French press review
In the spotlight: fires are still raging in France
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On the night of August 10 to 11, a fire quickly spread to Belin-Beliet, in the Landes.
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By: Fanny Bleichner
3 mins
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Almost everywhere, the same impressive photos and these words: “
the endless nightmare
”, for
Today in France
.
“
There is fire on the lake
”, alarmed
Liberation
in its editorial of the day.
A graph shows the extent of the problem: in 2008, 1,700 hectares went up in smoke, further along the abscissa the figures soar: more than 50,000 hectares for this year, which has not even been completed yet.
A chilling account hour by hour of the day of August 10 to discover also: 9 a.m.: the fires resume in Gironde, 10 a.m.: flames in Maine-et-Loire, the day is ticking over disasters and testimonies.
The fires in Gironde are “
uncontrollable
”, assures
Today in France
which describes “
flames progressing [yesterday] at a frightening rate, consuming the equivalent of ten football fields per minute
”.
“
2022 is currently the hottest year on record
,” recalls
Le Monde
.
If the term "
nightmare
" comes up regularly, perhaps that of premonitory dream would be more appropriate because,
Le Figaro
reminds us ,
"
the summer of 2022 [is] a harbinger of the climate to come
[...]
These successions of heat waves are becoming characteristic of our new climate
,” explains a forecaster at Météo-France.
A question is also asked in the newspaper: “
Are we sufficiently anticipating the worst?
This is also what a study published in the Proceedings of the United States Academy of Sciences raises: scientists favor the least alarming scenarios, obscuring, for example, the idea of a warming of 3 degrees or more. .
And despite this context, "
France is looking elsewhere
" according to
Le Figaro
In reference to the renewed debate on the right to vote and eligibility for all foreigners in municipal elections.
A “
vain provocation
” by deputy Sacha Houlié for
Le Figaro
.
Liberation
speaks of "the
start of a fire in its own camp
" at the end of this proposal.
Gérald Darmanin thus sees himself "
titillated by the left of the majority
".
But the daily ensures "
from the outset [that] the proposal of Houlié has little chance of seeing the light of day
".
Reporting from the Gaza Strip
A few days after the Israeli operation dubbed “Breaking Dawn” targeting Islamic Jihad cadres, 47 Palestinians were killed.
Among them, many civilians.
In
Liberation
, the stories of these strikes follow one another: a party for a baccalaureate which is being prepared when the strikes fall, a 5-year-old girl "
probably invisible
" by the observation drones, specifies the newspaper, is killed.
A few lines below, the testimony of a man whose family celebrated a wedding, "
without the presence, unless proven otherwise, of a militant of a Palestinian faction
[...]
It is the blood of my wife on the stairs
," he says.
He also lost his granddaughter.
To read in the pages of
Le Monde
, a report this time on “
the hell of Palestinian travelers at the gates of Gaza
[...]
The road to Cairo could take six hours.
In reality, the trip lasts at best a day, sometimes five.
It depends on the goodwill of the Egyptian military.
Gazans exchange terrible stories about this passage: humiliations, waiting in the sun for days on end, without access to latrines, extortion.
The journey costs at least a hundred euros.
Some pay more than a thousand euros for a
"VIP service", [...]
the price of a trip with dignity
", explains one of the witnesses.
The situation in French maternity wards
“Red alert for future mothers”, warns
L'Humanité
, which publishes a map of France of maternity wards in difficulty or with closures of certain activities, and that is a lot of small orange and red dots on France.
The country lacks midwives, who denounce the deterioration of working conditions.
On this subject precisely,
La Croix
is interested in the “
great turnover of employees
” in all sectors.
One of the avenues mentioned to explain the number of vacant positions: “
a crisis of meaning
”.
The article concludes: “
failing to bring out
“the next world”
, the aftermath of the health crisis thus augurs a new relationship at work.
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