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In the press, yesterday's decision of the Congolese president to establish a state of siege in eastern DRC, in an attempt to end the violence ravaging the region.
North Kivu and Ituri are now placed under military administration for a period of 30 days, a decision presented by Félix Tshisekedi as a response to the "cry of distress" of the population. But according to
Le Monde
, the establishment of a state of siege, which gives extended rights to the army, "makes the country cringe" and "raises a lot of concerns", insofar as the Military officers in eastern DRC are themselves "accused of human rights violations": rape, massacres, assassinations, illegal exploitation of resources, sale of arms to armed groups. The citizen movement Lucha says it fears that the state of siege "will give rise to a situation of lawlessness and an increase in police and military blunders".The Belgian daily
Le Soir
believes that Félix Tshisekedi "is not wrong" to have established a state of siege, but asks the international community to go "beyond words of encouragement", and to provide him with the support promised, in particular to improve and train his army. "Even if it is perhaps already too late, it is today that the Congo must be helped to restore its sovereignty, to control its territory, to protect all its population".
Also in the press, the project to reform the family code in Egypt, which provides for placing women under the authority of a male guardian. According to
La Croix
, this project provokes the anger of defenders of women's rights, for whom this text threatens to "send Egyptian women back a century". This reform plans, among other things, to strengthen the guardianship of men over women, who will not be able to marry without the consent of a guardian, or to withdraw custody of their child from Christians in favor of the father, if the latter - here converts to Islam. According to
La Croix
, this text "is a pledge granted to religious", foremost among which is Al-Azhar University, the highest reference in Sunni Islam.
In France, the daily
Liberation
carried out the investigation into the shooting of LBD, the launcher of defense bullets, of which a young man from the Paris suburbs was the victim, in February 2020. The mutilated face of Adnane Nassih, makes the news One of the newspaper, which affirms that the young man of 19 years, however presented "no danger" for the agent of the BAC who shot him. Libé, who has reconstructed the facts in 3D, evokes images "overwhelming" for the police and is indignant that the offending agent has not so far received any sanction. The newspaper said to see in this affair "the reflection of the feeling of impunity which reigns" in the police force, "a violence so ordinary that it becomes institutional".
France, which today commemorates the bicentenary of Napoleon's death. A birthday against a background of controversy. On this occasion, Emmanuel Macron is to deliver a speech at the Institut de France - a "perilous" exercise, for which the president would have sought "the right tone", according to
Le Figaro
, who believes that, yes, we must commemorate, " and even celebrate "the Emperor Napoleon, who" bequeathed (to France) a certain idea of herself, which could be summed up in one word, on which she lived for nearly two centuries: greatness ". "By commemorating the death of the" little corporal "today, Emmanuel Macron seeks to take advantage of the mythical figure of the emperor", accuses
L'Humanité
, who denounces "the poison of Bonapartism" and sees first in Napoleon the gravedigger of the French Revolution, and the one who restored slavery in the colonies in 1802. "How to commemorate the bicentenary of the death of the emperor, accused of having restored what is a crime against humanity in France? ":
Opinion also
evokes" a perilous exercise "for Emmanuel Macron, who" is eyeing the right-wing electorate ", often won over to the memory of "the providential man".
Napoleon 1st, whose defeat at Waterloo in 1815 had brought the future Belgian territory back under the domination of the Dutch crown. This defeat also laid the groundwork for the Treaty of "Limits" of 1820, which established the border between France and the future Belgium. A border that a Belgian farmer accidentally pushed back by 2.20m by moving the old stone boundary mark which marked its precise location, because this old stone hindered the passage of his tractor. Unfortunately for this farmer, his unfortunate act did not escape enthusiasts of the Franco-Belgian border, who obviously know the location of the old terminal to the nearest centimeter and asked the Belgian authorities to contact the farmer, for him return the stone to its original location. Read on the website of
Point
.
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