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UK family awarded thousands over stale croissants and ‘mouldy’ hotel in France

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 23 January

Family complained food was ‘uneatable’ and room was dirty and smelly at four-star Club Med hotel in Provence

A British family who claimed they “went home miserable” from a luxury French hotel after they were given stale croissants and a smelly room have won thousands of pounds in damages.

Damen Bennion, 52, told his children “Daddy would get things sorted” when they arrived at their holiday in Provence and found the four-star hotel did not meet their expectations.

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Simon Fieschi, «survivant» de l’attentat contre «Charlie Hebdo», est mort

news.movim.eu / Mediapart • 19 October, 2024

Première victime des balles des Kouachi à l’intérieur de l’hebdomadaire, le webmaster endurait de grandes souffrances des séquelles de ses blessures. Il a été retrouvé mort dans une chambre d’hôtel. Les causes de son décès ne sont pas encore connues.

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Un homme condamné pour le viol de son ex, un autre tue la femme qui veut le quitter: une journée en France

news.movim.eu / Mediapart • 19 October, 2024

Dans les Pyrénées-Atlantiques, un père de 52 ans a tué sa femme, qui souhaitait le quitter, jeudi 17 octobre. Au même moment, un homme de 45 ans était jugé, dans la Loire, pour le viol de sa maîtresse, qui venait de mettre un terme à la relation.

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La mobilisation étudiante pour la Palestine reprend, entre répression et incompréhensions

news.movim.eu / Mediapart • 19 October, 2024

Dans des écoles et universités françaises, les étudiants ne désarment pas. En face, la répression et le dénigrement prospèrent, alimentés par des revendications parfois contestées. Reportage sur les campus de Toulouse et de Strasbourg.

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Défaut de permis, paiements par l’Assemblée: qui arrêtera la députée RN Christine Engrand?

news.movim.eu / Mediapart • 19 October, 2024

Mediapart révèle que la députée RN du Pas-de-Calais Christine Engrand utilise sa voiture de manière répétée malgré un défaut de permis de conduire, ainsi que de nouvelles dépenses litigieuses avec son enveloppe de frais de mandat. Son parti n’a toujours pas pris la moindre sanction, tandis que la présidence de l’Assemblée se terre dans le silence.

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‘Bodies were dropped down quarry shafts’: secrets of millions buried in Paris catacombs come to light

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 19 October, 2024

Researchers hope to uncover how people died and how diseases have developed over 1,000 years

Deep beneath the streets of Paris, the dead are having their last word. They are recounting 1,000 years of death in the city: how many are buried in the labyrinth of tunnels that make up Les Catacombes , what killed them and how the diseases that may have led to their demise have developed over the centuries.

In the first ever scientific study of the site, a team of archeologists, anthropologists, biologists and doctors is examining some of the skeletons of an estimated 5-6 million people whose bones were literally dumped down quarry shafts at the end of the 18th century and beginning of the 19th.

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‘I felt this film was my duty’: director Mati Diop on Dahomey, about the return of looted African treasures

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 19 October, 2024 • 1 minute

The French-Senegalese film-maker on winning the top prize at Berlin for her otherworldly new work, cultural identity and her beef with Beyoncé

What thoughts would go through the mind of a king exiled from his country for more than a century? What if that monarch took the form of a wooden statue boxed up for transportation from France to west Africa? Would he worry about recognising his native land? Perhaps his musings might turn to the abstract: “Within me resonates infinity.” It would be a challenge for any film-maker to choose an inanimate object, however resonant, as her philosophical protagonist and narrator – but French-Senegalese director Mati Diop does just this to powerful effect in her new feature Dahomey .

Part documentary, part visual and sonic poem, Dahomey follows a consignment of historical artefacts as they are returned by the French government to their source in the former African nation of Dahomey, now Benin. This year’s winner of the Berlin film festival’s top prize, the Golden Bear , Dahomey is the latest triumph for Diop, 42, who for a decade and a half has been a much-admired presence in world cinema, first as an actor, then as a director. She made a memorable acting debut in 2008 in Claire Denis’s hypnotic urban reverie 35 Shots of Rum and later became the first Black female director to have a feature in competition in Cannes. That was 2019’s visionary Atlantics , a story of young Senegalese men who attempt the perilous journey to Europe by boat – only to return as ghosts.

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Affaire Depardieu: l’enquête inaudible

news.movim.eu / Mediapart • 19 October, 2024

L’enquête de Mediapart va durer deux ans, à l’issue desquels sont publiés les récits de treize femmes qui se disent victimes de violences sexuelles de l’acteur français. Nos révélations rencontrent un certain écho, mais le milieu du cinéma, lui, se mure dans le silence.

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Procès des viols de Mazan: militantes ou journalistes, elles partagent leur colère et leur besoin de sororité

news.movim.eu / Mediapart • 19 October, 2024

Qu’elles soient journalistes couvrant le procès à l’intérieur du tribunal ou militantes qui chantent et collent des affiches en dehors, depuis sept semaines à Avignon, elles se retrouvent autour d’un sentiment de colère et de la volonté de parler au grand jour des violences systémiques.