Bigflo and Oli, Jean-Pierre Delord, Long Ma and Emmanuelle Franck will make the news in 2022
A new year is opening and, without taking itself for Madame Irma, the drafting of 20 minutes wondered what are the faces that will take center stage in Toulouse news, apart from our overpowered rugby players from the Stadium and the indestructible Covid-19. Here is the quartet, eclectic, almost optimistic, in any case equal that came out of our brainstorming.
The return of Bigflo & Oli, behind the scenes in any case
After three albums, hundreds of concerts, including two at the Toulouse Stadium, dozens of awards, in October 2020, Bigflo & Oli announcing that they were hanging up the mikes to take a career break. A time that they could use to prepare the organization of their first Rose festival, which, after two postponements, should take place in September in Mondonville, north of Toulouse. The two brothers are therefore making their comeback this year as GO. But also, maybe, to sing their own songs. While they had not given any news on social networks for over a year, last November they announced during a foray on Instagram that they were planning on their new album and that it was progressing well. “We can’t wait to meet again. But not right now. We still need time, ”they assured. By September and their mega festival?
Long Ma, the impressive dragon mare
In the morning, you have to tickle her nostrils with a feather so that she opens her large expressive eyes. After having galloped in the streets of Beijing of Ottawa, Nantes or Calais, the gigantic dragon mare Long Ma – 12 meters high and 5 wide – arrives for the first time in Toulouse, “which will not happen again for ten years. », Assures the creator son François Delarozière. She’s coming for a giant check-up in the Machine Hall but also to strut. From February 19 to April 19, the chimerical creature will be content to snuggle up in the hall, reserving its spectacular awakenings for visitors. But she will also make some impromptu outings to greet the inhabitants of the Montaudran district. From April 19 until May 8, it will turn into a “real machine” to walk amateurs in the temple on its scaly back.
Finally, she will parade with Asterion the Minotaur and the Spider during two days of free street show scheduled for April 16 and 17. On the Piste des Géants, which has never been so aptly named.
Emmanuelle Franck, lawyer in an extraordinary case
For several months, we have regularly seen his face appear with each twist in the Jubillard affair. Alongside Alexandre Martin, his partner and partner, and Jean-Baptiste Alary, Toulouse lawyer Emmanuelle Franck defends Cédric Jubillar, indicted and imprisoned for the murder of his wife Delphine. After more than thirteen years in the courtroom, this black dress is already broken with the criminal files. Often difficult. In the Merah case for example, where she pleaded alongside others the cause of Fettah Malki, the one who armed the killer with the scooter. Or in the Jérémy Roze case, by endorsing the defense of Hicham Ouakki, sentenced to thirty years in prison for the murder of this young student, killed with a stab for a simple cigarette. Assizes files where the young woman considered, for her precision, has made a place for herself among the tenors.
Jean-Pierre Delord tests an individualized cancer vaccine
A “personalized” vaccine that helps fight your own cancer to avoid the risk of recurrence. This technology, developed by the Strasbourg-based biotechnology company Transgene, is breaking ground in Toulouse. A IUCT-Oncopole more exactly, in the service of Professor Jean-Pierre Delord. His first patient participating in the clinical study, in remission from ENT cancer, received his vaccine in January 2020. Robust immune response against several tumor mutations “was observed.
Transgene announces that it is reserving the detailed results on the progress of its cancer vaccine at an international benchmark oncology congress scheduled for 2022. There is no doubt that Jean-Pierre Delord will be at the podium.