In the French press this morning, this question: what happened in Sainte-Soline, and precisely, was there an obstacle to the rescue? For the newspaper Le Monde, the answer is yes. The newspaper headlined: "The recording that proves that the SAMU was hindered".

As a reminder, on Saturday, an unauthorized demonstration took place in the center of the France, around the construction site of a water retention basin, near the town of Sainte-Soline. The confrontation between environmental activists and the police was very violent. According to official figures, gendarmes fired one tear gas canister per second (more than 5000,<>) and two protesters are still in a coma.

Le Monde publishes the telephone conversation between a doctor and members of the League of Human Rights on one side, and the Samu (the French emergency services). When they call, LDH members are not there, but they have observers in the demonstration, who tell them that the situation is calm enough for emergency services to intervene.

Excerpts from the conversation published in the newspaper:

LDH lawyer Chloé Saynac: "You are forbidden to intervene? You confirm that you are forbidden to intervene?"

The SAMU: "We do not have the authorization to send aid on the spot, because it is considered dangerous on the spot. (...) No, it is not the prefecture that prohibits access, I tell you that it is the command on the spot." Understand, the gendarmerie

In Le Parisien, the boss of the local Samu says that the interventions of his team have not been hindered by the authorities, but that it is a collective decision. "Yes, maybe for LDH the situation was calm. But if our partners tell us the situation is dangerous, I don't send my doctors." So where is the truth?

For Libération this morning, these clashes that lasted two hours, it is "120 minutes too much". Using testimonies, videos, aerial images and telephone data, the newspaper tries to reconstruct minute by minute the care of the two demonstrators. The same boss of the Samu interviewed in Le Parisien makes different remarks in Liberation. He says, "It's the operational command post that's going to give the green light or not."

The families of the two protesters still in a coma filed complaints, including for "obstruction of rescue" and "attempted murder". In his editorial, the director of Libération writes: "We have attached a chronology of official communiqués, testifying to inconsistencies, even lies, in the government's communication. The matter is now before the courts. We hope that lessons will be learned from this state fiasco."

In Ukraine, the Battle of Bakhmut is still raging, and to resist Russian troops, Ukrainians use helicopters that date back to Soviet times. This is a report to read today in Le Figaro. There is Ivan, for example, 51, who was a furniture salesman in Poland a year ago, and who is now a volunteer in the air force, or Captain Oleksandr, who pilots a venerable Mi-8 from the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

These Mi-8 helicopters are transport aircraft converted with rocket launchers, but without guidance system, or even armor. So to try to carry out three daily missions, the pilots multiply the acrobatics: flying in low clods, shooting in judgment. Kiev is increasingly calling on the West to replenish its air fleet, hence the opening of this unit to the press.

In the United States, the Washington Post continues its series of investigations around the assault rifle, which has become the symbol of mass killings, the AR-15. This assault rifle, the most popular in the country, has been implicated in 10 of the 17 deadliest killings since 2012. 16 million Americans own at least one, including the Nashville elementary school killer, who wore two on her.

This Thursday, in its report "The radicals rifle", the Washington Post tells how this rifle has become the main weapon of armed militias, regardless of their political side. We see "D", an activist of a "non-binary" organization who learns to use it for the first time. Cody, an anti-federal state activist, or anti-fascist activists, came to intervene in front of a homophobic demonstration.

Finally King Charles III on the cover of the New York Times, where more precisely his lookalikes! The American daily headlines "How good it is to finally be King!". For, if Charles waited 73 years to wear the crown, his lookalikes too, and for them too, time was beginning to become long.

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