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The “A day in France” section of the 20 Hours returns, Sunday March 27, to three news items that marked the weekend.
Saturday March 26, near the Sevran-Beaudottes station (Seine-Saint-Denis), a bullet fired by a policeman crossed a vehicle and hit its driver, who died a few hours later. The policeman wanted to check a stolen white van. In circumstances still unclear, the officer fired a shot at the driver, unfavorably known to justice according to the police unions. The IGPN, the police force, opened an investigation on the morning of Sunday March 27.
In a massif near Aubagne (Bouches-du-Rhône), a fire covered 20 hectares. He was circumscribed on the morning of Sunday, March 27. Fires due to a very early drought. In the neighboring department, the level of the river has never been so low in 60 years for the month of March. Finally, in the Landes, the annual beach cleaning operation took place. Nearly 700 residents responded.