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February 2023
The Swiss women’s ice hockey team will have a Jura flavor at the next world championship. Sarah Forster and Cindy Joray have been selected to compete in the Brampton World Cup in Canada. It will be held from April 3 to 16. Coach Colin Muller revealed his squad on Tuesday. Defender Sarah Forster signs her return to the national team following a year of absence. She will be the most experienced player in the contingent with her 207 selections. Forward Cindy Joray will experience her first world championship.
A medal in sight
Switzerland will face Canada, the United States, Japan and the Czech Republic in the group stage. She will aim for the podium. “Our goal is to deliver solid performances and play for medals,” says Collin Muller. /comm-msc
Saad Lamjarred is appealing the verdict against him in the rape case
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred, who was tried last week before the Criminal Court in Paris on charges of rape, appealed once morest a six-year prison sentence, his lawyer and a judicial source announced on Tuesday.
“Given his assertion of innocence, Saad Lamjarred appealed today,” the singer’s lawyers, Thierry Herzog and Jean-Marc Vidida, told AFP.
In the ruling issued on Friday, the Criminal Court in Paris expressed its “conviction” of the occurrence of the rape, which was described by the plaintiff, Laura B. In the suit she brought “in a consistent and meticulous manner”.
The plaintiff told the court that Saad Lamjarred, whom she met in a nightclub in October 2016, had beaten and raped her in a luxury hotel room in Paris.
The famous singer in the Arab world was imprisoned immediately following the verdict was issued under a detention order.
The 37-year-old singer’s lawyer said that “the detention order issued once morest him was not justified because he had consistently adhered to the terms of judicial control” to which he was subject.
division in Morocco
In Morocco, the sentencing of Lamjarred’s imprisonment sparked a wide divide, which was evident in conflicting comments on social networks.
The artist’s friends and fans insist on his “innocence” just because, considering that the plaintiff agreed to have a relationship with him as soon as she accompanied him to the hotel room, while others promote conspiracy theories linking the judicial ruling to “French racism”, in light of a diplomatic crisis between Paris and Rabat.
The well-known Moroccan presenter, Rachid El Idrissi, wrote on his Instagram account recently, “I have not yet understood, and will not understand, this unfair ruling once morest my brother and friend Saad.”
In response to these positions, feminist activists criticized what they considered the “normalization of violence once morest women.” One netizen even called for the criminalization of “glorification of rape”, similar to what happens in cases of “glorification of terrorism”.
Saad Lamjarred is also wanted for trial before the Criminal Court in the Var region, in southern France, on the background of similar accusations related to supposed incidents that took place in the city of Saint-Tropez in 2018.
Rupert Murdoch sees himself cornered – so he takes flight to the front: Yes, the almost 92-year-old boss of the conservative media empire News Corporation, which owns Fox News, admits in an affidavit that several moderators of the station have deliberately spread the misrepresentation that the 2020 US presidential election was “stolen” from Republican candidate Donald Trump.