In the headlines: the government is preparing public opinion for a tightening of health measures

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The Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, leaving the Elysée Palace on June 24, 2020 in Paris.

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By: Norbert Navarro

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“ 

Lyon, Nice… For whom the next turn of the screw?

 ", Formulates

Le Parisien

, after the presentation Thursday by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran, of the strategy to block the coronavirus.

“ 

There are fires that are more difficult to put out than others

,” explains this daily.

Lyon and Nice

(are)

in the sights.

Then Rennes or Paris

?

 “

Asks

Le Parisien

without delay

, warning that it will be necessary to“ 

toughen up a little more

 ”. 

Deaf dialogue between the French public authorities and the Japanese tire manufacturer Bridgestone, which has decided to close its Béthune plant in the north of France.

A region in shock after this announcement.

Dialogue of the deaf because while the government verbally storms and says that it is initially favoring this path of reconversion of the Bridgestone site in Béthune in the manufacture of large tires in order to equip the SUV market, the Japanese management of the company, joined Thursday by the newspaper

Liberation

, says that it is " 

impossible, because of the material constraints

 ".

In this newspaper, an observer warns that a definitive deindustrialization of the site would be " 

dramatic for the region

 ", but for

Libé

, in any case, " 

the government has in reality very few means to bring the equipment manufacturer to give up at closure

 ”, of the site.

Be careful, warns

Le Figaro

, the " 

economic and social storm

 " so dreaded in France has " 

perhaps risen in Béthune

 ".

This daily notes first that this economic disaster " 

owes nothing to the health crisis, but is part of the long process of disintegration of our industry

 ."

Le Figaro

then attacks Europe

.

Which, " 

for years, has tolerated unfair competition, not respecting any of our social and environmental standards, with the result that we know

 ".

And this newspaper then denounces France which has " 

systematically worsened

(its case)

by over-taxing the cost of labor and over-regulating it

 ".

And

Le Figaro

to plead once again for the construction of an economy " 

competitive, sovereign and intractable against the big competitors.

After years of bewilderment, we are finally starting to open our eyes.

But there is still a long way to go,

 ”sighs

Le Figaro

.

The Islamic State group claims the assassination of eight people, including six French aid workers and two Nigeriens on August 9 in Niger

:

It was a month and a half ago, when they were visiting the Kouré giraffe reserve, 60 km south-east of the capital Niamey where they were based, six young French aid workers, two men and four women, had been murdered with their Nigerien driver and guide by armed men on motorcycles.

Almost six weeks after this killing, the claim of the Islamic State organization was published in its propaganda organ Al-Naba and authenticated " 

by multiple sources,

underlines the French newspaper

Le Monde

,

including the American organ SITE, specialized in the surveillance of jihadist groups

 ”.

Le Monde

which also publishes an investigation in China on these Uighurs who saw their family grow with the presence of so-called "

cousins

".

In fact indicators imposed by the regime to monitor the Uighurs even in their privacy:

Investigation of these false

 Chinese

cousins

" who come "to 

sleep one week a month in the homes of

(this)

Muslim minority to submit the last space of privacy to

(the)

surveillance

 " of Beijing, sharing meals, questioning the children about what their parents say and, indeed, " 

sleeping on a mattress on the floor in the same room

 " as the father and mother of the family, " 

using their bathroom in the early morning, then having breakfast

 " with the family Which is then noted by the " 

cousins

 ".

Guess who's coming to dinner?

Perfect strangers

  ",

underlines

Le Monde

, " 

Han Chinese, imposing themselves in Uyghur homes to ensure that families do not put up resistance to their forced sinization and to raise their suspicions

 ", reports

Le Monde

, by documenting this state program dating from 2016, reinforced the following year, generalized from 2018 and entitled “

 union of ethnic groups in one family

 ”.

Something to scandalize

Le Monde

.

Faced with these systematic abuses against human rights, only the United States has adopted sanctions

 ", notes this daily, even if the said sanctions are " 

symbolic

 ".

And

Le Monde

for criticizing European leaders

, including Emmanuel Macron, for having " 

only very recently chosen to publicly name the abuses.

It remains to associate these speeches with concrete actions, which are long overdue,

 ”insists this newspaper.

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