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As it started to move away (a bit), the coronavirus scepter may be making a comeback. France has indeed once again crossed the threshold of 5,000 daily cases of Covid-19, according to figures from Public Health France published on Monday confirming the increase in contamination observed since October 20. If we smooth the numbers over a week, Monday was the third consecutive day above this symbolic bar. The picture is still far from gloomy and alarmist. If the epidemic is picking up again, the hospital data remains relatively reassuring. The number of hospitalized patients, of 6,405 Monday, has been almost stable since mid-October. And in critical care services, the number of 1,023 is among the lowest since the start of the pandemic.
Will the trial which opens this Tuesday make it possible to know the name of the murderer of Mireille Knoll? On March 23, 2018, firefighters discovered the charred body, larded by 11 stab wounds, of this octogenarian of Jewish faith, survivor of the Shoah. More than three years later, the trial of Yacine Mihoub, 31, and Alex Carrimbacus, 25, will begin at 9:30 am before the Paris Assize Court. They are tried for “murder on a vulnerable person, committed because of the religion of the victim”, a crime punishable by life imprisonment. For the moment, the two men, who had met in prison, blame themselves for the murder. The judges therefore have until November 10 to disentangle the true from the false.
The diplomatic crisis was narrowly avoided, but Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s attitude could leave traces. The Turkish president on Monday gave up expelling the ten Western ambassadors threatened because of their support for the opponent Osman Kavala. To justify this turnaround, Erdogan asserted that diplomats had “retreated” and that they “will be more careful in the future”. “Our intention was not to create a crisis,” he continued. The United States for their part “took note” of this “clarification”, while promising to “continue to promote the rule of law” in Turkey.