Featured: the death of Abdelmalek Droukdel

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By: Norbert Navarro

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"Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has lost its historic leader," says the newspaper Le Parisien . "The emir of Aqmi was killed Wednesday during an operation in the north of Mali", an operation carried out by French military forces, reports this daily.

As the Le Monde newspaper website notes , "  Abdelmalek Droukdel could have perished a hundred times in the Algerian maquis (from where) for over a quarter of a century, he had climbed all the ranks of regional jihadism. He died finally much further south, in the north of Mali, a country which has since become the main theater of this war he was waging in the name of al-Qaeda,  " states Le Monde .

Note that at this time, the information has not been confirmed by al-Qaeda.

In France, these racist messages having circulated in the ranks of the police.

Justice is investigating. And it does, of course, after the Minister of the Interior Christophe Castaner has seized the Paris prosecutor's office, but also, let us emphasize here, after the press has itself investigated this case.

It is indeed on the Facebook social network that the StreetPress site unearthed the existence of a private group bringing together more than 8,000 people, "  mainly police officers (or posing as such), and some gendarmes  ", reports this online news. Between them, these Internet users let go. StreetPress publishes an anthology of these "  hundreds of racist, sexist or homophobic messages and calls to murder  ".

For their part, Mediapart and Arte Radio report information from the newspaper Paris Normandie and from the site 76 Actu , which had uncovered "  dozens of voice messages exchanged by police, at the end of 2019, on a private WhatsApp group  ". “ Racist, anti-Semitic, sexist and homophobic  ” messages  , underlines Mediapart.

Storm within the LREM group at the National Assembly.

Notes attributed to the president of this group, Gilles Le Gendre, leaked in the press. They proposed a real casting for the possible ministerial reshuffle to come in France. And since then, there has been an uproar among Macronist MPs.

It was Marianne magazine that revealed the content of these notes addressed by Gilles Le Gendre to Emmanuel Macron. According to this newspaper, the president of the Macronist deputies advises the president to name in particular "  The Mayor in Matignon, Valls in Foreign Affairs, Castaner in Defense, Le Drian in the Interior  ".

Marianne says that , in the "  casting  " proposed by Gilles Le Gendre, the current government spokesman Sibeth Ndiaye would "fall  by the wayside. In his place and as future Minister of Relations with Parliament, Gilles Le Gendre would see ... Gilles Le Gendre. You are never served so well as by yourself  ”, lumberjack Marianne .

Second, Le Figaro  reports a "  sling  " of Macronist deputies after the publication of Marianne's article . "  Gilles must leave,  " fumes a Macronist deputy in Le Figaro . "  This time, he must realize that this is no longer possible,  " indignant another elected official of the majority in this daily, while a third quips in these terms: "  The only good news of this article, c 'is that we learn that Gilles wants to leave the presidency of the group  ", and that a fourth"  pleads for the resignation of Le Gendre (…) "Otherwise, it's simple: the group will explode" ", warns- there in Le Figaro . Atmosphere…

It's Marine Le Pen who says it: the National Rally is "  the continuity  " of General de Gaulle's ideas, while Emmanuel Macron is "  the antithesis  ".

On the eve of a whole series of tributes and other commemorations made to General de Gaulle, the president of this political party, yet anything but Gaullist, declared it to the newspaper Le Parisien . This does not prevent him from finding "  deeply unfair and criticizable (the) way in which the independence of Algeria unfolded and the way in which the returnees and the harkis were treated  ".

But according to Marine Le Pen, "  whether on these two main principles  " of independence of France and sovereignty of the people, "  but also on the defense of the Fifth Republic, the desire for reindustrialisation, the defense of nuclear power, we We are at RN the continuity of the great ideas (that General de Gaulle) defended,  ” details Marine Le Pen in Le Parisien . Emmanuel Macron, on the other hand, it is "  the absolute anti-de Gaulle  ", she adds: he "  is not from the country, he is of an economic class, of finance, of a caste  "Explains this candidate already declared presidential in 2022.

According to her, Emmanuel Macron is "  the symbol of submission to particular interests, while de Gaulle subjected them to the general interest  ". And to be better understood, Marine Le Pen adds that "  for de Gaulle, the capital of France was Paris, for Macron, it's more like Brussels  ".

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