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Noises and fury in the hemicycle. The third “health vigilance” bill addressing the issue of the five-month pass was adopted overnight from Wednesday to Thursday. At the end of electrical debates, the National Assembly therefore gave a first green light to the controversial possibility of using the health pass until July 31, 2022. The text will land in the Senate from October 28. Presented as a “toolbox”, the bill proposes to extend the use of the health pass, a tool hated by a minority of the population but adopted by a large majority of French people, and a whole battery of measures to curb the epidemic as part of a post-crisis regime. To find out more, it’s here.
Storm Aurora hit northern France overnight and is expected to set in for the day. Strong winds hit Upper Normandy and part of Picardy last night, already affecting the Paris region in the dead of night. The disturbance is expected to shift eastward during the day. As a result, Météo-France has placed 17 departments on orange alert for “strong winds”: Calvados, Eure, Oise, Seine-Maritime, Somme, Haute-Marne, Marne, Ardennes, Meuse, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Paris, Essonne, Val-d’Oise and Loiret. To learn more about the 175 km / h gusts expected or recorded tonight, click here.
After his aborted blog, he moves on to serious matters. Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the launch of his own social network called Truth Social, after being banned in January from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, who accuse him of inciting his supporters to violence on their platforms before the assault on the Capitol. The first invitations will be sent out in November, before a general public launch in Q1 2022. “I created Truth Social and the Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG) to resist the tyranny of the tech giants,” he said. said the former president in a press release.