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The CMP ultimately did not send out white smoke last night. The conclave of deputies and senators who must decide the fate of the immigration law must resume this Tuesday morning, after last minute disagreements between the executive and the right. Already slowed down from its start at 5 p.m. by a 4-hour suspension, this joint committee was finally stopped at 12:30 a.m., and will only resume this morning at 10:30 a.m., with several dozen articles still to be examined.
While an agreement was emerging between the right and the presidential camp, the negotiations suffered from an unexpected dispute over family allowances. The right wants to make social benefits conditional on five years of presence in the territory (30 months for those who work), including personalized housing assistance (APL), which the majority on the contrary wish to see escape these restrictions.
Monique Olivier’s trial is coming to an end. After three weeks of debate, the verdict is expected this Tuesday in Nanterre. Michel Fourniret’s ex-wife is on trial for complicity in three crimes: the kidnappings and murders of Marie-Angèle Domèce and Joanna Parrish and the kidnapping and sequestration of little Estelle Mouzin. On Monday, the attorneys general requested life imprisonment against him, with a security period of 22 years, the maximum.
Monique Olivier, aged 75, is already serving a life sentence: in 2008, she was convicted of complicity in four kidnappings and murders committed by her husband. Ten years later, she received a new 20-year sentence for complicity in a gruesome murder.
In 2024, you will have to open your wallet wide to afford mutual insurance. Supplementary health insurance with mutual status is in fact planning an average increase of 8.1% in their contributions next year, an increase not seen in years, according to a survey by the French Mutualité published this Tuesday. The increase will be 7.3% on average for individual contracts, and 9.9% on average for compulsory collective contracts (taken out by companies for their employees).
The survey covers 38 mutual societies, which protect 18.7 million people in total. The government has been concerned for several weeks about these increases and the risk of impact on purchasing power. But it cannot regulate the prices of supplementary health insurance and can therefore only call on consumers and businesses to encourage competition.