“20 Minutes” compiles for you the information you should not miss this morning in your Morning Information Bulletin (BIM).
After the shock, the questions. According to our information, the suspect in the knife attack which left six injured, including four very young children, in Annecy on Thursday, is called Abdalmasih H. and is 31 years old. A Syrian national, he previously resided in Trollhättan, in southwestern Sweden, since 2013. He lived with his wife, from whom he has since separated, and their child, now 3 years old.
After failing to obtain Swedish nationality, he arrived in France in a regular situation at the end of last year. The suspect applied for asylum with the Ofpra (French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons) on November 28, 2022, which was refused. In his asylum application, he had declared himself to be a “Christian from Syria”. A psychiatric examination is scheduled for Friday morning, said Gérald Darmanin on TF1 Thursday evening.
Bis repeated. On Thursday, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that the Justice Department had notified his attorneys of his indictment in the classified documents case. Accused of having illegally kept sensitive documents from his presidency after leaving the White House, Donald Trump says he was summoned to federal court in Miami next Tuesday, probably for the reading of the indictment. He faces seven charges, including “willful withholding of documents”, “false statements”, and “conspiracy (to) obstruct”.
On CNN, one of his lawyers clarified that at least one charge, punishable by a maximum of 10 years in prison, stemmed from the “Espionage Act”, a law prohibiting anyone from keeping documents relating to the defense. “I am an innocent man,” responded Donald Trump, denouncing “electoral interference” with the 2024 presidential election.
The situation is becoming even more tense in Sudan. On Thursday, the government of Sudan declared persona non grata the UN envoy to the country, German Volker Perthes. He has been accusing him for several weeks of being responsible for the current war. “The Government of the Republic of Sudan has notified the Secretary General of the United Nations that it has declared Mr. Volker Perthes (…) persona non grata as of today,” the Sudanese Ministry of Affairs said in a statement. foreign.
The head of the Sudanese army, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, had called for the dismissal of the senior diplomat, accusing him of being responsible for the war which broke out on April 15 between his troops and the paramilitaries of the Support Forces (FSR) of General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo. In a letter addressed to the UN, General Burhane notably accused Mr. Perthes of having “concealed” in his reports the explosive situation in Khartoum before the outbreak of hostilities. Without these “lies”, General “Daglo would not have launched his military operations”, he argued.