- In France, of 1st with October 30th, lawsuit in front of the special Court of Assizes of Paris, of the two Algerian islamist terrorists Boualem Bensaïd and Smaïn Has Ali Belkacem continued for the attacks of 1995 in Paris. They will be condemned to the prison with perpetuity.
- In France, death of the novelist, poet, essay writer and historian of the ideas, Paul Sérant at the 80 years age.
- from October 2nd to 21st, a embusqué serial killer, kills ten people and wounds of them three others in the surroundings of Washington. The 24, the police force stops two suspects of which John Allen Muhammad , a black war veteran of the war of the gulf converted with the Islam, and his/her 17 year old son-in-law, John Lee Malvo .
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In France, in a Quoted of Vitry-sur-Seine, a 17 year old young girl, Sohane Benziane , is burned alive in a room with dustbins. The October 6th, Djamel , known as “ Nono ”, 19 years, the fatal supposed is stopped with the hospital Cochin , where it was made look after for burns related to its murder.
- With Large-Synthe, Joel Damman , a 45 year old truck driver, under the influence of the alcohol, car with rifle shot of hunting, on several coffees attended by Maghrebian , and ends up killing Mohammed Maghara , a young person free - Morocco Ain 17 year old.
- In the night of the 5 to the 6, of many cars is burnt.
- First edition of the “Sleepless night” with Paris which puts at the honor the Contemporary art throughout the night.
- Patrick Henry is stopped close to Valence in Spain, in possession of ten kilograms haschich. The 8, France requires its extradition.
- At the time of the operation Sleepless night organized by the Town hall of Paris, Azedine Berkane , a 39 year old Algerian, stabs with the abdomen the mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë.
- Municipal election of Vitrolles (Rhone delta), the Socialist Guy Obino carries it with the second turn, on the mayor outgoing MNR Catherine Megret , with 54,05%, while benefitting from the carryforward in its favor of the majority of voters UMP and UDF.
- In Rome, in the presence of 500 000 faithful, mass of canonization of Josémaria Escriva de Balaguer (1902-1975), founder of the Opus Dei.
- In Bosnia-Herzégovine, general elections gained by the Serb, Croatian and Moslem parties nationalist.
- With the Brazil, elections presidential, legislative and of the governors. For the presidential one, the candidate of the “Party of the workers” Luis Inacio da Silva is in favorable ballot with 46,44% of the voices. For the legislative ones, the “Party of the workers” becomes the first political training with the House of Commons and the third with the senate, but obtains only 3 governors out of 27.
- With broad of the Yemen, the giant tanker French Limburg is the object of one attack to the explosive, assessment: 1 died and 12 wounded. The same day, the Yemeni islamist organization the Islamic army of Aden-Abyan asserts the attack.
- the president George W. Bush, in her Speech with the American Nation, lance an ultimatum without date with Saddam Hussein.
- the Nobel Prize 2002 were decreed.
- Astronomy: discovered of a spherical body beyond Pluto, with the limit of the solar system in orbit around the sun. Quaoar is located in the belt of Kuiper and carries out the turn of the sun in 288 years.
- the founder of the Egyptian Djihad, islamist the Aymanal-Zawahiri , in a sound recording, receipt and diffused by the chain qatarie Al-Jezira, threat of attacks the France and the Germany.
- the Room of the Representatives of the United States of America, by 296 votes against 133, authorizes to it recourse to the force against the Iraq, including without the downstream of the Safety advice of the United Nations.
- legislative and cantonal Elections in Algeria: important opening of the radical islamist movement El-Islah , but FLN arrives at the head. The Kabylie largely boycotted the poll.
- Attack-suicide in the south of Tel-Aviv: a killed Israeli and 4 wounded.
- Strong push of the islamist parties to the legislative elections of the Pakistan.
- With Caracas (Venezuela), more than one million demonstrators claim the resignation of the president Hugo Chávez. The 22, fourteen officers, whose general Pedro Pereira (already implied in the coup d'etat of April 18th), call with the insurrection.
- In Finland, attack-suicide in a shopping mall of the outer suburbs of Helsinki, made by a Finnish student in chemistry: 7 died and 80 wounded.
- Second turn of the presidential election in Serbia. The president Yougoslave Vojislav Koštunica obtains 66,7% against the liberal economist Miroljub Labus , but the poll is invalidated because the participation is not that of 45,9%.
- islamist Attentat with the car bomb with a bomb (~100 kg), against a discotheque, reserved to the Westerners, of Kuta Beach with Bali in Indonesia, makes 183 dead and more than 300 wounded. This terrorist act is allotted to the Islamic extremists of Jemaah Islamiyah.
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- In France, the National Assembly vote the project of 35 hours easing, presented by the minister Francois Fillon.
- Référendum votes by plebiscite for Saddam Hussein (100% voters, 100% of the voices), granting new a seven years to him mandate.
- the 20, amnesties nearly general prisoners of common right and political prisoners.
- From October 16th to 20th, official visits of the president Jacques Chirac in various countries of the the Middle East.
- the 16, inauguration of the New library of Alexandria in Egypt.
- 17, visit of State to Beirut with the Lebanon.
- Of the 18 to the 20, participation in the Summit of the Francophonie with Beirut.
- 20, Visit with Damas in Syria and Amman in Jordan.
- New government of the chancellor Schröder in alliance with the greens for the ministries for the Foreign affairs, the Environment and Agriculture.
- the Gouvernement North-Korean admits developing a production schedule of enriched uranium making it possible to assemble an atomic bomb.
- Agreement of cease-fire between the Government of the Ivory Coast and the rebels. 28, opening of talks to Lome with the Togo.
- the US government agrees to give up an automatic recourse and to leave with the Safety advice of the United Nations the care “to consider the situation”, but not that “to decide” on an appropriate response.
- an Israeli bombardment kills 6 Palestinians with Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
- Two attacks with Zamboangl with the Filipino , where a command center of the American forces in the south of the archipelago is installed. 18 and 20, new attacks with Manila and Zamboanga: 4 died and 40 wounded.
- In Corsica, attacks with the explosive, asserted by the new FLNC , against public buildings, banks and villas.
- In the suburbs of Strasbourg, following the death of a young person, at the time of a track race with the police force, after the flight of a car, a Urban guerilla warfare starts in the district of Hautepierre and Cronenbourg. Assessment: 44 burnt cars.
- From October 18th to 20th, IXe Summit of the Francophonie to Beirut, at the time which the old Senegalese president Abdou Diouf is elected general secretary of the International organization of the francophonie, to replace the Egyptian Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
- Attack-suicide with the car bomb against a bus with Pardès-Hanna in the northern of Israel: 16 dead including two kamikazes and about fifty casualties.
- Ougrée (Belgium): explosion with the coke laughs at Cockerill Sambre (Arcelor), making three died and about thirty wounded
- Bomb attack, destroying the hall of the college Marcel Rudloff, in the western suburbs of Strasbourg the day before the arrival of the Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy. This act related to would have died of a “young hooligan” on October 18th.
- From October 23rd to 26th, in a theater of Moscow, a commando Tchétchènes, whose many women, takes as hostages 750 people. At the dawn of the 26, the special forces of the FSB give the attack: all the terrorists are killed (except two) and 117 hostages die at the time of this operation including 115 per inhalation of a pollutant gas. 28, national mourning. 29, death of 2 new hostages.
- From October 25th to 26th, Corsica visit in of Minister Minister of Justice, Minister of Interior Department Nicolas Sarkozy the Dominique Perben, and for local Freedoms Patrick Devedjian. They put forth the proposal for a referendum on the transformation of the island into single territorial collectivity.
- Coup attempt of State, with the Central Africa, orchestrated by the former chief of staff, the general François Bozize , against the president Angel-Felix Patassé. 28, combat with the heavy weapon in the capital Bangui.
- Visit with the the United States, of the Chinese president Jiang Zemin, received by the president George W. Bush in her ranch of Crawford to the Texas.
- New deployment of Tsahal to Jenin in the West Bank.
- the deputy of the opposition, Koki Ishii which denounced corruption and rejected the increase in the military expenditure of the Japan, was stabbed in full day by a nationalist militant of a group related to the Yakusa S.
- a violent storm sweeps the North-West of the Europe and makes 28 dead.
- With the Brazil, the candidate of the “Party of the workers” Luis Inacio da Silva is elected, with the second turn, president of the republic with 61,5% of the voices.
a historical election
Its election is historical for the country, since it is the first socialist president of Brazil. Indeed, since the fall of the military dictatorships and the introduction of the democracy, the line had always gained the presidential elections. The Brazilian ones see in
Lula the only man with being able to reduce the very important social inequalities in this country, of which 22% of the population live in lower part of the
Poverty line (1998). It will take its functions in
January 2003.
- Attack-suicide in front of the Jewish colony of Ariel, in the north of the the West Bank: 3 killed Israeli soldiers.
- Official visit in France of the Vietnamese president Tran Duke Luong. It is about the first visit of a Head of State of communist Vietnam since 1973.
- an American diplomat Lawrence Foley is cut down with Amman in Jordan.
- the Franco-British top, envisaged with the Touquet in France, is deferred sine die .
- At the request of the Russian authorities, arrest with Copenhagen (Denmark) of the independence representative Akhmed Zakaev with the World congress tchetchene .
- the Labor ministers leave the Israeli Gouvernement of Ariel Sharon.
- a violent one accidental fire destroyed the 5 stages of the World trade center of Ho Chi Minh Ville (ex-Saigon) which sheltered a discotheque, a restaurant, more than 170 shops and the offices of 27 foreign companies: at least 61 people died.