In the headlines: police anger after the murder of a sergeant during an anti-drug intervention
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Police officers secure the site after the murder of a police officer who was participating in a drug control.
May 5, 2021 © AFP - CLEMENT MAHOUDEAU
By: Norbert Navarro
10 mins
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The sergeant was killed during an intervention against dealers in Avignon.
On the ground, the silhouette of a man is vaguely drawn in orange paint.
At the level of the head, sand, to conceal and absorb the blood.
Around, flowers, candles, condolences.
Kneeling on the ground at the crime scene, a woman lays a rose.
The photo is published by
Le Parisien
.
Here fell Brigadier Eric Masson.
He was 36 years old, he had a wife and two children.
Anger, indeed, among the police because it was during a banal drug control that this policeman was coldly shot by a dealer who fled on a scooter.
The police men ? They have become "
a target
", formulates this daily. For terrorists, but not only… In the fight against delinquency, there too, “
the bolts are falling. The dealers are more and more often armed
”, points
Le Parisien
.
In
Le Figaro
, the Minister of the Interior evokes "the war" waged against trafficking. The police are "
in the process of regaining ground against the traffickers
" assures Gerald Darmanin. But "
this murder unfortunately shows that, affected in the heart of their traffic, the dealers are destabilized and try to impress us
", he adds. Only here, admits the Minister of the Interior in
Le Figaro
, “
in one out of three drug cases, weapons are seized. This was not the case 6 or 7 years ago
”.
So ?
So
Le Figaro
portrayed France as “
a country riddled with violence on every street corner, where arms and drug trafficking is exploding;
where thugs feel at home, on a motorbike or… on a scooter!
They taunt the police and gendarmes, whom they attack daily, and the justice system, whose weaknesses they know
”.
Also, considers in substance this daily, instead of attacking the soldiers, for the most part retired and who sound the alarm on the degradation of security in France, the State would be wiser to fight "
the enemy, the real one ”.
Which, according to this newspaper, is
"in the street, playing justice, shooting point blank at the police
."
Politics: the mayor of Nice announces his turn to leave the Republicans
This departure plunges the right a little more into the crisis, after the announcement by Prime Minister Jean Castex last Sunday, of a joint list between the presidential party La République en Marche and Les Républicains for the regional elections in the South region, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
In an interview with
Le Figaro
, Christian Estrosi denounces "
the drift of a faction which seems to have taken the leadership of the party hostage
" playing into the hands of the National Rally and Marine Le Pen. According to the mayor of Nice, in the South-East of France, the Republicans must "
say clearly, that in all circumstances and in all elections, they will block the far right before anything else,
" said Christian Estrosi to
Figaro
, “
the in-between, and I dare say the“ at the same time ”, on this question is intolerable because it insults our values (…) I'm leaving LR
”.
According to an Odoxa poll for
Le Figaro
and
France Info
, 6 out of 10 French people (59%) believe that the government majority's support for the LR list in the South region is "
an electoral maneuver by the government to divide the right
".
According to this poll, six out of ten French people (62%) also think that Emmanuel Macron "
takes advantage
" of the regional elections of next June to "
apply a strategy of division of the right in view of the presidential election
" of 2022 in France, further points out
Le Figaro
.
The American request for the lifting of vaccines against Covid-19, finally
Seven months ago, South Africa and India had unsuccessfully demanded the lifting of patents on vaccines.
Today, Europe is following in the footsteps of the United States, but dragging its feet.
It was before the World Trade Organization that three times in seven months, France, Germany and Denmark opposed the lifting of intellectual property on vaccines against the coronavirus in order to protect the interests of their pharmaceutical industries.
Here they are dribbled by the United States!
By calling for the lifting of patents on these vaccines, Joe Biden is realizing what the newspaper
Les Echos
considers to be a “
masterstroke
”. Because, according to the French economic daily, the American president "
gives the impression of flying to the aid of the whole of humanity and places Europe in the inglorious position of follower
". As this newspaper admits, the demand of the United States "
has an immense virtue: that of putting the poor countries back at the center of the game
".
Certainly, but "
more than six months have been lost
", deplores Pauline Londeix in
Mediapart
.
The co-founder of the Observatory for transparency in drug policies considers
the American decision to be
“
historic
”.
And on the thread of this online newspaper, Pauline Londeix believes that Emmanuel Macron has been "
blinded"
by the
"pharmaceutical lobby
".
It is well known, love is blind ...
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