Society. A national tribute will be paid this week to the three French soldiers killed on December 28 in Mali. Monday January 4, a procession will parade in Paris. Parisians will be invited to pay homage to them on the Alexandre-III bridge, before a ceremony at the Invalides in the strictest privacy. The next day, a tribute will be paid to them at the barracks of 1is Regiment of chasseurs of Thierville-sur-Meuse (Meuse), in the presence of the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly.
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Europe. To curb the Covid-19 epidemic, the British government, like many others, is banking on the deployment of vaccines. From Monday January 4, the vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and the AstraZeneca group will be administered in the United Kingdom. A total of 530,000 doses will be available on Monday, and tens of millions of doses should be available by the end of March, the UK having ordered a total of 100 million doses. More than a million people have also already received in the country a dose of the vaccine of the American-German alliance Pfizer / BioNTech, deployed since December 8.
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International. On Monday January 4, the British justice will deliver its decision on the extradition request of Julian Assange, claimed by the United States. American justice wants to try the founder of WikiLeaks, in particular for espionage. He faces 175 years in prison for having disseminated, from 2010, more than 700,000 classified documents on American military and diplomatic activities, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Justice. A retired resentful Italian restaurateur, a former English soldier without resources, an ex-paparazzi turned detective and a few thugs… Thirteen men appear from Monday January 4 in Nice for the incredible kidnapping in 2016 of Jacqueline Veyrac, 80, a wealthy hotel on the Côte d’Azur. The main protagonist tried by the Assize Court of the Alpes-Maritimes is a retired Italian restaurant, Giuseppe Serena, 67, ousted by the victim for his mismanagement of the gourmet restaurant La Réserve in 2009. He is accused of having sponsored the crime to finance a new establishment with the ransom money. In pre-trial detention for more than four years, he has always denied the facts.
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Media. Journalist Marie-Sophie Lacarrau resumes from Monday January 4 the presentation of the TF1 1 p.m. newspaper, succeeding Jean-Pierre Pernaut. Long-awaited, she promised not to change the DNA of this newspaper which brings together millions of French people. “The 1pm will always have its editorial line anchored in the regions and we will continue to highlight traditions. In short, it will be an information newspaper in proximity to the viewer, ”she confided to the Point.
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Justice. Belgian justice will say Tuesday January 5 if it wishes the referral to an assize court of Frenchman Salah Abdeslam with seven other suspects of the jihadist attacks of March 2016 in Brussels, as claimed by the Belgian federal prosecutor. Among the thirteen accused, eight risk the assizes for “murders committed in a terrorist context”, two could be referred to a criminal court and three others could benefit from a dismissal for lack of sufficient charges.
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International. Two partial senatorial elections will be held in the United States on Tuesday, January 5, and will be decisive for the control of power in Washington. If the Democrats win both seats, they would tie the Senate with 50 seats compared to the Republicans’ 50. The future vice-president Kamala Harris could then, as the Constitution wants, decide the votes. President-elect Joe Biden would in this case hold all the levers of political power in Washington with the White House, the Democratic-majority House of Representatives, and the Senate. Joe Biden and Donald Trump will campaign in Georgia on Monday.
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Football. Ligue 1 continues this week with its 18e and 19e days. On Wednesday January 6, PSG will face Saint-Étienne in what will be the first meeting of the Mauricio Pochettino era, new coach of the Parisian club. Marseille will host Montpellier and Lyon will host Lens. Saturday January 9, Paris-Saint-Germain will host Brest.
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