POLITICS: Primary socialist Martine Aubry "take responsibility"

REUTERS - Martine Aubry made Sunday a further step towards a Socialist candidate for the primary pre-presidential election, explaining that she "wanted the Left wins" and "want to be helpful" to his country.
In an interview with France 2, the first secretary of the PS said that his remark was "very advanced" on the subject, speaking of "determination" of "enthusiasm" and "responsibility."

Words chosen carefully to whom some blamed for not having done so far shows his desire to get into the presidential race.
"My desire is that the left wins, and my desire is to be useful to my country," said the mayor of Lille, who is head of the PS for three years.
"Yes," she answered the question of whether it was part of socialist officials may participate in the primary PS in October, which will nominate the candidate of his camp in the race for the Elysee.

Martine Aubry said he started "long ago" a reflection on this subject, "well before" the fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former favorite of the polls today charged with sexual assault in the United States.
"Without haste, I keep thinking that this is already, you can imagine, very advanced, and I keep on track because the French are asking us that."

"Be prepared, I prepared myself," she said. "For me, politics is not a career, it is saying all the time: 'Where do I find most useful?"

"I've always taken my responsibilities, the French know and I will take them. They know they can trust me."

"It takes up"

"I say things when I tell them," summed up the former Minister of Employment and standard-bearer for the week of 35 hours.
According to schedule, the candidates for the Socialist primary will be filed between June 28 and July 13.

The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the last weekend in New York, has upset the Socialists, who relied on the Director General of the International Monetary Fund to beat the incumbent president Nicolas Sarkozy, whose candidacy is little doubt.
François Hollande, the primary candidate for PS, is the new favorite of opinion polls, which also places Martine Aubry in a good position when probing the polls in the first round of presidential elections.
Martine Aubry refused to compare the member of Correze, who led the Socialist Party before it for ten years.
"Candidates are not adversaries, they are comrades who are defending what they believe is good for their country and I abide by this rule to the end, I am a candidate or than I am not," she said.
François Hollande will be Sunday evening's guest log 20 hours of TF1.
Other declared candidates for the primary are the member Arnaud Montebourg and Segolene Royal, defeated candidate in the presidential election of 2007.
"An election is never a foregone conclusion but rely on our enthusiasm, on my enthusiasm and my determination to get everything done in 2012 that France finds itself in the background," said Martine Aubry .
The daughter of Jacques Delors, former president of the European Commission (1985-1995) who had himself given up to run for the Elysee, acknowledged that the supposed presidential ambitions certain qualities.
"I am a normal woman in that I live like everyone else, but I think when one wants to run for the Presidency of the Republic, it takes a little more," she said.

"He incarnate France, its values ​​must be the same height and time proximity to the French."

LIBYA: According to the CNT, the French killed in Benghazi was conducting illegal activities

The five French working for private security company Secopex, including his boss killed by rebels during the operation, were conducting "illegal activities" that endangered the security of Libya, announced Friday the Rebellion Jamahiriya.

"On the evening of May 11, the local security forces in Benghazi were ordered to arrest a group of 5 French conducting illicit activities that endangered the safety of free Libya," said the National Transitional Council ( CNT), the governing body of the rebellion, in a statement.

"These men had been under surveillance for some time," the CNT.

"Unfortunately, he was shot by accident after trying to resist. He was taken to hospital but died. The four were arrested," also said the rebellion.

FRANCE: Paris wants to strengthen the provision of temporary suspension of the Schengen

France is in favor of strengthening the provision of temporary suspension of the free movement of Schengen in case of influx of illegal immigrants at an external border of the European Union, said Friday the French presidency.

This includes learning from the current influx of immigrants Tunisian and Libyan via Italy, which caused serious tensions between Paris and Rome in recent weeks, but the porosity of the Greek-Turkish border .

"We must draw the consequences of the shaky situation in which we are currently strengthening the integration in the management of external borders," says one at the Elysee.

It will be a menu of topics to Franco-Italian summit in Rome next Tuesday.

President Nicolas Sarkozy hopes to France and Italy are all, as they have done in 2009, a joint initiative in Brussels, told the Elysee.

The objective of this initiative will be particular to obtain effective cooperation in the South against illegal immigration but also a strengthening of Europe's Schengen now deemed "deficient" by Paris.

This building includes making modernization of the European asylum, a strengthening of Frontex, which organizes joint patrols with the EU's external borders and the establishment of a sort of safeguard clause, said President French.

"Schengen is subject to difficulties," says one at the Elysee."We believe that we must go up, as a last resort, a suspension clause in case of necessity."

"What we think, is that we consider a mechanism where there is a systemic failure at an external border of the EU to intervene by providing an interim suspension, the time the failure is resolved, "says the same source.

There already exists a clause of suspension, but it is of very limited application in time and geographically and is intended only for events of extraordinary nature.

France has made the call in 2004 for ceremonies of the 60th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy in 2007 after the London bombings.

The turmoil in North Africa, mainly in Tunisia and Libya, have led to the arrival in Italy of many illegal immigrants from these countries, once in the Schengen area, can travel in 24 European countries who are members.

It stresses, however, at the Elysee Palace that the discussions on strengthening the effectiveness of Schengen, which will be conducted at 27, will take time.

Egypt: The Egyptian army reintroduced the crime of opinion in respect of a blogger

Egypt seems to have trouble settle his accounts with the Mubarak era. A blogger has just made the bitter experience. Maikel Nabil was sentenced Monday to three years in prison for criticizing the military line. This is the first time since the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak, January 18, an Egyptian is sent to prison for expressing his opinions.

"This is a trial worthy of the time of Hosni Mubarak," complains FRANCE 24 Ezzat Ahmed, Egyptian jurist and member of the Association for freedom of expression and thought.Arrested March 28, Maikel Nabil was brought before a military tribunal, which is "totally illegal since it is the trial of a civilian," said FRANCE 24 Morayef Heba, a specialist in Egypt and Libya for the association of human rights Human Rights Watch. Egyptian military authorities accused him of calling on his blog at the end of conscription, which would call a "negative effect on Egyptian youth."

The military court has also allowed some liberties with the rights of defense. The blogger has thus been condemned in the absence of his lawyers Monday."The head of the court we were told that the decision would be made Tuesday, April 12," says FRANCE 24 Ali Atef, one of the lawyers Maikel Nabil, still under the purview of the surprised.

The new taboo

The verdict for comments made online has even more importance as the Internet has largely contributed to the Egyptian revolution. However, this is not the first time that the military authorities succumb to past practices by organizations defending human rights."Several people who attended events of March 9, Tahrir Square [to judge who called President Hosni Mubarak and criticizing some military officials, Ed] were arrested, tried by a military court and sentenced to prison," recalled Ahmed Ezzat.

He says that as long as certain laws, such as those on political parties and freedom of the press, were not repealed, "beautiful minds of the Egyptians will have changed, the system may still succumb to the same excesses."

"The army has become the new dirty word in Egypt," laments Atef Ali for his part, counsel for Maikel Nabil.A person who is, according to him, even more pronounced at the time of Hosni Mubarak. "Traditional media avoid talking about the military and the only ones who dare to mention the army are now bloggers," says he.

"We should not kid ourselves, the democratic transition does not happen in a few months it will take years to get there," said Ahmed Ezzat. Meanwhile, Maikel Nabil was transferred from his brother at the Tora prison. His lawyers intend to appeal against his conviction ... always before a military tribunal.

SYRIA: The current uprising restructures opposition to the Baath Party

The Syrian opposition began its "martyrs' week", which opens Tuesday with a day of protest: a new initiative synonymous with defiance to President Bashar al-Assad. This mobilization, relayed on the Internet - including via Facebook Page "The Syrian Revolution 2011" - is both unprecedented challenges is severely repressed. The scheme, contested for almost three weeks despite a strong presence of its security services, could not imagine delivering such a showdown.

According to the organizations of human rights, about 130 people have been killed since the beginning of the movement - particularly Deraa, epicenter of the revolt at 100 km south of Damascus.Far from being intimidated by the violence of the regime, the youth can she provided lead the uprising to an end - like his distant cousins ​​Tunisian and Egyptian?

The Baath Party, the undisputed master of the political scene

Nothing is less certain. Since the 1963 coup that brought him to power, the Baath Party, a sort of combination between socialism and Arab nationalism, reigns supreme in the political arena. His supremacy is enshrined in the Constitution of 1973, which was consecrated as the ruling party of the state and society.An established order maintained since through the law on state of emergency which will suppress "legally" attempts at protests and political opposition. Responding to a claim, President Al-Assad has recently formed a commission to study the repeal of this draconian law.

"Syria has been frozen and sterilized to intellectual and politics since coming to power of the Baath and the establishment of the emergency law," said Syrian academic Bourhane Ghalioun, director of the Center for Arab Studies and the Orient contemporary at the Sorbonne. Parliamentary and officially secular, Syrian Republic is supposed to be open to the multiparty system.Are tolerated but only parties that comprise the "National Progressive Front," a coalition of several groups allowed by the Baath Party. "This coalition is expected to play the role of opposition is a sham, since it obeys the finger and the eye of the regime. The true pro-democracy opposition is silenced," says Ahmad, between exile in Paris.

An opposition gagged

Leaders exiled or jailed, activists routinely hounded by the intelligence services of the plan, the parties divided on objectives: opposition struggles to be heard."The opposition parties have never managed to unify their positions or to propose a joint project, mainly because of repression," said Bourhane Ghalioun.

In 2005, however, the secular opposition parties and the Muslim Brotherhood, based in London, had signed a founding text entitled "Damascus Declaration" calling for "democratic and radical change." In December 2007, a national council (governing body) of the "Damascus Declaration" was created in Syria, but many of its members were quickly arrested.Muslim Brotherhood, officially dismantled by the regime, the extreme left (Marxists, communists ...) through the Kurdish parties, the opposition continues to work illegally, with a margin of maneuver. "Prevented by force to speak, meet, develop relationships with people and to recruit young supporters, these parties are isolated from the rest of society," said the professor.

A phenomenon which explains the profusion of NGOs, intellectuals and protesters engaged in the country. The latter, mostly intellectuals or organized and supervised, "represent 90% of the opposition," according Bourhane Ghalioun."This is a direct consequence of repression against opposition parties," he developed. But this exposes the individual commitment equally to intimidation, arbitrary arrests and lengthy prison sentences.

The youth, who spearheaded the uprising

But a new factor has come to seize the effectiveness of the repressive machine of the regime, early this year. Inspired by the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, the country's youth gathered at the forefront of the current uprising. Despite the continuous monitoring on the Internet and the low penetration of the medium nationally (16.8% of the population only had access to the Web, in 2008). "Youth is the spearhead of the movement.Like the regime, opposition parties have been overwhelmed by this spontaneous movement and were content to support them, "says Bourhane Ghalioun. The Syrian population is young (77% under 35 years) and it is n has been that the Assad regime and the state of emergency. "We thought these kids were depoliticized by the Baathist propaganda, but it is not: they are the lifeblood of the opposition. They thirst for democracy and modernity and they will take over from our generation, who was on the verge of resignation, "concluded Ahmed.

ALPINE SKIING: Season ends with a bang for Adrien Theaux, who won the downhill in Lenzerheide

AFP - After experiencing his first podium this winter, Adrien Theaux has tasted its first victory Wednesday in the final downhill of the season in Lenzerheide, where the Swiss Didier Cuche was removed for the fourth time the World Cup of race queen.

At 26, the Pyrenean lived the emotions of a first podium, first super-G with a second place finish in Beaver Creek in early December, then downhill, with a third place in Kitzbuehel in January. On Wednesday, he felt the thrill of its premiere.

"I could not imagine a finer end of the season," said the skier dismissed in Val Thorens. "These are things we dream since childhood.This is not the world championships, it's a shame, but but it is a very good win. "

Its gently sloping winter allows the speed to find the French mountains. Since the heyday of its Olympic champion Antoine Deneriaz, skiing blue had recorded only one World Cup downhill, that won by Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin in January 2007 in Val d'Isere.

Adrien Theaux had to have a bit of luck in his daily horoscope.

First with the timer, because it is one hundredth that has relegated to second place in the Austrian Joachim Puchner, while Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal, vice-Olympic downhill champion, took third place at 16/100e.Then with the sky, which was veiled in passing of the old lions like Didier Cuche and Michael Walchhofer, who disputed the crystal globe.

Especially with the track, steep, curvy and cannot, perfect to express his talents as a technician. "I told him that the track was cut out for him", said Patrice Morisod, the Swiss who has taken over the group velocity two years ago."Now he will kindly understand it can be very good at skiing," said this farmer champions, who led for years Didier Cuche.

The most moving

The Swiss 36-year veteran finished off the podium, but fourth place enabled him to blow the little globe Walchhofer, its Austrian rival, only 11th, and write his name in crystal among the largest ever Downers .

One in the history of downhill skiing is more globes that he, the great Franz Klammer, who won five times in World Cup downhill."It's the world that gives me the greatest emotions, even if the first was special," said Didier Cuche.

His female counterpart, the American Lindsey Vonn had her fourth downhill crystal globe in hand before arriving in Switzerland. As Cuche, the vice-champion of the world remained at the foot of the podium in Lenzerheide, seeing her compatriot Julia Mancuso win again four years after his last success.

But the triple defending the World Cup could be smiling as it took control in the overall standings with that almost got them all winter, Maria Riesch, disappointed not to score any points again Wednesday.

The German, who accuses now 27 points behind, has a super-G, slalom and a giant to reverse the trend."Since the beginning of the season, I was talking about the general at every race. Psychologically, it is experiencing," said the Bavarian, whose two bronze medals at the World Championships could well be his only trophy of the winter.

CARS: A security officer of Renault indicted for fraud

AFP - The alleged spy case that shook Renault last two months has led Sunday to the indictment for "organized fraud" a security official from the automaker and its detention.

Heard last 48 hours by the police of the Central Intelligence Inside (DCRI), Dominique Gevrey, a security officer at the origin of espionage charges that led to the dismissal of three executives in early January, was indicted Sunday evening by a judge.

Mr.Gevrey, who was arrested Friday as he prepared to fly to Guinea, in the wake was remanded in custody in accordance with the requisition of the prosecution.

Two other security officials of the automaker, also arrested on Friday and Saturday, for their part have been released without charge brought against them at this point.

"As part of Renault's complaint on suspicion of espionage, investigators have collected a number of elements that suggest that we are dealing with acts of fraud", it was commented judicial source, without provide details.

"We must refrain from making any comments not to disturb the course of justice," he told AFP Jean Reinhart, the lawyer for Renault. "We will provide a comprehensive and complete after the floor, probably Monday afternoon," he added.

M. Gevrey, former member of the Directorate for Protection and Security of Defense (DPSD) would have been in contact with a "source", paid up to several hundred thousand euros, the source of Charges against the three executives. He always refused to reveal the name.

To bring his accusations, the group relied on the numbers of three bank accounts which have been provided.One would have been particularly open in March 2009 in Switzerland fed with money from an audit firm in Cyprus, and another in Liechtenstein in February 2010 that would feed a third account.

But a source close to the deal was revealed last week told AFP that investigators had found the DCRI "no trace" of bank accounts on behalf of the officers nor "any evidence of espionage."

About 250,000 euros were paid to the anonymous informant Renault, according to the manufacturer's lawyer. The amount was channeled through a private investigator who was acting as an intermediary between the security department of Renault and the informant believed to have given substance to the suspicions of espionage.The DCRI did not rule on Friday to hear also "soon" means.

After shouting to espionage, the management of Renault now evokes the idea of ​​a "manipulation" in this case that led to the dismissal of three of its executives specializing in electric cars. The manufacturer's number 2, Patrick Pelata, recently warned that after the end of the investigation "all the consequences" would be taken at the highest level of the company.

COTE D'IVOIRE: African Union proposes a power-sharing or new elections

AFP - Four African presidents panel on the Ivorian crisis were preparing to meet Tuesday in Abidjan, Alassane Ouattara, leader of the state recognized by the international community, following a meeting with his rival, incumbent Laurent Gbagbo, background violence.

On the second day of their visit, Idriss Deby (Chad), Jikaya Kikwete (Tanzania), Jacob Zuma (South Africa) and Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz (Mauritania) should meet by mid-day with Mr. Ouattara at the Golf Hotel where he was entrenched with his team, his entourage said.

As to Mr. Gbagbo on Monday, the panel must submit to Mr.Ouattara's proposals to end by 28 February solutions "binding" on both sides.

According to a South African minister, the four Heads of State delegated by the African Union (AU) to resolve the crisis post-election power-sharing offer or an interim government until new elections.

The panel of mediators, which includes the South African President Jacob Zuma, "attempts to find a compromise solution, whether sharing the presidency between the two presidents or government (...) of interim until new elections, "he said Tuesday at the AFP Deputy South African Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ibrahim Ibrahim.

"I do not think the panel looks for one or the other, both Gbagbo and Alassane Ouattara, because it would lead to a destabilization of the country," said Ibrahim, interviewed on the sidelines of the session Parliament in Cape Town.

The panel met with Mr. Ouattara, originally scheduled for Monday evening, could eventually take place. In the entourage of Mr.Ouattara, we explained that he wanted to express his dissatisfaction and a lack of representation of West Africa in the delegation.

The Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore, a panel member, agreed to drop to travel to Abidjan for "security reasons": more than a thousand pro-Gbagbo youths were waiting at the airport the former mediator in the peace process Côte d'Ivoire (2007-2010) whom they accuse of being an ally of Mr. Ouattara and the former French colonial power.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which adopted a harder line that the African Union with the threat of force to dislodge Mr.Gbagbo has also strongly criticized the continuation of the visit of the panel cut one of its members

"The ECOWAS Commission was concerned to see that the panel has nevertheless decided to conduct the tour immediately without the participation of a senior member whose contributions to the peace process in Côte d'Ivoire are priceless and deserve better assessments and more respect, "she said.

For her, the situation on the ground was not "conducive to the holding of a mission of such importance."

The President of the ECOWAS Commission, James Victor Gbeho, who recently ruled sternly attempts to compromise with Mr.Gbagbo has also canceled his trip to Abidjan.

The new mediation occurs when the Ivorian capital is experiencing a resurgence of tension since the weekend.

After nearly three months of crisis, the camp Ouattara, inspired by the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, called on his people to take action to expel the president.

According to local newspapers, at least six people were killed Monday in clashes between supporters of very violent M.Ouattara and Forces for Defence and Security (FDS) loyal to his rival in the popular districts of Abobo (north), Kumasi and Treichville (south).

These clashes have resulted for several hours at the scenes of urban guerrillas, witnesses said.

The post-election violence killed at least 300 deaths since mid-December, the UN says.

TUNISIA: The interim government is continuing its battle against the former ruling party

AFP - The Tunisian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghannouchi on Monday urged members reunited for the first time since the fall of Ben Ali, to authorize the Interim President to rule by decree-law, bypassing parliament dominated by the former ruling party power.

The battle against the former all-powerful Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD) had taken the first step Sunday with the announcement by the Ministry of Interior of the "suspension" of the party before a "dissolution" next.

MPs gathered in front of the palace of Bardo in Tunis headquarters of the Parliament, the prime minister has urged politicians to preserve the achievements of the popular revolution that led to the downfall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January 14.

A bill to that effect "will enable the Interim President (Fouad Mebazaa) to adopt ordinances pursuant to Article 28 of the Constitution," said the Prime Minister.

"Time is precious.These decree-laws, Tunisia really need to overcome the dangers "threatening the gains of the revolution, insisted Mohammed Ghannouchi.

"There are people who want to return to Tunisia in back, but we must honor our martyrs, who fought for freedom," he said, calling the 125 members present (out of 214 elected members) to adopt the text, expected to rise on Wednesday before the House of Councillors (Senate).

Members should decide in the day on this "bill empowering the president to take interim decree law", according to the unified agenda of the session.

Specifically, the untouchable and all-powerful party under President Ben Ali, who claimed to have 2 million members in a country of 10 million people, has yet no right to organize meetings or rallies, and all its premises are closed.

But many of its cadres are still present in the government and police. The opposition fears that the RCD, the only party that benefited from facilities around the country, only takes all the elections scheduled in six months.A delay also challenged as being too short by many political groups banned under Ben Ali.

This offensive against the RCD operates in a time of great tension in various regions of the country (north, south and center), while the government has to ease the curfew in force since January 12 after a clean sweep at the head of the police.

The recent appointment of 24 new provincial governors are struggling to pass. In several areas, demonstrators demanded their departure just days after taking office because of "RCDisme.

The governor of Gafsa (West Central) has had to leave Sunday its offices under military protection.

Further north, the city of El Kef was a weekend of rioting that people attribute to ochestrées provocations by the RCD. Two people were killed Saturday by a police commissioner, the police building was set on fire twice, and groups of looters have caused panic in the city.