KNIFE ATTACK
French police woman fighting for life after stabbed & 2 others injured in Nantes ‘terror attack’ as knifeman shot dead
Updated: 16:15, 28 May 2021
A POLICE woman is fighting for her life after being stabbed in a suspected terror attack that saw the knifeman shot dead.
Two others were also wounded during the terrifying attack that began this morning just after 10am inside a police station in La Chappelle-sur-Erdre, in Nantes, France.
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The police officer Katell Lerech is fighting for her life after the attack on Friday morningCredit: AFP
The female police officer, named as Katell Lerech by police, was wounded in the thigh, arms and legs, and surgeons are still desperately trying to save her.
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BSC Young Boys announced the purchase of striker Theoson-Jordan Siebatcheu, exercising the option to buy. Currently on loan from Ligue 1 side Stade Rennais, his new contract lasts through summer of 2024. According to
Ouest France, the transfer fee is €2.5 million.
“We are happy that we can continue to count on Jordy Siebatcheu,” sporting director Christoph Spycher told the club’s official website. “He has developed very well at YB and has become an important part of the team. Even if Jean-Pierre Nsame hadn’t been injured against Lucerne on Saturday, we would have drawn the option in Jordy Siebatcheu’s loan deal. In view of the new circumstances, it was now all the more important for us that there was an opportunity for a permanent takeover.”
Le Monde 10th May 2021, Why maintain such secrecy around the discussions on EDF? Local PS elected
in Brest, Tristan Foveau spoke out in a forum in “Le Monde” against the
lack of information on the negotiations between the government and the
European Commission on the future of the French nuclear company EDF.
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23, Bruno Le Maire, Minister of the Economy, affirms that this one is
“forgotten” and that the government will not dismantle EDF into three
independent companies: EDF bleu controlled by the State and bringing
together nuclear-related activities; EDF azur, responsible for the
Virtual Pétanque: COVID Forces French National Pastime To Go Online -
Bardot and then there s pétanque.
On the list of the Frenchest things, this national pastime ranks pretty high, conjuring up scenes of convivial apéros where old and young gather together, a
boule in one hand and a glass of
pastis or
rosé in the other.
What shock it must have been then to pétanque players upon learning that this highly communal sport akin to Italy s
bocce or Britain s lawn bowling was to be moved online because of the pandemic . With large gatherings still banned in France, local daily
Boris Johnson yesterday deployed the Royal Navy to protect Jersey from the threat of a French blockade.
The dramatic move came after French fishermen – backed by Macron’s ministers – vowed to shut off the island unless they could fish more British waters, a threat branded an “act of war”.
The furious spat erupted after the island – which is under Britain’s protection – slapped French trawlers with post-Brexit fishing licences requirements.
About 100 French fishing vessels are due to sail to Jersey’s port on Thursday as part of a protest against the new rules, the head of fisheries for the Normandy region, Dimitri Rogoff has said.