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CLEAN : First lunch service in Lille restaurant as France extends Covid pass
Hello! (...) I'm going to ask you for your health pass please" - this is the new customer greeting in a restaurant in Lille, in northern France, on the first day of the extension of the Covid pass in cafes, restaurants and trains, a...
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CLEAN : STOCKSHOTS: Hauts de France regional headquarters ahead of elections
Illustration of the Hauts-de-France regional headquarters. During the regional elections of 20 and 27 June, the incumbent candidate Xavier Bertrand (ex-LR) will have as opponents Sébastien Chenu (RN), Karima Delli (union of the left...
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CLEAN : Thousands line streets of Lille to herald newly-crowned French champions (2)
Thousands of fans and well-wishers herald newly-crowned French champions Lille as they hold aloft the Ligue 1 trophy during a parade through the northern French city (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Lille officially crowned French Ligue 1 champions
A day after securing the championship following a 2-1 win at Angers, Lille are officially crowned French Ligue 1 champions at the Domaine de Luchin, their training centre (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Mask-free return to school in Lille as France eases Covid restrictions
It's all -- visible -- smiles at Cabanis-Bara primary school, in the Fives district of Lille, as students return from their winter break to fewer Covid restrictions: masks in French schools are no longer mandatory on the playground, much...
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CLEAN : "It took me close to death": Nina, former teen sex worker
It took me close to death", says Nina, a French 19-year-old former sex worker (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Monkeypox vaccine: A two-week vaccination campaign begins in France
A pharmacy in northern France's Lille is starting to administer the monkeypox vaccine, like four other pharmacies in France, as part of a two-week vaccination campaign (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Troubled French retail giant Camaïeu applies for receivership
"What we hope is that the court accepts this continuity plan": French high street retail giant Camaïeu suffers a further blow two years after its takeover by the Financière immobilière bordelaise, requesting that it be placed in...
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CLEAN : France's Pecresse back on campaign trail after Covid setback
The Republicans' (LR) presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse says she is "campaigning for real purchasing power" during a visit to Marcq-en-Baroeul, near Lille, after being sidelined for five days because of Covid (Footage by AFPTV via...
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CLEAN : STOCKSHOTS: Camaieu, French high street fashion chain
File footage of Camaïeu and the Commercial Court of Lille, as the latter examines the continuation plan of the women's ready-to-wear giant, placed in receivership on August 1, with debts of 240 million euros, including some 70 million in...
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CLEAN : French ready-to-wear Celio buys Camaieu brand at auction for €1.8 million
What we are buying today is just the name. It's this history, this DNA that has existed for forty years," the men's ready-to-wear brand Celio bought the Camaieu brand for 1.8 million euros at an auction near Lille in northern France...
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn is going on trial for sex charges in France - the nation where he once was considered a top presidential contender. His career nosedived amid allegations that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid in New York (Feb. 2)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is going on trial for sex charges in France - the nation where he once was considered a top presidential contender.
The former head of the International Monetary Fund, whose career nosedived amid accusations he...
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Protests in cities across country over retirement age rise
Paris
1. Top view of demonstration at Place de la Bastille
2. Wide top view of demonstration, Juliet Column in background
Paris
3. Wide of trade unions balloons
4. Female union member dancing
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Martine Aubry, First...
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Spanish PM at rally for Yes vote plus Schroeder video-link
1. Various of crowds at rally before Zapatero's arrival
2. Various of Spanish prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero arriving
3. Various of Zapatero on stage with Socialist Party leader Francois Hollande
4. Shot of crowd
5. Rear...
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FRANCE: GIANT TRAFFIC JAMS AS STRIKING TRUCKERS BLOCKADE ROADS
Span/Ger/Eng/Nat
Giant traffic jams and fears of empty gas stations afflicted France on Monday, as striking truckers petrol stations clogged motorways and border routes.
Talks over pay and working conditions broke down over the weekend,...
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FRANCE: LILLE/LENS: ENGLISH SOCCER FANS CAUSE HAVOC
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English Soccer fans have brought havoc to two French towns ahead of their nation's crucial world cup clash with Colombia.
Lille and Lens were awash with English fans swilling beer and chanting football songs.
A number of...
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FRANCE: POLICEMAN IN COMA AFTER ATTACK BY GERMAN SOCCER FAN
English/Nat
Highly organized groups of neo-Nazis who rampaged through Lens before and after Sunday's Germany-Yugoslavia game, left a French policeman in a coma after being clubbed with an iron bar.
The policeman lies in a coma in...
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France - Other Presidential Election Candidates
French voters go to the polls on Sunday (23/4) in the first round
of voting to choose the two main candidates for the French
Presidential run-off elections. The far-right candidate Phillipe De Villiers, a 46-year-old aristocrat is...
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Police arrest four suspected of halting trains
1. Police at scene of arrest
2. Various of Romanian men being arrested
3. Police dog
4. Arrested men being put into police van
5. Police car light pans to police cars blocking off road
6. Railway police stopping cars on road
7. Arrested...
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Arrivals at pimping trial for former IMF chief
Dominique Strauss-Kahn arrived in court on Monday to face sex charges in France, the nation in which he was once considered a top presidential contender.
The former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), whose career nose-dived...
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France - Strauss-Kahn charged in French prostitution ring probe
On March 26th 2012 Dominique Strauss-Kahn was handed preliminary charges alleging he was involved in a French prostitution ring, his lawyer said.
The former International Monetary Fund chief is denying wrongdoing.
It was a stunning blow...
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FRANCE: LILLE: TENSION AFTER IMMIGRANT KILLED BY POLICE
French/Nat
There was continuing tension on the streets of Lille on Tuesday night, after the killing of a young male immigrant by police.
A heavy police presence in the Lille-Sud area of Lille, where the immigrant population clashed with...
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Ex-IMF chief freed after French police questioning, lawyer comments
1. Wide of car carrying former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaving Lille's Gendarmerie (police station), crowd of journalists outside
2. Strauss-Kahn's lawyer Frederique Beaulieu walking towards media
3....
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FRANCE: PARIS: LIONEL JOSPIN APPOINTED NEW PRIME MINISTER
French/Nat
French Socialist leader Lionel Jospin was appointed France's new prime minister on Monday following his party's triumph in parliamentary elections.
As expected, former Premier Alain Juppe officially stepped down earlier in...