In the spotlight: Jean Castex warns against re-containment
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Prime Minister Jean Castex leaving the Defense Council on September 11, 2020 (Illustration).
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By: Norbert Navarro
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Jean Castex warned the French: “
If we do nothing, the situation could reach the same levels as in March.
This could mean re-containment, if the situation were to worsen further
, ”the Prime Minister warned on Thursday evening on television.
A warning to try to stem the wave of indignation following the restrictive announcements by the Minister of Health Olivier Véran on Wednesday evening.
A storm of indignation, on the side of Marseille especially, the local elected officials having been bypassed by the government, and that Jean Castex assumes, he said this Thursday evening on television.
The new restrictions "
arouse controversy,
" launches
Le Figaro.
The government is "
in the throes of the anger of the Marseillais, the fear of the bistrotiers, the incomprehension of the citizens.
Olivier Véran has broken the fragile balance between health, economic, social and cultural needs that Emmanuel Macron has so far managed to maintain.
Since then, the executive has moved into a political alert zone
, ”warns
Le Figaro.
Anger on the Canebière
Opinion shared by almost all of the press.
By announcing its restrictive measures without consultation, the government, Wednesday evening, got its feet in the carpet.
This cannot justify some very strong public reactions.
Of course,
the Opinion
admits
, “
working without the territories is a mistake
”.
Recalling what constitutes "
the DNA
" of Jean Castex, that of a Prime Minister "
well anchored in the local
", this daily finds that the government "
should have been concerned about it much more.
But from there to insulting the Minister of Health […] from there to threatening to override the bans on opening bars and restaurants, there is a chasm,
insists
the Opinion.
For leading men and women to call for civic disobedience is serious.
Feeding the resentment of those to whom the government asks on the contrary to be responsible is precisely… irresponsible
”, notes this daily.
"
We thought we understood that the appointment of Jean Castex to Matignon was, among other things, symbolic of Emmanuel Macron's desire to reconnect with local authorities and intermediary bodies,"
adds
Liberation
.
Result: […] a sling of elected officials, in [Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur] as in Guadeloupe and, to a lesser extent, in Paris.
As if Jean Castex had lost, in a quarter in the Parisian hell of Matignon, his field accent
, ”notes
Libé.
Also, this daily underlines it, the “
difficult announcements
” related to the health crisis will not be able to be “
accepted by the French only on condition of being carried by all their representatives.
The prerequisite being to… share them with them
”.
So ?
So beyond the controversy, the daily
Le Parisien
prefers to focus on the danger of the virus, wondering if there is not only "
fifteen days left to reverse the trend?
".
Penalty on the weight of the cars: it's "no"
Environmentalists will appreciate… Contrary to what they hoped, there will be no tax on the weight of cars in France.
This idea of a penalty affecting heavy vehicles, such as SUVs for example, these large engines which necessarily consume more energy to move their mass, and which, as a result, pollute more… This idea, therefore, came from the Convention citizen for the climate, and it raised a real wind of panic among car manufacturers.
Well no, there will be no weight penalty for the cars.
According to the daily
Les Echos
, the Ministry of the Economy said "
no
" to a new automobile penalty linked to weight.
However, completes the newspaper
Les Echos
, it is in a "
watered-down form
" that the idea of a penalty on the mass of vehicles could "
try to slip
" into the major climate bill carried by the Minister of the Ecological Transition, Barbara Pompili.
Theater off limits
And then this investigation into the alleged abusive actions of a teacher on students at the conservatory of dramatic art in Rennes, in western France.
A teacher who is still on the job.
Liberation
investigation
and that this daily hoisted in front page by denouncing "
abuses at the conservatory
".
Libé
has collected about twenty testimonies from former students and colleagues of the Rennes conservatory, in Brittany, who “
overwhelm
” the methods of a theater teacher, methods “
described as violent and abusive
”, states this daily.
These apprentice actors or former apprentice actors denounce facts of “
moral harassment
”, a climate of “
terror
” and accuse their teacher “
of having sexually assaulted two students
”, including one then aged 16, which the said professor denies "
Firmly
" to
Liberation
, a newspaper in which are recounted rehearsals of Shakespeare's play,
Titus Andronicus, a
tragedy in which there is indeed mention of a rape, but in the dialogues only.
There the teacher staged the rape and demanded that his students perform it.
Not vigorously enough for his liking, so he took the stage for a demonstration that two young women, one of whom was a minor at the time of the events, described in
Liberation
as a sexual assault.
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