French press review
Headlines: most French newspapers have their eyes on Ukraine
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Ukrainian military personnel inspect buildings affected by shelling in Dobropillia in Donetsk Oblast, April 30, 2022. © JORGE SILVA/REUTERS
By: Fanny Bleichner
4 mins
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While Kiev and Moscow confirmed at the end of the day on May 1 the evacuation of a hundred people from Mariupol, the newspaper
Le Monde
is interested in survivors of this same martyred city who arrived in Estonia and who say they are previously passed through camps.
Especially in Togliatti, Russia.
While the first group of men describes it as a free option offered to them by rather friendly soldiers and considers that "
it went well
" during the three weeks in this camp, another claims to be in contact with a of his former neighbors who is still there and for him "
it looks like forced labour.
According to what he says, there is no guard, but his documents were taken from him, and therefore he cannot leave
”.
A few pages later, a series of photos, in the Donbass this time.
We see an elderly woman who fled the fighting, gray scarf on her hair, she wipes a tear on her face.
Another photo shows elderly people there too, lying in a van to be evacuated.
An image that resonates strangely with the one below, two bodies in coffins of which only the white and gray hair can be seen.
In its editorial,
Liberation
details: “
Our special correspondent was able to observe the ferocity of the fighting and the tenacity of the Ukrainian defenders, well aware that from minute to minute, from bombardment to bombardment and from death to death, their defeat seems inevitable
.
Only the Ukrainians will have to decide whether to surrender their arms to Donbass or if they continue to resist
”.
The armament in question precisely in the pages of
Parisian / Today in France
which wonders about the risks of "
triggering the Third World War
" by delivering arms to Ukraine.
"
The fact of financing, equipping or training armed forces is not enough to lead a State into an armed conflict
", tempers a researcher at Inserm.
For its part,
La Croix
insists on the importance of “
documenting the horror in the hope of judging war crimes
”.
French politics also in the headlines: we learned overnight that an agreement had been reached between Europe Ecology Les Verts and La France Insoumise with a view to the legislative elections.
This union was a "
duty
" for the newspaper
L'Humanité
, which made its front page and developed: "
The left can no longer be divided to let Macron reign better
(…)
Everyone considers that the left has before it a historical window
.
L'Opinion
sees it rather as "
an inexorable submission of the left to Mélenchon
" while in its editorial
Le Figaro
criticizes the attitude of the leader of LFI on May 1: "
Inhabited by the morale of a winner, the third man of the presidential does not deny himself anything: not even to divert the traditional union May Day into a political meeting
.
»
The discussions, as we know, are continuing with the Socialist Party and the Communist Party.
And
Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France
already diagnoses "
the end of the PS
", while wondering about the causes: "
Is this decline due to the lack of work of the party apparatus in the face of the vision centered on the ecological battle defended by the Greens and the rupture program of the Insoumis?
Did the machine, losing momentum, seize up under the pressure of contrary currents, some from the center left, others more radical, before being weakened by the rallying to Emmanuel Macron
(..)?
»
Another disappearance, that of a figure of Parisian nights: Régine
Singer and actress, who then became a businesswoman in the world of the night, she died yesterday, she was 92 years old.
“
An eclipse of feathers
” poetically sums up
Libération
en Une, below a photo portrait of the diva, boa around her neck.
We find her a few pages later under a shower of confetti.
“
Frenchie Sleeping Beauty by Day;
boys, feathers and rhinestones at nightfall
”, she was the queen.
So “
Gouaille Save The Queen
” implores the newspaper.
A string of puns in the press this morning: "
the arena
of the night is in mourning
" for
L'Humanité
.
Le Parisien / Today in France
looks back on his journey, from his birth in Belgium to Polish Jewish parents, his neglected childhood, his arrival in Paris and then finally success.
The newspaper concludes: “
Régine was more than the queen of the night, she was the queen of life
”.
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