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January 6, 2022
Spanish Championship: injured in a thigh, Griezmann leaves the field in tears
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
In less than twenty minutes, Antoine Griezmann will have gone through all the colors of the emotional rainbow. The French international striker came out injured, visibly in a thigh, in the 77th minute of Atlético Madrid’s match once morest Rayo Majadahonda this Thursday in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey.
Previously, Griezmann, who came into play in the 57th minute in place of his compatriot Thomas Lemar, still had time to score the Colchoneros’ 4th goal (67th) before having to give up his place twenty minutes later. The former Barcelona player has been playing bad luck in recent weeks. He had just made his comeback following an injury to the right thigh, contracted on December 13 once morest Real Madrid, which had made him miss the last three matches of Atlético.
The French joined the locker room in tears, escorted by the Atlético trainers. Atlético Madrid ended up winning the game 5-0 and qualified for the knockout stages of the Spanish Cup. If the Frenchman’s injury is confirmed, it will be a heavy loss for Diego Simeone, one week before the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia (January 12-16), where the Colchoneros face Athletic Bilbao on January 13 in the semifinals.
The family of Olivier Dubois, the last French hostage in the world, denounces an “unbearable silence”
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Almost nine months following the kidnapping of journalist Olivier Dubois by a jihadist group in Mali, the family of the only French hostage in the world posted a petition online Thursday evening to demand his release.
The text, visible on the Change.org website, aims to “alert French citizens of the situation and challenge the French and Malian heads of state on his case and request his release,” wrote the family in a press release.
Requests to meet Jean-Yves Le Drian “unanswered”
“We don’t know anything. This lack of information and this silence are unbearable on a daily basis, while Olivier is in an emergency situation, ”lament the journalist’s mother, his sister Canèle Bernard and her spouse. “Our multiple requests for a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian, in order to obtain concrete elements on the steps taken to release Olivier remain unanswered”, they continue.
“The Crisis and Support Center (of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) is our only relationship with the State, the latter very rarely appear, unless we contact them ourselves, and tell us that we never have any news. on Olivier ”, say those close to him.
“At the end of December 2021, for the first time the (French) Presidency finally answered us, through its Chief of Staff, that” the State services are paying the greatest attention to the evolution of the situation of ‘Olivier (…) “, an unsatisfactory response devoid of any empathy and eluding any possible actions taken”, indicates the family. “In 2022, when the two presidential elections will take place in France as in Mali and that the fight once morest terrorism remains at the heart of these campaigns, this silence with regard to Olivier is all the more astonishing”, writes- her in the online petition.
Kidnapped on April 8
The 47-year-old freelance journalist, living and working in Mali since 2015, himself announced his kidnapping in a video posted on social media on May 5, explaining that he was kidnapped on April 8 in Gao, in northern Mali, by the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM), the main jihadist alliance in the Sahel, linked to Al-Qaeda.
Since the release in October 2020 of Sophie Pétronin, a septuagenarian kidnapped in December 2016 in Gao also, Olivier Dubois is the only French hostage abroad.
Self-tests recommended for schoolchildren from Monday: Frank Vandenbroucke justifies non-free admission
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Authorities recommend that parents give their children a self-test at least once a week. A precaution that worries, already, some families. Especially since these tests are not reimbursed.
A few days before the start of the school year, it is a supply strongly recommended by the authorities: the self-tests. Tests in high demand during the holiday season, but to go to school, would you be willing to buy some?
Opinions do not really differ. “I do not agree to pay for self-tests“, says a man questioned by our team. A lady continues: “My little girl has oral problems, it is already very complicated to blow her nose. If I have to do this to her once a week, she no longer goes to school.. “Véronique, is also questioned: “I’m not interested in doing this every Sunday to my kids. It’s expensive.”
The price of a self-test can vary between 3.5 euros and 8 euros per kit. By testing their two children every Sunday, a family is expected to spend an average of 253 euros by the end of the year.
That the tests be distributed within the school framework
For Christine Mahy, president of the Belgian network for the fight once morest poverty, “there is a risk of discrimination in households that are weak in terms of portfolio. This new recommendation is a mistake. These tests should be free and available to all. (…) “For children, it should be done through school. That the tests be distributed within the school framework and that there be total free.”
Frank Vandenbroucke, Federal Minister of Health, justified the non-free delivery of these self-tests during the press conference on Thursday: “I would like it to be free. Federal authority is the poorest authority of all authorities in this country. “ But for the socialist, the real argument is a practical reason: “We make them available en masse in supermarkets. We buy them from 3.5 euros. We cannot set up a reimbursement system in supermarkets as exists in pharmacists. It would take a year or two of work. and administrative preparations. This is simply not possible.”
The minister recalled that people with low incomes (BIM among others) are entitled to 4 self-tests per person and per household, every two weeks, all for one euro per self-test.