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On the front page of the press this Wednesday, February 7, is the tribute at Les Invalides to the 42 French victims of the Hamas attack on October 7.
This ceremony, chaired by Emmanuel Macron, will take place in the presence of the families of the victims, who came from Israel by a specially chartered plane, according to
Le Parisien/Aujourd'hui en France
. Beyond the debate on the presence at this ceremony of La France insoumise, the newspaper denounces the "sneaky rise" of a "nauseating controversy", on the fact that "France would do too much for some of its own and not enough for the others”: “Too many for the Franco-Israelis” who died in the Hamas attack, and “not enough for the French Gazans killed by the Israeli bombs”. The newspaper considers it essential that France "refuses the competition of suffering" and that "the Republic reaffirms (its) rejection of anti-Semitism and terrorism", "the fight for which should be universal".
📰 The front page of Le Parisien on February 7
➡️ https://t.co/BmPFnJKVNS pic.twitter.com/POdFqUUX2D
— Le Parisien (@le_Parisien) February 7, 2024
Refuse “competition of suffering” or refuse “double standards”, the debate is open.
Mediapart
denounces the "double standard" at work, according to it, in "historic Palestine", which is also reflected in the tribute to the Franco-Israeli victims. And the info site takes irony on the "tree climbing number" of the Élysée, which announces that a "memorial time" will also be devoted at a later date, not fixed for the moment, to the "French victims of bombings in Gaza.
Gaza: France must put an end to denial
By @JoConfa
👉 https://t.co/3Mc4vHQveZhttps://t.co/3Mc4vHQveZ
— Mediapart (@Mediapart) February 6, 2024
The fate of civilians in the Palestinian enclave, subject this morning of a “J’accuse”, published by
L’Humanité
. A team of French doctors who worked for 15 days at the European hospital in Gaza – between Khan Younes and Rafah – bear witness to the hell of resuscitation on the ground, the amputations of children and the ordeal of pregnant women. “We will have to take stock of all these horrors,” they challenge.
For its part,
The New York Times
was interested in the publications of Israeli soldiers on social networks since the October invasion – images offering “a rare and unauthorized insight into operations” in Gaza, according to the American daily, which notably evokes videos of soldiers applauding the destruction or mocking Gazans. Publications which
The New York Times
recalls violate Israeli army regulations prohibiting the sharing of content on social networks likely to "affect the image of the IDF" or showing behavior "undermining human dignity ".
Israeli soldiers' videos, shared from Gaza on social media, show them mocking Palestinians and destroying what appears to be civilian property. The footage provides a rare and unsanctioned window into the Israel-Hamas war. https://t.co/326uCrDwpt
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 6, 2024
Also in the news is the presentation on Tuesday by the European Commission of its plan to achieve “climate neutrality” in 2050. To achieve this, Brussels is proposing a reduction in CO2 emissions of 90% by 2040 – a proposal ambitious, except that it does not set any objectives for agriculture, while the text on the reduction of pesticides is postponed indefinitely. Agricultural mobilization has been there. Verdict from the Spanish daily
El Pais
: “Brussels gives in on the green transition to appease farmers”.
Same story with
Il Manifesto
, which for the occasion uses the title of a song by Italian rapper Emis Killa, “Erva cattiva”: “The weed”. The newspaper accuses Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen of having "immediately given in to the tractor protests against pesticides and CO2 emissions", for fear of seeing the far-right win in the elections European. “In all things, misfortune is good”: satisfaction, on the other hand, of Le
Figaro
, which considers that “the agricultural crisis, failing to resolve all the problems of the peasants, will at least have had (the) merit of calming the normative ardor of Brussels", forcing Ursula von der Leyen to "bury without fanfare the project aimed at halving the use of pesticides by 2030, one of the pillars of the European "green deal".
Environment, still, with the publication, Tuesday, in France, of the report of the Court of Auditors, on winter sports resorts. According to
Libération
, this report "overwhelms" the economic model of mountain tourism - a model considered "outdated", at a time when snow is becoming increasingly rare, and which will force winter sports resorts to to think about “apres-ski”, according to Libé. For the moment, ski resorts are opting instead for what marketing calls "upgrading", as
in
Tignes, one of the largest resorts in the French Alps, which went from two five-star hotels to around fifteen, in space. only fifteen years old. A development which
Le Monde
reports has the consequence of preventing the local population from finding housing, but also of chasing away, or at least shrinking, the French clientele.
⛷️ Climate: après-ski. It's the front page of @Libe on Wednesday.
❌ The Court of Auditors issued a damning report on Tuesday on the outdated economic model of winter sports resorts, where snow is becoming increasingly rare.
Read: https://t.co/nj2k4mQp7h pic.twitter.com/08xYnwUAyU
— Libération (@libe) February 6, 2024
Le Monde
published this Wednesday morning the testimony of French actress Judith Godrèche, who announced that she had filed a complaint against the director Benoît Jacquot, for "violent rape of a minor under 15 years old" by a person in authority. The newspaper, which recalls that this crime is punishable by twenty years in prison, even if, in this case, it is probably time-barred, investigated at length the actress's allegations, the "control" exercised over her , when she was a very young girl of 14 years old, by a recognized filmmaker, aged, at the time, 39 years old. A relationship from which the actress says it took years to free herself, and from which she recounts, in a letter addressed to her 18-year-old daughter, how Vanessa Springora's book, "Consent", helped her. "I just understood. This thing, consent, I never gave it. No. Never ever. So, it's time. The despair of my past weakness, the despair of my stolen childhood, has found its voice. It's the story of a fourteen-year-old girl in Paris in the 90s."
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