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Jean-Michel Blanquer announces 5 million FFP2 masks for teachers and “thousands” of substitutes
Measures to try to get out of the crisis. The Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer announced Thursday the provision of “5 million FFP2 masks” for kindergarten teachers on request and 3,300 additional contractors for replacements “to face the crisis”, at the ‘resulting from a meeting with the teachers’ unions.
The evaluations for the CP classes scheduled for January will be “postponed to a deadline which remains to be defined”, he indicated, following a day of massive strike by the personnel of the National Education.
Far-right militia leader Oath Keepers and 10 members charged with sedition following Capitol attack
This is a major development in the investigation into the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Founder and leader of the far-right militia Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, and ten other members were charged with sedition on Wednesday. announced the Ministry of Justice on Thursday. Rhodes, a 56-year-old former US Army paratrooper arrested Thursday in Texas, and his acolytes are accused of participating in a “conspiracy” to “oppose by force the peaceful transfer of presidential power.”
This is the most serious charge to date once morest the 725 people indicted for their participation in the attack on the United States Congress during the certification of the results of the presidential election of November 2020. It is punishable by a maximum 20 years in prison.
The obligation to wear the mask outside suspended in Paris
The Paris administrative court suspended Thursday evening the prefectural decree which makes it compulsory to wear a mask outside in Paris since December 31, AFP learned from the court.
This decision comes the day following that of the Administrative Court of Versailles, which had suspended a similar decree, a first on the national territory, by considering that the measure was “an excessive, disproportionate and inappropriate interference (…) on individual liberty” . The decision concerning this order of the prefecture of police of the capital, put in place to deal with the emergence of the Omicron variant, will be published on Friday, added the administrative court of Paris.
