Comus (11): The small village that doesn’t experience heat waves
It’s very hot everywhere in France. But not in this little village in the Aude Pyrenees, where the weather is pleasant and even a little cool!!!
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The administrative court invalidates the A69 project: now what?
After two years of legal wrangling, the Toulouse Administrative Court ruled that the Toulouse-Castres freeway project was illegal, finding that there was no “imperative reason of overriding public interest”. Other complaints are pending.
CHRU Nancy : Automatic cardiac massage for astronauts
Space medicine: doctors and researchers from Nancy test an automatic cardiac massage for astronauts.
Gard department : six people, including two children, reported missing
The cars in which they were travelling were swept away by the floods. Twelve departments have been placed on orange alert.
Angry farmers : Executive fears risk of contagion!
After Germany, Poland, Romania and the Netherlands, French farmers are blocking roads in the South-West. Their protest movement could spread to other regions, leading to further mobilizations.
“The Light of the Shadow, photographs of the Nazi camps”
The Departmental Museum of the Resistance and Deportation of the Haute-Garonne in Toulouse and the Memorial of the Camp of Rivesaltes (66) present two exhibitions of British photographer Michael Kenna.
Keeping caregivers suspended : really not a political choice?
For more than a year, attorneys for suspended caregivers have been struggling through a legal imbroglio and calling for a constitutional review of the August 5, 2021 law. So far, their requests have all been rejected. This inevitably raises questions.
New York : Two French graffiti artists mowed down by the subway
Julien Blanc, aka Jibone, a street artist to whom we dedicated an article (below) and his friend Pierre Audebert aka Full1 were mowed down by a subway train in New York on April 20, 2022.
Nîmes : A cold-blooded murder at the Gard Assizes
The Gard Assize Court in Nîmes will try Mathieu Danel, 26, who killed a hitchhiker “to find out what it feels like to kill,” from January 17 to 19. If he had experienced pleasure he would have continued, he told investigators.
Rodez (12) : “The ophthalmology practice is closed until further notice”.
Dr. Sandrine Foulquier, an ophthalmologist in Rodez, Aveyron, has been banned from practicing since November 4, 2021 for “non-compliance with the vaccination obligation” even though she has just been elected, this Sunday, as a member of the Aveyron Medical Council.
Wind farm condemned for destruction of protected species
In Aumelas, in the Hérault region of France, the 31 wind turbines operated by 7 subsidiaries of the EDF company are the cause of a veritable massacre of protected birds, including the Lesser kestrel.
Olive oil is the object of all trafficking.
Fraud is comparable to that of cocaine, with its falsified products, spectacular thefts, and mafia-like activities.