In the spotlight: the scandal of looted antiquities

In the spotlight the scandal of looted antiquities

Major museums in New York, London, Paris or Abu Dhabi are in turmoil. After the revelations of the satirical weekly The chained Duck and the newspaper The world on the indictment of the former director of the Louvre Jean-Luc Martinez in this case of trafficking in antiquities, the daily Release reveals other results of the investigation carried out by the Central Office for the Fight against Trafficking in Cultural Property where we learn that the French art experts Christophe Kunicki and her husband Richard Semper have also been indicted (for “association of criminals” in particular).

Freed dissects the traffic that passed through a German art dealer of Armenian descent based in Hamburg, Germany. Serop Simonian was supplied with treasures looted from an intermediary of Lebanese origin by the name of Roben Dip. All these experts were also false certificates of authenticity of the looted works, by means of a ” vintage typewriter “, before sales ” carried out at Pierre Bergé et Associés » between 2007 and 2017, peak Release, for more than 50 million euros. A real thriller!

Legal and judicial storm around the case of the wearing of the burkini authorized or not in the municipal swimming pools of Grenoble

Two days ago, the administrative court of Grenoble agreed with the local prefect who asked him to cancel a deliberation of the municipal council of this city in the south-east of France authorizing the wearing of the burkini in municipal swimming pools. However, the environmentalist mayor of Grenoble Éric Piolle appealed against this judgment, and the Council of State has forty-eight hours to decide.

In the meantime, the Minister of the Interior is satisfied with the judgment of first instance. ” It is the communitarian provocation that has been sanctioned “, said Gérald Darmanin to the newspaper The Parisian.

Meanwhile, the Borne government is struggling. Its composition does not convince the French

According to an Odoxa survey for Le Figaro6 out of 10 French people say they are rather or very dissatisfied of the composition of the government. ” The executive begins this second five-year term in pain “, underlines this daily, today, ” only 51% of French people say they are satisfied with the first steps of the head of government » Elisabeth Borne.

For its part, the daily The echoes publishes the results of a poll carried out for him as for Radio Classique by the Opinion Way institute, and according to which the new French government ” does not generate momentum for the majority “. According to this survey, with 26% of intention to vote in next month’s legislative elections, said majority would lose one point compared to the results of the previous Opinion Way barometer, and it would be closely followed by the New People’s Ecological and Social Union led by the Insoumis Jean-Luc Mélenchon, credited with 25% of said voting intentions, up 1 point. As observed The echoesthe left-wing alliance progressing slowly but surely “.

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left alliance persists and signs. He asks more than ever the French to elect him Prime Minister

In a column published this morning by ReleaseJean-Luc Mélenchon evokes “ the breath effect “provoked by his call to be” elect prime minister during the next legislative elections, and he explains that the possible cohabitation that would result would result in a ” radical reparliamentarization of the exercise of political power in France “. Which, he continues in Freedwould lead to dismantling of presidentialism », step of « the march towards the Sixth Republic “which he considers essential for” adjust ” the ” crisis of political confidence ” in France.

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