Isabelle Balkany directing her last municipal council in Levallois-Perret on February 13, 2020. - AFP

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For her last city council, Isabelle Balkany ensures the show

It is a page that turns in Levallois-Perret in the Hauts-de-Seine. This Thursday evening, Isabelle Balkany, acting mayor since the incarceration of her husband, orchestrated her last municipal council. The couple, convicted at first instance for tax fraud and aggravated money laundering, indeed announced in December - after raising doubts - to renounce a new mandate. And for her last, it was only that the first assistant made her entrance, greeted by a standing-ovation.

Antarctica recorded a record temperature of over 20 ° C

It's a record of heat that makes your back cold. Antarctica recorded a temperature record of more than 20.75 degrees in February, breaking the 20 ° C mark for the first time. This record was recorded on February 9 on Seymour Island. The (bad) records follow each other: January 2020 was the hottest January ever recorded on the planet, just ahead of 2016, according to the European service Copernicus on climate change, as well as according to the American atmospheric and oceanic agency. (NOAA).

Of the 1,681 months of the climate record, only March 2016, February 2016 and December 2015 each had a greater temperature departure from avg than #January 2020: @NOAANCEIclimate https://t.co/Y88Yf1yBud #StateOfClimate pic.twitter.com/ B0Qry73kET

- NOAA (@NOAA) February 13, 2020

Gabriel Matzneff's Parisian home searched

The day after a search of his publisher Gallimard, it is now the turn of Gabriel Matzneff's home in Paris to be searched in the investigation for "rape of a minor" under the age of 15, which targets the writer of 83 years, we learned from a judicial source confirming information from the Parisian . Investigators look for written passages from the writer not appearing in his published works, in order to identify potential victims.

Justice

The Paris Court of Appeal orders the release of Patrick Balkany

Culture

Why investigators are interested in Christian Giudicelli, Matzneff's "faithful accomplice"

  • Global warming
  • Gabriel Matzneff
  • BIM
  • Society
  • Isabelle Balkany