A closed school (illustration). – G. VARELA 20 MINUTES
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After tolerance during the Easter weekend, the situation changes this Tuesday in the fight against the coronavirus. Schools, nurseries, colleges and high schools will remain closed and travel is prohibited for more than ten kilometers. However, the government has allowed childminders, who look after the children at home, to continue their activity. Last week, Emmanuel Macron and Jean Castex justified these measures by the inexorable deterioration of the situation. On Monday evening, there were nearly 30,000 hospitalized Covid-19 patients, against a little more than 25,000 a month ago.
The defense at the George Floyd death trial had a terrible time on Monday. The Minneapolis law enforcement chief came to the stand to condemn his former agent Derek Chauvin, saying he had “violated the rules” of the police during the controversial arrest. According to Medaria Arradondo, kneeling on George Floyd’s neck “might be reasonable in the first few seconds to control him, but not after he had stopped putting up resistance, and especially not after he had passed out” . To give even more weight to his statements, the police chief came to testify in uniform on the sixth day of this extraordinary trial.
The searches to find the body of Estelle Mouzin, whose serial killer Michel Fourniret confessed to the murder, will resume “Tuesday or Wednesday” in the Ardennes, we learned Monday from a source close to the investigation. According to France Info, this rebound comes from the fact that the ex-wife of Michel Fourniret, Monique Olivier, admitted having played a role in the kidnapping of the girl who disappeared in 2003. Eric Mouzin’s lawyer, Me Didier Seban, indicated that ‘she gave unpublished information which will direct the investigators “to a place which will be searched in the days to come”.