In the headlines: government charge against opponents of vaccination and the health pass
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More than 100,000 opponents of the Covid-19 vaccination and the health pass demonstrated on Saturday July 17 in France, as here in Paris.
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By: Norbert Navarro
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More than 100,000 opponents of vaccination and the health pass
demonstrated once again yesterday Saturday in France
.
On the eve of the presentation in the Council of Ministers of the bill on the extension of the health pass and the vaccination obligation of caregivers, the government spokesman, in an interview with the newspaper
Le Parisien Dimanche
, has no rather harsh words against the opponents of these measures announced by Emmanuel Macron.
Faced with an outbreak of cases of contamination never seen "
since the start of the crisis
" of the coronavirus, assures Gabriel Attal, the latter denounces what he calls "
a capricious and defeatist fringe, very minority, who would be happy to stay in chaos and inactivity
”. And the government spokesman sounded the alarm: "
henceforth, it is either general vaccination or the viral tsunami, there is no alternative
", he loggers in
Le Parisien Dimanche
.
In
Le Journal du Dimanche,
the Minister of the Economy, for his part, warns restaurant owners who do not respect the upcoming obligation for them to control the health passes of their customers.
"
The sanctions must be dissuasive
," Bruno Le Maire told the JDD.
Emmanuel Macron's popularity drops among young people
In any case, this stiffening against opponents of vaccines and the generalization of the health pass causes damage to the popularity rating of Emmanuel Macron among young people.
Macron "
delights the vaccinated France, but displeases young people
", launches
Le Journal du Dimanche
.
According to an Ifop survey for this weekly, if with 38% satisfied in June, Emmanuel Macron saw his popularity rating drop by only 2 points compared to the month of May, "
the discontent of young people is obvious
", points
Le JDD
, the prospect of the health pass increases hostility to the president by 13 points for 18-24 year olds and 7 points for 25-49 year olds.
Transfer of power at the head of the staff of the French armies
It is in three days that General Thierry Burckhard will succeed General François Lecointre at the head of the staff of the French armies. A transfer of power that comes as, on June 10, Emmanuel Macron announced the scheduled end of the French military operation Barkhane in the Sahel.
And this week again,
L'Express
underlines that if the French troops “
obtained remarkable tactical successes on a ground as vast as Europe, by dealing very hard blows to the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara and to Al- Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (…) the strategic failure is obvious. Jihadism has spread throughout West Africa to the Gulf of Guinea, destabilizing Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire. The legitimacy of the intervention is undermined by the coups d'état in Mali and Chad,
”states this weekly.
As for Barkhane's transition to the multilateral force Takouba, it is "a
great illusion
", insists this newspaper.
According to
L'Express
, France is "
completely isolated from Europeans, who have no intention of engaging in a stillborn operation
".
And this magazine believes that "
the war against jihadism in the Sahel cannot be won because the strength of radicalized militant groups lies in the weakness and complicity of States, Mali in the lead
".
Arrival of the Tour de France
It is this Sunday the arrival of the Tour de France.
A cycling race, but not only.
The Tour is also a myth.
It was the semiologist Roland Barthes who pointed it out about sixty years ago, recalls
Marianne
.
However, the function of a myth being "
the structuring
", the Tour de France "
appears to us as the most living residue of the Third Republic
", it is "
the seasonal epiphany of the nation
".
As this magazine argues, the Tour de France “
looks like the maps of geography hung in the classes of our childhood schools.
He brings them to life.
In front of the eyes of the little people, and in their hearts, France, the one that the school spoke to them about, took flesh through the velocipedic exploits of their fellow men, hard-working commoners, the "convicts of the road. "
".
And so it is that “
while the school taught us our belonging to France, tearing us away from ourselves to attach ourselves to France, the Tour, on the contrary, intimately incorporated France into each of them. us, making it as alive as it is immediately sensitive,
”explains
Marianne
.
The Tour de France, from now on, would no longer work on the construction of a national identity
According to
Marianne, "today it is nothing more than a collective exercise of nostalgia: it resuscitates in our memories, twenty days a year, a world that has fallen into decay, the dead universe (identical to that which animates" La Glory of my father "-
by Marcel Pagnol Editor's note
- and certain songs by Charles Trenet," Douce France "or" Route nationale 7 "from a France that we are unable to mourn,
" sighs
Marianne
. in the Tour "
the impossible mourning of the" Sweet France "
".
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