Secularism Council, banned cigarettes and pioneering surgeons… the essential news in the region

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Cournonsec bans smokers from public space

#HERAULT – The municipal decree is very clear. It is now prohibited to smoke and even vape around schools, playgrounds and the sports complex in the town of Cournonsec (Hérault). This ban applies from Monday to Friday at specific times. The order will come into force as soon as the appropriate signage is installed by the municipal technical services. Reports will be issued to offenders and sent to the competent courts. The war on smokers is well and truly declared.

CHU surgeons pioneers of the infinitely small

#MONTPELLIER – The team of the plastic surgery department of Professor Christian Herlin, at the CHU from Montpellier, has just achieved a world premiere. She has developed a technique which allows intervention on vessels measuring 0.1 mm, during an operation on a 19-year-old patient suffering from lymphedema. An intervention which required six times more time than usual, as it required so much precision. "The gestures are infinitely small, without a robot, and with bare hands", explains the professor. "In Montpellier, we are best placed to develop this very exceptional lymphedema surgery."

The goatherd couple needs help after the fire

#GARD – A fire completely destroyed the sheepfold of Émilie Leroy and Nicolas Lepesant, in Trier, in the Gard, this Tuesday 12 March. Fifteen kids were killed. The couple moved in at the beginning of 2023. They responded to the call for projects from the Relance Cévennes platform in 2022. Immediately after the tragedy, a surge of solidarity followed. Families, friends, village residents, local entrepreneurs, administrations, institutions, the agricultural world have mobilized. In addition to this logistical and material assistance, an online prize pool has been launched to restart operations. Here again, tremendous support has been provided with already more than 33,000 € harvested.

Occitanie sets up a regional secularism council

#TOULOUSE – On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the law governing the wearing of protesting outfits and signs religious affiliation in schools, the president of the Region visited a Toulouse high school this Friday to present the main orientations of the future regional council of secularism and republican values. "Its ambition: to bring together institutions, teachers, associations and all the actors who promote secularism on a daily basis, to work together to bring republican values ​​to life and enable the citizens of tomorrow to make them your own", presented Carole Delga. Henri Peña-Ruiz, philosopher and Frédérique de la Morena, member of the council of elders of secularism, will be the godfather and godmother. Its installation is announced for Tuesday May 28. "It’is an honor to be accompanied in this task by two figures of secularism", congratulated the president of the Region. She also recalled that "that 78% of French people think that secularism is in danger".

Today’s number: 81

#BÉZIERS – Thirty-two new French citizens were in the spotlight this Friday in Béziers during the ceremony of naturalization. Coming from Algeria, Spain, Senegal, Canada, Ivory Coast and South Korea, they have lived in France for several years, sometimes even more than half a year. century. This is the case of Hamid, 81 years old, who left Morocco sixty years ago and who finally became French, like his children and grandchildren.

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