Death of George Floyd reclassified as murder, doubts about hydroxychloroquine and new suspect in the Maddie case

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From “manslaughter” to “murder”. According to the local senator Amy Klobuchar, the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has been reclassified by the courts american, who charged, the four police officers implicated in the fatal arrest of this African-American man. Constable Derek Chauvin, fired from the police like his three colleagues and imprisoned at the end of May, therefore faces a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison for this count, according to the indictment filed in court. The family of the victim, who died on May 25, welcomed the worsening of these lawsuits, in a statement by his lawyer, Ben Crump. “It’s an important step on the road to justice,” she said, nine days after the video recorded that shocked American society and beyond the borders of the country.

“Expression of concern”. Or “expression of concern” in French. It’s with this formal warning, used by scientific journals to indicate that a study is potentially problematic, that The Lancet decided on Tuesday evening to “alert readers to the fact that serious scientific questions have been brought to its attention” regarding the study on hydroxychloroquine and Covid-19 published in its pages on May 22. A study according to which hydroxychloroquine has not been proven to be effective on patients with Covid-19 hospitalized and would even be harmful, leading to a high risk of mortality.

The investigation continues in the Maddie disappearance in Portugal in 2007. German police announced on Wednesday that they are investigating a new suspect in the disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann. “The public prosecutor of Brunswick investigationOn a 43-year-old German citizen suspected of murder, “federal police said in a statement. A call for witnesses was also launched. Madeleine McCann disappeared from her room on May 3, 2007, a few days before her fourth birthday, in the small seaside resort of Praia da Luz, in the south of Portugal, where she was staying on vacation with her family.

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