New attempt to evacuate Mariupol, departures of the media… the latest information on the war in Ukraine
After a first evacuation was canceled on Saturday, the port city of Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine unsuccessfully attempted another evacuation of civilians on Sunday, the eleventh day of the Russian invasion. According to the information available to the Elysée and of which The world became aware, Mariupol was still being shelled on Sunday, and Kharkiv, the country’s second largest city, was also under heavy shelling. Kiev is on the verge of being surrounded and fighting is taking place there in certain districts.
Many civilians try by their own means to escape the Russian bombardments. According to the UN, 1.5 million people fled Ukraine in ten days. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, says it is “of the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since the Second World War”. On Sunday, a new Russian strike destroyed the airport in the city of Vinnytsia, a city of 370,000 inhabitants located some 200 kilometers southwest of Kiev.
Moscow is also continuing its offensive in the information war. Sunday, Release announced that it would temporarily suspend its activity in Russia, following in the footsteps of many other media. The reason : “The adoption by the Duma of an intolerable law heavily penalizing any “false information”, or at least considered as such by the Kremlin. »
Aggression of Yvan Colonna: a judicial investigation will be opened for “attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise”
Judicial information will be opened for “attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and “terrorist association of criminals”, announced Sunday Jean-François Ricard, the national anti-terrorism prosecutor. The detainee implicated in the attack on Yvan Colonna on Wednesday in Arles prison (Bouches-du-Rhône), admitted in police custody to having tried to strangle, then to suffocate the Corsican independence activist during his morning workout.
Franck Elong Abé, who had already been sentenced for acts of jihadism, explained his act “by what he considered blasphemies” uttered in recent months by Yvan Colonna. The pro-independence activist, convicted of the 1998 assassination of Corsican prefect Claude Erignac, has been in a coma since the attack.
Nathalie Elimas, accused of “harassment”, leaves the government
The Secretary of State in charge of priority education is leaving the government, the Elysée announced in a press release on Saturday evening March 5. Mme Elimas had been under administrative investigation since January, following being charged with “moral harassment” and of “abuse” by half a dozen of his collaborators. This human resources specialist entered the government in July 2020, following being elected MP for Val-d’Oise in 2017.
His colleague Jacqueline Gourault, Minister for Territorial Cohesion, is also leaving the executive following her appointment to the Constitutional Council.
Marion Maréchal, Marine Le Pen’s niece, formalizes her support for Eric Zemmour
Ahead of Eric Zemmour’s meeting in Toulon, where she went, Marion Maréchal formalized on Sunday her rallying to the Reconquest candidate!. “I join the candidate whom I consider today to be the best placed to lead the ideas that I have always defended to victory”explains, in a interview at Current valuesthe former member of the National Rally until 2017.
Sensing this imminent speech, his aunt, the National Rally candidate for the presidential election, Marine Le Pen, took the lead on Saturday. “Poor Marion is being turned into a sort of lifeline of a campaign that is collapsing in on itself”she said during a press briefing on the sidelines of a trip to Grau-du-Roi, in the Gard.
The popular Primary announces support for the candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon in the presidential election
After failing to convince the main left-wing candidates of their legitimacy, following having watched helplessly as Christiane Taubira’s candidacy failed in the face of the challenge of gathering 500 sponsorships, the team at the initiative of the Popular Primary decided on Saturday to support Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The candidate of La France insoumise, who had multiplied the criticisms once morest them, was chosen following a majority judgment vote between “volunteers, local groups, members of the permanent team and the office”, explains the board of directors of the association called “2022 or never” (which organized the ballot in which 392,000 people participated).
Jean-Luc Mélenchon continued his campaign on Sunday, gathering his supporters at a meeting in Lyon.
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Geopolitics. China is increasing its military spending sharply.
Geopolitics once more. North Korea fires a new projectile before the presidential election in South Korea.
Paralympic Games. Marie Bochet takes silver in super-G.
Biathlon. Quentin Fillon Maillet multiplies the successes.
