French press review
In the spotlight: the killing at Kramatorsk train station, Ukraine
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Vehicles charred following the rocket attack on the Kramatorsk station in the Donbass, April 8, 2022. © AFP/Hervé Bar
By: Norbert Navarro
4 mins
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The French Foreign Minister denounces a “
crime against humanity
”:
Fifty people, including five children, killed by a missile strike on the station of this Ukrainian city, "
death fell from the sky
", formulates
Le Parisien
, this time, "
the strike hit the station in the heart
".
Denouncing an "
abominable mass killing
", the special correspondents of this newspaper describe with modesty, but without omitting details, the crime scene.
“
There were deaths everywhere, here and there
”, is alarmed
Le Parisien.
Crime scene ?
On the antennas of France 5 television, Jean-Yves Le Drian denounced a “
crime against humanity
” in Kramatorsk.
And even if, as
Le Figaro
points out, Moscow has denied any intervention, denying that it has the type of missiles such as the one that fell on Kramatorsk station, while denouncing a Ukrainian "
provocation
" aimed at preventing civilians from flee to use them "
as human shields
", the French Minister of Foreign Affairs did not budge.
"
They hit the station on refugees, so on civilians, so it responds to crimes against humanity
," said the head of French diplomacy.
Crime against humanity at Kramatorsk station?
The French president refused to say so.
Asked by the
Brut
website , Emmanuel Macron considered that it would be up to justice to qualify the facts, while repeating that Russia was committing "
war crimes
" in Ukraine.
Shade.
Only one day left to choose which ballot to slip tomorrow into the ballot box for the first round of the presidential election in France. On the eve of the ballot, uncertainty remains, fueled by the fear of abstention:
"
A day to decide
", launches "the front page" of
Parisian
.
The election campaign now over “
in a scent of indecision, the time has now come to be silent.
Until that of the verdict, this Sunday evening
, ”states this newspaper.
Le Figaro
does not write anything else.
“
The dice are cast,
launches this daily.
Silence is imposed for a few hours on the great media-political machinery
(…)
France holds its breath
”.
Tomorrow, wants to believe
Le Figaro
, "
the knowledgeable, the powerful will not be worth more than the little ones and the rankless: it's the people's hour
".
So ?
So addressing “
all French people
”, this newspaper enjoins them to fulfill their duty as voters, because “
the future of our country is in your hands.
See you at the polls: no one should be missing
”, sum
Le Figaro.
Call for good citizenship, therefore, but overall, no question for the general French press to give any voting instructions. With the notable exception of a so-called "evening" daily:
After a very Jesuitical development,
Le Monde
, since it is about him, is careful not to advise its readers for whom to vote.
No no !
But that does not prevent him from expressing in black and white all the evil he thinks of two of the twelve candidacies, the names of which we will not mention here.
Admittedly, affirms
Le Monde,
the role of this newspaper, "
is not to support a candidate, even less to call to vote for him
".
But it is nevertheless what this newspaper does in hollow, by expressing all the evil which it thinks of two candidates.
Claiming a "
non-partisan journalism
(which)
is nonetheless based on values
",
Le Monde
boldly believes that these values "
can
(the)
encourage them to warn of a certain number of dangers
".
This allows him to affirm that two candidacies are, according to him, "
incompatible with all
(his)
principles, just as much as they are contrary to republican values, the national interest and the image of France
".
Just that !
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