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The British people will finally be able to be closer to their queen. After having reached Edinburgh, the coffin of Elizabeth II will indeed be exhibited to the public this Monday at Saint-Gilles Cathedral after a procession led by Charles III, launching a week of farewells until his national funeral. The body of the sovereign will then embark on Tuesday evening from Edinburgh on board a royal plane for London. It will again be on public display 24 hours a day, enclosed, draped in the royal standard, on a dais at the Palace of Westminster from Wednesday evening.
Sweden will have to wait until Wednesday to know the next policy line of its executive. The country indeed begins this Monday a three-day wait to designate the winning camp of the archiserrées legislative elections, with the right and the far right in a position to conquer power together. Subscribed to repeated political crises in recent years, the country finds itself with a majority that still looks very narrow. According to the partial results covering almost 95% of the polling stations, the bloc led by the leader of the conservative party of the Moderates Ulf Kristersson would win an absolute majority of 175 to 176 seats, against 173 to 174 seats for the left bloc of the Outgoing Social Democrat Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson.
Bernard Petit has an appointment with justice this Monday. The former boss of the Parisian judicial police is on trial in Paris, alongside 18 other defendants, in the case of the leaks at 36, Quai des Orfèvres. He is suspected of having, via intermediaries, informed the founder of the GIGN, Christian Prouteau, before his police custody at the end of 2014. This dark case of fraud and influence peddling also involves Christophe Rocancourt, nicknamed “the crook stars “.