“Trust has been broken between the people and the police, we must reform the force from top to bottom,” warned this Saturday the thousands of participants in a protest in Paris against police violence and racism, which was joined by political parties. left, NGOs and even the magistracy union.

The demonstration, which started from the Gare du Nord railway station in the direction of Place de Clichy, also paid tribute to Nahel, the teenager of Maghreb origin shot at the end of June during a police check by an officer and whose death unleashed an intense wave of violence. in France.

Nearly 200 organizations—including parties, NGOs, unions, and student associations—attended the protest in the capital (15,000 participants, according to the organization).. It was the main one among the 120 summoned in France.

At the height of Boulevard Clichy, near the Sacred Heart, a bank branch was stoned and a police car was attacked by a group of people armed with iron bars.. Three of the four officers who were inside the car were slightly injured due to cervical trauma, detailed the Paris Police Prefect, Laurent Nuñez.

“The Parisian demonstration has experienced episodes of unacceptable violence against law enforcement forces. We already see what hatred against the police leads to,” Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin denounced on social media.

Shortly before the start of the protest, Mathilde Panot, the parliamentary leader of Insubordinate France (LFI), the third largest group in the Assembly, criticized Emmanuel Macron's government for its police management.

“The (UN) rapporteurs in favor of Human Rights have confirmed it: if you are a young person, who looks Arab or are black, you have 20 times more risk of being subjected to a police check than the average,” he criticized before a group of journalists.

Accompanied on the march by Aurélie Trouvé, also a member of the LFI, Panot denounced the “systemic racism” of the police against young people from popular neighborhoods, largely concentrated in the Parisian periphery, and warned that they are being made to feel ” a foreign body” within France, even though they are French.

The leader of the LFI in the Lower House calculated that in a single year and a half 17 people have died for refusing to stop at a police checkpoint, while in Germany, a country with which the French are often compared, there have been 1 in 10 years for ignoring a control, according to the deputy's figures.

For Panot, this Saturday is not a demonstration against the police force but in favor of a Republic in which State security forces and agents respect Human Rights.. “To do this, the institution must be reformed from top to bottom; trust between the people and the police has been broken,” he judged.

However, the latest polls show that nearly 60% of French people have a good opinion of police officers, a high percentage that has remained stable for some time.. Minister Darmanin has defended the role of agents, even in crises such as the one generated by Nahel's death.

More restrictions on the use of firearms

Several participants in the demonstration carried signs in favor of repealing a February 2017 law, approved by a socialist government with François Hollande as president and Bernard Cazeneuve as prime minister, which gave more leeway to agents to shoot with firearms in in case they feel threatened.

This law, which bears the name of Cazeneuve, was approved months after intense protests by the Police, who said they felt they had few means and were legally helpless to combat crime.

However, the fatal shooting by a police officer of the 17-year-old Nahel, who had refused to stop to undergo a check while driving a high-performance car without a driving license, has once again put the relevance of of that standard.

According to NGOs and magistrates' unions, there are other, less deadly ways to deal with a situation like this.

Among the organizations participating in the demonstration, the absence of two partners of France Insoumise in the leftist Nupes coalition stood out: the Socialist Party and the communists — the environmentalists did attend.

LFI's friction with the socialists but, above all, with the communists have been very frequent and have weakened Nupes ahead of the European elections in May 2024.

In the Paris march, an important union presence drew attention.

There was the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), the second center in France that mobilized intensely against the pension reform this first quarter, but also the magistrates' union, representative of 30% of the magistrates in the country.

This organization has asked for the repeal of a rule that allows police officers to use firearms when someone skips a checkpoint to avoid tragedies like the one that happened with Nahel.

Florida authorities have captured and euthanized a large alligator that was seen roaming around an inhabited area carrying a human torso in its jaws.

As reported by the TMZ.com portal, the event occurred this Friday in the town of Largo, near Tampa, where the reptile was walking through the neighborhood, scaring residents.

The first neighbor to see it was a man who was on his way to a job interview when he saw the reptile, more than four meters long, biting what appeared to be part of a mannequin.

But the man, named Jamarcus Bullard, looked closer and discovered that it could actually be a human torso in the jaws of the enormous alligator.

Bullard reported the gruesome discovery to the fire department, which responded quickly and upon arriving at the scene confirmed that they were human remains.

Pinellas County sheriff's deputies said additional remains of an unidentified adult were found near the area, with no one else injured. The alligator was later euthanized.

Passengers on a flight between the United Kingdom and France witnessed a rare sight: upon landing, they discovered that a passenger was not asleep, as they believed, but had died.

Specifically, the victim was a 73-year-old woman who was traveling on a British Airways flight between London's Heathrow airport and the city of Nice, in the south of France.

Other passengers on Thursday's flight only realized something was wrong after landing.. When passengers near her seat began to collect their suitcases to disembark, the woman, who was supposed to be sleeping, was found to be unresponsive, French newspaper The Connexion reports.

Seeing that the woman did not react, the passengers became increasingly concerned and called the flight crew, who called the emergency services.

The paramedics who came to the scene tried to revive her, but unfortunately they could not help her.. She was pronounced dead at 10:00 p.m. local time in Nice.

The woman, a 73-year-old British national, is believed to have suffered a heart attack, a Nice airport official told The Connexion.

British Airways said in a statement: “Sadly, a customer died on a flight from London Heathrow to Nice.. Our thoughts are with the client's family at this difficult time.. “We cannot provide or confirm any further details about the passenger.”

Russia has lost one of its top nuclear submarine commanders after his vehicle was fired upon by a heavy machine gun in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

The victim, Captain First Rank Ivan Kovgan, 52, was in the area, sent as deputy commander of a peacekeeping contingent.

Azerbaijan has now regained control of its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in a deadly two-day military offensive. Azerbaijan's decision to regain control of the area has raised concerns that a full-scale war could resume in the region.

The 2020 war, which pitted Azerbaijan (supported by Turkey) and Armenia (supported by Russia) caused the deaths of more than 6,700 people.

Kovgan was deputy commander of Russia's Arctic-based Northern Fleet submarine force and died alongside Colonel Tagir-Murod Karaev of Russia's Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces.

Four other Russian servicemen were also killed when their UAZ Patriot vehicle was riddled with bullets by the Azerbaijani army.. A source said: “His vehicle was attacked. All died”. Those responsible for shooting the submarine commander and other peacekeepers have been arrested and are expected to face criminal action.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev personally apologized to Putin for the murder of Kovgan and the other peacekeepers and promised financial compensation for their families.. The Defense Ministry in Baku called for “patience” during the investigation and expressed condolences to the Russian military and the soldiers' families.

Nagorno-Karabakh came under the control of Armenian forces backed by the Armenian army in separatist fighting that ended in 1994.. Armenian forces also took control of substantial territory around the Azerbaijan region.

Azerbaijan regained control of surrounding territory in a six-week war with Armenia in 2020. A Russian-brokered armistice ended the war and a contingent of 2,000 Russian peacekeepers was sent to the region to monitor it.

Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan accused Azerbaijan of a “well-planned and unprovoked military attack” launched to coincide with this week's annual meeting of world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly.

“Literally the entire territory of Nagorno-Karabakh,” including Stepanakert and other cities and settlements, was attacked with intense and indiscriminate shelling, missiles, heavy artillery, banned cluster munitions, combat drones and other aircraft, he said.

Matteo Messina Denaro, famous Sicilian mafia boss who was captured earlier this year after 30 years on the run from justice, is in an irreversible coma and doctors plan to interrupt the machine that feeds him this Saturday, as revealed by hospital sources. cited by the Mirror.

The criminal, nicknamed 'the last godfather of the Sicilian mafia', has been in the L'Aquila hospital prison for more than a month.. Denaro, 61, was found earlier at a cancer clinic in Palermo, Sicily, using a false identity.

This Friday, hospital sources said that the criminal will not come out of the coma and the doctors will interrupt his diet.. The Italian news agency Ansa reported on Friday evening that the intestinal surgery Denaro underwent on August 8 was successful, but his advanced colon cancer caused an irreversible deterioration in his health.. The mobster, who used the fake name Andrea Bonafede while on the run, was first diagnosed with cancer in late 2020.

According to Italian media, the mobster had not been able to eat for days, and on September 12 his treatments were suspended, while treatments with painkillers continued.. In his living will, Messina Denaro expressed his will not to undergo aggressive treatment with the use of machines to keep him alive.

Because of this, the doctors decided, with the consent of his family, to continue pain therapy but stop chemotherapy.. SkyTG24 reports that relatives of Messina Denaro were allowed to visit him in recent weeks, but the visits have now been suspended.

After being captured, Messina Denaro also officially recognized his daughter Lorenza, born in 1996, while he was hiding from the police.. She is now his official heir and has changed her surname from Alagna, her mother's surname, to Messina Denaro.

bloody resume

The Cosa Nostra boss, who once boasted that he could have filled a cemetery with all the people he had killed, was convicted of his role in dozens of murders, including the 1992 bombings that killed anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. He was also convicted of the murder of 12-year-old Giuseppe di Matteo, the son of a mobster turned state witness who was strangled and dissolved in acid in 1996.

His bloody reputation as a ruthless gangster has other episodes, such as when he murdered a rival boss in the Sicilian city of Trapani and strangled his girlfriend, who was three months pregnant.

After officers asked him his name at the Palermo clinic where he was detained in January, he arrogantly said: “My name is Matteo Messina Denaro.”. He was then taken out of the clinic and other patients, who had been kept outside the facility for hours, applauded when they saw the arrest.

Pope Francis has advocated this Saturday in Marseille for a fair reception of migrants in Europe, facilitating the entry of these people through legal channels, and has rejected alarmist propaganda about the reality of immigration.

“The words invasion and emergency feed people's fears and ports are closed, but those who risk their lives at sea do not invade, they seek shelter, they seek life,” said the Pontiff.

During the closing of the 'Mediterranean Meetings', the Pope appealed to European responsibility and reiterated his request not to remain trapped in indifference to the drama of migration.. “Those who take refuge with us should not be seen as a burden to be carried, but as gifts,” he stressed.

“There is a cry of pain that resonates above all, and that is turning Mare Nostrum into Mare Mortum, the Mediterranean from the cradle of civilization to the tomb of dignity. It is the muffled cry of the migrant brothers and sisters,” said Francis, sitting in a white armchair in the center of the stage installed in the Palais du Pharo in Marseille.

This call has been accompanied by the denunciation of “alarmist campaigns”, “fundamentalist rhetoric” and “outdated and belligerent nationalisms that want to diminish the dream of the community of nations.”

The Mediterranean is a “mirror of the world” and “carries within itself a global vocation of fraternity, the only way to prevent and overcome conflicts,” according to the Pope's words.

For seven days, more than 120 representatives of Churches and young people from the five shores of the Mediterranean shared the current political, economic and environmental challenges of the region, but also their hopes for the future, with special attention to the current migration crisis.

Recalling the distinctive heterogeneous and cosmopolitan character of Marseille, a “multitude of peoples” that “has made this city a mosaic of hope, with its great multiethnic and multicultural tradition”, reflecting the multiple civilizations of the Mediterranean, Pope Francis developed his reflection on three aspects that characterize the city in the south of France: the sea, the port and the lighthouse.

Mare Nostrum, cradle of civilization

Francis observed that we often hear of Mediterranean history as a “web of conflicts between civilizations, religions and different visions” but this should not make us forget that the Mediterranean is a “cradle of civilization” and that the Mare Nostrum (our sea ) has been for centuries a meeting space “between the Abrahamic religions; between Greek, Latin and Arabic thought; between science, philosophy and law, and among many other realities.”

“The Mare Nostrum, at the crossroads between North and South, East and West,” said Pope Francis, “invites us to oppose the division of conflicts with the conviviality of differences” and, at the same time, “concentrates the challenges of the entire world”, including climate change.

Hear the cry of the poor

For the Mediterranean to “return to being a laboratory of peace” in the world, in the midst of “today's sea of conflicts” and the resurgence of belligerent nationalisms, Francis said that the cry of the poor must be heard as Jesus did to shores of the sea of Galilee. “It is from the cry of the last, often silent, that we must start again, because they are faces, not numbers,” the Pope said.

Noting that “the sea of human coexistence is contaminated by precariousness” that hurts even in European cities like Marseille, which face community tensions and an increase in crime, Pope Francis insisted once again on the urgency of a shake of conscience to say “no” to illegality and “yes” to solidarity.

In his opinion “the true social evil lies not so much in the growth of problems, but in the decline of attention” to the most vulnerable: young people abandoned to their fate, who are easy prey for crime, frightened families, fearful of the future, the elderly alone, the unborn children, the cries of pain rising from North Africa and the Middle East, including Christians fleeing persecution.

Address immigration responsibly

The Pope denounced the fact that several other Mediterranean cities have closed their ports fueling people's fears: “invasion” and “emergency”. But those who risk their lives at sea do not invade, they seek shelter, Francisco clarified.

Regarding the “emergency”, he stressed that the migratory phenomenon is not so much a momentary emergency, always opportune to stir up alarmist propaganda, but rather a reality of our time, a process that involves three continents around the Mediterranean and that must be governed. with wise clairvoyance: with a European responsibility capable of facing objective difficulties”.

Here too, he noted, the “Mediterranean is a mirror of the world,” with the poorest countries in the South “ravaged by instability, regimes, wars and desertification” turning to the richer North.

“The Mediterranean is a mirror of the world, with the South turning towards the North; with so many developing countries, afflicted by instability, regimes, wars and desertification, looking to the wealthy, in a globalized world, where we are all connected, but where the differences have never been so profound,” he declared.

Visit to a center for people in need

Pope Francis began his second day in Marseille by visiting one of the centers for the poor and needy managed by the Missionaries of Charity, the congregation founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta, in the Saint Mauront neighborhood, on the outskirts of Marseille. .

Francisco spent a few minutes in this center that takes care of the poor and needy, and greeted some of the people who were there, among whom were migrants from various countries who live in this neighborhood.

The United Kingdom Intelligence services have indicated this Saturday that “extreme attrition” is occurring among senior officials of the Russian Armed Forces as the invasion of Ukraine progresses.

Thus, they have warned that there is a high “level of rotation” in these positions and have pointed out that, since the beginning of the invasion in February 2022, three commanders of one of the main regiments “have resigned or have been murdered.”

“This highlights the extreme wear and tear of the Russian military deployed even among relatively high ranks,” British Intelligence stressed in a brief statement released by the Ministry of Defense.

On Friday, British officials noted that both Russia and Ukraine have recently experienced “attacks of unusual intensity” in areas far from the front line, in an attempt by both countries to “strike the adversary's strategic depth.”

For its part, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have launched a new battery of missiles against targets in the Crimean peninsula that have caused damage to the headquarters of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

After the arrival of inflation (increase in prices) and redflation (less quantity of product for the same price) in supermarkets, a new strategy has emerged that has already been verified, at least, in English supermarkets.. This is what the British have begun to call 'skimpflation', a combination of the words skimp and inflation: that is, the ingredients in certain products are discreetly reduced.

The British newspaper The Guardian defined it last July as “the silent degradation of specifications” in items such as margarine, guacamole or tissues.

This is due, as they explain, to the increase in the cost of some ingredients, which has led supermarkets and manufacturers to “silently change recipes” and reduce “the size of some products to keep prices on shelves low.”

This practice has been observed in foods such as margarines, guacamole and mayonnaise or items such as paper tissues.

In the first case, “some retailers have more than halved the amount of olive oil in spreads and the amount they use in sauces without highlighting a change in the recipe,” the British media has highlighted. .

For example, if a margarine previously contained 21% olive oil, now that amount has been reduced to only 10% of that ingredient.. For guacamole, some manufacturers have gone from including 80% avocado and 5% red onion to 77% avocado and an unspecified amount of onion.

As far as tissues are concerned, “the rising cost of paper has led to a reduction in the size of individual tissues and sheets of kitchen paper,” they highlight.. In the example detected by The Guardian, some Tesco supermarket brand scarves had measurements of 300 mm x 260 mm, which have now been reduced to measuring 280 mm x 235 mm.

Although the changes are small, “they all involve the reduction of key, expensive ingredients, and some came alongside price increases or cuts in packaging sizes,” The Guardian adds.

Some consumers who have noticed this practice and have wanted to make it known on social networks such as TikTok. This is the case of user Dre Pao, who has talked about this on his channel: “Do your favorite snacks taste different? This could be the reason,” he indicates in the text that accompanies the video.

“Be careful with this grocery scam: skimpflation,” warns. “Your favorite products are secretly changing their ingredients using lower quality ingredients to save money and avoid supply chain problems,” he maintains.

According to this user, “cheap brands now use modified dairy substances instead of real cheese,” and “chocolate has more chemicals than before,” a problem that is “happening all over the world,” he says.

On September 17, the following message, shared by an anonymous user, went viral on Twitter: “Those responsible for this human rights abuse must be arrested and prosecuted.. This is the filth of France, the ugliest scandal of the 21st century!!! The inhuman and shocking scene of two men and a woman urinating on an African child, in one of the French towns” (sic).

The tweet is accompanied by a 45-second video in which you can see a man, first, and then a woman urinating on another person.. Due to the quality of the video, it is not possible to obtain more information about the latter.

However, this is false. The images do not show two men and a woman urinating on an “African child” nor are they related to France. This is a performance by the Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo in Brazil in 2013.

These people did not urinate on any “African children”

To verify the veracity of the statements made in the viralized message, Infoveritas has carried out a reverse image search with the Google tool. Among the results of this investigation, there appears this other tweet, from an anonymous user, published on November 22, 2022, which reads: “Another racist attack against Africans. White people urinating on a black woman. But why? Chamisa and his people still worship Westerners despite this inhumane treatment of black people.”

The message cites another tweet in which the same video as the viral message can be seen.. Among the comments, it is noted that the content corresponds to a performance by the artist Regina José Galindo, from Guatemala, as a protest against violence against women's bodies.

In this way, a new search on Google with the keyword 'Regina José Galindo' shows the official website of the artist. In 2013, Galindo carried out a performance called Piedra. In the photos of said performance you can see a man urinating on a woman painted black. In fact, both the currently viral video and another of the images published by Galindo on his website show, in the background, the same spectator, with a polo shirt and a cardboard cup at his feet.

The description of the performance specifies: “My body remains motionless, covered in charcoal, like stone. Two volunteers and someone from the public urinate on the stone body” (sic). The publication is dated 2013, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Another Google search with the keywords 'Regina José Galindo' and 'stone' yields a video, uploaded to the Vimeo platform on December 6, 2016, which shows the footage that has gone viral these days on social networks. It is a longer cut, 2 minutes and 41 seconds; The viralized content is shown starting at minute 1:16.

Therefore, the viralized video does not show images of two men and a woman urinating on an alleged African child, but rather a performance by the artist Regina José Galindo in 2013.. It also has no relation to France, the performance took place in Brazil.

INFOVERITAS verifies that…

It is false that the viralized video shows images of two men and a woman urinating on an alleged African child. It is, in fact, the performance Piedra, by the Guatemalan artist Regina José Galindo, which took place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2013.. Nor is it related to France, as messages on social networks claim.

The Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Morawiecki, warned this Friday the president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, to “never again insult the Poles” in reference to the words of the Ukrainian president during his speech before the General Assembly of Nations United.

“I want to tell President Zelensky never to insult the Poles again as he did recently during his speech at the UN, the Poles will never allow it.”. Defending the good Polish name is my duty and my honor, the most important task of the Polish government,” Morawiecki stated, reports the PAP agency.

Zelensky denounced during his speech that some of the Ukrainian allies in Europe were acting in accordance with their political goals when suspending Ukrainian grain exports to their countries, in clear reference to Poland, although without explicitly mentioning it.

These statements by Zelensky come in a context in which relations between Kiev and Warsaw seem to show signs of rupture not only due to the controversy over grain exports, but also due to the recent Polish decision not to supply more weapons to Ukraine further afield. of the already committed.