Headlines: ending Islamist separatism

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" The head of state will have phosphorus a lot before starting to draw the outlines of his action plan for a " return to the Republic ", points Le Figaro . He has been consulting intellectuals privately for months and hosting meetings. He has been postponing the opportunity to talk about it for months. "I took a lot of precautions. I did not want to simplify", justified himself yesterday, Emmanuel Macron in front of association leaders, in the popular district of Bourtzwiller of Mulhouse. This time, the time has come.

The choice of place owes nothing to chance , notes the newspaper. This city of Bas-Rhin is a cosmopolitan metropolis where facts of communitarianism are more and more palpable. "There are schoolchildren who do not want to shake hands with their comrades and families who present medical certificates of convenience so that their children do not go to the pool," reports to President Anne-Marie Maire, the director of the academy. After listening to a series of testimonies , continues Le Figaro , the head of state raised his tone during a press conference. "Our enemy is separatism", this scourge which pushes some French people to build "walls" with the rest of the population, thunder Emmanuel Macron. Which adds : "We must never accept that the laws of religion can be superior to those of the Republic", nor "accept deschooling for acts of belief". Emmanuel Macron wants to be cutting edge : "Islamist separatism is incompatible with the indivisibility of the Republic". "

" Macron is right ! "

For most newspapers this morning, this outing of the head of state was completely legitimate ...

Thus, for Liberation , " it is a fact that certain currents of political Islam, Muslim Brotherhood or Salafists, preach values ​​contrary to the republican spirit, that certain propagandists seek to put their archaic principles above the law of the Republic, to make their biased vision of history or science prevail over the common education provided in the country's schools. "

Liberation points out, " the President has struck a wise balance, stigmatizing fundamentalism, but preaching kindness and tolerance towards our Muslim compatriots who, for the most part, precisely escape any " separatism ", but only ask for their legitimate place in the Republic, that is to say in employment, in the city and in society in general. "

The Charente Libre adds: “ Emmanuel Macron is right. He is right to take his time on such delicate issues as "communitarianism" or political Islam which hysterises the debate at the first controversy mounted on social networks. As he is right to want to tackle "separatism" which relates better the problems of our society than this catch-all word of "communitarianism" and returns all the Muslims in a semantic ghetto closed with double turn. Especially that communities can exist, provided that they meet and live in the Republic. "Separatism", on the contrary, refers to this deliberate desire to stay between oneself to impose its standards (social, religious) despite the laws of the Republic. "

Nice-Matin is on the same line: “to pose the problem in this way is to avoid the double trap of angelism and stigma. It is recognizing the gravity and the urgency of the problem. It is to fight step by step to regain lost or about to be lost territories. It is also to refuse the amalgam which hides behind the denunciation of communitarianism confused with one and the same religion. It is admitting that the malaise in the Republic will be overcome by more republicanism : the fight will be won if the public power is able to show the same intransigence to make respect by all the same duties and guarantee to all the same rights. "

Coronavirus : 600 million Chinese confined ...

" Life in quarantine ": this is the headline of La Croix . The Cross which is interested in the daily life of these millions of Chinese who has been reclusive for the past few weeks due to the epidemic of coronavirus.

" Never in contemporary history has a " quarantine " of such magnitude been imposed so brutally , notes La Croix . Once sounded on January 20, the alarm of the coronavirus epidemic by the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, containment measures were taken : first in Wuhan, capital of the province of Hubei, birthplace of the Covid -19, then across the country. More than 60 million people are in quarantine in Hubei, and it is estimated that nearly 600 million Chinese are in strict confinement. Never seen. "

So how do these confined people live? The Cross was able to question some of them. Example: this reporter for a national daily special correspondent in Wuhan: " Wuhan is a huge city, and the streets are empty," he says. In hospitals, I have seen that the doctors and nurses we meet are less well protected than we are. We see them exhausted, because they have been working non-stop for three weeks. The number of patients is not decreasing. But there is no question of talking about the congestion in the waiting rooms of certain hospitals. The Propaganda Department forces us to publish only "good news", otherwise we risk being punished for "disobedience". "

Another example, another testimony, still to be read in La Croix , that of this young woman who lives in Beijing: “ Life has slowed down, there is no more crowd, stress, noise. I have never seen Beijing like this, it is unreal. For the past few days, there have been more cars, work has started up a bit, but I am not working at the moment. Neither did my friend. His foreign company does not want to take any risks and imposes a total quarantine. Suddenly, we find ourselves face to face permanent. We cower even if we get a lot of phone calls from all the friends all over China. "

Agnes Buzyn in the countryside

Finally, to read in Le Parisien , the first interview with Agnes Buzyn, as a candidate for the mayor of Paris.

The former Minister of Health has already started his campaign. " I am deeply Parisian, " she says. But I saw this city deteriorate. I find that Paris has been roughed up in recent years. The locals were not respected enough, I felt a certain brutality. And I think I can bring a form of calm and gathering. What is lacking today in Paris , still asserts Agnès Buzyn, is the quality of life. This will be the heart of my project. "

Agnès Buzyn will present her final program at the end of the week.

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