On the front page: violence, a lot of violence
Audio 04:59
Cover of the magazine Marianne and of the Parisien Week-end of May 16, 2021 © Montage RFI
By: Sébastien Duhamel
11 mins
Publicity
I would have liked to serve you on a gentle Sunday morning, but the weeklies decided otherwise. First of all, there is violence against women. “
Enough!
», Cries the front page of the
Parisien Today In France Weekend
, which
gives
us the
interview of Valérie Bacot
. Her much-publicized story is that of a 40-year-old woman who “
faces life imprisonment for having killed, in 2016, her ex-father-in-law who became her husband
.
A manipulative pervert who raped her when she was 12 years old, and with whom she will have four children,
”
Today in France
tells us
. He beat her, prostituted her. Valérie Bacot publishes a testimonial book: "
I was an object that belonged to her
», She says.
His trial will open on June 21.
"
She was called Chahinez
",
also displays
Today in France
.
The magazine looks back on a sinister news item.
“
On May 4, this mother of three was burnt alive by her husband, near her home in Gironde.
Already convicted of domestic violence, the man did not have the right to approach him,
”
we learn.
It is the 39th feminicide in France since January.
Various facts omnipresent in the public debate
We are talking about the security problem as a whole, perhaps a little too present, even downright over-represented according to some. "
Violence, did you say violence?"
", It is even"
hyperviolence
", underlines
Marianne
. “
Specialists have been tearing each other apart
” for years.
“
Two camps are opposed to know if, yes or not, a real increase is recorded
” in our country, explains the weekly. But between over-media coverage, political recovery from all sides and opinions of divergent experts, one thing is certain in any case for
Marianne
: even if this is not always verified in the statistics: the French have the feeling that violence is increasing.
Obviously, “
the images jostle at an accelerated pace, they pile up. Then fade away,
”we read. "
Who still remembers,
asks the weekly,
this mayor of Signes, shot in August 2019 because he was trying to oppose a savage dump in his town?" Who knows who Paul Voise is, a retiree beaten up by burglars in 2002? The name of Stéphanie Monfeture, slaughtered in the airlock of the Rambouillet police station barely a month ago is already fading
,
”
deplores
Marianne
. And this week, it was therefore the death of Chahinez and that of a police officer, “
shot dead in the middle of Avignon
”, which
“
upset France
”
.
Meanwhile, with the security discourse precisely - cause or consequence -, in
Le Point
, the political scientist Dominique Reynié, professor at Sciences Po, director of Fondapol and former UMP candidate for the Regional in 2015 notes that "
the rightization of ideas is a deep
'
movement
in our society.
And for him, this surge in right-wing values "
is a reality not only in France, but in Europe
"
.
The violence of difficult ends of life versus the right to die with dignity
It is an eminently topical debate there too, which touches on morality and ethics: the right to euthanasia.
The Obs
brings its stone to the building with the testimony of Nicolas Bedos, the son of the now deceased comedian. “
My father wanted to die differently,
” he explains in a text written in his pen.
Read to better understand, “
Joseph's choice
”, this truly striking and rare photo report. “
Joseph lived in the Vercors massif. Suffering from a degenerative disease, he decided to die in Switzerland on his 72nd birthday on August 20, 2020 ”
.
The Obs
followed his last days. The last party with friends, the trip with loved ones, the ingestion of deadly barbiturates, and then the last breath surrounded by his wife and two sons. However, Joseph left happy. He was able to watch, one last time, the film
Les Invasions Barbares,
underlines
L'Obs
, probably his favorite.
He was even able to see again before leaving the top of the hill on which his father took him to pick morels when he was a child.
Joseph died, and it was his choice.
The living deprived of choice
How not to have thoughts for our colleague Olivier Dubois, hostage of the jihadists in the Sahel.
Le Point
, one of his employers, sent him his this week.
If he listens to us like Sophie Pétronin or Ingrid Betancourt in their time - and we hope that he listens to us - we join Le
Point
in giving him our support.
How not to have a word also for Véronique Roche and Véronique Pénotet?
M, the magazine du Monde
presents them to us. Two strangers who, by dint of courage and self-sacrifice, conquered their addiction to opioids. But how many more still caught in the drug nets of painkillers, tramadol of oxycodine and other fentanyl? It's "
a prescription nightmare
," writes
Le Magazine du Monde
. "
After the United States
", it is now "
a French evil
", he displays in One.
How not to talk, finally, of the social and economic violence experienced by many foreigners in France.
L'Express
describes to us “
the
great hypocrisy
” that reigns around labor immigration. The figures speak for themselves: last year, 220,000 residence permits were issued against a meager total of 27,000 work visas. As for the others? Many find themselves stuck "
in precarious situations, at the mercy of sometimes unscrupulous employers
" or the administration
.
"
The difficulties may well be known, nothing changes
",
for "
fear of public opinion
", observes
L'Express
on a politically sensitive subject.
In short: courage, let's flee!
Physical, moral, social… Yes, there is too much violence in the press this week.
Newsletter
Receive all international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_FR
Newspaper
France
Health and medicine
Immigration
French politics