Clearstream: 15 months suspended sentence required cons Dominique de Villepin

Fifteen-month suspended prison sentence was needed on Monday to the court of appeal in Paris against Dominique de Villepin, who was suspected of "complicity in slanderous denunciation" in the Clearstream affair, against the 18-month suspended sentence and 45,000 euro fine required at trial.

Meanwhile, the Prosecutor General's Office has requested thirty months' imprisonment, of which 18 were suspended, against former vice-chairman of EADS, Jean-Louis Gergorin, a year closes.

The mathematician Imad Lahoud has seen cons require him thirty months in prison with 15 months suspended.

The Advocate General Jean-Louis Perol has also requested a fine of 45,000 euros against MM.Gergorin and Lahoud.

At trial, the prosecutor of Paris Jean-Claude Marin was itself mounted at the hearing to take up the case Villepin.He was required against him 18 months suspended sentence and 45,000 euro fine.

Meanwhile, he required two years in prison, 18 months firm against Imad Lahoud and three years in prison, 18 months firm, against Jean-Louis Gergorin and 45,000 euros fine against the two men.

On January 28, 2010, Dominique de Villepin had been acquitted, while Jean-Louis Gergorin and Imad Lahoud were sentenced respectively to 15 and 18 months in prison, for each matched to a fine of 40,000 euros.

The Clearstream affair is a huge case of false accusation in which names, including that of Nicolas Sarkozy, were added to listings bank to pretend they dipped in dark corruption.

For the general prosecutor, Dominique de Villepin was aware of the falsity of listings in July 2004 and thus could stop the slander. The Crown has appealed the acquittal of former Prime Minister believes it should be condemned for "complicity by failure."

But if the "complicity in slanderous denunciation" does exist in the penal code, the "complicity by failure" is a legal concept that the appellate court is free to follow or not.

TERRORISM: In a posthumous message, Bin Laden hails Arab revolutions

Osama Bin Laden hails the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, and called on Muslims to take advantage of this "rare historic opportunity" to lift, in a posthumous message audio captured by the U.S. central monitoring Islamist websites (SITE).

The message, posted on jihadist forums on Wednesday by the As-Sahab website, close to Al-Qaeda, takes 12 minutes and 37 seconds, and speaks to Muslims in the Arab revolutions in recent months.

Bin Laden recommends the establishment of a council to advise revolutionary and decide the best time to spread revolt in the Muslim world.

"Any delay could cause the loss of this opportunity and the trigger before the exact time would increase the number of victims," ​​said bin Laden yet, according to the SITE.

"I think the winds of change are blowing across the Muslim world with Allah's permission," says even the leader of Al Qaeda killed in Pakistan by U.S. commandos on May 2

According to a previous release of Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden, the instigator of the attacks of September 11, 2001, posted this message a week before being killed in an attack by U.S. special forces against his residence north of Islamabad, where he was hiding, said SITE.

There is "a great and rare historical opportunity to raise with the Ummah (Islamic community) and free yourself from bondage decided by the executives, the law of men and Western domination," said Bin Laden registration with a photo of the former leader of Al Qaeda.

"This is a great sin and a vast ignorance of waste this opportunity that the Ummah has been waiting for decades. So use this advantage and destroy the idols and establish justice and faith," he adds.

In his message he refers to the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, but no mention of the uprisings in Libya, Syria and Yemen, bin Laden also warned against negotiations and compromise.

"To these revolutionary free in all countries stand firm in your initiative and be wary of negotiations, because there is no middle ground between the people of truth and the people of falsehood," he adds .

The Mississippi flood forced the authorities to carry out load shedding in Louisiana

U.S. authorities have opened a valve unloader on the Mississippi River in Louisiana (south), which recorded a historic flood in order to prevent further flooding of New Orleans, six years after Katrina.

The body of Engineers U.S. Army had previously announced it would open gradually from 3:00 p.m. (2000 GMT) the overflow channel of Morganza, Louisiana, to avoid a "wall of water "in the words of the governor of this state, Bobby Jindal, does descend on thousands of homes located along the Atchafalaya River.

"It may be more a marathon than a sprint," said Gen. Michael Walsh at a news conference in Morganza, stating that "enormous pressure weighing on the entire system."

The valve was opened when the river flow reached 42,500 cubic meters per second.This is only the second time since its construction in 1954 that emergency channel is open.

If all the floodway gates were open, the flow would reach a rate of 17,000 cubic meters per second, three times the volume of water that falls daily from Niagara Falls.

To avoid such a destructive flow, a single valve was opened Saturday to pass 280 cubic meters per second, one or two others could be Sunday.

Load shedding, which will supply water into the Gulf of Mexico, is expected to cause flooding of 1.2 million hectares but will save Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the martyred city of Hurricane just who is recovering from the ravages of Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005, Governor Jindall.

New Orleans is protected by dikes upstream from six yards but the water has already reached 5.2 meters, and the worst floods in 70 years-that struck the central United States follow the course of the Mississippi south .

They have so far destroyed thousands of homes, farms and roads in Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi.

In view of downloading, the authorities have carried out evacuations in rural areas will be affected, a sacrifice which the mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, said he was conscious.

"It's a tragic situation for everyone in America and of course for people who live in the Atchafalaya Basin and Morgan City.We wholeheartedly with them, "he said, noting that it would save his city.

Cindy Prejean, a resident of Gibson, a town a hundred miles from New Orleans, expects to see its home swim in 1.5 meters of water.

"What gives them the right to inundate us? Here there are so many neighborhoods, businesses and farms," ​​she told AFP.

According to forecasts, the opening of the channel load shedding could lead to peak at 4.5 meters in some neighborhoods.

The army said it would focus more on individuals than on the property.In anticipation, the American Red Cross has prepared thousands of places for evacuees.

Economically, the activity of the Port of New Orleans are continuing normally but 2,200 oil wells were threatened by floodwaters.

SYRIA: The system maintains the military pressure, two protesters killed in Homs

Two protesters were killed Friday by gunfire police in Homs in central Syria, while many soldiers and members of the security services were deployed in the homes of protest against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

Despite the crackdown - which killed at least 700 deaths and thousands of arrests since the beginning of the protest movement in mid-March, according to human rights organizations of human rights - the opposition had appealed mobilization on the "The Syrian Revolution 2011".

In the afternoon, the Information Minister, Adnan Mahmoud, announced a "national dialogue would be initiated in the coming days" in the country.

Fouad Rajab, 40, was hit by a bullet in the head when the security services opened fire to disperse a manifestation of Homs, told AFP an activist of Human Rights, Nawar al-Omar.

A second protester was killed by gunfire in Homs, but the activist was not able to provide his identity.

According Louaï Hussein, a writer and opponent of President Assad had nevertheless instructed police not to open fire on demonstrators.

An adviser to the president, "Bouthaina Shaaban, told me during a telephone conversation that presidential orders had been given strict not to open fire on the demonstrators," said Mr.Hussein on his Facebook page.

Other events were attended by thousands of people Deraa (south), Qamishli, and Derbassyié Amouda (north-east), WQAS near Damascus and Hama 210 km north of the capital.

"Security forces fire into the air with automatic weapons to disperse to Deraa thousands of protesters," said one activist told AFP in this city south, where the protest movement was born in mid- March.

A Qamichli with a Kurdish majority, nearly 3,000 people demonstrated after prayers, according to another activist."With our soul and our blood we sacrifice ourselves for Deraa," chanted the demonstrators, according to a video posted on YouTube.

The protesters also wore a huge Syrian flag on which was written + + Azadi ("freedom" in Kurdish), depending on the video.

In addition, hundreds of people demonstrated in Jdaidet-Artouz, 11 km south of Damascus, "calling for the downfall of the regime," said another activist.

A thousand protesters also marched in WQAS, near the capital, where "significant reinforcements came," according to activists.

In the city of Hama, the police dispersed several demonstrations with batons, tear gas and water cannon.One of the demonstrations took place outside the headquarters of the town hall, where demonstrators tore the portrait of President Bashar al-Assad before being dispersed by Syrian forces, as an activist.

In all outbreaks of the dispute, "there is a large deployment of officers of the security forces," said one activist told AFP.

Asked in the morning, an activist from the coastal city of Banias (North West) stated that "more than 2,000 soldiers" were deployed in the square where people were demonstrating.

But the information minister said in the afternoon as the army began to withdraw from this coastal town, where she had entered Saturday.

According militants, arrests were also continuing across the country, Deir Ezzor (is) in Lattakia (northwest) and to Qamichli Deraa. Wednesday, 19 civilians had been killed by security forces in Dera and Homs, according to an NGO.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said he was "extremely concerned" by reports of NGOs have reported 700 to 850 deaths among the demonstrators and called on Damascus to stop trying to "silence opponents.

The British Foreign Ministry announced it had summoned the ambassador of Syria, threatening to "further sanctions".And Australia said it would tighten its financial sanctions against Damascus.

The head of European diplomacy, Catherine Ashton, had not ruled yesterday that the sanctions taken against 13 members of the scheme can be extended to President Assad.

The head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, however, warned against foreign intervention, calling on the Syrian opposition not to repeat the "Libyan scenario," according to Russian news agencies.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on his part that he was "too early" to say whether President Assad had to go.

RENAULT RE: "Patrick Pelata was the only one to head to Carlos Ghosn"

It is no longer CEO of Renault. Patrick Pelata, emblematic of the French automotive group, presented Monday his resignation to the board's special company, which accepted it. The right arm of Carlos Ghosn is the most senior of the company to make false charges of espionage affair that rocked the automaker

This former home of the Renault was the current office of the company. So much so that some, like Peter Alanche, a former employee and author of "Renault, side yard" (ed.Workshop, 2007) believes that his departure is bad news for the group.

FRANCE 24: The resignation of Patrick Pelata the post of director general is it bad news for Renault?
Alanche Peter: Yes, Patrick Pelata had managed to make the connection between the base of the group and management. Near Carlos Ghosn - they were classmates at the Polytechnic, he is considered one of the principal architects of social dialogue at Renault. He was also responsible for all operational and has personally overseen the implementation of the strategy of the electric car of Renault.

His resignation also marks the withdrawal of a leading critic of the social tradition of the group.Patrick Pelata has worked 30 years for Renault. He went through all services prior to accessing the highest offices. Do not forget that he is the author of a thesis on the social dimension of any industrial strategy and has been a time fellow traveler of the French Communist Party.

F24: How was he regarded by employees of Renault?
Alanche stone: He was clearly regarded as one of the leaders most open to dialogue.The company is not just for him at an industrial strategy. Instead, Patrick Pelata has always highlighted the social dimension in the company, which was for years the specificity of Renault.

Most importantly, everyone agrees that Patrick Pelata was the only dare stand up to Carlos Ghosn. He was never afraid to contradict the boss and discuss his choices. However, we should not kid ourselves, the two men had the same strategic vision for the group.

F24: Under these conditions, why the board did accept the resignation of Patrick Pelata?
Pierre Alanche: Carlos Ghosn did not want to part with his No. 2. He had already once refused his resignation in early March.He is convinced that Patrick Pelata committed no errors. So here it is not a power struggle. But public opinion and the state wanted to cut off heads, and only Patrick Pelata has sufficient stature to play the sacrificial victims. The other option was to sacrifice Carlos Ghosn as CEO but is the glue of the entire Renault-Nissan, it was impossible to drop it.

Patrick Pelata still remains within the group, which is still a strong signal. Now it is still necessary to know what role he will be awarded?

JAPAN: TEPCO continues to reject radioactive water at sea and plunges to the Exchange

AFP - Shares of TEPCO, which owns the plant at risk of Fukushima, plunged to a historic high at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday because of the spill in the Pacific Ocean thousands of tons of radioactive water from the reactors Nuclear.

After 25 days of an uphill struggle to avoid an uncontrolled fusion fuels in rugged installations, the danger of a major disaster was still not excluded and environmental pollution worsened.

The title of TEPCO Electric Power (TEPCO) has unscrewed from 11.53% in mid-session, investors are increasingly doubting the ability of the utility to pay huge compensations that will be claimed.

The action dropped 51 yen Tuesday mid-day to fall to 391 yen.It even fell in the early morning to 376 yen, or prices lower than the lowest end of session for nearly 60 years.

"The compensation payments are likely to explode with the release of radioactive water," said a broker.

The course of TEPCO has loosened over 80% since March 11 closing in, weighed down by the cascade of explosions and leaks of contaminating stored in Fukushima Daiichi (No. 1).

The group also decided Tuesday to postpone to a date not announced its financial results for the fiscal year from April 2010 to 31 March, because the consequences of the disaster triggered by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in the northeastern Japan, told AFP spokesman.

Opposite the central operations of ocean dumping of 11,500 tonnes of radioactive water were continuing on Tuesday after starting the day at 19:00 (1000 GMT).

Expected to last for five days, these discharges 250 km north of the metropolitan Tokyo and its 35 million people, relate to a slightly contaminated water, assured Tepco.

The evacuation of this water in the ocean where the radionuclides are expected to concentrate, according to TEPCO, is imperative in order to free up storage tanks intended to be filled with highly radioactive water.

The fishing was prohibited within a radius of 20 km around the plant, corresponding to the exclusion zone on earth.

All power supply system of six reactors in Fukushima broke down March 11, stopping the pumps for cooling the nuclear fuel that was allowed to warm dangerously.

Technicians are now scrambling to repair this equipment is locked in a vicious circle: it is vital to cool the reactor fuel and spent fuel stored in tanks, but they use more water, more radioactive groundwater rise.And unless they inject water, the temperature increases in the reactors.

The "wash out" caused massive flooding in buildings and underground service tunnels, which are invaded by thousands of tons of radioactive water, which retards the progress of work to rehabilitate the electricity network.

Even if disposal of polluted water seems to have eclipsed the cooling, it was continuing Tuesday, thanks to huge concrete pumps sent from abroad.

Technicians also continued to try to plug a leak of highly contaminated water that has accumulated in a pit near the shore technical and empties directly into the ocean.

They try to understand where the water infiltrates, presumably coming from the reactor building 2.

"TEPCO will conduct drilling to follow the flow of water and inject water glass (sodium silicate)" to close access to the tank cracked, said Tuesday Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman of the Security Agency Japanese nuclear.

More than three weeks after the tragedy, the results are still provisional police amounted to 12,321 confirmed dead and 15,347 missing.

EURO ZONE: Portugal he needs 75 billion euros?

The leader of the finance ministers of the euro area, Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, said on Thursday on FRANCE 24 that Portugal would need 75 billion euros, probably over several years. Earlier he had told a German radio that he did not expect a request for help from Lisbon. Some economists put the figure at 26 billion euros. What are the possible scenarios? What number remember?

Portugal can he get away without asking for financial assistance to the EU and the IMF? This is what Jean-Claude Juncker has suggested initially."I do not think Portugal will apply for financial assistance," he told German radio Deutschlandfunk Thursday.

"Portugal has certainly put in place measures to reassure markets, but there is no guarantee that this will suffice," says FRANCE 24's Christophe Blot, a specialist in the European economy at OFCE-Sciences Po Most economists even think that the country will turn to the EU until June when some of its maturing debt.

In fact, the situation is reminiscent of Ireland. Until the last moment, the European authorities had suggested that Dublin could go it alone."Juncker made a statement of intent, if he had discussed an appeal for EU support, this would have been increasing speculation in the markets," says Christophe Blot.

What are the debts that Portugal should pay? The first major event occurs in June. Lisbon would have to find more than 9 billion euros to pay off a series of loans a decade ago. For the full year, the amount of debt owed is about 26 billion euros.

Lisbon may then become simply asking for 26 billion euros."It is unthinkable for a loan, whose amount would be recalculated as needed, is implemented with a first tranche of 26 billion," said Christophe Blot.

Hence out of 75 billion euros? When the EU assesses the amount of aid, she not only takes into account debts. It also looks at the deficit level to estimate the financing requirements that a country will need to implement measures of fiscal consolidation.

Also - this is what happened to Greece, which received 100 billion euros over 3 years - given the envelope does not necessarily mean that the current year."If we compare Portugal to Greece and Ireland and we observe the country's economic problems, 75 billion euros seem a reasonable estimate," concluded Christophe Blot.

If such support is decided, Europe and the IMF have spent on everything from Greece, 255 billion.

BAHRAIN: The security forces violently dislodge protesters from the center of Manama

REUTERS - Opponents Bahraini reached Sunday to block access to the Financial Harbour business district of Manama, despite police intervention
of the order who used tear gas and water cannons.

The fighting has been unprecedented violence since February 17, when seven people were killed by the army.

Young protesters set up barricades across the avenue leading to the business district, having overwhelmed riot police who were trying to contain near the Place de la Perle, the epicenter of the dispute.

"The Interior Ministry is currently conducting operations to re-open the avenue of King Faisal and advised the demonstrators to return to the Place de la Perle for their own
security ", officials say in a statement.

Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet, is restless since last month by an unprecedented protest movement since the 1990s, inspired by the popular uprisings of Tunisia and Egypt.

The Youth Movement of 14-Feb, whose militants are encamped on the Place de la Perle, announced Saturday his intention to form a human chain to block access to the Financial Harbour.

FRANCE: Prison sought against Jean-Marie Le Pen for the sign "No to Islam '

A sentence of imprisonment was necessary Tuesday before the correctional court of Nanterre against Jean-Marie Le Pen for having, by campaign posters, incited hatred against the Muslim population and people of Algerian origin.

The prosecutor, Yvon Tallec, has left it to the fourteenth chamber, captured on direct quotation by the Movement against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples (MRAP), determine the quantum of sentence and the amount a fine.

The poster in question was a fully veiled woman beside a map of France covered the Algerian flag on which rose the minarets shaped missiles, with the title "No to Islam".

In the last regional elections in February 2010, the movement "Youth" National Front had released the posters in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur and on its website and then across France.

At the time, the case had sparked protests from Algeria.

In early December, the Paris court had exonerated Jean-Marie Le Pen, prosecuted for the same actions by the League against Racism and Antisemitism and SOS Racisme, without addressing the merits of the case, dismissing the two associations pure questions of form.

At the hearing in Nanterre, MRAP's lawyer, Khaled Lasbeur, produced a video of a speech on 7 March 2010 in which Jean-Marie Le Pen "claims authorship of the poster, thereby constituting the offense of incitement to hatred, "the prosecutor.

For his part, counsel for the National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen, Mr. Wallerand de Saint Just, said that the poster in question said: "No to Islam" and not Islam.

On the speech of Jean-Marie Le Pen, his lawyer conceded that his client justified the poster, but it does not prove that it "was the author, editor of internet sites who posted the sign, printer or Gluer these posters. "

"This is a baseless accusation that Mr. Le Pen.A politician has the right to say that Islamism is a danger for France! "Said Mr. Wallerand St. Just.

The decision was taken under advisement on April 5.