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00:00:07and a new news report on France
00:00:07carry the word 24, welcome to you if you are
00:00:10joining us, our
00:00:12and the Pope has now editions largely dedicated to this visit of Leo
00:00:1514 in France, and he is preparing to leave Paris
00:00:19for Lourdes, the sovereign pontiff presided over a solemn mass this afternoon in the Place de
00:00:23la Concorde here in the capital, at least 700,000 people
00:00:26participated according to the Vatican, you will hear an... excerpt from his homily.
00:00:45700,000 people, according to the
00:00:48kind of standard-bearer for Vatican, were gathered on this Avenue des Champs-Élysées in
00:00:51Paris and far beyond for the mass presided over by Pope
00:00:5414, it was the moment to conclude his two-day
00:00:58stopover in Paris before going to Lourdes, I propose
00:01:01you listen to an excerpt from his homily:
00:01:06unravel the mysteries of one of the jewels of I thank God for the grace that he offers me to be
00:01:10here on this Place de la Concorde
00:01:13to celebrate the Eucharist,
00:01:16yes, it is good and sweet for brothers and sisters
00:01:20to gather together to
00:01:23magnify the greatness of
00:01:25God, may my presence among
00:01:29you
00:01:32confirm your faith and encourage
00:01:35you to constantly radiate
00:01:38and transmit life, peace and
00:01:43he slept in this room and there in the context of love of our beloved Jesus Christ,
00:01:45and then Marie Chuster who followed this whole event from
00:01:49the Place des Champs-Élysées, the Avenue des
00:01:52Champs-Élysées, Marie, the Mass has
00:01:55heritage projects in Europe, here we are in the middle of been over for about thirty minutes now, but people are clearly
00:01:58not rushing to leave this... the area around you
00:02:00yeah
00:02:05indeed, that's the feeling we have here so we were expecting 60,000
00:02:08people according to the Vatican, you said they were almost 700,000, in any case the
00:02:12Champs-Élysées were packed with people to come and attend this mass
00:02:16to perhaps catch a glimpse of the Pope
00:02:19during his passage in his Popemobile, uh
00:02:23indeed they are not rushing to leave, so they were given just before the
00:02:27mass this little booklet, this mass booklet which allowed them to follow
00:02:31the songs and sing along, we felt a
00:02:34strong fervor here, first at the passage of the Popemobile, shouts of joy,
00:02:38applause also at the end of the mass where we felt people
00:02:42were very moved, the Pope himself whom we saw on the big screens uh was
00:02:46very moved, looked very moved and then
00:02:49we also saw seminarians, priests who
00:02:53were present to distribute the Eucharist
00:02:56to allow people to
00:02:58discover it, you see, I'm going to talk about receive communion during this place for the life of mass, and also
00:03:01many young people who were also present at the Stade de
00:03:04France the night before and who were very touched by the
00:03:08Pope's message, the youth
00:03:10solidified on contact with which is a theme that will come up again during these 4 days of
00:03:13apostolic journey, tomorrow in Lourdes and then in
00:03:16Metz, thank you very much Marie, Marie live from this
00:03:19Avenue des Champs-Élysées which is not emptying, that's what you just
00:03:23told us, Anne Corpe who is a little
00:03:26higher up, Anne the mass is over, we were just
00:03:30saying it with Marie Schuster, what we will essentially remember are
00:03:34these moments of jubilation and contemplation that you witnessed,
00:03:37even from a height, you had a general view of that
00:03:40area,
00:03:43yes, yes, and here towards the Place de l'Étoile, well
00:03:47the crowd has already deserted the sidewalks, it's the
00:03:50law enforcement who are moving back the security
00:03:54barriers, a great moment of popular
00:03:57jubilation, first with the appearance... uh from the
00:04:01first hours of the morning of the crowd singing and
00:04:05religious framework because he is here and especially culminating with the passage of the Popemobile
00:04:09acclaimed with a crowd waving its
00:04:13flags in all directions, then
00:04:16contemplation took place with this mass, a
00:04:19crowd that here followed it on
00:04:22giant screens and that followed it
00:04:26sitting on the sidewalks standing everywhere.
00:04:30With a message, as Marie said, addressed first and foremost to the
00:04:33youth, "You are the church of today," launched
00:04:37Leo 14 to these young people, and a message also addressed
00:04:41to new converts, it's a phenomenon
00:04:43that particularly interests the Vatican,
00:04:4721,000 adult and
00:04:50adolescent baptisms pronounced this year in France, even
00:04:53though babies are much less
00:04:56baptized than before, a church that has...
00:05:00there it is still under the authority of transformed, that has gone from a Catholicism of transmission to
00:05:03a Catholicism
00:05:07of adherence, and the Pope called these new converts
00:05:11to share their journey, to
00:05:14communicate their path, to
00:05:19of the Gospel,
00:05:25left the Place de la Concorde, he will go
00:05:28to Lourdes, you said, where he will meet victims
00:05:32of sexual abuse committed by the church, there have been
00:05:3533,000 since 1951,
00:05:39seven of them will be heard by the
00:05:43Pope, a choice by the church that has sparked some controversy
00:05:47among associations defending these victims who would have liked
00:05:49to be received in a more collective
00:05:52manner, he will then go to Metz to deliver a
00:05:55European
00:05:58message. Thank you very much Anne, Anne Corpe live from the Champs Élysées, the
00:06:02sovereign pontiff who is preparing to leave
00:06:05Paris for Lourdes, Natalia Mendoza who is also part of
00:06:09this papal delegation is on the tarmac of Orly
00:06:12airport, thank you for being with us Natalia, you are waiting for the arrival of the
00:06:16sovereign pontiff to take off not very long
00:06:19from now, heading to
00:06:20Lourdes,
00:06:24the connection with Natalia will be re-established in a
00:06:27moment, complicated with these networks, there are also many people
00:06:31all around, Constance, before looking ahead to Lourdes,
00:06:34the next stage of this apostolic journey of the sovereign pontiff, what more general
00:06:38assessment can we already draw from these two days spent in Paris, so
00:06:42successful? very rich nonetheless, if we rewind,
00:06:45what did we see? we better understood, better knew this
00:06:49sovereign pontiff, American nevertheless, it's a great novelty in
00:06:53the Church, who speaks French, and who speaks much
00:06:56better than uh the speeches he gave in
00:06:59Monaco, notably, that was early April, where we were saying,
00:07:03"Ah, so that's his French," so he really made an effort, he is
00:07:07expected because he has roots, oh yes, French roots, I mean, he must
00:07:10have known his
00:07:14grandmother who died in 1979, named
00:07:18Suzanne Fontaine, uh so there you go, no, no, he's very, very close and
00:07:21through his mother too, so he really has
00:07:24origins, there you go, we know him better, we saw a
00:07:27man, a Pope who spoke very
00:07:31firmly politically to the republic, who told him
00:07:35pleasant and unpleasant things, he
00:07:37flattered France, flattered
00:07:41Emmanuel Macron, flattered French culture, French
00:07:44excellence, the beautiful speech of President Macron at the Collège des
00:07:48Bernadins, that was in 2018 where he
00:07:51promised to go and repair the damaged link between
00:07:54the church and France, he finally did it, after all, since there was the
00:07:57visit of a Pope during his last
00:08:01five-year term, and at the same time, a firm
00:08:05discourse also on a commemorative message on the
00:08:08revolution all the same, he celebrated the martyrdom
00:08:12of 200 priests, roughly assassinated
00:08:16during the September 1792
00:08:19massacres, no Pope had dared to make such
00:08:22audacious gestures in places like that, so he
00:08:26went, there you go, he walked straight on his
00:08:29path, we feel it, we see it, he's a determined
00:08:32Pope who, despite his gentle demeanor,
00:08:35quiet, less disruptive than Pope
00:08:38Francis, charts his own course and
00:08:42his stops in Paris have further
00:08:45affirmed, I think, his very clear message
00:08:49uh there you go, and he also has this rather joyful
00:08:52personality, this man who smiles a lot, this man who lets himself be carried by
00:08:56emotion, we saw him clearly wipe away a
00:08:58tear uh yesterday at the Stade de
00:09:02France in front of these young people, he was very good there, he took the
00:09:05babies, so there you go, I think it's uh a beautiful
00:09:09encounter between this American Pope uh
00:09:13and the French. Mission accomplished if we stay within the purely
00:09:18both as head of the Catholic Church and head of state of the Vatican, on the religious level, yes, and
00:09:22by the way, he is precisely moving from one role to the other, as far as
00:09:25simply, we were talking about it earlier, and we were talking rather, sorry,
00:09:29about a form of reconquest of the Catholic Church in France, is it on this
00:09:32point that it is a successful mission when we see these 70,000
00:09:36people who, we assume, do not necessarily participate in religious services
00:09:40in. any case, of course, the
00:09:44atmosphere, the crowds, the tickets
00:09:48that sold out in 2 hours for the Stade de France, that's still
00:09:5180,000 seats, it would have taken two Stade de France, maybe even three, who
00:09:54knows, so yes, it's a success uh, it's a
00:09:58way for the church to reassert itself in the public
00:10:02sphere, without threatening secularism, but uh, as
00:10:06long as there is no disorder to public
00:10:09order, there is no problem,
00:10:13the state that these demonstrations took place, so
00:10:16there you go, yes of course, the church is there, the Catholics are there, uh, they
00:10:20show themselves, they enjoy themselves because they
00:10:23strengthen themselves by showing themselves, so yes, on that point it's
00:10:26a success I think, he is expected in Lourdes, so after this
00:10:30Parisian stopover, he flies to this Catholic
00:10:34pilgrimage center, he is the first sovereign pontiff to set foot on the soil of this Marian city
00:10:38since Benedict, since Benedict, to take a
00:10:41reference point, well now, and we will see exactly what we expect from this
00:10:45visit to Lourdes and we'll talk again right
00:10:47after,
00:10:51pilgrims are already converging on Lourdes by the thousands from all over the
00:10:55world, they are raising the fervor in the city, decorated in the
00:10:59colors of the Vatican,
00:11:01he has no words, he has no words, even if he's not here yet, even if he's not here
00:11:05yet, we see everything that's being prepared, I can't wait to
00:11:08see him for the first time, first time I see generally and so
00:11:12it's always a great moment, it's a beautiful
00:11:15day, our pilgrimage, the Pope and
00:11:18who knows, the appearance of the Virgin if we are
00:11:20lucky,
00:11:23the city is barricaded for the
00:11:56event, including in the air,
00:11:59thanks to their fixed or mobile drones, these police officers will be able to visualize
00:12:03each movement live, we're going to
00:12:05check everything to make sure the Pope arrives safely, to secure his arrival
00:12:09when he circulates in his Popemobile
00:12:12and especially to check
00:12:14that there is no crowd movement on the ground,
00:12:18the big mass on Sunday morning is being prepared, this deacon will have the privilege of being closest to Leo
00:12:2214, to prepare the altar near the Pope. right next to him
00:12:26and a priori right next to him so I'm waiting to know
00:12:29what I'm going to be asked to do, I just hope I don't make any mistakes and that I don't
00:12:32spill a chalice or
00:12:35a cup. The Pope is expected this evening shortly before 8 p.m. at the
00:12:39Grotto of Apparitions where he will give his blessing, a first
00:12:42stage that should already gather 50,000
00:12:45people. There's a lot of anticipation in Lourdes, so much could
00:12:49still happen, Constance? Yes, of course,
00:12:52because this is really a moment of pastoral
00:12:56encounter, this is the life of the Church, there's no more political discourse, apart
00:13:00of course from a sensitive topic, which is that of abuse, the
00:13:03crisis, the scandal of pedophilia and abuse of minors in
00:13:06the Church, apart from that, everything else is no longer about politics, no longer
00:13:10about the Élysée, no longer about protocol, we are really in religious
00:13:13life, in the sick, in miracles, in
00:13:17the apparitions of the Virgin, in the Marian sanctuary which is
00:13:20an international
00:13:23the Church, and besides... all the Popes, except Francis, have
00:13:27been to Lourdes, everyone has gone to Lourdes, even before being
00:13:31Pope, no doubt he went as a seminarian,
00:13:34priest, missionary, etc., I don't know, I'm
00:13:38getting ahead of myself, but it's really a place of encounter, a
00:13:41crossroads of faith, uh, the Marian sanctuaries, so
00:13:44he's going to awaken that fervor, there's no reason
00:13:48why there shouldn't be crowds again, uh, there you go, even
00:13:51if the geographical setting is much more constrained.
00:13:55So, here we are at the foot of the grotto, in this space
00:13:59where, well, there can't be more than 150,000 people, I think I've seen
00:14:02yellow and do we know precisely why
00:14:05it's in Lourdes, this sanctuary city, this pilgrimage center,
00:14:09that this meeting with these victims of sexual abuse will
00:14:12take place, because I would also like to make sense of what we were saying, we were talking about success
00:14:16here in Paris, but for these victims' collectives, it will remain a
00:14:19feeling of a missed
00:14:23opportunity, in fact, on that side. There are always problems because, obviously,
00:14:27the victims cannot be satisfied with all
00:14:30the efforts that the Catholic Church could make, even if they are insufficient.
00:14:34When one is a victim, when one's life has been, uh,
00:14:38there is never any possibility of being satisfied with
00:14:42what a Pope, the Vatican, does, how do we choose these
00:14:45people? The collectives, yes, it's a shame that they are
00:14:48not present because they are stronger to speak, more
00:14:51militant, exactly, perhaps that's what the Church wanted to avoid
00:14:55by receiving only individuals. Well, uh, why
00:14:58is it also happening there? Because we are close to
00:15:01Bétharram too, uh, he will have a victim from
00:15:04Bétharram of whom we know uh that she will
00:15:07ask for the suspension of the Congregation of the Fathers of
00:15:10Bétharram, so there you go, it's not at all certain that it will be
00:15:14uh accepted, but in any case uh this
00:15:17victim, her word is firm
00:15:20on that, she wants to go that far, but if it had not
00:15:23been uh organized in Lourdes, he
00:15:27would have still necessarily had a meeting
00:15:30with victims in Paris or in Metz, there you go, because that
00:15:34now, unfortunately, I would say for the Church, it's... an
00:15:37obligation, it's an obligation, thank you very much
00:15:40Constance, thank you, we'll see you in about fifteen minutes for a new news report, see you later,
00:15:59and stay with us, next up on France 24, your show "Pas de quartier" with
00:16:03Ségolène Malterre and her
00:16:21social media a friend named the conqueror who revolutionized the image
00:16:24of French castles to a whole new audience, hello friends,
00:16:28welcome to the Château de Chantilly, we owe this castle in particular to one
00:16:32man, Henry d'Orléans, how did this Franco-Moroccan become
00:16:36one of the most celebrated faces of heritage in France, from the
00:16:39Loire castles to his childhood neighborhood, follow me, I'll introduce you to the
00:16:43enthusiast behind
00:16:44the armor,
00:16:48and to start, my friend gave us an appointment in the Loire Valley at the Château d'Azay-le-Rideau, he
00:16:52must be somewhere filming his next video, we're going to try to
00:16:55find him,
00:16:58ah, it's cold here, the goal is to enlighten us, you're going to follow us
00:17:01behind and we're going to stop in front of the
00:17:03bed, yeah, we're going to make an entrance,
00:17:08Ah, the king's bedroom, apparently Louis XII, at the age of 18, on
00:17:11June 27, 1619, came here,
00:17:15he spent a few nights here, that's right, yes, he spent 3 days here at the Château d'Azay and
00:17:21the exhibition we had fun putting a deer on it, this deer is the
00:17:24king of the forest, top very good, hop, you see how it is, we are
00:17:28quick, tac tac, as always it seems easy when you watch videos on social
00:17:32media but it's a lot of work and a lot of staging,
00:17:35in fact, it's go, it's that the hazards, we forget to block people, it's
00:17:39complicated when we, yeah, the hazards, give access, privileged access,
00:17:43let's go, we're going, I'm home now, I've gained confidence, you see, look here
00:17:47you have the salamander, it's the emblem of Francis I, the owner of the
00:17:50castle worked for Francis I, but he had a bit of a falling out with Francis I at the
00:17:54end, yes, because he stole from the treasury, the
00:17:57carrot, that's right, exactly, you
00:18:01know, and yes, at the beginning you pushed a bit to be able to
00:18:04film, but now they welcome you well, yeah, I shouldn't say it but phew, before it was
00:18:08hell, it was a nightmare, now welcome your
00:18:12Highness, Amine, it's that hard work pays off, actually, yeah, I
00:18:15sleep in front of the Château de Blois, I open my window, there's the Château de Blois in front of me, not yet in the castle,
00:18:19no, not yet, I'm a street away from the castle, it makes my heart feel something, I
00:18:23don't know why castles make me so happy, you see, I love them so much, how do you
00:18:27define this method to reach beyond the usual audience, I don't overthink it, I do
00:18:31it naturally, I discover the castle like a small child would
00:18:36hygiene of... and people are not used to us talking about it
00:18:39necessarily, so it makes them laugh, me in all modesty, of course,
00:18:43I know much more, of course, but I'm not going to annoy people
00:18:47with terms to impress, the most important thing is to transmit, so that when you watch my
00:18:51video you say, "Ah, I learned something," you see, well, this drone is taking off, yes
00:18:55well, yes, girls, where's my drone, where's my drone? A year and
00:18:59a half after his first amateur video, it's now the
00:19:02heritage administrators who contact him, stand there
00:19:06try to aim at my face, work for Amine the Conqueror, I
00:19:09swear, a professional cameraman, Amin Cassid became passionate
00:19:13about medieval history after a role as an extra in a historical
00:19:16TV series,
00:19:19I'll let you tell me, what do you want me to tell you, it's the text, tell me if it's good or
00:19:22not, the king's financier received it from his father,
00:19:26well, I'm going to tell you something, I had a doubt and I was waiting to see you, oh yeah, but otherwise everything is
00:19:30impeccable, 19 out of 20, no 19 is not me, I'm just saying, you know, it's like when you
00:19:34copied someone and you messed up, all the greatest historians of France... follow
00:19:37me and that's the pressure I have, in fact, I tell myself that the slightest mistake and I'm
00:19:41dead, friends, today I'm taking you with me to discover
00:19:45a Loire castle for a day and that for a week, a
00:19:48marathon for him and his team Ocean and
00:19:51Mounira knew Amine the video trainer before he
00:19:54became the conqueror, the first training he launched was the city of
00:19:58ladies, so it was only with women, that's why in his team he only has ladies now, it's true, we are
00:20:02his bodyguards, as he says, no, well
00:20:04yes, and who says bodyguard says notoriety? And Amine is now
00:20:08a known face wherever he goes, oh, I'm annoyed in the
00:20:11photo, annoyed, well yes, I knew her right away, I saw her face, I said, "Ah, it's him," and I
00:20:15turned to Camille, I said, "But it's him," she said, "Oh yes, it's
00:20:18true," at first it was a joke, I posted it on social media like that, you know, and
00:20:22it worked, so I continued, you become an ambassador of French heritage, I'm focused on
00:20:26the content, I'm like, what's the project? Well, we're going to bring all French
00:20:30people together around the love of heritage, around the love of
00:20:33France and make us say, "Damn, we're happy and proud to be
00:20:36French," you know what I mean, we're French, you know, we were born here, we're French, that's it,
00:20:40so we're going to do everything to show other countries in Europe, in the world, the heritage we
00:20:44have, look guys, that's France, and we're not joking with you, you see, that's how I
00:20:48think, return to his homeland, Amine grew up far from
00:20:52old stones in the new town of Cergy, but his passion very quickly
00:20:55disturbed and the law of networks did the rest. If he no longer counts the
00:20:59messages of racist and Islamophobic insults, he now files
00:21:02complaints for death threats. Look, I'm going to file
00:21:06a complaint against this guy, he invents
00:21:09accents for me, "peasant accent, go home, go back to
00:21:12your country," does that not affect you today? There are times when I tell myself, "Yeah, what
00:21:15am I doing here?" especially when they attack parents, you see, and
00:21:19that's where it's... insidious is that they provoke you, they wait for you to make
00:21:22a mistake, I'll give you an example, there's a guy who insulted me, who insulted my parents, I
00:21:26made a mistake, which was to answer him by insulting him too,
00:21:29screenshot, he pretends to be a woman, he says, "There, he insults women," I say, "Oh
00:21:33yeah, guys, you're crazy," did you imagine becoming, by addressing all these questions, a
00:21:38anti-racism? I wasn't even aware of that at
00:21:41first, the positive thing is that now, even if someone attacks
00:21:45me, I'll have an army of followers who will
00:21:48defend me,
00:21:53Today, Amine has decided to go and
00:21:56Gothic architecture, a resting place for the kings and queens of France,
00:22:00the Basilica of Saint-Denis. Public meetings with his subscribers have
00:22:04been put on hold for security reasons, the thing is,
00:22:08the storytelling machine doesn't stop for all that, it's known for pushing through
00:22:11every time, you know, it didn't work, tried
00:22:1520 times, let's go for the ascent, the
00:22:19tower. its gold and its spire were dismantled in 1846,
00:22:23weakened by bad weather, is there much left or not? It's
00:22:26regaining its shape stone by stone since 2025 to reach
00:22:30120m high, look folks what I do for you,
00:22:34look at the risks I take to give you beautiful images, watch carefully, there's a
00:22:37reconstruction of this tower which should be completed by 2030,
00:22:41exactly, a reconstruction that is one of the largest
00:22:45the scaffolding which is already a technical feat, it sticks to the basilica and after a
00:22:49while, well, it's... self-supporting, we are living a historical moment, in several centuries, we will
00:22:53still talk about it and we were, what are we going to start with,
00:22:56Serge, well I suggest we start with the crypt, it's the origin of everything, it's where
00:23:00Saint-Denis was buried, you're good Serge, you impress me, one of the
00:23:03objectives I have always pursued is to make sure that the local
00:23:07public can come, about 23%
00:23:10of the Seine-Saint-Denis population visits the monument, but we have been working with
00:23:14young people from the area for a very long time, and beyond history, what works here
00:23:17is simply beauty when you enter,
00:23:20light, it works for everyone, regardless of our beliefs, our
00:23:23knowledge, etc., it works, all the characters are turned towards the east, towards the
00:23:27sunrise, it's like us Muslims, when we are buried, we are buried in
00:23:31the direction of Mecca, it's the same, it's the same thing, how was your curiosity for
00:23:35these places perceived in your own religious community? At first, when I filmed the
00:23:38castles, there was always one or two jerks who would tell me, "Yeah, Amine, you're filming the castles
00:23:42of the infidels, go film in your country." Now,
00:23:46on the contrary, when I filmed the collegiate church of Mont la Jolie, people like
00:23:50veiled Muslim women and bearded men would tell me, "Wow, it's magnificent, I didn't know we could
00:23:54visit it." And so that opened doors for them to encounter
00:23:58perhaps the faith of other people or places of faith, did it enlighten you on your own
00:24:01faith? Jesus is also a prophet for us Muslims, and
00:24:05the Christians, the Jews are mentioned in the Quran,
00:24:08and all of that is actually connected, it goes hand in hand
00:24:12and it's also a bit of our history, we
00:24:16Muslims, which can be manipulated, because we know that here Charles Martel was enumerated.
00:24:20I told you, I get a lot of attacks from people on social networks who keep bringing up the name of Charles
00:24:23Martel, the pseudo Templars, and they
00:24:27don't even know the history of Charles Martel, you see, for example, there's no
00:24:30certification that the battle really took place in 732 and in Poitiers, you see,
00:24:34historians are not unanimous when we say, "There, we drove the Arabs out of France who
00:24:38wanted to invade France." It's not true, the
00:24:40Muslims, they would steal everything and leave, they would
00:24:43go home. When we understand and are interested in the history of France, we understand a lot
00:24:47of things, why there are trees, damn it.
00:24:50the road, why we pay such a tax, that's why it's very important to know the
00:24:54past to better understand the present and anticipate the future. Are we less
00:24:57manipulated too? I know too
00:25:16It's nicknamed the emerald of the Caribbean.
00:25:20Montserrat, an island of raw beauty,
00:25:23carved by the power of a volcano, polished by
00:25:27time,
00:25:29man is only welcome at the whim of the Soufrière, of its
00:25:33eruptions. To venture into this
00:25:35land, one must be careful.
00:25:39Know that five people are about to enter the zone and especially
00:25:43be accompanied by a guide. We have just
00:25:46entered a part of zone V, the most dangerous part of the
00:25:51island. There's an emergency road in case you need
00:25:53to escape.
00:25:55As you drive, each car kicks up clouds of ash, the
00:25:59ash, ejected by the volcano in its fury, a volcano always
00:26:02very active. You don't want to be there on a day when the mountain is in a bad
00:26:06mood. A mountain with multiple facets
00:26:10that these New York tourists
00:26:12are discovering for the first time. I feel so
00:26:15small, it's so big, it's
00:26:19so massive, and you see these kind of big
00:26:22very very deep crevices, in this flow, there's
00:26:26up to 60 meters of volcanic material, you want to call it
00:26:29the monster, a monster? that woke up
00:26:3331 years ago with
00:26:36repeated explosions of smoke and incandescent
00:26:40rocks, an avalanche of fire that swept away
00:26:43everything, including the capital,
00:26:47which is now a ghost town, almost
00:26:50entirely
00:26:54under the ashes. The
00:26:57memorial, for example, there's no trace left, it's buried here under
00:27:01our feet. Only the third or fourth floor of the buildings
00:27:04are still visible, here, a phone store or
00:27:08even the bank's library, only the roof is still
00:27:12visible, this hotel welcomed in the 90s
00:27:15many tourists and businessmen, and here it
00:27:19is
00:27:20today,
00:27:23trees even grow on the roof, in the ashes, it's
00:27:26impressive, a window into life
00:27:29before, an office with abandoned documents... very
00:27:32quickly, you'd think you were in an alien movie, the emergency
00:27:36evacuation, Alvin Ryan experienced it, he was working in this
00:27:39supermarket on July 18, 95 when suddenly,
00:27:43I started to hear a noise that sounded like an airplane engine, but it
00:27:46continued, I realized that in fact the earth had opened up, white
00:27:50steam was coming out of a crater, I rushed to
00:27:53retrieve a few belongings, I didn't realize then that I was leaving
00:27:57here forever.
00:28:0019 people died, some... could not be evacuated in
00:28:03time, others refused to leave. Faced with the
00:28:07incessant threat, 2/3 of the inhabitants left the island, those who
00:28:10remained moved further north,
00:28:14but the echoes of the past glory of this British territory still resonate here,
00:28:18prized at the time by the greatest musicians, Dire
00:28:22Straits, Paul McCartney, Elton
00:28:25John. They recorded some of their biggest hits
00:28:29in George Martin's studio, the Beatles' producer.
00:29:05Here too, the volcano makes its
00:29:07law, the incandescent rocks have
00:29:12water, creating picturesque
00:29:15reefs,
00:29:19these volcanic rocks are the perfect habitat for corals and sponges, then fish
00:29:23can reproduce and hide there, many reefs that don't
00:29:26have many visitors, it's a blessing,
00:29:30yes, in Montserrat, there's more marine life than
00:29:33tourists and rays can hide in the
00:29:37sand without risking being disturbed.
00:30:32Thank you for choosing France 24 to inform you about the world, Pope
00:30:36Benedict XVI is therefore preparing to leave Paris, he is due to
00:30:40fly to Lourdes, the Supreme Pontiff presided over a solemn mass
00:30:43this afternoon, Place de la Concorde here in the capital, at least
00:30:4770,000 people took part according to the figures communicated by the
00:30:51Vatican.