May 2001

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Tuesday the 1st er May 2001

  • the United States: The president George W. Bush exposes the new American strategic doctrines that it bases on anti-missile defense more than on the nuclear deterrence, and presents his project of shield like irreversible. In fact it calls in question the Traité ABM and announces a unilateral reduction of the American nuclear arsenal.
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Wednesday May 2nd 2001

  • France: Following the revelations of the general Paul Aussaresses in her book Special services Algeria 1955-1957 , President Jacques Chirac condemns “ the atrocities, the acts of torture and the assassinations which could be made during the war of Algeria ” that “ nothing could justify ”.
    • It requires that the Aussaresses general be suspended Ordre of the Legion of honor and seizes the Minister for Defense Alain Richard so that are proposed to him disciplinary actions.
  • the Ligue of the human rights deposits a complaint against the Aussaresses general for “ apology for crimes and war crimes ”.
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Thursday May 3rd 2001

  • world Day of freedom of the press, to remember the many journalists assassinated in the exercise of their profession and to express his support for the victims of the violations of freedom of the press.
  • the Vatican: From May 3rd to 6th, pontifical voyage of Jean-Paul II on the traces of Paul de Tarse in Greece. Athens, he is sorry for the “ sins ” of the “ wire and girls of the Catholic church against the orthodoxe brothers and sisters ”.
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Friday May 4th 2001

Saturday May 5th 2001

Sunday May 6th 2001

  • Basque Country: With Saragossa, assassination of the president of the popular party of Aragon, Manual Gimenez Abad, at one week of the autonomous elections.
  • the Vatican: From May 6th to 8th, pontifical voyage of Jean-Paul II on the traces of holy Paul in Syria. With Damas, he is first sovereign pontiff invited to penetrate in a mosque.
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Monday May 7th 2001

  • the United Kingdom: Ronnie Biggs, the person in charge of the Attaque of the mail train Glasgow-London in 1963 is stopped with London.
    • Condemned to thirty years of prison, it had been in escape for thirty-five years. Taken refuge with the Brazil, with end of resources and victim of three heart attacks, it negotiated, with the famous British newspaper The Sun , its repatriation against the exclusiveness in the account of its adventures.
  • Israel-Palestine : Israeli aviation carries out bombardments in the Gaza Strip.
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Tuesday May 8th 2001

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Wednesday May 9th 2001

  • France:
    • Lawsuit Marcus Warnecke : from May 9th to 22nd, lawsuit of the German hooligan, in front of the Court of Assizes of Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais). It is continued to have, on June 21st, 1998, at the time of the Football world cup, seriously struck and returned to disabled person the gendarme Daniel Nivel . He is condemned to five years of prison.
    • From May 7th to 20th, 54e Cannes festival with 22 films in competition and a jury chaired by Liv Ullmann.
  • Israel-Palestine :
    • After the discovery in the West Bank, of the bodies of two assassinated Jewish settlers, the Israeli army carries out incursions of reprisals into the sector of Beit Hanoun (northern of the Gaza Strip).
    • Palestinian Attack with the bomb, the point of passage of Kissoufim (Gaza Strip) killing out of the Rumanian workmen. The Israeli army, in reprisals, carries out a shooting of ground-to-ground missiles on Gaza making forty casualties.
    • In the night, of the Israeli troops penetrates inside a refugee camp to Rafah (southern of the Gaza Strip).
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Thursday May 10th 2001

Friday May 11th 2001

  • Spain: With Madrid, an car bomb attack made 14 wounded.
  • the United States: The department of Justice defers to June 11th, the federal execution of Thimothy Mc Veigh, author of the attack of Oklahoma City against the building of the FBI the April 19th, 1995 (168 dead). Parts of the instruction would have been withdrawn by FBI.
  • the United Kingdom: Death of Douglas Adams, British writer (° March 11th 1952)
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Saturday May 12th 2001

  • France: Beginning of the operations of the pumping of the Styrene always contained in the tanks of the wreck of the Italian chimiquier Levoli sun after its shipwreck off the Anglo-Norman islands the October 31st, 2000.
  • Russia: Death of the Russian engineer Alexeï Tupolev at the 75 years age. He was the originator many planes and in particular of the supersonic civilian Tupolev 144.
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Sunday May 13rd 2001

  • Corsica: Creation with Corte of the new unit party Independenza by the fusion of four nationalist organizations whose has Cuncolta independizta.
  • Italy: After five year of a government of center-left, the coalition of center-right, the Maison of freedoms, led by Silvio Berlusconi gains, in the majority absolute, the legislative elections, and has 366 seats (+61) against 252 (- 32) (with the coalition of center-left Olivier led by Francesco Rutelli.
    • Inside the majority coalition, the Ligue of North of Umberto Bossi less knows a strong fall of its results (than 4%), and with the extreme left the communist Refondation with 11 seats loses 24 seats.
    • With the Senate, the majority coalition gains 177 seats (+34) against 131 on all the left (- 36).
    • With the partial municipal elections, the left succeeds in keeping the towns of Turin, Rome and Naples. Rome, Walter Veltroni succeeds as mayor Francesco Rutelli.
  • Macedonia: New government coalition including the Albanian parties.
  • Basque Country: The Left nationalist Basque (PNV), with the capacity for twenty years, has gained the regional elections with 42,3% of the voices (record participation of 79,8%) and 33 seats (+6) compared to 1998.
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Monday May 14th 2001

  • France:
    • In the Business Omar Raddad, the parquet floor of the Court of appeal decides in favor of the revision of the lawsuit of Omar Raddad.
    • the murderer |Patrick Henry, profiting from a measurement of release on parole, is released.
      • Condemned to perpetuity in 1977, for the removal and the murder of a 7 year old child, it profited from a decision of the new regional jurisdiction installation by the law on the presumption of innocence.
    • Died of Roger Boussinot, writer and realizer, author in particular of " Life and died of Jean Chalosse, moutonnier of Landes" , in its residence of Sheepskin, in the Gironde.
  • Afghanistan: In north and is country, resumption of the engagements between the troops of the Talibans to the capacity with Kabul and those of the opposition, under the orders of the commander Ahmed Shah Massoud.
  • Israel-Palestine : Beginning of a recrudescence of Palestinian violent demonstrations, at the time of the birthday of the creation of the , State of Israel May 15th, 1948.
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Tuesday May 15th 2001

  • France:
    • Corsica: from May 15th to 22nd, the French National Assembly examines the bill reforming the statute of the island and the vote in first reading on May 22nd.
  • the National library of France preempts, for the sum of 12,18 MF, in an auction with Drouot-Montaigne, the manuscript of the Voyage at the end of the night of Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
  • Basque Country: with Zarauz, attack with the parcel bomb against the Basque journalist Gorka Laudaburu , which is seriously wounded.
  • a network organized of traffic of images paedophiles on Internet was dismantled in 27 French departments, whose Réunion, and gave place to 66 interpellations, of which a recidivist.
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Wednesday May 16th 2001

Thursday May 17th 2001

  • France:
    • Following the revelations of the general Paul Aussaresses, the parquet floor of Paris opens an preliminary investigation.
    • the board of inquiry of the senate on the crisis of the mad cow makes public his report/ratio, which blames the French State, showing the four Ministers for agriculture who followed one another since 1994, to have knowingly delayed, in the name of doubtful economic imperatives, the medical adoption of measures of precaution.
    • the Meeting: from May 17th to 19th, official visit of the president Jacques Chirac where he proposes a constitutional revision intended to allow an evolution the chart of the overseas departments.
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Friday May 18th 2001

  • Israel-Palestine: Attack-suicide of the Hamas to Netanya in the north of Tel-Aviv: 6 dead of which the kamikaze.
    • massive Response of Israeli aviation, for the first time since 1967, which bombards various targets in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, with the use of the F-16 bombers: 12 died and a hundred casualties.
  • Economy: EDF takes the control of 20,10% of Montedison, second supplier of electricity of Italy.
  • Colombia, with Güepsa (Santander): Edgar Tavera Gaona , 38 years old, is the fourth journalist assassinated since April 27th by the Revolutionary armed forces of Colombia (FARC) following its reports. Four other journalists received death threats, and were enjoints to leave the country within one month.
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Saturday May 19th 2001

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Sunday May 20th 2001

  • France, prize list of the 54e Cannes festival:
    • Palm of gold with the Room of the son of the Italian Nanni Moretti.
    • Grand Prix of the Jury with the Pianist of the Austrian Michael Haneke whose two main actors Isabelle Huppert and Benoît Magimel see themselves decreeing the prices of female role and male.
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Monday May 21st 2001

  • France, businesses:
    • Thirty deputies of left sign a motion for a resolution, written by Arnaud Montebourg, deputy and mayor of Mâcon in Haute-Saône, and asking to the committal for trial of the President of the Republic in front of the for High Court of justice. 58 signatures are necessary to subject it to the vote.
    • Business of the sales of weapons in Angola: European deputy RPF Jean-Charles Marchiani (ex-prefect of area) is put in examination louse “ concealment of abuse of corporate asset ” and “ trading of favors ”.
  • Algeria, with Tizi Ouzou: at least five hundred and thousand people gather in a “ black walk ”.
  • Israel-Palestine:
    • the international commission, chaired by the former American senator George Mitchell publishes in New York his report/ratio in which it calls with a “ dead halt of violence ”.
    • the US government indicates William Burns, her ambassador in Jordan, like its special emissary.
  • the Vatican: from May 21st to 24th, meeting of an extraordinary consistory in the Vatican, bringing together 155 cardinals on a total of 183.
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Tuesday May 22nd 2001

  • Iran: With the approach of the presidential election of June, the Iranian government makes stop several foreign journalists and decides administrative closing of 400 coffee-Internet.
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Wednesday May 23rd 2001

  • the parquet floor of Paris requires the sasine of the Court of justice of the Republic to inquire into the intervention of the socialist minister for finances Dominique Strauss-Kahn in the tax file of the dressmaker Karl Lagerfeld.
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Thursday May 24th 2001

  • Macedonia: The new government coalition including the Albanian parties, is shaken by the revelation of the existence of a secret agreement between the parties of the new coalition and the guerilla Albanian of the north of the country.
    • the army launches a new offensive against the guerilla Albanian of the north of the country.
  • Basque Country: with Saint-Sebastien, assassination of Santiago Oleaga , financial administrator of the newspaper El Diario Vasco.
  • the United States: Jim Jeffords, senator of Vermont leaves the Republican majority. While becoming independent it makes rock the Senate on the democratic side.
  • Israel, with Jerusalem: The accidental collapse of a building causes the death of 24 people and wounds 310 others of them.
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Friday May 25th 2001

  • Israel-Palestine : Attack-suicide by two kamikazes with Hadera in the north of Tel-Aviv, asserted by the Islamic Djihad.
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Saturday May 26th 2001

  • (Montreal, province of Quebec, Canada)
Foundation of the Green Party of Quebec; the leader and spokesperson name Richard Savignac, militant ecologist of long time
  • the United Kingdom, with Oldham in the periphery of Manchester, from May 26th to 28th, violent ones racial confrontations take place between populations originating in the Indian sub-continent and white.
  • Israel-Palestine : In the night from May 26th to 27th, car bomb attack with Jerusalem-Is: only casualties.
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Sunday May 27th 2001

  • France: During a missed escape bid, by helicopter, of the Prison of Fresnes, two dangerous prisoners, Ben Bouabdellah Mounir and Christophe Khider, wound a guard seriously, take three others as hostages and start a beginning of mutiny of them. The situation is taken again in hand by the authorities the 28.
  • Algérie: the president Abdelaziz Bouteflika reiterates in a speech, his promises of April 30th concerning a forthcoming constitutional revision which would take into account the Berber cultural identity. In addition he asks severe sanctions against the instigators of the movement.
  • Israel-Palestine : Second car bomb attack with Jerusalem-Is: only casualties. This attack precedes the arrival in the West Bank by the American emissary William Burns. New attacks take place the following days lasting all the time of the visit.
  • In the south-west of the archipelago of the Filipino : A score of people, including three American tourists, are removed by the Groupe Abu Sayyaf in the seaside resort of Dos Palmas.
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Monday May 28th 2001

  • France:
    • Within the framework of the investigation into the financing of the European countryside of the RPF in 1999, the former minister for the Interior Charles Pasqua is put in examination for “ illegal financing of electoral campaign ”.
    • Within the framework of the Business of the Frenchwoman of the Plays, the former chairman Gerard Colé appears before company of thirteen other defendants.
  • Lebanon: Visit some two day old State with Paris of the president Emile Lahoud.
  • European Union: French the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, defends in a speech, the idea of a “ federation of State-nations ” equipped with a constitution, against the design of federalistic Europe preached by the German chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
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Tuesday May 29th 2001

  • France:
    • Following the revelations of the general Paul Aussaresses, the Superior council of the Army gives its downstream to retirement of the Aussaresses general.
    • Revelation of the childbirth, by a 62 year old woman, on May 14th, of a child of male sex in a private clinic of Frejus (VAr), after it had undergone, in the United States, an illegal treatment in France. The business causes a beginning of polemic.
    • Within the framework of the Business of the sales of weapons in Angola, the former minister for the Interior Charles Pasqua is put in examination for “ concealment of abuse of corporate asset ” and “ trading of favors ”.
    • Following the threats of the PCF and its general secretary Robert Hue, not to vote the project of social modernization, the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, decides to defer the vote to the June 13rd.
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Wednesday May 30th 2001

  • France:
    • the National Assembly adopts the anti-sects bill definitively.
    • Within the framework of the Business Elf, the Magistrates' court of Paris condemns respectively:
      • the former minister and chair Constitutional council, Roland Dumas, in six months of imprisonment,
      • the former chairman of the company Elf, Loïk Le Floch-Prigent, with three years and half of imprisonment,
      • the former managing director, Alfred Sirven, at four years of prison closes,
      • and the old egery, Christine Deviers-Joncour, in eighteen months of imprisonment.
      • They decide to appeal.

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Thursday May 31st 2001

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