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29 May 2008
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Les conducteurs se demandent s’ils peuvent passer, à Constance. Pieds dans l’eau et tête sous le parapluie chante cette famille de Gokoola. Torrents… de panique (2)
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Torrents… de panique (3)
La même voiture que sur la photo 4, mais après la crue.
Ce policier porte le sac de Laura Paul, morte hier. |
Torrents… de panique (4)
Les maisons ont connu autant d’avaries que les voitures à Mon-Gout.
Un bateau en difficulté à Grand-Baie. |
orrents… de panique (5)
«L’express» a été victime des eaux à Mon-Gout, d’où la mauvaise qualité de certaines photos. Le journaliste qui est tombé à l’eau avec son appareil a cependant pu immortaliser un sauvetage (en haut). |
Torrents… de panique (6)
Des sauveteurs de la SMF à la recherche des corps dans la Rivière-Citron.
Des enfants attristés par l’état de leur maison. |
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Marlène et Steven Catapermal sont inconsolables. Ils ont perdu tout espoir de retrouver Rudy.* |
A Flacq : deux jeunes portés disparus
«C’est le destin et personne ne peut le changer.» Renaud, le père de Rudy Catapermal, est fataliste. Rudy, un maçon de 25 ans, est porté disparu depuis hier, 16 h 30. Il a été emporté par le torrent, à quelques mètres de sa maison, à la cité Saint- Rémy, Flacq. Malgré l’intervention des forces vives ainsi que certains des amis du jeune homme, il demeure introuvable.
Hier, vers 16 heures, Rudy prévient sa mère, Marlène, qu’il aide certains habitants de la localité à abattre un mur pour faciliter le mouvement de l’eau. Malgré les supplications de sa mère de ne pas sortir car les routes sont impraticables, il s’entête. Et en compagnie de son jeune frère, Steven, 15 ans, il sort rejoindre cinq autres jeunes.
Emporté par les torrents
Par curiosité, ils décident de faire un tour dans la région de Flacq, histoire de voir l’ampleur des dégâts. Bien mal leur en a pris. Car arrivés à un pont à Constance, c’est le drame. De violents torrents emportent Rudy Catapermal sous les yeux horrifiés de Steven et de ses amis.
Le drame a failli être double. Car Steven, pour sauver son frère, tente de se jeter à l’eau. Des passants l’en empêchent. le jeune garçon court chez lui pour prévenir sa mère et rassembler des amis pour aller à la recherche de Rudy. En vain.
La fiancée de Rudy Catapermal est alertée par les proches du disparu. Cette dernière, Christelle Barry, 24 ans, se rend chez Rudy, où c’est la consternation. Rudy est issu d’une famille de six enfants dont trois sœurs.
Autre disparition signalée: Un jeune homme de 18 ans, Fabrice Aza a été emporté par les eaux.
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Le 17 octobre : Journée Mondiale du Refus de la Misère
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Gore unveils Live Earth '7 Point Pledge'
Goal is to 'put pressure on political leaders' around the world
The Associated Press
Updated: 6:20 a.m. PT June 29, 2007
NEW YORK - Al Gore on Thursday called on people around the world to sign a "7 Point Pledge" promising personal action in curbing global warming.
The former vice president unveiled the pledge at a press conference to promote Live Earth, the July 7 event of concerts stretching across the globe. Gore was joined by Live Earth founder Kevin Wall and Cathy Zoi, the CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection.
Audiences at the eight Live Earth concerts and its many other events will be asked to sign the pledge, also available at LiveEarth.org. It asks individuals to:
· Demand that my country join an international treaty within the next two years that cuts global warming pollution by 90 percent in developed countries and by more than half worldwide in time for the next generation to inherit a healthy earth.
· Take personal action to help solve the climate crises by reducing my own C02 pollution as much as I can and offsetting the rest to become “carbon neutral”.
· Fight for a moratorium on the construction of any new generating facility that burns coal without the capacity to safely trap and store the C02.
· Work for a dramatic increase in the energy efficiency of my home, workplace, school, place of worship, and means of transportation.
· Fight for laws and policies that expand the use of renewable energy sources and reduce dependence on oil and coal.
· Plant new trees and to join with others in preserving and protecting forests.
· Buy from businesses and support leaders who share my commitment to solving the climate crises and building a sustainable, just and prosperous world for the 21st century.
"Quite a few of the seven points are directly designed to put pressure on governments and on businesses, but do so by asking people around the world to help to focus that pressure," said Gore.
Gore, Wall and Zoi signed the pledge and were soon thereafter followed by Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, leader of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, who jointly announced their signing in a press release.
"It's a significant start to what we hope will be a worldwide rollout," Gore told The Associated Press after learning of their signing.
"The general theory behind Live Earth is we need to get this information about the crisis and solutions to it to every person on the planet, as many of them as we can reach," said Gore. "And then they will, armed with knowledge, put pressure on all political leaders."
Gore will attend the Live Earth concert at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, where the Police, the Smashing Pumpkins, Alicia Keys and others will perform. Concerts are also planned in England, South Africa, Brazil, China, Japan, Australia and Germany.
"It's not just a big pop concert," said Wall on Thursday. Wall, an Emmy-winning concert producer, said that Madonna, Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas and others have written songs specifically about the climate crises for Live Earth.
Gore, whose slide show on global warming was the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," is a partner in Live Earth. Besides the concerts, over 6,000 parties in 119 countries — ranging from home viewings to museum festivals — are to be held. Gore urged more to organize a Live Earth party through AlGore.com.
The concerts will be streamed online at liveearth.msn.com and broadcast in the U.S. on NBC, Telemundo, the Sundance Channel, Bravo, MSNBC and Universal HD.
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URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19502465/wid/18298287/
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