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A General Assembly under tension. At dawn, dozens of climate demonstrators tried to enter the stretch of street passing in front of the Salle Pleyel, in the beautiful districts of Paris, where the general meeting of shareholders of TotalEnergies is to be held in the morning. A dozen of them, who had sat in front of the entrance, were dislodged by the police and scuffles took place. The police used tear gas canisters to dislodge the demonstrators. After three warnings in less than a minute by loudspeaker, the police fired tear gas into the middle of a group of climate activists.
A 10-year-old girl was kidnapped Thursday morning around 8:15 a.m. in front of her school in Fontaine (Isère), indicates the Grenoble prosecutor’s office, confirming information from France Bleu. The child was kidnapped by “her father and a hooded accomplice who gassed the mother with tear gas” of the girl, specifies Eric Vaillant, public prosecutor. “Following the kidnapping this morning in Fontaine of young Eya by her father and a second hooded man, the kidnapping alert is triggered,” prosecutor Eric Vaillant announced in a press release. According to the description, the little girl is 1m60 tall, has brown eyes and long hair.
After space, Elon Musk sets out to conquer our… brains. The start-up Neuralink, one of its companies, announced on Thursday on Twitter that it had received the agreement of the American health authorities to test its connected brain implants on humans. “This is an important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people,” said the Californian company on its Twitter account, adding that “recruitments for clinical trials are not yet open”. Neuralink designs connected devices to be implanted in the brain to communicate with computers directly through thought.