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1. Stuntman Jamel Blissat on the Emmy Awards red carpet in Los Angeles
The year 2022 remains that of success for stuntman Jamel Blissat. At 35, the Chenevelier has forged an international reputation in the film and television industry. His participation in the series moon knight produced by Marvel Studios, was successful.
In this series of superheroes, Jamel Blissat embodies the stunt double of the main actor Oscar Isaac in the action and combat scenes. His work was noticed, since he was nominated, with his film crew, for the title of the most beautiful stunt at the Emmy Awards 2022 , the ceremony which rewards the best series of American television. Le Chenevelier made the trip for the occasion to Los Angeles, California. if he did not get the final victory – this is the team of the series squid game who won the trophy – Jamel Blissat experienced this moment as “a great recognition”. Above all, he was able to measure the path traveled since his first dance steps in the group of break dance Figure 2 Style at Chenove. Today, the stuntman continues filming with French and American productions. He shot in particular in the last film IndianaJones with actor Harrison Ford.
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2. Laura Vernier hitchhiked around Europe with €0 in her pocket
Among the beautiful stories of the year, that of Laura Vernier also marked the spirits. The 20-year-old Dijonnaise hitchhiked around Europe at the requested price she did not spend a single euro. An inspiring and courageous journey that led him to cross seventeen countries in just over two months, from the end of March to the beginning of June.
During her journey, Laura Vernier stayed with locals and traveled with strangers. His meetings have often been good – “I felt rather safe everywhere” –, with some exceptions “The worst experience I had was in France with two women who had met in prison. The one driving was going 120 miles an hour on the freeway and was making lines of fish for everyone. At that time, I was scared. »
Laura Vernier joined this adventure with “the desire to reach out to others” to live a fully-fledged human experience. And the bet is successful. “I remember that, most of the time, I would not have put a coin on certain people, but it is ultimately the ones who gave me the most”, confided the young woman, who is training in audiovisual . A film, taken from the images and videos recorded during the trip, is being edited.
3. Maud Caillaux has created a “green” bank that does not finance fossil fuels
At 27, the Dijonnaise Maud Caillaux launched this year, with two partners, the Green Got ecological bank , a new banking system that wants to “cut the floodgates to fossil fuels” and “finance the ecological transition”. A committed project that earned him to be selected by the magazine Forbes France in its prestigious “30 Under 30” list, recognizing the most promising young entrepreneurs under 30.
“Everything is on an application, on the phone”, we explain Maud Caillaux in the article that we attributed to her neobank, published in June. “We created this because today, the biggest lever for ecological impact on an individual scale is putting your money in the green. It’s a bit unknown, but what pollutes the most is not the meat I eat, the plane I take… In fact, the first source of CO emissions 2 , it’s our money in the bank. »
An argument to which the first members to have joined were sensitive got green. To date, some nine thousand accounts have been opened.
4. Jean Gueury: at 88, he participates in water skiing competitions!
The Dijonnais Jean Gueury practices water skiing for fifty years and, at 88, he continues to line up in competition. As during this summer, when the octogenarian competed in the Mont de Laroche championships, a competition on the Yonne, in Laroche-Saint-Cydroine, in the company of his grandson. The one who claims to be “the oldest competitor in France and Europe” came third on Saturday, then fourth on Sunday out of a dozen candidates in the running.
It is at the nautical stadium of Arc-sur-Tille that Jean Gueury trains almost every day in the summer, under the eyes of his wife Odette, who is also passionate about skiing. And if he has eased up a bit in recent years – “Before, I did seven or eight competitions a year; now I’ve reduced it to three or four because I recover less quickly. Sometimes I have to stop for a day or two because I hurt all over! “, he confided to us in July –, the one who “stopped jumping at the springboard at 80 years old” does not intend to hang up his skis immediately…
5. At almost 100 years old, Marcel Suillerot, former resistance fighter and deportee, key witness in a Nazi trial
Born June 9, 1923 in Dijon, this resident of Marsannay-la-Côte is one of all survivors of the Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen concentration camp, north of Berlin : thousands of people have died there because of forced labor, hunger, disease, ill-treatment suffered; others were subjected to mass extermination techniques there. Marcel Suillerot, engaged in the Resistance in Dijon, then arrested, was deported there in January 1943, only knowing the release after surviving a terrible death march in May 1945. Marcel Suillerot had promised it to a dying comrade: “Live to bear witness. » The Dijonnais never stopped doing it throughout his life; and still today despite his very old age. On March 11, 2022, he was called as one of the last living witnesses at the trial of the oldest accused of Nazi crimes: Josef Schütz, 101, former Waffen-SS non-commissioned officer. , guard in the camp where Marcel was interned. During this trial, where he was a civil party, Marcel testified, by videoconference, on the atrocities he witnessed. On June 28, Josef Schütz was found guilty of complicity in the murder of 3,518 prisoners and sentenced to five years in prison.