International
Police enter La Sorbonne to expel dozens of pro-Palestinian students
The riot police entered the Sorbonne University of Paris, the most emblematic in France, to expel dozens of pro-Palestinian students who had settled in the main courtyard of the building next to the Pantheon to protest the Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip.
The police intervention, which took place without incidents and without the reporting of arrests, at least at first, happened after another blockade on Friday by about 200 university students from another prestigious university center, Sciences Po in Paris, also in protest against what they called “the genocide suffered by the Palestinian people.”
The Sorbonne, created in the 13th century, is an emblem of the university and French culture through which famous figures (Pierre and Marie Curie, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Louis Pasteur or Victor Hugo, among others) have passed as students or professors and was one of the main centers of the revolution of May 1968.
Jacques, a Sciences Po student who went to the Sorbonne on Monday in solidarity with the protest of his colleagues there, told EFE that the mobilization was a response “to the genocide that Israel is committing, with the complicity of (Joe) Biden and (Emmanuel) Macron.”
“We are going to close ranks against repression,” said the university student, alluding to police pressure in the pro-Palestinian demonstrations and the investigation for apology of open terrorism against a prominent left-wing leader, Mathilde Panot, for a controversial statement published after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
The young man denied that there is a political manipulation of these mobilizations by Panot’s party, the Unsubmissive France (LFI), the main leftist formation in the Assembly.
“We are the young people who direct the protests. Whoever says otherwise is wrong. The majority are not affiliated with a specific party,” added Jacques, who promised to “continue with the mobilizations,” as at Columbia University, in the United States.
In addition to Panot, the Franco-Palestinian jurist Rima Hassan, a candidate for the European elections, has also been summoned by the police for advocacy of terrorism.
The controversial statement of the head of the LFI in the Assembly described the Hamas action of October 7 as “an offensive by Palestinian forces” and was paralleled with “the intensification of the Israeli occupation policy” in the Palestinian territories.
International
Geert Wilders reaches a provisional agreement to form a government in the Netherlands
The leader of the Dutch extreme right, Geert Wilders, reached a “provisional” agreement on Wednesday to form a government with three other center-right parties, which he will now send to the Dutch Parliament for debate, although they have not yet agreed on behalf of the candidate for prime minister.
As announced by Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party (PVV), there is already a “provisional” agreement with the other three center-right parties: the liberal VVD, the Christian Democrat NSC and the BBB farmers’ party, although there are still disagreements about pensions and “the discussion about who will lead that government will be resumed at a later date” because they have not yet decided on this point.
Wilders won the general elections on November 22, but had to resign his aspiration to the position of prime minister to unblock the dialogue with the other parties.
International
Diana Boluarte goes to a new interrogation of the Attorney General for the ‘Rolex case’
The president of Peru, Dina Boluarte, arrived this Wednesday unexpectedly at the headquarters of the Public Ministry to be interrogated by the interim Attorney General, Juan Carlos Villena, as part of the preliminary investigation opened for the crimes of corruption and bribery by the so-called ‘Rolex case’.
Boluarte arrived at the tax headquarters, in the historic center of Lima, at 9:20 a.m. (14.20 GMT) sheltered by a large police security display and entered aboard an official van with dark moons.
As has happened on previous occasions, the ruler is not expected to offer subsequent statements about this interrogation.
International
The filmmaker Rasoulof will go to the Cannes Film Festival after fleeing Iran, according to his lawyer
Iranian filmmaker Mohamad Rasoulof, who fled his country after being sentenced to eight years in prison, will go to the Cannes Film Festival to present his film ‘The seed of the sacred fig’, his lawyer Babak Paknia told EFE.
“He (Rasoulof) will participate in Cannes,” Paknia said on Wednesday.
Rasoulof will present his film ‘The seed of the sacred fig’ at the French festival, which is about a judge who deals with the protests unleashed by the death of the young Iranian Mahsa Amini in 2022 after being arrested for not wearing the Islamic veil well.
Some actors of the film, however, will not be able to attend since the Iranian authorities do not allow them to leave the country, according to Paknia, who also stated that they have opened a new judicial case against the director for the film.
“They have opened a new case for this new film,” said Paknia, who did not explain the charges.
Rasoulof announced two days ago that he had fled his country to Europe after being sentenced to eight years in prison, lashes and the confiscation of property for the crime of “collusion with the intention of committing crimes against the security of the country.”
The filmmaker, winner of the Golden Bear of the Berlinale with ‘The Life of Others’ in 2020, a film that deals with the death penalty in the country, has had numerous problems with the country’s authorities and has been sentenced to prison on three occasions.
He was last arrested in July 2022 for criticizing the repression of protests unleashed by the collapse of a building that caused dozens of deaths two years ago and eight months later he was released.
In recent weeks, Iranian courts have multiplied convictions against artists and academics who are critical of the Islamic Republic.
In one of the most noted cases, a revolutionary court sentenced rapper Tomaj Salehi to death for sedition, propaganda against the system and incitement to riots for supporting the protests unleashed by Amini’s death.
In those protests, young Iranians and women called for the end of the Islamic Republic and only disappeared after a repression that caused 500 deaths and the arrest of at least 22,000 people and in which eight demonstrators were executed, one of them in public.
Geert Wilders reaches a provisional agreement to form a government in the Netherlands
Diana Boluarte goes to a new interrogation of the Attorney General for the ‘Rolex case’
The filmmaker Rasoulof will go to the Cannes Film Festival after fleeing Iran, according to his lawyer
Tec de Monterrey honors one of its students for his contribution to nanotechnology in medicine
Defense Minister commends salvadoran soldier for Central American Cross Country victory
Ecuador prison riot leaves at least 43 dead
-
International4 days agoFirst recipient of genetically modified pig kidney dies two months post-transplant
-
International4 days ago14 of the injured left by a train crash in Buenos Aires are still interned
-
International4 days agoDuque sees “despair” and “insecurity” in Petro’s attitude and proposes a “democratic debate”
-
International4 days agoDeath toll from storms in southern Brazil rise to 137
-
International4 days agoHaitian armed gangs mobilize before the arrival of the multinational force
-
International3 days agoDonald Trump faces former lawyer in court over Stormy Daniels payments
-
International8 hours agoBlinken announces in Kiev another $2 billion in military funding to Ukraine
-
International2 days agoFormer presidents condemn Maduro’s “disrespect” of asylum for opponents in Venezuela
-
International2 days agoThe UN confirms that a worker died in Gaza from a projectile that hit his vehicle
-
International8 hours agoRobert Fico, Slovak Prime Minister, in serious condition after being shot
-
International1 day agoAt least 4 dead and 64 injured when a fence collapsed over a gas station in India
-
International2 days agoCommissions of the Argentine Senate resume debate on key law for Javier Milei
-
International8 hours agoDiana Boluarte goes to a new interrogation of the Attorney General for the ‘Rolex case’
-
International1 day agoPutin prepares for a long war with a change of defense minister
-
International2 days agoThe mother who decided to walk 1,300 kilometers in Chile to get an expensive medicine and save her son from a serious illness
-
International2 days agoTrump, portrayed by his former lawyer: Fixation for silencing porn actress and reluctant to pay
-
International2 days agoA Mexican-American artist denounces the deportations with a mural on the border
-
International4 days agoThe UN says it works with the de facto Afghan Government to assist in floods
-
International4 days agoThe FARC dissident ‘Iván Márquez’ reappears in a video after being presumed dead
-
International1 day agoDefinitive green light in the EU to extend the suspension of tariffs on Ukraine for one more year
-
International1 day agoIsrael’s offensive is based on Yabalia and the Army orders the evacuation of more areas of Rafah
-
International1 day agoDeath toll from floods in southern Brazil rise to 148
-
International8 hours agoSingapore closes the Lee era with the investiture of Lawrence Wong as prime minister
-
International8 hours agoGeert Wilders reaches a provisional agreement to form a government in the Netherlands
-
International8 hours agoAbel Martínez, an experienced Dominican politician who seeks the return to power of the LDP
-
International1 day agoDesolation at the Mexican border in the face of the new restrictions on asylum in the United States
-
International1 day agoTrump prioritized silence of Stormy Daniels “for the campaign, not for Melania,” according to his former lawyer
-
International8 hours agoThe filmmaker Rasoulof will go to the Cannes Film Festival after fleeing Iran, according to his lawyer
-
International1 day agoLópez Obrador denies that there will be more migrants deported to Mexico due to restrictions in the United States
-
International8 hours agoThe EU urges Georgia to withdraw the law on foreign agents that harms its rapprochement with the EU