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Valentino steals the show in Paris with Alessandro Michele at the helm

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 September, 2024

Ex-Gucci star brings 70s haute bourgeoisie ladies in trailing chiffons and Gen Z boys in tattoos and pearls to the runway

Valentino was the hottest ticket of this Paris fashion week, and the show had a sense of occasion to match.

A vast floor was laid with smashed mirror tiles, glittering like a ballroom after an earthquake. Five hundred armchairs and a smattering of glowing lamps lay beneath a shroud of white sheets, as if a grand house had been locked up for a long winter. The house of Valentino was shaking off the cobwebs for a new era and hitting the dancefloor.

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Affaire des assistants du RN: comment Marine Le Pen a été lâchée par les siens

news.movim.eu / Mediapart • 29 September, 2024

Une demi-douzaine d’anciens eurodéputés et assistants, dont un ancien conseiller de Marine Le Pen, ont témoigné pendant l’instruction contre leur parti, dénonçant un système de détournement des fonds européens ou de faux contrats. Des règlements de comptes, estime l’ancienne patronne du FN.

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Procès des assistants du RN: pourquoi Marine Le Pen risque plus gros que François Bayrou

news.movim.eu / Mediapart • 29 September, 2024

Le dossier des assistants employés au Parlement européen pour l’extrême droite est plus lourd de menaces que celui, très proche, du MoDem, jugé en février. Marine Le Pen est en effet poursuivie à double titre, comme eurodéputée et comme présidente du parti à l’époque. Elle risque l’inéligibilité.

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Les secrets posthumes de la cheffe de cabinet du maire de Roanne, lanceuse d’alerte qui s’est suicidée

news.movim.eu / Mediapart • 29 September, 2024

La plus proche collaboratrice du maire LR de Roanne, Yves Nicolin, a mis fin à ses jours en juin. En toute confidentialité, Nathalie Goutorbe avait fait fuiter des informations sur des situations de conflit d’intérêts. Dans une lettre posthume consultée par Mediapart, elle disait ne plus avoir de «force» pour affronter une enquête judiciaire. Avant d’ajouter: «Je sais que le bon triomphera.»

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‘Death isn’t necessarily always sad’: the pathologist taking the French book charts by storm

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 September, 2024

Philippe Boxho’s macabre true stories are approaching 1m copies sold and shedding light on a ‘misunderstood’ job

A girl on a farm is devoured by pigs. A walker’s throat is slit by the broken-off blade of a lawn mower after it hits a stone. A woman fires 13 bullets into the body of her seemingly sleeping father but is cleared of murder because he had died of an aneurysm three hours earlier.

Miniature tragedies like these cram the pages of the books of the Belgian forensic pathologist Philippe Boxho, and explain why his bestsellers are at numbers one, two and three of France’s nonfiction charts: they are macabre but also darkly comic and, above all, true.

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Undercover as a home care worker in France: ‘I have to cope alone and I receive no training’ | Saša Uhlová

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 September, 2024 • 1 minute

In Marseille, I find agency bosses desperate to fill shifts, families desperate to secure care for loved ones and a system that places no value on the work

I have been in Marseille for three weeks, working undocumented in the social care sector . There’s a heatwave and it is hard to breathe. I chose caring for older people because it is badly paid across the EU. Nevertheless, women from poorer eastern European countries often move for such jobs because there is a shortage of staff and wages are still higher in the west.

When I finally get all the paperwork together to get a legally recognised job, I approach two agencies in the city. Both call me immediately to arrange a date for a job interview.

Saša Uhlová is a staff writer at the Czech online daily Deník Alarm. Her reporting was supported by The Endowment Fund for Independent Journalism . Names have been changed and the project has been made into a film directed by Apolena Rychlíková

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Jugés pour corruption, le PDG et le haut gradé estiment n’avoir rien fait de mal

news.movim.eu / Mediapart • 20 September, 2024

La location d’avions gros-porteurs pour les opérations extérieures de l’armée française aurait donné lieu à des irrégularités coûteuses. Le patron de la société ICS et un ex-colonel de l’armée de l’air font face à des accusations de favoritisme au tribunal de Paris.

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New Caledonia police kill two in operation linked to deadly unrest, prosecutor says

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 20 September, 2024

Prosecutor said security forces had been trying to detain about a dozen people allegedly linked to recent riots in the French territory

Two men have been killed in New Caledonia during a police operation to detain activists suspected of involvement in May’s deadly unrest which was sparked by attempts from Paris to change voting rights in the French Pacific territory, officials said.

The deaths during the overnight operation south of the capital Nouméa took the death toll in the months of unrest in the French Pacific territory to 13.

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Sarkozy-Kadhafi: le désir de justice de familles de victimes de l’attentat contre le DC-10 d’UTA

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

Une cérémonie s’est tenue jeudi 19 septembre à Paris, trente-cinq ans jour pour jour après l’attentat fomenté par les services secrets libyens qui a fait 170 morts, dont 54 Français. Cet acte terroriste sera au cœur du procès de l’affaire des financements libyens de l’équipe Sarkozy, qui s’ouvre en janvier 2025.