The virus is in all the newspapers so, to escape it for a weekend, you haven't opened any.

Don't panic, we're here to summarize what you missed during the last 48 hours ...

1. The anti-passes parade in number

In Paris, they were more than 18,000, between 3,700 and 6,000 in Montpellier, more than 2,000 in the streets of Toulouse.

The demonstrations of anti-health pass and anti-tax experienced a very clear rebound on Saturday, with 105,200 participants throughout France according to the Ministry of the Interior, a mobilization more than quadrupled compared to the previous one, on December 18.

The previous day of mobilization had gathered, on December 18, 25,500 people.

There was a break on December 26 and January 2, due to the holidays.

The peak of mobilization of opponents of vaccination or the health pass was reached on August 7 with 237,000 demonstrators throughout France.

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2. Taubira in the primary

The candidate “envisaged” for the 2022 presidential election, Christiane Taubira, announced Sunday that she would submit to the result of the Popular Primary, a citizens' initiative scheduled for January 27 to 30, of which she will accept “the verdict”. The left is fragmented into five main candidates, none of them able to compete in the polls with the rights and Emmanuel Macron. Christiane Taubira calls on "citizens who want change to move in order to kick the butt of those" refusing the union, by registering for the vote at the end of January.

Presidential still:

The LR presidential candidate, Valérie Pécresse, organized a press point this Saturday at her campaign headquarters.

She lambasted Emmanuel Macron, speaking of a president "pyromaniac" and "disconnected from the deep aspirations" of the French.

3. Bloody repression in Kazakhstan

The riots that rocked Kazakhstan this week left at least 164 people dead, according to a new report drawn up by the country's presidency on Sunday. This figure could not be confirmed by independent sources. The situation remained very tense on Sunday, when the former head of Kazakhstan's secret service was arrested for treason, after being sacked following the riots that rocked the country. At the same time, Russian President Vladimir Poutine and his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev had a "long" telephone conversation to discuss the crisis situation. They agreed to stay in "permanent" contact, the Kremlin announced on Saturday.

More info:

Why has the situation deteriorated so quickly in Kazakhstan?

A putsch and a counter-putsch within power have taken shape in recent days, replies Arnaud Dubien, one of the two experts we interviewed.

4. A setback for Djokovic?

Will Novak Djokovic play the Australian Open? During a public hearing scheduled for Monday morning at 10 a.m. local time (midnight Sunday French time), federal judge Anthony Kelly must examine the appeal of the world No. 1, whose visa was canceled on his arrival in the middle of the week and who is , since, consigned in a detention center. Hostile to vaccines, Djokovic obtained an exemption from compulsory vaccination to enter Australia on the grounds of a positive Covid-19 test on December 16, according to his lawyers. But a previous infection with Covid-19 is not a valid reason, in this country, not to be vaccinated. Djokovic also participated in several public events the following days, without wearing a mask, which earned him new controversy.

The info in addition:

He plays, and even plays very well at the beginning of the year.

Gaël Monfils won at 35 the eleventh title of his career, this weekend in Adelaide.

And that bodes well for the Australian Open ...

5. The return of football

The expected poster is for this evening with the trip of PSG to Lyon (live on our site) but we played all weekend in France in stadiums sounding hollow, the attendance being limited to 5,000 people. to fight against the spread of Covid.

Lens won in extremis against Rennes (1-0), Nice dominated at 10 Brest (0-3), Strasbourg won the Eastern derby against Metz (0-2), Clermont and Reims did a sad 0-0 draw.

Same score for Nantes, which hosted Monaco.

The extra info:

We are also playing in Africa, with the kick off this weekend of the CAN.

A competition that the Europeans tried in vain to derail.

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