Front page: the government's warning about deconfinement

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By: Norbert Navarro

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A real Scottish shower ... One hundred million masks as of May 11 available to staff in the liberal health sector, this is what the Minister of Health announced in Le Parisien Dimanche this morning . But at the same time, Olivier Véran warns: "  If the number of new patients should be too high, the date of lifting the confinement could be questioned and will be appreciated by the departments,  " he said to the Parisian Sunday , because the Minister notes a "  certain relaxation  " of the behavior of the French in the respect of the instructions in this period of end (in principle) of confinement.

So, deconfinement or not May 11 in France? "  The government will decide on Thursday to lift the restrictions ... or not,  " reported Le Journal du Dimanche on Sunday , the JDD nonetheless reporting "  threats on May 11  ".

For the president of the Normandy region, in any case, it's all seen. On May 11, Hervé Morin "  does not intend to reopen the doors of Norman high schools  ," he said to the Parisian Sunday . Blow of chin and real challenge that Hervé Morin throws to the State by asking now that the 100,000 high school students in Normandy do not return to class "  before September  ".

The coronavirus is also the latest in the brand of discord between the United States and China, Donald Trump claiming to have evidence that the coronavirus comes from a laboratory in Wuhan :

Evidence that would confirm these accusations, the French press does not have more than the American president, but beyond coronavirus, two French magazines emit this week a background noise which would be enough to enchant Donald Trump. The most nuanced is L'Express , according to which "  it seems every day more clear that Beijing wants to impose the " sino-globalization " that is coming,  " warns this newspaper. There, it's still okay.

But, as Emmanuel Macron could say, the most bickering, it is undoubtedly Le Point . Because this newspaper looks far beyond the punctual accusations of the boiling tenant of the White House on the sole subject of the pandemic. "  What is China playing at?  », Launches this newspaper. "  No offense to Donald Trump, (the coronavirus) has never been Chinese, corrects Le Point . He has neither nationality nor skin color. (…) He became French, European, American, African, Asian… at least as much as Chinese. Notwithstanding, he is indeed a communist virus  ! "

Le Point notably accuses the Chinese Communist Party of having "  weakened global cooperation against the virus by carrying out in recent months, in particular on the Internet, a campaign of disinformation aimed at discarding its responsibilities, going so far as to claim that the virus may have been manufactured by the United States  . " According to the weekly, "  under the aegis of (Chinese President) Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party made a " big leap backwards " and it " has become a systemic challenge for the West. " "

This happened earlier this week in Colombes, near Paris. A motorist is accused of having crashed into a car on police officers in Colombes on Monday. The anti-terrorist prosecutor's office was seized :

He is 29 years old, he is French, and last Monday, driving a BMW, this man unknown to the anti-terrorist services violently struck two bikers of the national police who controlled a car, seriously injuring their legs, more slightly reaching a municipal police.

Youssef Tillah, that is his name, was charged and imprisoned for "  attempted assassinations on persons responsible for public authority in connection with a terrorist enterprise  ". The man, however, was "  not on file S  " for radicalization, but, in a statement, the prosecution reports that, while in police custody, the suspect explained that he wanted to go "head  on in the battle to impose Sharia law on the whole Earth  ”.

This drama having therefore taken place near Paris, Valeurs Actuelles , beyond this aggression in Colombes, denounces this week what it calls the suburbs which “  make their law  ” or even “  the taboo of secession  ” that this weekly intends to rise.

However, as in this period of confinement, the prison population was relieved of no less than eleven thousand prisoners who were released to avoid an uncontrolled spread of the coronavirus in overcrowded French prisons, Valeurs Actuelles collected the analysis of Michel Aubouin. Specialist in urban violence, this former prefect emphasizes in this weekly that "  the massive release of common law prisoners has brought back to their most determined neighborhoods gang leaders  ".

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