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On the front page of the press, the interception on Sunday by Belarus of a plane connecting Greece to Lithuania, to arrest an opponent who was on board.
"Alexander Lukashenko catches (an opposing activist) in flight", announces
Kommersant
. The Russian daily confirms that the President and the Belarusian security services are responsible for the forced landing in Minsk of the Ryanair flight on board Roman Protassevich, the former editor-in-chief of the opposition media Nexta, who had played an important role in the wave of protest following the re-election of President Lukashenko last year, which resulted in him being placed by the regime on the list of "individuals involved in terrorist activities". "A blogger intercepted in the air":
Vedomosti
, another Russian daily, explains that the Belarusian authorities "are unlikely to recognize" the responsibility of their security services in the arrest of Roman Protassevich, insofar as he had requested political asylum in a country of the European Union, in this case Poland, which makes his arrest all the more illegal.
The Financial Times
refers to the "fury" of European leaders, who demand the release of Protassevich and have pledged to discuss "possible sanctions" against Belarus, at a meeting scheduled for Monday in Brussels. The British daily also reports the anger of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said the United States "strongly condemned the forcible hijacking of a flight between two EU member states and the kidnapping and the arrest (of a Belarusian opponent) in Minsk ". "Here is yet another international rule shattering in Belarusian skies":
The Washington Post
he reports the declaration of the Polish Prime Minister, according to which "the hijacking of a civilian plane is an act of unprecedented state terrorism". "Mateusz Morawiecki is right: this act cannot go unpunished, and it is all the more necessary to hold Belarus to account, as the rules against international aggressions have been regularly attacked in recent years." The newspaper cites as proof the repeated attacks by Russia, China, but also Iran and North Korea, against international law.
In the press, also, the reactions to the posting online of the meeting between Emmanuel Macron and two successful French YouTubers, McFly and Carlito.
The Parisian
, who evokes a "coup de com" already seen by more than 5 million people since Sunday, explains that the objective of this meeting was to "speak to young people", to "reconnect with this fraction of the population affected by the crisis and which appears increasingly distant from its leaders, even seduced by the National Rally "of Marine Le Pen. Anyway, the exercise is very unpleasant at
Le Figaro
, which deplores a "depoliticization of political speech" and castigates "a vision of purely utilitarian politics dominated by marketing thought, which divides the electorate into targets to be addressed separately, without any regard for considerations such as the general interest or the dignity of the office ". As for the YouTubers who have lent themselves to the game, the newspaper describes them purely and simply as "useful idiots of macronism and its strategy". Le Figaro believes that the most serious thing is perhaps this idea that the president is now an influencer like any other, that politics is no longer a separate space, and that it is now possible for the leader of the State, to commit himself in such a demeaning and vulgar video ".
In Algeria, the opposition protests against the neutralization, Friday in Algiers, of the weekly march of Hirak, the peaceful protest movement. According to
Algeria Part
, the police made numerous arrests in the capital, but also in other cities of the country. "The current period that Algeria is going through is the worst liberticidal sequence since the start of the political crisis in Algeria in February 2019. Never has Algeria known such a high number of prisoners of conscience and politicians", warns the site, which evokes the figure, obtained from several judicial sources, of at least 158 political and opinion detainees. The current wave of repression, evoked in a drawing by Dilem, for
Liberté-Algérie
showing a policeman preparing to club a Hirak protester.
Despite two elections marked by record abstention rates, the 2019 presidential election and the 2020 referendum, the regime remains determined to impose its electoral “roadmap”.
Next step: the early legislative elections of June 12, despite the rejection of these elections by the Hirak.
"Election campaign: the candidates hard at work", ironically Hic, for
El Watan
, with a drawing of a candidate on the starting line, lacing up shoes ... clown.
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