Rising Violence and Changes in Neighborhoods: A Closer Look at Drug Trafficking in Nîmes

Rising Violence and Changes in Neighborhoods: A Closer Look at Drug Trafficking in Nîmes

In the afternoon of Monday August 28, 2023 again, national police officers crisscross the neighborhood where two people were killed last week. They carry out identity checks, inspect stairwells. Deal points are deserted, just like another, a little further. The inhabitants observe a change, there are fewer people. The violence moved, on weekends, to less … Read more

Intensive Investigations and DNA Analysis Underway to Identify Victims of Tragic Fire

Intensive Investigations and DNA Analysis Underway to Identify Victims of Tragic Fire

All day and all night before, every square inch of the building had been raked. On the spot, 23 experts from the gendarmerie take turns, helped by dogs, to try to formally identify the eleven victims. The samples are then collected in a mobile laboratory, installed yesterday, August 9, in the parking lot of the … Read more

New York’s Famous Wood-Fired Pizzas Under Threat: Controversial Measures Enrage Pizza Lovers

New York’s Famous Wood-Fired Pizzas Under Threat: Controversial Measures Enrage Pizza Lovers

This is an announcement that enrages pizza lovers. This pizza chef has been running one of New York’s most famous pizzerias for 30 years. He’s been angry for a few days. The city finds that its wood oven is too polluting. New York pizza might just take a hit. The city’s old wood-fired ovens give … Read more

The Invasion of Aphids: New Yorkers Deal with Swarms of Tiny Bugs

The Invasion of Aphids: New Yorkers Deal with Swarms of Tiny Bugs

They’re not very visible on video, but take it from New Yorkers, these little bugs get everywhere, even into beards. For the past few weeks, these swarms of critters have been driving the inhabitants completely crazy. “I really have them all over my t-shirt. But, what is going on?”, reacts a young woman. Already exasperated … Read more

The Rise of Workers’ Housing Estates in the United States: A Solution for the Low Unemployment Rate

The Rise of Workers’ Housing Estates in the United States: A Solution for the Low Unemployment Rate

Tommie Jones works in a pharmaceutical factory in Indiana. Getting home is pretty quick, she just moved into a house just two minutes away. There are still a few finishing touches left, but this brand new house with its three bedrooms and large garage is his great pride. The purchase cost: amounts to 180,000 euros, … Read more

New pension reform could lead to errors for specialists

Pascal Bernier, baker at “Salomé”, has been lifting sacks of flour since he was 17, so he will be allowed to leave before 64, but when precisely, he does not know. And we understand that the decrees on long careers that we have obtained now provide for four different starting ages. For those who started … Read more

Carrefour Introduces Authorized Absence Days for Employees with Endometriosis

Nina Stief, executive assistant and CSR project manager at Carrefour, suffers from endometriosis. Regularly, she is subject to attacks of pain so severe that she cannot go to work. From this summer of 2023, she will be entitled to authorized absence days financed by her employer. Upon presentation of a medical certificate, all employees in … Read more

Transport, work: a special day for the French – Journal de 20 heures

This evening in the Paris metros, passengers are worried, faced with the two crosses on the display panel. At 6 p.m., still impossible to know when the next train will arrive. Subways and trains are rare. It’s a complicated day all over the country. In Molsheim (Bas-Rhin) at eight o’clock this morning, three out of … Read more

Difficulty at work: compulsory medical visits – 20-hour diary

This carer is having her first medical visit, because she has just been hired in an EHPAD. She will be monitored regularly and at age 45, she will have a mandatory check-up. If the pension reform is passed, she will have a new one at 61. Her occupational physician will then be able to put … Read more