Front page: the debate on racism and police violence

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A " legitimate " debate , says Liberation . “  In resonance with the demonstrations that have engulfed the United States, the parades organized the day before yesterday Tuesday by the collective Adama, although prohibited, gathered in an almost general calm thousands of people in Paris, Marseille or Lyon. An unprecedented and promising convergence between several generations fighting against racism and police violence,  "the newspaper said.

For Liberation , what is happening in the United States has nothing comparable to what is happening in France. But the fact is there, the newspaper said. There is racism within the French police: "  All those who follow police matters, including within the institution, sometimes at the highest level, are alarmed: there is discomfort on this point within the country's security forces. Fortunately, lethal violence is rare. But symbolic, or daily, violence poses a problem. A single example, tipRelease: according to a 2016 Defender of Rights survey of some 5,000 people, '80% of people corresponding to the profile of 'young man perceived as black or Arab' declare having been checked in the last five years [against 16 % for the rest of the respondents] '. Are you non-white? Suspect… To this must be added the widely documented discrimination in housing or hiring. In other words, concludes Liberation , and without practicing a summary transatlantic comparison, yesterday's protest is perfectly legitimate.  "

"The virus of redicalized hatred"?

No !, retorts Le Figaro . The purpose of these rallies was “  to inoculate the virus of 'racialized' hatred in our country, to establish a face-to-face identity there. Maneuvering, with the complicity of Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his friends, we find , points out the right-wing daily, activist activists, activists of all victim causes, the self-proclaimed Indigenous of the Republic… Their game is not new, but it is increasingly dangerous for the unity of the nation. (…) And it is regrettable , concludes Le Figaro, that certain ministers, under the pretext of calling for appeasement, seemed to justify the holding of this anti-cop demonstration. Their response is not up to the identity trap that threatens France today. "

"  The police in France is not racist,  " said the Parisian , Frédéric Veaux, the director general of the national police. A phrase taken from the front page of the newspaper. "  The police are an easy outlet ," he says. It symbolizes repression. But more generally, everything that today represents order or institution is disputed. (…) The police today, they are black-white-beur, continues the head of the national police. When slippages occur, racism must be fought with the greatest energy. Citizens have the ability to go to the IGPN platform and report incidents they have been victims of. There are only around thirty facts concerning racism out of the 1,500 judicial investigations handled by the IGPN in 2019. We must be intransigent on our values, on our training.  "

Coronavirus: the debate over hydroxychloroquine revived

Also on the front page, another debate, that on the efficacy or not of hydroxychloroquine in the fight against the coronavirus ... "  Is the study of the scientific journal The Lancet on hydroxychloroquine losing? his credibility? asks Liberation . On Tuesday evening, the famous British medical journal itself expressed doubts about the article published in its own pages on May 22. This distancing was formally noted by means of a small note in which The Lancet alerts its readers 'to the fact that serious scientific questions have been brought to its attention'.  "

Consequently, Professor Raoult, a staunch defender of hydroxychloroquine treatment, sees his coat of arms restored ... "  Raoult wins by knockout  ", exclaims La Charente Libre. "  His main victory is not even that over the global study published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, now discredited. His main victory is to have never deviated, surrounded by a solid collective in Marseille, when everything around him wavered, changed direction or opinion, each in his corner. Until the WHO who announced yesterday the resumption of trials on hydroxychloroquine. "

So, in this debate on this famous drug, "  a second round - scientific - is now essential.  This is what a group of doctors says in Le Monde . “  The time has now come for a pragmatic and transparent analysis of the situation which alone will save us from further abuses. We have never said, declares this collective, that hydroxychloroquine was not effective. We said there was no evidence of its effectiveness, which is fundamentally different. (…) Now that the crisis has passed, let a second scientific round allow us to recall how crucial it is that modern medicine remains an evidence-based medicine, and that the evidence comes from quality clinical research. This clinical research must be a shared objective from which nothing, neither the crisis nor the urgency, should prevent us. "

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