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In the French press, this morning, the popular tribute to Jacques Chirac, whose funeral is held today, day of national mourning.
The farewell of the French to their former president made the front page of almost all national dailies. Le Parisien reports that thousands of them participated in the popular tribute to Jacques Chirac yesterday at the Invalides, in Paris - a moment of meditation and unity, according to the daily. "The French gathered around Jacques Chirac": Le Figaro , who sees in the former president "the incarnation of the French character", "by its contradictions and complexity, its paradoxes and its secrets", invites its readers to share this moment of unity. "In these fractured times, national unity is a precious symbol. A legacy of Jacques Chirac that we have to maintain, "the newspaper said, which states that the entourage of the former head of state," not wishing "the presence of Marine Le Pen, president of Rassemblement National has indicated that it will not participate in the solemn service rendered today at Saint-Sulpice Church in Paris.
If the tribute of the right was expected, many testimonies underline the sensitivity of "left" Jacques Chirac. The former president is presented by L'Opinion as a kind of precursor of the "at the same time", well before Emmanuel Macron. The newspaper recalls that the left and the right have also governed together, especially during the cohabitation between Jacques Chirac and François Mitterrand, found in the drawing of Kak, challenged by St. Peter. The latter asks him to host, for the last time, the former mayor of Paris. The left and the right gathered in mourning. Very often critical, in the past, with regard to the former head of state, Libération denies having concealed, since his death, the dark side of Jacques Chirac, and said to see in tributes and " In recent days, one of these "republican parentheses" "is to be credited to the credit of mature democracies". "The people of France who never carried Jacques Chirac in his heart grows up to respect the mourning of a political family, even if it is remote," concludes Libé, who also publishes a tribune that is moved by the fact that the disappearance The former president eclipsed newspapers in the explosion of the Lubrizol plant in Rouen on Wednesday night. "The house is burning and the TVs are watching Chirac", indignant its author, Daniel Schneidermann, taking again to better divert, the warning become famous Jacques Chirac, on the future of our planet: "the house burns and we look elsewhere. "
Jacques Chirac, who is also honored today in Lebanon, where Prime Minister Saad Hariri also declared a day of national mourning. This day of commemoration comes against the backdrop of a social movement, according to L'Orient Le Jour - which reports that hundreds of protesters gathered yesterday in the center of the capital, Beirut, to "shout their cowardice and denounce an increasingly difficult economic situation "- a move that is being" stained with oil "throughout the country, according to the Lebanese daily.
In Hong Kong, pro-democracy protesters again clashed this weekend with the police. According to The South China Morning Post , the city center was once again the scene of violent clashes, with several neighborhoods plunged into "chaos and violence" - a violence that would have reached a new plateau, as China Continent is preparing to commemorate the 70th anniversary, tomorrow, of the establishment of the communist regime. A date that Hong Kong protesters intend to eclipse by a huge new mobilization, according to The Guardian , which quotes the extremely pessimistic analyzes of several experts, who predict "an inevitable and catastrophic confrontation" between Beijing and Hong -Kong, because "the current crisis is the manifestation of a clash between political ideologies". One of them explains that "China has a scale of value totally opposed to that of those Hong-Kongers who demand democracy, the rule of law and respect for fundamental rights (and that), Xi Jinping, who aspires to lead the country as did Mao, following a hard line, has only strengthened the dictatorship of the party since coming to power in 2012. (Qu ') does not want to back down in the face of a mass movement, and must prove to the Chinese people that the so-called democratic values lead to chaos. "
We do not leave each other on it. Before telling us tomorrow, I suggest you stay on the side of the Guardian . The British daily reports that the Sicilian restaurateur Carmelo Chiaramonte was arrested at his home on Saturday for possession of narcotics. At his home, the carabineros found two two-meter tall marijuana plants, 500 grams of Indian hemp, as well as cannabis-flavored wine, olive pots, coffee and tuna. Summoned to explain, the cook said to be "agribusiness consultant for the kitchen of the third millennium", and to have embarked on the "search for new flavors" ...
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