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The new storms that hit Corsica overnight from Thursday to Friday did not require any major intervention, but the scars of yesterday's bad weather are still very much present.
Their death toll is still five dead across the island, including two at sea, a 62-year-old fisherman and a kayaker in her sixties.
Thursday evening, several campsites in Corse-du-Sud had been evacuated in anticipation of new storms, announced with “strong rainy intensities”.
In Haute-Corse, 5,400 people “housed in the most exposed campsites have been brought to safety”, detailed the prefecture.
Instructions had also been given to prohibit leaving the ports to prevent people from going back to sea. The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, visiting Calvi this Friday morning, assured that holidaymakers now had the possibility of returning to campsites when material conditions permit.
The state of natural disaster could be declared as early as Wednesday, following a first meeting on the subject, he also announced.
What else to remember
Mortal refusal to comply at Vénissieux.
The passenger of a vehicle died after police fire last night, in Vénissieux (Rhône).
According to the first elements of the investigation, the driver, between life and death after having also been hit, refused to obey the orders of the police, tried to flee by hitting at least one officer, forcing them to use their weapons.
The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, explained that these two people were "very unfavorably known to the police services".
The monster fires in Algeria are “under control”.
The fires that have ravaged wooded and urban areas in northeastern Algeria since Wednesday, causing the death of at least 38 people, "are completely under control", announced the Civil Protection.
Every year, northern Algeria is affected by similar fires, but this phenomenon has been accentuated by climate change, which increases the likelihood of heat waves and droughts.
And now, a seal in the Seine.
After an orca and a beluga in recent weeks, a seal was spotted in the Seine on Wednesday, downstream from Poses-Amfreville (Eure).
Everything is done to find the animal.
"It would be a seal that is used to coming to feed at this time of year at the exit of the Eure in the Seine", explained the NGO Sea Shepherd, recommending "to leave it calm while remaining attentive to his movements.
it concerns you
iPhone, iPad or Mac owners, if Apple asks you to update… do it!
The Apple brand has recommended that owners of certain models of these devices update the operating software, which has a security flaw allowing them to take control.
This applies to iPhone 6 and later, all iPad Pros, fifth-generation iPads and later, and Macs.