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[email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Notifications can be managed in browser preferences. Prison van containing Mohamed Amra ambushed by gunmen in bloody attack that left two guards dead France’s interior minister calls them ‘public enemies number one’ I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice Hundreds of police officers are hunting for France’s “public enemies number one” as escaped inmate ‘The Fly’ remains after a bloody attack on his prison van convoy left two guards dead Mohamed Amra, 30, was being transported from a court hearing in Rouen to a secure jail in Evreux when his prison van was ambushed by four gunmen shortly after 11am local time on Tuesday The assailants, armed with sub-machine guns, killed two prison officers, seriously injured three others and sprung Amra, the convict the guards were escorting, on the A154 motorway in Val-de-Reuil in Normandy before the five fled in two cars that were later found abandoned and burned Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin told broadcaster France 2 that 350 investigators had been mobilized to search for the perpetrators of Tuesday's attack and the convict they freed adding that the police were "making very good progress." "They are public enemy number one," Mr Darmanin said He previously described the search as “unprecedented” when speaking on RTL radio Expressing hope that Amra could be caught “in the coming days” he added: “The means employed are considerable Interpol on Wednesday said it issued an international arrest warrant, a ‘Red Notice’, for the fugitive, nicknamed ‘La Mouche’ or ‘The Fly’, at the request of French authorities. Vowing the gang will be caught, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said in parliament later that day, to applause from lawmakers: “We are tracking you, we will find you and we will punish you. They will pay for what they have done.” French justice minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said guards Fabrice Moello, a 52-year-old father of two who had worked in the prison service for nearly 30 years, and Arnaud Garcia, a 34-year-old whose wife is five months pregnant, both from Caen, were “slaughtered like dogs by men for whom life means nothing”. “I haven’t closed my eyes all night. I cried so much that I have no more tears left in my body,” the father of 34-year-old slain officer Arnaud Garcia, Dominique Garcia, told BFM-TV. The attack appeared to have been carefully prepared. The prison van and another prison escort vehicle had just gone through a toll booth on the freeway when the van was rammed head-on by a car. The Paris prosecutor’s office said the car had been stolen and had gone through the toll booth a few minutes ahead of the prison convoy and then waited there. Another car followed behind the convoy, seemingly boxing it in. Assailants sprang from the cars and opened fire, spraying the prison vehicles. The assailants and Amra then fled in two cars that were subsequently found burned, which investigators are examining. Surveillance cameras captured the chilling executions, which included automatic weapons firing more than 30 rounds. The violence of the attack shocked France. Prison workers held moments of silence on Wednesday outside prisons in Paris and elsewhere to commemorate the officers who were killed. Amra, who was born in the northern French city of Rouen, has 13 convictions for robbery and other crimes, Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau said, the first of which came when he was just 15. Police sources alleged that Amra was a mid-level player in France’s drug trade, with links to Marseille’s powerful “Blacks” gang. The Paris prosecutor’s office said he had been indicted by prosecutors in Marseille, the epicentre of France’s drug trade, for gangland murder. The Interpol red notice said he was suspected of the “acquisition, detention, transportation, offering or disposal of narcotics”. Amra was convicted of burglary by a court in Evreux on 10 May and was being held at the Val de Reuil prison. govt and politics","score":0.877102},{"label":"/society/crime/personal offense","score":0.85947},{"label":"/society/crime/personal offense/assault","score":0.80752},{"label":"/society/crime/personal offense/homicide","score":0.798552},{"label":"/society/crime/property crime/robbery","score":0.685442},{"label":"/law Just five days after smashing the world indoor record in the 1500m Gudaf Tsegay broke into the all-time top 10 in the 800m to highlight the Meeting de L'Eure at the Jesse Owens Arena in Val-de-Reuil a World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze meeting on Sunday (14) Tsegay followed the pacesetter through the first 400m in 58.28 reaching 600m in 1:28.12 before closing with another sub-30-second lap to cross the line in 1:57.52 to move up to ninth on the world indoor all-time list Her performance was also a national indoor record and second to Maria Mutola's 1:57.06 on the African all-time list "I'm so happy because before the competition I was focused on training - hard work morning and evening," said Tsegay who raced over the distance indoors for the first time Grant Holloway powered to his third victory in as many meetings this year dominating a strong field with a 7.41 performance It was the slowest clocking of the season for Holloway who came within a scant 0.02 of Colin Jackson's 7.30 world record in Lievin five days ago But underscoring the 23-year-old world outdoor champion's dominance at the moment is that nobody else has run faster this season On this occasion he finished a hefty 0.24 clear of runner-up Gabriel Constantino of Brazil who clocked 7.65 Aaron Mallett of the US was nearly as fast Hugues Fabrice Zango produced another strong performance in the triple jump Getnet Wale edged Ethiopian compatriot Lamecha Girma by 0.06 in 3:35.54 with 800m standout Elliot Giles of Great Britain third in 3:36.90 Tobi Amusan looked on her way to victory in the 60m hurdles until she hit the fifth hurdle and tumbled to the track opening the way for Elvira Herman to nab the victory in 8.04 Javianne Oliver of the US capped the meet with a 7.14 win in the 60m European champion Michal Haratyk moved up one place on the Polish indoor all-time list after winning the shot put in Lodz at the Orlen Cup – a World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze meeting – on Friday (12) The 28-year-old dominated the competition and all five of his valid throws would have been enough to win He opened with 21.09m and improved to 21.22m in the third round before launching his shout out to 21.83m in round four It’s an 18-centimetre improvement on his previous best set when winning the 2019 European indoor title and moves him above double Olympic champion Thomasz Majewski on the Polish indoor all-time list Norway’s Marcus Thomsen was third with 20.51m and Polish indoor record-holder Konrad Bukowiecki was third with 20.32m Two-time world champion Sam Kendricks won the pole vault with a season’s best of 5.86m but he was pushed all the way by Ernest John Obiena of the Philippines but Obiena then got over 5.80m with his first attempt to take the lead Kendricks responded with a first-time clearance at 5.86m then Obiena cleared it on his third attempt setting an outright national record and moving to third on the Asian indoor all-time list Obiena bowing out with three misses at 5.91m and Kendricks exiting with three failures at 6.02m There was excitement earlier in the competition as 16-year-old Belarusian Matvey Volkov set a world U18 best of 5.60m He went on to attempt 5.72m but retired after two misses World indoor silver medallists Jarret Eaton and Christina Clemons were victorious in the 60m hurdles finals Eaton sped to a season’s best of 7.51 to win the men’s event from US compatriot Aaron Mallett (7.60) while Clemons was a similarly convincing winner of the women’s contest in 7.91 Poland’s Karolina Koleczek set a PB of 8.01 in second place US sprint veteran Mike Rodgers won the men’s 60m in 6.52 – his fastest time in three years – while Lamont Marcell Jacobs crept a little closer to the Italian record by placing second in 6.53 European indoor champion Ewa Swoboda won the women’s 60m in a season’s best of 7.22 and Alessia Trost cleared a season’s best of 1.94m to take the high jump World indoor 60m hurdles champion Andrew Pozzi opened his 2021 campaign in Luxembourg emerging from the final with a 7.57 victory The Briton was beaten in his heat by training partner Paolo dal Molin of Italy but he turned the tables in the final with Dal Molin placing second in 7.60 Luxembourg’s Charles Grethen produced the highlight of the meeting as he revised the national 1500m record for a third time this year The 28-year-old held off a strong challenge from Kenya’s Cornelius Tuwei to win by 0.26 in 3:38.65 The men’s 800m was even closer as Kenya’s Collins Kipruto just held on to win in 1:46.83 from Spain’s Mariano Garcia (1:46.86) Kipruto’s compatriot Josephine Chelangat Kiplangat won a similarly close women’s 1500m clocking 4:09.40 to finish 0.06 ahead of teenager Edinah Jepitok Belgium’s Thomas Carmoy cleared an indoor PB of 2.28m to win the men’s high jump while Bob Bertemes provided another ‘home’ victory taking the men’s shot put with 20.65m German duo Christina Hering and Jennifer Montag were victorious on the track while Montag’s enjoyed a larger winning margin in the 60m moved down in distance to win the 600m in 1:16.61 at the IFAM Gent Meeting a World Athletics Indoor Tour Bronze meeting in the northwestern Belgian city on Saturday (13) Bosse's performance was the second fastest in the world this year Belgium's Isaac Kimeli won the 3000m in 7:44.17 over Swede Suldan Hassan Tina Sutej of Slovenia topped a meeting record 4.53m to take the pole vault before bowing out with three misses at 4.63m World Athletics Indoor Tour round-up: Duplant.. 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You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed SquashSite – all about Squash [7] Katie Malliff (Eng) 3-1 [3] Marta Dominguez (Esp)   11-9 Leandro Romiglio (Arg) 3-2  [3] Juan Camilo Vargas (Col)  11-5 England’s Katie Malliff and Argentina’s Leandro Romiglio have secured their places at the 2021-2022 PSA World Championships in Cairo after taking the titles at the Val de Reuil Normandie a Challenger 5 level event held at Tennis et Squash Val de Reuil in France The 18-year-old Englishwoman reached the final of the first qualifying event for the PSA World Championships losing out to South Africa’s Alexandra Fuller Although she may well have had a place in the sport’s premiere event anyway due to Fuller’s World Ranking she made sure of it with a convincing performance against Spain’s Marta Dominguez Fernandez in the final on Sunday afternoon It was a very fair and clean final with both players strong through the middle and able to track a lot of balls down to all corners of the court It was the Englishwoman that started the stronger of the two though before then holding off a fight back from Fernandez in the second to hold a two-game advantage in the contest who already has two titles to her name despite only coming on to the Tour in the summer of 2021 using her power to knock Malliff off the ’T’ and the Englishwoman seemed to be struggling come the end of the third she was able to build a five-point lead early on in the fourth going on to secure her first PSA Tour title guarantee her spot at the 2021-2022 PSA World Championships I was lucky to be qualifying because Alexandra Fuller was already in the World Championships I feel like I have earned it because I have won the tournament!” the Englishwoman said “I just tried to play my game “When I came off court after the third game because I have had some tough matches in the last few days “It’s amazing [to be in the World Championships] I just finished college and I have been training hard for the last six months I know it is not long but I feel like I have improved quite a lot physically so I will give it my all and try and get as many points as I can Try and make it as long as possible and to enjoy it!” Joining her will be Argentina’s Leandro Romiglio who won the men’s event after a marathon 104-minute final against good friend and training partner Juan Camilo Vargas as he had to hold off a come back to win an entertaining contest in the fifth and deciding game It looked like the World No.130 as he led by two games after 35 minutes of the clash and was able to find his lengths in the third game He kept that momentum into the fourth game as well setting up a decider to end the tournament with several brutal rallies in the army part going the way of the Colombian coming from three points behind to eventually win the fifth 11-9 the Argentinian also booked his spot in the World Championships for the first time in his career He started to play better at the front and I felt it in my legs and the glutes,” Romiglio explained he started very well and I told myself to push one last time but I am really happy with the performance “It means a lot for me I played in Manchester [in 2017] but I only played in qualification friends and the squash community will be very happy to have the Argentinian flag on show at the World Championships “The top seeds are going to have to be careful If they want to play 100 minutes or maybe they will chop me in 20 I will be ready and I don’t have any expectations The next qualifying event for the 2021-2022 PSA World Championships in Cairo will be the University of Birmingham Open Finalists Decided on high quality Semi-Finals day The final four are set at the Val de Reuil Normandie Argentinian Leandro Romiglio and Colombia’s Juan Camilo Vargas all winning their respective semi-final contests at the second qualifying event for the 2021-2022 PSA World Championships The Val de Reuil Normandie is the second of four qualifying tournaments with the winners receiving a spot at the sport’s premiere event and she has continued that great form this week in France She overcame Germany’s Saskia Beinhard coming from behind to win after dropping the first game but a quick run of points for the German put her ahead She went out to a lead in each of the next three games with her movement being too much for Beinhard as she continued to chase down every loose ball returning most with interest after 39 minutes of high-quality action on court at Tennis et Squash Val de Reuil moving through to a second consecutive final on Tour pleased with my performance in the last three games getting a good length and it really paid off!” Malliff said “I was a little bit gutted after the first game because I think I was 6-2 up and I was playing well but then I left a few loose balls in the middle and she started killing and I really focussed on getting a good length!” The 18-year-old will now face Spain’s Marta Dominguez Fernandez in Sunday’s final in Normandie after the Spaniard downed the last remaining French player in the tournament The pair were first on court on semi-finals day with a close to capacity crowd behind Court 1 cheering on the Frenchwoman who already has two wins to her name despite only making her debut on Tour last summer and went on to secure the third game to keep her hopes of reaching the final on home soil alive Fernandez was able to regroup after the end of the third game booking her spot in the final of the Challenger 5 level competition but she made an effort and she won the third game The men’s final will be contested between Argentina’s Leandro Romiglio and Colombia’s Juan Camilo Vargas after the pair both won their respective last four encounters on Saturday afternoon Romiglio took to the court against England’s Charlie Lee However and won the next two games quite comfortably to flip the match on its head winning in four to book his place in the final playing two matches in a day was really tough Luckily because in the morning I was two games down and I came back!” Romiglio said and I felt that he dropped a bit so I told myself to push and I won I wasn’t in the tournament three days before the start He will face who friend and training partner after Vargas got the better of Finland’s Henrik Mustonen in the last match of the day coming from two games down to win a quick-fire five game battle as the Colombian struggled to get a foothold in the match Vargas then won the next two games for the loss of just two points He continued that form into the deciding fifth game “It was a bit confusing tactically at the beginning He was just shooting and everything was going in He was reading me so well and I felt so outplayed,” Vargas admitted focus on my basics at the back and to give myself more time Once I was able to feel better with my shots and feel that the wasn’t comfortable The second day of the Val de Reuil Normandie the second of four qualifying events for the 2021-2022 PSA World Championships in Cairo saw a bumper day of action with both the second round and quarter finals being played and several seeds being knocked out in the process Frenchwoman Taba Taghavi was the only home hope left in the tournament come the quarter final stage having gotten the better of Scotland’s Katriona Allen in a back and fourth five-game battle in the second round of the competition She then came up against the No.2 seed for the women’s event and found herself behind in the contest after the World No.133 claimed the first game 11-9 who sits above her opponent in the World Rankings with the backing of the partisan home crowd behind her at Tennis et Squash Val de Reuil The Frenchwoman fought back to take both the second and third games of the contest before then finding herself in a battle in the fourth game Walser saved a single match ball to push the game into a tie-break but Taghavi was able to book her spot in the last four of the competition I lost to her two years ago 3-0… I am just in shock I don’t know what to say!” Taghavi said after her victory I looked at her and her face showed me that I could get on top so I tried to move her a lot around the court it helped me a lot to be here and the crowd were shouting for me get a good rest and to prepare for my match tomorrow I am looking forward to having more people here at the club supporting me!” Taghavi will now face Marta Dominguez Fernandez in the semi-finals of the Challenger 5 level competition after the Spaniard came from two games down to overcome Germany’s Katerina Tycova in a five-game battle that lasted more than 50 minutes After her run to the final in Odense earlier this month England’s Katie Malliff continued her great form by taking out top seed Fayrouz Aboelkheir to reach the semi-finals of the Val de Reuil Normandie with the Englishwoman coming from a game down to win 3-2 and saving five match balls in the process The 18-year-old was 10-7 down in the fourth game before saving a further two match balls to take it 15-13 She then won a tight fifth game to down the top seed and move through to the semis where she will face Germany’s Saskia Beinhard I was really proud because I was 10-7 down in that fourth game tried not to make any errors and tried to make the rallies long and hard and that’s what paid off in the end,” the Englishwoman said I think she was a little bit tired so my gameplan was to make the rallies as long as possible because it’s quite hard to get the ball deep on these courts While the top eight seeds all made it through to the quarter finals in the women’s draw it was a much different story in the men’s event with six of the second round ties being won by the unseeded player with only No.3 seed Juan Camilo Vargas and No.8 seed Emyr Evans making it into the last eight one of the finalists is guaranteed to be unseeded as England’s Charlie Lee and Argentinian No.1 Leandro Romiglio will go head-to-head in the semi-finals The Englishman started his day with a straight games victory over Czech Republic’s No.6 seed Jakub Solnicky before meeting Egypt’s Ibrahim Elkabbani in the last eight The Egyptian had knocked out the tournament’s top seed It was Elkabbani that started the stronger of the two the unseeded Englishman was able to fight back to move through to the last four of the competition To come through relatively unscathed is pretty satisfying,” Lee said “I’ve not had too much experience on the Tour so those types of battles are good for me Having to weather a storm and come back from 1-0 The French have a reputation for great atmospheres I remember some epic atmospheres in the past I have been on a good run recently and long may it continue!” Lee will now face Argentina’s Leandro Romiglio in the semi-finals after he got the better of No.4 seed Timothy Brownell in the second round before then overcoming the challenge of New Zealand’s Temwa Chileshe in straight games Colombia’s No.3 seed Juan Camilo Vargas and Finnish No.1 Henrik Mustonen will face off in the other semi-final The second qualifying tournament for the 2021-2022 PSA World Championships with New Zealand’s Temwa Chileshe setting up a second round contest with his elder sibling at Tennis et Squash Val de Reuil New Zealand’s Chileshe came up against one of several French wildcards in the Challenger 5 level tournament Chileshe would come through in three games He was then able to carry that momentum through both the second and third games of their contest It will be the fifth time that the siblings have faced off on the PSA World Tour with older brother Lwamba holding a 3-1 advantage over Temwa which came in the final of the Northland Open but once I got underway and got a bit more confident I started to play some good squash,” Chileshe said “I have played wildcards in the last two tournaments and it is hard when you don’t know them and you don’t know how they play but I think I am started to get used to it so at the start “There’s going to be no respect for Lui [Lwamba],” he added jokingly we are both pretty fair when we play each other and we know each other’s games so well It is a pretty nice match-up and we haven’t played in a while we haven’t even trained much because there are so many players at the Nick Matthew Academy Toufik Mekhalfi will carry the French hopes in the men’s event after he defeated Ukrainian No.1 Valeriy Fedoruk in a four-game battle He will now face No.8 seed Emyr Evans in the last 16 of the event The biggest story of the women’s event saw wildcard Ninon Lemarchand overcome the challenge of Germany’s Aylin Gunsav with the 18-year-old Frenchwoman winning in four games coming back from a game behind to win 3-1 against her more experienced opponent She was the first of four French players to make it through to the second round of the competition with Ana Munos causing a seeding upset in the opening set of matches as she got the better of Canada’s Hannah Blatt defeating the World No.150 in a four-game battle the last of which being won by Munos 16-14 Elise Romba was the final Frenchwoman to make her way into the second round of the Challenger 5 level tournament Home » France Launches Third Generation SSBN Program – SNLE 3G The event took place at the French General Directorate of Armaments (DGA) hydrodynamics test center located in Val-de-Reuil The 2019-2025 Military Plan Law calls for the replacement of the four Le Triomphant-class SSBNs with four third generation SSBNs (SNLE 3G) beginning in 2035 This is to ensure the continuity of the French at-sea deterrence capability with a minimum of one SSBN on patrol at sea at all times The SNLE 3G program is being conducted by the French armed forces and the DGA which is responsible for overall project management It is the subject of a framework agreement with the industry for the development logistics and production of the four SSBNs Naval Group is the prime contractor for the overall manufacture of the submarines in joint venture with TechnicAtome which is in charge of the nuclear boilers construction covers the development studies until the end of 2025 the realization of the first elements of the hull and the boiler room of the first SNLE 3G as well as the adaptation of the industrial manufacturing means of Naval Group for this program “I am therefore very pleased to announce today the launch of the 3rd generation nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine program whose remarkable performance will guarantee the operational credibility of the oceanic component of our deterrent over the long term They will replace the current SSBNs in their mission what we are launching in concrete terms are design studies and general industrialization procurement and manufacturing of the most critical parts as well as the consistent sizing of our industrial facilities.” Florence Parly said that “the third generation SSBN will be slightly longer and heavier compared to the Le Triomphant-class SSBN.,it will hear better and defend itself better it will be quieter: it will not be noisier than a shoal of shrimp It will be able to blend in perfectly with the ambient sounds of the sea which is a guarantee of operational superiority.” “The SNLE 3G program represents the work of many lives After the Le Redoutable of the years 1965 to 1980 it is a program that fully embodies the “long time” of our defense: the first third-generation SSBN will be delivered in 2035 the last sailors who will patrol on board the third generation SSBNs are not born yet.” More than 200 companies from the French defence industrial and technological base will work with Naval Group to provide design or construction services for equipment and systems this program will represent up to 100 million hours of work including 15 million hours of design and more than 80 million hours of construction At the Naval Group submarine shipyard in Cherbourg more than 300 employees work in design activities and construction represent more than 2,000 employees The teams in Cherbourg will build the platform (hull integrate the equipment and systems into the platform and carry out the commissioning and testing of the submarine’s facilities “Naval Group is very proud to put its skills talents and industrial resources at the service of France’s nuclear deterrence The whole company will be mobilized with its partners to carry out this exceptional project We are aware of our responsibility and we will do our utmost to provide France with the tool of its sovereignty.” the French defence procurement agency (DGA) has signed an MoU with Thales for the development of a complete sonar suite including a broad range of sonar arrays and associated processing systems Thales will provide new-generation flank arrays and bow-mounted sonars a towed linear array based on optical technology (ALRO) and all the other equipment making up the sonar suite (intercept arrays The size of the arrays and the frequency bands they use (Ultra Low Band) will deliver unparalleled performance in terms of 3D (azimuth The ALICIA sensor data processing system (Analyse with a user interface designed to handle the diversity and volume of available data will optimise operator workload and provide decision support The new sonar suite will be deployed incrementally with the first technological building blocks and system versions due to be installed on second-generation SSBNs (SNLE 2G) from 2025 and on the third-generation submarines (SNLE 3G) from 2035 “Thales teams have been especially focused on the SNLE 3G project to ensure that it benefits from our very best sonar innovations which have been taking shape over the last five years as part of nearly 50 years of consistent investments in sovereign R&D to guarantee the invulnerability of France’s SSBNs processing and Big Data technologies will deliver unparalleled performance for the third-generation SSBNs and will also be of benefit to the modernised Triomphant-class second-generation SSBNs We thank the Ministry for the Armed Forces for the trust they have place in us and we are happy to be working hand in hand with Naval Group on this major national project.” construction and commissioning of the nuclear propulsion reactor which has overall responsibility for the vessels the hull of SNLE 3G is entirely covered with anechoic tiles The current class of French SSBN have tiles too Anechoic tiles are rubber or synthetic polymer tiles which help absorb the sound waves of active sonar as well as the lower sounds emitted from the submarine itself According to submarine expert H I Sutton with the entire nose dedicated to a sonar dome implies a very large spherical sonar array This is similar to the Le Triomphant-class These must logically be angled outwards to go around it This may limit the speeds at which torpedoes can be launched Only having four torpedo tubes is in line with the SSBN role where the tubes are for self-defense and any use of torpedo or anti-ship missile would mean the patrol is compromised and the deterrence mission has failed the French Navy (Marine Nationale)’s SNLE 3G program officer explained that the future SSBNs will be fitted with the latest technologies and will be futures proof in order to cope with the threats from 2035 and beyond especially in the field of sonar detection Delivery of first-in-class SSBN to French Navy: 2035 Out of service year (for the class): 2090 Naval News brings you news coverage of the latest naval defense shows & events We are also reporting on naval technology from all over the world Discover how Paris 2024 became the most media-covered Olympic Games in history See how the Olympic Games’ communications team supported by Wiztrust’s tailored PR platform overcame complex challenges-from synchronizing teams and managing thousands of journalists to ensuring top-level security Learn how innovative digital tools and expert support 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Wiztrust in our case study French colocation firm Nation Data Center has begun development work on two data centers The Altarea Group subsidiary this month announces plans for new facilities in Brittany and Normandy the company has begun work on a new site outside Rennes Located on a 4,000 sqm (43,055 sq ft) plot of land in Noyal-sur-Vilaine the 3,000 sqm (32,300 sq ft) data center will have an IT capacity of 3MW “We aim to respond to the strong growth in the digital needs of businesses in Brittany while reconciling the challenges of the energy transition,” said Okan Turedi "We will thus contribute to the decarbonization of IT in this region We strongly wish to set up a local network in line with French players who are increasingly looking for national partners without compromising on the sovereignty and quality of their infrastructures.” the company has begun work to refurbish an acquired facility outside Rouen Nation DC acquired a 7,000 sqm (75,350 sq ft) data center originally built for a large French bank in 2022 the facility will be refurbished – including cleaning and reuse of materials – to meet the company’s standards and relaunched in ‘early 2025’ The facility will offer 2.8MW and operate with a PUE of 1.2 “We are proud to announce this operation which is part of a development strategy throughout the country of around fifteen eco-responsible data centers by 2030 mainly anchored around major French metropolises,” added Ludovic Castillo Founded in 2020 and previously owned by French investment firm Bakjy Group Nation DC was acquired by French investment firm Aktarea in 2022 Nation DC first announced plans for the Brittany facility in March 2022 and the Normandy site in August 2022 Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia Holly Patrick | Wednesday 15 May 2024 09:53 BST Masked gunmen ambushed a French prison van, killing two guards, to free a suspected drug dealer known as “The Fly” on Tuesday CCTV footage showed an SUV ramming into the prison van at a toll booth before men attacked it with automatic weapons and took an inmate out of the vehicle before setting it on fire and fleeing the scene A major manhunt was triggered by the incident in Val-de-Reuil in the Eure region The inmate is Mohamed Amra, a 30-year-old suspected drug dealer from northern France, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office and police sources. He was convicted of burglary on 10 May and was being held at the Val-de-Reuil prison. Kim Kardashian wears Marilyn Monroe’s dress As Baltimore begins the process of planning to replace the Francis Scott Key Bridge, labor experts have pointed to how Latino workers will be the one who rebuild it. 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Prince Louis caught brushing down Price Williams jacket during VE Day celebrations The 1998 diesel has been converted into a stylish two-bed Beckham luciendo su peinado mohicano antes de un amistoso internacional contra México en 2001 Halimah Nakaayi ran a world-leading national indoor record to win the women’s 800m while Jarret Eaton triumphed in a competitive men’s 60m hurdles final at the Meeting de l’Eure – a World Athletics Indoor Tour Silver event – in Val-de-Reuil After improving the Ugandan indoor record to 2:01.42 when winning in Lievin a week ago Nakaayi dipped under two minutes for the first time running 1:59.55 for a dominant victory in what was the sixth indoor race of her career The 2019 world champion was ahead at the bell and only increased her advantage over the final lap striding down the back straight to eventually finish two seconds clear ahead of Ethiopia’s Tigist Girma and her Ugandan compatriot Winnie Nanyondo It was a third win in as many races for Nakaayi this season with the 27-year-old also having triumphed at the World Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Karlsruhe last month there was a great battle between USA’s Eaton and home favourite Pascal Martinot-Lagarde in the men’s 60m hurdles final France’s multiple world medallist Martinot-Lagarde had won his heat in 7.60 as Eaton placed second in his in 7.61 but the tables were turned in the final as world indoor silver medallist Eaton won by 0.01 dipping to cross the finish line in 7.50 – a season’s best and the joint third-quickest time in the world so far this season who had won the second heat ahead of Eaton The women’s 60m hurdles final was won by Spain’s Teresa Errandonea in 8.13 ahead of Poland’s Klaudia Wojtunik in 8.19 Ethiopia’s Ayal Dagnachew made a successful indoor debut winning the women’s 3000m in 8:41.32 to hold off Nadia Battocletti who broke the almost 15-year-old Italian indoor record by running 8:41.72 to finish second who won the European U23 cross country title in December kicked to move alongside Ethiopia’s Workua Getachew at the bell and was striding ahead but Dagnachew – winner of the world U20 800m title in Nairobi last year – chased her down and moved past to claim victory The top five went sub-8:45 and the top eight all dipped under 8:50 Britain’s Elliot Giles was another to claim a third win from three competitions so far in 2022 the world indoor 800m fourth-place finisher running a tactical race to easily take the men’s 1500m in 3:40.24 half a second ahead of Algeria’s Salim Keddar and France’s Jimmy Gressier Kenya’s Collins Kipruto broke the meeting record to win the men’s 800m clocking 1:47.05 to hold off Morocco’s Mostafa Smaili and Kenya’s 17-year-old world U20 bronze medallist Noah Kibet with Smaili getting the nod for the runner-up spot On the day that he announced his retirement from competitive athletics Poland’s world indoor 800m champion Adam Kszczot brought his career near to a close by racing the 1000m but he didn’t have quite enough to move past Morocco’s Abdelati El Guesse who held on to win in 2:18.79 ahead of Kszczot’s 2:19.14 Morocco’s Oussama Nabil was third in 2:19.40 Slovenia’s Tina Sutej matched the height she achieved to win her European indoor silver medal in Torun last year soaring over 4.70m to win the pole vault competition from Iryna Zhuk of Belarus with the same height Cuba’s 2015 world champion Yarisley Silva was third with a 4.65m clearance The women’s 60m final saw USA’s Kayla White blaze to a PB-equalling 7.13 to win ahead of Trinidad and Tobago’s Michelle-Lee Ahye with 7.19 USA’s Michael Rodgers won the men’s 60m final in a photo finish ahead of Kenya’s Ferdinand Omurwa High jump victory was claimed by Switzerland’s Loic Gasch while Enzo Hodebar’s indoor PB leap of 16.68m secured him a triple jump win on home soil Full results Swoboda speeds to world-leading 7.00 over 60m.. Duplantis vaults world-leading 6.04m in Uppsa.. Plans to consolidate 17 data centers to just three by 2030 French telco Orange has opened two data centers in its home market The company this month announced the commissioning of two new data centers in Amilly in the Centre-Val de Loire region and in Val-de-Reuil in Normandy in France Both buildings span 16,000 sqm (172,200 sq ft) with 5,000 sqm (53,800 sq ft) of computer rooms The telco said the two new facilities will use an outside-air free-cooling system for around 10 months of the year and operate with a PUE of around 1.3 Orange began work on the Normandy 2 facility in 2019 and was due to be completed in 2020; the first facility on the 18-hectare campus was commissioned in 2012 Development on Amilly began around the same time Orange has entered into Power Purchase Agreements with Boralex, Engie, and TotalEnergies to cover the energy consumption of the three data centers with energy from renewable sources The three deals total 170MW from wind and solar sources across the country deputy CEO of Orange Group and CEO of Orange France said: “These new data centers are truly strategic assets for the Group They support the growth of our internal usage and that of our customers in a framework of trust while significantly reducing energy and environmental footprint.” Dulac said the new facilities mark a “significant milestone” around the company's consolidation of its data center fleet “By 2030 our 17 historical data centers will have closed and all our hosting activities will be concentrated on these three new ones,” he said Data Centre Dynamics Ltd (DCD), 32-38 Saffron Hill, London, EC1N 8FH Email. [email protected]DCD is a subsidiary of InfraXmedia More than 400 police officers are hunting Mohammed Amra and the assailants who freed him close to the town of Val-de-Reuil in Normandy News | World A massive manhunt is under way for a prisoner nicknamed “The Fly” freed in an ambush by gunmen who shot dead two prison officers escorting him in northern France French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said “unprecedented” efforts were deployed with hundreds of officers mobilised in the search for the escaped convict Mohamed Amra and the assailants who ambushed the convoy transporting him on Tuesday morning Amra, 30, is on the run with four other men following the bloodbath close to the town of Val-de-Reuil in Normandy Prison workers held moments of silence Wednesday outside prisons in Paris and elsewhere to commemorate the officers who were killed The officers were named in reports on Wednesday as dad-of-two Fabrice Moello a captain who had worked for nearly 30 years in the prison service expressed hope that Amra could be caught “in the coming days” Without giving full details about the extent of the manhunt he said 450 officers had been deployed in the region of the attack to search for the assailants and clues about their whereabouts “The means employed are considerable,” he said The convoy was transporting Amra back to jail in the Normandy town of Evreux after a court hearing in Rouen when it was ambushed on the A154 motorway with at least 13 convictions for robbery and other crimes He is well known to the police as the boss of a narcotics network and for allegedly ordering a mafia-style execution two years ago Mr Moello was said to be a captain in the prison service King clocks up more than 100 days of engagements in scaled-back second year King’s health ‘heading in positive trajectory’ ahead of accession anniversary Tonali stars as Italy produce stunning comeback against France Make education a priority with help from these acclaimed resources said the injured guards were all in a “life threatening” condition but not considered radicalised or a terrorist suspect Amra’s nickname is linked to his multiple convictions and involvement in many types of crime from alleged murder to aggravated burglary A source familiar with Amra’s criminal history said he was “nicknamed the fly and is considered to be extremely dangerous and armed with some very sophisticated weapons.” It was at around 11am on Tuesday when automatic gunfire was heard at the Incarville toll booth Stark CCTV images showed men wearing black sports clothes carrying out the killings using automatic machine pistols Footage shared online from a bus showed armed attackers during the ambush They first used a car to halt a prison van taking Amara from prison to a court appearance in nearby Rouen One of the unidentified attackers was lightly injured before the gang sped off in an an Audi A5 and a BMW 5 series The Audi was later found abandoned and burned out 200 gendarmes had joined members of the elite GIGN – the Gendarme National Intervention Group – in a nationwide search for Amra and his accomplices Amra was last week being sentenced to 18 months for a series of aggravated thefts He used a gun to rob supermarkets and other businesses in the Évreux suburbs in the summer of 2019 Amra was also being held in connection with the execution on a man in Marseille on June 17 A polices source told RTL: “He is suspected of having ordered an assassination in Marseille on June 17 “The charred corpse of a man was found in a burned vehicle The victim had obviously been executed beforehand with a bullet to the head.” Amra was indicted for kidnapping and sequestration leading to death by Marseille police said a spokesman for the Paris prosecutor’s office prosecutors working for the National Jurisdiction for the Fight against Organised Crime (JUNALCO) have opened an enquiry into “murder and attempted murder by an organised gang” – offences punishable with a life sentence They are also investigating “escape in an organised gang” “acquisition and possession of weapons of war” and “criminal association with a view to the commission of a crime” Amra was being held at the Baumettes prison in Marseille before being transferred to La Santé in Paris president of the Eure Departmental Council said: “I was frozen with horror when I learned of the real carnage that took place at the Incarville tollbooth “I sincerely hope that the gang of killers who carried out this bloody attack will be quickly arrested “All my thoughts go to the families of the service agents penitentiary who escorted the detainees and who were killed or seriously injured during this attack which gave them no chance “I also think of all the prison administration guards who guard prisoners at the risk of their lives.” French President Emmanuel Macron also spoke out following the murders which cost the lives of prison administration agents Everything is being done to find the perpetrators of this 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star-studded Met Gala blue carpet If you're going to make a statement at the start of the season who finished fifth in her debut world pole vault final and claimed silver at the Commonwealth Games is already visualising the prospect of Paris 2024 The British 23-year-old currently holds the world pole vault lead with the 4.83m she cleared at Meeting de l’Eure in Val-de-Reuil this past Sunday (January 28) Not many athletes can boast they've improved their personal best by eight centimetres in just a single vault Her previous best mark of 4.75m was in front of 30,000 fans in the world final in Budapest Caudery herself states she thrives under pressure and to clear such a height in January raises eyebrows because you wonder Here's AW's exclusive Q&A with Caudery on everything from mindset and momentum to medals and memories What are your first feelings of vaulting 4.83m There’s such a fine line between the 4.70m - 4.80m mark so to break through that barrier and overcome that is amazing In the last year I’ve increased my personal best by 23cm almost unheard of and it’s been a big breakthrough for me I knew that the world lead was 4.83m so I thought ‘let’s give it a go’ and on the second attempt I came down with the bar still standing I knew that I needed the next pole up to get over the next height (4.83m) I hit all my marks and you can normally tell from the take off how it will go As soon as I hit that take off I thought I could do it Having a good crowd made such a difference and I respond really well to the noise in the arena you must be thinking that anything is possible in this form I never want to take anything for granted as I’ve had my fair share of injuries I’m just trying to take things day by day but I can’t help but get excited because I realise I’m in good shape the feeling I’ve got right now throughout the year then I’ll be in a great position going into the Olympics what’s the impact of going up a pole in pole vault In pole vault there are different lengths and stiffness levels for the poles you need something stiffer to catapult you into the air a little bit more That takes a bit more speed and confidence – the latter is definitely something I’ve built more of training in South Africa what’s the training been like for you in South Africa South Africa was amazing and I personally love warm weather training I think it sets you up so nicely for the year and gets you out of your normal environment Your sole focus is training and there are no distractions With the warmth and the sun you can push yourself an extra 1% and that’s greater than you’d do in the UK this time of the year I was a bit conservative in South Africa and didn’t want to push myself too much My body feels great and my speed was also good I didn’t realise how great that was until my opening competition Have you worked on anything specifically that you worked on at the back end of 2023 that you’ve brought into 2024 this has been my first winter’s training for so long Two years ago I had the accident with my finger and last year I had two surgeries which I had to come through I’ve not only been able to carry over the confidence from the World Championships but also focus on things like speed work In the world final I felt slightly out of place in Budapest but I think I’m slowly starting to say to myself that ‘this is where I belong’ Could you explain more about those previous injuries The finger injury happened on Christmas Eve [2021] and that was such a disappointing one as I was in really good shape then I almost chopped my finger off and I was out for three months It happened when I caught my finger between the rack and bar in the gym Having three surgeries on that was just a bit of nightmare but I stayed positive and worked on my weaknesses I had a good Commonwealth Games and European Championships in 2022 but had some Achilles pain in the season so had surgery in September and that was a six month rehab Then I got back to training but had the same pain Then I had a miraculous turnaround by finishing fifth at the Worlds I was still pole vaulting in my head and imagining competing when I was going through rehab I was visualising non-stop and that’s all I could see When I returned to vaulting some of the things that I needed to work on almost disappeared because I’d been visualising the perfect jump so much A post shared by AW (@athletics.weekly) Was there almost an element of imposter syndrome in Budapest then I’ve been saying this to a few people recently and I never really understood the term [imposter syndrome] but I’m just in shock that this is me and all of this is happening I know that I’m putting in the hard work but just to be rewarded for it is so weird I’ve always seen other people do well or get contracts and I’ve never quite been there do you think it’s a case of ‘how high can I go?’ I don’t want to get ahead of myself just now and am focused on consolidating that 4.83m with some jumps between 4.70m and that mark It was a clean jump and there is definitely more in the tank If I can just fine tune a couple of things like gripping a little bit higher on the poles or going up to the next pole then who knows Have you looked at other pole vaulters as well like Mondo Duplantis or Katie Moon Can you take aspects of what they do technically into your training Pole vault is such a unique discipline and there’s such a large continuum and everyone does something different Mondo’s technique is almost unteachable and he’s a freak of nature He does something that works for him but if you were to compare his jump to the ‘perfect technical model’ I’m maybe not as quick as them so my on-pole technique will probably have to be better to get to the same height right now I do definitely take bits from other vaulters and put them into mine just to make it a well-rounded combination How do you view the attention pole vaulting is getting now posts about the pole vault are always popular Then at championships there are so many people who want to get specific tickets for the pole vault The women’s field right now is incredible and at the Worlds I think there was the highest qualification height to get into the final Mondo’s also done wonders for the men’s event and I love the buzz that the pole vault brings to people at the moment starting out in the pole vault for the first time to where you are now; can you believe the journey that you’ve had I grew up in Cornwall until I was 18 and moved away for university It’s such a lovely community but it was quite small and the nearest indoor facilities were around three hours away We battled through it and that helped me become who I am now I would’ve been someone that I would’ve looked up to and that’s nice to think Younger me would’ve been so proud of myself It’s just been an unbelievable journey so far and I’m really excited for the future because there’s so much more to come What got you into pole vault in the first place then Then I transitioned into athletics and started out in the multi-events so did a lot of hurdles and high jump I filtered down into the pole vault and it was the event that I was the best at So from 15 I solely focused on the pole vault and it went from there I would’ve loved to say I could’ve been a heptathlete but I can’t throw Then seeing how I’ve got a lot friends who are heptathletes and seeing how they train is another thing The Olympics is the one goal that every athlete has in their lives Just to be at the Olympics later this year is mind-blowing but then to realise the shape I’m in gets me so excited When I was a kid I remember watching the Games in Beijing 2008 when I was just eight years old I think European countries have such notorious crowds and they carry the athletes when we compete I love being in front of such a big audience so hopefully that carries me through To be honest there’s already a little tick on the height as a 4.80m+ clearance has always been on the radar The Olympics is a bit of a battle but let’s get to the final and see what happens I do like pressure situations and it brings out the best in me You’ve got a big following on Instagram (166,000) How important is social media in inspiring the next generation but also being aware of the dangers social media is a huge part of the modern day You can shy away or embrace it and I prefer the latter I enjoy content creation and things like that It’s nice to give an insight into training and if that can inspire just one other person then that’s amazing If it can inspire every single person that follows me then even better There is the darker side to social media which I kind of turn a blind eye to it all If there is a negative comment then I put it aside » Subscribe to AW here Warholm aims to make history with second Olympic gold Kelvin Kiptum training smart in quest for sub-two-hour marathon is focusing on a continuing technology upgrade and expansion New production building for human vaccines June 2008 (commission and validation by late 2008) The company has recently completed a new manufacturing facility in Val de Reuil in North West France as a response to soaring world demand Sanofi Pasteur provided more than a 1.6 billion doses of vaccine in 2007 making it possible to immunise more than 500 million people across the world The Val de Reuil site was first opened in 1973 by the Institut Pasteur Production Sanofi (now Sanofi-Aventis) invested in Institut Pasteur Production to support its industrial development and in 1985 Institut Merieux (Sanofi Pasteur) acquired the Institut Pasteur Production as one of their vaccine manufacturing networks The new plant is part of a worldwide $1bn investment into the vaccines business between 2005 and 2008 of which $600m has been invested in French manufacturing sites The latest investment in vaccine production in France in 2008 is the groundbreaking of a new production building for paediatric vaccines located in Marcy L’Etoile In 2007 the existing facility at Val de Reuil produced 130 million doses of seasonal influenza vaccine but the new facilities will be able to more than double this commented on opening the new facility: “Sanofi Pasteur’s commitment to global health is exemplified by significant investments in vaccine production infrastructures… These efforts are aimed at meeting a world demand for vaccines expected to double by 2016… The new facility will provide a high-end production work environment for dedicated people who produce vaccines for the world.” has required an investment of €100m and has been configured so that it can produce over 20 vaccines against different diseases if required in the event of a global human influenza pandemic the plant will be able to rapidly produce large quantities of vaccines for the protection of public health The highly automated facility is designed to be ready to switch into production once a pandemic influenza strain is identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) The production building investment was also accompanied by a new automated aseptic formulation and filling facility (requiring a further $100m investment) where the vaccines are produced in a form ready to be shipped under cold chain conditions The modular production plant has been highly automated and uses the latest technology to produce vaccines of the highest quality Pisano commented: “Sanofi Pasteur Val de Reuil site is a hub for global health with over two million doses of vaccines shipped worldwide each day The new facility will further enable Sanofi Pasteur to fulfil its commitment of providing highest quality vaccines to protect people from infectious diseases wherever they live.” The construction of the 7,800m² production building began in May 2006 and is projected to be fully operational by the end of 2008 after it is validated and certified by health authorities such as the EMEA and the US FDA The facility is scaled to fill 200 million syringes and vials per year increasing by two-fold the current capacity at the site Sanofi Pasteur already has commitments to a number of EU governments to provide doses of vaccine against avian flu in the event of a pandemic; a 1.4 million dose stockpile of H5N1 vaccine was supplied to the French government in 2005 and can provide enough vaccine for 28 million people in France There are also agreements with the Italian Australian and US governments and Sanofi Pasteur is the only global vaccine manufacturer taking part in the FLUPAN collaboration scheme FLUPAN is intended to improve the level of pandemic preparedness in the EU FLUPAN collaboration partners include the National Institute for Biological Standards & Control (NIBSC) (UK) Sanofi Pasteur is currently producing a vaccine to combat another avian flu strain with pandemic potential (H7N1) that will be used in a FLUPAN clinical study Give your business an edge with our leading industry insights View all newsletters from across the GlobalData Media network Ethiopian teenager Samuel Tefera provided the unexpected highlight of the Meeting Elite en Salle de Leure in Val de Reuil on Saturday (27) when he broke the world U20 indoor 1500m record* with a world-leading 3:36.05. Tefera, who represented Ethiopia at the IAAF World Championships London 2017 after winning their national trial race, was competing in the first indoor race of his burgeoning career. But his youth and relative inexperience proved no barrier as he comfortably beat 2012 world indoor champion and 2015 world bronze medallist Abdalaati Iguider. Tefera crossed the line in 3:36.05 to take 0.23 off the previous world U20 indoor record set by Belal Mansoor Ali in 2007. Iguider, the 2012 Olympic bronze medallist, finished second in 3:36.87 with fellow Moroccan Brahim Kaazouzi taking third in a PB of 3:37.15. The other surprising record-breaking performance of the meeting came from Burkina Faso’s Fabrice Zango Hugues in the triple jump. The 24-year-old opened his series with a national indoor record of 16.65m, improving it to 16.71m in round three, 16.86m in round four and 16.96m in round five before ending his series with an African indoor record of 17.23m. World champion Maria Lasitskene upped her own world-leading mark to 2.04m when winning the high jump in Volgograd before going on to take some close attempts at what would have been an outright personal best of 2.07m. Her leap is the highest indoor jump since 2012. World silver medallist Danil Lysenko won the high jump meeting in Hustopece with a world-leading PB of 2.37m. Poland’s Sylwester Bednarek placed second with 2.31m with China’s Wang Yu taking third place with 2.28m. World 400m hurdles champion Karsten Warholm opened his 2018 campaign by breaking his own Norwegian indoor 400m record. Competing at the Dimna Games in Ulsteinvik on Saturday, the 21-year-old stopped the clock at 45.88 to take 0.08 off the mark he set last year. Double European indoor champion Laura Muir sped to a world-leading 1:59.69 to win the 800m at the Scottish Championships on Sunday. She is now the first woman in history to run faster than 2:00 for 800m indoors, 8:30 for 3000m indoors and 15:00 for 5000m indoors. One week after setting a world indoor 600m best, Kenya’s Michael Saruni clocked a world-leading 1:45.19 to win over 800m at the Texas Tech Invitational in Lubbock on Saturday. Saruni, a student at the University of Texas at El Paso, now moves to 20th on the world indoor all-time list. There was a high-quality high jump competition at the same meeting with three men leaping 2.30m. Jeron Robinson won on countback over Trey Culver and Vernon Turner. Two weeks after clocking 7.31 over 60m, four-time world champion Brittney Reese contested her first long jump competition of 2018. She opened with two fouls but then found her groove with a 6.55m leap in round three. As is her trademark, she produced her best in the last round with 6.57m to take victory by one centimetre over Canada's Christabel Nettey. Competing on an oversized track at the UW Invitational in Seattle, world indoor 1500m champion Sifan Hassan won convincingly in 8:34.45, the fastest time in the world this year under any conditions. New York City Marathon champion Shalane Flanagan was second in 8:43.28. World indoor 3000m champion Yomif Kejelcha, now based in the USA, won the 5000m in 13:34.67. The Ethiopian won by 0.11 from training partner Galen Rupp, the Olympic marathon bronze medallist. Murielle Ahoure regained the world-leading mark in the 60m at the Houston Invitational on Saturday (27). The 2013 world 100m and 200m silver medallist clocked 7.07 to win comfortably from Brazil’s world 100m finalist Rosangela Santos (7.25). World U20 400m silver medallist Lynna Irby, who turned 19 just last month, sped to a pair of world-leading times at the Razorback Invitational in Fayetteville. She first won the 200m in an outright personal best of 22.96 and then, in her first ever indoor 400m race, won the longer sprint in 51.48, just 0.09 shy of her outdoor PB. In a close race, World Championships representative Kendall Ellis was second in 51.53 and Sharrika Barnett registered an outright PB of 51.64 in third. In the men's events, 20-year-old Obie Igbokwe was the fastest over 400m, winning his race in 45.72. European U20 400m champion Benjamin Lobo Vedel won one of the other races in a Danish record of 46.14. A long-standing North American indoor record fell at the Dr Sander Invitational in New York on Friday as Kyra Jefferson, Deajah Stevens, Asha Ruth and Daina Harper teamed up in the rarely run 4x200m. The quartet stopped the clock at 1:32.67 to take half a second off the previous mark set back in 1994. Their time was also a quarter of a second shy of the world record. Commonwealth bronze medallist Kate van Buskirk got her season off to a strong start by winning the mile in 4:26.92. Her time took 0.10 off the Canadian indoor record set five years ago by Sheila Reid. Ajee Wilson won the 800m in 2:00.90. The world bronze medallist tied up slightly towards the end, but did enough to hold off Jamaica’s Natoya Goule, who finished second in 2:01.07. *Subject to the usual ratification procedures Pinto clocks 60m world lead in Berlin, Lisek ... Hundreds of officers join hunt for Mohamed Amra who fled after deadly ambush on prison convoy at motorway tollbooth A suspected drugs boss nicknamed “The Fly” escaped when masked gunmen ambushed his prison van in northern France in a brazen attack that left two guards dead The horror unfolded at a motorway tollbooth at Incarville Two officers were shot dead and three others were left seriously injured while the prisoner Shocking footage showed the hooded attackers firing automatic machine guns at the prison van that had been stopped by a black car ploughing into its front another video captured one of them opening a door before the detainee was released in full view of shocked motorists For updates on the manhunt as more emerges on the incident, follow our live blog by clicking here Amra, 30, who is known as “La Mouche” [The Fly], was reportedly sentenced to 18 months in prison last week for a series of aggravated thefts but was also being held in connection with the murder of a man in Marseille two years ago A police source told RTL: “He is suspected of having ordered an assassination in Marseille on 17 June 2022 The charred corpse of a man was found in a burned vehicle A police source also told Le Parisien that Amra was “the head of a narcotics network” in France who was being transferred to Evreux jail after attending a court hearing in Rouen. Amra, who has 13 convictions, was under special surveillance, but not considered radicalised or a terrorist suspect, said Éric Dupond-Moretti, France’s justice minister. Hundreds of police officers have now joined the country’s anti-terrorist police unit GIGN in a nationwide hunt for the escaped detainee and the two gunmen, who it’s reported escaped in two cars, with one later found abandoned and burned out. President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to find the perpetrators. “I was frozen with horror when I learned of the real carnage that took place at the Incarville tollbooth,” said Alexandre Rassaert, president of the Eure departmental council, which covers Vale-de-Reuil. “I sincerely hope that the gang of killers who carried out this bloody attack will be quickly arrested. “All my thoughts go to the families of the service agents who escorted the detainees and who were killed or seriously injured during this attack which gave them no chance.” Speaking to French broadcaster BFMTV, Amra’s lawyer Hugues Vigier said he was “utterly shocked” by the incident and that the escapee had seemed “perfectly normal” during a meeting on Tuesday morning. “For me this plan doesn’t match with what I know of him,” he said. “If he’s behind it then I failed to understand who he is.” The two men killed were identified on Tuesday afternoon as agents from the regional centre for judicial extractions, based in Caen. One was a 21-year-old father-of-two who leaves a widow, and the other an expectant father whose wife was five months pregnant, it was reported. Mr Dupond-Moretti posted on X: “Two of our prison officers have died, three are seriously injured. All my thoughts are with the victims, their families and their colleagues.” President Macron said on Twitter: “This morning’s attack, which cost the lives of prison officers, is a shock to us all. The nation stands alongside the families, the injured and their colleagues. “Everything is being done to find the perpetrators of this crime so that justice can be done in the name of the French people. We will be intractable.” Minister of the interior Gérald Darmanin said he had launched an “Epervier plan”, a nationwide manhunt, to find the criminals. “Sincere and saddened condolences to the bereaved families and agents of the ministry of justice,” he posted. “The ‘Epervier’ plan was triggered. All means are being used to find these criminals. On my instructions, several hundred police officers and gendarmes were mobilised.” Following the incident, the road was closed by police for an investigation with forensic teams seen at the site. govt and politics","score":0.907307},{"label":"/society/crime/personal offense","score":0.88671},{"label":"/society/crime/personal offense/assault","score":0.854683},{"label":"/society/crime/personal offense/homicide","score":0.803426},{"label":"/society/crime/personal offense/torture","score":0.733777},{"label":"/law govt and politics/law enforcement","score":0.721561},{"label":"/law Pressed for production resources due to its effort to develop a vaccine to prevent Covid-19, Sanofi said it will  build a new vaccine manufacturing facility at Neuville sur Saône The French drugmaker will take more than $500 million in hand for the Evolutive Vaccine Facility (EVF) which is planned to start up in 2025 and eventually employ 200 people Sanofi’s new capacity will allow it to manufacture doses of three or four separate vaccines at one time as a lifeline to supply subsidiary to Sanofi Pasteur in future pandemics The EVF will employ multiple modular production lines built around a central hub to help produce rounds of multiple vaccines simultaneously and quickly switch to mono-production in the event of a pandemic Sanofi already operates 12 global manufacturing facilities Sanofi will also establish a new research center dedicated to vaccines at the Pasteur site in Marcy-l'Etoile This digital facility will house highly specialized laboratories that i said will focus on emerging diseases and pandemic risks Sanofi said the French R&D facility will become a “world reference” for pre-clinical research and pharmaceutical and clinical development "By investing in a new industrial site and a R&D center Sanofi positions France at the core of its strategy aiming to make France a world-class center of excellence in vaccine research and production," CEO Paul Hudson said and strategic direction in an exclusive CHEManager International interview Are you ready to elevate your pharmaceutical operations Download our exclusive whitepaper and discover how compliance with Good Distribution Practice (GDP) is essential for the safety and integrity of pharmaceuticals Home » DGA Hydrodynamics: inside the largest hydrodynamic test facility in Europe – Part 2 You can read part one of this article here There are three main physical testing facilities in the DGA Hydrodynamics at Val-de-Reuil But the center is much more than a massive testing equipment as the research made by the DGA-TH are increasingly based on digital simulation but also on the Franco-British co-operation It is used to conduct testing of resistance to forward movement either with towed or self-propelled scaled models B600 is also used to study a vessel’s seaworthiness under high roll or pitch angles The B600 can create different kinds of waves and swells the B600 can simulate waves of up to 30m high This is used to observe the impact of waves on the vessel’s hull The results of these tests are scaled using the affinity laws to understand the effects of real waves on full scale ships The B600 is equipped with a 120 tons mobile platform that can move at speed of up to 12m/sec allowing the simulation of the entire range of military speeds (up to 60 knots for small vehicles or submerged weapons) The platform is often used to tow 7 to 8 meters long models but it is increasingly often used to follow self-propelled models The platform is equipped with a full range of surface and underwater cameras and sensors A team of engineers and technicians is aboard the moving platform in order to conduct the tests and control all the sensors the carbon-fiber scale models built and used by DGA-TH can be fitted with up to fifty internal sensors a 1/21,5 scaled FDI was subjected to a beam swell They can accommodate a submarine model of the submerged part of a ship’s hull the GTH is used to test the propellers designed by DGA-TH for the French Navy’s ships and submarines We cannot complete our guided tour of DGA-TH’s facilities without talking about the external facilities in the United Kingdom France and United Kingdom agreed in sharing their respective hydrodynamics facilities instead of building new massive and expensive equipment The DE&S (Defence Equipment and Support) can have an access to the unique DGA-TH facilities while the DGA can use Qinetiq’s Ocean Basin with a rotating arm A capability present at the previous site near Paris but that was lost when transferring DGA-TH to Val-de-Reuil Most of the scale models used in DGA-TH facilities are made at Val-de-Reuil by a team of dedicated technicians and engineers While wood was still the main component of models in the 1990s it is now replaced by composite materials for the hull filled with polyurethane foam around an internal metallic structure The models designed and build by the DGA are 3m to 10m long (most of time 7 or 8m long) with a weight of several hundreds of kilograms Modern fully instrumented models have a modular design allowing to test different rudders The building of the composite models required a dedicated digital control machine-tool with a robotic arm In order to get reliable data during the following tests in water each model must be extremely accurate and stiff The accuracy of current models is striking with less than 1.5mm of deviation for an 8 meters long model those slight deviations will be precisely known and taken into account during the testing phases the model workshop is also designing and building scale propellers the design of French Navy’s propellers are highly classified making it impossible to outsource the manufacturing of these elements 50% of all the tests conducted in Val-de-Reuil are digital simulations All of the engineers working there are qualified to work both on physical models and on digital simulation “Without our digital simulation capabilities we would not have been able to manage simultaneously the FDI frigate program the Barracuda SSN program and the new SNLE3G SSBN program as submarines require a large amount of optimization and validation in water.” digital simulation brought to light that the initial placement of the CANTO (anti-torpedo decoys) launching tubes in the conning tower of the submarine could led to the injection of the decoys in the submarine’s propeller it was then possible to modify the geometry of the CANTO decoys and to change the location of the launching tubes But digital simulation is also an incredible tool to reduce the development phase of new ships and submarine allowing the engineers (and the Navy budget) to focus on other problems For the development of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft-carrier half a dozen scaled models were built and tested just in order to choose the best hull configuration dozens or hundreds of hull configurations will be digitally simulated and tested and only one scaled model will be built in order to validate in real life the results of the simulation more than a hundred of stern and propeller configurations were digitally simulated some hydrodynamics’ interactions and several structural effects testing in tanks and tunnels are till mandatory for the propellers But digital simulation is far from replacing the live-testing facilities of DGA-TH It is a complementary mean for all the engineers in Val-de-Reuil DGA Techniques hydrodynamiques will continue to support French Navy and export programs such as the Shortfin Barracuda or the SNLE3G alongside the next French aircraft-carrier But it will certainly be involved in co-operation programs such as the European Patrol Corvette that is due to be developed by Naviris the joint-venture between Naval Group and Fincantieri the up-to-date physical testing facilities and the continuously improving computing cluster of DGA Hydrodynamics will continue to increase the dynamic performances and the acoustic discretion of French ships and submarines broke her first Italian senior record on Monday in the 3000m event at the Meeting de l’Eure in Val-de-Reuil She clocked an 8:41.72 performance at the World Indoor Tour Silver Meeting Nadia Battocletti 🇮🇹 became the third fastest Italian in history over 3000m at the Meeting de l'Eure in Val-de-Reuil with 8:41.72. ⏱#WorldIndoorTour(@atleticaitalia) Ethiopia’s Ayal Dagnachaw won the race with a big kick in the time of 8:41.32 she improved on the previous record which was held by Sylvia Weissteiner from the 2007 European Indoor Championships in Birmingham The 21-year-old Italian finished seventh at the Tokyo Olympic final in the 5000m event with her 14:46.29 performance According to World Athletics performance rating system her 5000m outdoor and 3000m indoor bests are almost identical at 1190 and 1191 points Collins Kipruto broke the 800m meet record at the same Meeting de l’Eure in Val-de-Reuil in France Kenyan Collins Kipruto breaks 800m meet record in FranceFerdinand Omanyala finished second in men’s 60m.https://t.co/uxznWO4nNo pic.twitter.com/ZVRF1nNpuC Kipruto held off 17-year-old World Under-20 800m bronze medallist and fellow Kenyan and Morocco’s Mostafa Smaili to win in the time of 1:47.05 the win was awarded to Kibet who took second place The 27-year-old Kipruto owns an indoor best of 1:45.86 from Feb Full results are available here>> This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Text description provided by the architects. In the midst of a dynamic period of growth for the city of Val-de-Reuil the municipal technical departments are confronted today with the need to deliver more and more services from an outdated and inadequate building. The need to create a modern and functional installation led the city to organize a design-build competition for workshops and offices. In December 2010, the city announced the winner of the competition: STUDIOS, in partnership with CIRMAD (developers) and Quille (General Contractor). © Hugo HébrardAt the entrance to the city, adjacent to the rail station, the project stretches east-west as it connects to the urban context of a new residential eco- neighborhood. The offices and ateliers are organized along a linear logistical spine, which provides physical and symbolic connections between the program elements, and creates additional social and working space for the users. © Hugo HébrardA greenhouse and an outdoor storage area for materials serve as a buffer zone between the workshops and the rail tracks. And inspired by the model of ancient French farms, the composition is completed by the placement of a garage to enclose the space. © Hugo HébrardThe façades are to be finished in slick steel panels balanced with wall extensions and sun screens clad in wood to recall the cities recommended palette of materials The Jury commended STUDIOS for proposing an architectural response that met the functional social and symbolic aspirations of the city 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 Nick Ferrari At Breakfast is Leading Britain's Conversation An inmate - nicknamed "La Mouche" (The Fly) - is now on the run following the onslaught The attack came as a van moved prisoners between Rouen and Evreux in Normandy and was targetted at the Inarville toll on the A154 motorway in Val-de-Reuil at around 11am One of the killed officers' wife is five months pregnant French justice minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said while the other leaves behind a wife and two children A manhunt for 'The Fly' has now been launched as police investigate the armed assault and killings is convicted of burglary and theft and accused of attempted murder He is also known to police as ‘the head of a narcotics network’ Amra attempted to saw the bars off his call and escape prison just two days ago He had since been placed in a disciplinary unit with his surveillance level raised Un véritable commando a tendu un guet-apens contre le convoi du personnel de l'administration pénitentiaire à #incarville. Un des auteurs serait blessé par un tir de riposte. Soutien fraternel à l'ensemble des personnels de l'administration pénitentiaire face à cette tuerie !… pic.twitter.com/c8HrkToZxP Read More: Game-changing ‘new statin’ Ozempic slashes risk of heart attack and stroke in ‘biggest breakthrough in 30 years’ Read More: British woman who saved her twin sister from crocodile attack is first to be given King's bravery medal from Charles “Three prison officers were killed by pump-action rifle fire when a van carrying a prisoner was attacked at around 11am with a ram car at the Incarville toll plaza in the Eure department,” a source told the AFP news agency Four armed men in two vehicles targetted the prison van Details for the transport route and timings for moving prisoners are usually kept secret surrounding several police vans at the toll booth One of the vans appeared to have collided with another car An officer was also seen tending to his colleague lying on the floor and surrounded in blood Following the attack one of the attackers' vehicles - identified as a white Audi A5 - was found burnt in nearby Watteville fled the scene in the direction of Louviers and Evreux French justice minister Eric Dupond-Moretti wrote on X: "A prison convoy was attacked in Eure "All my thoughts are with the victims their families and their colleagues." A witness on a bus at the toll booth when the attack took place told Le Parisien: “I still had my headphones in my ears and suddenly I see that everyone is ducking down on the bus and everyone is going to the back.” “I took off my headphones and I heard lots of gunshots She said “everyone was very scared” but said police arrived on the scene very quickly Un convoi pénitentiaire a été attaqué dans l’Eure.Deux de nos agents pénitentiaires sont décédés, trois sont gravement blessés. Toutes mes pensées vont aux victimes, à leur famille et à leurs collègues.Je me rends immédiatement à la cellule de crise du @justice_gouv spokesman for the French police union CFTC also posted online: “Gunmen set an ambush against a prison convoy at Incarville “One of the perpetrators was reportedly injured by return fire “Support for all prison administration brothers in the face of this killing!" French President Emmanuel Macron said in a statement following the attack: "This morning's attack "The Nation stands alongside the families "Everything is being done to find the perpetrators of this crime so that justice can be done in the name of the French people Some 200 gendarmes have been dispatched as other emergency services The A154 motorway has been closed around Évreux-Louviers at junction 4 for an “indefinite period” as police continue to investigate the attack See more More Latest News See more Latest News See more The News Explained See more Royals See more Highlights & Opinion See more More Topics weshalb einige Funktionalitäten nicht wie gewohnt zur Verfügung stehen Audrey Werro (CA Belfaux) lieferte beim Hallenmeeting in Val-de-Reuil (FRA) einen neuerlichen Beweis ihrer starken Form In 2:00,57 Minuten unterbot die 18-jährige Freiburgerin die Limite für die Hallen-EM in Istanbul (TUR) und lief die zweitbeste Hallen-Zeit einer Schweizerin über diese Distanz nachdem sie in Magglingen über 600 m die Schweizer Allzeit-Bestleistung von Selina Rutz-Büchel auf 1:26,14 Minuten verbessert hatte gelang Audrey Werro auch über 800 m ein formidabler Auftritt Die U20-WM-Zweite lief in Val-de-Reuil ein mutiges Rennen und stürmte in fantastischen 2:00,57 Minuten auf den 2 Damit stellte sie Schweizer Hallenrekorde in den Kategorien U23 und U20 auf dem Schweizer Rekord bei den Aktiven von Selina Rutz-Büchel näherte sie sich bis auf 19 Hundertstel In der Welt-Jahresbestenliste der U20 liegt Werro nun klar an der Spitze Die Hallen-EM-Limite (2:02,20) unterbot sie um mehr als anderthalb Sekunden Val-de-Reuil (FRA) Audrey Werro (SUI) 2:00,57 (Schweizer Hallenrekorde U23 und U20) Hustopece (CZE) Gent (BEL) Lodz (POL) Erfurt (GER) Weinheim (GER) Link zu den Bildergalerien von athletix.ch Realized by newcom © 2023 Swiss Athletics