In the news - Sri Lankan tragedy and Ukrainian comedy

Every day, David Abiker scrutinizes the print and the web and decrypts the news.

Hello David, this Easter Monday, the press has two faces: the tragic Sri Lankan and the Ukrainian comedy.

Hello Pierre, hello everyone. Yes, the tragic is of course yesterday's attacks in Sri Lanka. "Easter murderous" title Le Figaro , "bloody Easter" for the Voice of the North , "Catholics targeted" title Paris-Today in France . But in One of the Latest News of Alsace, the tragic attacks close with the comic. "A comic become president" headlines the Alsatian newspaper which returns on the triumphal election in Ukraine of the comedian Volodymir Zelesnky. Finally, there is in One of your newspapers, like Telegram or Provence , a well-known figure of tragicomics: the French motorist.

"The French by car are among the most detestable in Europe"

The Vinci Foundation has just published its European barometer on the behavior of motorists explains this morning the Courrier Picard and it must be admitted, the French by car are among the most detestable in Europe. The tragedy is the insults they are 69% to utter behind their windshield, and the proportion increases in Ile-de-France where the Parisians steal the show to the Marseillais. On the other hand, if it comes down to the vehicle to explain, the Parisian is loose compared to the Provençal or Breton. That's for the comic.

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For tragedy, 76% of French motorists admit not to respect the safety distances and 34% do not hesitate to stick the car in front when it goes too slowly. Comedy the French driving when they consider themselves good drivers at 96%. Tragic when France has 40 road deaths per million inhabitants when Holland counts nine less. So be careful this Easter weekend, because from comic to tragic, there is sometimes a second of inattention.

Volodymir Zelesnky president, from fiction to reality

According to a scenario where the reality has exceeded the fiction, analyzes this morning the Figaro . For the election of Volodymir Zelesnky as President of Ukraine was written and scripted in a TV series. The very one that made him famous and popular in his country. "For anyone who has watched in recent weeks the analogies with the TV series that Zelensky wrote are striking," Le Figaro said : "On the screen, Zelensky embodies a history teacher propelled candidate after he had his anger against the oligarchic system. His students secretly film him and post the video on YouTube, and high school students will eventually get him elected to the presidency. "

The profession of shepherd who seduces more and more women

So much for the series that Zelensky became in three years the ultra-popular hero. In reality, he beat Pétro Porocenko yesterday by winning nearly three quarters of the vote. So it is fashionable to mock the Ukrainian political manners, baroque and sometimes savage, nonetheless, emphasizes Le Figaro , it is clear that in 28 years, the former Soviet Republic has succeeded in inscribing in its institutions the principle democratic transition, which is not the case of its Russian and Belorussian neighbors. Still, running a country is not as simple as having fun in the gallery.

ENA would become ISF

If, as is mentioned in the proposals that follow the great debate, the National School of Administration was to disappear, it could give way to the higher institute of civil servants ie the ISF yesterday revealed the Parisian Today in France , what amusing tax professionals and annoy the students of the ENA. And since we talk about EWB, the same newspaper warns savers this morning against what also looks like a bad joke rather than a good investment.

The dairy cow scam

The financial markets authority warns against these fake sites which invite to invest in the breeding of cows as on cheptelépargne.com. "To the breeder, the milk and the male offspring, to the investor, the female offspring that would allow her livestock to grow." The scammers operate the same in the same way: advertising on the internet, phone call and argument promising a yield of 6%. Once convinced the pigeon is invited to make a transfer to an account abroad. The complaints are multiplying against these sites who do not hesitate to humor humor by claiming the slogan: freedom, equality, cash cow. Or how to take people for bells. For lack of cows, we will keep sheep.

The comic business explodes, but those who fill the big halls are rather rare

The shepherds always more numerous

To read this morning the Figaro survey on the profession of shepherd who seduces more and more women. At the beginning of the 2000s, Le Figaro explains, the profession of shepherd attracted only 25% against half today. The career often seduced rural or marginalized, it now recruits urban minded to flourish. But beware, shepherd or shepherd is a difficult job, complicated by the return of the wolf and the responsibility of several hundred animals. It can be learned in the only training center in France where you get in a year a national transhumant shepherd diploma all for a modest salary between 1,200 and 1,800 euros but perhaps for a better life.

Humor triumphs with 18,000 shows recorded

We will read to finish this paper of the World dated Sunday-Monday on the trade of comic. 18,000 shows recorded in 2017 against 7,000 in 2006. This is the explosion of a profession in a not so funny time where laughter has become a necessary outlet analyzes the world. Three factors explain the expansion of the joke: the American stand-up that is school in France, platforms like Youtube where everyone can get started and finally the media entertainment that fuel the joke. But beware, the career is difficult, those who fill the big rooms rather rare. To make the egg and live it even on Easter Monday can not be improvised.