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The arrest and release on bail of the former American president this Thursday night in the United States agitates America. Never in the history of the United States has a former president had to pay bail to avoid imprisonment. With his judicial passport photo taken Thursday at the Atlanta jail, the famous "mugshot", the former President made the headlines across the Atlantic and attracted the jeers of many Internet users.
The frontrunner in the Republican primaries for the 2024 presidential election quickly left this Atlanta prison in a motorized convoy placed under high security. He is now "filed" like any litigant prosecuted, with his physical characteristics as detailed: 1m90, 98 kg, Venetian blond hair. And the number P01135809.
Just after having to undergo this legal procedure and before boarding his private plane again, Donald Trump denounced a "travesty of justice" and "electoral interference" on the part of the authorities of the State of Georgia who indicted him. "I did nothing wrong" by questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election won by Joe Biden, assured the Republican tribune. This is his fourth arrest of the year, related to the Georgia elections case.
What to remember also
- Gérald Darmanin arrived in Nîmes. The Minister of the Interior was expected this Friday morning in the city of Gard, where two people, a 10-year-old child and an 18-year-old died by gunfire this week. A man possibly linked to the 2nd homicide is in custody. The minister, who said the raid had been "on the spot" since yesterday, also added that it was necessary to "find the perpetrators of these horrific crimes".
- Tributes to General Georgelin. The head of state paid national tribute this Friday morning to this "soldier of the France, servant of the State and the Republic", who died accidentally last week, during a hike on the slopes of Mont Valier, in the Pyrenees. In 2019, Jean-Louis Georgelin was chosen by the president to oversee the reconstruction of the Paris cathedral after its fire.
- Beware of thunderstorms. Météo France lifted the red alert heatwave this Friday morning, although temperatures remain high over a large part of the east of the country, where thunderstorms will continue to erupt. These storms will sometimes be violent, with intense rain (up to 50 to 60 mm in a short time), wind gusts of up to 90 to 100 km / h locally (and) hail, sometimes moderate in size.
It's about you
The summer holidays are coming to an end. As expected, the last weekend of August will be busy on the roads. Bison futé announces red a very large part of the weekend in the direction of returns, with a "difficult" traffic from this Friday, and until Monday evening. The first slowdowns will take place in the early afternoon at the Saint-Arnoult toll gate.
In the rest of the country, traffic jams will focus on the afternoon and all evening near the Mediterranean rim (A8 and A9) and will go up to the Rhone Valley on the A7. The A10 between Bordeaux and Poitiers will also be very busy. But in the direction of departures, the day is classified green, like the rest of the weekend!