It was already far too good to watch Roland Garros.
So how do you imagine you spent this sunny weekend following the news?
Don't panic, our summary of the last 48 hours is at your disposal.
1. A test concert at Bercy
A saliva test on D-Day and mouth watering for weeks ... It was the price to pay to attend the test concert organized in Bercy on Saturday evening.
On stage, Etienne de Crecy then Indochine did not have to force much to unleash the crowd weaned from lives for months.
The 5,000 people who were able to attend the performance will also have the satisfaction of having advanced our knowledge about the epidemic.
This full-scale study must indeed demonstrate that if they test negative for Covid-19 upstream, spectators are not at greater risk of becoming infected at the concert than in normal times.
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Five years ago and wheelbarrows, Indochina was invited by Jay-Z to play in the United States.
We put it back there in case you forgot ...
2. From Lille to Bastia, the linked languages
They were dozens in the streets in Lille, hundreds in Alsace or Corsica, thousands in Guingamp to defend respectively the teaching of Picard, Alsatian, Corsican and Breton.
“People are there because they are afraid that association schools will be closed.
The decision of the Constitutional Council (to censor immersive teaching) could deprive them of all their funding "and" calls into question an educational method used for more than 50 years ", declared the deputy of Morbihan Paul Molac, author of the law on regional languages.
"The Constitutional Council denied a democratic fact", launched for his part Ghjiseppu Turchini, Corsican language teacher, during the demonstration in Bastia.
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In Colmar, the president of the Grand-Est region received a large quantity of flour on his head during the demonstration.
A flour to which he reacted with irony ...
3. Manhunt in Dordogne
Lardin-Saint-Lazare did not expect such a weekend.
The inhabitants of this Dordogne village were confined while the gendarmerie found a former soldier who allegedly assaulted his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend and then shot in the direction of the gendarmes.
A vast gendarmerie operation was launched to find his trace.
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4. France puts pressure on Mali
Will the 5,100 soldiers of Operation Barkhane remain in Mali? Not sure, reading the interview given by Emmanuel Macron to the JDD this Sunday. The president declares that the French troops will leave the country if the regime in Bamako goes "in the direction" of radical Islamism. On Monday, the former special forces battalion commander arrested the president and the prime minister, civil guarantors for the transition. The initial version of an authoritarian impeachment officially became a resignation. Since then, Mali's allies and neighbors are worried. A dozen West African heads of state met this weekend in Ghana to decide on their response to the Malian military coup.
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Since Idriss Deby's death a month ago, the situation in Chad has also weighed on the future of Operation Barkhane.
5. Kanté leads the Blues to the title
Another good news for Didier Deschamps a few days before the Euro.
N'Golo Kanté, his tireless midfielder, is in sparkling form.
He shone on Saturday night against Manchester City in the Champions League final.
The victory of the Blues (1 to 0, goal from Kai Havertz) offers Thomas Tuchel, dismissed by PSG at Christmas, a beautiful revenge and the oligarch Roman Abramovich his second cup with Big ears.
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It's Mother's Day today.
No relation to the above, but it is already 7:30 p.m. and it would be high time to find a gift for the one who gave birth to you.
Good luck...
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