Travelers expelled, a cold case for Grêlé, lessons from the biggest fire of the summer: the essential news in the region

An illegal Traveler housing estate evacuated

#MONTPELLIER 130 police officers intervened this Thursday, January 16 in Lattes, to evict the 150 people who occupied an illegally urbanized agricultural plot. Gravel streets, fences and gates, small buildings, septic tanks: over the years, a small neighborhood had been built along the TGV line, not far from Mas de Saporta.

On site, the prefect recalled the stages of the long procedure which made it possible to put an end to this situation. “There was a risk of the situation becoming entrenched,” the state representative said. He recalled that the reception plan for Travelers “is applied at 80% in the department.”

A cold case for the Grêlé?

#GARD According to BFMTV, the Grêlé case was reopened by the Nanterre unsolved serial crimes unit. The serial killer was found dead in Grau-du-Roi, after confessing to his murders in a letter. The case that the Nanterre center will look into dates back to the 1990s in Essonne.

A man was found tied to a tree with a bullet lodged in the back of his head. It was this ammunition that led investigators to reopen the case. This is a PA MAC 50 bullet, the ones used by the police. When we know that François Verove spent years committing crimes by using and abusing his law enforcement paraphernalia, the question arises.

Gardiole fire: learning lessons

#FRONTIGNAN More than 100 people attended the first public feedback meeting after the Gardiole fire of August 18, 2024 which destroyed 310 hectares. The biggest fire of the summer season in France crossed the massif in three hours. The challenge of these meetings: to learn lessons from what happened.

If the causes of the fire are still unknown (an investigation is underway), the consequences are still visible. Elected officials, firefighters and ONF agents were able to give advice to those present. . “In cases like this,” Commander Sanchez said, “our missions are to save people first, then property, and finally nature. And if we find ourselves in a real house with cleared land around it, , you must confine yourself while awaiting any evacuation order.”
The questions of nature reconstruction, access and clearing were also addressed.

A lounge for students

#MONTPELLIER The higher education fair is held until Saturday at the Perols exhibition center. The approximately 170 exhibitors are divided into 17 themes: work-study training, agriculture and environment, arts and multimedia, commerce and management, communication, major schools, science and technology, IT, international, health, etc.

Academy, high schools and universities are also represented. Conferences are organized every day. Entrance is free after registration on letudiant.fr.

Today’s figure: 12,000

#NIMES This is the record number of participants for the twelfth edition of the Urban trail which will take place on February 16. Yesterday, the city gave details of the three routes of 42, 16 and 10 km which will crisscross the city.

A quarter of the runners from 42 nationalities and 92 French departments are from Nîmes. This total places the Nîmes urban trail on the highest step of the urban trail podiums, tied for participants with Rennes and ahead of Lyon.