Le plus jeune fils d’Alain Delon saisit la justice pour faire annuler le dernier testament de son père

Le plus jeune fils d’Alain Delon, Alain-Fabien Delon, a saisi la justice pour faire annuler le dernier testament de son père, plus favorable à sa sœur Anouchka, a indiqué mardi à l’AFP un exécuteur testamentaire de la star décédée, confirmant des informations du Monde et de RTL.Relançant la guerre fratricide qui prévalait avant la mort de l’acteur en 2024, une première audience civile de mise en état se tiendra le 9 mars 2026 au tribunal judiciaire de Paris, a indiqué Me Christophe Ayela, visé par l’assignation en tant que l’un des trois exécuteurs testamentaires d’Alain Delon.Légende du cinéma mondial, Alain Delon est mort le 18 août 2024 dans sa propriété de Douchy (Loiret). D’une santé déclinante au cours de ses dernières années, l’icône du “Samouraï” a vu ses enfants se déchirer autour de sa santé et de son héritage.La procédure civile engagée à Paris par Alain-Fabien, 31 ans, le plus jeune des trois enfants Delon, “vise à demander l’annulation du testament du 24 novembre 2022 et d’une donation du 22 février 2023 au motif d’une incapacité de M. Delon à prendre une décision” à la suite d’un accident vasculaire cérébral (AVC) survenu en 2019, a expliqué Me Ayela.Remplaçant un précédent testament de 2015, le testament de 2022 d’Alain Delon, de droit suisse, amende le précédent en faisant notamment d’Anouchka Delon l’unique héritière du droit moral du “Guépard”. Spécificité du droit d’auteur français, le droit moral confère à Anouchka Delon, 34 ans, un droit perpétuel au contrôle de l’image et des œuvres de son père.La transaction de février 2023 concerne elle une donation d’Alain Delon à Anouchka de 51% des parts de sa société détentrice de ses droits à l’image et de marque.Alain-Fabien Delon “entend solliciter l’annulation de ces actes, dès lors que M. Alain Delon ne disposait plus à leurs dates respectives du discernement nécessaire” suite à son AVC de 2019, selon l’assignation envoyée la semaine dernière à son frère Anthony et à sa sœur, ainsi qu’aux trois exécuteurs testamentaires.L’état de santé d’Alain Delon était si dégradé à la fin de sa vie que la justice française avait ordonné en janvier 2024, huit mois avant sa mort, un placement sous curatelle renforcée pour une durée de 60 mois.”Je veux déclencher une médiation pour mettre un terme à tout cela car Alain Delon n’aurait absolument pas aimé que ses enfants se déchirent sur le testament, et j’ai bon espoir d’y arriver”, a déclaré à l’AFP Christophe Ayela.Contactés par l’AFP, les avocats d’Anthony et Anouchka Delon n’ont pas donné suite dans l’immédiat.

Wall Street ouvre en berne, plombée par le retour des incertitudes commerciales

La Bourse de New York a ouvert en net recul mardi, s’inquiétant de l’instabilité de la politique douanière américaine après un jugement sur les droits de douane, des craintes minant également les obligations d’Etat.Au lendemain d’un jour férié à Wall Stret, le Dow Jones perdait dans les premiers échanges 0,98%, l’indice Nasdaq 1,72% et l’indice élargi S&P 500 lâchait 1,30%.

Fresh quake hits disaster-struck Afghanistan, as toll passes 1,400

A fresh 5.2-magnitude earthquake hit the east of Afghanistan on Tuesday, jolting a region still struggling with the aftermath of a powerful quake at the weekend that killed 1,400 people.The epicentre of the tremor was close to where a magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit late Sunday night, devastating remote areas in mountainous provinces near the border with Pakistan.The “quake was felt in the same areas which were affected in Kunar (province) in the first earthquake,” Ehsanullah Ehsan, the disaster management spokesman in the hard-hit province, told AFP.”These aftershocks are constant, but they have not caused any casualties yet.”The quake was reported by the US Geological Survey late Tuesday.The number of victims from Sunday’s earthquake has mounted steadily, with 1,411 people dead and 3,124 injured in Kunar alone, chief Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Tuesday, making it one of the deadliest to hit the country in decades. Another dozen people were killed and hundreds injured in neighbouring Nangarhar province.Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world, with dwindling aid since the Taliban seized power in 2021 undermining its ability to respond to disasters.The devastation could affect “hundreds of thousands”, said United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Afghanistan Indrika Ratwatte.Rescuers searched through the night and all day for survivors in the rubble of homes flattened in Kunar, where more than 5,400 houses were destroyed, government spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat said on X.Many of the worst-affected areas were still unreachable by road, but emergency facilities were being set up and multiple countries had announced they would provide aid, Fitrat said. The European Union said it was sending 130 tonnes of emergency supplies and providing one million euros ($1.2 million) to help victims of the deadly quake.The bloc has become one of the key aid donors to Afghanistan after the United States — previously the country’s largest aid provider — cut all but a slice of its assistance after President Donald Trump took office in January.The aid cuts risk impeding the response to the earthquake, sector experts told AFP, in a country already facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises after decades of conflict.”The scale of need far exceeds current resources,” the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said in a statement, noting that funding cuts had hit humanitarian air services, “limiting access to remote communities”.Emergency workers struggled to reach mountainous areas and villagers joined the rescue efforts, using their bare hands to clear debris from mud and stone homes built into steep valleys.Obaidullah Stoman, 26, who travelled to the village of Wadir to search for a friend, was overwhelmed by the level of destruction.”I’m searching here, but I didn’t see him. It was very difficult for me to see the conditions here,” he told AFP.”There is only rubble left.”The dead, including children, were wrapped in white shrouds by villagers who prayed over their bodies before burying them.- ‘Whole house collapsed’ -The earthquake epicentre was about 27 kilometres (17 miles) from Jalalabad, according to the USGS, and struck just eight kilometres below the Earth’s surface.Such relatively shallow quakes can cause more damage, especially since the majority of Afghans live in mud-brick homes vulnerable to collapse.Many of those living in the quake-hit villages were among the more than four million Afghans forced back to the country from Iran and Pakistan in recent years, many coming through the Torkham border crossing in Nangarhar province.Rahmatullah Khaksar, who heads the emergency ward at a hospital in Jalalabad, Nangarhar’s provincial capital, said they had received 600 injured since Sunday night. “Most of the patients were trauma patients. They were hit on the head, back, abdomen and legs,” he told AFP, adding they had cleared a ward for unidentified patients “so they will stay there until they find their families”.Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes, especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range near the junction of the Eurasia and India tectonic plates.Western Herat province was devastated in October 2023 by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake, which killed more than 1,500 people and damaged or destroyed more than 63,000 homes.A 5.9-magnitude quake struck the eastern province of Paktika in June 2022, killing more than 1,000 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.

Denmark high court rules Dane in IS was spy, not jihadist

Denmark’s Supreme Court ruled Tuesday  that a Dane of Syrian origin who was jailed for having spent time with the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria was in fact an informant for Danish intelligence services.The case has captivated the Nordic country for years and has shone an embarrassing spotlight on its intelligence agencies.The ruling paves the way for Ahmed Samsam, 35, to seek a reversal of his 2018 conviction in Spain for being a member of the jihadist group.”The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (DSIS) and the Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) must acknowledge that, in connection with his trips to Syria in 2013 and 2014, ‘A’ collaborated with intelligence services, and that he received fees and other compensations in exchange for providing information on Danish fighters in Syria to the intelligence services,” the court said in its verdict.The two agencies published a public admission within hours of the court ruling.Since Samsam’s case emerged in 2018, both intelligence services had refused to confirm or deny the identity of their informers for security reasons.A lawyer for the intelligence agencies called Tuesday’s ruling “regrettable”.Samsam was handed an eight-year sentence by the Madrid court that convicted him. He served most of his time in prison in Denmark after being transferred, and was released in 2023.He had denied any terrorist activity, and his claim had been backed by several testimonies and journalistic investigations, which were presented to a lower Danish court that tried to establish whether or not he was a Danish intelligence agent.He lost that case, before the Supreme Court ruled in his favour.It found that he had explained “in detail, in a coherent and meaningful manner” how he had been recruited, and that he had documented cash and bank transfer payments, the identity of his recruiters, his training and meeting places.”Our main goal is to pursue the matter in Spain. We need to think carefully about the best steps to take to do so,” Samsam’s lawyer Rene Offersen told reporters outside the courthouse.- ‘Big mistake’ -The case has enthralled Danes for five years.”I have a lot of confidence in the Danish courts, but I never thought it would take this long,” Samsam told reporters as he left the courthouse.”Especially not after the media started covering the story in 2020,” he added.The affair has left the intelligence agencies red-faced. Samsam said that could have been avoided if the agencies had backed him up in 2018.”I don’t know which monkeys have been running the show over there but they really made a big mistake and they have handled it like amateurs,” he said.”The fact that they let it get so public, they can only blame themselves.”Before Tuesday’s verdict, Frederik Waage, a law professor at the University of Southern Denmark, said an admission by intelligence agencies that Samsam was an agent would have been “a sensation” and “would interfere with the operations of the Danish intelligence agencies in a way not seen before.”Apart from the IS charge, Samsam still faces other legal problems. On Monday, Copenhagen’s court of appeals upheld a three-month sentence against him for violence against a law enforcement officer.

ChatGPT va instaurer un contrôle parental, annonce OpenAI

L’entreprise américaine OpenAI a annoncé mardi qu’elle allait instaurer un mécanisme de contrôle parental pour son outil d’intelligence artificielle ChatGPT, après que des parents américains ont accusé fin août cet agent conversationnel d’avoir encouragé leur enfant à se suicider. “Dans le mois à venir, les parents pourront lier leur compte avec celui de leur adolescent” et “contrôler la façon dont ChatGPT répond à leur adolescent avec des règles de comportement du modèle”, a déclaré OpenAI dans un billet de blog.D’après l’entreprise, il sera aussi possible pour les parents d’être alertés en cas de détection d’une “détresse aiguë” dans les conversations de leur enfant et de contrôler les paramètres du compte.Cette annonce suit un précédent billet de blog publié fin août, dans lequel l’entreprise avait indiqué qu’elle préparait un mécanisme de contrôle parental.La veille, les parents d’un adolescent californien de 16 ans qui s’est suicidé avaient porté plainte contre OpenAI, accusant ChatGPT d’avoir fourni à leur fils des instructions détaillées pour mettre fin à ses jours et d’avoir encouragé son geste.”Nous continuons à améliorer la manière dont nos modèles reconnaissent et répondent aux signes de détresse mentale et émotionnelle”, a ajouté mardi l’entreprise dans son billet de blog.OpenAI a dit prendre d’autres mesures, attendues dans les 120 prochains jours. L’entreprise redirigera ainsi certaines “conversations sensibles” vers des modèles de raisonnement comme GPT-5-thinking, plus évolué.”Les modèles de raisonnement suivent et appliquent plus systématiquement les consignes de sécurité”, a précisé le groupe américain.