Category: BuzzNews (anglais)

The French coastline received no less than 150 million euros worth of cocaine, in two parts.

Last weekend, the French Channel coastline, more precisely on the beach of Réville, received no less than 850 kg of hermetically sealed bales.

A few days later, in the middle of this week, Vicq-sur-Mer, also located in the west of France, received a ton and a half of cocaine, also well wrapped in bags.

In total, 2.3 tons of cocaine washed up on the French coastline, which is obviously a record harvest by the authorities there.

❌ Depuis le week-end dernier, c’est une véritable marrée blanche qui déferle sur les côtes de Normandie. Plus de 2 tonnes de cocaïne, pour un montant estimé à 150 millions d’euros, ont été retrouvés.#ApollineMatin pic.twitter.com/f3qzUUt4ks

— RMC (@RMCInfo) March 3, 2023

For the moment, the origin of all this white powder is not known, but according to a source who manages the file, this cocaine can have been thrown in order to avoid a control. It may also have simply fallen off a ship.

The investigation is still ongoing and the individuals in charge of the case are still trying to trace the path of the bags by flying over the sea and with the help of maritime patrols.

After all, 2.3 tons of cocaine is as heavy as a great white shark or a little more than a giraffe, which is not trivial.

During the pandemic, the emergency room was overflowing because of COVID-19, and this time it’s overflowing because of the many skiers… who were injured on the slopes.

You read that correctly. The news, reported by Le Journal de Montréal and its investigative bureau, is quite surprising.

With the return to normal life, the average of six million visitors per year on Quebec’s ski slopes has returned, increasing the level of traffic in the emergency room, it seems!

[BUREAU D'ENQUÊTE] Les urgences débordées par les skieurs blessés (@archambaulthelo et @FDRouleauJDM) https://t.co/wnSFyfKIQo

— Le Journal de Montréal (@JdeMontreal) March 6, 2023

Of course, this increased during the spring break, putting enormous pressure on the emergency rooms of many hospitals across Quebec!

Dr. Nicolas Bernard, an emergency room physician at CHUQ Hospital (l’Enfant-Jésus), said that due to young age, lack of experience or excessive speed on the slopes, the emergency room was overflowing with injured skiers.

Emergency physicians are sometimes overwhelmed by the fact that the emergency room is overflowing. This is the case at the Brome-Missisquoi-Perkins Hospital in Cowansville.

It should be noted that in Cowansville, a small emergency room, during the winter season, there can be no less than 10 patients coming from the mountains of Bromont and/or Sutton.

Are you surprised by these statistics?

Valérie Plante, the mayor of Montreal, is currently in mourning, a news that we learned on her socials.

Indeed, she informed us of the death of a loved one, her father, with a message and a very touching photo.

“My dad is gone. He left us suddenly, but gently in his sleep. His health had been more fragile for a year. This did not prevent him from migrating south in the fall with his sweet, beloved Loulou. A father is a daughter’s first love. Mine always believed in me. He showed me that you can dream and reach your goals when you put your heart into your work. In my blood flows this will to all tests which was his”, she said in homage to her father.

“I realized yesterday that no one would ever answer me again when I said ‘ Daddy‘. The shock was brutal. Now begins the long apprenticeship of continuing to move forward, to laugh and to cry, without him in our lives”, adds Valérie Plante, a passage that shakes by its truth.

All our sympathies to Valerie Plante and her family.

A slightly scary scene occurred on the Alaskan side, when a woman named Tracy Hansen, who was walking peacefully accompanied by her dog Gunnar in the evening, was hit directly in the head by a moose’s paw.

This scene from Anchorage was captured by Kate Timmons and in all likelihood, Hansen was certain she was hit by a bike…but it was more like a “moose”.

“I thought someone wasn’t paying attention and hit me with a bike or something. I put my hands to my head and thought, I’m bleeding,” said the moose victim.

Before the moose made its move, Timmons, who was in the car with her husband and children, sped up to warn Hansen, who could not see the scene behind her.

The warning didn’t reach the walker’s ears at the right time, however, as the moose’s front pawscan be seen hitting her head.

In the end, the Timmons family came to Hansen’s (and her pooch’s) aid, and she escaped with a few stitches, bruises and a headache.

Nothing too serious to prevent her from continuing her walks with her dog, we hope.