The initial shock is deep, as documented by the worry lines on Fabrice Amedeo's face. A selfie shows the French sailor in the middle of the Atlantic, somewhere far out. Heading west, where the waves played yo-yo with his yacht - until fate presented him with a tremendous challenge.In the end, hours after he took his selfie in a survival suit, the 44-year-old narrowly escaped one of those disasters when what seafarers fear most happened to him: his boat caught...
Fabrice Amedeo is the incredible survivor of the day on the Route du Rhum. Victim of a shipwreck on Monday afternoon, while he was heading for Cascais (Portugal) on his Imoca, the 44-year-old skipper was rescued by a cargo ship, after having had to abandon his boat. Now out of danger, in this cargo ship which will drop him off this Tuesday morning in the Azores, he gave a poignant testimony to West France."I realized on Sunday morning that my...
Fabrice Leggeri, then director of Frontex, in Brussels, in December 2019. VIRGINIA MAYO / AP The director general of Frontex, the French Fabrice Leggeri, presented his resignation to the board of directors of the European border guard agency, in Warsaw. This was accepted on Friday 29 April. The European Commission said in a press release that the deputy director, Latvian Aija Kalnaja, would act as interim director until a successor is appointed. “Frontex must be a robust and efficient agency....
EU Border Protection Agency Frontex boss Fabrice Leggeri apparently wants to resign Frontex boss Fabrice Leggeri has apparently submitted his resignation © Janek Skarzynski / AFP 04/29/2022, 12:21 p.m 1 min reading time Not least because of his cover-up of illegal pushbacks of refugees in the Aegean, he fell out of favor. Now Fabrice Leggeri, head of the EU border protection agency Frontex, apparently wants to resign. The head of the EU border protection agency Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, has offered...
They are ready for five more years under Emmanuel Macron's five-year term. The actors Guillaume Canet, Jeanne Balibar, Charlotte Gainsbourg or the novelist Marc Lévy: nearly 500 artists and writers said this Friday that they were going to vote "without any hesitation" in the second round of the presidential elections for the outgoing president, denouncing the Marine Le Pen's "xenophobia and withdrawal" program."Actresses and actors in the world of culture, live performance, we have sometimes had differences, oppositions, deep disagreements...
Never had Benoît Poelvoorde been so tragically moving as in Inexorable by Fabrice Du Welz, film discovered at the Deauville Festival. The Belgian actor embodies a novelist who lets himself be torn between Mélanie Doutey (his loving wife) and Alba Gaia Bellugi (his mysterious mistress) in this new thriller signed by the director ofWorship in which Benoît Poelvoorde made an appearance.“I have known Benoît since I was a kid, specifies Fabrice Du Welz to 20 minutes, but it took me...
François Cluzet is not ready to go on vacation with Jean-Marie Bigard or Fabrice Luchini. “They are idiots”, he dropped in As an aside on Canal+. “I openly think so. They are megalos”, added the actor, in promo for the film Squadwho did not appreciate their positions during the pandemic and in particular the fact that the comedian was once said to be a presidential candidate.“Where are these guys from? They have an ego like a skyscraper! Let them leave...
The cameras are dusted off, the lines are set, the extras are ready to give their all. The Netflix series wonder manin which Laurent Lafitte plays the role of Bernard Tapie, will begin filming on Monday, the broadcaster announced to AFP on Friday." wonder man is a mini-series that retraces the romantic destiny of an extraordinary character. Throughout the seven episodes, Laurent Lafitte will slip into the skin of Bernard Tapie, through his successes and his failures,” Netflix said in...
It was in a café in the 5th arrondissement of Lyon that Fabrice gave us an appointment. In great shape, all smiles, with a beautiful medal hanging from his shirt: that of the city of Lyon. The former homeless man was decorated on Wednesday, following his act of bravery. Last November, the man had saved a second-hand goods dealer working in the Vieux-Lyon district from a fire. A month later, he confided having accepted this medal for his parents: “I...
His act of bravery made him "the hero of Vieux-Lyon". On November 29, Fabrice, homeless, saved a second-hand dealer from the flames, trapped in his business. Moved by his courage, more than 50,000 people then signed a petition to ask the Lyon authorities that he be accommodated. This will soon be done, confirms the main interested in an interview with 20 minutes. Wednesday evening, the director of Samu social and a representative of the prefecture came to find him in...
