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1140ASDAY AIME 6 2024
President Joe Biden arrives in Paris to
recognize 80th anniversary of D-Day
BY CLYDE HUGHES
UPI
President Joe Biden ar-
rived in Paris on Wednes-
day for the 80th obser-
vance of D-Day, joining
other world leaders on an
occasion where he is ex-
pected to draw contrasts
between democracy and
authoritarianism.
Dozens of veterans of
World War II will join Bi-
den in recognizing the
tuning point in the global
conflict. A ceremony will
praise British, Canadian
and U.S. soldiers who
stormed the beaches in the
French region of Norman-
dy on June 6, 1944.
Biden will then meet
with French President
Emmanuel Macron for his
first official stare visit. The
White House said Biden
will make a speech on de-
mocracy on Friday.
"IBideni realty believes
we're at an inflection point
in history," National Secu-
rity Council spokesman
John Kirby said, according
to CNN. "It's tied to the
way geopolitics are chang-
ing, the way challenges are
being presented to us
around the world."
In his speech Friday at
Pointe -du -Hoc, Biden will
talk about the loss of life
during D-Day—some
4,400 soldiers dying in
pursuit of democracy.
Pointe -du -Hoc is the area
that divides the Omaha and
Utah beaches where U.S.
hoops went ashore during a
pivotal World War 11 battle.
"Making it clear what
you stand for and what you
stand against matters to-
day," Kirby said. "IBidenJ
recognizes that, for as pow-
erful as we are and as much
good as we can do, we need
help."
Russia's invasion of
Ukraine and the West's
support of Kyiv is likely to
be a topic for Biden and
Macron. Macron has been
Europe's most vocal leader
supporting Ukraine, but
U.S. weaponry has made
most of the difference.
Marcel Bergamasco, 99, in his garden in Plormel, France. on May 8. Bergamasco is the last fight° ali a and able to
recount the experience of the Saint -Marcel Maquis, a French resistance group attacked by the German army in 1944.
The D-Day battle France
chose to forget. Until now
BY CATHERINE PORTER
AND StOoLENE LE era data
NTT Mn Sere.
Some 170 miles south-
west of the celebrated
landing beaches in Nor-
mandy, the remains of a
D-Day site few visit peek
out from behind trees in
rural Brittany.
Overgrown with moss
and ivy, the stone farm
buildings were the former
headquarters of the Saint -
Marcel Maquis — thou-
sands of local French re-
sistance fighters who had
gathered in response to
coded Allied calls over
BBC radio to prepare for
an invasion. Among them
were French army com-
mandos parachuted into
block the Nazis from send-
ing reinforcements to the
beaches.
But before the operation
could be put into full
swing, the camp was dis-
covered by the Nazis and
destroyed. Dozens of fight-
ers were hunted down and
killed. In retribution for
the planned resistance
operation, the Nazis
burned most of the build-
ings in the surrounding
area and executed hun-
dreds of locals.
It is a wound of tragic
heroism of which few in
France know, Iet alone
COmmemOratt.
President Emmanuel
Macron of France aimed to
change that when he presi-
ded over a ceremony
Wednesday in Plumelec,
the nearby village where
French commandos landed
early in the morning of
D-Day as the first Allied
planes and gliders were
arriving in Normandy. One
of the members of that
elite French unit, Emile
Bouetard, was shot dead
by soldiers with the Ger-
man army. He is consid-
ered one of the fuss Allied
casualties of D-Day.
The president's visit was
the latest in a year of
events planned to cele-
brate the country's release
from the Nazis' grip 80
years ago. Unlike many of
his predecessors, Macron
has chosen to memorialize
not only the valiant and
brave, but also the shame-
ful and forgotten — in-
cluding a site where
French resistance fighters
were killed by French
militia members who were
working with the Nazi
regime.
Some critics have derid-
ed the events as "memory
inflation," but others note
that they come at a time
when the country should
be contemplating its past
ghosts. The head of an
advisory board of histori-
ans, Denis Peschanski,
says the events are aimed
at achieving "historical
equilibrium."
For many in this pocket
of Brittany, the presiden-
tial homage came as a
long-awaited recognition.
The last French leader to
visit the area for a ceremo-
ny was Gen. Charles de
Gaulle, in 1947 — and he
was not president at the
time.
"It's a good thing," said
Marcel Bergamasco, the
last Saint -Marcel fighter
alive and able to recount
his experience. He is 99.
"It's a recognition that
what happened in Saint -
Marcel mattered."
Two former commandos
from the French unit of the
British Special Air Service,
both nearing 100 years
old, attended the ceremo-
ny. For their group, which
numbered more than 400
dropped into Brittany over
weeks, the moment also
felt long overdue.
"For them to be finally
recognized before they die,
it feels very poignant,"
said Claude Jacir, the pres-
ident of the Association of
Families of SAS paratroop-
ers with Free France.
"They are the last keepers
of memory. They really
hope their history doesn't
fall into oblivion."
Ask why this story is so
little known in France, and
you will be given many
reasons, including that it
happened so far from Nor-
mandy, where most of the
action took place. It also
didn't fit the mold.
The French paratroopers
were lethal agents, trained
to strike and then dis-
appear. Their instructions
were to blow up bridges,
mil lines and telephone
lines to confuse and pre-
vent the Nazis from nrsh-
ing up to Normandy, then
move on
But when they arrived at
the headquarters, which
teemed with untrained
volunteers from across the
region, their leader felt
obliged to stay. He radioed
for backups to be parachut-
ed in, along with many
hundreds of containers of
weapons and ammunition.
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Even four jeeps were float-
ed down
For more than a week
after D-Day, the forested,
1,235-acre area dotted with
cow pastures and manors
in the region of Morbihan
transitioned into a training
camp.
After (our years of occu-
pation, the locale felt sud-
denly liberated. They
called the area "Little
France" and set up a sick
bay, auto shop, cobbling
service and field kitchen
with bakers who prepared
bread around the clock.
But early on the morning
of June 18, the camp was
discovered by a German
patrol that sent armored
reinforcements from
around the region. After a
day of fighting, the re-
maining paratroopers and
resistance fighters were
forced to flee into the
woods. Some were hunted
down and shot by enraged
11101441.4e0 BAD. President Joe Biden arrives in France on Wednesday for
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D-Day observances that are thrown into sharp relief by
Russia's ongoing war against Western -backed Ukraine.
Nazis, who had suffered
severe losses in the battle.
The Nazis then took their
fury out on the local resi-
dents.
Today, chilling memo-
rials mark the roadsides.
One honors three residents
who were shot the day
after the battle, including
83-year-old Frantoise Le
Blanc. Another commem-
orates two local women
who were sent to Raven-
sbriick, a large concentra-
tion camp for women in
northern Germany, as
punishment.
The village at the center
of the fighting, Saint -Mar-
cel, had to be totally re-
built after almost every
building was burned down
A site off the main road
marks where the bodies of
six resistance fighters were
discovered in an unmarked
pit two decades after the
warend.
"Ihad nightmares every
night for 10 years," said
jean -Claude Gull, 85, who
has dedicated his retire-
ment to researching the
battle that cast a shadow
over his life. His father, a
local tenant farmer, was
among those executed in
vengeance,
Their D-Day story was
so painful that most locals
wanted to forget it for
many years, said Tristan
Leroy, the director of the
nearby Brittany Resistance
Museum.
"Some even said if there
hadn't been the organized
resistance, they wouldn't
have bumed all the farms
and the village, and there
wouldn't have been all
those executions," he said.
"There was an ambivalent
feeling about what hap-
pened here."
It wasn't until the 1980s,
in the face of the rise of the
far -right National Front in
France and statements by
its leader, Jean-Marie Le
Pen, downplaying the Nazi
gas chambers as a "detail"
of history, that former
fighters began t0 speak Out
to remind people of Nazi
atrocities, Leroy said. The
museum was built around
the same time.
Bergamasco was 15 in
1940 when, after just
months of fighting, France
signed an armistice and
was occupied by German
soldiers. His first acts of
resistance were those of
teenage fury — popping
German tires with a shiv
he carried in his pocket.
As a driver of a truck for
his father's construction
company, he was often
ordered to make deliveries
for the Germans. He was
recruited by the resistance
eliver intelligence on
the German fortifications
he visited. That informa-
tion was later compiled
into a hefty secret docu-
ment with hand -drawn
maps called the "Cherry
Basket" and smuggled to
Britain.
He used his hybrid truck,
which ran on charcoal as
well as gasoline, to deliver
supplies to the resistance.
Later, he became part of
the Maquis truck squad,
driving out at night to pick
up the SAS commandos
and supplies that were
descending from
the
re-
counts
When
Bergamasco -
counts stories from that
time, it's as if he is back in
his teenage body and is
experiencing themnew.
He replays dialogue, -
personates characters and
delights in outwitting and
often outrunning the Ger-
mans.
Even the night he spent
in jail, being tortured so
badly he would later hem-
orrhage internally, he spins
as another successful es-
cape. "1 see the front door
opened. Oh! What more
could one ask fort" he
recounted, his blue eyes
twinkling. "I hurtle down
the stabs and 1 am off."
But his memories of the
battle of Saint -Marcel are
dark. He recalls the sound
of his wounded friends
suffering in pain, and his
helpless feeling of not
being able to save them.
And since Russia at-
tacked Ukraine, Berga-
masco has been consumed
by worry that the dictator-
ship he fought against is
returning, said Yolande
Foucher, one of his two
daughters.
"It's his nightmare," she
said,
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MIAMI HERALD
Florida jury orders Chiquita to pay millions
to victims of paramilitary gangs in Colombia
odelHeo@rMrvahmarom
A federal jury in West
Palm Beach ordered Chi-
quita Brands International
to pay $38.3 million in dam-
ages to the families of eight
men killed by a paramilitary
group in Colombia.
The verdict could make
the U.S. (suit company
liable for hundreds of mil-
lions of dollars more in
compensation to the family
members of other victims.
United Self -Defenders of
Colombia — known by its
Spanish acronym AUC, a
far -right, dmg-tramcking
group designated by the their mwilated corpses
US. govenunent as a terror- nearby for their families to
ist organisation — was ac- find. The organization dis-
tive during the 1990s and banded in early 2006.
early 2000s and was ac-
cused of torturing and kill- 'WONDERFUL NEWS'
ing thousands of people ki Lawyers for the victims'
the South American coun- families said Monday's
try. verdict will have far -reach -
According to the lawsuit, ing implications.
Chiquita made payments to "his is wonderful news
the paramilitary group for for all the victims in Col -
almost a decade. The con- onsbia. This is going to, in
pany argued during the case effect, set a precedent that
that it had no choice but to is going to positively affect
pay the AUC to protect its all of the other cases," said
own workers from falling lawyer Jonathan Reiter. "It
victim to the group's vio- is a landmark verdict in the
lance. AUC members would sense that I don't believe
kidnap civilians in the mid- that there has ever been a
dle of the night and leave verdict rendered by a jury
in this country against a
United States corporation
for human -rights violations
that took place overseas."
The jury said Chiquita
had not acted in a reason-
able business manner and
had engaged in a hazardous
activity. It also rejected the
company's arguments that
it had acted under duress
when it paid off the AUC
because the company had
been victim of extortion.
Chigoite has been ac-
cused of nuking almost 32
million in payments to the
paramilitary organization
between 1997 and 2007.
The company had yet to
issue a statement about the
jury verdict.
'ADDITIONAL TRIALS'
Family members are set
to receive as much as S2.3
million for each victim, but
there are many more who
have fled similar lawsuits.
"There will be additional
trials, and this will be a
positive thing for many that
we
re affected," Reiter said.
The AUC, which at its
peak had almost 20,000
members, was heavily en-
gaged in combating the
leftist FARC and ELN guer-
rilla groups during the late
19905 and early 2000s. But
it was also involved in bru-
tal attacks against civilians
suspected of having ties to
the khist groups.
In one of the most in-
famous episodes, members
of the paramilitary group
arrived near a small village
in the Meta Department in
1997 :sod used machetes
and chainsaws to kill and
dismember civilians in what
became known as the Map,
ripan Massacre. While it is
not known exactly how
many people were killed,
the U.S. State Department
said at least 30 people were
killed.
Antonio Muria Delgado:
305-376-2180,
@DelgadoAnronioM
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targeting the treatments,
not transgender people
themselves.
In his ruling, Hinkle,
who was appointed to the
bench by then -President
Bill Clinton, said it was
"clear that anti -trans -
gender animus" motivated
bill sponsors and some
legislators who approved
the law.
"Transgender opponents
are of course free to hold
their beliefs," Hinkle
wrote. "But they are not
free to discriminate
againntransgender indi-
viduals just for being trans -
gender. In time, discrimi-
nation against transgender
individuals will diminish,
just as racism and misogy-
ny have diminished. To
paraphrase a civil-rights
advocate from an earlier
time, the arc of the moral
universe is long, but it
bends toward justice."
Hinke pointed to com-
ments from DeSantis and
House representatives
about young children be-
ing castrated or sterilized
because of medical treat-
ments for gender dys-
phoria. Hinkle said the
state admitted during the
trial that there was no
factual basis for those
remarks and that the re-
cord showed no evidence
any Florida child had been
"castrated or mutilated."
"Perhaps all this talk
about castration and muti-
lation is just political hy-
perbole," Hinkle wrote.
But it casts al least some
doubt on the assertion that
these decisionmakers'
motivation Was sound
regulation of medical care
in the best interest of
transgender patients rath-
er than outright disapprov-
al of transgender identity."
Along with striking
down the odes banning
kids with gender dysphoria
from accessing medical
treatment, Hinkle also
struck down rules that
required transgender
adults to only get medical
treament from physicians
instead of from other kinds
X.
The press secretary for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis sad
the state would appeal the ruling
of health providers.
Hinkle last year also
struck down Florida's ban
on Medicaid covering
treatments for gender
dysphoria. The slate is
appealing that ruling, and
opponents have argued
that the state has been
defying Hinkle's order and
still denying Medicaid
coverage.
DeSant's' press secre-
tary, Jeremy Redfern, said
the state would appeal
Hinkle's new ruling, as
Omni
OMNI REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINCR
The Board o1 Commissioners ("Board") of the Omni Redevelopment
District Community Redevelopment Agency ("CRA") will hold a
Public Hearing on Thursday, June 13th, at 9:30 am or anytime
thereafter in the City Commission chambers located at Miami City
Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, FL 33133.
The Board will consider the award of grant funds for the
GWENDOLYN JOHNSON'S PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1437 NW
1^ PL, MIAMI, FLORIDA TO THE GWENDOLYN JOHNSON
TRS, OVERTOWN FAMILY TRUST, as Trustee authorized to
transact business/render services in the State of Florida for stated
property, to underwrite a portion of the costs associated with the
development of an affordable housing project in the Omni CRA.
In accordance with the Board's 2019 Redevelopment Plan ("Plan")
and Florida Statutes 163, the Board will consider funding an
amount of $500,000.00 to underwrite the expenditures and costs
associated with the rehabilitation of a 4-unit multifamily housing
property located within the Redevelopment Area of the Omni CRA
at 1437 NW 1" PL, Miami, Florida within CRA's boundaries. This
funding Is critical In the rehabilitation of the property, which is
envisioned to reduce slum and blight and provide much -needed
affordable housing in the area.
All comments and questions with respect 10 the special meeting and
remote public participation should be addressed to lsiaa Jones,
Executive Director, at 1401 N. Miami Ave., 2nd Floor, Miami Florida
33136 (305) 679-6868. Should any person desire to appeal any
decision of the Board with respect to any matter considered at this
special meeting, that person shall ensure that a verbatim record of
the proceedings is made, Including all testimony and evidence upon
which any appeal may be based (F.S. 286.0105).
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990,
persons needing special accommodations to participate in this
proceeding may contact the Office of the City Clerk at (305) 250-5361
(Voice), not later than two (2) business days prior to the proceeding.
TTY users may call 711 (Florida Relay Service), not later than Iwo (2)
business days prior to the proceeding.
well.
"Through their elected
representatives, the people
of Florida acted to protect
children in this state, and
the Court was wrong to
override their wishes,"
Redfern said in an entailed
statement. "We disagree
with the Cous's erroneous
tidings on the law, on the
facts, and on the science.
As we've seen here in
Florida, the United King-
dom, and across Europe,
there is no quality evi-
dence to support the
chemical and physical
mutilation of children.
These procedures do per-
manent, life -altering dam-
age to children, and histo-
ry will look back on this
fad in horror."
Major medical organiza-
tions, including the Amer-
ican Academy of Pediat-
rics, support children using
treatments such as puberty
blockers for gender dys-
phoria. Hinkle said in his
ruling that "not a single
reputable medical associ-
ation" has flatly opposed
sing puberty blockers and
hormone therapy in appro-
priate circumstances.
If the stale truly believed
that gender dysphoria was
being improperly treated
in Florida, "despite the
absence of complaints and
despite the slate's inabil-
ity,even now, tofind a
single adversely affected
Florida patient," it could
have restricted or regulat-
ed care without banning it,
Hinkle wrote in his order.
Simone Chriss an at-
torney on the case and the
director of the transgen-
der-rights initiative at the
Southern Legal Counsel,
said Hinkle's ruling "re-
stores some balance in
teens of, like, respect and
dignity and decency in a
state that has never been
more in need of those
things than right now."
Chriss said the tiding
returns Florida to where it
was just a few yeah ago,
with decisions about tram -
gender medical care in the
hands of patients, their
families and their doctors.
lane Doe, one of the
anonymous plaintiffs
representing her trans -
gender daughter, Susan
Doe, said in a written
statement the ruling
means she won't have to
watch her daughter suffer.
"Seeing Susan's fear
about this ban has been
one of the hardest experi-
ences we've endured as
parents," lane Doe said.
"All we've wanted is to
take that fear away and
help her continue to be the
happy, confident child she
is now."
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From: Ewan, Nicole
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2024 10:19 AM
To: Olivera, Rosemary
Subject: Fwd: Omni CRA Board Meeting Cancelled
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Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2024 9:21:43 PM
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Cc: Gibbs-Sorey, Domini <DGibbs@miamigov.com>; De Los Santos, Jesly <JDeLosSantos@miamigov.com>
Subject: Omni CRA Board Meeting Cancelled
Good evening Nicole,
Based on the City Commission being cancelled for tomorrow, the local state of emergency and poor weather
conditions in the area we will be cancelling the Omni CRA board meeting that was scheduled for tomorrow. The
meeting will be rescheduled to Tuesday June 18th at 9:30 am or thereafter. Please see attached updated meeting
notice.
Thank you,
Isiaa Jones
Executive Director, OMNI-CRA
1401 N. Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33136
Off: 305 679-6869
Email: isjones@miamigov.com
Website: www.omnicra.com
Jesly De Los Santos Email: jdelossantos@miamigov.com, Executive Assistant
(305) 679-6856
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