In the press - Commemoration of the explosions in the port of Beirut: "Justice for Beirut"

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On the front page of the press, the commemoration, today, in Lebanon, of the explosion of the port of Beirut, a year ago.

A disaster that claimed the lives of more than 200 people and destroyed entire districts of the capital.

“One year and still no justice. One year, and still no official behind bars ”:

sees in the“ mini-Hiroshima ”that happened a year ago, as in the conspiracy of silence that (followed)”, "All the ingredients of Lebanese evil: a failed state and often complicit in trafficking in connection with the war in Syria, the carelessness of some, the venality of others, and, as a common denominator, a revolting contempt for human life ". More than 200 dead in the explosion, victims of which the Lebanese daily shows some of the faces. Photos provided by Beirut 607, an interactive database, compiled by a team that wrote their stories, so they wouldn't be forgotten.

also recalls the names of senior officials implicated in the investigation now conducted by Judge Tarek Bitar. Among them, the former Minister of Finance Ali Hassan Khalil, who had been made aware of the dangerousness of the ammonium nitrate, stored in the port of Beirut, the former Prime Minister Hassan Diab, who had been informed twice the presence of explosive substances, or the former Minister of the Interior, Nouhad Machnouk, who had received a report on the presence of "several tons of an extremely dangerous substance" on board a ship detained in the port , in May 2014.

The foreign press also condemns the lack of legal progress.

evokes "a complete disaster": "a year later, no one has been tried, and the reaction of the Lebanese political class has not been up to it", denounces the pan-Arab daily in London, whose indignation is shared by

. "The investigation hit a wall, and the Lebanese justice remains elusive": the Emirati newspaper judges that the explosion of the port of Beirut "confirms, in the most brutal way, that the Lebanese political class is killing its own people slowly ”.

The French daily 

speaks of a Lebanon "ravaged by mismanagement" and of a system "at the end of its rope", recalling that Emmanuel Macron promised this country "paralyzed by impunity and carelessness" , that he would not "let go". This commitment is reflected in the holding, today, of a new international aid conference for Lebanon, the third in a year. Paris hopes to raise $ 350 million, in partnership with the United Nations, but according to

, this time it is emergency aid to meet water, health and education needs, and not structural aid - "which remains conditional on the formation of a government capable of initiating reforms. background". "On this plan, notes the newspaper, despite the French forcing, nothing has advanced." In the United States, Emmanuel Macron's activism leaves

quite skeptical

. The newspaper, which criticizes "the failed bet" of the president, qualified as "self-proclaimed midwife of Lebanon", quotes the very severe analysis of the Lebanese political scientist Nizar Ghanem: "The French intervention only allowed the political elite to gain the time necessary to nip in the bud the momentum of protest that had emerged after the explosion ”.

In France, the delta variant of Covid-19 is putting more and more pressure on hospitals, especially in Corsica.

reports 830 cases of contamination per 100,000 inhabitants in Haute-Corse, which led the authorities to trigger the white plan in hospitals on the island for at least a month. This plan makes it possible, in particular, to recall caregivers on leave, to deprogram operations and to open additional beds. While the health situation is deteriorating, the controversy over the verification, from August 9, of health passes by traders, also continues to swell. "We are not vaccination police officers", testifies one of them on the front page of 

, which predicts that "the punitive extension" of the health pass, "will produce tensions and fractures", "at the risk of further marginalizing disadvantaged populations, already largely under-vaccinated".

We do not leave each other on this.

See you soon, without sharing with you the wonderful smile of the American gymnast Simone Biles, who won bronze on the beam at the Tokyo Olympics.

"Biles all smiles", nicely title this morning

.

After her abandonment of the team competition, to preserve her mental health, the warrior had the courage to return on stage.

The newspaper

awards “the medal of the heart” and salutes the “resilience” of the seven-time Olympic medalist.

Well done to her ...

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