An attack “for revenge”, a birth in a parking lot, vultures under surveillance: the main news in the region

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She gives birth in the supermarket parking lot

#GARD This Saturday, August 10, early in the afternoon, a birth took place in the parking lot of a supermarket in Redessan. By the time the firefighters arrived, the little boy had already been born.
Pierre Dhalluin, a retired former nurse, accompanied the family. “A car stopped next to us. The driver got out in a panic, saying that his wife was going into labor,” he recounts. “My wife saw that the baby's head was engaged,” the witness continues. She encouraged her to push and welcomed the newborn. Nathalie stimulated the baby so that it would breathe.”

She then placed it on her mother. The store manager also came to the family's aid. The retired nurse clamped the cord and brought a survival blanket. Emergency services then arrived and took care of the mother and baby. In the end, everything went well. The baby and mother are doing well and the family was transported by the firefighters to the hospital.

Suspected drowning

#GARDSearches began Saturday evening in the swimming area not far from the Sautadet waterfalls when two young people reported seeing a body at the bottom of the water. Firefighters and police deployed significant resources. 32 firefighters, including teams of divers, GRIMP, drones, etc. were deployed. The search was stopped around midnight and resumed Sunday morning although no missing persons were reported. The system was lifted late in the morning. « For us, there is nothing », indicates a policeman.

Bakers attacked with a knife: "revenge"

#HERAULT Friday, August 9, in the early morning, a couple of bakers from Vias-plage were the victims of a knife attack. The man is still in intensive care. The alleged perpetrator, a 15-year-old minor from the town, remained on the scene after the alert was raised and allowed himself to be arrested by the police. He told them that he was the perpetrator of the violence.

At the end of his police custody, he was charged with “blackmail and attempted assassination”, specifies the Béziers prosecutor and placed in provisional detention. He is said to have "acted out of revenge against the baker who allegedly refused to pay him money in a dispute between them."

Today's figure: 33

#LOZÈRE Having returned to the wild in the Tarn and Jonte gorges, the vultures are being monitored by the Cévennes National Park (PNC) and the League for the Protection of birds (LPO).

A ringing operation was carried out in order to be able to follow them closely. “This year, 33 pairs of black vultures laid eggs and 20 chicks were born. The percentage is fairly stable from one year to the next,”, explains one of the technicians in charge of this operation.

Mohamed Merah's brother-in-law placed on S-list and arrested

#HAUTE-GARONNE Mohammed Merah's brother-in-law, Abdelouahed El-Baghdadi, was brought before a court this Sunday for aggravated violence against his two disabled roommates, La Dépêche announced. ” He did not wish to explain himself”, specifies the Toulouse prosecutor's office.

This man, listed as S for radicalization, was arrested in the Paris region on the fringes of an Olympic Games site on Friday evening. The intelligence services had lost track of him about ten days ago, following the altercation with his roommates in Toulouse. The 39-year-old man, married to Souad Merah, the terrorist's sister, was arrested near the fan zone of the Château de Vincennes (Val-de-Marne) where a concert was to take place.

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