French press review
In the spotlight: ten years later, the tribute to the victims of Mohamed Merah
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Silent march in Paris, place de la Bastille, March 19, 2012, in memory of the four victims of the Toulouse massacre.
REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
By: Norbert Navarro
3 mins
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It was “
the scooter killer
”, formula
La Dépêche du Midi
.
Murdering three paratroopers, three Jewish schoolchildren and a teacher, he bloodied the region of Toulouse, south-central France.
On March 22, 2012, the elite unit of the French police will put an end to its furious equipped.
The commemoration of these attacks, today in Toulouse, south-central France, will bring together 2,000 guests, including French Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Isaac Herzog, as well as former heads of state François Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy.
Sarko's silences
The latter “
should not come out of silence
” today, in Toulouse, reports
Le Journal du Dimanche
.
Why this lack of information?
Because, for several days, the French press had only been buzzing with a rumor, that of the supposed rallying of Nicolas Sarkozy to the Macron candidacy.
But the interested party “
hates that we force his hand
”, says his former communications adviser Franck Louvrier to the
JDD
.
America arms Ukraine and the world dances on a volcano
Meanwhile, the war continues in Ukraine.
And behind its borders, NATO forces stand guard, including in the air.
Reportage in the sky of the weekly
Le Figaro Magazine
.
Which notes that, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, "
the skies of Poland are charged (...) at the outposts of the new cold war (...) the border of Poland (being) indeed the extreme point of the danger
".
As Le Figaro Magazine
admits
, the Americans “
went to great lengths to arm the Ukrainians.
Since 2014 and the war in Donbass, they have delivered 3.5 billion dollars worth of arms and equipment.
(…) Thus, in one week after the start of the conflict, some 17,000 anti-tank weapons were transported by air to the borders of Poland and Romania, then by convoy to Kiev (…) A unprecedented device which can be compared to that of the blockade of Berlin
”.
So ?
So
Le Figaro Magazine
warns that “
these weapon supplies (…) each time bring the lighter closer to the wick
”.
Is the "13" infiltrated in Ukraine?
The weapons delivered to Ukraine, therefore, but perhaps not only… Are the French secret services present on Ukrainian soil?
Question asked by
L'Express
.
Officially, no French forces intervening directly in Ukraine.
But clandestinely… who knows?
In this weekly, in any case, an "interlocutor" evokes "
the support of the 13th parachute dragoon regiment, expert in human intelligence in the crisis zone, intended for the DRM (the Military Intelligence Directorate) or the operations command specials
”.
The "experts" of
L'Express
"
estimate that there could be some" 100 to 200 "members of the French secret services in Ukraine today
", states this newspaper.
The Hunger War
Another question, even more dramatic (for Africa, in particular): could the war in Ukraine cause famine there?
What about food riots?
Question this time posed by the weekly
Le Point
.
"
On the Euronext futures market, the price of a tonne of common wheat (March expiry) rose from 263 euros on February 16 to 422 euros on March 7, a jump of 61%
", is alarmed
Le Point
.
It is “
a disaster for developing countries that import wheat, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Nigeria, Turkey, Brazil, but also Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
Without forgetting Egypt, the world's largest importer of wheat, 70% of which comes from Russia and Ukraine,
underlines
Point.
Beyond the riots it risks provoking in many poor countries, the current surge in wheat prices is going to cause hundreds of millions of people to suffer from severe hunger in Africa, Asia and South America, also die in large numbers of babies and old people, the first victims of malnutrition
,” warns
Le Point
.
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