Dear readers,
The miscellaneous news team from Le
Figaro
is delighted to have you back for this fourth issue of your newsletter.
Every Sunday, we offer you a dive into the police and judicial cases that have marked the news of the week, through reports, exclusive stories and unpublished archives.
In this newsletter, we will return to
the scenes of chaos
observed throughout France on Thursday on the sidelines of rallies against the pension reform,
the terrible assassination
of a teacher-researcher in the 12th arrondissement of Paris and
the alleged end of the run of the fugitive
from the Hautes-Pyrenees.
We wish you a good reading and a beautiful day,
Esther Paolini and Guillaume Poingt, journalists in the “miscellaneous facts” section of Le
Figaro
You want to testify on a case, write to us at faitdivers@lefigaro.fr
Files of the week
• Pension reform
: ransacked cities and elusive thugs
The concerns of the authorities have been confirmed.
Several major cities in France were the scene Thursday of violent clashes between demonstrators and the police, on the sidelines of demonstrations against the pension reform.
In Paris, the historic heart of the capital was plagued by violent fires of garbage cans, just like in Bordeaux, where the flames engulfed the front door of the town hall.
A total of 457 people were arrested across France.
Saturday, the demonstration against the retention of water in Sainte-Soline, in Deux-Sèvres turned to guerrilla warfare, says our special correspondent: 28 gendarmes and 7 demonstrators were injured, according to the authorities, including six in "absolute emergency ".
The profile of the thugs is disconcerting.
The violence comes from groups of urban young people and more politicized than the "
yellow vests
" from peripheral France.
If high school and university students are not mobilized en masse, as evidenced by the baccalaureate specialty tests which went well, more and more young people, hitherto unknown to the services, have taken action.
They embody a metamorphosis of anger.
These arrests should lead to a series of immediate appearances before the criminal courts in the coming days.
After the time of arrests on the pavement, will come that of the investigation and the characterization of the facts in the courts.
• A teacher-researcher murdered in her apartment building in Paris
Cécile Hussherr-Poisson, 47, was killed in her building hall, rue de Prague, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris.
Guillaume Poingt / Le Figaro.
Her name was Cécile Hussherr-Poisson.
She was a normalien, agrégé in classics and teacher-researcher in comparative literature at the Gustave Eiffel University, in Champs-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne).
This 47-year-old woman, mother, was brutally killed last Monday on rue de Prague, in the 12th arrondissement of the capital.
Her attacker attacked her with a knife.
Her ex-husband, normalien like her, was indicted for murder.
Find the story of our journalist.
• In the South-West, the end of the run of a man accused of a double assassination
Last Sunday, the remains of a man in the mountains of northern Spain were discovered by a hunter.
The first examinations show compatibility in the dentition with that of Cédric Tauleygne, a man who fled in July 2022 after executing his estranged wife in cold blood and her new companion in the Hautes- Pyrenees.
Read the story of this affair where morbid jealousy and secret complicity mingle between two professors adored by all.
• Between false wills and absence of successors, notables at the heart of a juicy inheritance scam
Two notaries, a lawyer, a director of nursing homes, an undertaker, a genealogist, a widow… Nine people are accused of having joined forces to embezzle nearly 5 million euros from 11 estates, as we tell you. tell in this article.
They are judged from this Monday before the correctional court of Cusset, in the Allier.
• A mayor targeted by a fire in Loire-Atlantique
The cars and the home of the mayor of Saint-Brévin-les-Pins were set on fire on Wednesday around 5 a.m.
According to the first elements of the investigation, it is a voluntary act.
For several months, the peaceful seaside resort has been regularly talked about because of demonstrations by supporters or opponents of the move of a reception center for asylum seekers near a school.
Yesterday's fact
Archive of Le Figaro from March 26, 1983 Le Figaro
It was March 23, 1983. The recognizable voice of the famous writer Frédéric Dard, is urgent on the phone: "
I'll give it to you but give me back my kid, shit
."
At the other end of the line, a man with a southern accent worthy of the Marseille underworld, promises not to harm the teenager.
Is it a dialogue taken from a San Antonio, a mythical character invented by the novelist?
No, the 12 and a half year old daughter of Frédéric Dard was indeed kidnapped at night from the family home of Vandoeuvres near Geneva.
Joséphine will be returned to her parents for a ransom of two million Swiss francs.
The incredible story, worthy of a detective novel, remains a deep trauma for its protagonists.
"
It
“, confided Frédéric Dard to
Figaro.
The story of our journalist Camille Lestienne can be found here.
On the agenda
Monday:
start of the trial of a notary for fraud in wills (put Margaux paper link) before the criminal court of Cusset.
Tuesday:
start of the trial of two bakers from Montmartre, tried by the Paris Assize Court for the fatal attack on a burglar in May 2017. The question of self-defense is at the heart of this case, which will be followed by
Le Figaro
.
Tuesday:
start of the trial of three minors involved in Yuriy's attack before the Paris juvenile court.
Wednesday:
trial of Emmanuel Abayisenga for the fire at Nantes Cathedral before the Nantes Criminal Court.
This Rwandan had killed a priest in August 2021.
Le Figaro
will cover this trial.
Wednesday:
trial of a man before the criminal court of Marseille for having harassed the ecologist deputy Sandrine Rousseau on the internet.
To read / To see
POLAR QUAYS.
If you have nothing planned between March 31 and April 2, we strongly advise you to take your tickets for the capital of Gaul.
Next week is the 19th edition of the Lyon International Polar Festival, called “Quais du Polar”.
This year, Spain is in the spotlight.
The event welcomes great writers of Spanish detective novels such as Javier Cercas, who publishes
Bluebeard's Castle
(Actes Sud), the 3rd part of his Terra Alta trilogy.
A meeting with the author will notably be hosted by
Le Figaro Littéraire
, partner of the event.
You can also find the writer Victor del Arbol (
All the waves of the ocean
),
), presented as the "nugget of the quays", or Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett (
Rites of death
).
An unmissable event for all readers fond of black literature.
Thank you for reading this newsletter.
See you next Sunday for a new selection of news items that marked the week.
