As every year, the editorial staff of
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accompanies you during the December holidays.
And like every one at this time, we look back on the past year and we plan for the one to come.
Until December 31, find all the big events of 2022, from the most catastrophic to the coolest.
In this sixth episode, return to the ten major events of 2022 in France.
In 2022, there will have been the vaccination pass, Emmanuel Macron who declares that he "really wants to annoy" the non-vaccinated, chaotic elections or the Orpea scandal.
But, don't worry, we also have good news, such as Annie Ernaux who won the Nobel.
Re-election of an Emmanuel Macron weakened by the loss of his absolute majority in Parliament, historic breakthrough of the RN, tensions over energy and purchasing power, heat waves and fires... "20 Minutes" gives you a helping hand and (re) talks about the major events that marked the year 2022 in France.
The vaccination pass goes wrong
Confronted with the ultra-contagious Omicron variant, the executive transformed the health pass into a vaccination pass in January despite the sometimes very lively mobilization of its opponents.
They are more than 100,000 to demonstrate on January 8 after Emmanuel Macron declared that he "really wanted to annoy" the unvaccinated.
Caregivers and teachers are also crying out in the streets and through strikes about their lack of resources.
In mid-March, the government lifted most of the restrictions.
On October 18, the former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe is placed under the status of witness assisted by the CJR (Court of Justice of the Republic) for endangering the lives of others and voluntary abstention from fighting a disaster concerning his epidemic management.
The epidemic starts again at the end of the year when hospitals are already overloaded.
The Ehpad scandal
Accused of serious shortcomings in the care of the residents of its nursing homes and of financial offenses following Victor Castanet's book-investigation
Les Fossoyeurs
, the group of private nursing homes Orpea is trying to ignite a counter-fire on January 31 by dismissing its managing director.
Justice opens in April a preliminary investigation for institutional mistreatment and financial offenses, following a report from the government.
The families file about fifty complaints.
At the end of October, while its action was in freefall, Orpea opened an amicable conciliation procedure at the commercial court in order to renegotiate its debt with its creditors.
In November, the group agrees to reimburse all of the 55.8 million euros of public money claimed from it for its past bad practices.
France-Algeria, warming and symbols
Continuing the "symbolic gestures" necessary according to him for the "work of memory" on the war in Algeria, President Macron expressed in January "the recognition" of France towards the returnees from Algeria.
He recognizes as a "massacre" the shooting of the rue d'Isly in Algiers, March 26, 1962, where dozens of supporters of French Algeria were killed by the army.
On February 8, he is the first president to pay tribute to the nine demonstrators who died 60 years earlier during a peaceful rally against the OAS (secret organization pro-French Algeria) which was very violently repressed by the police at the Charonne metro station in Paris.
In August, in Algiers, Macron hailed "a renewed partnership" with the Algerian power, judging the search for "the truth" and "recognition" more important than "repentance".
More than nine years after being welcomed in Mali as "saviors" in the face of jihadist groups, the French soldiers completed their withdrawal from the country in August, in a climate of growing hostility.
Colonna fatally assaulted in prison
On March 2, a violent attack by a Muslim fundamentalist prisoner in Arles prison (Bouches-du-Rhône) plunged into a coma the Corsican independence activist Yvan Colonna, 61, sentenced to life for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac in 1998. Colonna unsuccessfully demanded his transfer to the island.
On the 15th, when Corsica was shaken by demonstrations, the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin said he was ready "to go as far as autonomy" but asked for a return to calm before the dialogue.
On the 16th, the FLNC (National Liberation Front of Corsica) threatened to resume the fight.
On the 21st, Yvan Colonna dies.
His family takes action against the state while an investigation report points to dysfunctions within the prison.
On December 9, following a major dragnet in nationalist circles, the activist Charles Pieri was indicted for criminal association and imprisoned.
Flop and political turmoil
Christiane Taubira's victory in a highly contested "popular primary of the left" unrecognized by Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI), Yannick Jadot (EELV) and Anne Hidalgo (PS), flopped in March when she announced that she had not collected the 500 referrals needed to show up.
The far-right polemicist Eric Zemmour disturbs the political game and is condemned for incitement to hatred for remarks on unaccompanied migrant minors.
Only 38 days from the first round, Emmanuel Macron is running for re-election.
He is a big favorite as the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops mobilizes his agenda.
Never has an international crisis so influenced a presidential campaign under the Fifth Republic.
Macron re-elected and historic breakthrough for the RN
On April 10, Emmanuel Macron (27.8%) and Marine Le Pen (23.1%) came out on top in the first round of the presidential election.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is in 3rd place (21.9% of the vote), ahead of Eric Zemmour (7%), Valérie Pécresse (LR, 4.7%), Yannick Jadot (4.6%), Fabien Roussel (PCF, 2.2%), Anne Hidalgo (1.75%).
On the 24th, Emmanuel Macron was re-elected with 58.5% of the vote against Marine Le Pen (41.6%), a clear victory tempered by the unprecedented score of the far right and record abstention (28%) since the presidential election. from 1969.
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The birth of Nupes
On the night of May 5 to 6, the National Council of the PS adopts 62% an agreement with La France insoumise (LFI) for the legislative elections.
An alliance that marks a change of historical direction, despite differences over Europe.
The New popular ecological and social union (Nupes) brings together LFI, the PS, EELV and the PCF.
On its program in particular: SMIC at 1,400 euros, retirement at 60, guarantee of autonomy for young people, price freeze on basic necessities, ecological planning and advent of a Sixth Republic.
#MeToo politics
Several cases involve politicians suspected of violence against women.
The prescription of the facts, the absence of complaint or the political instrumentalization of these accusations sometimes complicate their reading.
At the end of March, the former environmentalist secretary of state Jean-Vincent Placé was indicted for the assault and sexual harassment of a former collaborator.
In May, the new Minister of Solidarity Damien Abad is accused of rape or attempted rape in 2010 and 2011. He "categorically refutes" while a woman files a complaint.
He remained in government, then was removed from office during the post-legislative reshuffle in July.
Figure of LREM, Jérôme Peyrat gives up running for the legislative elections after the revelation of a conviction in 2020 for violence against his ex-companion, herself convicted of harassment.
Eric Coquerel (LFI), chairman of the Finance Committee of the National Assembly, is accused by a former close friend of the Left Party and figure of "yellow vests" of "inappropriate gestures" during an evening in a nightclub in 2014. She files a complaint, the Paris prosecutor's office opens an investigation in July.
The rebellious deputy Adrien Quatennens withdraws from the Assembly in mid-September after having recognized a slap in the face to his companion in the middle of a divorce.
She filed a complaint, mentioned more violence, and LFI announced on November 23 that the deputy would not participate in the activities of his political group in the Assembly until the court had rendered its decision.
The ecologist Julien Bayou resigns on September 26 from the national secretariat of EELV to defend himself from accusations of psychological violence against an ex-companion, relayed by members of his own party, without filing a complaint.
Marine Tondelier succeeds him on December 10.
In October, MEP Hervé Juvin is sentenced on appeal for physical violence against his wife in 2018. He must leave the RN group in the European Parliament and the Pays-de-la-Loire regional council.
The year was also marked by group testimonies from women presenting themselves as former victims of journalist Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, and the dismissal of Jean-Jacques Bourdin by the Altice Media group after accusations of sexual assault.
Mayhem at the stadium
Endless wait, supporters and families sprayed with tear gas or victims of theft: the device for maintaining order during the final in Paris of the Real Madrid-Liverpool Champions League, goes very badly on May 28 at the entrance of the stadium and is the subject of a lively controversy in France and England.
The Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin incriminates the British supporters with the many falsified tickets according to him, before the prefect Didier Lallement admits to having "perhaps been mistaken" on their number, recognizing a "failure".
A government report points to police and organizational dysfunctions.
The episode damages the image of France 777 days before the start of the Olympics in Paris.
In the legislative elections, exit the absolute majority
On June 12, the first round of the legislative elections was marked by record abstention (52.4%) and a double breakthrough by the left and the RN.
The Macronists retain only 250 seats (including 172 from the Renaissance group, ex-LREM) out of 577 at the end of the second round on June 19, with 39 votes from an absolute majority.
The rest of the hemicycle is divided mainly between the Nupes (151 seats, including 75 LFI, 31 PS, 23 EELV, 22 PCF), the RN (89) and a LR (62) in very bad shape, from which Eric Ciotti will take the presidency in December.
With a group of deputies ten times more numerous than in 2017, the RN, of which Jordan Bardella will take the lead in November, becomes the first opposition party.
It is a slap in the face for President Macron who, in addition to his absolute majority, loses two precious relays in the National Assembly, Richard Ferrand and Christophe Castaner, and three new ministers also beaten.
On the 25th, Elisabeth Borne was confirmed as Prime Minister.
For the first time in history, a woman, Yaël Braun-Pivet, was elected President of the National Assembly.
Elisabeth Borne repeatedly draws the "49-3" and thwarts the motions of censure to have the 2023 budgets of the State and Social Security voted, then begins the very unpopular reforms of pensions and unemployment insurance in a social climate marked in the fall by strikes by teachers, caregivers, transport and for wages.
Attacks of November 13: the verdict
On June 29, more than six years after the attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris and Saint-Denis, the special assize court of Paris condemns Salah Abdeslam, 32, the only member still alive of the commandos which killed 130 people, life imprisonment, the heaviest penalty in the Penal Code.
His 19 co-accused, including five presumed dead, are sentenced to terms ranging from two years to life.
On September 5, the trial begins in Paris of eight people suspected of being involved in the ram truck attack which left 86 dead and more than 400 injured on July 14, 2016 in Nice, on the Promenade des Anglais.
The driver of the truck had been shot dead by the police.
Heat wave, fires, storms… the sad summer
In 2022, France will experience three heat waves and a record number of 33 days of heat waves.
The first is “exceptional and early”, with 40°C from June 16 in Hérault and 43°C on June 18 in Arcachon (Gironde).
New peak in July: on the 18th, 64 local temperature records fell in the western half.
Last heat wave, less intense but longer, mainly in the South-West in the first half of August.
Heat and persistent drought cause huge fires, especially in Gironde where almost all of the Pilat campsites burn in a week while several thousand people are evacuated and thousands of hectares of vegetation ravaged.
According to Public Health France, 2,816 excess deaths were recorded during the three heat wave episodes.
On August 18, sudden storms kill five people and cause enormous damage in Corsica.
October is the hottest month on record.
Strikes and call for “sobriety”
In October, the government presents an energy “sobriety” plan inviting less heating, less lighting, or promoting teleworking to avoid power cuts during the winter.
He launched a process of renationalisation of EDF in order to relaunch a vast nuclear programme.
A strike of more than 35 days for wages in refineries and fuel depots, started on September 27 at the call of the CGT, causes shortages in service stations and extends to nuclear power plants.
The employees of TotalEnergies point to the enormous profits reaped by the company and obtain wage increases.
In addition to a government rebate introduced to limit soaring fuel prices at the pump, measures to aid purchasing power are decided on such as an "energy check", the revaluation of basic pensions or the controversial abolition of the television license fee. .
The left defends in vain a tax on “superprofits”.
Relatives of the president in the dock
On October 3, the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) pronounces the referral to trial for "illegal taking of interests" of the Keeper of the Seals Eric Dupond-Moretti, suspected of having taken advantage of his function as minister to settle his accounts. with magistrates whom he had opposed when he was a lawyer.
Shortly before, Alexis Kohler, secretary general of the Elysée, was indicted for "illegal taking of interests" in an investigation into his links with the Italian-Swiss shipowner MSC.
The maintenance of the two men in their posts is strongly criticized by the opposition.
Thierry Solère, LREM deputy and adviser to Emmanuel Macron, is also indicted, suspected of having used part of his mandate expenses for personal purposes between 2012 and 2019. The Minister for Local Authorities, Caroline Cayeux, resigns on November 28, suspected of having undervalued her assets in her declarations.
Another revelation weakens the president: state contracts with McKinsey firms reached a record of more than one billion euros between 2018 and 2021 while the consulting firm paid no corporate tax between 2011 and 2020. The National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) opened two investigations in October into McKinsey's intervention in Mr. Macron's electoral campaigns in 2017 and 2022 and possible "favoritism".
The Nobel for Annie Ernaux
On October 6, the Nobel Prize for Literature crowned Annie Ernaux, 82, and the "courage" of her autobiographical work, making this feminist writer of popular origin the first Frenchwoman to win the prize.
The day before, another Frenchman, Alain Aspect, received the Nobel Prize in Physics with an American and an Austrian for their work in quantum physics.
Lola's Calvary
On October 14, the lifeless body of Lola, 12, was discovered in a trunk in the courtyard of her building in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.
A suspect, Dahbia B., a 24-year-old Algerian under an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) at the time of the events, is indicted for murder and aggravated rape.
The right and the extreme right denounce the non-execution of his expulsion, while the family demands that "cease" all use of the drama "for political purposes".
The government promises better controlled deportations via an immigration bill.
The Blues in the final
On December 10 in Qatar, France qualified, (2-1) at the expense of a very combative England, for the semi-finals of the World Cup thanks to two goals from Aurélien Tchouaméni and Olivier Giroud.
Next step, December 14 against Morocco.
And it's won.
It's time for the final against Argentina on December 18.
The Blues fail on penalties at the end of an anthology match.
Only three days later, Kylian Mbappé will surprisingly return to training with PSG.
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This return is a real sensation since the Parisian players concerned by the World Cup were supposed to benefit from at least ten days of rest before joining their club teammates.
The return of Mbappé, top scorer in the World Cup (8 goals) and author of a hat-trick in the final, was thus expected rather from January 2023. The player, who appeared very marked by the defeat of the Blues against Argentina , obviously wanted to hasten his reunion with the field, the day after his 24th birthday.
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