On Linkedin, Facebook, Instagram or Tinder, you didn't really have the head to follow the news for the past two days. No problem, our five-point summary of the news is specially designed for difficult weekends. # TonDolipraneChallenge ...
1. Coronavirus installs
Cancellation of the Chinese New Year festivities, encouraging news of the three patients on French soil, containment measures and plan to repatriate foreign nationals ... We have informed you in real time of the news related to the epidemic which has already killed 56 people in China and we will continue to do it all evening here.
More info: The fear of a possible spread of the virus has pushed many French people to go to pharmacies to get a protective mask. Result: many pharmacies are out of stock ...
2. Michou is dead
It's a Parisian night star that disappeared this Sunday morning. Michou, whose real name is Michel Catty, died at the age of 88. Patron of the Cabaret of transformist artists, located at number 80 rue des Martyrs in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, he has managed to make it a real institution and an essential place for tourists. His blue suit and his immeasurable charm had carried his legend beyond our borders. The cultural and political scene paid tribute this afternoon to the Blue Prince.
More info: The ethnographer, filmmaker, author and photographer Rina Sherman spent three years filming Michou. She answers our questions.
3. Large locust clouds like Luxembourg
They devour Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya without being able to control them for the moment. Locust swarms of historic magnitude, totaling several billion insects, have been devastating large areas of East Africa for several weeks. Our video point:
4. A station at the door?
The municipal campaign is in full swing and in Paris, it results in some unexpected projects. Like the one worn by Benjamin Griveaux, who wishes to move the Gare de l'Est to the gates of the capital. Objective: free up space for its Paris Central Park project. Its competitor Cédric Villani offers to move the traffic of the Eurostar and Thalys trains, which serve London and Brussels, from the Gare du Nord to Saint-Denis. On the side of Anne Hidalgo's team, we count the points.
More info: Move the Gare de Lyon to Lyon to shorten the journey time, move the Seine south or replace the rats with squirrels ... Internet users also have big plans for the Capital ...
5. Vincent Collet ousted
He is still the coach of the French basketball team, but he will no longer coach that of Strasbourg. At the head of the SIG since 2011, he paid the price for the defeat of his family on Saturday evening against Orleans, the tenth straight loss for Strasbourg. Elected coach of the year in 2015 and 2016, Collet failed five times in a row in the final of the French Championship with SIG (2013-17), as well as in the final of the Eurocoupe (2016) but he won the Leaders Cup in 2015 and 2019, and the Coupe de France in 2015.
More info: The Collet method may no longer be bearing fruit, but it remains a model of its kind. In 2018, as the play-offs approached, the coach had revealed some of his secrets to us.
That's it, that's all for this weekend, we let you enjoy your Sunday evening. If you don't know what to listen to, we can't recommend this excellent episode of " 20 Minutes, Sports included " devoted to the disappearance of Emiliano Sala too much:
- Basketball
- coronavirus
- Society
- Station
- Michou
- Kenya