Just days after a family in Vence were taken to hospital suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning, another similar incident has happened in the same town. This time two adults and five children were taken care of by paramedics on Thursday night. The family were taken to Pasteur hospital in Nice where they were placed in a hyperbaric chamber to re-oxygenate them.
The city of Nice has become embroiled in a corruption investigation by French judicial police, in connection with a vast real-estate project near Nice railway station. Police specialising in the fight against organised crime, and a magistrate from Paris, carried out searches on several offices in the city hall yesterday morning. They're investigating claims of corruption, abuse of power and forgery. A judicial investigation was opened last November into the awarding of a tender to build what's called Iconic - a 19,000-square-metre real-estate project in the city centre, including a hotel, offices and shops. Among the offices searched yesterday were those of three senior Nice officials who were members of the jury that awarded the public tender to build the Iconic complex. Investigators also raided the homes of four people in Paris, the Alpes-Maritimes and the Var, and the Riviera premises of a Parisian company connected to the project.
Three companies on the Côte d'Azur illegally offering the chance to swim with dolphins have been hit with fines totalling €26,000. The firms, which operated out of Mandelieu and Antibes, charged up to €300 per person to come up close to the sea mammals. They were found guilty of disturbing a
