April 2002

Monday the 1st er April 2002

In France:

the Synagog of the district of the Clots with Marseilles is burnt. The Prime Minister Lionel Jospin announces the deployment of “more than eleven hundred additional men” in order to ensuring the protection of the places of worship Jews. This criminal attack comes after several others in the previous days.
With the Mogador theater with Paris, 16th Night of Molières, chaired by Jean Piat.

Coming into effect, with the Netherlands, of the law allowing to practice the euthanasia.
Whereas its ultimatum expired, the US government freezes “sine die” 40 million dollars of assistance and holds up the threat of other sanctions, if the Serb Gouvernement of Zoran Đinđić does not carry out the extraditions claimed by the TPIY (International penal court on Yugoslavia). The Serb ones ensure that the co-operation with the TPIY will be intensified as of the next days.
Israel-Palestine:

In the West Bank, operation “wall of protection”: Tsahal re-occupies Bethlehem and Tulkarem.
Car bomb attack with Jerusalem western: 2 dead, the Palestinian kamikaze and an Israeli police officer. Tsahal tightens its vice around the HQ of Yasser Arafat to Ramallah.

Tuesday April 2nd 2002

With Nanterre in France, homage solemn to the eight city council men killed in the night from March 26th to 27th, by a militant ecologist and socialist Richard Durn.
In the West Bank, operation “wall of protection”: Tsahal re-occupies Jenin, and undertakes the blockade of the Basilique of the Nativity to Bethlehem, where 240 Palestinians are taken refuge, for the majority civilians, and 34 monks catholic and orthodoxe.

Wednesday April 3rd 2002

In the West Bank, operation “wall of protection”: Tsahal re-occupies Nablus.

Thursday April 4th 2002

the Constitutional council French validates sixteen candidatures for the presidential elections.
the chief of the social democrat Party (center-right), Jose Manuel Durão Barroso, victorious of the legislative elections of the last March 17th, form new the Portuguese Gouvernement of coalition with the national conservatives of the popular party of Paulo Carried .
the president George W. Bush announces a new mission of the Secretary of State Colin Powell, supported by the resolution 1403 of the Safety advice of the United Nations and calling with the withdrawal of Tsahal of the West Bank.

Friday April 5th 2002

the April 5th and 6th, of great demonstrations anti-Israelis and anti-American take place in all the Arab states of the area.

Saturday April 6th 2002

30.000 demonstrators with Paris in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
In Israel, several thousands of people express with Tel-Aviv against the policy of Ariel Sharon.

Sunday April 7th 2002

With the call of CRIF, between 50 000 and 100 000 people express their support for Israel and Ariel Sharon, including three of the candidates to the presidential election: Francois Bayrou, Alain Madelin and Corinne Lepage.

Of the Jewish extremists is devoted to “Ratonnade S” and stabs a police superintendent who is seriously wounded.

In Hungary, elections legislative: Socialist-liberal coalition control by Peter Medgyessy 41,3%; Conservative party of the first outgoing minister Viktor Orbán 40,3%.

the 21, to the second turn, the Socialist-liberal coalition obtains 51,3% of the voices and the majority of the seats.

In Morocco, of the arrival, the Secretary of State Colin Powell, more than one million demonstrators against Israel and the United States.

Monday April 8th 2002

From April 8th to 24th, with Lyon in France, Business Patrick Dils, new appeal in front of the Court of Assizes, which discharges Patrick Dils and releases it after 15 years passed in prison.
Tsahal car with the mortar on the Basilica of the Nativity, starting a fire. The the Vatican protests solemnly.
From April 8th to 10th, round of the American Secretary of State Colin Powell:

the 8, with the Morocco, it is coldly accommodated and discusses with the Saoudi crown prince Abdallah and king Mohammed VI, which announces the carryforward of the ceremonies of his marriage, initially envisaged April 12th and 15th.
the 9, with the Cairo in Egypt, it discusses with the president Hosni Mubarak.
10, with Madrid, mini-top with the representatives of the European Union, the Russia and the UNO, which require an immediate withdrawal of the Israeli army of the West Bank.

Tuesday April 9th 2002

With Valves in France, a police officer of the police station is cut down of a gust of Kalachnikov, by a drunk driver, controlled shortly after.
national Funeral, with the Abbey of Westminster and in the presence of more than one million British, for the queen Elisabeth mother, deceased on March 30th, at the 101 years age.
With the Venezuela, beginning of the unlimited, preparatory general strike of the putsch.

Wednesday April 10th 2002

Attack-suicide of a Palestinian against a bus close to Haïfa in the north of Israel: 8 killed Israeli civilians.

Thursday April 11th 2002

From April 11th to 17th, the American Secretary of State Colin Powell continues its round:

the 11, it discusses with Amman in Jordan with the king Abdallah II Jordan, before arriving in Israel.
Of the 12 to the 17, series of talks in Israel and the West Bank which leads to a failure.
the 15, talks with Beirut and Damas.

Attack-suicide of islamist, at the wheel of a truck, in front of the Synagog of Ghriba, on the island of Jerba (Tunisia): 21 dead including 14 German tourists. German. The Tunisian authorities officially speak then about an accident.

the 18, the brother of the driver of the truck, is placed as a police custody with Lyon (France).
the 21, the Tunisian government admits that it is about an attack.

At the third day of the unlimited general strike, and at the conclusion of violent one confrontations (13 dead) to Caracas, the president Hugo Chávez is constrained to resign under the pressure of part of the army.

the 12, president Hugo Chávez is arrested and imprisoned, and the chief of the employers' main trade union of the country Pedro Carmona is proclaimed president by interim.
the 13, of the demonstrations and the hostile riots to the new capacity take place, with plunderings and about thirty deaths.

Friday April 12th 2002

Climate of crisis to the advertisement of bad results 2001 of Vivendi Universal.

12, resignation of Denis Olivennes , the DG from Canal Plus.
the 16, dismissal of Pierre Lescure , the chairman of Canal+.
24, surging general meeting with the Zenith in Paris.
the 26, the direction of Vivendi Universal announces a handling of the e-votings and request the cancellation of the general meeting.

Saturday April 13rd 2002

Fine of the Israeli operation in the Palestinian camp of Jenin and beginning of the polemic on the attitude of Tsahal.

Sunday April 14th 2002

the 100e edition of the cycle race Paris-Roubaix is gained by the Belgian Johan Museeuw .
the Serb federal Parliament votes a bill of co-operation with the TPIY. The former minister for the Interior Vlajko Stojilkovic commits suicide to denounce this “capitulation” vis-a-vis the Occident.
With the Eastern Timor, the presidential election is gained by the independence leader Xanana Gusmão.
With the Venezuela, under the pressure of the street and from part of the army, the president Hugo Chávez is released and restored in its functions.

Tuesday April 16th 2002

In Italy, general strike and demonstrations monsters against the project of abrogation of article 18 of the labor regulation, obliging the heads of undertakings to reinstate the employees victims of a dismissal considered to be abusive by a court.

Thursday April 18th 2002

In Italy:

With Milan, a small private plane strikes the Pirelli tower and does one sixty from wounded and 3 died, of which the Swiss pilot who was elderly. This accident created a panic in Milan, where people believed in a repetition of the September 11th.
Death, in the north of the Italy of the explorer and Norwegian archeologist Thor Heyerdahl at the 87 years age. It was famous, in particular, for its forwarding of crossing of the Pacific, on board the Kon-Tiki .

Arrived at Kabul, of the former king Zaher Shah, of return in Afghanistan after 29 years of exile to Rome.
With Dakar (Senegal), agreement on a new counting of the voices of the presidential election of Madagascar.
Decree n° 2002-540 relating to the classification of waste (appeared with the OJ of April 20th, 2002).

Saturday April 20th 2002

Death of the singer, author, French type-setter, Francis Lemarque at the 84 years age.
In Kabylie, great walk gathering more than 100.000 people with Tizi-Ouzou to commemorate and pay homage to the victims of the riots of the “black Spring” of 2001.

Sunday April 21st 2002

First turn of the presidential election in France. Record of the abstentions with 28,40% and the spoilt ballot papers or white with 2,40%. Results: Jacques Chirac 19,88% - Jean-Marie Le Pen 16,86% - Lionel Jospin 16,18%.

the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin is eliminated and announces its final withdrawal of the political life.
Demonstrations against the Front National, which is qualified for the second round.

Anti-FN demonstrations: Throughout the days which followed on April 21st and until the second turn day before, of the demonstrations are organized. Except Lionel Jospin and Arlette Laguiller, some personalities of the political world, social, economic, journalistic, educational, cultural, religious, sporting and associative mobilize themselves against the candidate of the National front, and invite to vote for the outgoing president Jacques Chirac.
In the camp of Front National and all " nationaux" the joy exulte and one will dance until late in the night at the HQ of Jean-Marie Le Pen (in Saint-Cloud) celebrating this historical victory, a first since the creation of the FN in 1972.

With the regional election of the Land of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany, the SPD of the Chancellor Gerhard Schröder undergoes a true rout, with 20% of the voices, against 37% in CDU. The social democrats lose about half of their votes of 1998.
Resolution 1405 of the Safety advice of the United Nations envisaging the sending with Jenin, of a commission of “evaluation of the facts”. Until the 29, Israel requires and obtains by three times the carryforward of the sending of this commission.

Monday April 22nd 2002

In France, in front of the executive office of the PS, Lionel Jospin declares: “ the choice is difficult. I do not want to weigh in a direction or the other. Reflect there well. Try to be in reality, not in the myths ”.

the 26, it invites its voters with “ to express by their vote their refusal of the extreme right-hand side… ”, while specifying to be “ without illusion on the choice which arises ”.

Tuesday April 23rd 2002

In France:

Jacques Chirac announces during its first meeting of the interval turns, with Rennes, which he refuses to discuss with his adversary Jean-Marie Le Pen. This last, on the television channel France 2, fustigates “ this pitiful evasion ”.
the chiraquiens decide to create a “ great right-wing grouping and center ”, baptized the” Union for the presidential majority “(UMP). Francois Bayrou and Alain Madelin refuses to join it.

April 23rd and 24th, with the the Vatican meeting behind closed doors, around the pope Jean-Paul II and of three persons in charge of the curia, thirteen American cardinals, invited to be explained on the multiplication of the scandals implying of the priests “pédomanes” with the the United States.

Wednesday April 24th 2002

Thursday April 25th 2002

With Ramallah, a military tribunal Palestinian condemns four Palestinians for their implication supposed in the murder, in October 2001 of the former minister for Israeli Tourism Rehavam Zeevi. The marked sorrows are 18 years, 12 years, 8 years and 1 year of prison.

the 28, Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon agrees to raise the head office of the HQ of Yasser Arafat and to withdraw her troops of Ramallah, in exchange of the transfer in a Palestinian establishment, under the guard of Americans and British, of the four condemned, the general secretary of PFLP, Ahmad Saadat and of Fouad Choubaki implied in the business of Karine A.

Friday April 26th 2002

With Erfurt (Germany), a former student of the Gutemberg college, returned in 2001, kills with pump rifle 13 professors and 2 pupils of the establishment, and a police officer, that is to say 16 people, before giving itself death.

Saturday April 27th 2002

Of the “young people” attacks a police station of Toulouse and put fire at it.
Stowing with the International space station (ISS) of a vessel Soyuz with, on its board, two cosmonauts Russian and Italian, and a tourist of space South-African the Mark Shuttleworth .
Death in San Feliu de Guixols, of the baron Hans Heinrich Von Thyssen-Bornemiza at the 81 years age. It was one of the largest private collectors of art in the world.
the general Alexandre Lebed, 52 years, former candidate with the presidential election, governor of the area of Krasnoïarks, finds death in an accident of helicopter in Siberia.
Attack against the Jewish colony of Adoura in the West Bank: 4 dead.

Sunday April 28th 2002

Demonstration pro-palestinenne with Paris.

Monday April 29th 2002

an important deposit of weapons and ammunition, ETA, is discovered with Castres.
In reprisals with the attack of April 27th, Tsahal invests Hebron in the West Bank.
With Madagascar, after having proceeded to a recount of the voices of the presidential election, the high Constitutional court declares Marc Ravalomanana elected as of the first turn with 51,46% of the voices compared with 35,9% with the outgoing president Didier Ratsiraka, which disputes this recount.

Tuesday April 30th 2002

With the Pakistan, referendum-plebiscite, prolonging of 5 years, the mandate of the president Pervez Musharraf.

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