Brexit: Entry into force of the mandatory passport for Europeans coming to the United Kingdom

The ID card will no longer be usable as of Friday to return to the United Kingdom, which now requires European or Swiss citizens to present a passport, one of the latest consequences of Brexit. In a statement, the British Home Office says that this change will “prevent organized criminal gangs and others from abusing the system” because identity cards are an “insecure” document.

After 35 years on the run, serial killer “Le Grêlé” is found dead

It was one of the oldest “cold cases” that slept in the “crim” drawers: the man who was found dead in Grau-du-Roi (Gard) is indeed the “Grêlé”, a serial killer and rapist wanted since the 1980s, the Paris prosecutor's office said Thursday night. For 35 years, investigators had been on the trail of this man with a pockmarked face suspected of “five crimes committed between 1986 and 1994", according to the same source. A judicial investigation against him had been opened for “rapes of minors under the age of 15, murders, attempted voluntary manslaughter, robbery with weapons, false uses and the kidnapping and abduction of a minor under 15”, the Paris public prosecutor, Laure Beccuau, detailed in a press release. In particular, he is suspected of having killed and raped the 11-year-old Cécile, found dead in the basement of her building in the 19th arrondissement of Paris in May 1986, and of having strangled a couple in the Marais district in 1987.

Bygmalion: one year is closed for Sarkozy who appeals and will go “all the way”

Nicolas Sarkozy was sentenced to one year in prison on Thursday for illegally financing his 2012 presidential campaign in the Bygmalion case, a decision that he considers “unfair” which he is going to appeal. On his Twitter account, the former head of state ruled that the law “has been violated again” by this decision, believing that he had already been sanctioned in this case by the Constitutional Council, which rejected his campaign accounts in 2013 and ordered him to reimburse expenses in excess of the legal ceiling.

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