In the spotlight: Laurent Gbagbo innocent
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Laurent Gbagbo.
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By: Norbert Navarro
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"
It is the most beautiful day of my life
", launches in
La Croix
Grégoire Tibé, local official in Abidjan of the Ivorian Popular Front, "
the party of Laurent Gbagbo
", states, on the spot, this newspaper.
"
Ten years of trial, ten years of suffering and today, the light: the truth has triumphed
"
,
rejoices in this same French Catholic body this other activist by the name of Félix Doffou.
“
Despite a ten-year absence, the former head of state has remained very popular in Côte d'Ivoire
,” says
La Croix.
Witness the horns, dances, and songs sung after the announcement, Wednesday March 31
(…)
Because his supporters believe that he is the essential link in national reconciliation
”.
And
La Croix
to point out the
“
new failure of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
”.
According to the ICC, "
the evidence presented by Fatou Bensouda was
" exceptionally weak ",
as established by the trial chamber in January 2019
", recalls this newspaper.
So, Gbagbo, the return?
Exactly, bid
Le Point Afrique
, this decision of the ICC opens the way "
to the return of the former Ivorian president to his country
", the Ivory Coast "
where the shadow of Laurent Gbagbo still hovers
",
underlines the site of this magazine
.
In France, despite a downward revision of growth expected this year, the Minister of the Economy is optimistic about the economic recovery after the coronavirus crisis:
Even if, because of the new confinement, its expected growth in 2021 will be revised "
from 6% to 5%
", as Bruno Le Maire announced
in
Le Journal du Dimanche
, "
France will be able to bounce back
", assures the minister. economy.
According to an Ifop poll for
Le JDD,
only one in three French people trust the government to “
effectively cope with the coronavirus
” (only 35% confidence is three points less than at the end of February).
Two out of three French people consider that the presidential commitment of a vaccinated France for the start of the September "
will not be kept, and 39% of those who voted for Macron in 2017
" no longer give him credit "",
notes
Le Journal Sunday
.
Political again.
A book plus an exclusive interview… Édouard Philippe, the former Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron, broke the silence this week:
The book,
Impressions et lines clair
, co-signed with his former political advisor, Gilles Boyer, the interview with the weekly
Le Point
, on the front page of which the salt and pepper of his beard stands out against a black background, more a televised intervention at 8 p.m. French time this evening, Édouard Philippe is back.
In view of the presidential election next year in France?
He is careful not to say it to the
Point
, but without saying "
no
".
Ipsos survey in support,
Le Point
emphasizes that Édouard Philippe
is "
the only political figure to cross the 50% mark
" of favorable opinions at this time in France, since "
56% of French people have a good opinion of the 'former Prime Minister
(against 28% a bad one) ”.
On the front page of Le
Point
, Édouard Philippe says he likes “
being in charge
”!
Which ones?
Asking the question leads
Le Point
to wonder "
what is cooking
".
Impressions et lines clair
will be published this Wednesday, April 7, at JC Lattès.
Another book expected that day in bookstores in France.
Entitled
Macron's African Trap
, it is signed by journalists Antoine Glaser and Pascal Airault:
Two authors who "
list the pitfalls against which the head of state came up against in wanting to write
" a new national story "
with Africa
,
explains
Paris Match
.
From Mali, where he tried to get President IBK out of his lethargy to Côte d'Ivoire where he failed to convince President Ouattara not to stand for a third term,
”points out this weekly.
Reading Antoine Glaser and Pascal Airault's book,
Paris Match
underlines, “
Macron's four years of presidency will have shown him how the Franco-African relationship is strewn with pitfalls.
From the progress of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Sahel to the difficulty of setting up the restitution of cultural property, he was able to measure the extent of the difficulties
”.
Paris Match
also notes that by way of conclusion, "
it is President Macron himself who answers the authors of this very comprehensive work
".
Macron's African trap
will be published by Fayard.
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