The editorial staff of “Libération” summarizes the main news of the day of Wednesday October 16.
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Lina’s body found in Nièvre
This is the epilogue of more than a year of intense research. Lina’s body was found this Wednesday “immersed in a watercourse located below an embankment”, according to the press release from the Strasbourg public prosecutor. The 15-year-old teenager disappeared on Saturday September 23, 2023 at the end of the morning after leaving her home in Plaine (Bas-Rhin) to go to a station three kilometers from her home. The Ford Puma vehicle used by Samuel Gonin, the main suspect in this case “had been geolocated at this location on September 24, 2023, the day after Lina’s disappearance”.
The Assembly will investigate the slippage in accounts in 2024
The finance committee of the National Assembly will change, for a time, in size. As planned, in parallel with the examination of the finance bill for 2025, its deputies will investigate for several weeks “the causes” of «la variation» and “gaps in tax and budget forecasts”. In short: try to explain why the public deficit should reach the mark of 6% of GDP in 2024 instead of the 4.4% then 5.1% planned by previous governments. Coming to understand, as its president Eric Coquerel explained, “everything we have seen over the past year regarding these figures which have constantly evolved”. In this mission, the rebel will be accompanied by Eric Ciotti, president of the group the deputy Union of Rights for the Republic (UDR) who was the first to call for a parliamentary commission of inquiry into budgetary slippages. But also Mathieu Lefèvre, leader of the Macronists in the Finance Committee.
Paul Watson asks Macron for asylum
Incarcerated in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, since July 21, environmental activist and inveterate defender of whales Paul Watson – subject to an extradition request from Japan for acts dating back 14 years – asked Emmanuel Macron to grant him political asylum in France, the NGO Sea Shepherd France announced this Wednesday during a press conference. From his cell, the 73-year-old American-Canadian activist, who lived in France before being arrested, wrote a letter to the head of state dated October 4. This letter was then sent to Paris by its support Lamya Essemlali, president of the association, then transmitted to the Elysée by its legal team, on October 11, specifies one of its lawyers François Zimeray. “It’s a form of cry for help,” he comments.
Nine departments on orange alert for thunderstorms
A new Cévennes episode which will hit soils already saturated with water. In a new bulletin published this Wednesday, Météo France places nine departments on orange alert for “rain-flood”, “thunderstorms” or “floods” for the day of Thursday. These are the Alpes-Maritimes, Ardèche, Aveyron, Corrèze, Gard, Lot, Lozère, Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Tarn. For Gard, Ardèche and Lozère, this vigilance will be effective from this evening.
Faced with the sale of Doliprane by Sanofi, a renewable strike launched
After a first warning shot on Monday, the CFDT and CGT unions of Sanofi are calling this Wednesday for a renewable strike from Thursday, to oppose the expected sale to an American fund of the Opella branch, which notably markets Doliprane. The CFDT, the predominant union at Sanofi (34%), wishes to “express anger at the sale of Opella”, on all of the group’s sites, according to a leaflet. This decision was taken following a letter from management addressed to employees who “continues to minimize things”specified Humberto de Sousa, CFDT Sanofi unionist. “She has not moved one iota, she still intends to sell to an American fund and is rolling out the plan, regardless of the government’s injunctions,” he added.
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