Featured: anger and raised fists

Audio 04:23

By: Andréane Meslard

Publicity

This strong image, which has already accompanied us all weekend and a good part of last week, is also the one that illustrates this beginning of the week. On the front page of Le Figaro , in front of the flames, three demonstrators raise their fists, masks on their noses. Liberation on its side shows us a man, alone, or rather not really alone. In his hand, the one who is not pointing to the sky presents a portrait, that of George Floyd, African-American of 46 years who died last Monday during his arrest by the police. "  The death of George Floyd ignites America  " headlines the daily, which does not show them the flames, which can be seen on the other hand in the Figaro under this title " riots spread across the United States  . ”

The stories of those who are at the end

In his editorial Le Figaro tells us the point of view of the one that many now expect at the turn, the one who was able to see yesterday, on his return from Florida to attend the takeoff of the SpaceX rocket, all these demonstrators massed under his windows claiming more consideration and more security: Donald Trump. Le Figaro recalls that "  since the time of Apollo I, political rights have been granted to African-Americans, but inequalities remain, in front of prison, unemployment, health. Blacks account for 23% of coronavirus deaths, accumulating aggravating factors linked to poverty, namely: diabetes, asthma, hypertension, obesity, among others. With police violence  "adds the newspaper,"  it is also against this daily nightmare that they are enraging  ". "  If we say nothing then injustice continues  " can we read, roughly on the 1st double page granted by Liberation to events. Further on, the mayor of Minneapolis, the democrat Jacob Frey recognizes it, we can read it in Liberation , "  There is a lot of pain and anger in our city  ", but he adds: "  We do absolutely everything who is in our power to keep the peace  . " Liberation ends its long article, with this tag, spotted near a police station, in this big city of Minnesota: "  And now you can hear us?  That sounds like a warning, perhaps the last.

No more warning in France, bars and restaurants will reopen tomorrow.

Rather twice that, “  Tomorrow the big day  ” announces Southwest , “  Tomorrow we reopen!  Exclaims the noon dispatch in one. The daily newspaper in the south of France which ensures it, the French will be there to save the establishments from the abyss in which they are plunged since the evening of March 14 but also, above all, writes the newspaper, because it goes from the idea that we have of our social life. “  Coffee cream in the morning, until a romantic dinner in the evening, from working lunch the next day to a meal with friends, from commercial coffee where we redesign the world to the large brasserie where everyone parades the coffees- restaurants are part of our national culture, but they are also irreplaceable elements of our daily life  . ”

Also read in Liberation , the coronavirus crisis, which has increased our interest in science tenfold.

And who placed it at the heart of the debate, to better question it. You want science there in the media and speeches. And yet Liberation nuance , we feel like a bitter aftertaste in the face of people's quarrels, political instrumentalizations and other organizational flaws. To the point of wondering writes the newspaper: "  If French science comes out of this sequence grown up  ." All highlighting various problems ranging from the lack of resources, the impossibility of coordinating up to the very integration of science into public debate, Liberation even points to the risk of seeing anti-science discourse reinforced. Cédric Brun, philosopher of science specifies in particular that: "  Science is used as a screen for constrained political decisions  ", and that that does not help with its good perception. Much is expected of it, especially in a period like this, however: "  The sciences do not tell the truth ... they seek the truth in an imperfect, temporary, revisable manner, but always providing the means to criticize them  . "

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