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07:17 : Volodymyr Zelensky affirms to the washington post having learned in the press, and not from its American allies, of the existence of a leak of confidential documents concerning the war in Ukraine. The Pentagon spokesperson responded “not being able to tell whether this is true or not”while reiterating the support of the United States in Kyiv.
07:07 : A long-awaited decision. The Constitutional Council must decide today on a second request for a referendum of shared initiative. We explain to you why it may be refused.
(MAGALI COHEN / HANS LUCAS / AFP)
06:58 : Volna is located at the end of the bridge connecting Russia with the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014. Russia and annexed Crimea have been the target in recent days of a series of attacks, which Kiev does not has not claimed.
06:56 : A fuel depot caught fire last night in the Russian village of Volna, near Crimea. “According to preliminary information, there is no death,” and there is no “no threat to residents” of the village, specifies the local governor. “Everything possible is being done so that the fire does not spread any further.”
06:52 : If we take the deviations from the average daily temperature for a year, in metropolitan France, 295 days were warmer than the reference average measured between 1971 and 2000.
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06:49 : The days follow one another and look alike: today, it will be on average 3.3°C warmer than the reference temperatures (1971-2000) in mainland France, according to our comparison established in collaboration with Météo France.
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06:47 : Will you be able to get some sun again? The sky will be blue over France today, despite some clouds on the Atlantic coast in the afternoon. It will be up to 30°C, at the hottest of the day.
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06:43 : In a letter sent to Gérald Darmanin, Dominique Simonnot calls on the Minister of the Interior to “vigilance”. She reminds him “Irequired to ensure compliance with the legislative and regulatory provisions applicable to the custody procedure”.
06:42 : “The instructions given by the police headquarters and the Paris public prosecutor’s office, as well as the dismissal of 80% of the procedures, reveal a massive recourse, as a preventive measure, to the deprivation of liberty for the purpose of maintaining public order.”
06:41 : “Some people have heard police officers decide at random, after trivial discussions, which offenses to hold against them. Pre-filled arrest forms were distributed to the officers.”
06:39 : Following these visits, the Comptroller General of places of deprivation of liberty reports “violent arrests”, “systematic searches in underwear”“unworthy hygiene conditions”, “insufficient individual spaces in collective cells” or “irregularities in the interpellation sheets”.
06:40 : On March 24 and 25, Dominique Simonnot and his teams visited “nine Parisian police stations to control the conditions of care for those arrested” during the demonstration on March 23.
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06:31 : The Comptroller General of Places of Deprivation of Liberty denounces “serious violations of fundamental rights”, during police custody of people arrested in Paris in demonstrations against the pension reform. She reports that there is a “use of police custody measures for repressive purposes”.
06:26 : In the regional classification, “the Maghreb/Middle East region remains the most dangerous for journalists” and Europe that “where the conditions for exercising journalism are the easiest”. This assessment is carried out on the basis “a quantitative statement of abuses committed against journalists” on the one hand, and “from a qualitative study” the other.
06:24 : This 2023 edition, published as every year on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, denounces the effects of disinformation. In two-thirds of the 180 countries assessed, RSF finds “involvement of political actors” in “massive disinformation or propaganda campaigns”. This is the case of Russia, India, China or Mali.
06:22 : The conditions for practicing journalism are poor in 7 out of 10 countries, according to the Reporters Without Borders world ranking on freedom of the press. Like last year, Norway is the highest rated state and North Korea the last. France comes 24th, and gains two places.
(REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS)