In the spotlight: still no new confinement in France, but Jean Castex hardens the tone
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French Prime Minister Jean Castex.
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By: Norbert Navarro
8 min
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As
Le Parisien
notes
, the Prime Minister calls for "
the greatest vigilance
" and respect for barrier gestures as the school holidays approach, from today in France.
But in fact, as pointed out this newspaper, Jean Castex has insisted that "
if containment were to be decided
" during the school holidays, the intention of the executive would be "
to allow people to return to their domicil
e ".
With this pandemic, the slightest relaxation comes at a high price. And the Prime Minister said it again last night to the French ... without necessarily having convinced them:
Le Figaro
finds that Jean Castex
, last night, adopted a "
martial tone
" in the face of the threat of variants of the coronavirus, calling "
for collective discipline, for general mobilization
".
In other words, "
it is not because the executive for the moment rules out generalized reconfinement - except in Mayotte, where it has just been implemented - that the French must relax their efforts
", translates this daily.
What do the French think of it?
According to an Odoxa poll for the same
Figaro
and for France Info, 7 of them (69% exactly) expect a new confinement, 60% of them still do not trust the government to manage the crisis health related to the coronavirus epidemic (a mistrust that has changed very little), but also and above all 81% of French people believe that the government does not know "
where it is going
", and 73% think it is not telling them "
The truth
"!
Three in four French people are not reassured by the government, and 71% accuse it of not having taken "
the right decisions at the right time
".
In The Hague, the Netherlands, the International Criminal Court unsurprisingly found Dominic Ongwen guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity:
Were weighing on him in total "
nearly 70 reasons which sweep away almost everything that the penal code represses: murders, rapes, kidnappings, torture, looting, enslavement and even pregnancies or forced marriages
", lists
Le Figaro
.
Which daily reveals a paradox, emphasizing that "
justice condemned
(yesterday)
Dominic Ongwen
(...)
when it would have protected the same Dominic Ongwen thirty years earlier
".
Because before becoming an executioner, this 45-year-old Ugandan was first a victim, after being kidnapped when he was still a child and then turned into a "
fighter
", in other words by fighting ruthlessly, at the head of the Sinia brigade, one of four of the LRA, the Lord's Resistance Army of warlord Joseph Kony.
An existence "
marked by blood, his own and that of others,
"
sighs
Le Figaro
.
The concerns financing of the French Socialist Party, the very "
hollandiste
" Stéhane Le Foll protests:
Being reminded that the PS was forced to lay off 21 employees and reduce its operating costs,
Le Parisien
reports that the PS has also decided to "
flatten
" its relations with the federations, but also with the University Office of socialist research and the National Federation of Socialist and Republican elected officials in order to "
ensure a better distribution of endowments between the party and these bodies,
" said
the treasurer of the PS
to the
Parisian
.
Accounts and disappointments that annoy Stéphane Le Foll.
“
There is no transparency.
We have no figures on the payroll, on all expenses
,
fulminates this former minister of François Hollande in
Le Parisien
.
It looks like there will be no primary, and now no money, so no congress or presidential campaign.
However, no campaign, no victory!
".
CQFD!
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