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Bernard Laporte has resigned as president of the French Rugby Federation after being given a two-year suspended prison sentence, a 75,000 euro fine and a two-year ban on holding any position related to rugby for corruption.
The mobilization in the energy sector continues today, after further reductions in electricity production overnight by EDF strikers at the Paluel nuclear power plant (Seine-Maritime).
• As part of’a plan to fight against animal abusethe Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin announced the establishment of referents in all police stations in France, from Chamarande, in Essonne.
• On the occasion of the International Day of Holocaust Victims, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky underlined that “indifference and hatred” continued to kill, alluding without naming it to Russia’s military offensive. Follow our live.
The minister accused the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo of confusing “municipal services with an annex” of the PS. The latter announced yesterday that she joined the call launched by the boss of the PCF Fabien Roussel to symbolically close the town halls on January 31.
• The National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Financing approved the accounts of the twelve presidential candidates of 2022.
• Around 7,000 amendments to the pension reform project were tabled by MPs, with a view to examining the text in committee at the National Assembly.
• The country was the victim yesterday of new large-scale Russian strikes, which killed 11 people. Follow our live.
The PS Congress opens today in Marseille, in a context of crisis within the party, after the disputed election of Olivier Faure as first secretary.
Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt believes that the reform is a “effort” necessary. “Our objective with the Prime Minister is that this effort be proportionate and well distributed”he says on BFMTV.
• About 7,000 amendments to the pension reform project have already been tabled by MPs, with a view to examining the text in committee at the National Assembly.
• Workers in the energy sector mobilized yesterday in power stations, refineries, ports and docks against the reform project. The movement will be partly extended today, at the call of the CGT.
• The country was the victim yesterday of new large-scale Russian strikes, which killed 11 people. This new wave of bombardments comes the day after the green light from Washington and Berlin for the transfer of heavy tanks to kyiv.
• The alleged perpetrator of the machete attack which caused the death of a sexton in Algeciras the night before last was not “under surveillance” for radicalization, assured the Spanish government.