In the press - Tribute to the victims of October 17, 1961: "Emmanuel Macron does not want to get wet"

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On the front page of the press, the drama of migrants on the eastern European border, where thousands of people find themselves trapped between Poland and Belarus.

"Their journey to a better life has turned into a disaster": they are Iraqis, Syrians, Afghans, and they made the front page, this morning, of the Swiss newspaper

, which tells how these migrants find themselves trapped, between on one side, Belarus, where the Lukashenko regime is taking revenge on European sanctions by organizing waves of migration to the EU, and on the other, Poland, which systematically rejects these refugees, without even examining their asylum application. "Every day, families with children, pregnant women, need help, people who are hungry, thirsty, who have soaked clothes, who have sometimes been beaten by Belarusian soldiers," warns an NGO member. , whose appeal runs up against anti-immigration propaganda from PiS, the ultra-conservative party in power in Poland.

The Polish government, whose anti-European rhetoric also provokes a lot of criticism, in particular from

, which reconsiders the decision of the Polish Constitutional Court to establish the superiority of national law over Community law - a very controversial decision, but which makes followers elsewhere in Europe, according to the newspaper, worried about the push for sovereignty, in vogue within the EU - despite the not really brilliant results of Brexit, at least for the moment.

Also on the front page, the tribute, Saturday, of Emmanuel Macron to the Algerian victims of the repression of October 17, 1961, in Paris. "By recognizing the" inexcusable crimes ", committed according to him, by the Republic, the president took a risk", according to

, "the risk of offending the supporters of firmness vis-à-vis Algiers, without satisfying neither are the partisans of repentance ”- of which

is not one, since the newspaper considers that a“ process of reconciliation can only take place if there are two ”and that the recent acts of appeasement of the France, have "nothing changed" to the difficult Franco-Algerian relationship. Not satisfied either, the daily

, regrets that Emmanuel Macron, "rather than recognizing the responsibility of the State", was "content to accuse Maurice Papon", the Paris police prefect at the time. Emmanuel Macron, who is seen recollecting himself during the tribute paid to the victims, at the foot of the Bezons bridge, on the banks of the Seine, the bridge taken 60 years ago by Algerian demonstrators coming from the slum of Nanterre, nearby .

"Allah Yarham chouada": "Peace to the soul of the martyrs", headlines this morning the official newspaper El Moudjahid, with a photo of the tribute paid yesterday to the victims by Abdelmajid Tebboune in Maqam Chahid, the sanctuary of the martyr of Algiers . The Algerian president spoke of "crimes engraved in the collective memory" - a quote on the front page of El Watan, which republishes a photo of FLN activists killed by French police. "Concealing the responsibility of the government of the time, (Emmanuel Macron) thus avoided speaking of a" state crime "," regrets the newspaper. El Watan, who publishes a drawing by Hic, where we see Emmanuel Macron "denounce the crimes of October 17, 1961 without assuming": "So, we do not want to get too wet?", Calls an Algerian, on the edge of the Seine.

Emmanuel Macron, who today launches the States General of Justice, to "take stock of the situation" and "formulate proposals". A commission chaired by Jean-Marc Sauvé, who has just submitted, moreover, a damning report on sexual abuse within the Church, will work for 4 months on the subjects that annoy, then the relations between the magistrates and the Minister Eric Dupont-Moretti are far from being in good shape - hence the drawing by Kak, on the front page of

, which shows Emmanuel Macron announcing to a magistrate that the work will last "four months firm".

In the justice section, always.

announces the opening, today, of the trial of the Elysée polls. Five defendants, including the pollster Patrick Buisson and the former chief of staff of Nicolas Sarkozy, Claude Guéant, will appear for 4 weeks, but not the former president, who enjoys the criminal immunity granted by the Constitution to the chiefs of the State, for acts committed in the exercise of their functions.

We do not leave each other on this.

A word, in conclusion, from the initiative of Spencer Tunick, who sought to alert the public to the drying up of the Dead Sea in southern Israel.

This has lost a third of its surface since 1960 and continues to decline by more than a meter per year.

The American photographer explained that he covered his models with white paint, to recall the biblical episode of Lot's wife, who was transformed into a pillar of salt by the Dead Sea, for looking behind her.

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