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Get out your t-shirts and sandals, the weather will be like July this weekend. According to Météo-France, it will be 27°C in Limoges, 29°C in Tarbes, 28°C in Biarritz despite a hazy sky. In Auxerre and Bourges, the mercury will also be around 28°C while it will be 25°C in Strasbourg and Paris. A sudden peak of heat, while the atmosphere for several days has been mainly one of showers. Will we one day be able to return to the famous “seasonal normals”? We take stock of this unexpected heatstroke.
He knew that a “criminal project” was “being developed”. Audrey Mondjehi, 42, was sentenced Thursday evening in Paris to 30 years in prison for having helped jihadist Chérif Chekatt obtain the weapon with which he killed five people in the streets of the Strasbourg Christmas market in December 2018. After five weeks of hearing, the Paris Assize Court ruled that the repeat offender, despite his denials, “had knowledge of the violent radicalization” of the killer, to whom he was close.
The court also sentenced two other defendants to lighter sentences for having played an intermediary role in the sale of weapons without knowing the terrorist’s plans. A fourth accused was acquitted.
Aid announced under international pressure. This Friday, five days after the deaths of humanitarian workers in the Gaza Strip, Israel announced a “temporary” increase in food aid. On Thursday, Joe Biden raised for the first time the possibility of conditioning American aid to Israel on “tangible” measures on Gaza. Israel’s security cabinet approved “immediate measures to increase humanitarian aid to the civilian population in the Gaza Strip,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.