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In the Middle East, the truce hoped for during this end-of-year holiday period did not take place. Despite international calls to silence the guns, no respite is even in sight after more than two months of war between Israel and Hamas.
In the columns of Wall Street Journal, Benyamin Netanyahu thus estimated on Monday that peace will only be obtained if Gaza is “demilitarized” and “deradicalized”. “We are not stopping, (…) we are intensifying the fighting in the days to come. It will be a long war,” the Israeli Prime Minister also insisted, after visiting Gaza.
Is this the epilogue of an incredible affair? After four days of administrative and legal delays, the A340 grounded in the Marne since Thursday by the French authorities, on suspicion of illegal immigration, finally left on Monday for India, most of its passengers on board . The plane took off on Christmas Day around 2:40 p.m. for Bombay where the aircraft landed on Tuesday at 4 a.m.
According to the Marne prefecture, the plane had 276 passengers on board out of the 303 Indians initially present. Two other passengers suspected of being smugglers were released as assisted witnesses following their interrogation before a Parisian investigating judge. Twenty-five other people, including five minors, also remain in France after making an asylum request.
The entire world of culture has not turned its back on Gérard Depardieu and wants to make it known. In a column published Monday evening on the website of the Figaro56 personalities denounce a “lynching” of the actor, indicted for rape since 2020 and at the heart of a scandal that has become politico-media following a documentary broadcast on France 2.
Among them are the director Bertrand Blier, the actresses Nathalie Baye, Carole Bouquet or Charlotte Rampling, the actors Jacques Weber, Pierre Richard or Gérard Darmon, but also the singers Roberto Alagna, Carla Bruni, Arielle Dombasle and Jacques Dutronc. In this text, they say in particular that they wish that Gérard Depardieu can continue to play and regret that the “presumption of innocence” is not respected.