One of the teenage victims of a violent ATV swerve Thursday night in Hébertville, Lac-Saint-Jean eventually succumbed to his injuries early Saturday afternoon.

Félix Girard, a young teenager whose age has not yet been confirmed by the authorities, may therefore not have had the same luck as his sister, who was by his side at the time of the accident, which occurred in a quarry around 8 p.m. in the 3rd row.

The two youths, who were wearing helmets, were in the vehicle when they lost control of the car for unexplained reasons.

The police drove to the scene of the accident on a mountain bike to evacuate the two victims. The young man was then transferred to the CHU de Sainte-Justine, where he finally died shortly after 1 p.m. on Saturday.

The young man’s death caused dismay in the small community of Lac-Saint-Jean, which has a population of just over 2,500. Many also wanted to express their support for parents through social media.

Many have also chosen to pay a direct tribute to the youngster, while several teammates from his ice hockey team, the Lynx du Pavillon Wilbrod-Dufour, have changed their profile photos in his memory.

Photo by Hébertville Weetouche’s Facebook

Many mountain biking fatalities

With the recent incident in the Jeannois, the sad death toll from mountain biking rises again. In less than a month, at least four people will have lost their lives in an accident involving such a device.

In Chaudière-Appalaches, a 93-year-old quad bike rider died from his injuries after making a turn in the Kinnear’s Mills area north of Thetford Mines on the night of June 13.

He was then thrown out of his machine after violently leaving the street.

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On the side of Charlevoix, the former CEO of Imavision Pierre Paquet was also killed on May 30 in the Éboulements sector at the wheel of an ATV.

Two days earlier, an 11-year-old girl in the Laurentians also died while aboard an SUV that ended up in a ditch.

A Russian military truck at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant on June 15. SERGEI ILNITSKY (EFE)

Ukraine has warned that Russia has “designed and approved” a plan to attack the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe. Military intelligence chief Kirilo Budanov, in an interview with The New Statesman on Friday, assured that Russian occupying forces, who have maintained control of the facilities since early March last year, have planted mines in the pond that allows the facility to cool. He also adds that they brought vehicles with explosives to four of the six reactors.

At such moments, Budanov understands, a few minutes is enough to give someone an order. In his opinion, there are two possible scenarios. The first is to blow up the power plant in case Russian soldiers are driven off the left bank of the Dnieper, creating an area that local troops could not advance through. Second, in desperation, Russia is using a nuclear disaster as a “pre-emptive measure” to stop Ukraine’s nuclear offensive before it begins.

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The complaint about the placement of these explosives comes after multiple reports suggesting that Russian occupying forces were responsible for the June 6 demolition of another critical facility in Ukraine, the Nova Kajovka dam. In statements to state television on June 20, the director of the Ukrainian military intelligence service warned of the existence of explosives and the dangers they posed if they were activated. A day later, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which had sent a delegation to the plant on the 15th, said in a report that it had not seen any mines, although they knew of their existence near the water pond that allows them to Cooling of the plants.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned of the possibility of this attack in his daily message on the 22nd. “The world needs to know what the occupier is preparing,” said the President. “We will continue to inform our partners. We will also inform those countries that already claim to be neutral. Obviously the radiation doesn’t ask who is neutral and can reach anyone in the world,” he added with some sarcasm. “The complete shutdown of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is a necessity,” stressed Zelenskyy, explaining that he had instructed Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko to take the necessary measures in view of the existing risks.

From the first weeks of the occupation of the plant, the site was often the scene of clashes between the two armies. The population of the surrounding towns, at least in the area under Ukrainian control on the right bank of the Dnieper, is prepared for a possible nuclear accident.

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In the June 21 report, the IAEA not only acknowledged that it is aware of the existence of mines near the plant pond, but also ensures that these devices have historically been placed outside the plant site and at various locations within the plant site According to the report, the facility’s staff was “defensive” by nature. The IAEA delegation, led by the organization’s director, Argentine Rafael Grossi, was unable to verify the presence of explosives during its visit.

“Our assessment of these particular sites determined that while the presence of explosive devices would not meet safety standards, the facility’s core safety functions would not be significantly compromised. “We are following the matter with great attention,” Grossi emphasizes in the report, in which they refer to Budanov’s complaint without explicitly naming him.

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North Korea has offered Russia its full support after the Wagner paramilitary group mutiny, state media reported on Sunday.

• Also read: Wagner ends his uprising and withdraws from his positions in Russia

• Also read: Moscow warns the West against wanting to “exploit” the situation

• Also read: Russia’s weakness is “obvious,” says the Ukrainian president

In a meeting with Russian Ambassador to Pyongyang Alexander Matsegora, North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Im Chon Il “expressed his firm belief that the recent armed insurgency in Russia would be successfully crushed,” North Korea’s KCNA news agency reported.

The forces of the Wagner paramilitary group began to evacuate their positions in Russia on the orders of their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who reversed course after frontally challenging the authority of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

According to KCNA, Mr. Im reiterated that “the Russian army and people will surely overcome the hardships and emerge heroically victorious from the special military operation against Ukraine.”

For Leif-Eric Easley, a professor at Ewha University in Seoul, Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine threatens the “stability of the Russian state”.

“There will be implications for the Russia-China-North Korea bloc and officials in Beijing and Pyongyang are no doubt taking notes to avoid repeating Moscow’s mistakes,” he added.

North Korea has called the conflict a US “proxy war” aimed at destroying Russia and has condemned Western military aid to Kiev.

As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, Russia has long vetoed new sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear program and repeated missile launches.

CNN host Jack Tapper has published a column in which he accused Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of telling a “wild and false” story about an interaction between them in 2005.

Kennedy’s comments came during an appearance on a June 5 podcast hosted by Jordan Peterson and were part of an attack on the way the media reports on Big Pharma.

RFK Jr. said he worked for three weeks with Tapper, who was then at ABC News, on a documentary about vaccinations that was suddenly shelved.

Tapper’s account said he did not work with Kennedy, merely interviewed him over the phone for an ABC News segment, which was not rescinded.

The attack on Kennedy Jr. comes as a remarkable video has surfaced showing the 69-year-old Democratic presidential nominee lifting weights at Venice Beach’s legendary Gold’s Gym, dubbed the “Mecca of bodybuilding.”

A photo accompanies the video, showing RFK Jr. shirtless and well built.

The attack on Kennedy Jr. comes as a remarkable video has surfaced showing the 69-year-old Democratic presidential nominee lifting weights at Venice Beach’s legendary Gold’s Gym, dubbed the “Mecca of bodybuilding.”

Tapper’s account states that he did not work with Kennedy, but merely interviewed him over the phone for an ABC TV segment. He is pictured in May 2019

“RFK Jr. has made so many false and wild claims on a number of important issues,” Tapper noted in the column published June 22, before claiming he was “not interested in the facts.”

Tapper provided a fairly lengthy account in the column, and began explaining that their interaction stemmed from Kennedy co-publishing an article with Rolling Stone Magazine and Salon.com in 2005.

In it he claimed that there was a link between certain mercury vaccines and autism – both publications have since retracted the statement due to factual inaccuracies.

A photo accompanies the video, showing RFK Jr. shirtless and well built

Tapper provided a fairly lengthy account in the column, and began explaining that their interaction stemmed from Kennedy co-publishing an article with Rolling Stone Magazine and Salon.com in 2005

On the Jordan Peterson podcast, which has been deleted from YouTube but is still available on Twitter, RFK Jr. said he spent “three weeks working on this incredible documentary” with Tapper.

He then said Tapper informed him over the phone that the “documentary” would be killed by “corporations” — something that had never happened before.

“RFK Jr. has misrepresented the content of this call for years,” Tapper wrote.

Tapper implied in his CNN column that he would never have used that word and that a number of his stories had previously been scrapped.

He said that while his post was not canceled, he delayed the post a day to interview other experts and eventually aired on June 22, 2005.

“In his retelling, a two-minute piece was an ‘amazing documentary,’ a couple of days’ work lasted three weeks, I worked closely with him on a remote interview, and a piece was pushed back a day so we could interview some.” Actual Experts is a play that got killed,” Tapper wrote.

Tapper also appeared on a podcast titled “Pod Save America” ​​last week, in which he expressed similar disagreements about Kennedy.

CNN presenter Jake Tapper is pictured with his wife Jennifer Marie Brown at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York in 2018

‘[Kennedy] “Spreading dangerous misinformation about childhood vaccinations,” he said, before saying he would not invite Kennedy to a town hall meeting on CNN.

“He was so dishonest about that experience and has frequently lied about the experience ever since,” he said.

Tapper also quoted from his own section to reflect how he had reported Kennedy’s article.

Tapper claims he said in his post, “The medical community overwhelmingly disagrees with Kennedy, who is not a scientist or a doctor.” They point out that autism rates are not going down, even though thimerosal has been removed from most childhood vaccines as a precaution .”

He wrote at the end of his column, “We did the fact-checking for our article that RFK Jr. didn’t do himself,” then added, “And he remains someone to be relied on for fact, truth, or accuracy.” can’t leave.”

A short-lived uprising by a rebellious Russian mercenary commander ended with the withdrawal of his troops, but the extraordinary challenge to President Vladimir Putin’s two-decade rise to power could have long-term implications for his rule and war in Ukraine.

As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Face the Nation on Sunday morning, the current situation in Russia is an “unfolding story”.

“We didn’t see the last act,” Blinken said. “We’re watching it very closely and closely, but just step back for a moment and put it in context.”

On Sunday morning, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, was due to leave for Belarus under an agreement negotiated with the Kremlin. Under the agreement, Wagner troops would be pardoned and criminal charges against Prigozhin dropped.

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Blinken told Face the Nation that he couldn’t find out where Prigozhin is currently, but said they were “following” through intelligence agencies.

Locals applaud soldiers from the Wagner Group military company as they prepare to exit an area of ​​the Southern Military District headquarters on a street in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023. /AP

Wagner troops were seen on Sunday leaving Rostov, a key Russian military post they had taken over.

By Sunday afternoon, troops had withdrawn from the capital and people were pouring into the streets and cafes. Traffic returned to normal and roadblocks and checkpoints were removed, but Red Square remained open to visitors. On the highways leading to Moscow, emergency workers panicked to repair roads that had been torn up just hours earlier.

In a televised address on Saturday, Putin called for unity and accused Prigozhin of treason without naming him.

Putin’s image as a tough leader had already been badly damaged by the war in Ukraine, which dragged on for 16 months and claimed large numbers of Russian troops. The march of the armed forces under the command of his former protégé Prigozhin towards Moscow on Saturday revealed further weaknesses, analysts said.

It also meant some of the best forces fighting for Russia in Ukraine were withdrawn from that battlefield: Prigozhin’s own Wagner troops and Chechen troops sent to stop them.

They then advanced largely unhindered toward Moscow. Russian media reported shooting down several helicopters and a military communications plane. The Department of Defense did not comment.

They were only stopped by an agreement to send Prigozhin to neighboring Belarus, which has backed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The charges against him for instigating an armed uprising will be dropped, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, and Prigozhin ordered his troops to return to their camps.

The government also said it would not prosecute participating Wagner fighters, while those who did not participate would be offered contracts by the Department of Defense.

Although Putin previously vowed to punish those behind the armed insurgency, Peskov defended the about-face, saying Putin’s “prime goal” is to “avoid bloodshed and internal confrontations with unpredictable outcomes.”

This amnesty contrasts with the fines and jail sentences that the Russian authorities have imposed on thousands of people who have criticized the war, albeit indirectly.

And while it ended the immediate crisis, it may have started a longer-term crisis, analysts and observers said.

“For a dictatorship built on the idea of ​​unchallenged power, that was extreme humiliation, and it’s hard to imagine the genie of doubt ever being forced back in the bottle,” said Phillips O’Brien, professor of strategic studies the University of St Andrews in Scotland. “So if Prigozhin could have lost in the short term, Putin is likely to be the loser in the long run.”

Blinken noted on Meet the Press that the challenge to Putin came from within.

“I think we’ve seen more cracks in the Russian facade,” he told NBC’s Meet the Press. “We have all sorts of new issues that Putin will have to grapple with in the coming weeks and months.”

Prigozhin, who sent out a series of audio and video updates during his revolt, has remained silent since the Kremlin announced the deal.

It is not clear if he is already in Belarus or if one of his Wagner troops would follow him.

Responding to questions from The Associated Press, Prigozhin’s press office said he could not answer right away, but “will answer the questions if he makes a normal connection.”

Video captured by The Associated Press in Rostov-on-Don showed people cheering Wagner troops as they pulled out. Some ran to shake hands with Prigozhin, who was driving an SUV.

The regional governor later said all troops had evacuated the city. Russian news agencies also reported that Lipetsk authorities confirmed that Wagner troops had left the region, which lies on the Rostov-Moscow road.

Moscow had prepared for the arrival of Wagner’s troops by setting up checkpoints of armored vehicles and troops on the southern outskirts of the city. About 3,000 Chechen soldiers were withdrawn from the fighting in Ukraine and transferred there early Saturday, Chechen state TV reported. Russian troops armed with machine guns set up checkpoints on the southern outskirts of Moscow. To slow the march, emergency services dug up sections of highways.

Hosts of state-controlled TV channels viewed the agreement to end the crisis as a testament to Putin’s wisdom, and broadcast footage of Wagner troops retreating from Rostov-on-Don to the relief of local residents who feared a bloody struggle for control of the city.

People there, interviewed by Channel 1, welcomed Putin’s role.

But the US-based Institute for the Study of War warned that “the Kremlin now faces a deeply unstable balance.”

The “deal is a short-term solution, not a long-term solution,” wrote the institute, which has followed the war in Ukraine from the start.

Prigozhin had called for the ouster of Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, whom Prigozhin had long criticized for his war-waging in Ukraine.

The US had information that Prigozhin had been building up its armed forces near the border with Russia for some time. This contradicts Prigozhin’s claim that his uprising was in response to a Russian military attack on his camps in Ukraine on Friday.

When Prigozhin announced the uprising, he accused Russian forces of attacking the Wagner camps in Ukraine with rockets, helicopter gunships and artillery. He claimed that Chief of Staff General Valery Gerasimov ordered the attacks after a meeting with Shoigu, at which it was decided to crush the military contractor.

The Ministry of Defense denied an attack on the camps.

Congressional leaders were briefed on the Wagner buildup early last week, a person familiar with the matter said. The person was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The US Secret Service briefing was first reported by CNN.

One possible reason for Prigozhin’s uprising was the Russian Defense Ministry’s demand, supported by Putin, that private companies sign contracts with him by July 1. Prigozhin had refused to do so.

The Ukrainians hoped that the Russians’ internal infighting would create opportunities for their army to retake territories captured by Russian forces.

“These events will have been of great comfort to the Ukrainian government and military,” said Ben Barry, senior fellow in land warfare at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Wagner troops played a crucial role in the Ukraine War, capturing the eastern city of Bakhmut, an area where the bloodiest and longest battles have taken place.

The Kremlin’s offer of amnesty to Prigozhin was brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, which may have increased his standing in his relationship with Putin.

A former convict, 62-year-old Prigozhin has long-standing ties to Putin, winning lucrative catering jobs in the Kremlin, earning him the nickname “Putin’s chef.”

Wagner has sent military contractors to Libya, Syria and several African countries, as well as Ukraine.

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