In the spotlight: return to Conflans one week later
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President Emmanuel Macron in front of Samuel Paty's coffin, during the tribute ceremony to this professor from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, October 21, 2020 in Paris.
AP Photo / Francois Mori
By: Andréane Meslard
11 min
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Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, town where Samuel Paty was assassinated last week.
This history teacher beheaded by an Islamist terrorist, after showing his students caricatures of Mohammed made by
Charlie Hebd
o.
"
How about we open our eyes?"
», Asks
Marianne
very directly
, when
Le Point
tells the story of Samuel Paty, from his baccalaureate obtained brilliantly, his studies in literary preparation where his vocation was born until the famous October 16.
That day, when one of her 3rd grade students said that once again her history and geography teacher spoke about the controversy.
"
No it was not a hate message
»He assured before being assassinated on the way home from school.
After horror,
Le Point
goes back through the story, detail after detail, anecdote after anecdote, up to the clothing worn by Samuel Paty in preparation.
At the same time,
Marianne
exclaims: “
Until when do we go to bed
?
".
"
Let's stop with the
" they will not pass ",
the
" we will block "" can be read in the editorial of the newspaper which adds: "The
whole problem is that for twenty years, we have not made a block
", divided between "
The denial of some, the cowardice of others and the isolation of those who resist
".
Hence the importance of the weekly writing "
to take control
".
Le Point
and
Marianne
who then wonder in unison
What should a teacher say or not say, teach or not teach?
Le Point
gives the floor in particular to this history-geography teacher who fears this period of All Saints.
"
She has just completed the first two chapters of the year devoted to Byzantium and Carolingian Europe and, like all her colleagues, she must now approach the birth of Islam with her 5th year students
."
She confides: "
I am very careful
".
Religious subjects are not the only ones that pose a problem for teachers, explains
Le Point
: "
Colonialism, gender or sex education too
".
The goal, explains this other teacher: "
It is not to enter too much into the debate and to avoid controversy
".
In any case, faced with the complaints and reports made by many teachers, a high school teacher summarizes: "
We are alone, without instructions or support in the face of the law on secularism, we are told: get out of the way
".
Also on the front page, the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh
This separatist Azerbaijani territory, supported by Armenia, where a conflict has been going on for several weeks.
L'Obs
takes us to meet the Armenian actors of this conflict, through the photos of Lorenzo Meloni.
We are on the front line alongside the soldiers, deep in the hastily dug trenches, our eyes are drawn to the crossed hands of this woman in a dressing gown, resigned to look, taking refuge underground to escape yet another bombardment.
The very one who crosses this old lady, scarf on her head, also reclusive in the bowels of the ground, but her hands firmly placed on her knees, her gaze straight ahead.
"
Desperate clichés
" specifies the weekly, "
taken from the population hiding in caves and basements
".
Because above their heads nothing is going, evidenced by this photo of the Chouchi performance hall, bombarded, gutted, where only the seats still hold.
E-sport, in the columns of
M, Le magazine du Monde
this week
E-sport or electronic sport, "
which loses in the game of diversity
", the newspaper tells us.
An example is the League of Legends Worlds, a famous fighting video game.
In 2019, Paris hosted the event, during which “
five Chinese players won the final match against five Europeans, in front of
15,000 spectators.
No girl among the ten finalists, a vast majority of men in the stands,
"says the
M
, specifying then that"
among the 45 million people who watched the competition online, as among the players and amateurs, the imbalance appears much less obvious
”.
A former pro player, now employed at Ubisoft, says: "
Long denigrated, little girls and teenagers who played online, ended up resigning themselves and integrating
: the high level is not for them
".
And that's without counting the welcome they are given on different platforms: "
It is estimated that 20% of players new to an online game give up because of insults,
" said the same source.
The video game industry, recalls the magazine du
Monde
, which still represents "
120 billion dollars in turnover in 2019 [and] exceeds the sectors of cinema or music
".
Finally,
Le Parisien
tells us about what the inhabitants of rural areas lack
"
That morning, at the Le Clos de Coignères tobacco bar
(...),
the last one in Corbreuse, in the south of Essonne
(...),
there was not a regular at the bar, which was also crossed out. by white and red ribbons
”, we can read in the columns of the newspaper.
Everyone has said goodbye to conviviality - this is the word used by
Le Parisien -
since October 17, the date of the introduction of the curfew.
“
Since then,
” the manager continues, “
people have just come in and out to buy their bread or their newspaper.
In normal times, we would have spoken of the last game of PSG or the quinté of yesterday
.
A client is in despair a little further: “
My friends, I don't see them anywhere other than here.
A tobacco bar is the life of a village, it motivates me to leave my home
”.
However, if we are to believe the epidemiologist interviewed a few pages before, it is very likely that this curfew measure is not enough.
For him, we must expect that the second wave is worse than the first, because the first, "
was slowed down by confinement
".
Not sure, then, that conviviality will return anytime soon.
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