April 2003
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Tuesday the 1st er April 2003
Wednesday April 2nd 2003
- the American Secretary of State Colin Powell obtains Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the logistic assistance of Turkey for the supply of the American forces in the North of Iraq.
Thursday April 3rd 2003
- In France:
- national Day of “ defense of the retirements ”: strikes in the public office, several hundreds of thousands of people express in the street.
- the article of the law reforming the mode of the regional elections and founding a threshold of 10% of the registered voters to be able to be maintained to the second turn, is censured by the Constitutional council.
Friday April 4th 2003
- In Iraq:
- the American soldiers of the 3rd division of infantry take the control of the Saddam international airport to twenty kilometers of Baghdad.
- a new attack-suicide with the car bomb, perpetrated by two Iraqi, causes the death of 3 American soldiers.
Saturday April 5th 2003
- In the south of Iraq, the American soldiers seize the town of Nadjaf.
Sunday April 6th 2003
- In Iraq:
Monday April 7th 2003
- In France, the group GIAT industries, specialist in defense, announces that it will remove 3.750 employment and will close his sites of Saint-Chamond and of Cusset.
- Arrived at the doors of Baghdad to Iraq, the American soldiers seize three of the presidential palaces, of which the principal palate of the Republic.
Tuesday April 8th 2003
- In Iraq:
- Á Baghdad, a shooting of shell of a tank American, drawn against the frontage from the Palestine hotel, keep silent two journalists.
- an American bombardment targeted against the offices of the chain Al-Jezira kills to defer it Tareq Ayyoub . A similar event had already taken place against the agency of Kabul, during the American military intervention in Afghanistan
- the movement Al-Qaïda by the voice of Bin Laden invites all the Moslems “ to avenge the innocent Iraqi children ”.
Wednesday April 9th 2003
- In France, the government adopts the bill against the serious crime, presented by the minister Dominique Perben.
- the the European Parliament voted the adhesion of ten novel members to the European Union: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Tchéquie, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta. They should enter the Union in 2004.
- To Iraq, the mode of Saddam Hussein fall after 24 years from dictatorship:
- the American soldiers entirely take the control of Baghdad.
- the large statue of Saddam Hussein trônant on place Al-Firdaous is cut down by a crowd is delirious about it. The event received an extreme mediatization taking into account the symbolic range of the image.
- American makes public and distributes pack of 52 cards to the effigy of the personalities of the deposed mode, by specifying that they could be “ pursued, killed or captured ”.
- the president of the Iraqi National council, Ahmed Chalabi, arrives at Nassirya.
Thursday April 10th 2003
- In Europe:
- the companies Air France and British Airways announce the final adoption of the exploitation of the supersonic aircraft Concorde , as of on May 31st for Air France and on October 31st for British Airways.
- the Court of Luxembourg confirms the forfeiture, marked on April 22nd, 2000 by the European Parliament in the opposition to the mandate of European deputy of Jean-Marie Le Pen.
- In Iraq:
- Of the bands of plunderers puts at bag the villas of ex-dignitaries of the mode of Saddam Hussein, as well as the National museum of Iraq and the embassies of France and Germany.
- In North-Iraq, a coalition of American and Kurdish forces take the town of Kirkuk, and in the night, the town of Mosul. Violent ones engagements burst at once between Kurds and Arabs.
Friday April 11th 2003
Saturday April 12th 2003
- In Hungary, referendum on adhesion with the European Union: 84% of yes, but 55% of Abstention.
- In Iraq, Two Iraqi scientific high ranking officials, Bitter Al-Saadi and Jaffar Al-Jaffar, goes to the American forces.
Sunday April 13rd 2003
- In France, first election of the representatives to new the the French Council of the Muslim cult with a rate of participation of 87%.
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Monday April 14th 2003
- Three gangsters, figures of the organized crime, Franck Perletto , Eric Alboreo and Michel Valero , make a success of a spectacular escape by helicopter from the prison from Luynes in the Rhone delta.
- With the the United States:
- the telephone company WorldCom gave its plan of reorganization to the court of the bankruptcies. The company chose to change name to adopt that of MCI, thus marking a turning in its history and also symbolizing all the changes having to intervene in its policy and its management.
- the US government qualifies the Syria “ aggressive nation ” after having shown it to facilitate the escape of the Iraqi leaders and to have itself of the weapons of massive destruction.
- In Iraq:
- Tikrit, stronghold of Saddam Hussein, is the last city to fall to the hands from the American forces.
- In Baghdad, the American forces put the hand on the Palestinian Abou Abbas, brain of the diversion of the Italian steamer Achille Lauro . It had obtained in 1999 the immunity of the Israeli Supreme court.
Tuesday April 15th 2003
- In the Netherlands, the assassin of the populist and nationalist leader Pim Fortuyn is condemned to 18 years of prison.
Wednesday April 16th 2003
- In France, the murderer Patrick Henry is imprisoned at the prison of Caen, after its extradition of Spain, where it was stopped, like suspect in a history of drug trafficking.
- European Union: Signature at the time of the top of the Fifteen, in Athens, of the Treaty of Accession of the ten novel members.
Thursday April 17th 2003
- In the Iraq, most important of the contracts of BTP, envisaged within the framework of the rebuilding of the country, was reserved for the American group Bechtel .
Friday April 18th 2003
- In France, death of Jean Drucker (61 years), cofounder and president of the board of trustees of the television channel M6.
- In Iraq:
- Arrest of the former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Hekmat Ibrahim Al-Azzaoui.
- Of the images of Saddam Hussein taking a walkabout, and which would have been filmed on April 9th, day of the arrival of the American soldiers in Baghdad, is diffused by the television of Abou Dabi.
Saturday April 19th 2003
- In France, with the Le Bourget, at the time of the congress of the Union of the Islamist Organizations of France, the Minister of Interior Department, is hooted by the participants, when he declares with the platform that the French law obliges the women to be reproduced naked head on their identity papers.
- With Turin in Italy, the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi accepts responsibility for the file retirements of the European Union. Before an assembly of heads of undertaking, he declares: “ One needs a reform of the retirements having the force of the pact of Maastricht for the single currency… a great European agreement which can play the same part of stimulative that the stability pact and of growth had for the cleansing of public finances. It will be my objective ” for the Italian presidency which begins the 1 {{er}} July.
Sunday April 20th 2003
- In China, following the explosion of the number of atypical case of pneumopathy , the mayor of Beijing, Meng Xueong and the Minister for Health, Zhang Wenkang, are dismissed.
Monday April 21st 2003
- In Iraq, American Jay Garner, general with the retirement, is named provisional civil administrator.
Tuesday April 22nd 2003
- In Iraq, in the town of Kerbala, of the hundreds of thousands of Shiite Moslems gathers at the time of the annual pilgrimage on the tomb of the Imam Hussein, grandson of their prophet Mahomet. The pilgrims express with the cry of “ Non at an US government, not in Chalabi ”.
Wednesday April 23rd 2003
- In Palestine, compromise found between Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas on the composition of the new government of the Palestinian Authority, condition of the opening of the “ roadmap ” towards the creation of a “ State Palestinian, independent, democratic and viable ”.
Thursday April 24th 2003
- In France, the Minister for the social Affairs Francois Fillon announces the new plan of reform of the retirements of the civils servant. Those will have to align on the private one starting from 2008, with 40 years of contribution (41 years in 2020.
- the civil servants' unions announce demonstrations and strikes for the May 13rd.
- In Iraq, the former Deputy Prime Minister, the Christian Tarek Aziz goes to American.
Friday April 25th 2003
- the French will have to work longer if they want to have a complete retirement. It is the message which the minister Francois Fillon developed on France 2.
Saturday April 26th 2003
- Launching of a capsule Soyuz with, at its edge, two cosmonauts whose mission is to go to replace the crew of the international space station.
Sunday April 27th 2003
- In Argentinian, ballot for the second round of the presidential election enters the former president Carlos Menem with 24,14% of the voices, and Nestor Kirchner with 22,04% of the voices, both candidates peronnists. To the first turn had introduced 19 candidates, but the outgoing president Eduardo Duhalde had supported the candidature of Nestor Kichner.
Monday April 28th 2003
- In Iraq, the provisional civil administrator Jay Garner joins together from the point of view of the constitution of a temporary government, some three hundred opponents with the deposed mode.
Tuesday April 29th 2003
- In France, the government announces the introduction of the PAJE (Prestation of reception of the young child), which will be quasi universal as from 2004.
- In Italy, a court of Milan condemned Cesare Previti , the lawyer of Silvio Berlusconi, at eleven years of imprisonment for corruption of magistrates. The Prime Minister denounced “ the politization of part of the magistrature is a problem which will have to be regulated ”.
- In Palestine, the Palestinian Parliament invests Abou Mazen like Prime Minister for the Palestinian Autorité.
Wednesday April 30th 2003
- In France, the Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy presents her new project of fight against clandestine immigration, and its project of Corsica referendum in .
- In Iraq, the London daily newspaper in Arab language Al Quds Al-Arabi , publishes a letter handwritten, dated March 28th, and allotted to Saddam Hussein, in which it exhorts the Iraqis to be raised against the occupation .
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