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For nearly six hours, Facebook went off, involuntarily, all over the planet. Untraceable sites, empty apps, blocked messages… On Monday, all the services of the Californian giant (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and Occulus) remained stranded. The company assured a little before 10 p.m. that it was a network problem, and that it was doing everything possible to restore the situation. And if a gradual return to normal took place around midnight, Facebook, which is crossing an area of turbulence with the testimony of a whistleblower, will now have to explain itself.
The CGT, FO, Solidaires, FSU unions, and the Fidl, MNL, Unef and UNL organizations will be able to count their troops. Employees and the unemployed are called upon to strike and demonstrate this Tuesday to put social issues back at the heart of the debate, just over six months before the presidential election. Some 200 assembly points are planned throughout France, according to Céline Verzeletti, Confederal Secretary of the CGT. However, the strike promises to be little followed in transport, the SNCF providing for “normal” traffic for TGVs, and “almost normal” for TER, except in Normandy where it will be “disrupted”. At the RATP, “traffic will be normal” on the “metro, RER (A and B) and tram networks, except the T3 A tram which will be very disturbed”, according to a spokesperson.
After two and a half years of work, the Independent Commission on Sexual Abuse in the Church (Ciase) delivers its conclusions on Tuesday. And the Sauvé report, named after Jean-Marc Sauvé, President of the Commission, reveals a terrible figure. There have been “between 2,900 and 3,200 pedophiles”, men – priests or religious – within the Catholic Church in France since 1950. Above all, “this is a minimum estimate”, based on the census and the examination of the archives (Church, justice, judicial police and press) and on the testimonies received by this body. This figure should also be related to a general population of 115,000 priests or religious in total over this period of seventy years. The eagerly awaited report is also there to formulate proposals.