He hoped to find love. This Friday, around 3 a.m., in the Saint-Jean train station district of Bordeaux, an 18-year-old from Brest was ambushed. The one of his heart, with whom he had been interacting for a year on Instagram, was present, but was accompanied by around ten individuals. Armed with an electric pulse gun and knives, they beat him and sprayed him with tear gas, before forcing him into the car where he was stripped naked, reports Sud Ouest. At the end of a long ordeal, the victim was finally able to escape, after being stripped of his clothes, shoes, cell phone and bank card. The investigation was entrusted to the territorial crime division.
Brestoise Amélie Bescond elected Miss Armorique 2024
This Friday evening, Amélie Bescond, 26 years old, from Brest, was elected Miss Armorique 2024 in Louvigné-du-Désert (35). She is a hospital nurse. His parents are from Plouzané. On September 27, she will participate in the election of Miss Brittany 2024 which will take place in Ploemeur (56).
Écophyto Plan, cash flow aid, water storage… New measures to (try to) calm agricultural anger
The government has made public “complementary” measures in favor of farmers, in the hope of ending the crisis which caused exceptional blockages at the start of 2024 and continues to smolder among farmers. Among these measures are the promised presentation “at the beginning of May” of the final version of the Écophyto pesticide reduction plan, put on hold due to the agricultural crisis, as well as new cash flow aid for farms, the acceleration of 100 water storage or irrigation projects, and an aid plan for three departments hit by weather crises. The Executive has also confirmed that the reform of agricultural pensions, the technical implementation of which was debated, will apply in 2026.
French debt: the government escapes the sanction of Fitch and Moody’s
After a series of bad news, their opinion on the solidity of the French debt was particularly watched. But Fitch and Moody’s, two of the largest rating agencies, left their ratings unchanged. Fitch has reaffirmed its rating (“AA-”), meaning the risk of default is very low. Moody’s, for its part, has not strictly speaking confirmed its rating of “Aa2”, but has not modified it either. “This decision should invite us to redouble our determination to restore our public finances and meet the objective set by the President of the Republic: to be below 3% deficit in 2027,” reacted Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy .
The Belem heads for France with the Olympic flame on board
This Saturday morning, the Belem cast off in the port of Piraeus, near Athens, and began sailing towards France, with the flame of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on board. The three-masted ship is expected on May 8 in Marseille, where the torch relay across France will begin, until the opening ceremony of the Games on July 26. “It’s such a great emotion,” declared Tony Estanguet, president of the organizing committee, who had symbolically received the flame the day before in Athens. “Now we are going to bring (her) back to France with this boat, the Belem, which also dates from 1896”, the year of the first Olympic Games of the modern era. “What a fantastic coincidence!” “, he said.
