In the News: Agnès Buzyn, nominated LaREM candidate for mayor of Paris

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By: Catherine Potet

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Whether serious or smiling, the photo of Agnes Buzyn made the front page of most national newspapers on Monday. Because she finally agreed to replace Benjamin Griveaux, and embark on the race for mayor of Paris. For Today in France , it is " The quit or double of the Republic marching in the capital ". " In the midst of a crisis, Macron propels Agnès Buzyn to Paris ", headlines Le Figaro , while Liberation displays on the front page, a rather concerned photo of Agnes Buzyn and headline: " Buzyn, at the bedside of the REM ". Liberation which recalls that until then, " she said she wanted to focus on the hospital crisis and the coronavirus ". " Has she not repeated herself until the last few days that her responsibilities did not leave her the opportunity to engage in this battle? "Continues the daily, which speaks of a" risky choice ":" In order not to lose face in the perilous battle of the capital, the leaders of the majority considered that the government could be reshuffled at the worst moment. "

A risky choice for Liberation , when Le Figaro evokes a game lost in advance. “ Without being able to compete himself or having put his camp in step, Emmanuel Macron had long known that the battle of Paris was lost anyway. Long before the fall of Benjamin Griveaux, who never had the wind in his sails in the polls. "... La Croix is a little more optimistic:" With Agnès Buzyn, LREM chooses a recognized personality, may be able to relaunch their campaign. Deemed to be consensual, even popular, Agnès Buzyn also embodies a social figure, in a government mainly provided with political figures from the right. " The Parisian is also more optimistic, because for him" Buzyn relaunch the match in Paris ".

But critical voices are not lacking among the opponents of Agnes Buzyn. A relative of his rival Anne Hidalgo speaks of " irresponsibility " while for a manager of the group Inter Urgences, one of the initiators of the strike movement in public hospitals, " she is the captain of a boat who abandons her ship in full storm ”.

The setbacks of the one Agnès Buzin will replace : Benjamin Griveaux

He abandoned the race for mayor of Paris on Friday, after the broadcast on social networks of a sexual video. And Le Figaro denounces the " old strings of Kompromat ". Russian artist-activist Piotr Pavlenski is said to be behind this broadcast. His method, writes the newspaper, " is very similar to that used for a long time by the Russian and Soviet " services " . It is therefore the "Kompromat", or compromising file, launched in someone's paws to put him under pressure, lead him to collaborate, discredit him or instruct his trial with "evidence" often fabricated. Liberation specifies for its part, that the companion of Piotr Pavlenski, a young woman of 29 years old, is suspected of being the recipient of images of a sexual nature sent by Benjamin Griveaux. She was placed in police custody, as was Piotr Pavlenski.

As for the distribution of the video in question on social networks, opinions differ. For Humanity , no doubt: “ The invasion of privacy of which Benjamin Griveaux is a victim is a serious challenge to human rights. It must be condemned and sanctioned without appeal. "

" Haro on the networks!" »Quipped Opinion on his side. Since Friday, calls have been made to padlock social networks, to make anonymity outlawed and to restrict freedom of expression. Observers and elected officials agree: if Benjamin Griveaux threw in the towel, it is because of the excesses of the digital society which weaken our democracy. But, for Opinion , “ social networks mark above all the end of transparency with variable geometry. The one that welcomes their use to free speech in China in front of authorities with selective truth, but that they are disqualified as soon as they become improper at home. "

The coronavirus

Les Echos tells us: Living in Beijing, at the time of the coronavirus. “ Since the rampant outbreak of the pulmonary epidemic in China in late January, fear has crept into homes. Neighborhood by neighborhood, residence by residence, the immense megalopolis of 22 million inhabitants barricades itself. " The Chinese capital officially has only 380 patients and 4 deaths ", we are far from the figures of Hubei province, a thousand kilometers away. “ But the virus has contaminated the spirits. "

Example "in front of the complex " Evergrande Jiangwan, the guards are particularly upset. A person infected with the “ Covid-19 ” (so called now) lived in one of the towers, before being transferred to the hospital. The building is since regularly disinfected, but the neighborhood is in turmoil. Nobody ignores the information. On WeChat, the social network used by a billion Chinese, an application allows you to locate residences near your home on a map that have experienced the same mishap. " A meter apart between you!" Shouts an anxious passerby to us as we question a neighbor.

Le Monde, for its part, talks about life in Wenzhou, where all outings are now prohibited. " Whenzou, a city hit hard by the virus, 400 km south of Shanghai ", residents are no longer allowed to leave their homes. “ In some of the most affected villages, houses have even been closed with paper seals. Members of the neighborhood committees drop by the window, says a resident of Xitang, a small village in Yueqing, the county with the most cases in Wenzhou. "At first," he said, "we were allowed to go out once every other day, but now we're not allowed at all." "

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