Presidential: the far right on Saturday and the left on Sunday, the candidates heat up. Eric Zemmour in a meeting in Lille, Marine Le Pen in Reims: the two far-right candidates fought a remote image battle on Saturday to try to install a dynamic in their favor, with some tensions in Lille in a demonstration anti-racist. Sunday, it was Yannick Jadot, Anne Hidalgo, Fabien Roussel and Jean-Luc Mélenchon who took the top billing, sending each other kindnesses and asking for a debate of the candidates before the first round, all in the presence of Emmanuel Macron. All the political information of the weekend in our direct.
In Morocco, the shock after the death of little Rayan. The 5-year-old fell into a 32-meter pit near Chefchaouen in the north of the country on Tuesday afternoon. This Saturday evening, after days of drilling that kept the country in suspense and beyond, the emergency services brought him out on a stretcher. He did not survive.
In Amboise, the work in homage to the Emir Abdelkader vandalized. His silhouette cut out of a sheet of rusty steel stares at the river. On the promenade on the banks of the Loire, at the foot of the royal palace of Amboise (Indre-et-Loire), a sculpture in homage to the Emir Abdelkader and supported by the Elysée was inaugurated on Saturday by the mayor (LR) of the city, Thierry Boutard. Earlier in the morning, it had been found vandalized. Its lower part in particular was largely damaged. “She was cut with the grinder and twisted”, specifies Thierry Boutard. An investigation has been opened for “serious degradation”.
Olympic Games: first medal (silver) for France. The biathletes, on time for the meeting, opened the French medal counter at the Beijing Olympics by winning silver in the mixed relay on Saturday, behind Norway. First test of the long string of races offered by biathlon (11 in ten days), the mixed relay of the Beijing Games took place on the snow of Zhangjiakou, a copy conforming to the rules of the genre. Disappointment on the other hand for Perrine Laffont, reigning Olympic champion in moguls and candidate for an unprecedented double. She only took fourth place at the Beijing Games this Sunday at the Zhangjiakou site, far from the new Olympic champion, the Australian Jakara Anthony.
Six Nations: France got their tournament off to a good start by beating Italy. The French rugby team wins its first match of the Six Nations tournament against a valiant Italian team. With a score of 37-10, the offensive bonus point is also acquired.
Elizabeth II famous his 70 years of reign in privacy. The Queen of England has, for this historic milestone, reserved a surprise for her subjects, expressing the wish that the wife of Prince Charles, Camilla, become queen consort.
Ukraine crisis: “The more diplomatic activity there is, the less chance we have of rushing into war.” On the eve of the meeting between Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Poutine in Moscow, the American researcher Rajan Menon deciphers the issues, and analyzes the Western differences on the crisis in Ukraine.
Emergency tents in front of the Bordeaux University Hospital: “The Covid has a good back.” If the epidemic is still in full swing in the Southwest, caregivers warn of a “catastrophic” situation in their hospital that the coronavirus has only amplified. The report of our correspondent to read here.
With Uber Direct, “your tradesman is no longer your butcher or your bookseller but Uber”. The platform offers a new fast delivery service to any type of retailer claiming to want to help local commerce. But for the sociologist Vincent Chabault, it will above all monopolize the customer relationship and accelerate its decline.
“There are going to be suicides”: the cry of a winegrower strangled by insurance. Quentin Bourse, winemaker in Indre-et-Loire, apostrophes Emmanuel Macron in an open letter. His Sot de l’Ange vineyard is threatened by an 82% increase in the price of his crop insurance policy.
In Montpellier, “abstentionism can be a choice”. New episode of our series “Journey to the heart of abstention” throughout the presidential campaign on these groups of French people who have chosen not to vote or no longer vote. In Hérault, it is delivery people who feel distant from elected officials.
Trial of November 13: “Conveyor of death”, the strange work of Etty Mansour on Salah Abdeslam. This is the book that everyone is talking about quietly on the benches of the Paris Assize Court, responsible for judging the crimes of November 13, 2015. An enigmatic object with an indigo cover simply titled Conveyor of Death. In the ranks of the press, one does not know how to grasp this cobblestone approaching 600 pages, hybrid investigation, certainly very documented, but aggressively subjective, full of observations on the surface, bits of autofiction and philosophical digressions in the khâgnous lyricism. To analyse.
Nuclear: do radioactive releases have effects on fauna and flora? While EDF and the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety have set up a system to measure the impact of radioactive discharges on animals and plants, it has shortcomings: not all species are studied, and studies are only conducted in the laboratory. Decryption.