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Storm warning for Paris region with 110km/h winds predicted

Paris and the surrounding areas were placed on alert for storms on Monday, with French weather forecasters predicting heavy rain, hail and winds of up to 110km/h.

Published: 5 September 2022 15:03 CEST
Storm warning for Paris region with 110km/h winds predicted
Illustration photo by NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP

Twelve départements, including Paris and its suburbs, were placed on orange alert on Monday afternoon as a band of storm clouds formed over northern France.

French weather forecaster Météo France said: “Thunderstorms are already developing over the north-west of the country, as well as over the west of Île-de-France.

“In the middle of the afternoon, a line of thunderstorms is expected to form towards the Centre-Val-de-Loire, to quickly move up and circulate towards Île-de-France and then Hauts-de-France.

Map: Meteo France

“These thunderstorms will give marked temporary rainfall between 10 and 20mm, even 40mm in places, hail and marked electrical activity.

“The risk of violent gusts of wind requires particular vigilance, as they are expected to reach 80km/h to 110 km/h at their peak.”

The département covered by the storm warning are; Aine, Oise, Seine-et-Marne, Loiret, Cher, Yvelines, Val d’Oise, Essonne, Hauts-de-Seine, Val de Marne, Seine-Saint-Denis and Paris.

Less violent storms are also predicted for the areas marked in yellow on the map.

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PARIS

Paris takes down ads for ‘transphobic’ book

Posters promoting a book described as "transphobic" have been taken down in Paris after a top city official said the work amounted to hate speech.

Published: 18 April 2024 13:00 CEST
Paris takes down ads for 'transphobic' book

The controversy comes as Paris prepares to host the Olympics from July 26 to August 11.

French advertising firm JCDecaux late Wednesday told AFP the posters had been removed, and apologised to people who could have been hurt by them.

The poster promoted a book titled “Transmania” that describes itself as “an investigation into the extremes of transgender ideology” and the “harmful political project” behind it.

Kam Hugh, a drag queen who has appeared on French television, first alerted the mayor’s office to the existence of the “openly transphobic” poster on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday night.

The account of the capital’s Socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo responded, asking about the poster’s location.

In a letter to JCDecaux seen by AFP, first deputy mayor Emmanuel Gregoire asked the advertising firm to remove the series.

“Transphobia is an offence. Hate has no place in our city,” he wrote on X.

Dora Moutot, one of the book’s authors, said the book was not transphobic and denounced “censorship based on assumptions rather than an analysis of the contents” of the book.

She said she and co-author Marguerite Stern had interviewed trans people for it.

“It is a sourced investigation into puberty blockers and certain actors who push for gender transitions and make a profit from it,” she wrote on X.

She slammed what she called a “regression of public discourse and debate”, but thanked Hugh for the free advertising.

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