Come on, we’re giving you a weather intro. For what ? Because we like it and because this long holiday weekend has certainly allowed you to take your first hits on the nose and disconnect. No news for you on the menu. We don’t blame you because the real ones know: we were there to watch and we are delivering our summary to you this Sunday evening. We have selected five big news that should not be missed during the last forty-eight hours… Spoiler alert: we are talking about Cannes.
1. Blurry around Bakhmout
On Saturday, the leader of the Wagner Group announced that Bakhmout, the epicenter of the fighting in Ukraine, “has been taken in its entirety”. The epilogue of a battle that has lasted for 224 days, completely destroying the city and costing many lives on both sides. The conquest of Bakhmout has also sown discord between the Wagner group, maneuvering on the ground, and the Russian general staff, which will be transferred control of the city on May 25. But the Ukrainian defeat may not be so clear cut. kyiv and Volodymyr Zelensky qualified the Russian announcement, without totally denying it. Above all, Russia now has a ghost town, but partially surrounded by Ukrainian forces. Xavier Régnier summarizes twenty-four hours of contradictory information, here.
2. Fatal collision in Villeneuve-d’Ascq
Four people including three police officers died in an “accident” between a national police vehicle and another car on Sunday morning in the North. These three police officers from the Roubaix police station were aged 24 and 25, according to a police source. The accident, an “apparently very violent collision” according to the prosecutor, occurred around 7 a.m., on the RD 700 at Villeneuve-d’Ascq. According to a first police source, the third vehicle arrived in the wrong direction and the impact was frontal. Thibaut Gagnepain takes stock of the drama here.
3. Scorsese, Di Caprio and De Niro haven’t said their last word
The presentation of the latest film by Martin Scorsese, 80, which brings together for the first time his favorite actors, DiCaprio and De Niro, created the event on Saturday on the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival. After Harrison Ford Thursday and his IndianaJonesit was the turn of another legend of American cinema to prove on the famous steps that he is still alive: Palme d’or in 1976 with Taxi Driverpresident of the jury in 1998, Scorsese, considered one of the biggest names in world cinema, presents Killers of the Flower Moon. Even without being in the running for the Palme d’Or, this feature film attracted a large crowd around the Palais des Festivals to catch a glimpse of the many stars who climbed the steps before the official screening at the start of the evening: Cate Blanchett, Naomi Campbell , Isabelle Huppert…
And Sunday, 20 minutes attended the press conference for the 3 hour and 26 minute film which will be released on October 18 in theaters before being broadcast on the Apple TV+ platform. Exit the madness of the steps, there, the stars remained behind. Robert De Niro said almost nothing, Leonardo DiCaprio barely more. Around Martin Scorsese, everyone preferred to let the two representatives of the Osage Indian people express themselves, the actress Lily Gladstone who plays Molly, the heroine of the film, and the chief Standing bear, who served to advise on implementation. We tell you everything here.
4. The Teknival surges over 110 inhabitants
Some 30,000 “teufeurs” gradually flocked to Saturday for the 30th anniversary of Teknival, high mass of rave parties organized since Thursday in Villegongis, a small village in Indre, according to the prefecture at the end of the afternoon. The gathering was prohibited by the authorities who, however, deployed an important medical, sanitary and logistical system – with in particular the requisition of bottles of drinking water – in order to ensure the safety of the event.
“The system put in place is well sized”, welcomed Saturday the prefect of Indre, Stéphane Bredin, who had anticipated the arrival of this “second wave” of teknivaliers for the weekend. “At no time was there any congestion” on the side of the rescuers or the advanced medical post set up in the center of Villegongis, a village of 110 inhabitants. The Teknival was installed Thursday in the middle of the night on a private plot of 70 hectares on the edge of a wood, taking the authorities by surprise. The influx of participants on Thursday morning had caused queues several kilometers long on the small roads leading to the site. Between drunkenness, anger, narcotics and help, 20 minutes returns here to the madness of the event which, this Sunday, fell a notch.
5. The controversial count of absentees for Eid
Police have asked Toulouse school principals to tell them the number of students absent on Eid al-Fitr, which this year took place on April 21. According The Midi Dispatch, a similar request would have been made in early May in the Hérault. This request was made by email, without the approval of the rectorate of Toulouse: “in no case do we carry out investigations of this kind. If someone took this initiative, National Education is absolutely not associated with it, ”assured Mostafa Fourar, rector of the academy. While this filing immediately aroused the indignation of the educational community, the former first secretary of the PS, Jean-Christophe Cambadélis, asked this Sunday that the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin “shed light” on the census.
And more info: More than 900 km of cumulative traffic jams were recorded at the national level at the end of the afternoon on Sunday, for the end of the great Ascension weekend, indicated Bison futé. And there, you say to yourself that you were finally comfortable on your sofa.