Review of the immigration bill: towards a text likely to be voted on

With the aim of reaching a text that can be voted on by a majority of deputies, the Assembly's Law Committee is considering the immigration bill from Monday until Sunday. The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin, the president of the Law Commission, Sacha Houlié, and the general rapporteur of the text, Florent Boudié (all three Renaissance), responsible for reconciling the irreconcilable, the demands of the right, and the red lines of the majority, are

Justice: trial for favouritism of incumbent minister Olivier Dussopt

The trial of Minister Olivier Dussopt opens on Monday. Dussopt is called upon to explain suspicions of favouritism in a public contract passed in 2009, which he contests. The Minister of Labor will appear until Thursday before the Paris Criminal Court for providing privileged information concerning a call for tenders, for the benefit of the water treatment group Saur, when he was deputy and PS mayor of Annonay (Ardèche). He is also suspected of having amended the evaluation criteria of this call for tenders, covering a contract worth 5.6 million euros, by reducing the importance given to price in order to favor this company.

Palestinian movement Hamas and Israel: prisoners released

On the third day of a truce between the Palestinian movement Hamas and Israel, seventeen hostages, including 14 Israelis, held in the Gaza Strip for seven weeks, were freed.Biden said that among the freed hostages was a four-year-old girl years holding American nationality, Abigail. These releases, announced by the Israeli army, bring to 58 the total number of hostages held in Gaza released since Friday, including 18, the vast majority of Thais, not covered by the agreement.

Sexual assault: Nordahl Lelandes faces the judges again

Nordahl Lelandes, who was already sentenced to life in prison for the murder of little Maëlys, is tried again this Monday by the Charleville-Mézières Criminal Court for a sexual assault, which he denies, on one of his great-cousins, then a minor, in 2017. The new trial on “sexual assault imposed on a minor under 15 years of age” and “threat or act of intimidation to determine a victim not to file a complaint” must begin at 13:30.

IN A NUTSHELL

The French Prime Minister once again acted on 49.3, after the rejection of an LFI vote of no confidence in the Assembly, amounting to the adoption at second reading of the revenue part of the Social Security budget, this time on the expenditure part and the whole of the text.

This Monday, in Paris, the trial of 13 Internet users, prosecuted for taking part in the massive cyberharassment of Magali Berdah, the head of an influencer agency, opens. This is the first part of a vast procedure involving a total of 28 accused persons

At a ceremony in London, Irish author Paul Lynch for his dystopian novel “Prophet Song”, a dark and frightening account of the life of a mother who falls into an Ireland sinking into tyranny, received the prestigious literary award British Booker Prize

Italy won the second Davis Cup in its history by dominating Australia 2-0 in Malaga.