In the press - Tadej Pogacar, winner of the Tour de France: "I have my conscience for me"

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On the front page of the press, the continuation, this weekend, of the demonstrations in Bangkok, in Thailand, where the students demand since July a reform of the monarchy and the political system.

According to

, protesters yesterday morning made a very symbolic gesture by cementing a plaque, since removed, near the former royal palace, stating that Thailand "belongs to the people and not to the king" - a gesture which constitutes a real challenge to the monarchy, in a country where the subject is totally taboo.

The day before, the demonstrations had brought together tens of thousands of people, the largest gathering since the coup of 2014 which put in power the current Prime Minister, whose protesters are calling for his resignation, according to the

, which announces the intention of its opponents to demonstrate again next Thursday in front of the parliament.

The newspaper evokes a movement that will "continue to scold", and invites the head of government to "listen" to the demonstrators, who also express their concern at the deterioration of the economy due to the Covid-19 epidemic.

The Covid-19 pandemic is also causing a stir in Spain.

Yesterday, thousands of people demonstrated in the capital after the announcement of the re-containment of several areas in the Madrid region, from today.

specifies that the demonstrators oppose measures which will limit their freedom of movement for two weeks - provisions which they consider "ineffective and discriminatory", because they affect in particular several disadvantaged municipalities of the southern suburbs of Madrid.

"Everyone must be confined, or no one should be confined", testify several protesters in the columns of the newspaper.

To re-limit or not to re-limit is also the question in the United Kingdom, where the government is divided on the subject.

reports that the Minister of Finance is alarmed by "the devastating impact of a new lockdown on jobs", while his colleague from Health "is pushing" for stricter measures, now.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to speak tomorrow evening, and could announce the establishment of a curfew, the ban on family reunions and the closure of pubs.

Also on the front page of the press, the revelations of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists on the circulation, in the traditional banking circuit, of billions of dollars of dubious origin, thanks to regulatory failures.

Billions of dollars from drug cartels, Russian oligarchs and dozens of personalities: journalists from the editorial staff of the Belgian daily

, in particular, have tracked more than 2,000 billion dollars in "suspicious" transactions , reported by banks around the world to FinCEN, the US Treasury Department dedicated to the fight against money laundering.

Their investigation demonstrates the crucial role banks play in a system "that benefits criminals and reinforces inequalities", "by blindly transferring money for individuals they cannot always clearly identify.

By failing to report transactions which nevertheless have all the characteristics of money laundering.

Or by continuing to maintain business relationships with clients linked to corruption and fraud scandals ”.

According to the Consortium, the reported $ 2 trillion is "just a drop in the flow of dirty money circulating in banks around the world." 

Their share is considerable: 1% of the richest people in the world emit twice as many greenhouse gases as half of the world's poor.

In any case, this is what the last report of the NGO Oxfam, cited by

says

.

According to this document, "1% of the richest people in the population, or around 63 million people alone are responsible for 15% of emissions" - figures which lead Oxfam to call for "social and climate justice" in the post-Covid recovery plans.

For the moment, we are far from it.

mentions an offer not really intended to improve the carbon footprint: flights to nowhere, for those nostalgic for the days when you could travel anywhere across the planet.

We buy our ticket, we take off, and we return to the starting point: these trips would be particularly popular in Australia, where travel abroad is prohibited.

The Qantas company last week sold all the seats on its "flight to nowhere" in 10 minutes, the fastest sale in its history.

Ticket prices for this seven-hour plane ride around Australia: between 500 and 2,300 euros…

Finally, a word about the supersonic performances of Tadej Pogacar, who won the Tour de France yesterday.

"They wrote history", "Yesterday afternoon, the Champs-Elysées were Slovenian": in Slovenia, Tadej Pogacar and his compatriot Primoz Roglic, who came second, have the honors of the national press, including

, who thanks the Slovenian fans for making the trip to support the team, despite the Covid.

At 21, Tadej Pogacar, who turns 22 today, becomes "the youngest winner of the Tour de France for 100 years", notes the British daily

.

“I had a free spirit,” explains the young prodigy in

.

Asked by the French sports daily about running for training "where several sports directors were involved in a doping case, in 2008" and practicing "a sport where suspicion is permanent, including on (his) own performances ”, he replies:“ I'm too young to remember that time, I was ten in 2008. And it makes me weird to talk about it because it goes against everything I believe in.

My only defense is to have my conscience on my side ”.

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