Headlines: global wave against racism

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By: Norbert Navarro

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From Paris to Washington, from London to Sydney, via Munich or Turin, "  it's a vague part of Minneapolis which submerges the rest of the world  ", says Le Parisien Dimanche .

A wave ? Around the world, tens of thousands of people have demonstrated against racism and to pay tribute to George Floyd, this African-American who died at the hands of the police in Minneapolis, in the United States.

In France, anti-racist rallies organized in several cities have also castigated "  racism  " and "  impunity  " within the police. For the time being, Emmanuel Macron has not expressed himself on the subject but, according to Le Parisien Dimanche , "  a reflection is underway at the Élysée Palace on a speech by the Head of State in the coming days  ".

In L'Express , African-American DeWayne Wickham says of Donald Trump that his "  Make America Great Again  " movement must be understood "  as a resistance effort against the demographic prediction that, by 2050, whites will be in the minority (in the USA). For Trump and his supporters, it's about delaying this moment and ensuring that, on that day, the power will remain in their hands. Hence the anti-immigration laws, the construction of the wall on the border with Mexico or the maneuvers aimed at complicating the electoral participation of blacks,  "explains this professor at Morgan State University in Baltimore (Maryland).

Schiappa-Buzyn, little murder between friends

In France, more than three weeks before the second round of municipal elections. Already left behind in the polls in Paris, the macronist candidate Agnès Buzyn is - privately - losing out by her second on the list, Secretary of State Marlène Schiappa.

"  No one thinks that Agnes Buzyn is going to be elected mayor of Paris  anymore." It is this message from Marlène Schiappa that sows discord at the head of the macronist list in Paris. Revealed by the website of the weekly Le Point , it was launched by the Secretary of State for Gender Equality on the internal loop of the list of La République en Marche in the 14th arrondissement of the French capital. 

In Le Parisien Dimanche , Marlène Schiappa said this morning that there is "  no point in commenting on private remarks, distorted and taken out of context  ".

In Paris, Agnès Buzyn's campaign turns to the Stations of the Cross. According to an Ifop poll for Le Journal du Dimanche , the list of Anne Hidalgo and environmentalists of David Belliard would largely lead in the second round of municipal elections in Paris, with 44% of the voting intentions, ahead of those of Rachida Dati, 33% and Agnès Buzyn, 20%.

Macronia mockery

We were talking about it on Saturday, the notes sent to Emmanuel Macron by the boss of the deputies LREM Gilles Le Gendre are also murdered for Prime Minister Edouard Philippe. And they sow trouble within the macronie.

Within it, "  the knives are pulled,  " says Marianne.  Gilles Le Gendre "  plots against the Prime Minister  ", states this weekly which therefore revealed the "  casting  " for a future government imagined by the president of the LREM group in the National Assembly.

With in particular this other recommendation to the president: "  If Philippe leaves, there are only four options, Bayrou, Ferrand, but they are prevented by business, and Le Maire or Le Drian  ". Place your bets. But what is certain is that nothing is really right.

The Ebola Fugitive

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the coronavirus pandemic is not the only one to threaten. The Ebola virus has re-emerged in the Beni region, in the northeast of the country. And yet an Ebola patient believed to be lost would have survived.

The beginning of this story is told by Society magazine . To illustrate the feverishness of the medical teams who are trying on the spot to contain the disease, Society indeed reports the hunt for a fugitive patient.

In mid-April last, Grâce Muyisa - this is the name of this patient - had indeed presented himself in an infirmary in Beni. Mechanic in a parking lot frequented by motorbike taxis, this 28-year-old man was at his worst. Thursday April 16, the results of his blood test confirm it: Ebola! "  From the first light of Friday, April 17, it was decided to hospitalize him at the other end of the city, in the famous Ebola Treatment Center, a long sheet metal and plastered building where patients are bedridden behind tall translucent tarpaulins  , "says Society .

"  He had to be treated at all costs, otherwise he would die,  " said Aaron Kyatenga to this magazine. A trade unionist of taxi drivers, this highly respected man rushes to the patient's bedside, while other men hastily prepare the ambulance which must transport him to his new hospital bed. Alas, "  the latter has disappeared,  " reports Society .

Then begins a real hunt for caregivers to try to find the fugitive. In order to treat it first, so that it avoids spreading the virus then. When Society went to press for the last time, this hunt had done nothing.

But here this morning, one of our listeners, Alain Tebusilikwa, tells us that Grâce Muyisa would have been found alive after fifty days of "  run  " (thank you Alain) and that, during all this time, the "  fugitive  " said to have been "  treated by a traditional healer  , ”says our auditor.

Ebola cured by traditional African medicine? If this is true - which remains to be proven - there would be reason enough to give Voltaire, who said maliciously that medicine consists in "  distracting the patient while nature heals him  " ...

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