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In the press, this morning, growing Indian anger against perpetrators of sexual violence, after the gang rape and murder of a 27-year-old woman last week near Hyderabad in the south of the country .
While several hundred people were demonstrating in several cities of the country, the discovery yesterday of the body of a 6-year-old girl, also raped and murdered, has increased their anger, MPs even calling for lynching public and castration perpetrators of this violence, to circumvent the slowness of the courts, according to The Times of India . The government, meanwhile, says it is ready to toughen sentences against them - even to make their crimes punishable by death, according to The Hindu , who reports that some members of the opposition reproach him for being unable "to instill a sense of security among Indian women. "The indescribable violence in Hyderabad is rampant against women, girls, and even girls all over the country": The Deccan Herald calls on the authorities to implement "a comprehensive strategy" against misogyny, especially in schools and the media, to prevent sexual violence and make India a safe place for women. "
India finally gave up last month to join the draft Asia-Pacific free trade agreement, fearing that it causes a massive influx of Chinese products. And the commercial expansion of China does not worry that its neighbors, as evidenced by this survey of the newspaper La Croix on how Beijing would use its project of "new silk roads" to extend its influence on all continents. According to the daily, the "new Chinese ambition appears more and more as a threat to many small countries, in Asia, Africa, but also in Europe, who feel themselves hostage to a hegemonic strategy behind which (hide) military ambitions. " The Cross cites the example of Sri Lanka, where the Chinese largesse allowed the realization of many infrastructures but led to such a level of indebtedness, that Colombo was obliged to sell a port in Beijing, also allowing China to to interfere in the domestic affairs of the country.
These hegemonic ambitions of China are in a difficult context for NATO, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary. The Organization celebrates this anniversary "against a backdrop of crisis and divisions", according to Le Figaro , who regrets seeing NATO undermined by "the poison of disunity", undermined "from the inside by the criticism of the president American Donald Trump, the only rider of his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayip Erdogan and the "no appeal" diagnosis of French President Emmanuel Macron - who declared NATO in a state of "brain death". Disagreements that "the display" could end up being "fatal" to the organization, according to the newspaper - which warns its members against the risk of seeing the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, "triumph without fighting". The Guardian is particularly concerned by the attacks of Donald Trump, who accuses his allies of not sharing the burden of the alliance enough, to the point that some of them fear that a re-election of the American president will become a threat for the very survival of NATO.
A word, too, from this tribune signed by 127 "Jewish academics and intellectuals from Israel and elsewhere", against a motion for a resolution considered today in the National Assembly in France. Without binding force, this resolution, tabled by a member of the Republic in motion, suggests to resume the definition of anti-Semitism of the International Alliance for the Memory of the Holocaust, already validated by several countries and supported by Emmanuel Macron. A definition "highly problematic", according to these signatories, because it "equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism", while "for the many Jews considering themselves anti-Zionists, this amalgam is deeply offensive". According to this group, the definition of anti-Semitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance would itself be "highly problematic" and "imprecise" and "already used to stigmatize and silence state critics. Israel, including human rights organizations ". A tribune published by Le Monde .
A word of football, to finish. Last night, Barça striker Lionel Messi became the first footballer to win the Ballon d'Or six times, which brings joy to the Spanish sports press. "For the story," exclaims Marca , who came out, for the occasion, the Unes of the five previous gold balls. "The unique", "the greatest", marvels L'Equipe , very inspired by the record of the Argentinian: "In the Messixième ciel". Messi who laughs, Mané who cries: our colleagues of RFI note that the African football remains again of the podium, since the Senegalese Sadio Mané, who counted nevertheless among the favorites, finishes fourth. As for the second women's gold ball in history, it was awarded to the American Megan Rapinoe. "Obviously," reacts Le Monde , who judges that his victory does not suffer, she, "no challenge".
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