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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
On the international front there is
continuing disquiet against any
production at all of this luxury
item, now banned in 15 countries,
including Israel and Poland, previously
third and fourth biggest foie gras
producers worldwide.
On the French front the outcry is
over the implications of a statement
made by Christian Godet, a Gersois
farmer, whose crop of genetically
modified (GM) grain has been fed to
birds destined for the foie gras market.
However, CIFOG (the Comité
Interprofessionnel des Palmipèdes à
Foie Gras) says this is an isolated case,
and their own mark of quality guarantees
traceability.
Nine out of 10 of France’s foie gras
producers are based in the Périgord,
Midi-Pyrénées and Alsace, and the
Confédération Paysanne d’Aquitaine has
reacted defensively to the suspicion
engendered by Godet that this
prestigious sector of agriculture is now
contaminated by GM grain.
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
The Heidjes set up the support committee for Robert Lund, now
serving his 12-year sentence. Lily Heidje talks to Sylvie Mathis
for French News.
Robert Lund appealed against the Albi
court’s decision three days after he was
sentenced to 12 years in prison (see last
month’s article on his trial). The 55-year-old
Englishman, convicted of violent acts leading
to the involuntary manslaughter of his wife
Evelyn, is serving his sentence in Albi. His
appeal will be heard in Toulouse within a
timeframe of a few months to a few years.
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
Maître Jean Veil, Jacques Chirac’s avocat, tells Sylvie Mathis he is optimistic and that the ex-President will not benefit from any special treatment.
French News: Monsieur Chirac, in his
televised interview on TF1, used the words
“sérénité, honneur et vérité” (serenity,
honour and truth). Don’t you think the
serious accusations against him are in
profound contradiction with this tone?
Jean Veil: No, I don’t think so. They rely to
a great extent on the fact that he has never
had the opportunity to explain himself before
now, because of his immunity, which I
consider to be a fundamental French
principle allowing a head of state to carry out
his term of office.
The example of the Clinton affair in the
United States has clearly shown that it is
impossible for a head of state to govern his
country when he is constantly in the media
firing line. Clinton spent his time explaining
the facts of the case and could not govern
in peace.
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
The government has
learnt from the riots of
2005. Every effort has
been made to avoid making a
volatile situation worse, after
the deaths of two teenagers
at Villiers-le-Bel, a suburb of
Paris with high levels of
youth unemployment, when
they crashed into a police car
on their mopeds in the last
week of November.
From China, Nicolas
Sarkozy called for everyone
to calm down and get on
with their responsibilities.
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Friday, 30 November 2007 |
In the Vendée on November
10 2007, a cat belonging to
a pharmacist died showing
signs of rabies.
On November 23, the
sous-préfecture at Fontenayle-
Comte confirmed that the
cause of death was rabies.
An estimated 14 people
had contact with the cat and
are under medical
observation and treatment,
including the vet the cat bit
while he was examining it
two days before its death.
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