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“I am very angry today.
It is not done between allies ”;
"A blow in the back".
The words used this Thursday morning by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, towards the Australian government, are strong.
And for good reason, they follow what had been dubbed "the contract of the century", the sale to Australia by Naval Group (French manufacturer) of 12 submarines for an amount of approximately 34 billion euros.
Concluded in 2016, it was denounced Wednesday at 11 p.m. (French time) by Scott Morrison, the Australian Prime Minister.
An announcement made by videoconference, via the White House, during which Scott Morrison explains that his country was giving up deliveries of Naval group buildings to "take another path" responding to a "change of need". Australia will acquire American nuclear-powered devices as part of a strategic partnership with the United States and Great Britain in the Indo-Pacific area. But the unofficial reason would be quite different. "The entryism of the Americans", according to a source at the Ministry of the Armed Forces, who denounces "the soaping of the board in order" of the Biden administration in the United States, then "the American forcing" to recover the contract. Faced with a decision “à la Trump”, according to Jean-Yves Le Drian, the minister announces that “it is not over, that we will need clarifications.We have contracts, the Australians will have to tell us how they are doing ”.
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Vaccination obligation: 3,000 staff suspended in France.
Guest of the RTL morning show this Thursday morning, the Minister of Solidarity and Health, Olivier Véran, announced that out of 2.7 million employees and liberals who were to have received a first dose of vaccine by Wednesday at the latest, " 3,000 suspensions were served on the staff of health or medico-social establishments who had not yet entered a vaccination course "against the Covid.
“The continuity of care has been ensured,” said the minister, adding that “a few dozen resignations” should be noted.
Nine dead by drowning in one day.
It is a day that will remain dramatically in the memory of the firefighters of the Mediterranean departments. In the aftermath of torrential rains in the Gard, nine people drowned on Wednesday, including five in Hérault alone. Two men also died in Bouches-du-Rhône and two other people in Aude. In the Hérault, where the victims are between 64 and 73 years old, the rescuers carried out twelve interventions for drowning, linked to a “roller phenomenon”. “What we don't see are the underwater currents which are important and which drag both to the bottom and to the sea. The water is hot, we think we are going to have fun, and quickly we are pulled towards the sea and the bottom and we are exhausted trying to come back ”, explained on LCI Aurélien Manenc,lieutenant-colonel of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis) of Hérault.
The French soldiers kill the leader of the jihadist group Islamic State in the Great Sahara.
It is a “major success” announced by President Emmanuel Macron on the night of Wednesday to Thursday.
The leader of the jihadist group Islamic State in the Great Sahara (EIGS), Adnan Abou Walid al-Sahraoui, "died following a strike by the Barkhane force" in August after a "long-term hunt", tweeted from for her part, the Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, hailing "a decisive blow against this terrorist group".
He has been responsible for the deaths of 2,000 to 3,000 civilians since 2013 and "it was he who organized the attack in Niger in 2020 which killed six French humanitarian workers from the NGO Acted", she recalled. .
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If France has incredible historical monuments such as the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Palace of Versailles or the Basilica of Notre-Dame de la Garde, it is the Place Stanislas in Nancy which has been voted the favorite monument of the French. The Meurthe-et-Moselle site was chosen by viewers among 14 monuments in contention this Wednesday evening, during the program "The favorite monument of the French", presented by Stéphane Bern on France 3. The host promised to elsewhere "a surprise" to succeed the royal monastery of Brou, in the Ain, and the belfry of Arras, in the Pas-de-Calais, awarded in 2014 and 2015. This year, the Stanislas place notably preceded the Ideal Palace Postman Cheval in Hauterives (Auvergne Rhône-Alpes), Sainte-Chapelle in Paris (Île-de-France),but also the Villa Cavrois in Croix (Hauts-de-France) or the U4 blast furnace park in Uckange (Grand-Est).