In the headlines: the discomfort of the public slap to President Macron

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Most weeklies and magazines having already completed their closure, only Marianne devoted her front page to the aggression of President Emmanuel Macron this week.

© Marianne

By: Norbert Navarro

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The scene takes place last Tuesday in the south-east of France.

Emmanuel Macron took off the jacket.

In the gymnastics step, the president comes to shake hands, including that of Damien Tarel.

It was then that this 28-year-old temp grabbed him by the arm and slapped him, the images of which immediately looped on the screens.

Most weeklies and magazines having been taken aback, constraints of closure oblige, it is hardly that the weekly

Marianne

which had time to develop this disturbing sequence.

The slap of June 8 came brutally to remind these deep Macronie tensions, that deconfinement had been rocking for a few days in an atmosphere of optimism, even a beginning of euphoria

 ", underlines this magazine.

According to

Marianne

, “ 

this slap also arises as the shining symbol of a five-year term under pressure.

Elected on an extremely narrow electoral base, by default some would say, and even "by breaking and entering", as he himself said, Emmanuel Macron did not take this into account.

In any case, not right away

 ”. 

In a dismayed France, the condemnation of this gesture was unanimous

And its author was immediately condemned by justice.

But then, why this uneasiness? 

Evoking the aggressor of Emmanuel Macron,

Marianne

underlines that it is not only a question of " 

a moron offering himself his quarter of an hour of fame by slapping the President of the Republic with the buffoon cry of" Montjoie, Saint -Denis! "

 ", It should also be seen" 

the worrying sign of a total absence of limits among a growing part

 "of the French.

And this weekly invites its readers not to be reassured by the spectacle of the beautiful unanimity of disapproval of the political class " 

overplaying the responsibility

 ". Make no mistake, this newspaper urges, “ 

if the decay of our public life can be read in the gesture of a weirdo quite happy to exist for a few minutes and in the comments, on all social networks, of those who justify the gesture in the name of their detestation of Emmanuel Macron (...), this sequence concludes a political moment in which the lowering of functions and institutions was not the act of citizens but of their representatives (...) The integration of politics into the spectacle (…) is indeed the work of the politicians themselves

 ”.

So ?

So beyond President Macron alone,

Marianne

enjoins " 

the sleeping

 " to take the measure of " 

the divide between the people and the rulers

 ".

Otherwise, warns this weekly, " 

the extent of the democratic crisis which is destroying France

 ", but also " 

the feeling, among many citizens, of an illegitimacy of elected officials (which) is increasingly leading to nihilism. will spoil in chaos

 ”.

In Algeria, yesterday, the early legislative elections were unsurprisingly shunned by voters

Half of the contending parties were clearly Islamo-conservative. And the possibility of their victory out of the polls alarm secular Algeria. In fact, in

Le Point

, the writer and essayist Kamel Daoud explains " 

why" they "are winning in Algeria (and elsewhere) 

". " 

They

 " are the Islamists. Too long to be developed in full here, we will note the demonstration of Kamel Daoud that the latter initially regrets that " 

the magnifying glass effect in the West on secular, progressive, (or) deceptive elites. Because we question "democracy activists", because we see them protesting regularly, expressing themselves with the eloquence of the common language against dictatorships, because they are active on the screens, express themselves in French (or in English) and because they encapsulate the codes of democratic victimhood well, they are believed to be numerous and capable of influencing reality. Which is wrong,

 ”he says.

The magnifying glass effect is misleading, but not only ... In

Le Point

, the columnist there also explains that " 

the Islamists win because they have known how to build a formidable and punitive media strike force, a galaxy of associations effective and clear language for voters.

(…) Balance sheet?

In the "south", the democrat loses because he is isolated, his visibility is virtual, he has no television or mosque.

How does this concern France,

asks Kamel Daoud in

Le Point?

In all: an emirate in the South, these are sandstorms in the North

 ”.

Thursday, June 17, in four days, is scheduled the return of Laurent Gbagbo in Côte d'Ivoire, after ten years of absence

For the occasion,

Le Journal du Dimanche

made Laurent Gbagbo its “

 leader of the week

 ”.

The former head of state assures him: " 

he is not animated by any spirit of revenge and wants to work for reconciliation

 ", reports this weekly.

Laurent Gbagbo?

An extraordinary political animal which, despite exile, has retained control over the Ivorian Popular Front

" and which "

enjoys a strong popularity within the popular layers, of which it wants to be the defender

 ", states the

JDD

, by stressing in particular that his "

 alliance 

" with the " 

third national sponsor

 ", Henri Konan Bédié " 

worried

 ".

Without specifying who ...

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