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It starts again. A month and a half after a historic flood episode in Pas-de-Calais, rivers in northern France overflowed again on Tuesday, with rain falling on soils that were still saturated. Météo-France has also decided to put the department on red flood alert.
In Bourthes, a village in Pas-de-Calais crossed by the Aa – especially affected by the alert – residents looked with concern at the brown water which had invaded the main street, sometimes rising up to knee height and coming lick doorsteps. Around fifty people were evacuated on Tuesday.
The prosecutor demanded a ten-month suspended prison sentence and a fine of 45,000 euros. Youcef Atal, tried on December 18 by the Nice Criminal Court for provoking hatred, will hear the court’s decision this Wednesday.
The Algerian defender of OGC Nice is being prosecuted for having shared a video on the social network calling for a “black day” for Jews. The story, published a few days after the attacks perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, sparked strong reactions and the player ended up apologizing.
Former US President Donald Trump appealed Tuesday a decision that excluded him from the ballots in the Republican primary in the state of Maine, the second having taken such a measure ten months before the presidential election .
A week after a similar decision in Colorado, Maine ruled on Thursday that the great favorite of the Republicans was “unfit for the office of president” due to the violent assault on the Capitol, committed in 2021 by his supporters who contested the election of Democrat Joe Biden.