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Thursday, July 31, 2003
posted by gbarto at 3:16 AM:
French news headlines:Le Monde: Strong rise in unemployment in June. It's now at 9.5% in France.
Also, Trintrignant Affair: A Month of Provisional Detention for Bertrand Cantat. That's so they can investigate the man, accused of pushing down the actress and putting her in a coma. Right now he's up for ten years for battery plus time for failing to get an endangered person help (he waited to call the authorities). No word on what happens should she die. Would the charge be murder? Don't know the Lithuanian system well enough to have any kind of guess.
Le Figaro: The Difficult Hunt For Pyros. Namely those whose actions have much of southern France in flames, and majorly at risk with winds again picking up.
Libération: Blair Sidestepping [questions about Iraq and Dr. Kelly], Bush on the offensive.
Ouest-France: The fear of Iraqi "collaborators" - that is, those who helped us and who are being hunted down by Saddam's henchmen. They are, needless to say, worried. Saddam Hussein, for those who have failed to recall, is the former leader who is so popular that merely by killing those who don't worship him he has kept people from continuing the dancing in the streets that started when he was thought dead.
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