June 2003

the éphéméride | all on June and 2003.

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Sunday the 1st er June 2003

  • In France, of 1st at June 3rd, with Évian-the-Baths (Haute-Savoie), top of the G8 widened to eleven “emergent countries” of which the China, the India and in Arab, African and Latin-American States.
  • Great demonstration with Geneva and Animated (Haute-Savoie) gathering approximately 100.000 people against the policies of the countries of the G8 and the liberal internationalization.
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Monday June 2nd 2003

  • In France:
    • Opening in front of the special Court of Assizes of Paris, the lawsuit of the eight members of the commando having assassinated the Corsica prefect Claude Erignac in .
    • Operations of Urban guerilla warfare with Clermont-Ferrand in Auvergne, implying the overflight, the hovering, the landing in the principal public garden of the town of helicopters was made from June 2nd to the lasting June 6th every night.
  • Launching, since Baïkonour (Kazakhstan), of the European probe Mars Express .
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Tuesday June 3rd 2003

  • In France, New day of strike in the public office and new demonstrations against the reform project of the retirements.
  • Summit américano-Arabic with Charm el-Cheikh during which George W. Bush US president, the Egyptian Hosni Mubarak, Palestinian the Mahmoud Abbas, the king Abdallah II of Jordan, the crown prince Abdallah to Saudi Arabia and the emir of Bahrain, endorse the “roadmap”.
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Wednesday June 4th 2003

  • the political Committee and of safety (COPS) decides to send a temporary Multinational force urgently, under French command, in the province of Ituri in the North-East of the Democratic republic of Congo (DRC). It is the first military operation carried out out of Europe by the European Union, without participation of NATO.
  • Summit with Aquaba (Jordan) between the president George W. Bush, Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and her Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas in order to officially launch the “roadmap”, denounced at once by the Palestinian radicals and the Israeli ultrasionists.
  • 3 European journalists (2 French and a Belgian) and their américano-Laotian interpreter, are stopped whereas they carried out a report in country hmong (Laos) and are condemned the June 30th to 15 years of prison.
  • the plain rebels of the movement “Bast for the reconciliation and the democracy” launch an offensive against the capital Morovia to the Liberia.
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Thursday June 5th 2003

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Friday June 6th 2003

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Saturday June 7th 2003

  • Suicide bombing, close to Kabul (Afghanistan), against a transporting bus of the German soldiers of the International force of safety (ISAF): 4 killed soldiers.
  • In Poland, from June 7th to 8th, referendum on adhesion with the European Union: 41,4% of Abstention and 78,3% of yes .
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Sunday June 8th 2003

  • 3 Palestinian kills 4 Israeli soldiers, before being themselves shot down with Erez, in the north of the Gaza Strip. 7 Palestinian is killed of which a person in charge of the Hamas.
  • Tsahal immediately carries out a raid of reprisals on Gaza. 7 Palestinian is killed of which a person in charge of the Hamas.
  • the Secretary of State Colin Powell, invites the Iranians to make pressure on their leaders so that they give up the “support for terrorism” and their “capacity to produce nuclear weapons”.
  • From June 8th to 9th, second turn of the local elections in Italy, confirming the victory of the opposition of center-left: 7 provinces out of 12 return to him.
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Monday June 9th 2003

  • the French soldiers start to evacuate the foreign nationals with Morovia in Liberia.
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Tuesday June 10th 2003

  • In France, new day of mobilization against the reform of the retirements, whereas the debate with the National Assembly opens.
  • Tsahal carries out with Gaza a raid of reprisals to the attack of June 8th. Abdelaziz Al-Rantassi , number 2 of the Hamas is slightly wounded and 3 Palestinian is killed.
  • Beginning of the demonstrations with Teheran to claim a change of the mode. Condoleezza Rice warns the Iran against “the continuation of programs of weapons of massive destruction”. The demonstrations will become extensive in the following days.
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Wednesday June 11th 2003

  • Suicide bombing by a 18 year old kamikaze, against a bus with Jerusalem - Western: 17 people are killed.
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Thursday June 12th 2003

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Friday June 13rd 2003

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Saturday June 14th 2003

  • In France, inauguration of the 45e aeronautical Living room of Le Bourget which is held until the June 22nd.
  • In Iraq, the American troops launch, in the north of Baghdad, the operation Scorpion of the desert whose result is the arrest of almost a thousand of partisans of the deposed mode in 2 weeks.
  • Arrived at the the Middle East of the American special correspondent John Wolf .
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Sunday June 15th 2003

  • In France, several tens of thousands of people express with Paris, against the strikes and the trade-union dictatorship.
  • Croatia: from June 15th to 20th, with Dubrovnik a conference is held on sustainable development, with energies in the center of the question.
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Monday June 16th 2003

  • In France, with the aeronautical Living room of Le Bourget, Airbus announces to have obtained a historical contract of 12,5 billion dollars with the company Emirates .
  • In Iraq, arrest of Hamid Mahmoud Al-Tikriti , private secretary of Saddam Hussein.
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Tuesday June 17th 2003

  • In France, 165 members of the Organization of Moudjahiddin of the Iranian People (OMPI, movement of opposition to the mode of Teheran), suspected by the public authorities to prepare “terrorist activities”, is stopped in the Yvelines and the Val-d'Oise. An important protest movement starts in the community.
  • With the Liberia, agreement of cease-fire signed with Accra (Ghana), broken as of the June 24th.
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Wednesday June 18th 2003

  • In France:
  • In the night from June 18th to 19th, the American army destroys a convoy which was on the point of passing from Iraq in Syria and in which could have been dignitaries of the old mode of Saddam Hussein.
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Thursday June 19th 2003

  • In France, a woman who had immolée the day before by fire in sign of protest against the raid of the June 17th of the members of OMPI, dies of her burns.
  • From June 19th to 21st with Thessalonique (Greece), top of the 25 current and future Member States of the European Union. During the top, the project of European Constitution worked out by the Convention chaired by Valery Giscard d'Estaing, is described as “starting good base”. Decision of the 25 to create a common structure against clandestine immigration.
  • Russia: Beginning of the Business Ioukos with the arrest of Alexeï Pitchougine, chief of his security services, shown of two murders and an attempted murder in 1998.
  • Iran: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) exhorts the Iranian government “to sign and implement, quickly and without condition, an additional protocol” with the Traité non-proliferation (NPT), allowing surprised inspections.
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Friday June 20th 2003

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Saturday June 21st 2003

  • In France:
    • 22e edition of the Festival of the music: put aside of the sporadic overflows, was very held well in spite of a canicular heat. As usual, all the styles of musics were côtoyés until late in the night.
    • Following the raid of the June 17th against the members of the Organization of Moudjahiddin of the Iranian People, 17 people is put in examination and is écrouées, of which Maryam Radjavi, wife of the chief of the movement. This one is released the July 3rd after an hunger strike the many ones of partisans.
    • visits in Corsica of It to yes support the with the referendum of the July 6th, the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and the Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy, are highly taken with part with the Aéroport of Bastia, by a hundred opponents to the reform of the retirements.
  • In Iraq, a sabotage damages the strategic pipeline connecting the oil layers of the north of the country to those of the south and with the port of Mina Al-Bakr in the Arabo-Persian gulf.
  • From June 21st to 23rd, Economic forum with Chouneh (Jordan), devoted primarily in the future of the area after the second war against the Iraq.
  • Abdallah Kawasmeh, number one of the Hamas is killed with Hebron at the time of a targeted operation of the Israeli army.
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Sunday June 22nd 2003

  • In France:
    • spectacular Interpellation of the leader anti-mondialiste Jose Bove in her residence of Potensac (Aveyron). It is led directly, in the helicopter, with the Prison of Villeneuve-the-Maguelone (Herault), where it must purge a 10 months sorrow of prison for pulling up of rice and corn transgenic.
    • Festival of the cinema.
  • Visit of Jean-Paul II with Banja Luka (Serb Bosnia) at the time it calls with reciprocal forgiveness for the massacres of yesterday and with the conciliation. Mass of beatification of laic Croatian Ivan Merz (1896-1928).
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Monday June 23rd 2003

  • Cuba: 50 cuban nationals were condemned to heavy sorrows of imprisonment for “work in.liaison.with a foreign power in the objective to shake the cuban Government”.
  • In France, at the time of the 275e birthday of the Freemasonry, the president Jacques Chirac receives with the Elys3ee palace, the large Masters of various maconnic obediences.
  • the the World Health Organization (WHO), raises alarm to the SARS to Hong-Kong.
  • a sabotage damages a pipeline in the west of the Iraq.
  • In the night from June 23rd to 24th, raid of the Israeli army against the Hamas in the West Bank: 150 arrests.
  • Two stops of the Supreme court of the United States, relating to the Positive discrimination in favor of the racial minorities for the admission in the universities: Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger. The universities can take into account, among other criteria, the Race of the student, in order to support the diversity of their students (Grutter). These systems must however be limited. A system which, in fact, conduit to the admission of any applicant minimalement qualified of the only fact of its race is unconstitutional (Gratz). The decision which continues to consider that the racial criteria, used in favor of the minorities, are not systematically unconstitutional goes against wishes expressed before by the president George W. Bush. It had wished that the universities (in the species, the university of Michigan) find criteria of admission continuing to support the diversity of their students, without resorting directly to the race like criterion.
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Tuesday June 24th 2003

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Wednesday June 25th 2003

  • In France, the Prix of the independent Intellectuals 2003 is allotted, with Brigitte Bardot for her book a cry in silence .
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Thursday June 26th 2003

  • In France, died of the Cameronian medium ground, Marc-Vivien Foé , during the match of the semi-final of the Cut of the Confederations opposing the Cameroun to the Colombia, with Lyon.
  • the Ministers for the Agriculture of the European Union, joined together with Luxembourg, conclude an agreement from compromise on the reform of the Agricultural policy common CAP opening the way to a new system of subsidies.
  • In the United States:
    • Stop Lawrence v. Texas of the Supreme court of the United States, relating to the sexual relationships between agreeing adults of the same sex. Cancelling its former jurisprudence (Bowers v. Hardwick, 1986), the court declares that the right of the agreeing adults to have homosexual relations in deprived is protected by the constitution, abrogeant in fact the laws of various States penalizing the Homosexualité.
    • Stop Nike v. Kasky of the Supreme court of the United States. The court refuses for the moment to intervene in the continuations carried out in front of the courts of the State of California against manufacturing articles of Nike sport. Nike is attacked for declarations allegedly false on the work conditions in its subcontractors in the Tiers-monde. The legal question, if the falseness of the declarations were proven, is to know if the declarations profit from the protection of the Ier Amendement with the Constitution, which guarantees freedom of expression. The refusal is justified by reasons of opportunity, it is probable that the Supreme court agrees to once seize business in call the lawsuit in front of the justice of California concluded its.
    • Stop Wiggins v. Smith of the Supreme court of the United States. The stop is in conformity with the recent tendency of the court in favor of the rights of defense, in particular in the businesses of Capital punishment, contrary to its jurisprudence of the years 1980 and 1990. The lawyers of Wiggins, considered to be guilty of murder, had not sought to make recognize with the jury charged to pronounce the sentence the extenuating circumstances rising from the particularly difficult childhood of Wiggins, and its mental capacities reduced, and Wiggins had been condemned to death. Defense is considered to be unreasonably insufficient, and the verdict is broken.
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Friday June 27th 2003

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Saturday June 28th 2003

  • In France, the media public prosecutor Eric de Montgolfier reveals in an interview with the newspaper Le Monde that the Chancellery had proposed to him to be promoted at the station of Prosecuting attorney with Versailles against obtaining its resignation. A promotion-sanction which the interested party refused.
  • Jean-Paul II in his apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Europa lance a cry of alarm against the abandonment of the Christian culture in Europe.
  • Visit of the adviser of the American president for the national security, Condoleezza Rice, with the the Middle East.
  • After eight years and half of interruption, following the taking of hostage of an Airbus by a commando of GIA, Air France takes again its flights towards the Algérie.
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Sunday June 29th 2003

  • the American troops launch, in the north of Baghdad (Iraq), the operation Crotale of the desert whose objective is “the capture of the partisans of the old mode of Saddam Hussein”.
  • With the the Middle East, the Palestinian main organizations, whose Hamas and Islamic Djihad, announce a truce of the operations anti-Israelis (attacks).
  • With the the United States, Fenwick (Connecticut), death of the American actress Katherine Hepburn at the 96 years age.
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Monday June 30th 2003

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