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The former Prime Minister again targeted. The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) opened a preliminary investigation in 2017 against François Fillon, concerning another alleged fictitious job than that of his wife Penelope Fillon: that of Maël Renouard, a writer recruited from November 2013 to September 2015 as parliamentary assistant to help the deputy to write his book “Faire”. The assembly would then have paid him a salary of 38,000 euros for this period.
The book, which sold 300,000 copies, reportedly brought in 250,000 euros to the former presidential candidate. The investigation, carried out by the Central Office for the Fight against Corruption and Financial and Tax Offenses (OCLCIFF), must determine whether Maël Renouard’s contract as parliamentary assistant could be justified by this single mission. François Fillon’s lawyer denounces a “relentlessness of the PNF” against his client.
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- Technical control of two-wheelers: Jean-Baptiste Djebbari wants to do “differently”. The Minister for Transport advocated a “simpler” formula to replace the technical control of two-wheelers, which the government had decided to suspend on August 12, one day after announcing it. “We are going to completely overhaul it, we are going to rethink the system. (…) We are going to do it differently, ”he explained, adding that he would discuss it with the biker federations in the afternoon.
- Vaccines: an agreement between AstraZeneca and the European Union puts an end to their dispute. The pharmaceutical company and the EU have reached an agreement on the supply of anti-Covid vaccines which ends the legal proceedings initiated in the spring by the European bloc due to delays in deliveries. By the end of the first quarter of 2022, AstraZeneca commits to deliver an additional total of around 200 million doses to complement the roughly 100 million already received by the Twenty-Seven as of June 30, 2021.
- Storm Ida: 44 victims in the northeastern United States. The hurricane-turned-storm, which hit New York with full force as well as parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland, caused sudden and historic flooding, killing 44 people, according to a new report this Friday morning . Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, a city already ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic, deplored in a tweet a “historic meteorological event”, also declaring “a state of emergency” on Thursday.
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He considers Netflix to have plagiarized his family’s life. William Rodriguez, the son of one of Pablo Escobar’s rivals, will sue the streaming platform. The reason ? According to him, the new series broadcast on the platform, entitled “El Cartel de la Sapos, El origen”, which tells the life of Colombian drug traffickers, would be of “total unrealism”, and would be inspired by the story of the famous Rodriguez Orejuela clan, to which he belongs. Netflix, for its part, ensures that it is a “work of fiction”, and that the facts are “the fruit of the imagination of the writers”.
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