Two years in prison, one of which was a farm, were required Tuesday against a former official of the traditionalist Catholic community of Riaumont, in Liévin (Pas-de-Calais) tried for pedopornography consultation, the first trial around this former “Children’s village”in the heart of several surveys. The judgment was put under deliberation on May 6. At the … Read more
Two bodies were discovered Sunday on a beach in Berck (Pas-de-Calais), while a total of 230 migrants were rescued at sea the same day in the strait between France and England, according to the French authorities . A 14H20, “The body of a man was discovered on the end beach in Berck”then around 4 p.m., … Read more
He had been wanted since Thursday by the police after the death of a young couple, aged 20, in the Deauville region (Calvados). A man was finally arrested on the night of Friday to Saturday in Pas-de-Calais, the public prosecutor of Caen told AFP Joël Garrigue. A border police patrol spotted the suspect in Calais … Read more
This Friday morning, around 9:30 am, the firefighters of Calais (Pas-de-Calais) were called for an unusual intervention: the capture of a snake found in the department of the preserves of the Auchan supermarket, reports North Littoral. The operation was fast and without difficulty, the reptile measuring about 40 cm and being completely harmless. The animal, … Read more
Two people lost their lives and around twenty others were slightly injured in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais during the snowy episode which has hit the region since Wednesday. Thursday morning, a homeless person was found dead in Valenciennes, the Northern prefecture said. In Croix, in the Lille metropolis, a man in his fifties fell on … Read more
“We didn’t want any more waterways, any more ditches, we wanted to gain height. There, we took 30 to 40 meters…”immediately states Vincent Maquignon, 52 years old, disaster victim from Blendecques (Pas-de-Calais), showing his new house, still under construction, located on the heights of Arques. Too expensive, the secure area With his wife and their … Read more
He toughens his tone and points fingers, at the risk of seriously offending the British. The Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau said he was ready this Friday to engage in a “standoff” with the United Kingdom over migrants seeking to reach England at the cost of clandestine crossings of the Channel which have already … Read more
During the 3rd Pics d’Or ceremony organized by the Abbé-Pierre Foundation, the general public voted the anti-homeless system on rue de Marseille in Lyon as the worst of the year 2024. Entitled “Pot-pourri” , this device, designed to prevent homeless people from finding shelter, gathered more than 13,000 votes, marking citizen mobilization against this practice … Read more
“My great-uncle was a cheerful young man, a bugle sailor, a fitter by trade, broke at almost 26 years old…” The Lille resident Benoît Guittet has the feeling of a duty accomplished, “for family memory and for great History”since the name of his great-uncle, Prosper Roiné, now appears on the Ring of Memory, at Notre-Dame … Read more
A migrant died on Wednesday in an attempt to cross the Channel, bringing to at least 57 the number of deaths in this type of crossing in 2024, we learned from the maritime prefecture. This migrant, a “adult man”was in cardio-respiratory arrest in the sea off Hardelot (Pas-de-Calais), where around ten people were also in … Read more