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In the spotlight: the scandal of looted antiquities

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Two French art experts have been indicted for "criminal association" in particular.

Among the works at the heart of the traffic, the sarcophagus of the priest Nedjemankh bought by the MET in 2017 then returned to Egypt in 2019. © AFP / Khaled Desouki

By: Norbert Navarro

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Major museums in New York, London, Paris or Abu Dhabi are in turmoil.

After the revelations of the satirical weekly

and the newspaper

on

in this case of trafficking in antiquities, the daily

reveals other results of the investigation conducted by the Central Office for the Fight against Trafficking in Cultural Property, where we learn that the French art experts Christophe Kunicki and her husband Richard Semper have also been indicted (for "criminal association " notably).

Libé

dissects the traffic that passed through a German art dealer of Armenian origin based in Hamburg, Germany.

Serop Simonian was supplied with treasures looted from an intermediary of Lebanese origin by the name of Roben Dip.

All these experts were also false certificates of authenticity for the works looted, using a " 

", before sales " 

 " between 2007 and 2017,

for more than 50 million euros.

A real thriller!

Legal and judicial storm around the case of the wearing of the burkini authorized or not in the municipal swimming pools of Grenoble

Two days ago, the administrative court of Grenoble agreed with the local prefect who asked him to cancel a deliberation of the municipal council of this city in the south-east of France authorizing the wearing of the burkini in municipal swimming pools.

However, the environmentalist mayor of Grenoble Éric Piolle appealed against this judgment, and the Council of State has forty-eight hours to decide.

In the meantime, the Minister of the Interior is satisfied with the judgment of first instance.

“ 

 ”, says Gérald Darmanin to the newspaper

Meanwhile, the Borne government is struggling.

Its composition does not convince the French

According to an Odoxa poll for

, 6 out of 10 French people say they are rather or very “ 

” with the composition of the government.

“ 

 ”, underlines this daily, today, “ 

 ” Élisabeth Borne.

For its part, the daily

publishes the results of a poll carried out for it as for Radio Classique by the Opinion Way institute, and according to which the new French government " 

 ".

According to this survey, with 26% of intention to vote in the legislative elections next month, said majority would lose one point compared to the results of the previous Opinion Way barometer, and it would be closely followed by the New People's Ecological and Social Union led by the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, credited with 25% of said voting intentions, up 1 point.

As noted by

, the left alliance is " 

 ".

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left alliance persists and signs.

He asks more than ever the French to elect him Prime Minister

In a column published this morning by

, Jean-Luc Mélenchon evokes " 

 " caused by his call to be " 

 " during the next legislative elections, and he explains that the possible cohabitation which would result from it would result in a " 

 ".

Which, he continues in

, would lead to the " 

 ", a stage in " 

 " which he considers essential to " 

 " the " 

 " in France.

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