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“In April don’t uncover yourself by a thread. » The famous saying is very useful to the inhabitants of the west of France. Météo-France placed Finistère on orange alert on Monday for the risk of waves-submersion. The Breton department is joined this Tuesday by six other territories: Manche, Ille-et-Vilaine, Côtes-d’Armor, Seine-Maritime, Somme and Pas-de-Calais. Everyone is concerned by this risk caused by the passage of Pierrick, a late storm for the season. In addition, Seine-Maritime, Eure, Charente-Maritime, Gironde and Pyrénées-Atlantiques are placed on orange alert for the risk of flooding.
The macabre puzzle is completed in Haut-Vernet, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. A new bone fragment of little Emile, the boy who disappeared on July 8, was discovered near the place where his skull and then his clothes were found around ten days ago, Jean-Luc Blachon confirmed Monday evening , the public prosecutor of Aix-en-Provence. This discovery, however, does not allow us to move forward on the cause of the child’s death, added the magistrate, stressing that the bone fragment was identified by the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie (IRCGN) as belonging to the two and a half year old child.
The discovery of the child’s skull and clothes was made by a hiker, approximately 1.7 km from the hamlet of 25 inhabitants, a 25-minute walk for an adult.
“The situation is quite difficult and tense,” a military official admitted on Ukrainian television on Sunday while its President Volodymyr Zelensky feared a major offensive from Moscow between the end of May and the beginning of July. So, are the Russians in a position to deliver the blow? This threat is taken seriously by General Vincent Desportes for whom we cannot exclude that “the Russians will be in kyiv in September and in Lviv [ouest du pays] in October “. The expert notes in particular the “demographic thickness” of Russia and the ramp-up of its arms industry. “We are in a critical situation,” he warns.
Colonel and historian Michel Goya is more measured: “Ukrainians necessarily dramatize this type of situation [pour accélérer l’arrivée de l’aide occidentale] but they do not necessarily have concrete elements to know whether there will be a major offensive or not. »