On the front page of the French press: headwinds from the east
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The front page of the French dailies Le Figaro and Le Monde, this Saturday, November 13, 2021 © Le Figaro / Le Monde / Montage RFI
By: Sébastien Duhamel Follow
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First of all, there is this wind from Moscow. And this "
warning from America
". “
The intensification of Russian military maneuvers near the Ukrainian border is closely scrutinized by Washington,
”
Le Figaro
tells us
. It was the subject of a trip by the US Secretary of State yesterday, Friday, November 12, 2021, to Ukraine. Anthony Blinken has reaffirmed “
unwavering
”
support
for Kiev and warns the Kremlin: “
the international community will not be fooled by Russian attempts to resort to its previous tactics
”. Mention of course to the attempt to annex Crimea that Washington still refuses to recognize, underlines
Le Figaro
.
Across the Atlantic, the Ukrainian issue is also unanimous between Republicans and Democrats, and the proof that the White House takes it very seriously, explains the newspaper, is that the director of the CIA in person made the travel to Moscow at the beginning of the month. An "
unusual visit
", during which the head of American intelligence would have warned Vladimir Poutine "
of the potential consequences of an increased threat against eastern Ukraine
". And also to warn him against the use of energy exports as a "
political weapon
". Just yesterday, we learned from
L'Opinion
, the Kremlin let it be known that Moscow would continue to deliver gas to Europeans.
A position against the threats launched by Belarus
"
Good cop and bad cop?"
Asks
L'Opinion
, because there is also the wind coming from Minsk.
President Lukashenko threatens to cut the gas to counter European sanctions, and the Europeans themselves "
fear escalation
", reports
Le Monde
.
"
The diplomatic standoff is intensifying while at least 2,000 migrants are still trapped at the border with Poland
."
What
Humanity
calls for its part
"
a no man's land of shame
".
Le Figaro
denounces for its part "
a hybrid war
" led by Minsk and an "
intolerable humanitarian situation
".
“
Children, women and men, thrown into the cold at the gates of Europe
”.
At least eight people have already died.
However, if the editorial in
Le Monde
invites us to resolve this humanitarian crisis, it also invites us not to give in to Lukashenko's blackmail.
Even if we are in front of a "
despicable instrumentalisation of migrants
", as Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, had already done before.
In France, the fight of undocumented workers
And during this time, the fight of Bagui, a 30-year-old Malian and his colleagues in the Paris region. “
78 undocumented workers on strike for several weeks to denounce the shenanigans
” of the temping company that employs them. It is the independent site
Streetpress
which tells us their ordeal: “
Overtime
is not paid, nor safety equipment, and in the event of an accident, they do not receive anything.
And the icing on the cake, when they dare to ask for the documents necessary for their regularization, their employer literally refuses. Even after two years of "
good and loyal service
" as in the case of Demba, a friend of Bagui who has been working for 5 years in this temporary agency.
Result: on October 22, more than 150 undocumented workers demonstrated in front of the premises of this company.
About sixty of them entered the building before being dislodged by the police.
At the start of the week,
StreetPress
tells us again
, the employer finally promised to deliver the documents.
Another promise.
So we still have to wait, but Demba and his colleagues no longer believe it.
In Mayenne, the police did not believe it either
How can we not briefly mention this news item which kept the newspapers in suspense for a few days? A 17-year-old jogger who disappeared, then found "
scarred
" in a kebab, "
twenty-four hours after her disappearance,
"
Libé
reminds us
. She had told investigators to have been the victim of a kidnapping, but it is not. The young girl admitted yesterday "to
have fabulated
". The Laval prosecutor announces that she will be prosecuted for the offense of imaginary denunciation. An offense "
punishable by six months in prison and a fine of 7,500 euros
", specifies
Libé
.
It can be expensive, lying!
The newspaper also recalls that there are famous precedents, as in 2004 already, when "
a young woman, non-Jewish, claimed to have been the victim of an anti-Semitic attack in the RER D
".
She had finally received a 4-month suspended sentence for the same crime of imaginary denunciation.
Six months suspended on the other hand for Sylvain "
Tsio
" Saadoun, this professor of a Jewish school who had claimed, in 2015, to have been attacked by 3 men claiming to be Islamic State.
Yes, it is expensive to lie!
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