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In the spotlight: the 21 dead in the shooting of Uvalde in Texas
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Law enforcement at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on May 24, 2022. © Brandon Bell/AFP
By: Fanny Bleichner
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There are many questions after the massacre in a primary school.
It was a school dropout who opened fire, killing 19 children and 2 teachers, before being shot dead by the police.
Le Parisien / Today in France
tells us more about his career.
The young man lived with his grandmother, after having been expelled from her home by his mother.
Described as "
dark and lonely
", he had just turned 18 last week and, on his birthday, he had bought himself two assault rifles.
Le Figar
o wonders: “
How is it possible to acquire such weapons of war when one does not have the right to order a beer for 21 years?
To cross the meshes of a minimal safety net, when it is even more difficult to adopt a dog?
»
"
Firearms, the first enemy of young people
", summarizes
Liberation
, focusing on a study published last month according to which more than 4,300 children died by firearms in the United States in 2020. That's nearly 30 % more than in 2019. President Joe Biden asks the question head-on: “
When, for the love of God, are we going to face the gun lobby?
»
However,
Liberation
shows a certain skepticism: "
the calls for action by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have no chance of being followed up insofar as the Democrats do not have in the Senate a sufficient majority to fundamentally modify federal legislation in the United States, and thus hope to reduce the frequency of killings.
»
Also on the front page, national policy as the legislative elections approach
In one of
Liberation
, the faces of two well-known men: on the left Jean-Luc Mélenchon, on the right Emmanuel Macron, in the center this title: "
the best enemies
".
And the story might sound like a fairy tale.
The daily sets the scene: “
There is on one side the incarnation of the triumphant elite and on the other the representative of the suffering people
(…)
Jupiter facing the tribune
.
“
But the story is not so simple
,” continues
Liberation
, explaining that in 2017, “
they judge that what they both tell is much more interesting than what all the others tell reunited.
And behind the scenes, mobile numbers are exchanged.
» «
There is a form of intellectual respect between them
(…)
to see them, how can you imagine for a single moment that they are rivals?
“, asks the newspaper.
It must be said that for
Le Monde
, "
the Head of State has never stopped adapting his speech according to his opponents
" and is therefore playing a "
three-step waltz
" because "
in the space of only two months , the tenant of the Élysée played three different scores, accrediting in passing his image of
"chameleon president"
, with malleable convictions
".
Are thus evoked the ideas borrowed from the party The Republicans then the promises in favor of ecology before appointing the Prime Minister, the rapprochement with the left at the time of the constitution of the government and now he tries "
to attract the social electorate -moderate democrat or environmentalist
".
A waltz with a very fast tempo which "
risks making the French dizzy
", concludes the article.
Ouest-France
has not forgotten the promises of the president and lists the ecological challenges to be met for France.
In particular, it would be necessary to invest at least 25 billion euros per year to achieve carbon neutrality, it is much more than the 10 billion mentioned by Emmanuel Macron.
The protection of biodiversity is also mentioned via the reduction of pesticides and the cessation of glyphosate.
End of the controversy around a swimsuit, the famous burkini
This covering swimsuit whose wearing was soon to be authorized in several swimming pools in Grenoble.
Yesterday, the city's administrative court suspended this provision, considering that it “(harms)
seriously to the principle of neutrality of the public service
”.
Le Figaro
devotes two pages to the subject, proposing an "
investigation of burkini activists
".
Its port is already authorized in several cities already, and in particular in Charente-Maritime, in the west of France, in Surgères, since 2019, and in general indifference.
But since then, the subject has made headlines and if authorization remains in place, the word has disappeared from the texts.
"
No woman would ever have worn the slightest burkini in Surgères and if so, it didn't make a big
splash, ”concludes an elected official.
► To read also: Shooting in Texas: the killer, a young person out of school and social
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