Day: 11 April 2017

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Explosions near to the team bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund players to the Champions League quarter-final at Signal Iduna Park on Tuesday evening injured one player, police have said.

Dortmund centre-back Marc Bartra was injured after three explosions and taken to hospital. Following the incident, the match has been postponed by one day, until Wednesday, April 12, with kick-off at 6:45 pm CET.

Hans-Joachim Watzke, the Borussia Dortmund CEO, said: “The whole team is in shock. You will not get those pictures out of your head. I hope that the team is able to compete on the field.”

German police said there was no danger inside the stadium, where fans had already gathered for the game.

Bartra, 26, joined the German club from Barcelona last summer. He graduated from the famous La Masia academy. First reports state his injuries have been caused by shattered glass.

The Monegasque delegation, including Prince Albert and Minister of State, are safe at a hotel, a tweet by the Prince’s Government confirmed.

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Serge Telle, Minister of State, accompanied by Patrice Cellario, Minister of the Interior, stopped by the headquarters of the Public Security Department on Monday evening.

Their visit was timed to correspond to the handover between the day and night shifts.

The Minister of State congratulated the men working under Richard Marangoni, Director of Public Safety, for their exemplary performance during the recent robbery of the Cartier jewellery store. “Even if it’s all over, thanks to you, we can not pretend that nothing has happened,” he said.

He also referred to the future “Public Safety 2020” plan and indicated that new human resources will reinforce the capacities of the Public Security Service with, first of all, during the course of 2017, the creation of nine more posts for police officers, and the implementation of a civilian reserve.

In conclusion, Minister Telle thanked the police officers for their commitment, their work, their seriousness and their rigour. At the end of his visit, the Minister went on to the police station of the Place du Casino, which was in the frontline during the robbery of March 25.

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The nominees for the Golden Nymph Awards, which will be presented by Prince Albert at the 57th Monte-Carlo Television Festival on June 20, have been announced.

Entries for the Golden Nymph Awards continue to increase, the organisers say, with submissions in 2017 significantly up on the previous year. Across seven categories spanning Fiction and News programming, applications have been received from more than 50 countries.

Laurent Puons, CEO of Monaco Mediax, organisers of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival, said: “With ever expanding opportunities for viewers to access the best in television content, the supply of internationally-relevant, high-quality programming continues to strengthen around the world.”

Mr Puons added, “This growth is driving the ongoing increase in the number, quality and diversity of submissions for the Golden Nymph Awards. The Festival’s Awards are renowned throughout the world for recognising true excellence in the fields of content creation and acting talent, and I’m looking forward to welcoming our nominees to Monte Carlo in June.”

The Monte-Carlo Television Festival will take place from June 16 to 20. The annual event celebrates the very best of television and delivers marketing and public relations opportunities to producers and distributors looking to access a large group of international print and on-camera journalists to promote and support their sales to worldwide broadcasters.

The event first saw the light of day in 1960 at the urging of Princess Grace, who saw the Television Festival as one of many ways to help Monaco become a centre of excellence in so many spheres in the modern world. (Feature image: Facebook Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo)

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Jérôme Kerviel, the rogue trader who nearly brought French banking giant Société Générale to its knees, has told French news outlet 20 Minutes that the bank has seized almost all the money in his account – amounting to between €3,000 and €4,000. Last September the bank was granted one million euros in damages against Mr Kerviel by the Versailles Court of Appeal.

“I thought the Société Générale would not do it …”, Jérôme Kerviel told 20 Minutes. “They want to suffocate me for the rest of my life,” Mr Kerviel added.

The bank has refuted the notion of any desire for revenge, saying: “Société Générale is recovering its claim as it would against any debtor.” A spokesperson said: “The million euros which Jérôme Kerviel was ordered to pay represents only a tiny part of the damage suffered.”

The bank had originally been awarded €4.9 billion in damages, although a court found that there had been “shortcomings” in the bank’s control procedures.

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