July 2003

the éphéméride | all on July and 2003.

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Tuesday the 1st er July 2003

  • Italy takes the revolving semi-annual presidency of the European Union.
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Wednesday July 2nd 2003

  • France: the Court of Appeal of Paris orders the handing-over in freedom of Maryam Radjavi against a guarantee of 80.000 €.
  • European Union:
    • a sharp incident bursts with the the European Parliament in Strasbourg, when the Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, in answer to an attack, qualifies the vice-president of the social democrat group, German Martin Schulz of “ kapo of Nazi camp ”.
    • the the European Parliament vote two laws which will make it possible to raise the moratorium on GMO.
      • the first law makes compulsory the labelling of any food intended for the human or animal use containing GMO beyond 0,9 % (not of labelling of the animals having consumed cereals GMO).
      • the second law imposes labelling on any food product containing of the GMO unauthorized in the Union, beyond 0,5 % during 3 years. After 3 years, these products will be prohibited.
  • In Algeria, the two historical leaders of the MADE, Abbassi Madani and Ali Benhadj, is released.
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Thursday July 3rd 2003

  • Russia: in the Business Ioukos, Plato Lebedev, shareholder of the company and president of his financial arm, Menatep , are stopped and accused of various financial infringements within the framework of the privatization of the group of manure Apatit in 1994 and of implication in the assassination, in 1998, of a mayor who fought to force Ioukos to pay his tax arrears.
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Friday July 4th 2003

  • In Corsica, Yvan Colonna is stopped in a sheep-fold of Oporto-Sports shirt in Corsica of the south, and is imprisoned with the Prison of Health in Paris. It was required since May 23rd, 1999.
  • Death, close to Munich of the essay writer Amin Mohler at the 83 years age. It was some time secretary of Ernst Jünger after the second world war and historian of the preserving Révolution.
  • Death with Los Angeles of the American black singer of Rhythm and traditional blues, Barry White (born the September 12th 1944 with the Texas).
  • the actor Arnold Schwarzenegger presents his last film Terminator 3 to the American troops of occupation in Baghdad.
  • the television channel Al-Jezira diffuses a message of Saddam Hussein, dated from the June 14th in which he declares: “ We sacrificed the capacity, but we refuse to sacrifice our principles, our faith and our honor ”.
    • Five other messages will be diffused until the end of August.
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Saturday July 5th 2003

  • In France:
    • Death in Paris, of Isabelle of Orleans and Bragance (1911-2003), at the 91 years age.
    • Departure of Paris of the 90e Tour de France cyclist of which it is the hundredth birthday.
  • Double attack-suicide against a concert of rock'n'roll in the suburbs of Moscow, perpetrated by two women tchetchenes: 13 killed spectators.
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Sunday July 6th 2003

  • In Corsica, referendum on the creation of a single territorial collectivity: participation 60,52 %, not carries it with 50,98 % of the voices.
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Monday July 7th 2003

  • Iraq: The general John Abizaid replaces the general Tommy Franks with the head of the American central command Centcom.
  • Great Britain: The report/ratio of the House of Commons, on possible handling of the abundant data by the intelligence services, concludes that the Gouvernement Blair did not lie to the Room but that it has “ involuntarily induced in error”.
  • the United States: The spokesperson of the White House, Michael Anton, recognizes that: “ George W. Bush should not have affirmed, in its Discours on the state of the Union of last January, that Iraq had tried to get in Africa uranium for its military nuclear program ”.
  • Lebanon: Death with Beirut of the patriarch of the Iraqi Church chaldéenne, Raphaël 1st Bidawid at the 81 years age. He fought against the fatal embargo imposed by the the United Nations on Iraq since August 1990, and considered Saddam Hussein as “ the politician just whom we ever had ”.
  • Burundi: The National liberation armies (FNL), Hutu rebel movement , launch an attack on Bujumbura. The engagements with the governmental forces, which last one week, are extrêments violent one, making more than 200 died, and mark a climbing in the Civil war of Burundi.
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Tuesday July 8th 2003

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Wednesday July 9th 2003

  • With the Brazil, on the river the Amazon, an operation carried out in secrecy by the services of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs with an aim of delivering Ingrid Betancourt shows a failure. It is the hostage of the FARC since February 2000.
  • With the Laos, the journalists Vincent Reynaud and Thierry Falise , as their American interpreter of Laotian origin Naw Karl Moulted , are released. They had been condemned the June 30th to 15 years of Prison.
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Thursday July 10th 2003

  • In France, the National Assembly vote the bill of Nicolas Sarkozy on immigration. The shutter reforming the Double pain is voted unanimously: it reduces the possibilities of expulsion of the foreign delinquents born or entered to France before the age thirteen years.

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Friday July 11th 2003

  • In France, in the Business of the Prefect Erignac, the verdict of the lawsuit condemns:
    • with the life imprisonment, Alain Ferrandi and Pierre Alessandri ,
    • at 30 years of prison, Jean Castela and Vincent Andrinzzi ,
    • and with sorrows from 15 to 25 year of prison, four others condemned.
  • visits some in Uganda, the president George W. Bush does not deny more that false informations could be used for “ to better sell ” the war, but rejects some the responsibility on the director for the CIA, George Tenet, with which it renews its confidence.
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Saturday July 12th 2003

Sunday July 13rd 2003

  • In Iraq, new the temporary Government council of 25 members meets for the first time at Baghdad. Its decisions will be suspended on the right to veto of the American administrator Paul Bremer.
    • a court charged to judge the “war crimes” of the deposed mode is created, as of the 15.
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Monday July 14th 2003

Tuesday July 15th 2003

  • Death with Havana of the guitarist/singer Compay Segundo at the 95 years age.
  • Visit in Washington, of the German Minister for the Foreign affairs Joschka Fischer who declares: “ the transatlantic bonds are crucial, they are the stone of obstacle of the peace and the stability of XXIe century ”.
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Wednesday July 16th 2003

  • In France, of the violent ones Orage S in the west makes 4 dead.
  • Celia Cruz dies in Fort Lee in the New Jersey (the United States)
  • the the United States has just known to them 147e loss in Iraq, that is to say the same number of losses as at the time of the war of the Gulf of 1990-1991.
  • In India, of the pouring rain makes 100 missings in the Vallée of Kulu in the north of the country.
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Thursday July 17th 2003

  • In England, David Kelly, a former inspector of UNO, is found died close to its residence, with Harrowdon Hill (Oxfordshire).
    • According to the police force it would act of a suicide.
    • It was a specialist in the bacteriological weapons of the British ministry of Defense, and he was the principal adviser of Andrew Gilligan , journalist of the BBC, about his investigation, into the falsification of a report/ratio of September 2002, concerning the weapons of massive destruction Iraqi by the Gouvernement Blair.
    • an investigation is entrusted to Lord Hutton .
  • Visit in Washington, of British the Prime Minister Tony Blair. Received with the American Congress, it calls some with the “ universal values ” and declares under the applause: “ It does not have there a more dangerous theory in international policy than the need to balance the American power ”.
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Friday July 18th 2003

Saturday July 19th 2003

  • With Corsica Ajaccio in , several thousands of demonstrators against the verdicts of the lawsuit of the Business of the Prefect Erignac.
  • From July 19th to 22nd, British the Prime Minister Tony Blair is in round with the Japan, South Korea and with Hong-Kong.
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Sunday July 20th 2003

  • In France, two bombs explode with Nice towards 2:30 of the morning at a few minutes of interval at principal perception. The people descended in the street following the first explosion are wounded by the second.
    • These two attacks cause 16 wounded and are asserted by the ex-FLNC.
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Monday July 21st 2003

Tuesday July 22nd 2003

  • In Iraq, the two wire of Saddam Hussein, Odai and Qusai, as one of its grandsons (14 years old), is killed with Mosul, at the time of a raid of the 101e American airborne division against the house where they had taken refuge.
    • This operation could be held thanks to the information obtained by the program of reward, which will make it possible to the denouncer to touch a gold mine of 30 million dollars.
    • Since Hong-Kong, British the Prime Minister Tony Blair exclaims: “ It is one great day… ”.
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Wednesday July 23rd 2003

  • From July 23rd to 25th, official visit of the president Jacques Chirac in New Caledonia.
  • Death of the owner-founder of the Parisian “Boats Flies”, Jean Bruel , at the 86 years age.
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Thursday July 24th 2003

  • In France, the National Assembly vote definitively the plan of the minister Francois Fillon on the retirements.
  • In the United States, the American Congress publishes the special Commission Report of investigation into the Attentats of September 11th, 2001. The report/ratio is expurgé of 28 pages in which are blamed certain Saoudi amenable tops.
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Friday July 25th 2003

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Saturday July 26th 2003

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Sunday July 27th 2003

  • In France:
    • On the plate of the television channel France 2, the Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin, tries to put a term at the polemic growing on the conditions of an operation led in secrecy by the services of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, on the river the Amazon, to the Brésil with an aim of delivering Ingrid Betancourt, hostage of the FARC since February 2000. He contradicts any contact with the kidnappers.
    • American Lance Armstrong gains the 90e Tour de France cyclist for the fifth consecutive year.
  • With Vilnius in Lithuania, the French actress Marie Trintignant, dark in a deep coma after an argument with his/her companion Bertrand Cantat, singer of the group Black Desire, which is placed in Detention pending trial. The actress was finishing a film on the life of the novelist Colette.
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Monday July 28th 2003

  • In France, of gigantic fires, primarily of criminal origins, devastates the Massif Moors and the area of Holy-Maxime in the Var.
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Tuesday July 29th 2003

  • In France, 45 steles of the cemetery of war of Saint-Aubert were broken and/or reversed.
  • Visit in Washington, of Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, received by the president George W. Bush.
  • With the factory of Puebla close to Mexico City, the last ladybird of Volskwagen, leaves the line productions. It is the end of a car become mythical, designed in 1934 by the engineer Ferdinand Porsche.
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Wednesday July 30th 2003

  • In France:
    • the Minister for agriculture, Herve Gaymard, confirms a state aid of 37 million euros to the stockbreeders. The dryness of this summer causes a lack of fodder in the south of France.
    • Three members of the ETA are stopped with Cahors.
  • Death of the former chief of the rebels of the Sierra Leone, Foday Sankoh. He was accused of Crime against humanity by a court of UNO.
  • the president George W. Bush is opposed to extend the rights of the marriage to homosexual American.
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Thursday July 31st 2003

  • the Safety advice of the United Nations unanimously adopts a resolution calling the Morocco and the independence rebels of the Polisario to be worked together in favor of the approval of the peace plan for the the Sahara Occidental.

  • the two girls of the deposed Iraqi president Raghad and Rana arrived at Amman, with their nine children coming from Damas where they had found refuge since the end of April. They were accommodated officially by the authorities and by the princess Aïcha Al-Hussein , sister of the king, with the agreement of Washington and are placed with the palate of the hosts.
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