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The draft bill to reform the law on dangerous dogs has been approved by the Conseil des
ministres and the Sénat. With a growing number of serious attacks, the government is
anxious to get the law changed as quickly as possible. The new law contains 15 provisions but
the key one is “tolérance zéro” for any dog that bites someone.
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
Political protests on behalf of the badly housed (mal-logés) and the homeless have not died
down since the elections, as the government hoped. Protestors from Droit aux logements
have several times been removed from near the Paris stock exchange but each night they
come back.
Police removed 35 people squatting an empty building in boulevard Montparnasse at the
request of the owners, the insurance group MAIF Assurance.
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
Sylvie Mathis reports from the court in Albi.
On October 19, Albi’s court of assizes
sentenced 55-year-old Englishman
Robert Lund to 12 years in prison. The
jury at the week-long trial of a very complex
case, full of uncertainties, assumptions and
contradictions, finally came up with an
explanation of Evelyn Lund’s death: she was
killed by her husband.
To return to the facts: on December 29,
1999, Evelyn left her friend Marianne
Ramsey’s house around 7pm to “go and feed
the dogs and cats”. She was found dead in her
car two years later at the bottom of a lake in
the Tarn, the Lac de la Bancalié.
An investigation, launched three days after
Evelyn’s disappearance, when Lund reported
her missing, was to last four years. In court,
the gendarme who took Mr Lund’s report at
his house said: “I could tell something was
weird right away: Mr Lund was quite calm
and didn’t show his emotions as I would have
done if reporting my wife missing. We knew
the couple already; we had been called in
several times when Mrs Lund was violent.”
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
The investigation into why the
government service responsible for
reporting on radioactive pollution in
France failed to alert the country to the
risks of the Tchernobyl disaster, has
revealed that there were no proper
methods of collecting information at the
time – 1986.
Maître Bernard Fau, the avocat
representing the victims of thyroid
cancer, has confirmed that Professor
Pellerin, the director of the Service
central de protection contre les rayons
ionisants (SCPRI), ran a Heath-
Robinson system using amateur
friends and acquaintances who lacked
scientific training.
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
After her defeat in the elections
Ségolène Royal had to deal with
her relationship with Socialist
party leader François Hollande, which
she did with typical aplomb. And then
she went very quiet and had a good rest.
In the meantime, her enemies within
her own party were busy publishing
books telling everyone how useless her
electoral campaign was. Forgotten is the
fact that she only needed 3% more of the
vote to defeat Sarkozy and that she
garnered 17 million votes.
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