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It’s a 35-year-old mystery that is set to be solved this Thursday night. The genetic fingerprints taken from several crime scenes attributed to “Hail” correspond to those of the former gendarme who committed suicide on Wednesday in the seaside resort of Gruau-du-Roi, confirmed the Paris prosecutor’s office. The man is suspected of having committed three murders in Paris: that of Cécile Bloch, 11, stabbed and raped in May 1986, of Gilles Politi, 38, and Irmgard Mueller, 20, both killed in April 1987. He was also wanted for a series of six rapes between 1986 and 1994.
Joe Biden can – for now – breathe. US senators on Thursday approved a temporary budget which was subsequently adopted by the House. The American president was therefore able to promulgate it before midnight, thus avoiding the paralysis of the services of the federal state. In the event of a delay, hundreds of thousands of federal employees would have found themselves technically unemployed, with the closure of ministries, national parks and museums. Despite this vote, the United States faces the risk of defaulting by mid-October if Congress does not raise the debt ceiling. This is usually a routine vote, but it comes this year in the midst of a showdown to pass two gigantic investment plans from Joe Biden.
For four hours, the prosecutor Yves Badorc tried to summarize the facts alleged against the four defendants. “It is the chronicle of a skid or an announced exit from the road”, summarizes the representative of the prosecution on Thursday. For the magistrate, the case “has already been judged by the court of opinion”. “The defendants are guilty, they were branded with a hot iron from social networks and hypermedia and confined before their time.” So, he will take the time to dissect the scenario that was tied, on May 1, 2018, in Paris, between the Jardin des Plantes and the Place de la Contrescarpe. Alexandre Benalla, Vincent Crase, Maxence Creusat and Laurent Simonin are seated in front of him and listen to him attentively while he is asking for sentences ranging from 2 to 18 months in prison.