FRANCE: Estrosi for travelers: "You will go, but before you pay"

 

The UMP mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, interviewed Sunday in issuing the Grand Rendez-vous Europe 1 on Roma and Travellers, called "the mayors of France to re flip "and offered them his" how to ".

"I have not let go of anything," he assured, saying he spoke with people from illegally installed on a plot of his city trip. "I went to see him and I said, 'Well, you'll leave.' The community would have replied 'No, we are here for three weeks and it is we who impose on you, Mr. Mayor, to stay there for three weeks, "says the elected . "'I have other mate and I materai" said he had told them.

Estrosi and list the measures put in place if the travelers do not leave. "I'm going to put cameras everywhere to monitor your every move. We will note those returning, those who leave, how minute, when and what you will do in the city […], "said the member of the Alpes-maritimes, always yielding a conversation which he had with members of the community.

Bill of € 620,000

"I'll take the plates one after the other, I referred a court as a precaution to seize vehicles," he explains the antenna. "You know, these beautiful and big cars with which they derive their beautiful and large caravans for which the French, [they] may take a lifetime to have the same [sic]."

The mayor of Nice then said to have introduced a bill of € 620,000 as a result of damage caused by caravans of "two soccer fields [of the city] in which kids can not play back. " "'Not only will you leave but before leaving, you will pay. And if you do not pay, ok, seizure of vehicles and sell them to repay what Nice and French taxpayers do not have to pay ".

Asked about his vision of travelers, the mayor of Nice simply replied: "When you break somewhere between an offender it is." Words that should not displease the former president Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front, last week – just in Nice – had raised the "pre , presence and stinging odor "of the Roma in the municipality.

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TENNIS: Wimbledon: Bartoli at the gates of the feat

 

All the lights are green for Marion Bartoli. The French argument that the semi-final of Wimbledon Thursday in a 2013 edition where all the favorites have already fallen. In the last four of the London tournament, all exploits are possible, the last four players who have never won a Grand Slam tournament.

The French 28 years old, seeded 15, is opposed to the amazing Belgian Kirsten Flipkens (No. 15). Face it, Marion Bartoli hopes to repeat the feat in 2007 when she was eliminated in the semifinals on the grass of Wimbledon, another much more famous Belgian Justine Henin. The Auvergne was then granted his first and only one Grand Slam final, before losing against Venus Williams.

Despite this beautiful memory, Marion Bartoli prefer not to show confidence. "It's totally different from 2007. Then I end up with the status of favorite. There are only four players. We all have a chance to win, "she said at a press conference.

The French leader is wary of this Belgian who had imposed Wimbledon junior ten years ago: "If Kirsten is, is that it plays excellent tennis. In 2007, I played Justin Henin and I had no luck on the paper. It is she who will be the most enterprising. "

Bartoli, although surrounded

In support of this challenge, Marion Bartoli can count on a new environment. Since the beginning of the year, the player asked his father and mentor Walter, with whom she maintained a close relationship, take a step back. It is now driven by Thomas Drouet, the former sparring partner of Bernard Tomic.

"Marion Bartoli, this is really a great person, a great human. I did not expect that at all for the first Grand Slam where I found the coach, "said the young coach, the French recruited after the it had been violently assaulted by the father of Tomic last May.

The Wimbledon semi-finalist also benefits from advice Amelie Mauresmo, captain of France's Fed Cup. Bartoli can not do without the presence of his senior, who had not planned to stay so long in London: "I'll tie on a chair and she will no longer be able to from. This is not a mascot but we will organize to keep it. "

"He'll have to get organized," said Mauresmo who considers Bartoli's opponent will not be easy to maneuver, "Flipkens not change badly, she is able to serve and volley occasionally. The slice backhand. It's a different game than we usually see on the circuit. "

The other semi-final will oppose the Polish Agnieszka Radwanska (No. 4) to Germany's Sabine Lisicki (25 °).

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NIGER: According to the president of Niger, Chad is a target of Islamist

 

After Niger, Chad. According to the Nigerian President Mahamadou Issoufou, the Islamists that struck Niger twice on May 23 at Arlit and Agadez, fomented a parallel attack against Chad.

The attack "against Niger was prepared in conjunction with another attack, which was Chad. For now this attack does not happen but it was being prepared at the same time as that which took place against the Niger ", told Monday, May 27 Chief of the Nigerian state, speaking in Agadez after the ceremony commemorating the victims of the attacks.

Mahmadou Issoufou also reiterated that he believes "the home that is now destabilizing the Sahel is in Libya." He had said, Saturday, May 25, the attackers were "southern Libya." He said then fear "Somalisation of Libya."

Libyan Prime Minister denies

Contradicted by a Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zaidan version visiting Brussels. For the latter, all allegations that the attackers came from Libya are "baseless and do not correspond to reality," arguing that it was more the former leader Muammar Gaddafi "which exported terrorism"

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"The new Libya will not tolerate it" and "is not a hotbed of terrorism," said the head of the Libyan government. He also revealed that the son of the former Libyan leader, Saadi Gaddafi, and former regime officials enjoyed the right of asylum in Niger. "I ask our Nigerian friends to take these facts into consideration and extradite these elements to be tried in Libya," said the Prime Minister.

Both attacks from May 23 to Niger were committed at dawn against a military base in Agadez, where twenty people died, mostly Nigerian military, and mine Arlit uranium where a Nigerian employee of Areva site was killed. The French special forces intervened in the morning and shot the last two Islamist fighters who resisted. In total, ten jihadists were killed, eight in Agadez and Arlit two.

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INTERNET: Yahoo! ready to get their hands on Tumblr for $ 1.1 billion

 

The board of Yahoo has approved the friendly takeover of the platform microblogging Tumblr for $ 1.1 billion (€ 857 million), announces the Wall Street Journal Sunday, citing sources close to the folder.

It would be the largest acquisition in the Internet portal since the arrival at its head Marissa Meyer, a former Google in July 2012.

Citing sources close to the situation, AllThingsD said that Yahoo, one of the oldest Internet names, is interested in the excitement by Tumblr youth.

Yahoo overshadowed for many years by new internet giants Google or Facebook, and wants his image and dust halting its activities. 

This comes after the failure of his plan to acquire 75% of the French online video site, Dailymotion, France Telecom.

Tumblr is one of the two social networks with the rage in recent months. The company hosts 108 million blogs and boasts 50.7 billion messages exchanged between them.

The network is just beginning to garner revenue through advertising.

Yahoo, which has declined to comment, has issued an invitation to the press conference for Monday in Manhattan "something special", without saying more.

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FRANCE: French alleged jihadist arrested in Mali, another deported to France

 

They are now number two. French jihadist was recently captured in northern Mali, while another man with dual nationality, arrested in November in the center of the country was expelled on 5 March to France and placed in custody on Thursday.

The arrest is the latest result of taking a "half-dozen" jihadists after fierce fighting that pitted these days the French forces and Chadian Islamists in the massif of Adra Ifoghas in northern Mali, officials said Thursday night a source close to the case, confirming a report given by the French daily Liberation. 

The other jihadist alleged Franco-Malian nationality, was arrested on November 3 at Sévaré in the center of the country, the authorities in Bamako. Aziz Ibrahim Ouattara, 25, is suspected of trying to join jihadist groups operating in the region. At the time of his arrest, he traveled with the identification of a certain Dramé Khalifa. This has also been placed in custody Tuesday in the premises of the Central Directorate of Internal Intelligence (DCRI) in Levallois (Hauts-de-Seine), according to the ME I source.

The French Minister of Defence, who makes a surprise visit Thursday from Mali, confirmed Tuesday the expulsion of the latter to France. "We made a French prisoner who will be extradited to France in times to come," said Defence Minister on Europe 1. "This shows that there was the creation of a kind of chain terrorist war that could accommodate some young people in search of a destiny radical as some have to go before Afghanistan or Syria, "said Jean-Yves Le Drian.

Already indicted in 2010

The man was already known to the French police. In November 2010, he was indicted under suspicion of planned attack against the rector of the Paris Mosque, Boubakeur. During this investigation, nine people have been indicted.

The case of Aziz Ibrahim Ouattara was particularly interested investigators, because of stays abroad, particularly in Yemen and Pakistan, where apprentice terrorist sought to rally combat zones. Arrested in Egypt in the fall of 2010, he was sent to France and then remanded in custody before being released in July 2012 and placed under controlled and the judiciary.

Forbidden to leave the country, however, man is able to obtain a false identity and join the Mali through Portugal.

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UNITED STATES: An anti-jihad campaign authorized in the New York subway

 

An advertising campaign comparing radical Islamists to wild will be spread over the walls of the subway in New York on Monday, a conservative blogger who received the endorsement of the American justice system.

"In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel, fight jihad, "reads the provocative posters. The conservative writer Pamela Geller, already known to have militated against an Islamic center to be built near the site of the attacks of 11 September 2001, has been successful U.S. courts to conduct this new campaign.

"Hands tied"

Posters should be put up on the walls of a dozen stations from Monday. Describing the message "insulting" the direction of the New York subway had first refused to exhibit signs of Pamela Geller. But justice has authorized the U.S. saying it was protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees freedom of religion and expression.

"We have their hands tied," said the spokesman Metro New York The Associated Press, adding that the board was now " obliged to publish this campaign. "

It should last a month, at a cost of 6000 dollars per show (about 4600 euros). In San Francisco, the same posters were displayed during a similar campaign in bus, sparking a public backlash. Several posters were vandalized, users replacing the phrase slogan "defeat jihad" by "overcoming racism."

"Islamoréalisme"

Pamela Geller is not his first attempt. Organization, "American Freedom Defense Initiative" (Initiative for American freedom), had already launched an advertising campaign in New York with the slogan: "It is not Islamophobia but the islamoréalisme. "

Pamela Geller has also announced that it would file a complaint against the Washington Metro. The administrative authority for transportation in the U.S. capital has refused to publish the posters when violent protests against anti-Islam video shake the Muslim world.

Considered "the figurehead of the most visible and the most flamboyant of the anti-Muslim" U.S., according to the agency specialized in monitoring extremist groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Pamela Geller says she is not worried about re-violence that have claimed the lives of over 30 people, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens.

"I do not intend to sacrifice my freedom just to not offend the savages," she says.

OLYMPICS: London Olympics: French-American duel in the pool and on the floor

 

AFP – On the first floor for basketball, then in the basin of the Aquatics Centre, there will be at the Blues Sunday menu OJ two huge pieces 'made in USA': the Dream Team N. 6 Kobe Bryant and Lebron James and the 4x100m relay Phelps et al.

For the opening of the basketball tournament for men London Olympics, the draw took out the grand prize: a game between the defending Olympic champions and the band at Tony Parker. The challenge will be up to the event for El Tri.

With five champions Beijing 2008 Olympic and five world champions in Istanbul in 2010, Team USA looks more like the real "Dream Team" of 1992, which celebrates the twentieth anniversary, as ; the sad troop of 2004, the only one who missed the gold.

If the French, European finalists in 2011, say they have "no fear" and repeat that Team USA is "not unbeatable," the balance heavily in favor American superheroes. A French victory would be one of the greatest achievements of these Games.

Similarly, a 4x100m relay victory in the blue water Sunday night at 10:00 p.m., facing Phelps, Lochte and co, would be a first: the French have never won this e ; evidence, which the Americans have come out victorious eight times at the Olympics, for only two losses.

Revenge

Problem: there will be that the American ogre to fight for the gold. According to all the tipsters, the Australians are the favorites of James Magnussen, "missile".

In case of EHEC the relay, the Blues will have another chance at a medal, a little before. Still in the water, with Camille Muffat. Best time of the year 400 freestyle, gold holds out his arms.

A follow too: the battle of Bolade Apithy, Men's Sabre, fencing, and that of Tony Estanguet, in canoe single, in the waters of the River Lee, for the slalom. Olympic champion in Sydney and Athens, Pau would get his due after an unsuccessful campaign in Beijing.

Another man will revenge tomorrow in mounting the ring, the boxer Norman Alexis Vastine want erase four years of frustration after his defeat in Beijing on an arbitral incomprehensible for an EM bronze medal with a bitter taste.

SCIENCE: The Cern particle discovers a "compatible" with the Higgs boson

 

Reuters – Scientists at CERN in Geneva showed a new subatomic particle that could be the Higgs boson, considered crucial in the formation of the universe.

"I can confirm that a particle was found which is consistent with the theory of the Higgs boson," said John Womersley, Director General of Science & Technology Facilities Council UK at an event in London. 

Joe Incandela, spokesperson for one of two teams trying to prove the existence of the famous elementary particle, has told his side of people collected at the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva: "This is a temporary result, but we think it is very solid" …. ….

The Higgs boson is a central component of the Standard Model, the theory that illuminates the fundamental structure of matter.

This theory, which describes the interactions between particles at the quantum level, is based in part on the idea that two of the four fundamental forces, the weak force and electromagnetic force, are to me ; my nature. 

This force, called electroweak bring together electricity, magnetism and light, but this unification is conceivable that if the force-carrying particles have no mass, which n is a priori not the case.

In the 1960s, the Belgians Robert Brout and François Englert, on one side, and the British Peter Higgs, the other, were resolved by postulating the existence of the "boson" ;, which would have allowed the field to other particles acquire mass, just after the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago.

SYRIA: Agreement in Geneva on the principles of a political transition in Syria

 

Member states of the action group on Syria, meeting in Geneva on Saturday, have agreed on principles for a political transition process led by the Syrians, has announced the e ; sioner Kofi Annan International.

Forming a national unity government, which could include members of the current government and opposition members, will be based on mutual consent, said the special representative ; cial of the Arab League and UN Syria.

The Action Group on Syria has also stressed the importance of the implementation of constitutional reforms and holding free and fair.

Kofi Annan said later at a news conference that the date of the next meeting of the Task Force had not been set. However, the group plans to meet as soon as the situation warrants, he said.

The meeting of foreign ministers of the permanent members of the Security Council (China, USA, France, Britain and Russia), Turkey, Kuwait and Qatar was to halt 16 months of violence and reach a consensus on the ultimate fate of President Bashar al Assad.

The crackdown on the uprising began in March 2011 killed at least 10,000 dead, according to the UN.

FRENCH LEGISLATION: The stakes of the second round of legislative

 

Last round. In the second round of parliamentary elections Sunday, June 17, the French have to decide between the last candidates. For the parliamentary left (Socialist Party, the Greens Europe-Ecology and the Left Front), which received 46.77% of votes in the first round, the challenge now is to win at least 289 cen ; management of 577 to command a majority in the National Assembly.

Comforted by their score of 10 June, 29.22%, the Socialists hope to achieve on their own absolute majority, thus avoiding having to deal with their allies. For opponents of the UMP, beset by internal divisions, it is to keep the damage.

The poll began on Saturday in Guyana and the Caribbean, closing a week between the two towers marked, right, by the strategy of "neither-nor" ( or National Front, or republican front) and adopted by the UMP, left, by the case "tweetweiler" which has embarrassed the Socialist Party and the Elysee.

Duels in suspense

Besides the expected score of abstention – June 10, it reached 42.77%, a record for legislative – this election is different issues. Within hours of the results, including the eyes are pointed at La Rochelle, where the Socialist candidate supported by the government, Segolene Royal, the dissident faces Olivier Falorni, who was sent a tweet encouragement by Valérie Trierweiler, wife of the President of the Republic. An electoral battle on which the ambitions of the former Socialist candidate for president in 2007, eyeing the perch of the National Assembly.

Side of the Modem, Francois Bayrou, who plays his political survival, attacking a triangular face risky Nathalie Chabanne (PS) and Eric Saubatte (UMP) in the second district of Pyrenees-Atlantiques, it represents over 25 years. The centrist candidate could be punished by voters swayed by his vote in favor of Francis Holland in the second round of the presidential election.

In the UMP – who won 27.12% of votes in the first round – it is especially in the fourth district of Essonne that one of the battles over media should play: the outgoing member Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet faces the PS candidate Olivier Thomas. Calling the candidate to beat UMP, the National Front (FN) has supported the controversial socialist.

The FN hope, for his part, win up to five districts, starting with that of Henin-Beaumont, in the Pas de Calais, where Le Pen got 42% of the votes June 10 The return on the benches of the Assembly would be a first for the party since 1998.

Finally, among the Ministers-government candidates Ayrault is on Carlotti concern that weighs most. Faced with the UMP Muselier in the 5th district of Bouches-du-Rhône, home to the right, the Minister for disabled people should, as provided for under rule announced by the prime minister, quit his post in case of defeat.