Dear readers,
This week you have most likely heard the name of the famous composer Maurice Ravel.
Make no mistake: you are reading a newsletter dedicated to current affairs, and not to classical music.
It will not be - alas?
- not a question here of the
Bolero
, but of a completely different clothing attribute: the veil.
The scene took place inside an establishment in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, the Maurice Ravel high school.
The principal asked a student to remove her veil, trying to enforce the law banning religious symbols at school.
The young woman ignored the principal's injunctions who, subsequently, was the target of a lynching on social networks.
The Minister of National Education Nicole Belloubet denounced “
unacceptable attacks
”.
In the process, a 26-year-old man was arrested.
He is due to be judged on April 23 in Paris.
He risks 5 years of imprisonment.
But the controversy rose to
a crescendo
this Friday when the young high school student who had refused to remove her veil gave her testimony in a video published by the Center Against Islamophobia in Europe (CCIE).
Again
?
This is what the teaching community fears, which remembers the names of Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard.
Twenty years after the law on religious symbols in French schools, a survey by Odoxa-Backbone Consulting carried out exclusively on March 12 and 13 for
Le Figaro
shows that nearly eight out of ten French people believe that secularism is in danger in their country.
Happy Sunday reading,
Margaux d'Adhémar, news journalist at Le
Figaro
.
In the rest of the current news…
Host Stéphane Plaza accused of domestic violence
Targeted by an investigation for domestic violence, the popular M6 host was placed in police custody this Tuesday March 12 in Paris.
The accusations of three of his ex-partners were published last October in Mediapart.
While awaiting his trial, the Paris prosecutor's office finally requested his placement under judicial supervision.
Host Stéphane Plaza.
JOEL SAGET / AFP
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The ordeal of women trapped by the Lyon strangler
At the beginning of summer 2023, Alicia's body is discovered in a squat in the heart of Lyon.
Another woman reported to the police, while a third victim, who escaped an attempted murder, was identified.
The profile of a serial criminal emerges.
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The courage of “dirty” teenage girls in the face of the father who demanded rape on Snapchat
Emmanuel D., accused of forcing young people to have sex with each other filmed on Snapchat, was sentenced to 17 years in prison this Thursday.
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“You spat on the values of the gendarmerie”: the soldier who informed her convicted drug dealer boyfriend
The engineer at the head of drug trafficking in the North and his girlfriend, the gendarme, engaged in a mixture of criminal genres in Fourmies.
Sentenced to 12 months in prison, the young woman will no longer be able to wear the uniform for five years.
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Yesterday's fact
“Marie did not die of hatred,” Bertrand Cantat defended himself at the Vilnius court on March 16, 2004. Just 20 years ago, the singer's trial for the murder of his companion, the actress Marie Trintignant, took place. opened in Lithuania.
The previous summer, the daughter of Jean-Louis and Nadine Trintignant, mother of four children, had succumbed to blows from the leader of the group Noir Désir.
Long before the Metoo movement and the appearance of the word “feminicide”, the affair had caused a shock wave in French society.
The “crime of passion” still benefited from a form of indulgence.
Though.
“Famous people are nothing exceptional.
They live and die like everyone else, except that everyone, with envy, contemplates them.
In matters of crime, talent does not constitute a mitigating circumstance, assuming that too exclusive a love is one,” wrote the legal columnist of Le
Figaro
the day before the trial .
By our journalist Camille Lestienne.
On the agenda
Monday March 18
: Photographer Salim Berrada will be tried in Paris for 13 rapes and 4 sexual assaults.
This 38-year-old man is accused of having assaulted seventeen young women in his Parisian studio between 2014 and 2016. Some complainants were allegedly drugged.
OUR STORY ON THE CASE
Tuesday March 19
: judgment of 28 Internet users for the cyber harassment of Magali Berdah at the Paris Criminal Court.
Tuesday March 19
: trial of a pig breeder for killing five hunting dogs at the Privas criminal court.
Wednesday March 20
: the accused in the trial of the Strasbourg Christmas market attacks will be questioned by the Paris Special Assize Court.
Watch this week
Series “Outreau, a French Nightmare” Netflix Screenshot
“
Nothing new in substance, but the confirmation – distressing – that part of the judiciary and those involved in the case are still not convinced by the acquittal of thirteen innocent people
”, writes our legal columnist Stéphane Durand-Souffland on the subject from the brand new Netflix series “Outreau”.
OUTREAU ON NETFLIX: OUR REVIEW
More than twenty years after the events and after the famous series “Grégory” – which focused on one of the biggest unsolved French cases, the disappearance of a 4-year-old child whose body was found in Vologne – the video-on-demand platform delved into the most terrible French criminal case concerning acts of sexual assault on minors which took place between 1997 and 2000: the Outreau affair.
In four episodes, this documentary series dissects this dark legal fiasco.
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