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It is a ceremony that the parents want to be “dignified” and above all far from “political unrest”. Hundreds of people are expected this Monday afternoon in Lilles, in Pas-de-Calais, for the funeral of Lola, 12, whose savage murder shocked the country. For “a last tribute” to the little girl, the family met at 1:45 p.m. at the Saint-Omer collegiate church in Lilles, a town of 10,000 inhabitants where her mother is from. The mass, celebrated at 2:30 p.m. by Bishop Olivier Leborgne, will be open to the public, but the burial in the cemetery “will take place in the strictest privacy”. The Bishop of Arras only hopes for one thing: “that people will be very sober, very discreet, very respectful”.
Rishi Sunak has more and more chances to recover the keys of 10 Downing Street. Beaten at the beginning of September by Liz Truss, the conservative has no obstacle in front of him this time after the withdrawal from the race of Boris Johnson. He could even be appointed Prime Minister on Monday. After Liz Truss resigned on Thursday, he returned to the front of the stage with credibility at the highest level. For his supporters, his message during the previous campaign this summer showed that he is the man for the job. His budgetary prudence, because of which he was deemed too centrist and too smooth, is now reassuring.
The wind blew very hard on Sunday evening in Hauts-de-France. A “mini-tornado” hit Conty, near Amiens in the Somme, and a similar “violent phenomenon” struck dozens of houses and tore roofs off in Bihucourt, in Pas-de-Calais. “Several infrastructures and homes were damaged” in the town of Conty and that of Ô-de-Selle, said the prefecture of the Somme, counting “about sixty buildings” in total. “Ten households must be relocated” and “several dozen” others have been deprived of electricity. In a situation update around 9 p.m., the Pas-de-Calais prefecture for its part specified that this “episode of violent winds” caused “one minor injury”, cut off traffic in Ervillers and caused “an accident involving a truck on the A1, at the level of the commune of Saint Léger”.