In the headlines: it's still the dispute in the United States

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By: Aurélien Devernoix

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A country of “  permanent injustice  ” for African-Americans launches Liberation , a “  volcano  ” on which Donald Trump for Le Parisien sits, who wonders how the American president will manage the situation. Liberation replied: "  Trump the choice of chaos at the risk of knockout  ." For the newspaper, "  five months from a presidential election that has obsessed him since the first day and which, in his psyche of billionaire allergic to defeat, can have no other outcome than a re-election, Donald Trump does not seem unwilling to play the appeasement  ”. We were able to realize this last night ...

But threats by the President seem to have had little effect on the protesters. From Minneapolis to New York via Los Angeles, special correspondents and correspondents of the French press note the same determination: "  the movement cannot stop, it is too late, it is everywhere  ", considers a protester in the columns of Liberation , while another confides to La Croix  : "  since I was a child, we are told at school that the situation of blacks has improved since slavery, but the more we grow, the more we realize that the discrimination persists   ”.

Le Figaro takes a side way by publishing a report on the residents of Minneapolis seeking to defend themselves against the looting and damage that accompanied the protests

Residents who feel abandoned by police overwhelmed by protests. The newspaper recounts their attempts to organize themselves or to avoid possible attacks. One of the people interviewed, a voter in the Democratic Party, was also worried about the electoral consequences of the outbursts on the fringes of the peaceful marches. "  In 1968  , he recalls,  after the riots [following the assassination of Martin Luther King], it was Nixon who was elected  ".

Another step aside in Le Monde which devotes an article to journalists targeted by the police. "  Dozens of reporters covering the protests were directly attacked by the police  ," said the daily, "  a shock in a country where the press enjoys generally respected constitutional guarantees  ." "  Scenes reminiscent of China or Iran,  " worries a journalist. Usually, explains Le Monde , tensions with the police are rare, but the context has changed since the coming to power of Donald Trump, who regularly presents the media "  as the enemy of the people  ".

And then it should be noted for a few days, many sportsmen and women have taken the floor to give their support to the protesters

Some even take to the streets, such as the Boston Celtics basketball player, Frenchman Vincent Poirier. He went with two teammates to a protest on Sunday. "  I was there to say that even if it happens in the United States, it is something that happens in France and around the world,  " he explains to the team . “  I [who is white] can walk freely on the street and I want it to be the same for everyone. It bothers me that this is not the case  . ”

The Team which also devotes an article to the rant of the six-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton. He denounced the silence of the F1 world facing the situation in the United States. A call that had its effect since in the process half a dozen young drivers reacted by sharing the slogans and other hashtag in vogue on the subject on social networks.

The French press which is also widely interested in the new stage in the deconfinement which begins today in France

Here too, with very different approaches from one newspaper to another, Le Figaro devotes its front page to "  these French people impatient to return to work  ". Many companies which had put their employees on partial unemployment are preparing to see the employees return to the premises. "  It's total euphoria  ," says a director of a thalassotherapy center. A joy shared by many managers of companies interviewed by the daily newspaper ... The employees are the subscribers absent among the interviewees, probably too busy celebrating their return to work. Perhaps it is also linked to the recommendation of the economist Agnès Verdier Molinier in the columns of the newspaper, which calls for working longer and taking less vacation.

But there is still work to be had ... the number of unemployed has increased sharply and it could get worse

Partly because of the arrival on the job market of young graduates. "  A generation sacrificed  " launched Le Monde . Recruitment of junior executives for example collapsed in April, explains the daily: -69% of offers. A total reversal of the trend of the months preceding the Covid-19 crisis.

The French government is well aware of the problem: Les Echos reminds us that a global plan for young people must be presented before the summer. Emmanuel Macron must meet union leaders and employers on Thursday, explains the business daily, with the aim of finding solutions to "preserve jobs". The government, which wants to be strong from the experience of the 2008-2009 crisis to avoid too violent a stall in the economy.

Problem, this stall he has already started, notes his side Mediapart which publishes a report carried out near the airport of Roissy. An area where many businesses usually need agency workers. Except that confinement has completely dried up job offers, in particular in logistics and hotels, explains Mediapart. Same observation for auto-entrepreneurs, drivers or small traders. Worse, the surrounding communities have paid a high price to the coronavirus, which makes a doctor fear a "  triple penalty  ": health, social and economic.

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