An oven from the 1st century BC, a commission on Perrier, theft of church trunks… the essential news from the region

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No more metro for Brassens ?

#SETE/PARIS – Seen from Paris, it's an epiphenomenon. But seen from Sète, the news is a stab in the back of pride. The cause ? The RATP is considering destroying the mosaics depicting Georges Brassens and lilacs at the Porte des Lilas station, in homage to the eponymous song by the mustachioed poet. A petition is even circulating to invite the operator, chaired by Jean Castex, a Gers native and former Prime Minister and Mayor of Prades in the Pyrénées-Orientales, to reconsider the project, motivated by water infiltration. The work is dry, but it is not certain that it will be spared.

Today's figure: 5,000

#LE GRAU-DU-ROI –The mystery has finally been solved after weeks of questioning and surveillance. The police finally got their hands on a couple in their fifties who had set their sights on the trunks of the church of Grau-du-Roi in the Gard. These two inhabitants of Vaucluse managed, thanks to tools of their own making, to extract no less than 5,000 euros generously donated by the faithful. They will be summoned before the justice of men.

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A unique copper metallurgy furnace discovered

#HERAULT – Two excavation campaigns have uncovered fragments of tiles, charcoal and slag attesting to the presence of a furnace and activity around copper, near the village of Cabrières, next to Béziers in Hérault.“This is an exceptional discovery! To date, the copper metallurgy furnace of Condamines is the only structure dating from the Gallo-Roman period that has been found in France, but also in Spain”, rejoiced Noël Houlès, mining archaeologist who participated in the excavations. The discovered deposit dates from the 1st century BC, more precisely from the Augustan period. The precise function of the oven is still being analyzed.

Jean-Claude Petit robbed

#TOULOUSE – Composer Jean-Claude Petit was the victim of a burglary by trickery on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at his home in Toulouse, by two false agents pretending to have a problem with the pipes, according to La Dépêche du MidiOne distracted the lady of the house while the other stole four violins hanging in a room of the apartment. The value of the instruments has not been specified by investigators, who are still looking for the criminals. “Césarisé” for the music of the film Jean de Florette, Jean-Claude Petit, 81 years old, conductor and arranger, has also worked for the greatest French artists, such as Serge Lama, Julien Clerc and Claude François.

Perrier: the senators will persist

#GARD – The senator from Gard Laurent Burgoa (Les Républicains), president of the senatorial commission of inquiry into Nestlé Waters bottled water, believes that the members of the commission“will be able to continue their work. We, at the commission, do not do criminal matters. The question is whether the State has done everything possible to prevent criminal acts”. Le Monde and franceinfo revealed, on Friday, January 17, 2025, the opening in December 2024 of a judicial investigation against the owner of Perrier, in Vergèze, in the Gard, accused of having used prohibited processes, particularly in terms of filtration. The commission of inquiry should visit the Perrier production site on February 7, 2025. A site which notably experienced, in April 2024, contamination by bacteria of fecal origin. In December, in a report, the Regional Health Agency revealed persistent contamination. Nestlé Waters raised a point of law on the articulation of the work of the commission and the criminal investigation, following the revelations of Monde.

 

 

 

 

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