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Epidemic peak, Daval trial, Thalys attack: the information to remember this Monday noon

2020-11-16T14:32:30.252Z


Here are the main news to remember at midday on November 16.The info not to be missed A light that comes on the front of the Covid-19 epidemic, two weeks after the start of the reconfinement: "We are regaining control," said Olivier Véran this Monday morning in an interview with the regional newspapers of the Ebra group. The Minister of Health even believes that "everything suggests that we have passed an epidemic peak": "Thanks to confinement, as in Marc


The info not to be missed

A light that comes on the front of the Covid-19 epidemic, two weeks after the start of the reconfinement: "We are regaining control," said Olivier Véran this Monday morning in an interview with the regional newspapers of the Ebra group.

The Minister of Health even believes that "everything suggests that we have passed an epidemic peak": "Thanks to confinement, as in March, the virus is starting to circulate less.

For ten consecutive days, the number of new Covid-19 diagnoses has been decreasing, the test positivity rate and the incidence rate have been falling, ”he explains.

However, it would be completely premature to "cry victory and relax our efforts", warned Olivier Véran, while small traders are impatient to reopen and Catholics, who will meet Jean Castex this afternoon, are putting pressure on them. to re-establish Sunday masses.

What to also remember

  • Jonathann Daval at the Assizes.

    Thin, on the verge of tears, the 36-year-old computer scientist appeared this morning in the box of the Assize Court of Haute-Saône, in Vesoul, where he must be tried until Friday for the murder of his wife Alexia, October 28, 2017. He also said before the jurors to be the only person involved.

    The young man, who had staged the disappearance of his wife to make believe in the crime of a prowler and played the grieving husband for three months, accusing Alexia's family for a time, had ended up confessing his crime.

    He faces life imprisonment.

    We tell you the story of this couple who broke up, and which ended in a terrible crime.

  • Thalys trial.

    Another major judicial meeting today before the Special Assize Court of Paris this time, the trial of the author of the foiled Thalys attack, on August 21, 2015. The courage of several passengers, who managed to subduing the assailant, avoided a massacre in this train which carried 166 passengers between Amsterdam and Paris.

    Three men suspected of helping the terrorist Ayoub El Khazzani in this attack prepared from Syria are also on trial, until December 17.

  • More domestic violence.

    With 142,310 victims recorded in 2019, domestic violence is up 16%, announces the Ministry of the Interior, which highlights a possible effect of the Grenelle on domestic violence, which would have encouraged women to file a complaint.

    The Doubs has the largest number of victims, ahead of Côte-d'Or, Côtes-d'Armor and Seine-Saint-Denis.

  • Successful takeoff for Space X.

    This is a first for nine years: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, NASA's new means of space transport, took off at the scheduled time Sunday evening from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

    The journey of the four astronauts (three Americans, one Japanese) to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to last nearly 27 hours.

The unusual info

The million for a pigeon!

And even 1.6 million euros, to be precise: this is the record that a Belgian carrier pigeon has just broken during an auction on a specialized site on Sunday.

New Kim, a female from a renowned breeding in the Antwerp region, thus becomes the most expensive bird of her species in the world, beating another bird from Flanders, the male Armando, sold for 1.25 million euros in 2019 to the same buyer, a Chinese.

The pigeon sport, which can generate big gains, is now gaining followers in Asia and in the Gulf countries.

Source: leparis

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