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Added on the 19/02/2021 18:15:15 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
French police officers stand guard outside the Isard COS centre for asylum seekers in Pau, southwestern France, where a 46-year-old official was stabbed to death by a Sudanese man whose asylum application had just been refused. IMAGES
French transport minister Jean-Baptiste Djebbari visits a Covid-19 screening centre at Orly airport while antigen tests are to be launched for some departing passengers. These tests, which are less efficient than the current PCR tests, do not require laboratory analysis, and the result can be known in 10 to 30 minutes. IMAGES
For his first outing as Justice Minister, Eric Dupond-Moretti visited the Fresnes prison. The famous lawyer and newly appointed member of the French government said he was "concerned about freedom, about the conditions of detention and about the working conditions of prison staff". (COMPLETES VIDI1US3E1_EN) SOUNDBITE
Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni visits an under-construction asylum processing centre in Albania, set to be run by Italy, with her Albanian counterpart Edi Rama, days ahead of European elections. Under a controversial deal between Rome and Tirana, Albania has agreed to take in asylum seekers plucked from the seas off Italy, register them at a migrant centre on the Adriatic Sea and then house them at another centre inland while their claims are processed. IMAGES
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and former French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe are greeted by Renault CEO Luca de Meo as they arrive at the Renault Group site in Sandouville to tour of the industrial line of the auto maker's plant in Normandy. IMAGES