Global crackdown thanks to the decryption of organized crime communications

Hundreds of people have been arrested around the world in a massive crackdown on organized crime, thanks to the police cracking down on an application used to exchange coded messages between criminals, the Australian Federal Police announced on Tuesday. The messages included assassination plots and drug and arms trafficking, said the Australian police, which arrested 224 people in all regions of the country. The New Zealand police, for their part, announced the arrest of 35 people, including for drug trafficking and money laundering. This operation was launched by the police in several countries in Europe, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, who managed to decode, in real time and over three years, thousands of encrypted communications within criminal networks of all kinds. An operation, made possible thanks to an application called “Anom”, is perceived as “the most sophisticated in the world against organized crime by the New Zealand police

Mladic, the “Butcher of the Balkans”, fixed on his fate Tuesday in The Hague

International judges will issue their verdict on Tuesday on the appeal of former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during the Bosnian war from 1992 to 1995. Nicknamed the “Butcher of the Balkans”, the former general was convicted in the first instance in 2017, in particular for his role in the Srebrenica massacre, the worst in Europe since the Second World War, an act of genocide according to international justice. Arrested in 2011 after 16 years on the run, the massive soldier Ratko Mladic, detained in The Hague, is now an old man of nearly 80 years old who suffers from health problems, according to his lawyers. His name will remain associated with the crimes of the Bosnian War, from the Siege of Sarajevo to the Srebrenica Massacre, where more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed by Bosnian Serb forces

Bioethics and LDCs for all, “finally” in the final stretch in Parliament

The French Parliament must definitively adopt the text in July and “the texts implementing the law must be prepared as of now” so “that the first children can be conceived before the end of 2021”, guaranteed the Minister of Health, at the launch of discussions on the text, which should also open up procreation Medically assisted single women. 67% of French people are now in favour of it, according to an Ifop survey for the association of homoparental families. Spokesperson for this association, Fabien Joly breathes “a sigh of relief: this law will finally be adopted”. However, he notes “the risk of having a shortage of sperm” in the face of demand, whereas the bill provides for the lifting of donor anonymity subject to conditions

Attacks and the presidential election: Mélenchon arouses outrage, attacks the extreme right

The words of the LFI leader linking terrorism and the presidential election aroused outrage. The rebellious reacted by denouncing a “violent atmosphere” maintained by his critics, shining the spotlight on the “call for murder” in a far-right video. After his “The Republic is me” launched during a heated search at the headquarters of La France Inin 2018, the candidate for the Élysée Palace is accused of having made “indecent” or even “conspiratorial” remarks on Sunday, less than a year before the presidential election.

Covid: the epidemic continues to recede, leisure places are preparing

Get healthy before summer or have fun: gyms, casinos, theme parks and thalassos will be able to reopen on Wednesday thanks to a “strong” improvement on the Covid-19 epidemic in France. A clear sign of this improvement, the European Parliament met on Monday at its headquarters in Strasbourg, for the first time in 15 months. As of Wednesday, the party can continue until 23:00 with the curfew extended by two hours. And in case of rain, bars and restaurants will be able to welcome customers inside, not just outside. Wednesday will also mark the end of 100% teleworking and solitude at the canteen table, as well as the resumption of potties between colleagues while respecting barrier gestures. This second phase was made possible by the marked improvement in health conditions observed from the beginning of May, linked, according to the government, to the acceleration of vaccination.

IN A NUTSHELL

The Brazilian Minister of Health, Marcelo Queiroga, said on Monday that the players of the 10 teams that will play the Copa América-2021 in Brazil are not required to get vaccinated, contrary to what his government initially requested.

A microscopic animal called the Bdelloid rotifer has come back to life after being frozen for 24,000 years in Siberia, then succeeded in cloning itself, Russian scientists have announced.

The prosecutors called for additional resources to combat domestic violence, including requiring that each prosecutor's office be provided with a specialized assistant or an assistant lawyer dedicated specifically to “this great national cause”.

A woman suspected of having uttered racist insults against a cashier at a Carrefour store in Annemasse (Haute-Savoie) was taken into custody, we learned from the Thonon prosecutor.

U.S. authorities announced on Monday that they had recovered $2.3 million in ransom paid to hackers by the Colonial Pipeline group after a cyberattack that paralyzed its massive oil pipeline network.

Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal qualified for the Roland-Garros quarter-finals while Sofia Kenin, world No. 5 and outgoing runner-up, was eliminated in the round of eight by Maria Sakkari of Greece, 18th, 6-1, 6-3.