If, out of prudence or weariness, you stayed within reasonable distance from the news this weekend, you will appreciate our little recap of Sunday evening. Here are five highlights from the past 48 hours.
1. Coronavirus: Italy goes to great lengths
Strictly limited travel, schools, sports halls, closed cinemas, minimum distances to be respected in shops… 15 million Italians living in the north of the country discovered last night that they were placed in quarantine until 3 April. Our explanation in video.
More information: In the Haut-Rhin, the closure of the schools decided on Friday evening greatly disrupts the daily lives of families. We interviewed them.
2. Disappearance of Estelle Mouzin: Fourniret admitted the facts
The 77-year-old serial killer long denied being the perpetrator in January 2003 of the kidnapping and murder of Estelle Mouzin. He finally admitted the facts, announced the Paris prosecutor's office on Saturday. Fourniret is said to have confessed during the three days of interrogations which ended Friday evening in the office of investigating judge Sabine Kheris. The prosecution has not indicated whether it has provided information on the location of the body and the sequence of events.
More info: A few months ago our specialist Vincent Vantighem wondered if Fourniret, suffering from a form of degeneration, was still able to answer the questions of the investigators. His article can be found here.
3. March 8: Demonstrations all over France
Strong mobilization for International Women's Rights Day this Sunday. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in many French cities, with multiple slogans: against the pension reform and its effects for women, against the inequitable distribution of domestic work, against sexual violence and feminicides, or against gynecological and obstetric violence. The objective was to bring the struggles together. The night before, in Paris, the police charged against the participants in a feminist demonstration at night.
More info: in Bordeaux, the city chose to organize its Carnival on March 8, which scandalized the organizers of the march for women's rights. "March 8 is not a masquerade, it is a struggle," said one of the participants.
4. Paris: the Seine in flood
As the level of the Seine continues to rise, the Paris City Hall has taken measures. Marauds to alert homeless people, the transfer of occupants from a reception center and increased vigilance in car parks. "According to forecasts, we should reach 4.30 meters on Monday," said Security Assistant to the mayor of Paris, Colombe Brossel (against 6.10 during the 2016 peak).
The information in addition: this morning, police swimmers took advantage of the strong current of the Seine in flood to train. A muscular Sunday outing ...
5. Scotland-France: farewell Grand Slam
Reduced to 14 for most of the match, the Blues did not exist at Murrayfield. They bow 28 to 17 and let their dreams of Grand Slam escape. The expulsion for a bad gesture from Haouass at the end of the first half completely disorganized the team. The day before, the English had offered themselves, by narrowly defeating the Welsh (33-30), the right to hope to win the VI Nations Tournament.
The info in addition: Bad gestures in a France-Scotland, it does not date from yesterday. In the first episode of our podcast "It was a first time in the history of sport ...", we asked Joris Vincent, lecturer in science and techniques of physical and sports activities at the University of Lille, to tell us about the France-Scotland meeting of January 1, 1913, at the Parc des Princes in Paris. A match that will leave some traces in the history of our two countries ... We let you savor this "first time" ...
- Estelle Mouzin
- Raw
- Rugby
- Coronavirus
- Society
- Michel Fourniret