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The hunt continues in the Cévennes.
The gendarmes are still looking for Valentin Marcone, 29, suspected of having killed his employer and a colleague on Tuesday in a sawmill in Plantiers (Gard).
On the run for three days and armed, the young man has since entrenched himself in the Cévennes forest.
This Friday, on France Info, the public prosecutor of Nîmes, Eric Maurel, declared that they "have absolutely no trace of him".
In total, more than 300 gendarmes are mobilized in this manhunt, whose "objective is to achieve his surrender as peaceful as possible," said Eric Maurel.
What to also remember
Tensions in the Middle East.
The tension still does not fall between Israel and Hamas who clash by fire of rockets interposed since Monday evening.
During the night, the Israeli army said that "the Israeli air force and ground troops are currently carrying out an attack in Gaza."
Information denied two hours later.
Since the start of the week, the conflict has claimed more than 100 victims on the Palestinian side and 7 on the Israeli side.
To know everything about the events taking place in the Middle East, follow our live.
Put on masks for vaccinated Americans. “
If you are fully vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask! US President Joe Biden said Thursday, hailing a "big day" for America. The health authorities have indeed lifted their recommendation to wear a mask indoors or outdoors. According to the director of the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), Americans who are vaccinated will need to continue to wear a mask in transportation, airports and train stations.
Quarantine and Indian variant in France.
In its epidemiological update issued Thursday evening, Public Health France indicated that the Indian variant, discovered at the beginning of April on French soil, was now linked to 24 clusters in the country.
Among these sources of contamination, two have no known link with India.
These family clusters have been identified in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Île-de-France.
France also announced this afternoon that passengers from four new countries will now have to comply with quarantine on their arrival: Bahrain, Colombia, Costa Rica and Uruguay.
Passengers from twelve countries, as well as the French department of Guyana, must already respect a ten-day isolation.
The unexpected info
Have you always dreamed of seeing the Titanic with your own eyes?
This will be done soon !
China will open at the end of the year, in Suining, in the southwest of the country, a theme park dedicated to the famous liner.
At “Titanicland”, you can admire its life-size replica, 260 m long, the construction of which took six years.
About a hundred workers were mobilized to make the Chinese version of the Titanic, which sank in the North Atlantic in April 1912.
An aerial view of the life-size replica of the Titanic in China.
AFP / NOEL CELIS NOEL CELIS
"We are building a ship the size of an aircraft carrier" on land, said Su Shaojun, who is behind the project, which is estimated to cost 1.2 billion euros.