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Solidarity in Metz (Moselle), Saturday February 11. The Food Bank distributed meals and parcels to the students. On average, once their rent has been paid, they only have around fifty euros left for food, clothing and healthcare. A reunion then takes place in Carantilly (Moselle) between the descendants of a couple of farmers, the Lequartiers, and those of a Jewish doctor, Albert Ebner, whom they hid during the war. Michel Alexandre, grandson of the Lequartier couple, was four years old at the time. “He was a very discreet man, who didn’t go out much. ‘Cause he was sick, that’s what we were told“, he recalls.

Brando’s Corsican carnival celebrates the end of winter

“It’s moving. My father is always very grateful to the family“, comments for his part Olivier Ebner, the son of Albert Ebner. In Montpellier (Herault), between 13,000 and 15,000 people marched in response to a platform signed by local elected environmentalists to ban the live castration of bulls and branding with a hot iron.”The real ecologists are us. We live daily among our animals“, says a demonstrator. Finally heading for the carnival of Brando (Haute-Corse), with slightly scary masks and costumes. The festival celebrates the end of winter and the rebirth of nature.