Côte d’Ivoire: le président Félix Houphouët-Boigny est toujours l’objet d’un culte, 25 ans après sa mort

Ses discours sont cités à toutes les sauces et son nom est devenu un “fonds de commerce politique” pour nombre d’hommes politiques qui se réclament de lui.Né le 18 octobre 1905, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, surnommé FHB, a conduit son pays, ex-colonie française, à l’indépendance en 1960. Il l’a ensuite dirigé pendant 33 ans, avec comme instrument politique le Parti démocratique de Côte d’Ivoire (PDCI, l’ex-parti unique) qu’il a créé en 1946.“On va attendre un siècle pour retrouver un homme de son acabit, doté d’un destin hors norme”, estime Amara Essy, son ancien ministre des Affaires étrangères (1990-1999). Il souligne que le “sage de l’Afrique” voulait “construire un Etat avec des valeurs et des principes, puis ensuite une nation”.“Ce qui m’a impressionné chez ce monsieur, c’est sa capacité d’analyse des relations internationales, mieux que certains grands dirigeants des pays développés. Il avait prédit que le système communiste n’allait jamais atteindre le centenaire, parce qu’inhumain”, explique l’ancien diplomate. Lequel a été secrétaire général de l’Organisation de l’unité africaine (OUA), puis président par intérim de la commission de l’Union africaine (ex-OUA) entre 2001 et 2003.Adepte du libéralisme, le “pays d’Houphouët” (un surnom de la Côte d’Ivoire) a connu une croissance vertigineuse dans les deux décennies qui ont suivi son indépendance en 1960. Une croissance portée par le secteur agricole, au point qu’on a parlé de “miracle économique ivoirien”.Citée en exemple pour sa stabilité politique, la Côte d’Ivoire s’est hissée au rang de première puissance économique d’Afrique francophone, devenant le premier producteur mondial de cacao avec 40% du marché.L’héritage raté du “Vieux”Fort de cette embellie économique, FHB a transformé son village natal de Yamoussoukro, à l’orée de la forêt et de la savane dans le centre du pays, en une ville moderne. Il y a fait bâtir la basilique Notre-Dame de la Paix, quasi-réplique de Saint-Pierre de Rome, consacrée le 10 septembre 1990 par le pape Jean Paul II.Mais avec la crise économique, tout a changé. Les recettes d’exportation se sont effondrées. En 1992, un an avant sa mort, la dette totale du pays atteignait 20 milliards de dollars, deux fois le PIB. “Le Vieux” accuse alors la “spéculation internationale”. Il dénonce aussi la corruption. “Il a développé le potentiel agricole de la Côte d’Ivoire, mais sans réussir à faire franchir le cap de la transformation” des matières premières, critique l’économiste ivoirien Yves Ouya.“Le libéralisme d’Houphouët-Boigny est une légende urbaine, il a été dirigiste. Le pays disposait de nombreuses sociétés d’État dont la plupart ont été privatisées trois ans avant sa mort, après de mauvaises gestions”, selon le politologue Jean Alabro.Violences, instabilité“Houphouët-Boigny a raté la transition politique vers le multipartisme”, déplore de son côté l’observateur politique ivoirien Roger Manet.M. Manet accuse celui que le général de Gaulle cite dans ses mémoires comme un “cerveau politique de premier ordre” (FHB fut ministre de la IVe république française et a participé à la rédaction de la Constitution de la Ve république), de n’avoir pas laissé éclore le multipartisme dans son pays. “Ce processus s’est imposé à lui en 1990”.“Depuis sa mort, le 7 décembre 1993, la Côte d’Ivoire a vu se succéder tout ce que son régime lui avait épargné : violences politiques, rivalités ethniques, tentatives de coup d’Etat, instabilité”, relève l’observateur, très amer.Click Here: pinko shop cheap

Fini la CMU : Buzyn lance la complémentaire santé solidaire

Toujours gratuite pour les plus pauvres, un euro par jour maximum pour les plus vieux : la ministre de la Santé présente mardi la "complémentaire santé solidaire", qui remplacera à partir du premier novembre deux aides publiques sous-utilisées (CMU-C et ACS).

Vingt ans après sa naissance, la couverture maladie universelle complémentaire change de nom et de dimension.La CMU-C, créée en 1999 pour les plus démunis, va en effet avaler l’aide au paiement de la complémentaire santé (ACS), sorte de “chèque santé” mis en place en 2005 pour ceux, moins défavorisés, qui vivent tout de même sous le seuil de pauvreté.Deux dispositifs qui ont bénéficié à près de 7,3 millions de personnes en 2018 (5,63 pour la CMU-C, 1,27 pour l’ACS selon le Fonds CMU), mais sont loin d’avoir atteint tous leurs publics: le non-recours est estimé entre 34% et 45% pour la CMU-C et entre 41% et 59% pour l’ACS, d’après la Drees.Leur fusion, actée dans le budget de la Sécu voté fin 2018, “vise à réduire le renoncement aux soins (…) des populations précaires“, expliquait alors le gouvernement dans son étude d’impact.En pratique, rien ne changera pour les assurés de l’actuelle CMU-C: la future “complémentaire santé solidaire” restera gratuite, avec le même niveau de remboursement, pour un célibataire gagnant moins de 746 euros par mois, ou un couple avec enfant en dessous de 1.343 euros.En revanche, pour la population éligible à l’ACS (moins de 1.007 euros pour un célibataire, 1.813 euros pour un couple avec enfant), cette mesure est présentée comme une “simplification” : les garanties seront alignées sur celles de la CMU-C, moyennant une “participation financière” croissante avec l’âge.Il en coûtera ainsi aux bénéficiaires 8 euros par mois jusqu’à 29 ans, 14 euros entre 30 et 49 ans, 21 euros entre 50 et 59 ans, 25 euros entre 60 et 69 ans, et 30 euros à partir de 70 ans (sauf en Alsace-Moselle, où les sommes seront divisées par trois), d’après un arrêté paru en juin au Journal officiel.Click Here: pinko shop cheap

Norvège : il braque la banque la plus septentrionale au monde (et se fait arrêter)

Etablissement le plus septentrional au monde, la banque de Longyearbyen, sur l’archipel arctique du Svalbard, a fait l’objet d’un vol à main armée, vendredi 21 décembre. L’auteur a été rapidement arrêté, ont indiqué les autorités locales. De mémoire d’homme, c’est le premier braquage de banque jamais réalisé sur ce territoire norvégien situé à un gros millier de kilomètres du pôle Nord mais aussi, sans doute, l’un des hold-up les plus voués à l’échec.“Il y a eu un vol à main armée aux alentours de 10h40, a déclaré à l’AFP Terje Carlsen”, un porte-parole du gouverneur local. “Un homme équipé d’une arme à feu s’est emparé d’une somme d’argent. Il a été arrêté assez rapidement” dans le centre de Longyearbyen, a-t-il ajouté. Les autorités ont refusé de fournir l’identité du suspect, le montant dérobé (retrouvé sur lui) ou encore l’arme utilisée. La police a ensuite précisé qu’il s’agissait d’un étranger de passage dans l’archipel. Il a été envoyé à Tromsø, ville du nord de la Norvège continentale, pour y être entendu.Les chances de succès du Butch Cassidy de l’Arctique étaient assez minimes : à Longyearbyen, chef-lieu du Svalbard, tout le monde se connaît et, surtout, l’aéroport est quasiment la seule porte de sortie. Grand comme deux fois la Belgique, l’archipel compte au total près de 3 000 habitants (dont environ 2 000 à Longyearbyen) et environ autant d’ours polaires. A cette période de l’année, le territoire est plongé dans l’obscurité totale et les températures peuvent y tomber à -20 °C.Click Here: Fjallraven Kanken Art Spring Landscape Backpacks

“Music !” : première photo du film de Patrice Leconte ! [PHOTO]

Alors que son “Magasin des suicides” ne sortira qu’au mois de septembre, la première photo de “Music !”, prochain film d’animation de Patrice Leconte, vient d’être dévoilée.

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Ça n’aura pas traîné ! Alors que nous vous annonçions, la semaine dernière, que Patrice Leconte allait prolonger son expérience dans l’animation grâce à Music ! (voir notre article), c’est la première photo de ce film, prévu pour Noël 2015, qui fait son apparition. Co-réalisé avec Régis Vidal, le long métrage prendra place dans un monde où la musique est interdite, ce qui nous promet quelque chose de très intriguant. La sortie étant très loin, il va falloir prendre son mal en patience grâce à cette première photo, puis grâce au très attendu Magasin des suicides, dont la sortie a été fixée au 26 septembre.

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Coronavirus pops Brussels bubble

Suddenly the Brussels bubble isn’t so bubbly.

With EU institutions telling staff to work remotely and Belgian authorities ordering a shutdown of bars and restaurants due to the coronavirus, pavements were empty and traffic was light in the normally bustling European quarter of Brussels on Friday.

Around the Berlaymont building, home of the European Commission, a handful of nervous EU officials rushed to supermarkets to stockpile toilet paper and tissues to prepare for “teleworking” from Monday.

Meanwhile, bartenders fretted about the effects of having to shut down their businesses until at least April 3, and beauticians proffered appointment books full of last-minute cancellations.

At Kitty O’Shea’s, a well-known Irish pub near the Commission, there’s usually a continuous flow of officials heading in and out. But on Friday the bar had only a handful of customers, with the look of tourists who had fallen on the place in search of a plate of frites rather than the usual crowd of officials in business attire sharing office gossip over a Belgian beer.

Jack, one of the bartenders, said people would be lining up to queue for drinks on a usual Friday and there would be three behind the bar to serve them.

“Now I’m alone and prepared to shut [down] the bar at midnight,” he said. “It’s really bad because we are losing hours, we’re not getting our wages.”

The staff would get some compensation from insurance but it would be “nowhere near the 80 percent we are going to lose,” Jack said. “We are going to struggle but we hope it’s for the best,” he said

The Old Hack, another well-known drinking haunt in the EU quarter, was closed. At the nearby EXKi snack bar, the only sales clerk on duty said he was offering a 20 percent discount on fresh food ahead of the three-week shutdown.

Café Vergnano 1882, the popular Italian coffee place on the Schuman roundabout, had already stopped serving food altogether.

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Officials working at the Berlaymont said their offices were either deserted due to recent measures to stop the spread of the virus or occupied only by heads of cabinet and others Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called “critical” employees.

“There’s an end of the world atmosphere at the Commission,” one official said. “Each time one person sneezes in an office, all his colleagues stare at him with fright.”

The official also mocked a note sent to the staff by Ilze Juhansone, the Commission’s secretary-general, who said that despite the coronavirus “we should nevertheless also look back and be proud of what we have achieved together” and listed various tasks completed during the von der Leyen administration’s first 100 days.

“We must celebrate the 100 days of the Commission despite the feeling of being left on the Titanic,” the official remarked, also lamenting the lack of coordination between the three main EU institutions on anti-coronavirus measures.

At the European Parliament, some have come up with innovative ways to adapt to working remotely. Daniel Freund, a German member of the Greens group, said he had started making videos at home of the speeches he was supposed to deliver in Parliament.

The Parliament shifted this week’s Strasbourg session to Brussels and then cut it short, without holding any votes. It also canceled its next plenary session in Strasbourg, scheduled for the end of the month, due to the spread of the coronavirus.

On Friday, the Carrefour supermarket on Schuman was the only busy spot in the neighborhood, as many officials and local residents stood in line with bags full of groceries and toilet paper. “I will be teleworking next week and need food,” said one EU official buying pasta and cereals.

The supermarket manager pointed at the half-empty toilet paper section with an air of bewilderment. “I am lost for words,” he said. “People are doing grocery shopping as if they were living in times of war. They buy toilet paper and tissues, but what for? Only schools and bars are closing … Will that prevent them from eating?”

At L’Hair du Temps hair and beauty salon on the nearby Boulevard Charlemagne, 95 percent of customers are female Commission officials. On Friday, the place was empty.

“Almost all of my appointments for hairdressing or manicure are canceled next week,” one of the managers said, “and I’m expecting more calls today.”

EU budget summit ends with no deal

This evening's plenary meeting lasted around 29 minutes | Olivier Hoslet/EPA

EU budget summit ends with no deal

Leaders unable to agree on 2021-2027 spending plan.

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A special European Council summit on the EU’s long-term budget broke up on Friday without a deal.

The summit in Brussels started Thursday afternoon and consisted primarily of bilateral meetings lasting through the night and during the day on Friday. A compromise proposal was circulated on Friday afternoon but leaders were unable to come to an agreement on the 2021-2027 financial plan.

“Unfortunately today we have observed that it is not possible to reach an agreement,” European Council President Charles Michel told reporters. “We have observed that we need more time.”

During the last round of budget negotiations in 2012-2013, it took the European Council two summits to reach an agreement on the EU’s long-term spending.

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Tension over shortage of coronavirus tests across Europe

How could actor Idris Elba get tested for coronavirus in the U.K. even if he didn’t have symptoms, while some health care workers can’t?

As the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus has skyrocketed in Europe, access to testing has sparked tensions among ordinary citizens and disagreement among national and international health officials.

At issue is that most European countries prioritize testing only for the most severe cases and tend to focus on those admitted to hospital, so medical staff know how to treat them and ensure the infection doesn’t spread. But the World Health Organization (WHO) still advises that countries test as widely as possible, even if the virus has spread in the community.

Some health experts, however, think the window for widespread testing to make a difference has closed.

“We will not get that disease out of the world anymore,” said Mika Salminen, the director of health at the Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), at a government briefing on March 19, Helsingin Sanomat reported.

But since infected people can spread the virus before symptoms show, more and more Europeans want to get tested. This sentiment has only grown amid stories of people with serious symptoms who have gone without testing.

The case of an academic in the U.K. who was refused a test got widespread attention on social media. Then there is the story of a Hungarian woman whose doctor told her remotely she didn’t have the virus even though she had a fever for days. One of her sons recounted his family’s struggle via YouTube videos from his hospital quarantine. His mother eventually tested positive, as did his brother.

Meanwhile, health care workers in Britain who think they might be infected are initially told to self-isolate, without testing. That precaution could change, however, when the country ramps up its testing capacity, Patrick Vallance, the U.K. government chief scientific adviser, told a parliament inquiry.

The lack of access across Europe has sparked complaints about government preparedness and inequalities, compounded by celebrities and politicians having access to testing when showing mild or no symptoms.

While Finland’s Salminen said he understood people’s wish to be tested, those who can ride out the virus at home don’t benefit from it, he said.

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“The test is not a cure,” he said.

More cases = fewer tests

In the early days of the outbreak, when Europe’s first confirmed cases were imported, many countries tested people who had been exposed to those carriers.

The gold standard test is based on health care workers using swabs to take samples from the respiratory tract and sending them to government-designated labs.

But with numbers exploding every day in recent weeks, that model is now under severe strain.

European countries are running out of laboratory testing materials and capacity. By extension, governments have to prioritize resources, said Maria-Rosa Capobianchi, the director of the Virology Laboratory at Italy’s National Institute for Infectious Diseases and one of the members of the European Commission’s coronavirus advisory group.

For now, testing suppliers are ramping up their production. But major companies that provide the reagents that labs need to analyze tests are reaching “the maximum of their capacity,” said Capobianchi, noting there’s also a need for more swabs for collecting samples. “I don’t know how long they would require to scale up their capacity,” she said of reagent producers.

At the same time, it would be dangerous to flood labs with tests for people who don’t need urgent diagnosis, she warned.

Furthermore, most of the so-called rapid tests now on the market may not detect the virus in the early stages, she cautioned, since they measure antibodies that people can develop to fight the virus. These appear later than symptoms and can give false negative results.

A survey by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) launched at the beginning of March showed laboratories were already running out of test kits, reagents, personnel and personal protective equipment, one spokesperson said.

To address these shortfalls, the Commission launched a public procurement process for laboratory equipment on March 19, with suppliers expected to submit their offers by March 31, according to a Commission official.

And last Thursday, it recommended that countries prioritize testing based on the severity of the cases, starting with people hospitalized with severe acute respiratory infections and ending with those with milder forms of respiratory infections, if resources allow.

People without symptoms who’ve been exposed to confirmed cases could also be tested, the Commission said. But with tens of thousands of such cases in some EU countries, many are recommending that those exposed self-isolate.

“I understand the frustrations of those who want a test,” British Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the House of Commons on March 16. “[But] we’ve got to make sure we use those tests on the people who need them most and that means saving lives in hospital.”

As of March 25, the U.K. had tested some 97,000 people, out of which 9,529 were positive.

The government hopes to be able to increase testing capacity to 25,000 hospital patients per day, in about a month, it said on March 18.

Testing has also been an issue in France due to limited resources, the president of the country’s Scientific Coronavirus Committee, Jean-François Delfraissy, told La Croix on March 20.

The country has the capacity to do some 5,000 tests a day, with 60,000 done from the beginning of the crisis until March 23, the health ministry told POLITICO.

But some of the needed testing products come from China and the U.S. and aren’t in sufficient supply, Delfraissy said. The authorities are in the process of taking “industrial measures” to procure these products so they can implement a massive testing strategy.

The government is also setting up a scientific committee to look into moving from limited testing to a wider approach.

Belgium, one of the first countries to take a conservative approach to testing, is also now looking to increase its capacity.

Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès announced on Sunday a task force to increase testing from the current 2,000-plus tests per day. At present, not everyone who experiences symptoms — including health care workers — get tested.

Austria and Spain are also working hard to be able to test more widely.

Wider testing = lower death rates?

Germany seemed to be the outlier on testing so far. Germany tested approximately 200,000 people between March 16 and 22, up from 160,000 the prior week, a spokesperson of the federal health ministry said on March 25.

Testing is crucial in an epidemic, Richard Pebody, WHO Europe Team Lead for High Threat Pathogens, told POLITICO.

“At each stage, [what’s] really, really important is finding your cases rapidly, investigating them, testing them, isolating them, identify their contacts, quarantine the contacts, test them and try to prevent onward spread,” he said.

Authorities in some German, French and Spanish regions have also set up drive-through testing sites, similar to South Korea, which is seen as an example of how widespread testing can help contain the virus.

South Korea also quickly identified the religious group where the infection’s spread started, which helped its tracing efforts, according to WHO’s Pebody. And while the country is indeed an example for how massive testing helped trace and isolate infected people — without trapping the entire population — they also tracked citizens to find out who may have come in contact with an infected person, France’s Delfraissy said.

“This type of technology poses very serious ethical questions, in particular regarding the use of personal data,” he added.

Back in Europe, the difference between targeted and widespread testing — which may catch people with milder forms of COVID-19 — may be one reason Germany has a lower death toll compared to France, for example.

As of March 26, Germany had 36,508 confirmed cases, out of which 198 people had died. By contrast, France had more than 25,000 cases, which include 1331 deaths.

In Italy, the head of the Italian Civil Protection Agency Angelo Borrelli told La Repubblica that it’s possible 10 people have gone undetected for each person confirmed positive. Italy had some 73,000 cases as of March 25, out of some 324,000 tests.

This uncertainty is dangerous, warns WHO boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has cautioned that not knowing the real numbers means authorities may be flying blind.

To win against the fight, “we need to attack the virus with aggressive and targeted tactics — testing every suspected case, isolating and caring for every confirmed case, and tracing and quarantining every close contact,” he said on Monday.

Many European countries are moving toward using so-called high-throughput machines that allow up to 5,000 testing samples to be processed per day, said Mike Ryan, the WHO executive director for emergencies program.

Until it gets there, the Continent has chosen to restrict people’s movements and tell them to keep their distance when they absolutely need to get out. That’s a defensive measure that can buy time, Tedros said.

Massive testing will be the way out of these confinement measures, according to Delfraissy.

“In 30 or 40 days, when the containment begins to be loosened, the population will have to be massively tested,” he said.“If treatment has emerged by then, all those who test positive for COVID-19 should also be treated systematically.”

This story has been updated.

Barbara Moens, Lili Bayer, Ashleigh Furlong, Cristina Gallardo, Elisa Braun, Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli, Judith Mischke, Eddy Wax, Jan Cienski and Andrew Gray contributed reporting.

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No Package Or Device Found At Mall Of Georgia

BUFORD, GA — Gwinnett County Police have not found any suspicious devices or packages at the Mall of Georgia following a report of suspicious threats made there Wednesday. This update was provided at 3:51 p.m. on Twitter.

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Sheriff’s deputies and firefighters combed through the mall Wednesday afternoon while a helicopter flew over the mall parking lot to spot any suspicious vehicles for officers on the ground.

The Mall of Georgia was not closed during the search, but the public was asked to stay away for more than an hour as authorities searched every store in the mall.

Police have not yet shared details on the type of threat made, or how it was reported.

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Pressure Cookers Planted In NYC Subway Spark Morning Chaos

FINANCIAL DISTRICT, NY — Pressure cookers found throughout Manhattan Friday forced the evacuation of a downtown subway hub and closed Chelsea streets as bomb squad officers scrambled to deem them safe.

Police confirmed the two cookers found in Fulton Street subway station and a third found beside garbage in Chelsea were empty and not a threat. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested they were planted intentionally to cause panic.

Cops found two rice cookers on a platform and a mezzanine at the Fulton Street subway station in the Financial District at about 7 a.m., NYPD officials said.

A third cooker of the same model was discovered about an hour later, around 8:10 a.m., at 16th Street and Seventh Avenue, police said. It appeared to be put out with the garbage and “may or may not be related” to the other two, NYPD Chief of Transit Edward Delatorre said.

Police want to question a man with a shopping cart who was caught on video placing the devices in the subway station, said John Miller, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of intelligence and counterterrorism.

“It is possible that somebody put out a bunch of items in the trash today and this guy picked them up and then discarded them, or it’s possible that this was an intentional act,” Miller said at a news conference.

Miller described the man as a person of interest, not a suspect, and said his intentions were unclear. But Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested the cookers were planted to stoke fear.

“The suspicion is that they were placed there to suggest that they were electronic devices and possible bombs,” Cuomo, a Democrat, said in a Friday morning radio interview.

Several cops, a police dog and at least half a dozen police vehicles, including a bomb squad truck, swarmed the station entrance at William and Fulton streets as commuters were cleared out Friday morning, according to the NYPD and social media posts from witnesses.

The Fulton Street hub is among the busiest stations in New York City’s sprawling subway system. More than 25.1 million people rode through it in 2016, the seventh-highest ridership of any stop that year, according to the MTA.

Ruben Melo of Oceanside, Long Island was heading to work on Wall Street when he had to evacuate the southbound 2/3 train he was riding. The exodus was orderly and “very cordial,” though riders had to wait on the train for 15 to 20 minutes before leaving, he said.

“People were more annoyed then anything else,” Melo told Patch in a Twitter message.

Trains on all eight lines that run through Fulton Street — the 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, J and Z — skipped over the station as police investigated the devices, MTA officials said. All lines except the 2 and 3 were back to normal as of about 10:15 a.m., according to the transit agency.

Chris Tuttle saw police cordoning off Seventh Avenue between 16th and 17th streets as he was walking his dogs around 8:30 a.m., he said. Cops were telling people to leave the area when he spotted the third device, which police later deemed safe.

“That’s when I noticed the pressure cooker sitting out in plain sight on the side of the curb next to a trashcan, in front of the Williams-Sonoma home store,” Tuttle, who lives a block away from the scene, said in a Twitter message.

About a dozen people were in the area heading to work or also walking dogs when the device was discovered, Tuttle said. He said he spoke with several people who thought the situation was “scary especially in our neighborhood, and wondering what’s happening in this world these days, yet also hopeful it was another fake like the others.”

Kaitlyn Muns immediately called a car for her fiancée to go to work when they found out about the pressure cooker while sitting at a nearby Starbucks.

Muns, who lives around the corner from the scene at 15th Street and Seventh Avenue, saw officers checking bushes and planters on her block for possible devices, she said. She called the ordeal “nerve-wracking.”

“It’s just kind of sad,” Muns said. “It sucks that this is the state of the world where you can’t even feel safe in your neighborhood. That’s not a good way to be living.”

Nikki Silfen was locked out of the Chelsea home she moved into a week ago for about an hour, she said.

“It’s not the most settling feeling,” said Silfen, a consultant. “But I guess … at least they found it.”

John Spreitzer was coming back from the gym at about 8:30 a.m. to find he was also blocked from returning to his apartment. He didn’t panic — the cops had by then closed off the area and had the search controlled.

“It’s kind of the norm now, unfortunately,” said Spreitzer, who works in commercial real estate.

The appearance of the pressure cookers were reminiscent of recent bombings that shocked and terrified the city.

A pressure-cooker bomb exploded on a Chelsea block on Sept. 17, 2016, reportedly breaking windows and damaging nearby buildings. A second device was found nearby.

And Akayed Ullah of Brooklyn set off a bomb in a tunnel near the Port Authority Bus Terminal on Dec. 13, 2017, injuring himself and three others.

“In context, people know what they’re looking for,” Miller said Friday morning.

Patch editor Sydney Pereira contributed reporting and writing to this story.

Test : combien de temps pouvez-vous tenir sans vous faire virer en tant qu'assistante de Beyonce ?

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