In the press - Tribute to Samuel Paty in French schools: "A Monday unlike any other"

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On the front page of the press, back to school this morning in France, where a tribute will be paid in all schools to Samuel Paty, this teacher murdered by an Islamist terrorist for showing caricatures of Muhammad to his students.

On this "Monday unlike any other", also marked by the strengthening of the health protocol, all students, from CP to 12th grade, will observe a minute of silence, after reading the "Letter to teachers" by Jean Jaurès - a text which is part of the republican heritage, recalls the daily

.

How will this moment be experienced by the students?

Will the tribute to Samuel Paty give rise to the “heckling and insults that surrounded (the one) rendered to the victims of the January 2015 attacks?”.

hopes that today's sequence will not be a new "revealing of long years of abdication", a new manifestation of "the renunciation which makes the cut to the Islamist diktats".

On the front lines of this new school year, some teachers express their feeling of abandonment.

According to

, some of them fear being sent back to classes without health guarantees, and without preparation to discuss with the students the murder of Samuel Paty, their colleague “who died for teaching freedom of expression.

Died for having explained to his students the importance of this fundamental right ”.

"The stake, for today, is within the framework of the school, but it would be a serious error to leave the task to the only teachers":

considers that "we all have a role to play in this work education, explanation and dialogue.

To say, for example, that accepting the existence of cartoons does not mean approving them.

And, quite simply, to show the concern that one has for the opinion of the other, and to discuss it with him ”.

They too say they feel abandoned.

Small French traders, forced to close, revolt against confinement.

According to

, these traders, sometimes supported by mayors, denounce a "distortion of competition", which favors hypermarkets and Amazon.

A grumbling that Prime Minister Jean Castex tried to defuse, by announcing yesterday that supermarkets will no longer be able to sell, from tomorrow, non-essential products, according to

.

Struck by the second wave of the Covid-19 epidemic, France must simultaneously face the terrorist threat - two crises which have in common "their unpredictability", according to

, which says it is worried about the "formidable feeling of injustice "expressed by the traders, a" beginning of fire "that the newspaper considers" urgent to extinguish "," especially as local elected officials, not sometimes without ulterior motives, blow on the embers ".

"A dangerous game, according to the newspaper, because it weakens and discredits public speech."

denounces "postures where everyone sees noon at their door" and which "feed a breeding ground for the emergence of new Jacqueries": "Exactly what the country, in need of unity, does not need in this moment".

Faced with a double health and security crisis, France is also strongly criticized by several Muslim countries for its defense of freedom of expression.

Contrary to the tens of thousands of people who have demonstrated again in recent days in Bangladesh and Pakistan, in particular, the United Arab Emirates are taking the defense of France.

In an interview with the German daily

, the UAE Foreign Minister rejects the idea that Emmanuel Macron has expressed a message of exclusion of Muslims, defending freedom of expression and secularism.

“You have to listen to what Macron really said in his speech.

He does not want a ghettoization of Muslims in the West and he is absolutely right ”,

declares Anwar Gargash - by inviting Muslims to integrate better, and to understand that the French state has the right to fight against radicalism and community confinement.

A word, also, of the referendum, yesterday, on the revision of the constitution in Algeria.

With a participation rate slightly below 24%, the Algerians have clearly indicated that they do not believe in the promises of change in power - which judges, him, that the referendum took place "under good conditions", and that "the page divergences and slippages of the autocracy was definitively turned, yesterday "- a speech relayed by the official daily

, for which the Algerian authorities" took up the challenge ".

"As expected, the Algerians, in their great majority, shunned the referendum", notes

, where Dilem's drawing deciphers what constitutes, according to him, the real stake of yesterday's consultation: turning the page of Hirak, the peaceful protest movement that calls for a profound change in the system in place since independence.

To those whom this laughing news makes dream of a magic wand or other miracle, to solve the problems as if by magic, I recommend the greatest vigilance.

reports that two individuals were arrested in India for selling a doctor an "Aladdin's lamp" for the modest sum of 78,000 euros.

The duped buyer contacted the police, after realizing that the lamp in question had no magical power and that, contrary to the popular tale, no genius supposed to grant his wishes appeared when he rubbed the lamp. ..

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