Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Le Parisien- Faits divers

Very rough translations

A 2-year-old child miraculously survives a six story fall

A small boy, 2 years and three months old, has miraculously survived a six story fall Wednesday morning in Saint-Ouen (Seine-Saint-Denis). The child, his parents confided to neighbors, had escaped from their sight. After the fall, he bounced off a small, plastic-coated cloth roof before landing on a lawn. Unconscious for a few minutes, the child exhibited only a slight wound on the head. He is under observation at the Necker hospital in Paris.

A ten year old girl caught with 200 euros in stolen merchandise

She had been left by her parents in the care of her cousin while they were at work. A ten-year-old girl was caught Tuesday evening at a hypermarket in Blagnac, close to Toulouse, with stolen clothing and beauty products valued at 218 euros. According to the police, it was her nineteen-year-old cousin who had given her the objects.

In her parents absence, the cousin had taken the little girl into the hypermarket and then handed her the objects she was to steal. The young girl has been returned to her parents.

Paris: a transvestite stabbed to death

A man of thirty was killed by multiple stab wounds on the night of the 23rd to 24th of August in the 17th arrondissement of Paris. The victim was discovered around 2 o'clock in the morning lying motionless on the landing of his apartment by neighbors, who had been alerted by his cries for help. A bloody kitchen knife was recovered in the vicinity of the body of the deceased, who was dressed as a woman. The man was known to work as a transsexual prostitute on the boulevard Bessières in the 17th arrondissement of the capital. The investigation has been referred to the homicide squad.

A suspect arrested after breaking into the Ministry of the Interior

The affair had caused a great furore. On April 9, an unknown person had succeeded in evading all security measures and breaking into the Ministry of the Interior on the Place Beauvau in Paris. The intruder had ambled for some minutes inside the building, and, despite the very high surveillance, had managed to leave as though nothing had happened.

A suspect has finally been arrested, August 23, in Courbevoie (Hauts-de-Seine), by the first district of the Criminal Investigation Department, who are responsible for such investigations. Placed in police custody, he denied the charges. "A civil servant recognized his face in a photo, taken by one of the ministry's video surveillance cameras, which had been disseminated to all the Paris police services," relates a source close to the affair. "The suspect admits that he was in the vicinity of the Ministry of the Interior on the day in question, but without entering." He has been released under instructions from the public prosecutor's department of Paris, which has been handed the facts of the case in order to determine how to proceed in this matter.


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