In the News: Should children be vaccinated?
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Will children need to be vaccinated soon?
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By: Norbert Navarro
9 min
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Question asked on the front page of the newspaper
Le Parisien
by Alain Fischer.
While the first day of curfew at 6 p.m. rises in mainland France and that, for the first time, a “
citizens
'
council
” is meeting today
on vaccines, Professor Fischer, who heads the scientific council of the vaccination, told Le
Parisien
: "" The new variants could (...) lead us to change the strategy. Perhaps one day it will be necessary to vaccinate children "",
wonders Alain Fischer in
Le Parisien
.
Justice, with this new investigation by the anti-corruption prosecution on Nicolas Sarkozy. The former President of the Republic is suspected of "
influence peddling
" and "
laundering of crimes or offenses
":
This investigation concerns a 3 million euro consulting contract signed by Nicolas Sarkozy with a Russian insurance company controlled by two oligarchs associated with the French insurer Axa.
Two billionaires, most of whose fortune is housed in tax havens.
Justice seeks to verify if the former head of state acted as a consultant, which would then be completely legal, or if he carried out on behalf of his Russian clients "
potentially criminal lobbying activities
", precise Liberation.
According to Mediapart, which reveals this case, it was in 2019 that Nicolas Sarkozy "
concluded
" for 3 million euros a "
consulting contract
" with the Russian insurance group Reso-Garantia.
Specializing in auto / motorcycle insurance, this group is controlled by Sergey and Nikolay Sarkisov, two Russian-Armenian brothers.
This online newspaper specifies that Nicolas Sarkozy “
received, at the beginning of 2020, under this contract, a payment of 500,000 euros from Russia on his account at the Edmond de Rothschild bank.
"
This bank did not make a suspicious transaction report to Tracfin, the national intelligence service on financial movements:
Lost sentence, because Tracfin "
all the same
" discovered the existence of this Russian transfer, and made a report to the National Financial Prosecutor's Office, which opened "
in the summer of 2020
" a "
preliminary investigation for
" influence peddling "
targeting Nicolas Sarkozy,
" still reveals Mediapart.
The fortune of the Sarkisov brothers being estimated by Forbes magazine "at 1.7 billion dollars" - which, according to this newspaper, ranks them among the "richest men in Russia" -
Mediapart reveals
the fact that the Sarkisov brothers "
are big fans of tax havens
”.
This website also indicates that in 2008, the French insurance giant Axa became the second largest shareholder of this Russian insurer, by buying “
for 810 million euros
” 36% of its capital.
Asked by Agence France Presse, "
the entourage
" of Nicolas Sarkozy says he is "
perfectly serene
", and ... ensures that the "consulting activities" of the former head of state "
are framed in strict compliance with legal and ethical rules
”.
It has been ten years to the day that Marine Le Pen succeeded her father at the head of the National Front, which has become the National Rally:
It was in fact January 16, 2011. Since the National Rally, this party has demonstrated its "
ability to manage
" and it "
contributed to the emergence of a new political elite
," said its president to
Le Parisien
. pleasing to have "
blown up the glass ceiling
" during the municipal election in Perpignan, southern France, where his party was opposed in the second round to a "
republican front
".
“
I sowed, she reaped.
But in agriculture, it is necessary to re-sow,
”
retorts Jean-Marie Le Pen in the same daily
.
Response of the shepherdess to the shepherd in
Le Figaro
: “When we arrive at the second round of 2017, it is not by surprise as in 2002 (…) Today, some are starting to say that I can win.
I intend to do it (…) The only thing I can think of is the presidential election, ”
said Marine Le Pen to
Le Figaro,
as, in 2007, a certain Nicolas Sarkozy thought about it in the morning, when shaving…
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