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The cyclone leaves 12 injured in Reunion and “the worst is not over”, for the prefect
Hurricane Batsirai has not finished causing accidents in its path. We now deplore twelve injured in relative emergency on the island of Reunion. Ten of them were poisoned by carbon monoxide, a firefighter was electrified during an intervention on a roof fire and one person was injured after falling from a roof. The toll could rise further. Jacques Billant, the prefect of the island, warned Thursday morning that “the worst is not over” and estimated that the cyclone will arrive “as close as possible to the island during the morning, (…) at around 180 km from the coast”.
Tax fraud: Electronic bracelet or prison, the Balkany spouses fixed this Thursday
Sentenced for “massive tax evasion”, will Patrick and Isabelle Balkany end up in prison after breaches under electronic bracelets? The Rouen Court of Appeal decides on Thursday the fate of the former LR mayor of Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine) and his wife. On January 24, the general prosecutor’s office in Rouen “required confirmation” of the revocation on December 17, by the court for the application of sentences (TAP) in Evreux, of their placement under electronic bracelets, a judicial source indicated on Tuesday. at AFP. This decision followed a hundred “incidents” having caused their bracelets to ring at the Moulin de Cossy, their residence in Giverny (Eure) where they have been under house arrest under electronic surveillance since March 2021. The Balkanys appealed this revocation. . In the meantime, they are free.
Demonstration of so-called essential workers, at the start of the health crisis
The CFDT is organizing a march this Thursday to ask for better consideration for essential workers in the health crisis. The union is indignant at “23 months of employer promises for so few results” in these second-line sectors. Véronique Revillod, deputy secretary general of the federation of services, entry attack on salaries: “Compensation has not changed, apart from minimum wage automatically. And again, the salary grids that came into force in January 2022 are based on the minimum wage of… January 2021, while it increased twice during the year! Among these professions, cashiers deplore a lack of improvement in their working conditions and pay.