July 2002

Monday the 1st er July 2002

  • In France, Jean-Marie Messier, chairman of Vivendi Universal, gives its mandate to the provision of the Board of directors. The July 2nd, the value of the titles loses up to 25% in a meeting depression to 4,15% with the Bourse de Paris.

    • Of recent revelations relates to possible doubtful countable handling of the group. The accounts of the group Vivendi Universal indicate a surendettée company (34 billion euros).
    • the step of Jean-Marie Messier had related in particular to the contribution of coherence in a vast operative conglomerate in the sectors of water, the building, the telephone, transport and television. The situation of translated the Vivendi empire, inter alia, the difficulty of building a world empire of communication and cultural activities , able to compete with the American giants, while misant on the Revolution Internet.
    • the July 3rd, Jean-Rene Fourtou, vice-president of the Board of trustees of Aventis is named chairman to replace Jean-Marie Messier.
  • the Treaty creating the International penal court (CPI) between officially into force. The US government requires immunity for the blue helmets American and the personnel of the other countries not-signatories of the treaty.
  • Great Britain considers the Vaccination again animals against the Foot-and-mouth disease. This vaccination campaign should make it possible to prevent any news epizooty, of width similar to that which the Great Britain in 2001 knew.
    • the farmers are reticent with systematic vaccination because of the rules of export imposing to them a latency of 1 year between vaccination and marketing on export. However this rule has just been softened (passage of the deadline of 1 year in 6 months).
    • See also: Food crises in Europe.
  • the open procedure against the general Pinochet is definitively closed by the Supreme court of justice of the Chile. The July 9th, the general resigns of its post of senator with life.

Tuesday July 2nd 2002

Wednesday July 3rd 2002

Thursday July 4th 2002

  • In France, in the Business of blood contaminated, the Room of instruction of the Court of Appeal of Paris, pronounces a general withdrawal of case concerning the not-ministerial shutter of the business. The 8, the parquet floor is provided in
cassation.

Friday July 5th 2002

  • In France, the president Jacques Chirac names a commission of twelve wise, chaired by the constitutionnalist Pierre April, charged with examining the penal statute of the Head of the State.
  • the Court of Appeal of Poitiers, confirms the judgment of the abbot Jean-Yves Cottard at four years of prison (of which 18 month closes), for the death of teenagers, at the time of one transfered in boat along the Breton coast.
  • the FF discharge the national sport selector Roger Lemerre of his functions to replace it the July 19th by Jacques Santini .
  • Two bomb attacks strike the suburbs of Algiers, whereas the country celebrates the 40e birthday of its independence: 35 died and more than one hundred of casualties, on the market of Larbaâ and a attended beach.

Saturday July 6th 2002

  • In France, prolog of the 89e Tour de France cyclist, which celebrates its 100e birthday. The July 28th, American Lance Armstrong gains the victory and becomes quadruple winner of the outer loop .
  • With Kabul in Afghanistan, assassination of the vice-president and public Minister for Labor Hadji Abou Kadir .

Sunday July 7th 2002

Monday July 8th 2002

  • Arrest in the suburbs of Karachi to the Pakistan, of three islamist suspectés to be implied in the attack of the June 14th against the American consulate, at the time which 12 Pakistani had been killed.
  • the resignation of the Deputy Prime Minister Hüsamettin Ozkan of the Turkish Gouvernement of Bülent Ecevit involves a political crisis.

Tuesday July 9th 2002

  • In France in the Business Papon, the Administrative court of Paris condemns the French State to pour one euro symbolic system of damages, with the National federation of the deportees and internees resistant and patriots (FNDIRP), for his responsibility in the facts complained of Maurice Papon.
  • Adoption by the Commission of Brussels of the reform project of the common Agricultural policy (CAP), disputed by the France and presented by the European Commissioner, German Franz Fischler, from the point of view of the widening of the European Union.
  • Summit of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) with Durban in South Africa. The OAU is renamed African Union and refuses to recognize the new Malagasy president Marc Ravalomanana.
  • In Iran, the Ayatollah Jalaluddin Taheri , one of the high-ranking persons of the Iranian clergy, charged with the mosque of Ispahan, second city of the country, violently criticized the religious leaders and resigned of its functions. The 12, the president George W. Bush calls with more “freedom and of tolerance”.

Wednesday July 10th 2002

Thursday July 11th 2002

  • Of the Moroccan soldiers unloads on the uninhabited Spanish small island of Persil and hoists the flag of the Cherifien kingdom, whereas the country celebrates the marriage of the king Mohammed VI.
    • the 17, of the military units of the Tercio take again possession of the small island without drawing a shot.
    • the 22, a compromise is signed with Rabat with the Morocco.

Friday July 12th 2002

  • the Ministers of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy and David Blunkett announce the permanent closure of the center of Sangatte in the Pas-de-Calais, by the end of the first quarter 2003.

Saturday July 13rd 2002

Sunday July 14th 2002

  • In France, little before the procession the July 14th, an young man mixed in crowd, Maxime Brunerie, near to the nationalist movement radical Unit and former candidate on the list MNR with Paris, car a shot in direction of the president Jacques Chirac, using a rifle 22 Long riffle, however it is quickly controlled by spectators of the procession before being stopped by the security forces.

Monday July 15th 2002

  • With the Pakistan, death sentence of Sheik Omar for the murder of the American journalist Daniel Pearl in last January.

Tuesday July 16th 2002

  • In Turkey, defection of 57 members, including 7 ministers, of the governing party of the democratic left.

Wednesday July 17th 2002

  • Attack-suicide against a coach in Israel: 8 dead.

Thursday July 18th 2002

  • In France, the National Assembly votes the project of law of orientation and programming on the internal security . The 31, the senate votes in the same way the bill.
  • the National Assembly votes the supplementaru estimates for 2002 which envisage, in particular, a fall of 5% of the income tax.

Friday July 19th 2002

Saturday July 20th 2002

Sunday July 21st 2002

  • Of the July 21st to the August 18th is held the first edition of Paris-Beach which transforms the bank roads into beach with 1000 tons of fine sand and palm trees. Very great success of image for the capital doubled of a solid popular success with more than 2,5 million visitors. The idea is taken up abroad.
  • the American telephone company WorldCom is declared in bankruptcy, presenting the most important voluntary liquidation before bankruptcy of the American economic history. The political repercussions should be very important around a redefinition of the Gouvernance of company.

Monday July 22nd 2002

  • From July 22nd to 28th, with Toronto with the Canada, immense gathering of the world Days of Youth. The 23, arrived of the pope Jean-Paul II and 28, great closing mass to which assist some eight hundred and thousand young people of all the countries of the world.
  • In the Gaza Strip, the house of the local leader of the Hamas to Gaza, Saleh Chehadeh is bombarded by a fighter Israeli F-16: 14 dead including 9 children.

Tuesday July 23rd 2002

Wednesday July 24th 2002

  • In France, the Assembled national one votes the project of law authorizing the ratification of the convention of the United Nations against organized transnational criminality http://www.assemblee-nat.fr/12/ta/ta0005.asp.

Thursday July 25th 2002

  • the European Cour of the human rights condemns unanimously the France for inequitable lawsuit in the Affaire Papon. The lawyers of Maurice Papon ask for his handing-over in freedom again, putting forward its age (91 years) and its health condition.

Friday July 26th 2002

  • In France, the Senate votes the project of law of orientation and programming on the Justice , which institutes the Juridiction of proximity and hardens the criminal law of the minors.
  • From July 26th to 27th, Corsica visit in of the Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy, joined the 27, by the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Their message: refusal of violence and priority to economic development, by confirming the exceptional Plane investment of 1,98 billion euros over fifteen years envisaged by the law of January 22nd, 2002 . In addition the concept of “Corsica exception” of the government Jospin will be replaced by “Corsica specificity” within the framework of the news law of decentralization .

Saturday July 27th 2002

Sunday July 28th 2002

Monday July 29th 2002

  • In France, the Council of State cancels the election, in March 2001, of Catherine Megret of MNR to the town hall of Vitrolles in the Rhone delta, and that of Patrick Balkany “various-right-hand side” with the town hall of Levallois-Perret in the Hauts-de-Seine.
  • the deputy and mayor UDF of Annecy Bernard Bosson, undertakes an operation of political pressure in order to prevent the behavior of the summer school of the Front National envisaged from August 28th to 31st with the Impérial De luxe hotel. The FN engages a Procédure in summary procedure against the town hall of Annecy.
  • After the world Day of Youth to Toronto, from July 29th to 30th, the pope Jean-Paul II goes to the Guatemala where accommodate it a half-million faithful.

Tuesday July 30th 2002

  • In France, the National Assembly vote the project of law creating the contract-youths to replace the device of the employment-youths. This device is retroactive at July 1st.

Wednesday July 31st 2002

  • Attack-suicide in the enclosure of the Hebraic University of Jerusalem, asserted by Hamas in first response with the Israeli raid of the July 22nd: 7 dead including 4 Americans and 2 French, and 86 wounded.
  • After Toronto and the Guatemala, the pope Jean-Paul II goes to the Mexico where it proceeds, the 1 {{er}} August, in the Basilique Our-Lady-with-Guadalupe with Mexico City, with the canonization of Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474-1548), which becomes the first Indien saint of the Christian calendar. It also proceeds to the beatification of two Indians of the area of Oaxaca carried out the September 16th 1700: Juan Bautista and Jacinto of Los Angeles .
  • In Turkey, the Turkish National Assembly autodisssout and of the anticipated legislative elections are fixed at the November 3rd.

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