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The strengths of the day
ORDINATION: This Saturday will mark the ordination of the new bishop of St-Gall, Beat Grögli. 54 years old, hitherto parish priest of St-Gall cathedral and responsible for the city’s pastoral work, he was appointed on May 22. He will receive the different insignia of his office as a bishop and the consecration to succeed Markus Büchel, who had been in office since 2006 and whose resignation was accepted by Pope Leo XIV in May.
CYCLING: The Tour de France starts on Saturday, with a 1st stage drawn around Lille which is promised to sprinters. The continuation of the first of three weeks of racing is cut for the Punchers and Brownseurs, with the exception of the time trial scheduled for Wednesday July 9 in Caen. The favorites for the final victory will have to wait until July 14 to do battle in the mountains. Favorites who are not numerous: only the Danish Jonas Vingegaard seems able to deprive the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar of a fourth triumph in the big loop after his coronations of 2020, 2021 and 2024.
TENNIS: The only Swiss representative to have crossed the 1st round in Wimbledon, Belinda Bencic is playing his 3rd round on Saturday. The St-Galloise will go favorite against the Italian Elisabetta Cocciaretto, 116th world player. She cannot be wary too much of a player who released 3rd in the WTA ranking, Jessica Pegula, in the 1st round, and who has lost only nine games in her first two games. The opportunity is nevertheless beautiful for Belinda Bencic to reach the 8th finals, a competition stadium that she never exceeded in Wimbledon. In the event of a victory, she would find another player within her reach, Ekaterina Alexandrova (WTA 17) or Zeynep Sönmez (WTA 88).
Seen in the press
Vaud: A police officer involved in the Mike Ben Peter case is at the heart of a new controversy. According to 24 hours, it is the biker involved in the chase which turned out to be fatal for a 14-year-old teenager on Monday evening in Lausanne. The authorities claim that during the accident, the agent was at a distance and that he immediately rescued the victim.
An investigation was opened by the minors court and entrusted to the municipal police. Witnesses have already been heard. The case raises indignation among certain policies. For Ilias Panchard (Greens), entrust the investigation to the municipal police, while one of his agents is involved, is absurd. It requires the resumption of the investigation by the public prosecutor, the suspension of the agent and the total transparency in the facts.
Saint-Maurice Abbey: Following the publication of an overwhelming report on sexual violence at the Abbey of Saint-Maurice, Mgr Scarcella gave up his charge in late June. Prieur Simone Previte has become a capitular vicar responsible for organizing the election of the new abbot father.
Interviewed by the Nouvelliste on the conclusions of the report, the 28 -year -old prior confides: “Shame lives on me, even if I am not guilty of anything, because I embody this institution.” He says he wants to stimulate a deep reform. For the canon, the election of the future abbot father scheduled by September will be decisive: “By electing the future Father Abbé, we choose the way in which the abbey will be perceived in the future.”
DEFENSE: The Minister of Defense, Martin Pfister, ordered a complete revision of the main projects of his department, report the German titles of Tamedia. According to a spokesperson for the Federal Department of Defense, Protection of Population and Sports (DDPS), 17 flagship projects are concerned, including that of drone acquisition, currently in pain.
Depending on the risks identified, other projects could also be the subject of analyzes. The head of armaments, Urs Loher, says in particular: “I am of the opinion that the calendar cannot be respected for the finalization of the development of drones by 2026.”
RESEARCH: The EPFL would have indirectly contributed to the development of Iranian drones, according to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. An Iranian researcher engaged by the school would have played a key role in the Tehran military program, while working in Lausanne on a drone project funded by the Swiss National Fund (FNS) and supported by Armasuisse.
The FBI accuses the researcher of having illegally passed components in Iran. For the FNS, there is “neither legal basis nor personnel capacity” to carry out security checks in this kind of case. Armasuisse adds that this type of verification is not used in this area.
JUSTICE: The public prosecutor of the Confederation condemned a man for threats and insults against the national councilor UDC Zurichois Benjamin Fischer, according to Blick. The defendant received a fine of 20 days amends to 90 francs.
The Zurich daily reports that Fischer shows great tolerance in the face of hateful insults and messages, but that “this time, the limit was crossed, because my family was explicitly mentioned”. Last year, the Federal Police Office identified 689 threats to federal advisers or members of the Parliament.
Birthdays and jubilees
– 50 years ago (1975): CAP-Vert obtained its independence from Portugal.
-75 years ago (1950): Birth of the American singer-songwriter Huey Lewis (“The Power of Love”).
– 75 years ago (1950): the Israeli Parliament adopted the law of return, which gives all the Jews in the world the right to immigrate to Israel.
Dicton of the day
If the early July is rainy, the rest of the month will be doubtful
