In the press - Assassination of three Kurds in France: "The fight against racism, a cultural fight"

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On the front page of the French press, the reactions to the shooting which caused the death of three Kurds, Friday, in Paris.

The alleged culprit says he acted out of "hatred of foreigners".

For

, "this heinous act reminds us that the scourge of racism continues to rage" - a scourge that only "a real fight", "a cultural fight", can reverse.

A diagnosis shared by

, who believes that “it is up to investigators and doctors to sift through the background and personality” of the alleged perpetrator, who was transferred to psychiatry after his first interrogation, but also notes that “the public formulation of an uninhibited xenophobia has clearly regained the hair of the beast”, in France.

The newspaper also evokes a "cultural battle" and the "urgency (to) intensify the fight against (the) hate speech".

Speeches from the far right, according to Libé, and which "most often thrive by twisting reality", "with powerful megaphones, in the media space and on social networks".

On Saturday, thousands of people demonstrated in several cities against this attack, which is hitting the Kurdish community in France hard.

According to

, this tragedy has awakened the memory of another massacre: the assassination, in 2013, also in Paris, of three militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the PKK - a party banned in Turkey.

Their author was arrested, before dying in prison.

But L'Huma affirms that this man "had acquaintances with the Turkish intelligence services, MIT", and denounces the fact that his "sponsors" have still not been identified, due to the refusal of justice to lift the secret-défense, which would allow access to the notes of the French intelligence services.

“A political position”, according to the newspaper, which judges that “France cannot tolerate such actions on its soil, except to become an accomplice in them”.

In Turkey,

, the official daily, looks back on the violence that punctuated the demonstrations on Saturday - clashes attributed to the PKK, accused of "moving violence in Europe".

A speech also relayed by

.

The Turkish site claims that “supporters of the PKK terrorist group, I quote, have transformed Paris into a battlefield”, denouncing the supposed “tolerance” of European countries towards the Kurdistan workers' party.

In China, the authorities announced yesterday that they will no longer publish the daily figures for contaminations and deaths linked to Covid-19.

According to

, the abandonment of the so-called “zero Covid” strategy at the beginning of the month would result in a simple “adjustment” of measures to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic, in particular via vaccination of people over 60.

But China has since experienced an explosion in the number of infections, according to figures presented last week at a meeting of Chinese health authorities, which was held behind closed doors.

These figures “contrast sharply with the low number of official cases”, according to

, which reports 250 million people, 18% of the population, infected with Covid-19, in the first 20 days of December.

The discrepancy between official figures and reality, which is also discussed in the complaint filed in Switzerland by environmental defense associations against Fifa, the international football federation.

reports that several NGOs, including Greenpeace and the WWF, have filed a complaint in Switzerland, where Fifa is headquartered, to determine whether the federation has touted the World Cup too much as being ecological, to find out if it is is guilty of “greenwashing”, misleading advertising claims, by presenting the World Cup in Qatar as “the first fully climate-neutral tournament”.

The World Cup ended in the tragic victory, I would say, of Argentina over France, which makes some French people very angry, not at the defeat, or in any case, not only, but above all the attitude of the Argentines, and in particular of the goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, whose provocations towards Kylian Mbappé are not of the greatest elegance.

To the point that his attitude was even described as “pitiful”, by the French Minister of Sports

But on the Argentinian side, these reactions are considered pathetic, so much so that a petition was launched on Friday to ask that "France stop crying", "Francia, deja de llorar", in the original version.

According to

, this petition, which also asks the French to accept that Messi is "the best in the history of football", just that,

has already collected more than 691,000 signatures.

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