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Votre abonnement n’autorise pas la lecture de cet article Pour plus d’informations, merci de contacter notre service commercial. on 09 August 2018 dumped over 100 mm of rain in 1 hour One man has been reported missing in the floods France’s Ministry of Interior said the storm caused a sudden flood of tributaries of the Rhône and Ardèche rivers Gard and Drôme departments were all affected the Ministry said that a team of 400 Gendarmerie Some houses on the banks of the Cèze river in Goudargues were also evacuated The evacuated campers included 119 children from a campsite in Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas Four of the children were transported to a hospital in Bagnols sur Cèze and treated for hypothermia A man who was helping supervise the children’s summer camp is still missing Meteo France had warned of heavy rainfall in the region for 09 August 240 mm of rain had fallen in Saint-Martin-d’Ardèche with 105 mm of that total falling in just 1 hour Méjannes-le-Clap recorded 167 mm and Bessèges — Préfet du Gard (@Prefet30) August 9, 2018 — Alexandre PISSAS (@APissas) August 10, 2018 Dans les prochaines heures, des #orages violents se déplacent entre l'Auvergne et le Nord-Est, accompagnés de grêle, rafales de vent de 80 à 120km/h. 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in France for all but 12 of his 52 years never troubling to apply for citizenship) to hand over his Tunisian passport Then they thrust an official-looking document before him and told him to sign it Mahjoub Mahjoubi was sent back to Tunisia for insulting the French flag in a sermon who runs a building firm and gives popular Friday sermons at his local mosque claims they did not explain the small print contained in this form But after he had put his name to it they arrested him, giving him a few moments to collect his belongings before they took him away, ignoring the tearful entreaties of his wife, Almira, and their weeping children, the youngest of whom, a seven-year-old boy, is being treated for cancer after he had been flown to Paris and processed at a police station that he realised he had signed a governmental order bringing an abrupt end to his four decades of residency in France Issued by Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin — the equivalent of our Home Secretary — under powers bestowed by a tough new Immigration Act which came into force last month it authorised the imam’s immediate expulsion from his adopted country And at 8.30pm, on Thursday, February 22 — just eight hours after that first knock on the door — he was bundled under guard onto an Air France plane bound for Tunis scholarly-looking man done to warrant being exiled with guillotine-like swiftness and finality small word,’ he repeated time and again this week when I posed him that question at his temporary refuge — his in-laws’ house in Soliman ‘For speaking one word my entire world has been destroyed They have separated me from my wife and children thrown me out of the country I have lived in for 40 years The small word to which he referred is ‘Tricolore’ (or tricolour in English) the name Mahjoubi described this unassailable banner — an emblem of Republican democracy since the French Revolution — in terms that would shock and offend many proud Gauls Addressing 500 male congregants crammed into a nondescript breeze-block mosque in Bagnols-sur-Ceze (and 12,000 more Facebook followers who watch his weekly sermons delivered in Arabic and French) he insulted the flag as a devilish symbol that causes division among Muslims and then ‘we will no longer have these Tricolore flags that gangrene us the only value they have is a Satanic value Imam Mahjoubi now insists that his use of the word ‘Tricolore’ was an unfortunate ‘slip of the tongue’ made when his impassioned sermon was in full flow the African Cup of Nations football tournament was being played in Ivory Coast and — as a big soccer fan — he had intended to decry the various national flags being brandished confrontationally by rival supporters whose shared Muslim religion ought to have united them He certainly seemed contrite when we met, presenting himself as a paragon of tolerance who had spoken out against Islamist atrocities such as the Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan attacks in Paris in 2015 Yet it stretches the bounds of credulity to accept that this educated imam who had lived in France since he was 12 and must have been well aware of its deep cultural attachment to the flag his protestations of innocence have failed to convince prominent French Muslims who watched videos of the speech also said to have included passages likely to heighten tensions with the Jewish community the Rector of the Grand Mosque in Paris ‘strongly condemned’ the 40-minute address saying it ran ‘counter to the principles of peaceful co-existence and mutual respect’ and ‘the values advocated by Islam’ Mahjoubi said: ‘For speaking one word my entire world has been destroyed The imam’s outburst also shocked Bagnols-sur-Ceze’s mayor ‘This is a man I have known for ten years,’ he said We can only guess how Imam Mahjoubi’s words were interpreted by his audience that Friday With anger among already disaffected sections of the French Muslim community heightened by events in Gaza surely he would have been well advised to avoid saying anything remotely sensitive let alone cause young people to question their national allegiance and view Jews with enmity For these are dark and dangerous times in France It has become a country where a well-meaning teacher could be beheaded simply for showing a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad during a lesson in about freedom of expression in 2020 high-rise banlieues to which millions of French North Africans are consigned simmers perilously — not only over Palestine but societal inequality and flashpoints such as the fatal shooting last summer of a 17-year-old by police who had pulled over his car in the Paris suburbs where the avowedly centrist Macron administration is being forced ever further to the Right to retain its popularity among alarmed white voters who increasingly believe the only answer to France’s multicultural woes lies in the hard-line policies of the National Rally (RN) Founded as the National Front by Jean-Marie Le Pen whose extremism once rendered him unelectable the party was renamed by Le Pen’s daughter Marine in 2018 the RN has now become undeniably mainstream Obliged to flex its muscles in the face of this existential threat the government has launched a raft of measures designed to demonstrate its determination to combat radical Islamism and reinforce the secularist values of the Republic Students have been banned from wearing the abaya and state subsidies for Muslim schools and colleges cut back the education minister announced plans to close a prominent Muslim academy in Nice saying its funding was ‘contrary to the anti-separatism law’ introduced in 2021 Attempts have also been made to introduce immigration quotas and make it harder for incomers to bring their families to France Not so the law at the centre of this story — the new Immigration Act which contains some of the government’s most stringent new measures Among them is the right of the authorities to ‘visit’ (a euphemism for raid) the homes of residents deemed to have spoken or acted seditiously confiscate their national identity documents triumphally cited the imam’s fast-track removal as proof that it will protect the nation from extremist enemies within ‘No call to hatred will go unanswered,’ he declared making to sure to emphasise that the preacher’s allegedly inflammatory comments had been reported to the public prosecutor on his personal instructions Mahjoubi claims the minister was so eager to see him become the first ‘symbolic example’ of the crackdown on radicalism in mosques that he flew from Paris to Nimes to sign the expulsion order himself The lightning dismissal of this obscure imam has certainly caught the nation’s attention sparking handwringing debates on French political talk shows and in highbrow newspapers opponents such as migrant support group attorneys dismiss the new act as a blatant vote-catcher that wasn’t even necessary to deport Mahjoubi Powers to expel undesirables in cases of ‘absolute emergency’ were first introduced following World War II 44 people linked to radical Islam and deemed to be dangerous were summarily kicked out of France other immigration lawyers say the so-called Darmanin Act undoubtedly hastened Mahjoubi’s repatriation non-citizens could avoid or postpone their removal by destroying — or conveniently ‘losing’ — identity documents placing the onus on the French authorities to prove their nationality Legitimising home raids and passport seizures means this ruse will no longer work Given the huge obstacles the UK government must overcome before banishing even the most dangerous of resident non-citizens many would doubtless like to see the British authorities handed similarly tough powers One thinks of the 12 years and millions of pounds in legal fees expended to send the poisonous hate-preacher Abu Qatada whose videos were found in the 9/11 hijackers’ lairs Then there is the bureaucratic nightmare of trying to rid these shores of murderers robbers and rapists who inveigle their way into the UK and remain here with help of resourceful lawyers and generous legal aid our countries are not just separated by a Channel ‘The French authorities have a long-standing right to remove someone who is not a French citizen, provided it is to a country that is not unsafe,’ says former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption ‘The right to remain in France is a police matter and regarded as discretionary Britain has a completely different legal tradition.’ Life in Tunisia may be less comfortable than in provincial France the imam has been unceremoniously shunted back to the country of his birth Had he made those same remarks in a mosque in Birmingham it would probably have been a pointless waste of time for anyone to report him While no one I spoke to in Bagnols-sur-Ceze believes he is a hatemonger in the Qatada vein and his flock (including a Birkenhead-born Muslim with a French-Scouse accent) backed his claim to be a voice of moderation where protesters can — and do — openly abuse the Union Jack in any way they chose so long as the rectangular cloth belongs to them France fiercely protects its cherished Tricolore Designed by revolutionaries in 1790 as a contrast to the elaborate pennants flown by the nobility, its three simple stripes have since been copied by many other nations, including Italy, Germany, Ireland and India. As in many other countries, desecration of the national flag is an imprisonable offence (in Turkey, the maximum sentence is 18 years). As Mahjoubi ought to have known, even to disrespect it verbally at a public gathering can have serious consequences. Moreover, having already been taken to task for teaching local children religious lessons inside the mosque complex — in breach of French law governing the use of municipal buildings — he should have realised his videoed speeches were being monitored by the regional authorities, which is how his inflammatory words came to their attention. In fact, by some accounts they had previously warned him to temper his fervid speeches. True or not, on the Friday in question he went too far, not only appearing to damn the Tricolore but allegedly branding Jews as ‘the enemy’ and calling for the destruction of Western society. Putting his side of the story to me this week, during a lengthy interview in his Tunisian in-laws’ whitewashed villa, the imam rejected every such claim. When alluding to the national flag, Jewish people and the female sex, he maintained, he had been quoting from Islamic scriptures that envisage scenes on the final day of reckoning. Had his words been interpreted in that context, instead of being applied to contemporary France, no one could possibly have been offended or incited to hatred. Why, then, had he been singled out? Because, he said in a whispery voice that contrasted starkly with the stridently excitable tones one hears on his videos, the Interior Minister was vaunting his new law and needed ‘a scapegoat’. ‘It was only a word, just one misplaced word,’ he says again, though whole passages of his speech were cited as grounds for his expulsion. ‘I was the first to suffer but it (the new law) will do a lot of damage to Muslims. I think imams will have to be really, really careful about what they are saying from now on.’ Quite so, and many would suggest that is no bad thing. As I am leaving this woebegone man, he espouses his admiration for Britain. Though he hasn’t been to our country, he praises its tolerance, and a system that allows independent judges, rather than politicians, to rule on cases such as his. So much fairer, he muses, than in France. ‘They would never do this to an imam in England. A minister wouldn’t be allowed to throw me out. I’d have the chance to defend myself in court.’ With dollops of unwitting bathos, he fixes me with a meaningful gaze and adds: ‘So, I appeal to King Charles — and I hope he soon gets better — to help me!’ Perhaps the imam’s Anglophile outpouring was sincere. A cynic might suspect it to have been affected in the hope of winning the Daily Mail’s sympathy. Last night his legal team in Paris launched a last-ditch challenge to bring him home from Tunisia. Yet his gushing homage to Britain, with its more clement form of justice, is unlikely to have warmed French patriots to his dubious cause. The comments below have not been moderated. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group Reconquest’s strategy “Find place’s scale”: The stake is to reconquest the human scale in building and outdoor spaces by a better distribution of the buildings. The project draws one’s inspiration from campus model, which presents the advantage to be flexible and to allow a better identification of education’s poles. This intervention process also allows to students to find easily a way and fit into a social life while being supervised (easy reading of circulations, gratitude of spaces). © Paul KozlowskiThinking a sustainable development project requires taking account of qualitative materials, technical work on energy management, but also a logical layout of workplaces.
It is in the sense that we began this project, by joining in the time.The intervention that we propose allows to restore coherence and feature to the set by means of a new spatial scenography. © Paul KozlowskiThe last building designed with landscaping reflects this logic and strategy of reconquest the place It hosts an application restaurant as well as teaching rooms Particular attention has been given to the building envelope Working on a set thickness of the transitional area between the inside and the outside the skin of the building is available in a colorful alternating between aluminum panels painted and sun breezes The sun breezes offer vibrations that contrast with the concrete shell The facilities offer specific meeting places around vegetated entity You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email Flood water makes 140,000 homeless in Myanmar displace thousands in India’s Kerala state A group of 18 students from St Michael School accompanied by four others from St Aloysius' College recently returned from a week-long visit to the region of Bagnols-sur-Cèze The visit reciprocated an earlier visit to Malta by a group of French students from Collège Bernard de Ventadour and the student exchange formed part of an e-twinning project that St Michael School has with the college the soirée théâtrale at Uzès the Musée d'Art Sacré de Pont-Saint-Esprit apart from going for walks in woods and by rivers In Bagnols-sur-Cèze's salle de la Pyramide the Maltese students performed in both French and Maltese the play Matti written by Joe Friggieri and directed by Clive Piscopo and Elaine Pace accompanied the students during the visit For their week-long visit to Malta the French students attended the school's sports and cultural evenings and were taken on excursions around the Maltese Islands including tours of Ħaġar Qim and Mnajdra and visits to Mdina and Gozo arranged by project co-ordinator Tonio Caruana please register for free or log in to your account.