On the front page: the death of Soumaïla Cissé
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Soumaïla Cissé.
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By: Norbert Navarro
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His activists called him “
Soumi
”.
He was released last October at the same time as French humanitarian Sophie Pétronin.
He was presented as the most serious contender for the supreme magistracy in the future presidential election expected in 2022 in Mali.
He was 71 years old.
His last press confidences will be on newsstands in six days, on December 31, and they will be read in the quarterly
La Revue
.
“
To be free is a privilege.
I didn't know.
Now, I know it
", says Soumaïla Cissé to this magazine, in which the ex-hostage recounts the tribulations of the jihadist captive that he was in the sands, from March 25 to October 8, and says his will to"
get up to date
”politically in view of the said presidential election announced for 2022 by the military junta in power in Bamako, states
La Revue
...
“
This ordeal did not domesticate me, it strengthened me.
No doubt I had to live it to know that I was really capable of being a free man
, "he said to this magazine, poetically evoking the"
sublime
beauty
in the desert
"of the celestial vault that he contemplated during his captive nights under the stars ... His captors did not get the better of him.
A certain virus, yes.
The coronavirus, precisely. While the strain discovered in England has just been detected in France, a new South African variant has been spotted. It also worries researchers
It is in the good city of Tours, center-west of France that, for the first time, the strain - let's say “
British
” - of the coronavirus
has just been spotted
in a patient residing in England.
As for the new variant of the virus from South Africa, it "
is suspected of causing serious forms in young adults
", points
Le Parisien
.
And this daily notices it, if the South African-type virus "
raises questions
", it is because it is of the "
conquering
" type.
As a South African scientist from the University of KwaZulu-Natal recently pointed out, "
never had we seen a single line dominate like this
", or "
spread so quickly
(...)
Two months, that's it. which was enough for it to supplant all the other strains in circulation,
”
reports Le Parisien
.
A beautiful story to cheer up on these Christmas celebrations, an episode from the Bible itself, the one that made Salome go down in history: the court of the throne of Herod has been found. But it is there that by dancing for the king, the daughter of Herodias would have asked (and obtained) the head of Saint-Jean-Baptiste!
Welcome to Jordan, on a peak at the top of a huge cliff overlooking the Dead Sea.
It is there that more than two thousand years ago, was erected the palace of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, in the heart of the fortress of Macheronte.
Excavating the remains, a Hungarian team of archaeologists discovered the throne room.
“
A courtyard of nearly 650 square meters bordered by a peristyle
,” says
Le Figaro
.
In a corner of this space, a semicircular niche: a space for a throne, perhaps that of Herod the Great or of his son Herod Antipas.
"
Faith of archaeologists (and of
Figaro
), this is where “
several major episodes of the Bible and biblical times would have taken place
”.
According to the Holy Scriptures, Salomé, daughter of Princess Herodias, "
subjugates Herod by dancing for him
" (and the artists who will take hold of this incredible episode of the Bible will imagine the famous Dance of the Seven Veils of Salomé).
"
Ask me what you want ... What you ask of me, I will give it to you, even if it is half of my kingdom
", said the king to him (who had obviously lost his head).
What is Salomé asking for?
Exactly.
Nothing less than “
the head of John the Baptist
”,
recalls Le Figaro
, referring to the prophet who, according to the Holy Bible, had himself baptized Christ in the waters of the Jordan!
His head served on a platter?
It's no longer dancing, it's presumptuousness ...
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