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Terrorism is from this Wednesday before the courts. “Out of the ordinary”, “historic”, “unpublished”… There is no lack of qualifiers to describe the trial of the November 13 attacks which opens before the specially composed assize court. For nine months, 20 men will be tried, suspected of being involved in the attacks on the Stade de France, the Bataclan and the Parisian terraces. In reality, they will only be 14 to actually be present since six are under arrest warrant, probably killed in Syria for five of them. 20 minutes takes stock for you on the stakes of this trial, the verdict of which is expected at the end of May.
The Blues ended in a very nice way their series of five matches in a row without success. Tuesday at Décines in the Rhône, the French team won against Finland 2-0, in a controlled and sometimes even exciting match. Above all, author of a double, Antoine Griezmann was particularly accomplice with Karim Benzema. With this very good result, it is now difficult to imagine the French in difficulty to validate their ticket for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
At the time of her glory, Bill Clinton presented her as a prodigy, Joe Biden as a visionary and she made the front page of Forbes, Business Week and Fortune. Elizabeth Holmes was one of the youngest self made billionaires – in paper – from Silicon Valley. But today things have changed a lot. It all fell apart when two whistleblowers and the Wall Street Journal reveal, in 2015, that Theranos’ supposedly revolutionary machines never worked. As the pleadings of her trial begin on Wednesday, Elizabeth Holmes now faces her greatest challenge: trying to convince the jury that she never intended to deceive the investors, who injected 700 million of dollars in the start-up.