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Netflix in filming
#HERAULT – Villager extras, technicians and actors… For a month, until Wednesday October 16, 2024, a Franco-Swedish film team took over the village of Salasc, in Hérault. This team is working on the film adaptation of a novel by Swedish author Emma Hamberg My name is Agnetapublished in 2021. The film, mainly shot in Hérault, in Salasc, Gignac and Sète, will be part of Netflix’s Nordic programming. If the film is as successful as the mystery surrounding its filming, the opus “should be a true masterpiece”laughs a resident.
Today’s figure: 1.5
#MILLAU – The raids have been enormous for the Millau customs brigade since the start of the second half, on the A75 motorway. In total, 1.5 tonnes of cannabis have been seized in recent weeks. Since the end of August 2024, 64,703 counterfeit perfume products, which sought to pass themselves off as major brands, have been seized. A score helped by the discovery of a truck intercepted near the Saint-Germain toll which contained 59,049 counterfeit perfumes.
This is the third edition of La Grande-Motte indulges itself
#HERAULT – This Saturday October 19 and Sunday October 20, La Grande-Motte is organizing the third edition of its La Grande-Motte book fair. For two days, around twenty authors gathered at the Palais des Congrès. Boualem Sansal, Didier Van Cauwelaert, Rachel Kahn, Christophe Galfard, Marek Halter, Jean-Louis Debré and Valérie Bochenek and Chico are expected around Gilles Kepel, the guest of honor for this 2024 edition. The Islam specialist and the contemporary Arab world will answer questions from Midi Libre editorial director Olivier Biscaye, this Saturday at 2:15 p.m., around his book The upheaval of the world. After October 7.
Leisure: 46 deaths this summer in the Mediterranean
#OCCITANIA / PACA – Forty-six deaths: this is the very heavy toll of the summer season on the Mediterranean coast, between May and October. Overall, as indicated by Vice-Admiral Christophe Lucas, maritime prefect of the Mediterranean, 3,113 interventions were coordinated by his services and CrossMed (regional operational monitoring and rescue center of the Mediterranean), including 40 % concern rescue at sea (+ 3% compared to summer 2023 and + 5% people involved). “During the season, 46 people unfortunately lost their lives, or +86%, and this increase particularly concerns swimming and underwater activities including scuba diving”specifies the maritime prefect. There were 13 underwater deaths (9 scuba diving, 4 hunting and apnea). The diversification of practices and the massification of access to the sea explain this sharp increase while the authorities noted 2,485 offenses during this period (+ 7%).
A more ecological golf course
#HERAULT – Those who remember the former Domaine de Massane in Baillargues, opened in 1988, will have difficulty recognizing the place. After four years of work, a huge building measuring 240 m long and 9,000 m2 has finally come out of the ground. Inaugurated a month ago, Horizon Resort Massane is the flagship of the Baillargues golf course. This golf course was already a reference, but it has just undergone a facelift. “We redid the watering system and planted a grass that uses little water and is resistant to heat,” explains Bruno Castel, golf director. This allowed us to reduce our water consumption by 40 to 45%. » The 350 golf subscribers benefit from a new indoor wooden driving range, soon open to non-subscribers.
