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[00:00:08] and we are still around the world on France 24, welcome, it's 5 PM,
[00:00:11] here are the headlines: NATO in battle order, the supreme commander of
[00:00:15] the alliance spoke, he assures that the organization will ensure
[00:00:19] that any attack against its members is totally futile,
[00:00:22] declaration while Trump deals with Putin and demands elections in
[00:00:25] Ukraine, the cold in Aubagne near Marseille, a
[00:00:29] 14-year-old middle school student opened fire in his
[00:00:32] police, according school, he fired three times before injuring two people and being
[00:00:34] arrested, he is not known to the police services, the investigation is ongoing, Emmanuel
[00:00:38] Macron praises the composure of the teaching staff who prevented the
[00:00:42] worst, she is the star of the
[00:00:45] security conditions within the 2026 World Motor Show, the electric 2CV is presented by Stellantis, a resurrection
[00:00:49] on which the group is counting heavily to compete against the omnipresent Chinese at the
[00:00:52] show, we will find Ludovic Defouco there, hello
[00:00:56] Ludovic.
[00:01:08] France has been targeted by a cyberattack, hundreds of
[00:01:11] U supermarkets, Intermarché, Leclerc have been affected, they claim
[00:01:15] that hackers remotely triggered forced defrosting
[00:01:19] of refrigerators, as a result, all fresh and frozen products had to be
[00:01:23] Minister of the Interior and the Minister of thrown away, another attack unclaimed at a time when all kinds of
[00:01:26] sabotage are multiplying and Moscow is
[00:01:30] diamond trade. the industry's being pointed at. This Monday, the head of the NATO armed forces spoke, an opportunity to flex the alliance's
[00:01:34] muscles against Russia, which was never named in the speech
[00:01:37] excerpt.
[00:01:40] We have no project, no intention, no ambition
[00:01:44] other than the protection of our
[00:01:48] organized the Peace people. No one should confuse our defensive
[00:01:51] posture with weakness.
[00:01:54] However, if anyone were reckless enough to attack us, we would fight and
[00:01:58] prevent them from achieving their objectives.
[00:02:04] I want to clarify one essential point,
[00:02:07] are conquering I do not believe that a conflict is imminent or inevitable,
[00:02:11] that's all for this speech focused on the response to the Russians, while Trump signed
[00:02:14] a deal with Putin on fuels, oil
[00:02:18] prices are at their highest, Brent crude is trading at over $106
[00:02:24] inhabitants this Monday, a nervousness on the markets that can be explained by the situation in the Middle East and especially in
[00:02:27] Saudi Arabia with 14 deaths, the Kingdom rarely experienced such a
[00:02:31] deadly weekend, targeted by the Houthi rebels, Riyadh admits to being
[00:02:35] put to the test. Benjamin de Lombre, passengers
[00:02:38] waiting calmly before boarding when
[00:02:41] suddenly,
[00:02:43] drone and missile attacks,
[00:02:45] missiles,
[00:02:48] panic at the heart of Riyadh
[00:02:51] airport,
[00:02:53] filmed on Saturday, these surveillance camera images have only
[00:02:57] just been made public.
[00:03:00] Under attack for
[00:03:03] figure from other wholesalers in 48 hours, which left 14 dead and over 300 injured in a French, Saudi
[00:03:07] Arabia only authorizes the broadcast of very rare images, of the strikes and the
[00:03:10] damage. In Riyadh, the authorities prefer to show the
[00:03:13] visit of official officials to the hospital, taking
[00:03:17] news of the injured. It's good, do you have everything you
[00:03:20] a bit of progress in terms of need.
[00:03:22] In addition to Riyadh airport, the strikes also targeted Dammam
[00:03:26] and sites of the hydrocarbon giant Aramco.
[00:03:30] The Houthi attacks, this rebellion allied with Iran that controls
[00:03:34] eastern Yemen, are unprecedented in over 10 years, this
[00:03:37] morning announced its intention to retaliate with force.
[00:03:54] Riyadh also announced that it intercepted a ballistic missile last night
[00:03:58] from Yemen.
[00:04:01] violent civil wars West These are the Houthis of Yemen who are supported by the Iranians, the Iranian
[00:04:04] regime is accused by London this Monday, two weeks ago, remember,
[00:04:08] an incident described as major took place near a military
[00:04:12] order, the supreme commander of base in the United Kingdom, according to the British Prime Minister, the act was
[00:04:16] almost certainly, he says, directed by the Revolutionary
[00:04:19] Guards, the base in question is used by the Americans in the
[00:04:23] context of the conflict with
[00:04:26] capital, that's all for the main Iran. In France, Aubagne middle school students are in shock after a shooting inside Joseph
[00:04:30] Lacanale school, early this morning, a 14-year-old middle school student shot the school
[00:04:34] principal and a teacher, both were
[00:04:38] injured, the teenager was arrested. Anaïse
[00:04:41] Sanke:
[00:04:43] anxious looks in front of La Canal middle school in
[00:04:46] Aubagne, dozens of parents wait to pick up their
[00:04:50] children, the atmosphere is tense because this morning a
[00:04:53] student entered the establishment armed with a
[00:04:56] shotgun, he opened fire on the middle school principal
[00:05:00] as well as on a teacher, the events took place shortly
[00:05:04] before 10 AM, this mother
[00:05:06] government on the importance of tries to reassure her daughter who is still in the
[00:05:09] building,
[00:05:11] okay? So don't be afraid, she didn't see, she saw, she called
[00:05:15] me, she told me there's a lot of blood in the hallway, she was
[00:05:19] frantic, and my daughter, she saw the blood, she started screaming,
[00:05:22] running, voilà, the police arrived, they evacuated the first students who were
[00:05:26] in front, the 53-year-old principal and the 37-year-old
[00:05:29] teacher were taken care of by the emergency services, injured in the
[00:05:32] legs and lower back, their lives are not
[00:05:36] in danger, the 14-year-old boy, a 9th-grade student, unknown
[00:05:39] to the services of... was arrested by the
[00:05:44] to our information, he was armed with a 12-gauge
[00:05:48] shotgun and allegedly fired several times,
[00:05:52] in front of the school, angry parents questioned this morning the
[00:05:57] establishment,
[00:05:59] how, how is it that the guy got in so easily, I can't
[00:06:03] understand sir, a 9th-grade student entered the
[00:06:06] establishment with a firearm for reasons that are totally unknown to us, it's an
[00:06:10] act that is not related. uh to the current
[00:06:13] litian movement, he fires twice
[00:06:16] hitting the principal and a teacher who are
[00:06:20] obviously in the hospital but hit in a
[00:06:22] way I would say non-lethal. A psychological
[00:06:26] unit has been set up to support the students, an
[00:06:30] investigation has also been opened for attempted assassination, the
[00:06:35] National Education are expected on site
[00:06:38] today.
[00:06:41] Still in France, the temple of the car of tomorrow is open, it's the
[00:06:44] start of the Paris Motor Show here in Paris, the last one for Emmanuel Macron
[00:06:48] who wandered around this morning meeting manufacturers, the French, the
[00:06:52] Europeans who are competing with a very tough Chinese competition,
[00:06:56] Ludovic de Fouko, we find you once again, more than a third of the
[00:06:59] exhibitors are Chinese, it's a show of
[00:07:01] force,
[00:07:04] oh yes, we can say that, and then the impression given by the Chinese
[00:07:08] stands, really gleaming, is that of a desire to take
[00:07:11] power over... the European flagships, the impression
[00:07:14] of seeing Chinese brands that
[00:07:19] Europe, quite simply, there are about twenty
[00:07:23] Chinese manufacturers present at this motor show, there were less than ten
[00:07:26] at previous editions, and they don't come to
[00:07:30] present low-cost models, now we're really
[00:07:33] on luxury ranges, premium ranges, for example, there's
[00:07:36] Zeeker, which is present, so that's the high-end
[00:07:40] brand of Geely, Geely, you know it's the... the owner of Volvo for
[00:07:43] example, so Zeeker is 800,000 vehicles delivered since 2021, and
[00:07:47] then there's what you see behind me that's Denza and that's the high-end
[00:07:51] brand of BYD, and BYD that we're starting to know
[00:07:55] or recognize on our roads, and there you see for example this
[00:07:59] huge Bao 5 behind me, gold
[00:08:02] color, it's discreet and dazzling, and we're talking about
[00:08:06] vehicles at 100,000, 110,000 euros, so we're really encroaching
[00:08:09] on the territory of Mercedes,
[00:08:12] BMW, Porsche, and precisely, that's where the
[00:08:15] contrast is striking, BMW,
[00:08:18] Mini and Porsche simply didn't come to this
[00:08:21] motor show, it's true that Mercedes is
[00:08:25] present, even if the sales of the German manufacturer continue to decline, there's
[00:08:29] a resurgence and
[00:08:32] electric, is it the fact of electrifying
[00:08:35] standard vehicles of the German
[00:08:39] brand like the famous obviously iconic A-class, well, isn't it better than
[00:08:42] wanting to absolutely do something new, that's it, it's perhaps a hypothesis, a lead to explore to try
[00:08:46] to compete, but what we really observe is that the German brands, of course, they have
[00:08:50] lost market share in China where the Chinese manufacturers now it's obvious,
[00:08:54] reign supreme and the Chinese manufacturers come to attack the European
[00:08:57] flagships on their own soil, thank you very much Ludovic, you are
[00:09:01] sitting in the 2CV or not yet,
[00:09:05] no, I haven't had the chance to do it yet but I intend to later when I have a little
[00:09:09] time, but okay, thank you very much Ludovic.
[00:09:13] And see you later, oh
[00:09:15] yes, I intend to, thank you very much Ludovic, we remain in France
[00:09:19] with what is left of the Enfants Rouges market
[00:09:23] located in the heart of Paris, it was ravaged by flames
[00:09:26] last night, all the stalls were burned, the fire was brought under control at
[00:09:30] dawn, there are no victims and the loss is immense, it was considered the
[00:09:34] oldest covered food market in the French
[00:09:39] news, more info right away on France 24.
[00:09:55] And right away, a return ticket 25 years after the start of the Kimberly process to
[00:09:59] end the blood diamond trade, watch.
[00:10:16] 'I never heard of the term of blood diamonds before, blood diamonds may
[00:10:20] once have been an alien concept to the supermodel Naami Camble, it certainly
[00:10:24] is
[00:10:36] in the Democratic Republic of Congo or even in Côte d'Ivoire, diamonds were used as a
[00:10:39] bargaining chip for purchasing weapons during civil
[00:10:42] wars. They were called blood
[00:10:45] diamonds, they were at the heart of the civil war that
[00:10:49] devastated Sierra Leone during the 1990s.
[00:10:53] The battle for control of the diamond mines was bloody
[00:10:56] and had an impact on local populations and generated a parallel
[00:11:00] economy supported by large international firms, an
[00:11:04] illegal trade that probably brought in up to 125
[00:11:07] million dollars per year and financed the fighting, and it's
[00:11:11] thanks to Hollywood that the general public truly became aware
[00:11:14] of the scandal, thanks to the film Blood Diamonds with
[00:11:18] Leonardo DiCaprio released in 2006, an
[00:11:21] exposure that forced the world diamond industry, which was
[00:11:25] singled out, to change its rules to try to restore its
[00:11:28] image. 25 years ago, the Kimberly
[00:11:32] process began, negotiations through which the major producing countries and
[00:11:35] international diamond groups set up an origin control system for
[00:11:39] stones to prevent history from repeating itself. A quarter of a century
[00:11:43] later, the industry claims to have changed, speaks of
[00:11:46] ethical trade, of local community development, but in the
[00:11:50] district of Kono, the epicenter of the former blood
[00:11:55] promises are still far from being fully realized, a return
[00:11:58] ticket to Sierra Leone on the trail of blood diamonds, this is a report by
[00:12:02] Sarah Asako and Simon Martin.
[00:12:19] Father, we entrust Sierra Leone to you, God, I pray
[00:12:23] that you will raise our nation. that you will bless our nation, let us pray
[00:12:27] for more opportunities in this country, more businesses and
[00:12:30] employment opportunities, for those who are jobless, in the name of
[00:12:34] Jesus Christ. These sermons are recognizable among
[00:12:37] thousands, yet, it is not them that made the
[00:12:40] pastor Emmanuel Momot famous.
[00:12:42] 10 years ago, the man of faith, a
[00:12:46] artisanal miner, discovered on his
[00:12:49] mine a stone that would change his life and travel
[00:12:53] the world. "a pastor working in the minds of
[00:12:57] eastern Sierra Leon has 706
[00:13:00] diamond. Still, it's one of the top 20 l. a stone that the
[00:13:04] pastor named,
[00:13:07] peace diamond or peace
[00:13:11] diamond, as if to defy the history of his
[00:13:13] country.
[00:13:16] The peace diamond, a glimmer of hope in our society, so
[00:13:20] I told myself that if I sold it to a local buyer, it would not benefit
[00:13:23] the nation. I decided to give it to the
[00:13:26] government,
[00:13:34] the pastor has since left the diamond world, but he has not
[00:13:37] forgotten his home region, goodbye everyone,
[00:13:41] monde,
[00:13:44] the Kono district several hundred kilometers to the
[00:13:48] east, the diamond heartland of the
[00:13:50] country.
[00:13:53] The Kono district is a region
[00:13:55] where diamonds have been found for over a
[00:13:57] century.
[00:14:01] Kono was once considered the granary of Sierra
[00:14:04] Leone, and yet, it is there that one
[00:14:08] finds the poorest and least
[00:14:11] educated populations.
[00:14:14] A paradox born precisely because of the Kono
[00:14:17] diamonds.
[00:14:19] In 1991, the country ignited, it was the
[00:14:23] beginning of one of the most
[00:14:26] Africa had known. Control of Kono and its diamonds
[00:14:30] became an absolute priority for the rebels who poured into the
[00:14:34] region. Here is a typical example of one of the
[00:14:38] common pits in the Kono district called the Wild
[00:14:41] Well. Then began one of the darkest
[00:14:45] pages in Sierra Leonean history and a
[00:14:48] sadly famous
[00:14:50] trade.
[00:14:53] The diamonds were sent.
[00:15:25] majority of its inhabitants were forced into exile, like Pastor
[00:15:28] Momo, they were looking for young
[00:15:32] people to enroll them in their ranks, so I was
[00:15:36] scared because I... didn't want to join them and then
[00:15:40] also, I didn't want to
[00:15:41] die,
[00:15:45] today, the man of faith participates in rewriting the history
[00:15:49] of his region, 15 % of the sale of his fabulous
[00:15:53] stone went to the Koriardou community, where it was
[00:15:57] discovered, enough to transform the small village
[00:16:00] kilometers from the first paved
[00:16:02] road, here we are in
[00:16:06] Koriardou.
[00:16:11] over 250 children are currently schooled here, they
[00:16:15] come from different
[00:16:16] communities,
[00:16:19] the pastor founded the Peace Diamond
[00:16:22] initiative and with it this brand new
[00:16:25] school. hello everyone,
[00:16:29] so today is the first day of your exams, that's right,
[00:16:32] I'm so proud, through the Peace Diamond, we see concretely what it
[00:16:36] produces.
[00:17:08] a campus born of the pastor's will, but
[00:17:12] maintained by the diamond industry that seeks to
[00:17:15] restore its image. The
[00:17:18] school's funding is provided by a foundation of the Rapaport
[00:17:21] Group, the very one that Diamond
[00:17:25] auction. Their intervention was
[00:17:29] decisive, they managed to bring in qualified teachers
[00:17:32] as well as a qualified director who managed to convince the
[00:17:35] community.
[00:17:38] the family business plans an extension to build a
[00:17:42] high school and also funds a health center that welcomes
[00:17:45] thousands of patients per year,
[00:17:48] enough to make Koriardou more than a beautiful
[00:17:51] story. the village is today the showcase
[00:17:55] of an industry that claims to be metamorphosed,
[00:17:58] fair and virtuous, a
[00:18:00] turning point of which the peace diamond is the founding
[00:18:03] symbol, as Martine Rapaport, patriarch
[00:18:08] of this family, one of the most influential in the
[00:18:11] sector, already said, it shows the way to a
[00:18:15] different future, people will buy diamonds for their huge
[00:18:18] social impact, that's their value,
[00:18:21] that's it, via
[00:18:25] the Empower Africa foundation, the family regularly
[00:18:28] organizes field visits for diamantaires from all over
[00:18:31] the world and promotes this
[00:18:34] narrative.
[00:18:40] participants will meet mining communities and reflect on how
[00:18:43] to contribute to sustainable economic
[00:18:47] development.
[00:18:49] A few dozen kilometers away, however, the miners of the
[00:18:53] region tell a completely different story. Starting
[00:18:56] with the employees of Koidu Limited, the largest industrial
[00:19:00] mine in the country, founded by the group of an Israeli
[00:19:03] billionaire.
[00:19:07] A huge abyss. extracted $100 million worth of stone every
[00:19:10] year. Hello Mr. Rogers, hello
[00:19:13] everyone. So, if I understand correctly, you are all former workers of what was the
[00:19:17] most prestigious company in
[00:19:18] Sierra Leone.
[00:19:22] At the end of 2024, the workers launched strikes to
[00:19:25] obtain a salary increase. Overnight, the company suspended
[00:19:29] its activities and
[00:19:33] laid off almost all of its 100 employees.
[00:19:37] Today. in court, he tells of untenable working
[00:19:40] conditions to activist Ibrahim
[00:19:42] Bokari.
[00:19:45] on the ground, I cut five fingers, I told them, but
[00:19:49] they didn't support me and fired me.
[00:19:53] For those who worked underground, they ate, relieved themselves in the same
[00:19:56] place.
[00:20:00] We were never given potable
[00:20:01] water.
[00:20:05] The unions estimate that... should pay its
[00:20:09] employees over 32 million euros in unpaid
[00:20:12] wages. Through its lawyers, the company
[00:20:15] denounces unfounded and malicious accusations,
[00:20:19] based on falsified documents to extort
[00:20:22] money from the company, a
[00:20:25] defense that does not convince the activist. This is not the
[00:20:29] first time that something like this has happened in the mining sector in
[00:20:32] Sierra Leone. We could describe these investors as
[00:20:35] polluters because they have infested. land and contaminate
[00:20:38] our population with diseases, it's a form of corporate
[00:20:42] banditry and if industrial
[00:20:46] exploitations are regularly criticized for their practices.
[00:20:50] artisanal miners don't necessarily fare
[00:20:52] better, hello everyone, how
[00:20:56] are you?
[00:20:58] regularly, Ibrahim goes to meet them directly
[00:21:02] at the digging sites, far from slogans, these
[00:21:06] workers remain, still and always, the big losers in the diamond
[00:21:09] chain. wow,
[00:21:13] okay,
[00:21:15] they just found this one, but it's really tiny, so they
[00:21:19] say it's only worth 5 or 10
[00:21:21] leones,
[00:21:24] a few tens of cents of euros at most, a derisory
[00:21:27] price for a diamond, even a very small
[00:21:29] one. They have no digital tools
[00:21:33] to determine the value of a stone, so they
[00:21:37] themselves don't really know how much it's worth. This is
[00:21:40] what keeps people in a cycle of poverty, even when you
[00:21:44] find a diamond, you don't have access to the right market to
[00:21:47] sell it.
[00:21:50] a harassing job that pays little and sometimes exposes
[00:21:54] miners to repression from authorities, as evidenced by
[00:21:57] police raids on unlicensed sites that are proliferating in the
[00:22:01] region. Fatmata discovered it the hard
[00:22:04] way.
[00:22:07] One day, I went there and a soldier caught me and started
[00:22:10] hitting me, the soldiers hit us even with sticks, all because
[00:22:14] of this sand, because they said we shouldn't take
[00:22:16] it.
[00:22:20] like me, she's already looking to leave this industry that barely
[00:22:24] allows her to survive,
[00:22:27] these diamonds, we find them, but we suffer from them, and the more
[00:22:31] we suffer, the more we lose, while they
[00:22:35] profit from them, this is not a good life for
[00:22:38] us,
[00:22:41] a sector that no longer finances conflict, but keeps its
[00:22:45] small hands in extreme precariousness, even
[00:22:48] if at the end of the chain... the profits are very
[00:22:51] real, this one has some
[00:22:54] impurities,
[00:22:58] the district is made up of chiefdoms that abound in
[00:23:01] diamonds, and these lands could still be exploited for
[00:23:04] over 300 years, we
[00:23:06] invite all miners and interested investors to come
[00:23:10] and join
[00:23:11] us,
[00:23:15] the district wholesale association is the lock
[00:23:19] that chains up. local market, the heart of their
[00:23:22] power, setting the purchase price of stones for the Kono
[00:23:25] miners and their resale price to
[00:23:28] exporters. When someone comes to my office, I have my
[00:23:32] loupe, I look at it in detail in the light to see if the diamond is
[00:23:35] perfect, it has the clarity of the diamond, its
[00:23:38] shape and its carat weight, all that makes its
[00:23:41] price.
[00:23:46] We won't have more details, but off
[00:23:49] camera. We get a ballpark
[00:23:53] the city, a one-carat diamond, bought for a few
[00:23:57] tens of euros from the miner, can be sold for between
[00:24:00] 2,000 and 20,000 euros in Western
[00:24:03] jewelry stores.
[00:24:07] Hello, hello everyone, hello
[00:24:09] chief,
[00:24:11] so today, this meeting aims to review the progress of the work within
[00:24:15] the community.
[00:24:17] Tell us, how do you feel about it?
[00:24:23] Faced with this injustice, several communities in the district
[00:24:27] are trying to escape this cycle supported by
[00:24:30] NGOs. For 3 years, the village of
[00:24:33] Yigbed has started to refill these diamond
[00:24:36] wells. Here, we have worked the mine for over 30
[00:24:40] years, we have gained no benefit. Today we are turning
[00:24:44] again to agriculture.
[00:24:46] This 14-hectare field is thus gradually transforming into a rice paddy.
[00:25:50] but good to this country, that's
[00:25:52] why I insisted to the
[00:25:56] education, if we want to transform the
[00:25:59] country, we must build schools.
[00:26:03] and make these children the true diamonds of our
[00:26:06] time,
[00:26:10] the promise of Sierra Leone's diamonds still seems far
[00:26:14] from being realized, despite the 250 million
[00:26:17] dollars worth of stones extracted each year from its soil, the
[00:26:21] country remains among the poorest on the
[00:26:24] planet.
[00:30:09] welcome, it's 5 p.m., here are the headlines, NATO in battle
[00:30:15] the alliance spoke, he assures that the organization ensures
[00:30:19] that any attack against its members is totally vain,
[00:30:22] declaration while Trump deals with Putin and calls for elections in
[00:30:25] Ukraine, the cold in Aubagne near Marseille, a
[00:30:29] 14-year-old high school student opened fire in his school, he shot three times before
[00:30:33] injuring two people and being arrested, he is not known to the police
[00:30:36] services, the investigation is underway, Emmanuel Macron praises the
[00:30:39] composure of the teaching staff who prevented the worst, she is the star of the
[00:30:43] 2026 Paris Motor Show, the electric
[00:30:47] Stellantis, a resurrection on which the group is counting a lot to
[00:30:50] peser face au chinois omniprésents au salon, on retrouvera sur place
[00:30:54] Ludovic dofouco, bonjour
[00:30:55] Ludovic.