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Saved from drowning, she finds her “hero”
#CAPE D’AGDE On July 11, a nurse from Aurillac swam to the aid of Jacqueline, 78, who had just lost her footing in Richelieu, while she was walking in the water with one of her friends. Until the two women lost their footing in a pool of water, as sometimes happens with the currents.
“I panicked and clung to her.” But the friend in question, who knows how to swim, is 80 years old and is unable to rescue the victim. “She called for help as I started to swallow water,” remembers Jacqueline. “I was about fifteen meters away from them and I jumped into the water straight away. Jacqueline was barely breathing.” Fortunately, Bertrand has good reflexes and sure gestures. The two protagonists met recently for a friendly lunch.
Signs advising against swimming vandalized
#HERAULT For nearly two weeks, a level 1 alert has been in effect at Lac du Salagou due to a significant concentration of cyanobacteria. Swimming is not recommended. Prevention messages are posted on signs all around the site. They have been the subject of acts of vandalism.
Sometimes “simply” knocked over or thrown away, others were broken. And the damage escalated at the end of last week, with only one remaining in place. New panels are reportedly being manufactured.
In La Grande-Motte, schoolchildren collect their uniforms
#HERAULT Since Monday, August 26, the distribution of uniforms has started for the 370 schoolchildren of La Grande-Motte. Parents and children have discovered the new outfits, free for families. Four blouses and as many t-shirts for the nursery schools. Four polo shirts, a jacket, a sweatshirt, a jogging suit, as well as pants or a skirt for the elementary schools.
There have been a few fair-minded criticisms, but there have been smiles and good humour for a widely appreciated initiative. The uniform is blue, the colour of La Grande-Motte. Everything is made in France. The operation is free for families but has a total cost of €80,000, half of which is financed by the municipality and half by the State.“We consulted parents during the winter,” emphasizes the person in charge of the operation at the town hall, “the responses were 85% in favor. Uniforms were not imposed.”
Tried for corruption, the former director of the Nîmes University Hospital says he is the victim of a “cabal”
#NIMES. The trial for favouritism and corruption of Nicolas Best, former director of the Annecy and Nîmes hospitals, opened in Paris on Monday 26 August after a final procedural battle. The defendant who spoke at the bar stated that he had “was the victim of homophobic attacks by the police and the prosecution.”
The trial will have to determine whether the former head of CHANGE (Annecy and Saint-Julien hospitals) between 2015 and 2018, then of Nîmes University Hospital, between 2018 and 2023, was guilty of favouritism and corruption in public construction contracts awarded to Bouygues in Annecy. The former director theoretically faces up to ten years in prison for corruption.
Today’s number: 710
#EDUCATION This is the number of new trainee civil servants, associate and certified professors, that the rector of the Montpellier academy, Sophie Béjean, will welcome this Tuesday during a pre-back-to-school meeting.
In detail, 337 will start their first degree in the academy and 373 will join the second degree. 100 students in Master’s in Teaching Professions will also benefit from a work-study program in the second degree.
