The info not to miss
After Paris, the “freedom convoy” made its way to Brussels and Strasbourg.
As expected after trying to demonstrate against health measures in Paris this weekend, supporters of the "freedom convoy", who oppose in particular the vaccination pass and the government, set sail for Brussels this morning.
Others have taken the direction of Strasbourg where the European elected representatives are meeting this week.
The Belgian authorities reminded the participants of the convoys on Sunday that it was forbidden to demonstrate in the capital.
This did not prevent around 1,300 vehicles, according to the French police, from stopping last night near Lille, not far from the border.
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“Freedom convoy”: after Paris, stopover in Lille on the way to Brussels
Coming from all over France, anti-pass convoys, self-proclaimed "freedom convoys" had converged at the end of the week towards Paris.
But, if the police had counted 3,000 vehicles on Friday evening for 5,000 demonstrators around Paris, all of them did not finally join the capital.
On Saturday, more than a hundred vehicles finally managed to reach the very touristy Champs-Élysées, before being gradually evacuated with tear gas.
What else to remember
Drama in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
An explosion of unknown origin, followed by a fire, killed seven people, including two children, in a village not far from Perpignan.
The explosion, which occurred around 1:30 a.m. in the main street of Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, near a grocery store, was followed by fires in the adjacent buildings.
25 people were evacuated.
An explosion followed by a fire killed at least 7 people in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
I interrupt my trip to Montpellier to go there.
I give my full support to the mobilized state services and to the inhabitants.
Thoughts to the victims and their loved ones.
– Gérald DARMANIN (@GDarmanin) February 14, 2022
Valérie Pécresse in the face of criticism.
The day after her meeting at the Zénith de Paris, the candidate LR, who thought she was relaunching her campaign for the presidential election, finds herself caught up in a controversy.
Because beyond the criticized form of her speech, Valérie Pécresse explaining that she is "a doer" in opposition to "speakers", she is also attacked on the merits.
And in particular on his resumption of the theory of the “great replacement”, dear to Éric Zemmour, reacting Anne Hidalgo (PS), who believes that the candidate LR has crossed “one more Rubicon”.
Police attacked Gare du Nord.
This morning around 7 a.m., a police patrol from the railway network brigade (BRF) opened fire inside the Parisian station against an individual armed with a knife who was threatening them.
According to our information, there were no injuries among the police, but the assailant died.
According to Jean-Baptiste Djebbari, Minister of Transport interviewed, the terrorist track is "a priori, at this stage ruled out".
Resumption of the diplomatic ball in Ukraine.
After a weekend under very high tension, where the conflict with Russia seemed to be able to break out at any moment, diplomatic meetings are resuming today, with in particular the visit of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to Kiev.
While on the border with Ukraine, Russian military maneuvers are intensifying, Westerners continue to promise Moscow the implementation of “immediate” sanctions in the event of an invasion.
We take stock.
The heroes of the day
Papadakis and Cizeron in gold.
Four years after their disappointment in Pyeongchang, where they had to settle for the silver medal, the French skaters climbed to the top step of the ice dancing podium last night at the Beijing Games.
This is the only title that was missing from the huge list of quadruple world champions and five-time European champions.
#PatinageArtistique: The French Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, silver medalists at the 2018 Olympics, were crowned Olympic champions in ice dancing at the Games of #Beijing2022 #AFP #AFPSports pic.twitter.com/iE61gakEcJ
— Agence France-Presse (@afpfr) February 14, 2022
This Olympic title in skating had eluded France for twenty years and rewards the hard work of the couple.
"A washing machine of emotions", confided after their coronation Guillaume Cizeron and Gabriella Papadakis, who enter a little more in the history of their discipline.
