In the front page: the shock in France after the jihadist attack which left three dead in a church in Nice
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President Emmanuel Macron went to the scene of the attack with the mayor of Nice on October 29, 2020. REUTERS / Eric Gaillard / Pool
By: Norbert Navarro
7 min
Publicity
"
Nice: Islamist barbarism is unleashed against France,
" says
Le Figaro
.
"
The spiral of terror
", adds
Liberation
.
For the Catholic daily
La Croix
, a single credo: “To
hold
”.
Between terrorism and the coronavirus, France is "
under a leaden cover
", alarms in A
Le Parisien
.
So much for the titles.
So ?
Then
Le Figaro
ignites
.
"
Enough
", launches this conservative daily on the front page!
“
It is not for us to abjure, it is for the enemies of France, wherever they are, endogenous and exogenous, to bow.
It is therefore necessary to better control immigration, to expel all radicalized foreigners and to keep presumed dangerous nationals out of harm's way.
They are several thousand
, counts
Le Figaro.
But it is also imperative to fight relentlessly the whole backyard that carries Islamism slung.
And there are hundreds of thousands of individuals who put Sharia law above the rules of the Republic.
It is everyone's business to look the enemy in the face
”, lumberjack
Le Figaro
.
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In addition, there are other anxiety-inducing information.
In the region of Lyon, central-eastern France, the newspaper
Le Progrès
reports that an Afghan "
armed with a knife
" was arrested near the Lyon-Perrache station.
And this regional daily reports "
extreme tensions
" between Turkish and Armenian communities in Décines, near Lyon.
For its part, the press, which is close to the left of the French political spectrum, is once again trying to channel this indignation.
Attention, thus warns
Liberation
, the greatest danger would be to "
see France, where lives a large Muslim community, to be divided on the question of identity and religion, opening a boulevard to the extremes, what the Islamists seek precisely .
It would be irresponsible, in an unstable or even inflammable world, to let the poison of intolerance, rejection and hatred spread,
insists
Libé.
Any political leader who ventured to do so would bear a heavy responsibility for the course of events.
"
A new Defense Council is convened this morning
Yes, because France is “under
attack
”, launches the economic daily
Les Echos
, repeating in the front page the words of President Macron yesterday in Nice.
France is "
targeted by Islamist fury
", adds
Le Figaro
.
This daily stresses that “for a
long time exogenous, the terrorist threat weighing on France has also become endogenous.
On numerous occasions, Christian places of worship have been targeted by Islamists in Muslim countries.
But today they have also become targets in France, as recalled by the attack on Notre-Dame de Nice.
And as had already shown the assassination of Father Hamel, slaughtered by a jihadist in his church of Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray in 2016.
”
,
recalls
Le Figaro
, lamenting that, faced with this threat and in his fight against Islamist terrorism, “
France has always lacked allies
”.
So yes, new defense counsel this morning, because the Nice killing calls for an “
immediate political response
”, explains
Liberation
.
Which newspaper underlines that, for the French president, it is “
the nightmare, again.
After having had to resolve to plunge the country back into confinement that he wanted to avoid "at all costs
"
, Emmanuel Macron still has to face Islamist terror.
"
In a context of anger from part of the Muslim world towards him,
Libé
underlines it: "
No President of the Republic will have had to face so many (extremely serious crises) simultaneously
: health and economic crises of unprecedented magnitude are coming. combine with the security and diplomatic crises
”.
We can therefore measure it, Emmanuel Macron is stuck as never before a French president has been
The French president sees a “
political trap
” opening up under his
feet
, explains the newspaper
Le Parisien
.
Because in a France under the "
double layer of lead
" of the coronavirus and terrorism, "
the French expect protection and efficiency
", underlines this daily.
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However, yesterday, several French political leaders called for emergency laws to fight terrorism, even if it means calling into question the protection of certain individual freedoms, underlines this newspaper, citing the examples of the mayor of Nice Christian Estrosi, who, on the very scene of yesterday's attack, demanded that France “
exonerate itself from the laws of peace
” or from the president of the National Rally Marine Le Pen, who yesterday demanded that France adopt a “
war legislation
”.
"
It's a trap,
"
explains
a ministerial adviser
to the
Parisian
.
By putting in the minds of people that, “
to protect them, we must renounce the rule of law, they put us in difficulty.
(…) Because, suddenly, whatever we do, we will seem lax, while we are, in fact, responsible and attached to the rule of law.
"
Since midnight, it is therefore done, the whole of France is once again under cover. And the French approve.
According to an Odoxa poll for
Le Figaro
and
France Info
, seven out of ten French people are "in
favor
" of the reconfinement.
Lexicon pollster that
Le Figaro
prefers to translate from a phrase: "
the French are resigned to reconfinement
".
Shade.
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