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Humanitarian organizations have just won their showdown against Paris. Under pressure, France proceeded on Tuesday to repatriate 15 women and 32 children who were detained in jihadist prison camps in northeastern Syria. “The minors have been handed over to the services responsible for child support and will be subject to medical and social follow-up,” said the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which piloted this operation.
The “adults” have “been handed over to the competent judicial authorities”. This is the third major repatriation operation after that of July 5, 2022 when France repatriated 16 mothers and 35 minors and that of October which had allowed the return of 15 women and 40 children.
The PS tried on Monday to find, through dialogue, a way out of the crisis that has made it waver since its internal election. Olivier Faure, who claims his renewal at the head of the Socialists, spoke with his rival Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol, who continues to dispute the result.
While a congress in Marseilles must ratify the results of the militant vote of January 19 at the end of the week, the outgoing first secretary invited the mayor of Rouen to the party headquarters at 2 p.m., as well as Hélène Geoffroy, who had not was able to maintain itself in the second round and had called to support the Norman elected official. After two and a half hours of a meeting described as “serious”, both said they hoped to find an agreement by the congress. Olivier Faure, for his part, indicated that he had proposed a “collegial direction” but not “three or four first secretaries”.
The EU has finally won the biodiversity advocates. Complying with a decision Thursday of the European justice, France announced Monday to give up authorizing by derogation neonicotinoids to protect the seeds of sugar beets which must be planted in March. The government will not propose a “third year of derogation on the coating of beet seeds”, confirmed the Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau.
Neonicotinoids, insecticides that attack the nervous system of insects, are implicated in the massive decline of bee colonies. If the League for the Protection of Birds hailed a “great victory for biodiversity”, beet producers are themselves “collapsed”.