A motorist is missing in the Gard district, in the south of France, where torrential rains of exceptional intensity hit the Cévennes chain during the night, causing floods. Meteorologists estimate that 450 millimeters of water fell in a couple of hours. In the area the waterways, including the Gardon and Anduze rivers, have swollen and other smaller ones are flooded. Several closed roads and several hundred people were evacuated from the risk areas and taken to safe places.
Two people have died and a third is missing in the Central Greece due to heavy rains that flooded the region. According to Kathimerini online, the victims are a woman found dead in her home in the city of Farsala, in the Thessaly region, and a 63-year-old farmer dragged by water in the city of Karditsa. A woman who was traveling in her car is missing. Several buildings were damaged due to the overflow of rivers. The rains, which fell overnight, also disrupted rail services linking northern and southern Greece, rail service operator Trainose said.
In Brussels, the number of hit-and-run accidents has never been so high over the past ten years, more than 630. In total, one in six accidents with fatalities or injuries is accompanied by a hit-and-run. . This proportion is one in ten in Wallonia.
Who compensates for the damage caused to my damaged car? As the perpetrator of the hit-and-run is not known, it is impossible to identify the insurer of his car liability, who in principle must cover the costs. Your own car liability insurance will not be able to intervene either because it only compensates the victims of the accidents that you cause. If you have taken out an omnium, you can contact your insurer, who will compensate the material damage to your car. If you’ve been injured, you can turn to your driver’s insurance, if you have one.
Can the Belgian Common Guarantee Fund compensate me? If you have suffered bodily injury as a result of an accident involving the perpetrator of a fugitive offense, the Belgian Common Guarantee Fund will compensate you. However, it only covers bodily injuries.
Answering the question, what should be the reaction of the West to what is happening in Belarus, Tsepkalo said that it would be “more than enough” if the EU countries introduced personal sanctions against Lukashenka and his family members.
The opposition politician recalled the precedent created in the American courts, when persons involved in torture and beatings could not carry out financial transactions through international payment systems.
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“Any financial transactions of these people will be frozen. This will not only apply to foreign territory, but also to transactions with cards within the Republic of Belarus, ”explained Tsepkalo.
Mass protests in Belarus have been going on for over a month. In the early days, the authorities reported several thousand detainees and hundreds of victims. At least seven people were killed in clashes with security forces.
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia imposed personal sanctions against Lukashenka and 29 other high-ranking citizens of the republic, declaring them persona non grata. The EU refused impose restrictions on the Belarusian leader because of the position of Germany and France, which considered that this would destroy diplomatic channels with Minsk.
Eurozone countries in August agreed impose sanctions on officials in charge of elections and those responsible for violence against demonstrators in Belarus. However, in September these measures blocked Cyprus, which demanded the inclusion in the sanctions list of seven Turkish companies conducting drilling operations on the disputed shelf area.
The United States has added 16 Belarusian officials to the sanctions list and promisedthat will expand it in the near future.
Photo: Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation for the Kemerovo Region
Mine rescuers found the body of the second miner under the rubble in the Chertinskaya-Koksovaya mine, where rock collapsed on the morning of September 14. Reported by TASS and RIA Novosti with reference to sources in the emergency services.
According to the interlocutor TASS, initially it was reported about the death of a 37-year-old drifter. There was also no information about the fate of another 52-year-old victim. The body of the second miner was found as a result of search and rescue operations.
Source RIA Novosti notes that the body of the miner was found in the shaft of the mine. At the time of the collapse, 95 people were in the mine, 87 of them came to the surface, six more miners remained on the life support of the mine. Due to the incident, excavation and production were stopped at the mine.
According to the leadership of the Siberian Department of Rostekhnadzor, the preliminary cause of the collapse could be a violation of industrial safety requirements.
The Chertinskaya-Koksovaya coal mine is located in the town of Belovo, Kemerovo Region. It is managed by MMK-Ugol, a subsidiary of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (PJSC MMK). This enterprise is one of the world’s largest steel producers. The miners of this enterprise extract “Zh” grade coking coal.
When Marcelo “Coto” Medrano He got off on Thursday after 11pm in his white Renault Clío to buy some candy at the YPF service station in Eva Perón and Avenida San Martín, in Grenadier Baigorria, he did not know that his life was in injury time. As soon as he left the multishop, he saw that another vehicle and a van had parked behind his car. When he stepped on the sidewalk, they shouted “stop, policeman” and then he knew they were going to kill him. He ran for his life as he was shot with a 40 caliber pistol. He crossed the back of the YPF with the hitman at his back, a man who never wavered. In Pueyrredón and Eva Perón, 50 meters from where the persecution began, “Coto” fell on his face. And when he was on the ground, the murderer finished it off shooting him in the head.
The murder of “Coto” Medrano removed from the field an important player syndicated as a drug dealer in the northern part of the city, a heavyweight who did not shake his pear to defend his territory and a brave bar from Newell’s Old Boys who stood in the current dissidence of the paravalanchas. Medrano was murdered in front of his wife and their sixth child, a little boy less than a year old.
When it comes to analyzing who paid for his death, a range of possibilities opens up. As many as the fights that “Coto” had in his life. Some look at the unresolved territorial conflict in the neighborhoods west of Rondeau Boulevard, a dispute that grew after the murder of Emanuel “Ema Pimpi” Sandoval in October last year, and the arrests of Tania Rostro and the “Lichy” gang Rosemary. Others observe the conflict that was unleashed with a certain “Dany”, a drug dealer in the Industrial Cordon and with whom they overlapped their points of sale in the market. They also look at the bar brava lerposa, where “Coto” came to have a place of prevalence during 2016. And they do not rule out the dynamics of a new expanding player is seeking to conquer territories and drug markets. Thus, depending on who the death of “Coto” is analyzed with, candidates may be added to want to eliminate him.
“Coto” Medrano was 44 years old and had six children. The oldest of them is imprisoned in Piñero, then he had another son with a second partner, three girls with his third wife and recently he had been a father once again with his last concubine. That relationship and the birth of the baby gave her a break and took advantage of social distancing to leave the city and settle in Paraná. He had returned to the city a month ago after that self-exile to settle in a house in Liniers in 1800, in Granadero Baigorria, 15 blocks from where he was murdered.
Yesterday the investigators wondered if he had returned after having closed a truce with a direct rival and was betrayed. This is a possibility considering that his relatives indicated that he felt threatened by “Dany”, the transman from the Industrial Cordon, and preferred to preserve his family and his three-month-old son by seeking refuge in another province. Have you had any conflict recently with people close to Ariel “El viejo” Cantero or with the former leader of the Los Monos band? One of the many questions that were raised on the street and that the investigation led by the prosecutor Ademar Bianchini must now answer.
Medrano’s crime occurred in the vicinity of a busy service station and the entire sequence was captured by several video surveillance cameras. “Coto” arrived in his Renault Clío with his last partner and their young son. Around 11pm he parked on Eva Perón, next to the YPF. He went into the multishop, bought two packages of candy, and went out to meet his death. The hit man who killed him used a 40-caliber pistol and left 15 holes in his body between entry and exit wounds. The evidence that he was finished off on the floor, on the sidewalk of a hardware store, was marked by a bullet in the neck and another in the jaw. One of the projectiles even hit the windows of the YPF multishop. The wife of “Coto” never got out of the car and in the 24th section, after the rigorous procedures, the car was unusually released and the woman left the place.
“Coto” was a bore with a record that supported him. In August 2006, an 18-year-old neighbor in Paunero y Suárez, in the Nuevo Alberdi neighborhood, was arrested for shooting. In November 2008 agents of the former Directorate of Dangerous Drugs took him behind bars after kidnapping 13 kilos of compacted marijuana, which earned him a sentence of six years in prison in 2010.
After regaining his freedom, between 2016 and 2017 his nickname was heard and investigated in the context of the bloody succession saga in the leper paravalanchas that included the murders of Matías Hernán “Cuatrero” Franchetti (on June 7, 2016 when he was leaving through door 6 del Coloso) and Maximiliano “Cabezón” La Rocca (on June 27, 2016). Also at that time they killed the bar Jonathan Rosales, shot to death on June 22, 2016 after being hit by a car when he was riding a motorcycle with his partner and an 8-month-old baby. This saga should also include the attacks against the leaders Claudio “Tiki” Martínez and Cristian D’Amico.
On March 13, 2017 “Coto” was arrested by the Federal Police and in October 2018 he was sentenced to two years in effective prison in an abbreviated process for abuse, illegal possession and possession of a firearm, cover-up and threats for three attacks that occurred in July 2015; possession of a stolen pistol in March 2017 and for having beaten and threatened a man in October 2018. A few days after closing the abbreviated report, he was released with assisted freedom.
“Coto” knew how to be linked to names like Milton José Abelardo Ferreyra, the son of “La Tata” Medina, or Vladimir Natalio Medina (assassinated in March 2019 in Maipú at 1100).
Several people have been victims of a counterfeit money scam in recent days in the Charleroi region. Complaints have been filed but it remains to be seen whether it is the wrongdoing of the same person. In any case, the description of the individual made by the victims leads to a teenager.
Getting handed a fake ticket is always a very unpleasant experience. And for several days, several counterfeit 20 euro bills have been circulating in Charleroi.
The victim of the hitman attack registered this Thursday on Sixth Avenue, identified as Ana María Gallo Fina, 42, had been the victim of two attacks before, one of them exactly 4 years ago.
She was born in Buga and was the ex-wife of a man who was extradited to the United States for crimes related to drug trafficking. He recently arrived in the country after being released.
The hitman action occurred at 7:35 pm, at the height of Calle 15 Norte, in front of the San Judas Tadeo parish. On this occasion, she was hit by a firearm seven times and, although she was transferred to receive medical attention, she died due to the severity of her injuries.
His ex-partner is alias El Sobrino, who spent four years in prison, prosecuted by the Eastern District Court of New York as one of the coordinators in Colombia of the Calle Serna brothers, also known as’ Los’ Comba ‘, with the mafia Mexican and Venezuelan drug traffickers.
Authorities are investigating whether the man is related to the crime.
On August 28, 2016, the victim survived an attack when he was traveling with two other people in a vehicle on Carrera 66, in the south of Cali. She was injured and one of her companions, identified as Jhon Erman Galvis Rincón, died.
With that of Ana María Gallo Fina, there are already 54 murders of women so far in 2020, according to figures provided by the Secretary of Security and Justice of the Mayor’s Office of Cali.
Efremov said that he went to court for the truth, but met witnesses who change their testimony, and ridicule his expert
Photo: Ivan MAKEEV
During a court hearing in the case of a fatal traffic accident with the participation of Mikhail Efremov, the actor explained why he appeared without a lawyer. This was reported by the correspondent of “Komsomolskaya Pravda” Alyona Martynova from the courtroom.
– Dear court, I still remember almost nothing from that day. I know that I took a taxi.
Efremov said that he went to court for the truth, and met witnesses who change their testimony, and ridicule of his expert.
– I went to court for the truth, so that they explained to me where I really was. What did I see? Witnesses who hearsay said that I was driving, who changed their testimony, like Don Juan women. Medical examiner with toys – Barbie dolls and cars. She said that the car with the victim was turned clockwise, so Zakharov could not get worse. Although the video shows that the car was turned against. In addition, every 10 minutes from my phone there was a call to a certain number (read out the number), – said Efremov.
He also stated that the examination of the electronics in his car had not been carried out, and that Efremov himself could have been in the passenger seat, since an airbag had fired on him upon impact.
– The testimony of expert Fialko was ridiculed. Although not checking the electronics in an American car is at least strange. The passenger’s airbag went off, perhaps I was there, – noted Efremov.
The actor also said that he continues to search for a new lawyer.
– Over the weekend, my wife received a lot of calls and messages from lawyers, 2/3 of them were useless. Tomorrow we will decide who will represent my interests. Why not spend this day and a half on a biological examination?
The court sessions were postponed until August 31, so that Efremov could find a new lawyer.
KOMPAS.com – Shady Rizk (36), a telecommunications engineer was among the crowd Lebanon who are fed up with the prolonged economic crisis.
With 350 stitches on her body, she saw her survival as a miracle. At the time of the explosion, Rizk was in his office which is located close to the port.
He was determined not to spend it in Lebanon on the second chance of his life.
The explosion on August 4, 2020, was caused by hazardous materials left unsecured at the port for years, despite repeated warnings.
This fact further angered the Lebanese, who saw the political class as corrupt and unable to overcome the country’s crisis.
The explosion was the culmination of anger that made many citizens determined to leave Lebanon.
“I don’t feel safe here anymore. God gave me another life, a second chance, I don’t want to live here,” Rizk said, as quoted by Antara. AFP, 17 August 2020.
Less than two weeks after the explosion, Rizk plans to move to Canada and hopes to start a new life with the help of relatives there.
The story of the exodus from Lebanon is not new.
In a country plagued by famine, economic crisis, and civil war for 15 years, at least one relative in a family has gone to the Gulf, Europe, or the United States.
In recent months, thousands of Lebanese have been recorded buying one-way tickets abroad to find work and avoid mass layoffs and cut wages.
Canada is still a favorite destination for Lebanese to get on with the rest of their lives.
Felipe Dana A photo rests among broken glass on the floor of the Sursock Palace, heavily damaged after the explosion in the seaport of Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 7, 2020. The Sursock palace, built in 1860 in the heart of historical Beirut on top of a hill overlooking the now-obliterated port, is home to beautiful works of arts, Ottoman-era furniture, marble and paintings from Italy ? the result of more than three long-lasting generations of the Sursock family. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Meanwhile, Walid (40), who works as a doctor immediately called his ex-wife in Paris a few minutes after the explosion.
He asked his ex-wife to bring their two children.
“He tried to calm me down. I asked to take him. As a father, I have to put them in a situation where they will not be traumatized, or risk their lives,” said Walid.
AP PHOTO / Hussein Malla A helicopter splashes water at the scene of an explosion in the port of Beirut, Lebanon, on Aug. 5. Local residents gasped when the explosion occurred on Tuesday (4/8/2020).
Sharbel Hasbany, a 29-year-old makeup artist is also determined to leave Lebanon, after turning down her mother’s request for years.
However, he may need to seek financial help from friends and family as the economic crisis has stuck his savings in a banking system that blocks dollar withdrawals.
At the time of the explosion, Hasbany was in the Gemmayzeh district, one of the areas hardest hit by the explosion.
“We were there all the time, but did not know that we were sitting on the bomb,” he explained.
(ANSA) – PALERMO, AUGUST 17 – There are 14 new cases of Covid19 registered in the last 24 hours in Sicily and one victim in Catania. This was revealed by the bulletin released by the Ministry of Health. Of these 3 new positives are in Catania, 5 in Messina, 4 in Ragusa, 2 in Syracuse. There are 7 recovered, 5 in Catania and 2 in Ragusa. On the swab front, 1,626 were performed in the last 24 hours. (HANDLE).
