French press review
In the spotlight: the Salman Rushdies in France
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The writer Salman Rushdie, here in 2019 in Vienna, had been targeted in 1989 by a “fatwa” demanding his assassination.
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By: Norbert Navarro
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Due to Islamist threats against them, between "
30 and 50
" people are placed under protection in France, counts
Le Parisien Dimanche
.
One of them told this newspaper “
that time erases nothing (…) A fatwa can catch up with you ten or twenty years later.
Even if one of us becomes a farmer in the Creuse, the risk does not disappear
”.
The emergency doctor Patrick Pelloux is one of these threatened people.
In
Le Parisien Dimanche
, he fears seeing “
a signal
” in the attack on Salman Rushdie, and wonders if “
sleeper cells are going to be activated
?
if “
Islamists are waiting for this signal to act
?
(…) It scares me very much.
They are on the long, the very long term
", sighs Patrick Pelloux, while the lawyer Amine Elbahi, former "fixer" of the television program "Zone Interdite" for a report on Islamism in Roubaix (and who was also LR candidate for the recent legislative elections in France), confides it to
Parisian Sunday
.
"
They never forget you...
"
"
Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to live like everyone else when you are under the influence of a fatwa
", also said Riss, editor-in-chief of the satirical weekly
Charlie Hebdo
, in an interview with the
Journal du Dimanche
.
“
These kind of killers never give up
,” adds Bernard-Henri Lévy in
Le Journal du Dimanche
.
According to this French philosopher, Salman Rushdie is due to win the Nobel Prize for Literature next October.
The Stranger in the Voting Booth
François Rebsamen is “
for
” the vote of non-European foreigners in municipal elections.
In a column published by
Le Journal du Dimanche
, the former socialist minister, who now supports President Macron, believes that the vote of non-EU foreigners in municipal elections in France is a question of "
social justice
".
According to François Rebsamen, France is “
lagging behind on this subject
”.
The RN moult
Since its success in the recent legislative elections, the National Rally intends to move from demonization to notabilisation.
This is
the analysis of the magazine
L'Obs
.
“
After five weeks of parliamentary work, the National Rally and its 89 deputies have blended into the decor of the Assembly.
How far will this quest for respectability go
?
asks this newspaper.
“
In the National Assembly, the notabilisation of the RN is going well.
Breakneck speed even, and everything seems to be going according to plan.
Thanks, in particular, to the votes of the majority, the RN and its 89 deputies
– more than La France insoumise or Les Républicains
– obtained two vice-presidencies of the Assembly, while Marine Le Pen only hoped for one (…) And the RN came close to also winning the trophy for the finance committee.
The icing on the cake,
underlines
L'Obs
,
on July 26, two deputies from this party were also elected
- a first
- to sit on the Court of Justice of the Republic, responsible for judging ministers
: the very close to Marine Le Pen, Bruno Bilde, as titular judge and Anaïs Sabatini as substitute.
»
As this newspaper points out, these are “
new, spectacular conquests in the field of respectability.
They are up to the frontist score of June 19, but were also won in the name of a very French "republican tradition" (…)
”.
“
What would we have said if the political class had denied the historical scores of the RN by ostracizing it in the Assembly
?
“, we ask within the majority.
However, some elected officials are already worried about the effects of this spectacular institutionalization.
As one of them told
L'Ob
s: “
We have a real problem ahead of us.
If tomorrow there is a dissolution, the RN wins
”.
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