May 2002

Wednesday the 1st er May 2002

  • In France:
    • With Paris, at the time of the procession for the festival of Jeanne d' Arc, the Front National joins together around Jean-Marie Le Pen, between 10.000 and 100.000 people. It fustigates Jacques Chirac presented as “ the godfather of the clans which put out of adjusted cut the country ”.
    • In all the country more than one million and half of demonstrators (including 400.000 in Paris) against the presence of the National front to the second round of the presidential ones.
  • Car bomb attack with Madrid, in front of the stage of Real a few hours before a match: 9 wounded innocent civilians.

Thursday May 2nd 2002

  • With the the United States, the Room of the representatives vote, on the initiative of the White House, a program of subsidies to the American farmers, an amount of 190 billion dollars, over 10 years. This program causes a strong reaction of the European Union, because already in April, the United States had imposed customs duties on European steel.
  • Israel-Palestine:
    • the general secretary of UNO, Kofi Annan, announces the dissolution of the mission of information on the events of Jenin in the West Bank.
    • Transfer in a prison of Jericho, under the guard of American and British soldiers, of six Palestinian implied in the assassination of the Israeli Minister for Tourism, Rehavam Zeevi .
    • In the night, Tsahal raises the blockade established around the HQ of Yasser Arafat to Ramallah, then withdraws city.

Friday May 3rd 2002

  • In Europe:
    • Sortie the video game console Game Cubes, of Nintendo

Saturday May 4th 2002

  • the Olympique Lyonese is crowned Champion of France of football of the 1st division for the first time of its history. By beating RC Lens 3 goals with 1 at the Gerland stage, OL takes down its first crown.

Sunday May 5th 2002

  • In France:
  • After 10 days spent on board a Capsule Soyuz, the South-African billionaire 28 years Mark Shuttleworth returns on ground while landing in the desert to the Kazakhstan.

Monday May 6th 2002

  • Resignation of the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin. The president Jacques Chirac load Jean-Pierre Raffarin, senator of the Vienna and chair “Right liberal” area Poitou-Charentes, to form the new transition government.
  • With the Netherlands, assassination with Hilversum of the populist leader Pim Fortuyn, whose list, according to the surveys, was to be essential like the second political clout of the country on legislative of May 15th.
    • the murderer, Volkert Van der Graaf , a radical ecologist, is stopped shortly after.
    • 10, with Rotterdam, funeral of Pim Fortuyn, in the presence of several thousands of people.
  • In Burma, after nineteen long months of supervised residence, dissenting the Aung San Suu Kyi, recovers a freedom “without condition”.

Tuesday May 7th 2002

  • Attack-suicide with Rishon-le-Zion close to Tel-Aviv: 16 dead. The Prime Minister Ariel Sharon returns precipitately of his fifth official visit to the the United States.

Wednesday May 8th 2002

  • In France, formation and presentation of new the French government by the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin. Principal ministers: Nicolas Sarkozy (Internal security), Dominique Perben (Justice), Michele Alliot-Marie (Defense), Dominique de Villepin (Foreign affairs), Francis Mer (Economy), Luc Ferry (State education).
  • With the Pakistan, attack-suicide with the car bomb against a bus of the Pakistani navy in front of the Sheraton hotel of Karachi: 14 dead including 11 engineers and French technicians of the DCN (Direction of naval constructions) and 12 wounded French.
    • the Al-Qaïda track is privileged.
    • the president Jacques Chirac sends new the Minister for the defense Michele Alliot-Marie which carries out a short return ticket.
    • 9, repatriation of 12 wounded French.
    • 12, repatriation of the bodies of 11 killed French.

Thursday May 9th 2002

Friday May 10th 2002

  • In France:
    • the First Council of Ministers of the new government.
      • the pardoned president Jacques Chirac the former communist deputy Maxime Gremetz condemned in September 2000 to 2 years of deprivation of civil rights and ineligibility to have in April 1998, forced with its car the police line protecting a capital, in the suburbs of Amiens, where was held an official ceremony, chaired by president UDF of the District council of Picardy, Charles Baur, and to have struck the prefect and several police officers. Charles Baur was guilty in its eyes, to have accepted the voices of the National front to be made elect with the presidency of the Picardy area.
    • Death with Paris of the actor and realizer Yves Robert at the 82 years age.
  • Tsahal raises the seat, begun the April 2nd, of the Basilique of the Nativity to Bethlehem. 13 of the Palestinian refugees in the sanctuary are evacuated towards Cyprus, 6 others are transferred to Gaza where they are accommodated as hero.

Saturday May 11th 2002

  • With the Stade de France with Saint-Denis, before the kickoff of the finale of the Coupe de France of football between Lorient and Bastia, some Bastian supporters whistles the Marseillaise in the presence of the president of the Republic which leaves the platform, requires excuses of the president of the FF, declares with TF1 “it is inadmissible and unacceptable… ”, then its place regains.

Sunday May 12th 2002

  • With Cuba, visit of the former president of the the United States Jimmy Carter who is the first dignitary American with being received since the revolution of 1959.
  • In Israel, the Likoud adopts, against the opinion of Ariel Sharon, a hostile motion with the creation of a Palestinian State.
  • With the Kazakhstan, the roof of a hangar sheltering the Russian shuttle Bourane crumbles killing 8 workmen and destroying the shuttle completely.

Monday May 13rd 2002

Tuesday May 14th 2002

  • With the Jammu-Cashmere in the India of north, of the islamist separatists cachemiris opens fire on a bus and killing 27 passengers, then attacks an Indian military camp and kills 3 soldiers before being themselves shot down.
  • Election of Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, like chairs Sierra Leone, with 70,6% of the voices.

Wednesday May 15th 2002

  • From May 15th to 26th, 55e Cannes festival.
    • Palm of gold to film “the Pianist” of free-Polish Roman Polanski.
    • Grand Prix with film “the man without passed” from Finnish Aki Kaurismäki.
  • legislative Elections with the Netherlands, the Christian Democrats obtain 43 seats, whereas the populist party of Pim Fortuyn, recently assassinated, make a remarkable opening with 26 seats.
  • According to television CBS, the services of the CIA and FBI, would have made state, during the summer 2001, of threats of diversion of planes by men of Usama Bin Laden, and presence of suspect pupils, in several flying schools.

Thursday May 16th 2002

  • the Belgian House of Commons adopts a law authorizing, under conditions, the euthanasia.
  • the spokesperson of the White House, Ari Fleisher confirms the existence of a note of the CIA, August 56, and whose adviser with safety Condoleezza Rice affirms that it was only one “analytical report/ratio” general. The democrats of the Congrès ask for an investigation.

Friday May 17th 2002

  • the May 17th and 18th, to Madrid, 2nd top enters the representatives of the European Union and those of thirty-three Latin-American States (except Cuba). The president Venezuelan Hugo Chávez states: “Us, the Heads of State, let us go from top in top, and the people of abyss and damages”.
  • legislative Elections in Ireland, gained by the Fianna Fail of the Prime Minister Bertie Ahern with 80 seats out of 165. The Sinn Féin, the political branches of the WILL GO, of north-Irish Gerry Adams makes a spectacular opening, triples the number of its voices and passes from 1 to 5 seats.

Saturday May 18th 2002

Sunday May 19th 2002

  • the American vice-president Dick Cheney announces that a new attack of Al-Qaïda is “practically a certainty”.
  • Palestinian Attack-suicide on a market of Netanya in the north of Tel-Aviv: 3 killed Israelis and about fifty casualties.

Monday May 20th 2002

  • Israel-Palestine:
    • Palestinian Attack-suicide close to Afoula in Israel, only the kamikaze is killed.
    • Israeli the Prime Minister Ariel Sharon dismisses 4 ministers out of five of the ultra-orthodoxe religious party Shass , the fifth resigns.
  • With the Lebanon, Jihad Jibril , the oldest son of the chief of the FPLP-CG Ahmed Jibril is killed in an car bomb attack with Beirut.
  • the independence of the Democratic republic of the Eastern Timor is officially proclaimed. This country becomes the 192e State of planet.

Tuesday May 21st 2002

Wednesday May 22nd 2002

  • From May 22nd to 28th, European round of the US president George W. Bush, while starting with Berlin.
    • the 23, it makes a speech at the Bundestag, then goes to Moscow.
    • 24, signature with the Russia of a nuclear agreement of disarmament.
    • 25, Visit with Saint-Pétersbourg.
    • the 26 and 27, visit in France, with a ceremony with Holy-Mother-Church in the Handle and visits American cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer in the Calvados, then departure for Rome.
    • 28, participation in the NATO-Russia Summit, and discussion with the pope Jean-Paul II.
  • the May 22nd and 23rd, visits of the pope Jean-Paul II with Bakou in Azerbaïdjan.
  • Décès with Tirgu-Wall in Romania, of the cardinal Alexandru Todea at the 90 years age. He was the former archbishop of Alba Julia and imprisoned, of 1950 with 1964, by the mode of the communist dictatorship.
  • Robert L. Millis, Marc W. Buie, Eugene Chiang, James L. Elliot, Susan D. Kern, David E. Trilling, R. Mark Wagner and Lawrence (Larry) H. Wasserman discover the large (~759 km) Objet transneptunien (28978) Ixion.

Thursday May 23rd 2002

  • In France:
    • a fire mainly destroys the embassy of Israel to Paris. The police force privileges the accidental track.
    • Death with Paris, of the diplomat and writer, Pierre de Boisdeffre at the 75 years age.

Friday May 24th 2002

  • From May 24th to 26th, visit of the pope Jean-Paul II with Sofia in Bulgaria. 26, beatification of three fathers assomptionnists, shot in 1925: Josaphat Chichkov , Kamen Vitchev and Pavel Djidjov .
  • the Italian Gynécologue Severino Antinori announces that three women should be confined, between December and January, children designed according to the technique of the Clonage.
  • Signature with the the Kremlin of a nuclear agreement of disarmament between the the United States and the Russia, envisaging to bring back the number of warhead of the two countries to 1700 and 2200. A Joint Declaration is made on a “new strategic relation” sealing the collaboration of American in Central Asia and with the the Caucasus.

Saturday May 25th 2002

  • from May 25th to 28th, the Pakistani government proceeds to a new series of three shootings of test of ballistic missiles.

Sunday May 26th 2002

  • Death with Paris of Michel Jobert at the 80 years age. He was former Foreign Minister of the president Georges Pompidou and former minister for the Foreign trade of the president François Mitterrand.
  • presidential Election in Colombia, gained as of the first turn, with 53% of the voices, by Alvaro Uribe, a dissident of the liberal party, which centered its countryside on the fight against the guerilla. Its main adversary Horacio serpa obtained 32% of the voices.
  • In Tunisia, 99,52% of yes with a constitutional referendum authorizing the president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali to remain with the capacity for twelve years more.

Monday May 27th 2002

  • From May 27th to 30th, CFDT joins together its 45e congress with Nantes. New general secretary Francois Chereque to replace Nicole Notat.
  • the behavior of the hierarchy of FBI, is blamed by one of its agents, Coleen Rowley , in a memorandum of 13 pages, dated May 21st, and published by the magazine “Time”.
  • Palestinian Attack-suicide before a shopping mall in the east of Tel-Aviv: 2 killed Israelis. Tsahal re-occupies the autonomous city of Bethlehem.

Tuesday May 28th 2002

  • At the time of a NATO-Russia top, on the military base of Patricia di Mare close to Rome, the president Vladimir Poutine sign with 19 other Heads of States and governments of the Atlantic Alliance, the Declaration of Rome which gives rise to officially the Conseil NATO-Russia.

Wednesday May 29th 2002

  • the Board of directors of Vivendi Universal place the chairman Jean-Marie Messier under monitoring of a “work group” supervised by Marc Viénot and Edgar Bronfman .
  • May 29th and 30th, with Rome, top of the Ministers of Interior Department of the European Union on the control of the migratory flux.
  • With Moscow, 9th top European Union - Russia. Dissension on the problem of the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, at the time of the entry of the Baltic States in the European Union in 2004.
  • With the the United States, following the publication of the memorandum of one of its agents, the director of FBI, made its mea culpa and presents a reform of the secret services.

Thursday May 30th 2002

  • legislative Elections in Algeria deferred in the majority absolute by the coalition already with the capacity, but with a massive Abstention, especially in Khabylie.

Friday May 31st 2002

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