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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
The lady who kept hundreds of dogs in her attic at Marbach,
Meurthe-et-Moselle is to have her appeal heard against a
suspended sentence of four months in prison. She maintains the
sentence is too harsh. Her husband has already been sentenced to
two months in prison, suspended, for the same offences. The
prosecution, representing the Société protectrice des animaux
(SPA), the Fondation Brigitte-Bardot and the SPA Lorraine, has
also appealed against the sentence on the grounds that it is too
lenient. They were awarded €500, €1,500 and €2,000 respectively
at the original trial.
Originally the couple had only nine dogs in the attic but
through reproduction the number had grown to 340 when the
gendarmerie raided the premises in September 2005. The couple’s
lawyer maintained that, strictly speaking, the dogs were not illtreated
and had plenty to eat and drink. The neighbours
complained to the SPA because of the endless barking and the
disgusting smells. The majority of the animals were chihuahuas,
Yorkshire terriers, griffons and spitzs or a cross between all four.
Gendarmes who took part in the raid said that the dogs were kept
in unbelievable squalor.
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
Just before the final round of the
election, Paris magistrates made
another foiled attempt to seize
documents and records at the premises of
the satirical weekly ‘Le Canard Enchaîné’.
Staff claimed at first that they could
not find the key to the offices where
records are stored. The magistrate was
looking for evidence to show who had
leaked the records of the interrogation of
Général Rondot which was particularly
damaging to Dominique de Villepin who
had hoped to run for President. When the
editorial staff finally arrived they refused
to open the door and told the magistrate he
would have to break it down.
The raid at 9.15am, early in
journalistic terms, was baffled by the rapid
arrival on the scene of a crowd of
journalists from other media. Police
reinforcements had to be called to control
the jovial crowd who did nothing to
make the magistrate’s life easier. After a
frustrating morning he and the police
withdrew, having thought better of
breaking down the office doors in front of
national TV cameras. Editorial staff said
afterwards that no such records were kept
on the premises anyway as they had been
expecting a raid. They said their refusal to
cooperate was a matter of principle in the
cause of press freedom and the protection
of informants.
At the same time, the offices of
the lawyers of Nicolas Sarkozy were
raided. His lawyer told journalists he
easily convinced his visitors that his fax
had not been the source for the leak by
showing them the register of calls that
there were no calls made to the offices of
‘Le Canard Enchaîné’ or ‘Le Monde’ at
the relevant time.
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
Nicolas Sarkozy wrote before the elections that if you do not know
what you intend to achieve before you take office you will never
work it out afterwards. It will be too late, such is the pressure. He
is taking his own advice.
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa
Président de la République Française
He was born in 1955 in Paris of an
aristocratic Hungarian father and a
French mother. He did badly at
school and had to repeat a year. He then
trained to be a lawyer and was soon a
brilliant and successful avocat à la cour,
a barrister.
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
The new Minister of Education, Xavier Darcos, is not wasting any time in applying Nicolas Sarkozy’s plans to change the much disliked (and much disobeyed) system by which children must attend schools according to where they live.
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