Accidental gun-shot during Holland’s speech to open new TGV line to BOD.

Un coup de feu accidentel lors du discours de François Hollande fait deux blessés. Two injured.

Il a été tiré lors du discours de François Hollande pour l’inauguration de la ligne à grande vitesse Paris-Bordeaux à Villognon (Charente).

During the inauguration of the Paris-Bordeaux TGV at Villognon (Charante), a gun-shot went off!

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Le bruit du coup de feu a obligé le président de la République a interrompre pendant près de vingt secondes son discours, prononcé lors de l’inauguration de la ligne à grande vitesse Paris-Bordeaux à Villognon (Charente), mardi 28 février. Selon des informations de France 3, un tir accidentel a légèrement blessé deux personnes dans l’assistance. L’accident s’est déroulé dans le grand chapiteau dans la partie réservée au cocktail d’après-cérémonie, précise Sud-Ouest.

The noise of the gunshot made the president interrupt his opening speech for 20 seconds, (but he never flinched), of the new TGV Paris-Bordeaux line at Villognon, on Tue 28 Feb. The accidental shot slightly injured two staff assisting at the event. It was a talking point of the gathered assembly at the reserved cocktail party afyterwards. 

 

Toujours selon des informations du journaliste de France 3 présent sur place, le coup sera parti accidentellement de l’arme d’un agent de sécurité, le touchant au tibia. Un agent Mesea, l’organisme chargé de la maintenance de la ligne LGV a également été touché par un éclat, le blessant légèrement.

The gunshot wounded the security man, who discharged his weapon, on the tibia and an engineer was also slightly injured by the blast.

 

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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