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On the occasion of the day against school bullying, Emmanuel Macron announced in a video several measures, in particular the launch of an application by February which will allow victims to transmit screenshots so that the situation is better managed.
The physical places, such as Teenagers' Homes or Reception Centers for young people, will be strengthened, also said the Head of State, without specifying how many new spaces will be set up.
Referring to his call, launched two years ago, for "shame to change sides", the president recalled the measures put in place on the subject, such as the ban on cellphones in college, the creation of anti-harassment referents or the launch of the free number 3018.
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The Senate says no to "inflation compensation".
The upper house of Parliament, dominated by the right-wing opposition, on Wednesday evening abolished the government's "inflation allowance" of 100 euros, a flagship measure of the second budget bill rectified for 2021. Instead, the Senate voted an exceptional increase of 150 euros in the activity bonus, an exceptional allowance of 150 euros for beneficiaries of minimum social benefits and social benefits, as well as an additional allocation intended for mobility aid paid on a case-by-case basis to the unemployed and young people in the process of integration. The cost for the State would then be reduced to 1.5 billion euros, against 3.8 billion euros for "inflation compensation". But Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman, recalled this Thursday on LCI that it is the National Assembly, held by the presidential majority,Who will have the last word ".
Nearly 10% of the population went to the soup kitchen in 2020.
“Between 5 and 7 million people” had recourse to food aid in 2020, warns Secours Catholique in its annual report on the condition of poverty in France published this Thursday. The median standard of living of people assisted by the association stands this year at 537 euros, or six euros less compared to last year, a figure that remains below the poverty line set in 2018 at 1,063 euros. . "It is a humiliation that our country inflicts on nearly 10% of its population," said Véronique Devise, president of Secours Catholique.
The Parliament definitively adopts the bill against animal abuse.
The majority had made it a battle horse, in tune with the concerns of society: Parliament has definitely adopted, via a final Senate vote, a bill against animal abuse. On the menu of this vast text, the progressive prohibition of wild animals in circuses and dolphinariums, the sale of puppies and kittens in prohibited animal shops and tougher penalties for abuse or abandonment. It is about "consolidating the link between animals and men", in line with legislation on animals since 1850.
The state of emergency declared in Canada.
Torrential rains that fell on Sunday and Monday caused landslides and extensive flooding in British Columbia.
The Prime Minister of this Canadian province has declared the triggering of a state of emergency.
The government also announced the deployment of "Canadian Forces air support to assist with evacuation efforts, support supply routes and protect residents from floods and landslides."
Thousands of people have been evacuated and displaced.
For now, the balance sheet shows a deceased person but it could worsen.
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Major judicial twist in the United States: more than 50 years after the assassination in New York of Malcolm X, a figure in the fight for the black cause, the Manhattan prosecutor wants to exonerate two of the three men convicted of the murder. They "weren't given the justice they deserved," "what we can do is recognize this mistake, the seriousness of this mistake," prosecutor Cyrus Vance told The New York Times. Alongside an association fighting against judicial errors, The Innocence Project, the prosecutor will file this Thursday before the Supreme Court of New York a joint case to obtain the annulment of the convictions in 1966 of these two former activists: Muhammad Aziz, alias Norman 3X Butler at the time, and Khalil Islam, aka Thomas 15X Johnson, who died in 2009.It is then up to the Supreme Court to validate the request.
