On Saturday, April 22, 1961, a coup de force took place in Algiers. Generals Challe, Salan, Zeller and Jouhaud instituted themselves in "high command". With the support of the 1st Parachute Regiment, they want to try to end the policy of self-determination approved by referendum on January 8. On 23 April 1961, General de GAULLE decided to assume the full powers provided for in Article 16 of the Constitution. He informs the Nation through a speech.
Pierre CHATENET, member of the Patronage Committee of the C.I.C, talks about the powers given to the President of the French Republic by recourse to Article 16 of the Constitution.
Jean-Marie Le Pen came to support his daughter Marie-Caroline, candidate for the parliamentary elections in the eighth constituency of Yvelines, in Mantes-la-Jolie. Greeted by demonstrators opposed to the FN, the president of the National Front was very aggressive towards the socialist candidate, Annette Peulvast-Bergeal. Further he attacks verbally another protester: "I will make you run me, you will see, redhead...faggot".
Regarding the recovery of the economy, François MITTERRAND intends to give priority to the purchasing power of the French and stimulate business investment to promote employment.
Electoral campaign for the presidential election. Interviewed about his desire to nationalize a large part of the economy, candidate François Mitterrand explains: "...I said nationalize the banks, what is left of the banks (...) industrial nationalizations will be, I believe, 11, monopolies quite simply...".
Interviewed, François Mitterrand, Socialist Party candidate in the presidential election, presents here part of his program, a reform of income tax and other taxes: "those who pay more are those who earn the most, and those who pay the least are those who earn the least, while at present it is the opposite...".
Interviewed, François Mitterrand, candidate of the Socialist Party in the presidential election, lists here some measures of his electoral platform: the organization of working time with the introduction of 35 hours, major works, benefits to labor companies, the development of vocational training, the recruitment of state or territorial agents.
Recently, the Poulain chocolate factory is owned by Carambar and Co. Visit the factory in Villebarou, near Blois, in the Loir et Cher. Views of the production lines at the different stages of chocolate making and Poulain packaging. Interviews with Benoît PASQUALINI (Director of the Poulain plant in Blois) and Pascale INFANTE PASCALE (Marketing Director Carambar and Co)
The former factory of the Poulain chocolate factory in Blois is abandoned. New premises were built in the town of Villebarou, not far from Blois. Meeting in the abandoned buildings with two former employees of the chocolate factory who deliver their impressions here.
The former factory of the chocolate factory Poulain is promised to destruction. Visit of the new head office and production premises, located in Villebarou, near Blois and interview with a manager who talks about the new factory: "People who come here expect to classically find the old lace lady (...) and they discover something that is almost at the limit of arrogance...".
To withstand the competition, the Poulain chocolate factory was bought by the English group Cadbury. The visit of the factory, its course, its production lines and the interview of its general manager, Jacques Michaud, compose this report. Jacques Michaud explains the reasons for this acquisition.
To fight against competition and make itself known internationally, the Poulain chocolate factory sponsors Olivier de Kersauson’s new trimaran. Report illustrated by views of the model of the boat and the workshops of the chocolate factory. Interview with the director of the company, who explains the reasons for this operation.
In Amiens another left is in order of battle. François Ruffin, founder and editor of the Amiens newspaper Fakir and director of the film "Merci patron", calls to stop voting PS. He wants to recall what the PS of Léon Blum was, what he brought to the French and the way he is misguided today. According to him, the current PS does not worthily commemorate the 80 years of the Popular Front, by passing the law "Work". He does not rule out the idea of a revocable mandate, and does not want to be condemned to always choose "the least worse" by voting.
François Ruffin, deputy of the "France insoumise", was elected in the 1st constituency of the Somme. It intends to continue mobilizing on the ground, and not only in the corridors of the National Assembly. He says: "To shake the Government, it happens on the street".
The National Assembly rejected two motions of censure, including one tabled by the LIOT transpartisan group to challenge the pension reform carried by the Borne Government. It was not adopted with nine votes. Several elected representatives from Picardy voted in favour of this motion, including François Ruffin, who declared: "The man of chaos, he is at the Elysée; the ball is in the court of the President of the Republic".
CEO Bernard Arnault, 1st fortune in France and big boss of the luxury industry, is in the line of fire of the director François Ruffin in his film "Merci Patron". The latter signs a film resolutely committed to the little ones facing the big ones of this world. A film that revives the class struggle, confronting the millionaire and the Klur family, plunged into great social fragility. Francois Ruffin says about Bernard Arnault: "His brain is a calculating machine that wonders how he will make profit, profits... It is important to identify with heroes and anti-heroes".
The Wihirlpool plant in Amiens and its employees are at the heart of political attention. And the day after the Prime Minister’s visit and the announcement of a €220 million plan for the revitalization of the city, a director comes to talk to the Whirlpools. François Ruffin, candidate for the legislative elections, comes to present his film Merci Patron!". For him, the fact of seeing his film can "give them relief, the conviction that if we fight, we can win something".
François Ruffin is editor of the fanzine "Fakir" in Amiens. With his two comrades, they write a different newspaper with an incisive style and define themselves as "activists" concerned about people’s daily lives. For François Ruffin the news represents "only the sound of waves on the surface". What interests him is "the movement of tectonic plates ... what we do not see, what does not make an event in the media".
The automotive group Renault has suffered a cyber attack by a virus of the "ransomware" type. This virus demands a ransom in exchange for data. Report at the Renault plant in Sandouville, where production is stopped. Factory views, assembly lines and interviews with Wilfrid Eichelberger, operator at Renault Sandouville, then Fabien Gloaguen, FO Renault Sandouville delegate.
Théodore Christakis, professor of international law in Grenoble, specializing in cyber attack is the guest of Sunday. Interviewed, he describes here the profile of the perpetrators of cyber attacks and gives an estimate of the costs generated by these attacks on a global scale.