Month: June 2017

An Audi R8 V10 of the Argentinian five-time winner of football’s Ballon d’Or, Lionel Messi, will be auctioned by the Monte-Carlo Auction House on Saturday, July 1.

This will be the third occasion that the auction house will be selling automobiles, motorbikes and boats under the hammer in Monaco.

The president of the Classic Car Club in Nice, Tom Brault, has unveiled the first pieces of an ambitious catalogue.

Among the lots, apart from the Audi R8 V10 of the Argentine striker and Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, estimated at between €200,000 and €240,000, a very rare Porsche and a competition motorcycle of Christian Estrosi – the mayor of Nice and a former professional motorcycling competitor – will also be sold on July 1 in front of the Yacht Club, alongside many others.

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A European Exhibition of Bonsai – les Jolis Matins de Juin 2017 – organised by the Bonsaï Club of Monaco, in partnership with the City Council, will be held at the Jardin Exotique from June 9 to 11.

This fourth edition of the event brings together the most prominent bonsaika in Europe, as well as many professional exhibitors whose products involve the art of bonsai.

Workshops, conferences and animations will take place on Saturday, June 10, from 9 am, which are open to the public, until the end of the day on Sunday, June 11. However, Friday, June 9, will be entirely reserved for exhibitors.

The event also has the honour of being awarded the prestigious “European Bonsai Art Prize” by HSH the Princess of Hanover, which will be presented at a ceremony on Saturday.

As in the previous year, the exhibition will be led by the world-renowned Japanese master, Takeo Kawabe, who will host workshops, chair the jury and present the Kawabe Grand Prix award.

This 2017 edition is accessible to the public with a ticket to the Exotic Garden of Monaco.

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Valérie Bruell-Melchior, Minister at the Permanent Mission of Monaco to the United Nations, has been elected as Vice-President of the Second Committee of the General Assembly in charge of economic and financial affairs. This commission deals in particular with economic issues, sustainable development and globalisation.

As Vice-Chair, Ms Bruell-Melchior, representing the Western European and Other States Group (WEOG), will have to negotiate some twenty texts on the themes discussed in this committee and relay the relevant information to the WEOG. Her work in this capacity starts in September.

Holder of a Master’s degree in International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, Ms Bruell-Melchior has been the Permanent Representative to the Permanent Mission of Monaco since March 2010.

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A young French woman living in Monaco was caught red-handed on the evening of Wednesday, May 24, sniffing cocaine in the toilets of the Hotel Meridien Beach Plaza.

The police had arrived on the scene after following a young man who was known for selling narcotics.

The defendant was found with two empty packets of cocaine and later told police that she had paid €80 to a stranger for the drug at Port Hercule. Asked where the money had come from, she told the court that she did little jobs and worked as a waitress.

For the prosecution, Hervé Poinot argued that the defendant had evidently taken the drug to party, and added that a criminal record would hurt her chances of employment in the Principality. He called for a three-month prison sentence, suspended.

Her defence counsel said that his client was suffering because of the divorce of her parents and called on the court to show clemency.

She was sentenced to eight days in jail, without suspension.

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