Procès de l’attentat de Nice: premiers mots des accusés attendus

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La Cour d’assises spéciale doit entendre mardi les premières paroles des accusés, au deuxième jour du procès de l’attentat de Nice le 14 juillet 2016, lorsqu’un camion avait percuté délibérément la foule, causant la mort de 86 personnes venues assister au feu d’artifice sur la Promenade des Anglais.

Lundi, la première journée d’audience, qui se tient dans la salle spécialement construite pour le procès des attentats du 13 novembre 2015, avait été largement consacrée à l’énumération des personnes souhaitant se constituer partie civile.

Alors qu’elles n’avaient été que 865 à faire cette démarche avant l’ouverture du procès, sur environ 2.500 personnes reconnues comme victimes et indemnisées, ce nombre était d’environ 1.700 lundi soir à la suspension de l’audience, a indiqué le Parquet national anti-terroriste (Pnat) à l’AFP.

Mardi matin, l’audience s’est poursuivie avec l’appel des témoins et des experts appelés à déposer lors du procès.

Parmi eux, l’ancien président François Hollande et son ministre de l’Intérieur de l’époque Bernard Cazeneuve devraient être entendus le 10 octobre.

Le même jour est attendu François Molins, procureur général près la Cour de Cassation, qui était à l’époque des faits procureur de Paris, alors chargé des enquêtes sur les attentats terroristes.

Plusieurs spécialistes du traumatisme et de la mémoire ont également été cités à la barre, comme le pédopsychiatre Thierry Baubet et le neuropsychologue Francis Eustache, attendus le 15 septembre.

Cinq semaines par ailleurs seront consacrées à la parole des parties civiles. 240 d’entre elles ont prévu de témoigner à la barre et d’autres en ont annoncé l’intention via leur avocat.

Si la cour fera preuve d’une “certaine souplesse”, elle “ne pourra pas en entendre 500 ou 600”, a averti lundi le président de la Cour d’assises spéciale Laurent Raviot, appelant les avocats à “faire des choix”.

– “Mettre des visages sur ces noms” –

Après l’appel des témoins, M. Raviot doit prononcer un “propos liminaire” avant, en début d’après-midi, d’exposer les faits et résumer l’enquête, un exercice prévu pour durer deux à trois heures.

Les sept accusés présents prendront ensuite la parole en fin de journée pour leur “déclaration préalable”.

Lundi, ils avaient seulement décliné leur identité et leur adresse, à l’invitation du président.

“On a hâte de mettre des visages sur ces noms (…) dont on a lu les histoires”, avait déclaré lundi à l’AFP Stéphane Erbs, co-président de l’association de victimes Promenade des anges.

A “l’impatience” d’assister au procès s’est toutefois mêlée “une certaine nervosité”, confiait ce Lyonnais, qui a perdu sa femme dans l’attentat et compte faire des allers-retours à Paris pour assister au procès dès que son travail le lui permet.

Trois accusés se trouvent dans le box, Ramzi Arefa, Chokri Chafroud (en détention provisoire) et Artan Henaj (condamné dans une autre affaire). Quatre – Maksim Celaj, Endri Elezi, Mohamed Ghraieb et Enkeledja Zace – comparaissent libres sous contrôle judiciaire.

Le huitième, Brahim Tritrou, détenu en Tunisie, sera “jugé par défaut”.

86 personnes ont perdu la vie et plus de 450 autres ont été blessées dans l’attentat, le plus meurtrier en France après ceux du 13 novembre 2015 contre le Stade de France, le Bataclan et les terrasses parisiennes.

L’assaillant, Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, un Tunisien de 31 ans tué par la police le soir de l’attentat, est le grand absent du procès.

Ce chauffeur-livreur au caractère instable était plus connu pour des actes de violence, notamment contre son épouse, que pour sa proximité avec la mouvance jihadiste.

Mais selon l’accusation, il “s’était inscrit dans une démarche idéologique d’inspiration jihadiste plusieurs mois avant” l’attentat, sans rien laisser paraître.

L’enquête n’a pas permis d’établir s’il avait bénéficié de complicités. Si l’organisation Etat islamique a revendiqué l’attentat, aucun lien direct n’a été retrouvé entre Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel et le groupe jihadiste.

Trois accusés (Ramzi Arefa, Chokri Chafroud et Mohamed Ghraieb) sont poursuivis pour association de malfaiteurs terroriste. L’accusation souligne leur “très grande proximité” avec Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel et estime qu’ils étaient “pleinement conscients” de son adhésion “à l’idéologie du jihad armé” et de “sa fascination pour les passages à l’acte violents”.

Les cinq autres accusés sont poursuivis pour des délits de droit commun – association de malfaiteurs et infractions à la législation sur les armes.

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Google Maps loses couple en route to wedding in forest Loop Cayman Islands

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The couple’s vehicle stuck in mud after using Google Maps.

A couple in Trinidad got an adventure they didn’t anticipate over the weekend when they left their home in Penal for a wedding only to end up stuck in a forested area thanks to the navigating system they were following.

The duo hoped to attend a wedding in Guayaguayare Village on Saturday and wanted to get there in the shortest possible time so they used Google Maps.

However, the route they followed wasn’t quite what they expected as they were taken through approximately 19 kilometres of abandoned oilfield road, called the Guayaguayare Road.

Undaunted by the tall trees and unkept shrubbery, they reached a blocked Heritage gate in the Navette oilfields.

This caused them to turn around. Soon after, at around 3pm, they got stuck in the mud.

Left with no choice but to walk about 15 kilometres through the dreaded Catshill forest, the two began an arduous trek.

Just before dark, they arrived at Touchstone Gargram Security where they were assisted.

On Monday, the Hunters Search and Rescue Team (HSRT) led by Captain Vallence Rambharat spearheaded the retrieval of the vehicle using the services of a tractor and local guides.

The operation took six hours to complete.

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15-year-old Bracker participating in Regional Tourism Youth Congress Loop Cayman Islands

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According to the Caribbean Tourism Organization, 15-year-old Raeann Angeline Matute-Scott will represent the Cayman Islands at the Regional Tourism Youth Congress in the Cayman Islands next week.

The Youth Congress, which coincides with Caribbean Aviation Day (which is being held on September 14 and hosted by the International Air Transport Association (IATA)), is expected to feature Ms Matute-Scott, together with young people from other parts of the Caribbean. At the Youth Congress, it is anticipated that they will debate on regional tourism matters and discuss how to stimulate “greater awareness and excitement about tourism among young people in our Caribbean communities.”

Commenting on her representation for Cayman, Ms Matute-Scott, who attends Layman E. Scott Sr. High School, said:

I am looking forward to representing our islands well and having meaningful discussions with my fellow Youth Tourism Ministers and Commissioners at the 2022 Regional Tourism Youth Congress.

Additionally, I am thankful to God for this amazing opportunity, He has blessed me abundantly. A huge thank you to my family, teachers and peers who have supported and coached me throughout this journey so far.

Sponsors of the Youth Congress include Sandals Barbados Resort & Spa and the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism.

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Riverton City ‘mini dumps’ a way to secure ‘share’ of garbage Loop Jamaica

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With ongoing gang violence splitting Riverton City in St Andrew into at least three sections, according to residents who spoke with Loop News on a recent visit to the area, mini dumps have popped up inside the community that is the home of Jamaica’s largest garbage disposal site, Riverton City dump.

The residents explained that warring factions are determined to retain access to what they consider their share of the garbage, which contains valuable items such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles and scrap metal that they retrieve for sale.

“They’ve divided the community over the last four years into about three separate and distinct areas, and they have created another situation where people start to divert solid waste from going to the dump and starting mini dumps around the place,” one male resident disclosed.

“There are mini dumps popping up all over Riverton that are creating both health and fire risks,” he emphasised.

When contacted, Anthony Hylton, the Member of Parliament for St Andrew Western which is where Riverton City is located, confirmed the presence of mini dumps in the community.

This, he said, was a matter for the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) to address.

As it relates to the sporadic gang violence in the area, Hylton lamented that Riverton City is “a wide open area” that attracts undesirables from all over the country, including Spanish Town in St Catherine, who contribute to the problem of violence plaguing the community.

That, he said, was a police matter.

“Riverton is a wide open space with people entering the dump from all over the place, so you don’t know who is who. You know somebody tonight and there’s some violence and it’s not the same violence producer (the next day), it’s some strange face,” Hylton said.

Meanwhile, according to one woman who appeared to be defending the diversion of solid waste from the main dump site to other parts of the community, “Garbage is money”.

“Everybody haffi secure fi dem share,” she said.

The residents explained that the gang violence makes it unsafe for them to venture into certain parts of the community, with some of them unable to access the landfill where they eke out a daily hustle.

As a result, they instruct the drivers of the garbage trucks to offload their contents at locations away from the landfill. The Loop News team did observe garbage strewn about sections of the community.

Member of Parliament for St Andrew Western Anthony Hylton

The Member of Parliament also lamented that with the divisions created by the warring factions, some residents are afraid to attend community meetings when they are called to discuss important matters like the pending closure of the dump and his ongoing efforts to help them secure titles for the lands on which they have lived for decades.

When contacted about the mini dumps, Executive Director of the NSWMA, Audley Gordon, put a different spin on the matter while suggesting that gang violence is contributing to the problem.

“The story you get out of Riverton will vary depending on who you talk to,” Gordon told Loop News.

“There are always gang issues in Riverton, the police will tell you that, it is not anything that is secret. There are a lot of gangs all over the place down there.

“What I can tell you is that they hustle off the garbage, so the scrap metal, plastic bottles, different components of the garbage, people make a livelihood from it. I’m not saying that they divert trucks, because we still get our 300 to 400 truckloads of garbage each day (at the landfill); that is consistent, and the numbers have not declined.

“But, what we do know is that they (residents) will stop the trucks and take things off the trucks that are of value to them. I know that, we have had that experience from where people tell us that and the truckers tell us that,” said Gordon.

Executive Director of the NSWMA, Audley Gordon

“To say that they divert the trucks and dump garbage to make other dumps, to what end?” he asked rhetorically.

“Sometimes they will intercept the trucks but not in a wholesale way,” he insisted.

In the meantime, Hylton said he intends to speak publicly on the issue as it must be addressed as a matter of urgency.

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Sidara excited to be in secondary school

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11-year-old Sidara Akalloo

Bursting with excitement to step into secondary school for the first time on Tuesday, 11-year-old Sidara Akalloo hardly slept on Monday night.

Akalloo, a cancer patient, said she befriended two students within minutes of arriving at Naparima Girls’ High School in San Fernando. Sidara also fulfilled a lifelong dream.

“I went on the swing. That has been my goal since I was in primary school. I would look across from Presentation College and see students on the swing. I always wanted to do that, and I did that today,” Sidara said on Tuesday.

Her father, David Akalloo, works at the nearby college, and she frequently visits him there.

Last year, the former Grant Memorial Presbyterian primary student lost the use of her legs because of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Chemotherapy damaged nerves in her feet, leaving her immobile for several months. She also suffered two bouts of pancreatitis and pneumonia.

She could not sit the Secondary Entrance Assessment exam in March owing to her illness, but April, she sat the supplemental exam at Presentation College and passed for her first choice, Naps Girls’.

“I am very excited. I am also proud of myself for getting here, and I am looking forward to being in the school. I am looking forward to meeting my friends. I made two friends today. I have a friend from primary school, but she is in another class,” Sidara said, standing next to her father and younger brother Nicholai.

“I could not sleep because I was so excited to get to school. Mummy (Sumatee Akalloo) was excited too. She could not sleep because I could not sleep.”

Sidara’s father said everyone woke up at 3 am, “for some reason.”

He joked that once his wife is in the kitchen, the family cannot go back to bed because ofthe noise.She had prepared breakfast by the time they got out of bed.

“When we left home, she was getting ready to work in Rio Claro. She took a lot of selfies with Sidara, and we left home 6.09 am.”

The school year started on Monday.

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Khan launches book to highlight Trinidad and Tobago heroes

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The book cover of 400+ Heroes, Pioneers and Role Models of TT. –

IN recognition and celebration of TT’s recent 60th Anniversary of Independence, corporate sponsor First Citizens, in collaboration with author, researcher, producer Nasser Khan and the Ministry of Education, launched an e-book. Hard copies of the e-book will be available in due course and can be ordered by calling or sending a WhatsApp message to 387-2731.

The book is named 400+ Heroes, Pioneers and Role Models of TT.

The link to read the book can be accessed at https://epub.safaripublications.com/firstcitizenstt/profiles/.

In his remarks at the handover recently at the Ministry of Education, to the ministry’s CEO Dr Peter Smith, Khan outlined the genesis of the e-book that is the updated edition from the original version first published in 2012, for TT’s 50th Independence anniversary.

At that time First Citizens sponsored 5,000 hard copies that were distributed to all schools and libraries and other deserving institutions and individuals in TT. Due to an increased demand, First Citizens agreed to an online edition that, since then, has garnered approximately 1.6 million hits, mainly by students doing their research for social and other studies assignments. The book has also become popular for those outside of educational institutions seeking knowledge of our heroes, pioneers and role models.

Author Nasser Khan handing over a hard copy to Dr Peter Smith, CEO of the Ministry of Education while Trudy Louison of First Citizens looks on –

Khan further emphasized that the purpose of the book is to provide an online reference tool about TT’s heroes, role models and pioneers and falls under the umbrella of a youth education literacy initiative that seeks to educate, inspire and motivate its readers about our path to Independence in 1962, 60 years ago and those heroes, pioneers and role models who were and have been instrumental in its achievement…those in the various spheres of activity.

In alphabetical order, categories of 20 areas of human endeavour from agriculture to writing are highlighted. The 200-page book is foreworded by Minister of Education Dr Nyan Gadsby Dolly, the Group CEO of First Citizens Karen Darbasie and noted TT author Michael Anthony.

The Heroes, Pioneers and Role Models of TT are about those who have made valuable contributions to our country’s development, who have paved and continue to pave the way for others to follow. Such people include national leaders, those in public service, politics, medicine, science, law, education, business, social work, sports, labour, economics, culture, arts, radio, television, literature, agriculture, religion, oil and gas, the environment, engineering, architecture, fashion and beauty pageants.

The book, Khan explained, was inspired by a chance conversation he had with calypsonian David Rudder prior to the 50th Independence Anniversary in 2012. During that conversation they both lamented about the lack of a comprehensive book available at educational institutions especially one that features local heroes. The book was the result of that conversation.

The difference in the two editions, from 2012 and 2022, reflects the dates of the deaths of some individuals, the addition of a few that were inadvertently omitted, any corrections from the first edition and the updating of recipients of the Order of the Republic of TT since 2012.

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DHB opens to vehicles weighing up to 18 tonnes

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The Demerara Harbour Bridge

Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill has announced that the Demerara Harbour Bridge will is now opened to vehicles weighing 18 tonnes.

The Minister is also issuing an urgent call to truck drivers to desist from “hard-breaking” [reducing speed suddenly] on the bridge.”

On Sunday, the DHB was closed to vehicular traffic from approximately 11:31hrs due to an accident, and following immediate remedial works, vehicles weighing 10 tonnes and under were allowed to cross the bridge the following day

The Minister has also expressed his appreciation to the Management and staff of the DHBC for ensuring the inconvenience to members of the public was not prolonged.

“I wish to thank the hardworking staff of the Demerara Harbour Bridge, who assiduously worked all night to repair the recently damaged section of the DHB. Thanks to the commitment of General Manager Mr. Wayne Watson and the entire team, vehicles with higher weight loads (18 tonnes and below) can now cross the bridge,” Minister Edghill has stated.

“Hard-breaking must not be practiced as it can affect the bridge,” the Minister said.

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CAP JULUCA STAFF MEMBERS BECOME CERTIFIED SWIMMERS AND WATER RESCUERS

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L-R: Rosette Pradel, Lynnicia Richardson, Shelder Lewis, Violet Gumbs, Kerrianna Vanterpool, Mitchell Gumbs, Denicio Brooks, Judine Green, GM Sasha Tyas with Instructor Richard Stephens

Over the past 8 days, a group of Cap Juluca’s employees were taught the art and skills of swimming, and water rescue, by Mr. Richard “Richie” Stephens, President of the All Nations United Swim Club.

Richie and his team engaged some ten members of the resort’s staff in a gruelling but rewarding stint of training where they learnt the essential skills of swimming, and survival on the sea.

On Wednesday morning, 31st August, the swimming students gathered on the beach near Pimms in Cap Juluca and demonstrated all that they had learnt. According to Richie, “apart from learning how to basically swim, the group learnt the ‘front crawl’, the ‘elementary back crawl’, the ‘back float’, the ‘star fish float’, the ‘jelly fish float’, and the “huddle’.“They also learnt how to apply the life vests in the water, how to use t he ‘rescue can’ and the ‘rescue tube’ as well as how to recue someone with the ‘ring buoy”’.

Swimming Participants with ‘Richie’ and GM Sasha Tyas

Richie applauded Cap Juluca for coming on board and being involved with him in the Summer swimming progamme. “I thank Cap Juluca so much,” he told The Anguillian. “When I approached the Manager, Ms. Sasha Tyas, she did not hesitate. She eagerly came on board and encouraged the staff to become involved. And for that we want to say a big ‘thank you’ to Cap Juluca. We had reached out to others, but the response was not as encouraging as the welcome we got from this resort. It is hoped that the other hotels will see the need for their staff who are able to swim, and that they too would come on board with us in the future.

“As you know, swimming is an important skill to have. Anguilla’s bread basket is in tourism, and I feel that the majority of our hotel workers who deal with tourists daily should be able to swim. If I was a guest now coming to Cap Juluca, my mind would be at ease knowing that there are folks here who can come to my rescue in the event that I find myself in an emergency while I am swimming in the water. Cap Julca is leading the way in that regard, and I hope that others would follow suit.”

At the end of their demonstrations, the new swimmers/rescuers were awarded with their certificates. Those Cap Juluca employees who received certificates were: Violet Gumbs, Lynnica Richardson, Shelder Lewis, Mitchell Gumbs, Denecio Brooks, and Kerrianna Vanterpool. Those who are currently continuing the training but not yet certified are: Marisse Glasgow, Edileyda Connor, Khemwattie Gokarran, Andrea Alexander and Keshana Webster.Cap Juluca’s Manager, Sasha Tyas, said concerning the training: “We decided to sponsor ten team members to learn the essential life-skills of swimming. They have done so well. They look so comfortable now in the water. It is good to know that they would be able to rescue someone if necessary. It is essential that they know what to do and how to do it around water. This is our first cohort of swimming students, and I can assure you it won’t be the last.”“We will continue working with Richie,” she said. “He is amazing, and I thank him very much for imparting his skills to our staff. This is a very great initiative and I am so proud of the ladies and gents that have participated.”One of the students, Violet Gumbs, made a brief commendation at the end: “I would like to say a huge thank you to the Cap Juluca team and, to Sasha, our General Manager, for giving us this opportunity to prove that you need not be fearful of the water. It is a blessing to be able to swim and to do what we do. This is something that could save lives.”

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