In the spotlight: floods in Germany
Audio 04:10
Giant landslide caused by flooding, Friday July 16, in Erfstadt, near Cologne, Germany.
© AP - Rhein-Erft-Kreis
By: Norbert Navarro
8 mins
Publicity
Of
deadly weather
unprecedented caused considerable damage. It is the worst natural disaster in Germany since the end of World War II. "
Desolation
", launches
Le Parisien
; "
A tsunami of mud and water
"; "
A tragedy
"; “
Everywhere the same images. Houses swept away, towns as if gutted, impressive craters
”; "
The wave of mud brought devastation and death
"; "
Cars and trucks embedded in each other, portions of motorways and bridges torn off, panzers clearing medieval alleys lined with devastated white half-timbered houses
".
The wrecking formulas are linked this morning to the reading of the columns of the
Parisian
, illustrated by photos of disasters and infographics on the floods which swept everything over a region straddling several borders.
These floods also devastated part of Belgium, in particular
The flat country is "
in shock
", notes
Le Figaro
on the spot
. And for good reason, the emergency services have often been failing. "
In Liège, where the river has reached historic levels, it is a man who, Thursday, saw, from afar, the house of his companion's grandmother collapsing and who will learn a little later of the death. of it,
relates
Le Figaro. Near Pepinster, also in the Walloon region, it is inhabitants who spend fourteen hours on a roof without seeing the slightest help arriving.
”However, this newspaper completes,“
Belgium can count on the support of several European countries, including France, which have responded to the country's call for help (…) While the solidarity of the population is being organized throughout the country, these hundreds foreign rescuers will not be too many to help the many Belgian disaster victims.
"
Also on the front page, Macron's announcements widely approved by the French
On the vaccination obligation of caregivers as on the implementation of the health pass, their support is broad.
According to an Ipsos survey for
Le Parisien
and France Info, 62% of French people are in favor of setting up the health pass and 69% approve of the obligation to vaccinate caregivers.
Measures announced Monday evening by the French president.
60% of those polled say they are in favor of compulsory vaccination for all French people.
Regarding the economic reforms mentioned by Emmanuel Macron, 72% of those polled are in favor of a pension reform "
once the epidemic is under control
", but 61% of the French are opposed to the reduction to 64 years of the legal
retirement
age. retirement.
Unheard of in France, the incumbent Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti was indicted yesterday by the Court of Justice of the Republic
And despite the support of the president and the government, the unease is palpable. When the news broke yesterday, “
it's an understatement to say that the executive was expecting it. He sought to minimize the event
, notes
Le Parisien
. Shortly after the announcement, Prime Minister Jean Castex let it be known in a press release that he "retains all his confidence
"
in the former tenor of the bar (...) No question, therefore, of applying the Balladur jurisprudence
" , underlines this newspaper. "
That the time is long gone when the candidate Macron, during the 2017 campaign, had promised to take over this custom according to which a minister under examination must resign from his post,
sighs again
The Parisian.
Like one man, Macronie united behind his minister
”.
An indictment which "
sows trouble
", underlines in A
Le Figaro
.
Because “
the business has changed scale
, points out this daily.
The indictment of the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti is now a political issue
”.
Admittedly, admits
Le Figaro, “
the presumption of innocence is essential.
But politically, we will have to hold on
”.
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