Violent fire, strike and market: news of the week in Rouen
Through Julien Bottler
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The week of January 16 to 22, 2023 was full of news in Rouen. If you haven’t had time to follow everything and want to catch up, here is the information you need to remember the last days.
The event of the week: violent fire in Grand-Couronne
The pictures were impressive. Monday evening, a warehouse containing thousands of lithium batteries and tens of thousands of tires was ravaged by a violent fire in Grand-Couronne.
Faced with the concerns of residents, activists and unions, the prefecture gave a reassuring speech. The site had been inspected in 2019.
Another impressive image, that of 13,000 demonstrators (depending on the prefecture) which marched in Rouen on Thursday against the pension reform.
The unusual of the week: when AI talks about Rouen
This week we played with artificial intelligence ChatGPT, which simulates conversations. We asked him to give us the reasons to live or not in Rouen. His answers are quite appropriate… Discover them.
It made you react: places are expensive at the Sotteville-lès-Rouen market
The market traders are upset and angry. The City hall of Sotteville-lès-Rouen voted a new fee schedule. Result, it costs more to sell on the market. And for some salespeople, it’s a cold shower: “It’s huge, for us it’s multiplied by three, in just one time. »
But also…
Also in the news this week, the revelation of a new report on Lubrizol fire. The interpretations of this diverging expertise: for the fire victim associations, it confirms the outbreak of fire at Lubrizolwhile for the company, it’s just a guess.
Another revelation this week, that of a case of suspicion of sexual harassment from a teacher at the Rouen Conservatory to a student. An investigation is underway.
In a lighter register, we presented to you the “Airbnb of the bike” launched by a student from Rouen, as well as the incredible stay Erasmus from another student, in Greenland !
Finally, we also followed the incredible soap opera of the election of the first secretary of the PS. The mayor of Rouen Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol claims victory… like his rival Olivier Faure.
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