In the spotlight: the curfew, extended to 46 million French people
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A restaurateur is closing his establishment as the 9 p.m. curfew hour approaches, on October 17, 2020, in Paris.
AP Photo / Lewis Joly
By: Andréane Meslard
10 mins
Publicity
It is on the front page of
Figaro
and a multitude of regional titles this morning.
And the gap is widening between those who see themselves imposed the restriction, and the others
"
Our turn
" headlines
the Public Good
, French daily newspaper of the Côtes d'Or,
"
Couvre-feu dans les Ardennes
" can we read in one of
l'Ardennais
, which also places on the first page: the clock, severe and ruthless, indicating 9 p.m., obviously.
"
Aube under curfew
"
writes
l'Est Eclair
, "
Pyrénées Orientales under curfew
", that's the Independent,
"
We're closing!
"
exclaims
Monaco Matin
, while
the Mountain
calls for
"
Everyone at home
"
,
when
Paris Normandy
lets go of its despair with this sentence:
"
this virus is unstoppable
".
South West
prides itself on its A
"
region still resists
,"
it said, while
Vosges Matin
displays this relief worthy of examination day:
"
Vosges narrowly escaped curfew
" ...
To the precise moment all the same a little further the daily newspaper.
Le Figaro wonders in One
“
Where is the epidemic really?
»
: Well it is moving forward, it is progressing announces the daily life.
Like every day you will tell me.
But this time the Prime Minister Jean Castex did not go there by four ways.
The curfew has been extended to the departments of metropolitan areas already concerned and to 38 new ones, as well as to Polynesia.
"
Depending on the results obtained and the evolution of the epidemic, we will re-evaluate the device to possibly harden it
" indicated the head of government, adding that
"
to reverse the trend, everyone must put it into practice. of his
”.
For Jean Castex, the figures do not lie,
"the second wave is here
"
.
Frédéric Valletoux is the President of the Federation of French hospitals.
Asked by the daily, he explains that
“
if these partial measures are not enough, we will not be able to exclude a re-containment in the most tense areas.
Not to do so would be to accept that the hospital lines are overwhelmed and that patients are not taken care of.
Nobody wants it
”.
In this context, Le Parisien recounts very opaque behind the scenes at the National Assembly
"
Employees are worried about the lack of information on recently identified cases
" says the newspaper, there are at least seven diagnosed in recent days,
"
while the Assembly opposes them with medical confidentiality and measures taken
”
.
A trade unionist deplores a "
total denial (...) of strong gaps in information in the event of a positive case
", indicates the CFTC of employees.
Le Parisien
recounts the case of this deputy La République en Marche, who tested positive.
"
A contact case isolated himself in his office while awaiting the result of his test Thursday afternoon
."
Unlike the Senate, which recently launched a voluntary screening campaign, a parliamentary source regrets in the pages of the daily: there is
"
no will to screen
"
in the Assembly.
The newspaper
La Croix
for its part, looks back on the recent declarations of Pope Francis.
In a documentary dedicated to him, François defends the principle of a civil union between people of the same sex.
Rupture or continuity is a daily question.
For the member of the Pontifical Biblical Commission who expresses himself in the pages of the newspaper:
"
The first question to ask is that of the status of this word of the Pope and (...) the conditions under which it was pronounced
"
.
Too early to speak of a rupture indicates for his part a moralist theologian and psychoanalyst, still in the columns of
La Croix
, himself who specifies that above all,
"
work on how to recognize these unions
"
must be carried out.
For its part,
Liberation
wonders, under a photo of a homosexual couple kissing in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square:
"
Are Catholics ready for union around the Pope?"
"
Question asked and a little further,
Libé
quotes
"
the Vaticanist from the Italian daily La Stampa
:
"
For the moment, it's a feeling of the day after.
The mouths are sewn together but the tension is palpable, (...) The Vatican media have not made the slightest comment and hardly anyone speaks
”
”
.
Liberation which makes its front page on a completely different subject this Friday
A subject which is also based only on sewn-up mouths and heavy silences since it is a daily survey on gender-based and sexual violence in the gastronomic world.
Casseroles in the kitchen written
Libé
en Une.
“
As a woman in the restaurant business, it's simple: you are constantly pushing back.
This
is how this investigation begins, with the words of this chef, who has become independent because she is disgusted with the unpleasant behavior of her compatriots on the work plan.
The same goes for a colleague, also quoted by the newspaper
"
who made her ranges in popular establishments before opening her own store in Marseille, tired - I quote -" cock valves every five minutes, comments on the physique and wandering hands
”.
You can read it in
Liberation.
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