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France continues to burn in certain departments of the South and the firefighters remain on deck to fight against the flames in Ardèche and in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence in particular.
Two people have been arrested in recent days as part of investigations into several fire starts in the two departments.
Thursday noon, firefighters were still fighting a fire in the Verdon Regional Natural Park which required the evacuation of a campsite and its 400 occupants.
In Ardèche, the fire on the Jastres plateau which has destroyed more than 1,200 ha since Wednesday "is now fixed" and "the displaced have all been able to return home".
400 firefighters remain mobilized on this fire and four of them were slightly injured according to the prefecture of Ardèche.
A man was arrested in the Aubenas sector when he came out of a bush and got back into his vehicle then placed in a drunk tank.
On Wednesday evening, the public prosecutor of Privas had, on Twitter, affirmed that the "criminal track" was "privileged".
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Further south, in the Hérault, the fire which broke out on Tuesday and burned more than 800 ha of vegetation could be fixed.
Residents who had been evacuated were able to return to their homes.
A volunteer firefighter, suspected of being an arsonist, was taken into custody as part of an investigation into eight fire starts.
According to our information, the suspect is deputy mayor of the town of Saint-Jean-de-la-Blaquière, forester sapper by trade and volunteer firefighter since the age of 19.
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EDF loses big, TotalEnergies wins a lot.
If the turnover of the first electricity supplier in France is progressing, EDF still shows a deadweight loss of 5.3 billion euros.
To explain this, the group advances the difficulties encountered in the production of current, both nuclear and hydroelectric, and the energy shield imposed by the State to protect the portfolio of households.
For its part, TotalEnergies is smiling and making a profit of 5.7 billion euros in the second quarter of 2022. The French group is benefiting from the rise in oil and gas prices due to the war in Ukraine.
Saudi Prince MBS visiting Paris.
It is a cumbersome but necessary partner that the President of the Republic receives Thursday evening at the Élysée.
The conflict in Ukraine has reinforced the threats that Russia poses to the energy supply of European countries in particular.
Emmanuel Macron and his Western partners see in the Kingdom led by Mohammed Ben Salmane a lifeline in the face of rising prices and the prospect of difficulties in heating this winter.
The French president should therefore ask MBS to increase the production of oil produced by Saudi Arabia.
The day of the overshoot reached this Thursday.
In a few hours, humanity will be living on credit since we will have consumed all of what the planet can produce in one year without running out, according to the NGOs Global Footprint Network and WWF.
According to the calculations of the organizations, it would take 1.75 Earth to meet our needs in a sustainable way.
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Michel-Edouard Leclerc rarely has his tongue in his pocket, even if it means attracting the wrath of his competitors in mass distribution and food manufacturers.
Guest of BFMTV on Thursday morning, the boss of the Leclerc stores said he wanted to "seize public authority, senators, deputies, so that they look at price formation", before asking: "Does this inflation really is justified?
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Michel-Edouard Leclerc explains that he has “doubts about certain manufacturers and speculation on certain markets” and points the finger at suppliers “with more than 80% of products whose rise is non-transparent”.
Difficult under these conditions to pass the pill to consumers and that's good, the emblematic boss of large retailers "promises the fight" to suppliers.