A fishing boss in court, an escapee recaptured, the Comédie du Livre launched: the essential news in the region

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The Comedy of the Book invites the public to escape from reality

#MONTPELLIER. The great literary meeting is back until Sunday evening, on the esplanade royal du Peyrou and everywhere in town. Meetings, readings and impromptu events are on the program for this 39th edition, which focuses on the multiplication of bridges with other forms of art and the spotlighting of first-time novelists and local authors…hellip;

The headliners are also well present, under the tents set up at Peyrou: the Prix Goncourt 2023 Jean-Baptiste Andréa, the priestess of the SF Joëlle Wintrebert, the master of the imagination Alain Damasio, the whimsical Romain Puértolas, to name just a few.

A fourth escapee recaptured in the Var

#SETE A fourth individual who had escaped from the Sète administrative detention center was recaptured, this Thursday May 16. According to our information, this foreign national in an irregular situation on French territory was arrested at the home of an acquaintance, in Draguignan in the Var, by police officers assigned to public security.

Placed in police custody for evading an administrative measure by breaking and entering, he should be presented to the public prosecutor's office in the coming days. On the night of Friday May 10 to Saturday May 11, ten people managed to escape from the CRA in Sète via the roofs. Two were arrested at Saint-Roch station, in Montpellier, a few hours after their escape, then sentenced to eight months in prison with continued detention. A third managed to escape after kicking a policewoman in the face while climbing a fence. The latter was also taken back, near Montbéliard.

The number of the day: 6

#NARBONNE. Six months suspended prison sentence was requested against the fisherman Bernard Pérez, president of the regional fisheries committee d’Occitanie, by the criminal court, indicates our colleague L’Indépendant.

He is notably accused of having fished European common hake of a size "well below the regulations"& ;nbsp;and the lack of training of two of his sailors. The court's decision has been reserved and will be rendered on Thursday, June 20.

L’Aubrac makes new way

#OCCITANIE. SNCF Réseau is carrying out major modernization work on the Aubrac line between Béziers and Neussargues until June 28, for a total of 6.9 million euros. The operations, co-financed by the State, the Region and the SNCF concern two sections of the line and include the securing of three rocky slopes, the replacement of sleepers, frails and ballast over a length of 4 km and the renovation of eight hydraulic structures.

The construction site is halfway through on the section between Le Monastier and Saint-Chély-d’Apcher, in Lozère, where it will be completed on May 24. It is still in its early stages between Béziers and Le Monastier, where traffic will remain interrupted until June 28, replaced by coaches.

A debate on the European elections

#HERAULT. The European Movement Hérault and the Young Europeans of Montpellier are organizing, this Wednesday, May 22, at 7 p.m. at the Rabelais center in Montpellier, a debate as part of the European elections on June 9. Regional candidates Mickael Idrac (La France insoumise), Nicolas Berjoan (EELV), Alix Soler Alcaraz (Socialist Party-Place Publique), Laurent Cappelletti (Need for Europe, presidential majority), Pascale Bories (Les Républicains) will participate. and Franck Manogil (Reconquest).

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