Tuesday the 1st er January 2002

  • Official launch of the Euro in parts and tickets in twelve countries out of the fifteen of the European Union; disappearance of the 12 national currencies to the profit of the euro.
  • the Spain succeeds the Belgium with the rotating presidency of the European Union.
  • the senator peronist Eduardo Duhalde is elected by the Congress chair by interim of the Republic Argentine to replace outgoing Adolfo Rodriguez Saa since the 30 December 2001.

Wednesday January 2nd 2002

Thursday January 3rd 2002

  • In Argentinian, new government of national union, dominated by the peronists.
  • Israel-Palestine:
    • In Red Sea, the Israeli navy hails the Karine has , a cargo liner coming from Iran, transporting launchers of rockets and missiles anti-tank. The Prime Minister Ariel Sharon blames the Palestinian Autorité. Yasser Arafat orders the creation of a board of inquiry.
    • From January 3rd to 7th, new mission with the the Middle East of the American special correspondent Anthony Zini .

Friday January 4th 2002

  • In France, Charles Pasqua shows a “black cabinet of Matignon” to be the initiator of the investigation which led to the setting in examination of one of its collaborators and the wife of the European deputy Jean-Charles Marchiani, within the framework of the investigation on taking away of funds, on ransoms poured in 1987 and 1988, for the release of the French hostages held with the Lebanon. Charles Pasqua and Jean-Claude Marchiani contradict any payment of ransom.

Saturday January 5th 2002

  • From January 5th to 6th, in Argentinian, the deputies and the senators votes an emergency bill putting fine at the parity fixes peso-dollar.
  • Resignation of the Italian Minister for the Foreign affairs Renato Ruggiero in dissension with some of his/her critical colleagues towards the euro. the 6, the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi decides, to ensure itself the interim of this ministry for 6 months.

Sunday January 6th 2002

Monday January 7th 2002

  • In France:
    • the large dressmaker Yves the St. Lawrence announces the end of its career and the closing of its house created in 1962. The 22, ravelled good-bye in the shape of retrospective of the house Yves the St. Lawrence.
    • Death of the writer and French linguist Rene Etiemble at the 92 years age.

Tuesday January 8th 2002

Wednesday January 9th 2002

  • Attack by two militants of the Hamas against Israeli soldiers: 6 dead including two Palestinian gunners.

Thursday January 10th 2002

  • In France, the National Assembly vote, unanimously less one vote, the proposal of deputy DLL Jean-François Mattei in order to put an end to the jurisprudence Parakeet , of December 2000, which while regarding as a damage makes it be in life for a handicapped person, had raised an outcry among the parents of handicapped and the doctors.
  • Israel-Palestine: in response with the attack of January 9th:
    • Tsahal shaves several tens of dwellings of Palestinian refugees with Rafah in the West Bank.
    • the 11, the Israeli army destroys with the bulldozer the track of the airport of Gaza.
    • In the night of the 11 to the 12, the Israeli navy bombards the port of Gaza.
    • the 14, destruction of nine other Palestinian houses with Jerusalem-Is, and targeted assassination of Mohammed Raad Al-Karmi , person in charge of the Brigades of the Al-Aqsa martyrs, with Tulkarem in the West Bank, using a bomb actuated remotely.

Friday January 11th 2002

  • In France:
  • In Germany, the minister-president of the Bavaria, Edmund Stoiber (CSU) is selected to be the right-wing candidate for the legislative elections of the 22 September 2003 fave with the outgoing socialist chancellor, Gerhard Schröder.
  • With Buenos Aires, several thousands of demonstrators protest against the maintenance of the blocking of the banking funds until 2003. They are dispersed by the police force.
  • the first prisoners talibans, or pertaining to the networks of Al-Qaeda, captured in Afghanistan arrive at the American base of Guantanamo at Cuba.

Saturday January 12th 2002

  • article 107 of the law of social modernization, voted in December 2001, and relating to the field of application of the lay-offs, is censured by the Constitutional council.
  • Jennifer becomes the first prize winner of the télécrochet of TF1, the Star Academy . It carries out since a beautiful career of singer.
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Sunday January 13rd 2002

  • Death with La Rochelle of the illustrator Pierre Joubert at the 91 years age. He was the author, in particular, of the illustrations of the famous collection “Signe of Track”.

Monday January 14th 2002

  • the judge of left Eric Halphen announces his resignation of the magistrature. Deprived of the file of the Business of the HLM of Ile-de-France the 4 September 2001, it affirms that the instruction of the file was sabotaged.
  • Israel: Palestinian attack against an Israeli road block: a killed Israeli soldier. The same day, the Palestinian commander Raed Karmi which had ordered a cease-fire is killed by a bomb placed on his road by the Israeli special services.

Tuesday January 15th 2002

  • In France:
    • Death of the former minister for the Interior, Michel Poniatowski at the 79 years age. He was cofounder with independent Valery Giscard d'Estaings Républicains in 1966.
    • the emission 90 minutes on Canal+, produced new testimonys which contradict the official thesis of the suicide of the former minister Robert Boulin, more than 22 years after the facts.
    • Lightning visit with Paris of the Russian president Vladimir Poutine.
  • the Irish liberal Pat Cox is elected with the presidency of the European Parliament with Strasbourg, to replace the Frenchwoman Nicole Fontaine.
  • Palestinian Attack: 2 killed Israeli civilians. The Palestinian Autorité announces the arrest of the chief of PFLP, Ahmad Saadat.

Wednesday January 16th 2002

  • the volcano Nyiragongo enters in eruption and buried part of the town of Goma: 45 dead (provisional estimates) and several tens of thousands of people fleeing the city.

Thursday January 17th 2002

  • the article first of the law on the future of the Corsica is censured by the Constitutional council. It is the second decision of censure in a few days.
  • Attack with the firearm by Palestinian in a ballroom to Hadera in the North-East of Tel-Aviv: 6 dead Israelis plus the killed terrorist himself.

Friday January 18th 2002

  • In France:
    • Death with Paris of the historian and palaeographer Michel Fleury at the 78 years age. He was a burning defender of the inheritance, and chair commission of the Paris Old man since 1975.
    • Of the 18 to the 20, with Marseilles, World congress gathering 650 geneticists, and according to whom the promises of the genetic therapy will not concretize before tens of years .

Saturday January 19th 2002

  • Tsahal destroys with the explosive the buildings of the radio “the voice of Palestine” in Ramallah in the West Bank.

Sunday January 20th 2002

Monday January 21st 2002

  • In France:
    • Publication of the White paper of the French Army in Algeria . Work collective which wants to be a historical answer to the countryside on the torture orchestrated in the media.
    • the son of Didier Schuller, in a journalistic maintenance, reveals that his/her father, general ex-adviser RPR of the Hauts-de-Seine, and principal witness in the Affaire of the HLM of Ile-de-France, live taken refuge with Saint-Domingue since 1998. The 29, the Dominican authorities announce its placement under house arrest. The 31, France requires its extradition.
  • Germany was done recalled to the order by the European commission for non-observance of the criteria of Maastricht. The German Minister for Finance Hans Eichel recognizes that the public deficit would be close to the 3% of the GDP.
  • From January 21st to 24th, official visits of the French and British Ministers for the Foreign affairs, Hubert Védrine and Jack Straw, in Democratic republic of Congo, with the Rwanda, the Burundi and in Uganda.
  • With Goma area of the Kivu the explosion of a gasoline station, caused by plunderers which wanted to seize a stock of cans, makes sixty dead.

Tuesday January 22nd 2002

  • In France:
    • a private bill of the radical deputy of the Batch, Bernard Charles , aiming at making of March 19th one day “” with the memory of the victims of the war of Algérie". The proposal did not obtain by the necessary majority, the date being too in charge of symbol (official date of the cease-fire).
    • the National Assembly vote the project of revision of the laws of 1994: the therapeutic cloning is prohibited, i.e. the manufacture of intended human embryos, not to be born, but to be used for the genetic experiments. However research on the embryos known as “supernumerary” is authorized.
  • With Tokyo, Conference of the international givers for the rebuilding of Afghanistan , in the presence of the chief of the temporary government, Hamid Karzai. Countries are said ready to free money immediately: European Union (500 M$), Japan (500 M$), the United States (296 M$).
  • Attack against the American Information center of Calcutta: 4 Indian police officers are killed. The Indian government shows the Pakistan, which rejects this charge. The 25, the India carries out the test of a ballistic missile.
  • Israel-Palestine:
    • Assassination with Nablus of four alleged members of the military wing of the Hamas by the Israeli army.
    • a member of the Brigades of the Al-Aqsa martyrs opens fire on passers by in front of a bus stop with Jerusalem - Western: 2 died and 28 wounded plus the killed terrorist.

Wednesday January 23rd 2002

  • Death with Paris, of the philosopher and sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu at the 71 years age.
  • After the declaration of bankruptcy of the group Enron with the the United States, the 3 December 2001, Kenneth Lay, her owner resigns. The 25, the former vice-president of the group J. Clifford Baxter which was one of the first to denounce the countable embezzlements, is found died at the wheel of its car, a ball in the head. The police force speaks about a suicide.
  • Attack of the Hezbollah against Israeli positions in the sector of the farms of Chebaa, about thirty drawn shells. Tsahal response by tackling positions hezbollah in the south of the Lebanon.
  • “day without doctor” (or “24:00 without doctor”) in France, day of strike of the liberal general doctors (70 with 90  % of strikers according to the areas) and the Dentist S (approximately 50  % of strikers) impetus by the Unof and SML, in particular claiming the passage of the consultation of 18,50 with 20  Eur and questioning of the system of guards within the framework of permanence of the care.

Thursday January 24th 2002

  • With Sitted in Italy, on the initiative of the pope Jean-Paul II, 3rd gathering of prayers with the representatives of eleven confessions, on the topic Never more the war in the name of God .
  • the aeronautical manufacturer Boeing records a firm control of 100 apparatuses 737-800 plus fifty options, for a value of 9,1 billion $, emanating from the Irish Company Ryanair.
    • Airbus announces the suppression 6000 employment (15% of manpower) but without dry dismissals, and a forecast of sale from 250 to 300 apparatuses is a fall of 60%.
  • With Beirut with the Lebanon, attack against the former Christian chief of the Lebanese Forces, Elie Hobeika , killed in the explosion of its car. Aimed in a complaint for its role in the massacres, in 1982, of the Palestinian refugees of the camps of Chabra and Chatila, it was on the point of making “revelations” on the implication of current Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the organization of these massacres.
  • Of passage to Paris, received by the Reception center of the Foreign press , prince Reza Pahlavi, wire heir to the Shah of Iran calls its wishes a “national referendum” which makes it possible to the Iranian people to come to a conclusion “about the separation of the clergy and the State and the introduction of a democracy”, and is declared ready to take its place within the framework of a constitutional monarchy.

Friday January 25th 2002

  • the Magistrates' court of Paris condemns the general Paul Aussaresses , author of the book Special services, Algérie, 1955-1957 , with 7.500 € of fine for complicity of apology for war crimes .
  • In the main cities of Argentinian, immense concert of blows of pans to protest against the economic policy of the new government.
  • Attack-suicide with Tel-Aviv: 25 wounded. Tsahal response by bombarding installations of the Palestinian security services in the West Bank and with Gaza.
  • Six hundred American soldiers unload with the Filipino within the framework of phase II of the war against Al-Qaeda . Their mission is to help the Filipino army with éradiquer the islamist terrorist group Abu Sayyaf of the island of Basilan, officially without taking part in the engagements and occupying of headquarters.

Saturday January 26th 2002

  • Of the 26 to the 27, with Reciprocity with Paris, national Convention of the Socialist party, which adopts the project 2002-2012 elaborate under the direction of Martine Aubry, life in better, life together . 27, speech of Lionel Jospin in front of two thousand section secretaries.

Sunday January 27th 2002

  • Israel: attack-suicide of the Fatah to Jerusalem - Western: 1 died and several tens of Israeli casualties in reprisals with the Israeli violation of the cease-fire of January 14th. It is the first attack made by a woman, Waffa Idris.

Monday January 28th 2002

  • In France:
    • the official figures published by the ministry for the interior give a report on a rise of 7,69% of criminality in France in 2001 (+9,86% for the crimes and offenses against the people, +13,19% of rapes with the new phenomenon of revolving, 21,18% of the authors are minors). The publication of its figures was the object of an animated societal debate:
      • the four last years show that there is no correlation between the improvement of the unemployment (which dropped) and the level of criminality (which increased),
      • According to various specialists and studies: “the feeling of impunity created the conditions of the repetition”:
        • less than one third of the aggressions is the subject of a complaint,
        • since 1993, the number of minors blamed increased by 90%,
        • since the entry year application of the law Guigou in January 2001, the number of écrouées people dropped by 6,06%, and the police custodies dropped by 9,7%,
        • a third of the custodial sentences are not carried out.
    • the compulsory liquidation of the company Prost-Large Price is pronounced by the Bankruptcy court of Versailles.
    • the newspaper “Le Figaro” gives a report on a note of the CIA indicating that among the held islamist prisoners with Guantanamo appear six prisoners who would have French nationality. The 30, the French government confirms this information.
  • the European currency has low touched its level for 6 months vis-a-vis the dollar with 0,8580 $ per 1 €. Following the encouraging remarks of the president of the American Federal fund Alan Greenspan, the markets are trustful in the American recovery. The American credits held by foreign funds would assemble to 2.100 billion dollars at the end of 2001.
  • the vice-president of the Italian Council, Gianfranco Fini of National alliance, is named representing Italy within the Convention for the revision of the European institutions , of which one of the two vice-presidents is Italian Giuliano Amato.
  • Beginning of the strike movement general and demonstrations monsters, organized by the partisans of the opponent Marc Ravalomanana, who refuses the organization of a second turn to the presidential election, of which he declared himself victorious as of the first turn of December 16th, by noting the very important embezzlements and fakings made by the capacity in place.
  • With Lagos with the Nigeria, a fire having gained an ammunition dump, it occurs a gigantic explosion whose deflagrations, cause the death of several tens of people. Two thousand others perish drowned while trying to cross the channels of the city.

Tuesday January 29th 2002

  • In France:
    • the National Assembly vote the new law on the presumption of innocence, after arbitration of the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and rehandling.
    • the former minister for the Interior Charles Pasqua announces officially her candidature for the presidential election.
  • the president George W. Bush makes her speech on the state of the Union, in the presence of the chief of the temporary government Hamid Karzai. The president asks the Congress to vote an increase of 15% of the Budget of Defense (48 billion $). He shows the Iran, the Iraq and the North Korea to obtain weapons of massive destruction. The popularity of the president borders the 85%, with the feeling of national union vis-a-vis terrorism.

Wednesday January 30th 2002

  • Palestinian Attack-suicide with Tulkarem: 1 died and a dozen Israeli casualties.

Thursday January 31st 2002

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