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From this Monday, the Marseille city will once again have the honors of a long presidential visit. After his arrival in September 2021, Emmanuel Macron will present until Wednesday Act II of the “Marseille plan in large”. The ambition of the Head of State remains to make the city a “laboratory” and to “transform people’s lives”, recalled the Elysée, which also quantified the amount put on the bank at 5 billion euros. table. This budget concerns schools, housing, transport, security, justice and culture.
The executive wants to make the financial penalty against drug users more effective. The payment of fixed fines for drug use must be “immediate, by credit card or in cash”, said Emmanuel Macron, in a daily interview. Provence published Sunday evening. Considering it “unacceptable” that with the delayed regulations by telepayment only 35% of these fines are actually paid, the Head of State specifies that he has asked the Minister of the Interior “to prepare a decree for the end of the summer ” and that already “we have started to equip agents with 5,000 payment terminals”.
Like Canada, the United States Coast Guard will try to understand the causes of the implosion of the Titan submersible. They announced on Sunday that they had opened an investigation, while the five passengers of the device died during a dive towards the wreck of the Titanic. “My main objective is to prevent a similar occurrence by making the necessary recommendations to improve the safety of the maritime sector worldwide,” said Jason Neubauer, chief investigator of the Coast Guard and head of the investigation. An initial collection of evidence is underway, including “debris at the incident site”. The American investigation will also be able to issue “if necessary” an opinion about possible legal proceedings.