Rafael Nadal was too strong for Richard Gasquet, Thursday June 3, 2021. – Michel Euler / AP / SIPA
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The direction of Paris Match denounced a “form of intimidation” contrary “to all democratic principles” while one of his journalists spent his Thursday in police custody, suspected of “witness tampering” in the case of the possible Libyan funding of the Presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy in 2007. The custody of the journalist of Paris Match François de Labarre in Nanterre “has been lifted”, his lawyer Me Christophe Bigot told AFP on Thursday evening. “Without any indictment or summons to the examining magistrate,” he said. That of the boss of BestImage, Michèle Marchand, nicknamed “Mimi”, has been extended by 24 hours, said a source familiar with the matter.
Beijing’s iron fist continues in Hong Kong. A figure of the pro-democracy movement, Chow Hang-tun, was arrested Friday morning on the cusp of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on June 4, 1989. Four people identified themselves as plainclothes police officers. in front of Chow Hang-tun, in front of his office building in the city center, and declared that they were proceeding to his arrest, noted an AFP journalist. She was placed in a black sedan and taken away. The 37-year-old lawyer is one of the vice-presidents of the Hong Kong Alliance, which holds a grand vigil with candles in Victoria Park every June 4, which Beijing banned last year and this year officially in cause of Covid-19.
“Playing Nadal is a brutal experience,” sighed Richard Gasquet, beaten by the Spaniard in three sets (6-0, 7-5, 6-2) at night, in the second round of Roland Garros on Thursday night. , for the 17th time in as many matches. This means that there will be no French in the 3rd round. This had never happened since the start of the Open era in 1968. The women did not do better, with three survivors also in the second round. And none qualified for the third round for the fourth time since 1968 (1981, 1986, 2019).