Front page: the return of religious conservatives is looming in Iran

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By: Norbert Navarro

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Iran is " on the verge of falling into the hands of the regime's hardliners ," warns Le Figaro.

These elections, the first after the withdrawal of the United States from the nuclear agreement, should be the " first step in a withdrawal " of an Iranian power which will be controlled by " ultras ", predicts Le Figaro , daily explaining that the " second step " next year will be the election of the successor to Iranian President Hassan Rohani. And this successor will be " tough, presumably ", to oppose a Donald Trump " that the Iranian leaders see reelected ", completes this daily.

A ballot without stake, therefore? If, precisely, specifies Liberation , the only stake, it is the abstention which "will challenge the hard and ultras conservatives ", summarizes Liberation. Which daily newspaper predicts a defeat of the moderates in power and their allies, who should " leave their seat to the hardliners ".

Abstention? It should be commensurate with " discouragement ", especially among young Iranians who have known only the Ayatollah regime, anticipates The Republic of the Pyrenees . Today, they " can't take it anymore ", have " no more illusions " and no longer hope to see, during their lifetime, " fall " this theocracy, sighs this daily newspaper in the south of France.

In Germany, it was a shock after the Hanau massacre. The extreme right track is pointed by the German justice for this attack which left nine dead.

Two shisha bars were targeted by a man shooting customers in this city near Frankfurt. German Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced the poison of racism on Thursday.

" Fascism kills near Frankfurt, " accuses the newspaper L'Humanité , warning Emmanuel Macron. " When the Head of State shines a spotlight on the dangers of an" Islamist separatism "which would have seceded from the laws of the Republic, the bombing across the Rhine reminds us that another danger is mounting of our country , says the communist daily. This danger (…) is that of racist hatred which warms the minds before arming the arms of dangerous enlightened people ”. Be careful that " the virus of far-right terrorism is not incubating here too, in the meanders of brains excited by the dose of daily media stigma ," warns L'Huma.

La Voix du Nord writes little else and says that ultra-right terrorism is a " Western reality ", it would be " wrong to focus on Germany. The toxic white supremacism is spreading, ”warns this daily newspaper from the French North.

The brown plague, the return? Be careful, moderate the La Croix newspaper. “ When we read the first indications of the alleged perpetrator of the Hanau shootings, near Frankfurt, we are inclined to think that he was a lonely person with an unhappy existence, probably in psychological difficulty. And whose acts would perhaps be an aberration, not significant ”. For the Catholic daily, " it would be a mistake to accept this hypothesis " from the far right.

In France, the former minister and former treasurer of Nicolas Sarkozy Éric Woerth is again caught up in the Tapie affair. One of his former collaborators is suspected by the courts of having granted tax generosity to the businessman.

According to Mediapart , one of the former members of the cabinet of Eric Woerth, at the time when the latter occupied the functions of Minister for the Budget, was indicted for " concussion " in the Tapie affair.

Thierry Métais, that is his name, was then responsible for the " tax unit " responsible for high-ranking officials at the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Today fiscal director of Société Générale bank, he is " suspected of having been the executor of the operation " consisting in granting Bernard Tapie a " huge tax rebate ", states this online newspaper, according to which " Éric Woerth saved Tapie € 52 million in taxes in 2009 ”.

Thierry Métais, however, " denied any irregularity ", saying that no "special treatment " was given to Bernard Tapie.

Being reminded that, according to Mediapart , the State was injured " 52 million euros " in tax revenue not collected from the taxpayer Bernard Tapie, this website sought to know if the State had brought civil action in the Tapie case. Response from the Minister of Budget Gérald Darmanin's services: “ This is covered by tax secrecy. No comments, ”reports Mediapart .

News in the Nasser Al-Khelaïfi affair. The agreement signed with Fifa by the boss of the television group beIN Media and PSG, included a financial component.

Being reminded that the boss of the PSG has just been indicted by the Swiss justice in a corruption case linked to the allocation of TV rights of several Football World Cups, the newspaper L'Équipe reveals that it has also reached an " agreement amicable ”with the Fifa Foundation to compensate it.

Liberation finally pays tribute this morning to the press man Jean Daniel, who disappeared the day before yesterday at the age of 99. The daily recognized him as an invention, that of " journalism of ideas ", via the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur which became the central organ of the " second left " of which Jean Daniel was the " pope ".

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