According to testimonies, he called himself Paolo Dimitrio and was employed in several Italian restaurants as a pizza maker in Saint-Etienne, where he had settled for a few years. Italian Edgardo Greco was arrested Thursday after 16 years on the run, Interpol announced.This alleged member of the powerful Calabrian mafia, the 'Ndrangheta, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2006 in Italy for homicides. He expressed his refusal to be handed over to Italian justice and was placed in detention, according...
The decision was logical, but it was met with irrational resistance from supporters of Bernard Laporte, who let their boss and the opposition quit without doing the same, despite the outcome of the club vote last week. As a result, there are now 26 members of the FFR's steering committee, all belonging to the same camp. And it's a big problem, regrets the former coach of the Blues Jean-Claude Skrela.Himself a member of the opposition group Ovale Ensemble, Skrela was...
This is a diplomatic first for France. Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, Secretary of State for Development, Francophonie and International Partnerships, was received on Tuesday in Barbados, a small Caribbean island that recently became a republic and which until now had never had a visit from a representative of this level sent by Paris."Barbados is an incredible island, yet it had never hosted a French minister before," said Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, after speaking with the island's Prime Minister, Mia Mottley.Another first visit to Saint...
At 64 years old Longtime CDU member of the Bundestag Gero Storjohann died Gero Storjohann died at the age of 64 © Rainer Unkel / Imago Images The CDU member of the Bundestag Gero Storjohann is dead. He died surrounded by his family after a long period of intensive medical treatment. He would have turned 65 in February. The long-standing member of the Bundestag and CDU politician Gero Storjohann is dead. He died at the age of 64 on Sunday...
The ECB is planning "multiple rate hikes of 50 basis points," Knot said in an interview with CNBC on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos. The ECB will not stop after a single 50 basis point move, he assured. The ECB currently only sees the risk of doing too little. "I would take our statements seriously." Knot is considered an outspoken "hawk" within the Governing Council. The Bloomberg news agency reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed ECB officials,...
He learned all his skills in the Socialist Party, with Marseille executives, from the General Council then headed by Jean-Noël Guérini to the Regional Council chaired by Michel Vauzelle, up to the highest spheres of the State alongside Minister Marie- Arlette Carlotti. This Tuesday, during his back-to-school press conference, the mayor of Marseille Benoît Payan confirmed his departure from the rose party.Politics is also friendship. Thank you for your always support @BenoitPayan. I don't forget how you were able to...
Since his radio broadcast on RMC on Sunday evening, the strong wind that was already capsizing Noël Le Graët has turned into a hurricane. Among the countless reactions to the "crime of lèse-Zidane", that of the Minister of Sports on Monday had a very particular resonance. Amélie Oudéa-Castéra asked the 14 members of the FFF's executive committee to "take the necessary decision". A procedure for dismissal of the president of the FFF begins with the meeting of the Comex, which,...
EU member states are "strongly encouraged" to require all travelers coming from China to present a negative Covid test dating back less than 48 hours before their departure, according to an agreement reached on Wednesday between the Twenty-Seven. During a meeting of experts intended to develop a coordinated response to the explosion of contamination in China, the Europeans also agreed on other recommendations that it will be up to each member state to implement, indicated in a press release from...
Historical mission He orbited the world with the "Apollo 7": Astronaut Walter Cunningham died at the age of 90 "The world has lost another true hero": Astronaut Walter Cunningham has died at the age of 90 © Steven Senne / DPA Eleven days in space made him famous: Walter Cunningham orbited the world with two other astronauts in October 1968. Now the last crew member of the "Apollo 7" mission has died. The last of the three astronauts who orbited...
Corona, war, energy shortage: The monetary union is of particular importance, especially in a time of global crises. The fact that another country is now paying with the euro is good news.comment by Ulrich SchaeferWhen the Bundestag discussed almost two and a half decades ago, at that time still in Bonn, whether a European currency should be created, Helmut Kohl and his Finance Minister Theo Waigel spoke of the "House of Europe" that had to be built. A new room...
