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10:12 a.m. : It is already more than 10 o’clock, here is a new point on the news:
The country’s judicial authorities have launched the first investigations to determine who is responsible for the storming of several official buildings yesterday by supporters of the far-right ex-president Jair Bolsonaro in Brasilia. More than 300 people were arrested. Follow our live.
• As the deadline draws nearer, the contours of the reform are becoming more refined, in particular on raising the legal retirement age, the cornerstone of the text. At the same time, several gray areas remain. Franceinfo returns to the main elements remaining to be arbitrated before the official presentation of the text.
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region claim to have taken control of a village near the town of Bakhmout, the current epicenter of fighting that Moscow forces have been seeking to conquer for the past several months. Follow our live.
“I have nothing to shake”, “I would not even have taken it on the phone”… The president of the French Football Federation Noël Le Graët created controversy yesterday on RMC, with in particular scathing remarks against Zinedine Zidane. Franceinfo sport summarizes its words for you.
10:04 am : Asked about the attack that targeted places of power in Brazil yesterday by supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro, Renaissance MP Aurore Bergé said on France inter not to beleive “in principle” that“we are safe” such movements in Europe.
08:55 : Hello @euqtion On Twitterthe French Head of State yesterday called on the “respect for democratic institutions” in Brazil and highlighted the “unwavering support from France” to President Lula. “The will of the Brazilian people and democratic institutions must be respected!” Added Emmanuel Macron, in French and Portuguese.
08:55 : A reaction from Emmanuel Macron on what happened in Brazil?
08:51 : Here are impressive images of the invasion of the presidential palace, Congress and the Supreme Court by bolsonarists yesterday. There are many damages.
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08:33 : How have the police been overwhelmed by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro? Obviously, it was impossible to foresee such depredation: the authorities did not take the dimension of this eventuality and the ministers of Lula consider that there is a laissez-faire, analyzes the correspondent of franceinfo in Brazil, Anne Vigna. To read here.
08:08 : A press syndicate reported on the aggression of five journalists during the invasion of the presidential palace, the Congress and the Supreme Court by Bolsonarists. Among them, an AFP photographer was beaten and had all his equipment stolen. A journalist from washington post also claims on Twitter to have been, with colleagues, “surrounded, hit, pushed, insulted. They broke my glasses, pulled my hair, tried to take my cell phone“.
07:39 : On social networks, videos have also circulated showing ransacked offices of parliamentarians. A protester sat in the seat of the President of the Senate, a striking mimicry with the pro-Donald Trump rioters who invaded the Capitol two years ago. According to the CNN channelprotesters set fire to the carpet in a congressional lounge, which had to be flooded to extinguish the blaze.
07:35 : QUADRO DO DI CAVALCANTI RASGADO A FACADAS. O nível dessa gente escrota. https://t.co/zMjMglzll0
07:35 : The Bolsonarists caused considerable damage in the three huge palaces they invaded yesterday and which are treasures of modern architecture and are full of works of art. Priceless paintings were damaged, including mulattoesby the modernist painter Di Cavalcanti, exhibited at the Presidential Palace and pierced with several holes, according to photos circulating on social networks.
07:14 : Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has announced that he will resume work today in his offices in Brasilia, stormed the day before by hundreds of supporters of his far-right predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. “The putschists who promoted the destruction of public property in Brasilia are being identified and will be punished. Tomorrow we resume work at the Planalto Palace. Democracy always”tweeted the left-wing head of state.
06:16 : Hello @d0m Yes, Jair Bolsonaro, who is in the United States, reacted in a series of tweets. He condemned without firmness “the depredations and invasions of public buildings”. But he also has “dismissed the charges, without proof” of his successor that he encouraged the violence.
06:16 : Hello. Did Bolsonaro react? And his former government? Have a good day.
06:06 : We start with a new point on the news:
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva returned to Brasilia last night to see the enormous damage to the ransacked Presidential Palace, the Congress and the Supreme Court, by supporters of his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. Here is what we know about this invasion.
The government is preparing to unveil its explosive pension reform tomorrow, against which the unions are already planning to demonstrate, embittered by the probable postponement of the retirement age to 64.
The appeal trial of the health scandal of the Mediator, a drug from Servier laboratories accused of having caused the death of hundreds of patients, opens today for six months before the Paris Court of Appeal. Almost 15 years after revealing the scandal, pulmonologist Irène Frachon awaits “a burst” of justice.
The president of the French Football Federation Noël, Le Graët did not spare yesterday on RMC? the legend of the Blues Zinédine Zidane, attracting the wrath of Kylian Mbappé and the Minister of Sports. “Zidane is France, we don’t disrespect the legend like that”, reacted on Twitter the star of the Blues Kylian Mbappé.