sainte-Eulalie station, out of 3,000 full tanks per day”. The matter is continuing.
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In Gironde, reports of motorists breaking down multiplied in mid-April after their visit to the Leclerc Sainte-Eulalie or Talence service stations.
The head trauma of Albert Elis
On February 24, the Honduran striker for the Girondins de Bordeaux suffered severe head trauma following a blow to the temple during the match against Guingamp. He was operated on during the night at the Bordeaux University Hospital, placed in an artificial coma with a guarded vital prognosis. The Girondins are still in Ligue 2. “We won for him this evening. We are waiting for news. We are waiting, we are very worried and we are praying for him,” commented his teammate Jérémy Livolant.
Alberth Elis told “The Athletic” about his rehabilitation: “when I woke up (from the coma), I didn’t remember that I was a footballer, nor that I was in France or that I was Honduran. The doctors thought it was going to be difficult for me to get well again. The first two weeks were difficult because I wasn't 100% mentally, but day by day my condition improved. » Since then, he has set up a club in Honduras, “Panteras FC”.
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Alberth Elis was evacuated on a stretcher with an oxygen mask on February 24 during the Girondins de Bordeaux match against Guingamp at the Matmut Atlantique stadium in Bordeaux.
Panic in Bordeaux Saint-Michel
On September 29, a group of around fifteen individuals, all hooded and dressed in black, triggered a crowd movement, around 7:30 p.m., on Place Meynard, in Saint-Michel in Bordeaux, while the terraces of cafes were full. The gang burst in after stoning, using batons, windows on Rue des Faures, an adjacent shopping street with many oriental shops. “They had machetes, all the tables waltzed. We brought the customers inside and tidied up the terrace. I would like the town hall to do something and recognize the problem, because it is unacceptable that there are semi-guerrilla scenes on a Sunday afternoon. Saint-Michel is not a cutthroat, but it is not normal for people to be afraid,” the manager of a café testified. The story made politicians react. Last May, a brawl with machetes and baseball bats on rue des Menuts, leaving three people injured, had already caused a stir in the neighborhood.
