Our computers got hot this weekend, and it wasn’t just a matter of the sun. Back in a few lines on the eventful news of these 48 hours…
1. A rebounding Russian Saturday
This Sunday, the forces of the paramilitary group Wagner are gradually withdrawing into Russia after the abortive coup by their leader. During a 24-hour spree that took his militias less than 400 km from Moscow, Yevgeny Prigojine shook the Kremlin before turning around and ordering his men to return to their bases, after mediation of Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.
In a sign that the emergency seems to have passed, Wagner’s fighters left the Voronezh and Lipetsk regions south of Moscow on Sunday, according to local authorities. The day before, they had left the military HQ which they had seized in Rostov (southwest), the nerve center of operations in Ukraine, signaling the end of this mutiny so as not to spill “Russian blood”, according to the words of Prigozhin. The latter must leave for Belarus, the Russian presidency announced on Saturday evening.
And now ? What consequences will the aborted rebellion of the Wagner group have? Isabelle Facon, research director, answers us.
2. Darmanin extends Wuanbushu
Three ministers visiting Mayotte. Gérald Darmanin (Interior), Olivier Klein (Housing) and Jean-François Carenco (Overseas) crisscrossed the 101st French department, the poorest in the country, this weekend to defend Wuanbushu, the contested operation to fight against crime, illegal immigration and unsanitary housing in this archipelago. Gérald Darmanin specified that the device would be “extended for one month” then that a “second type of operation, a new formula” would begin in September, targeting illegal agriculture and fishing and slum merchants. He also said he expected the destruction of around “1,250” substandard housing in Mayotte by “the end of the year”.
3. A big pride march in Paris
Tens of thousands of people (56,000 according to the prefecture) took part in the LGBT+ pride march in Paris on Saturday. This Parisian “pride” took shape behind the only truck present, carrying the banner “For ten years, marriage for all, always, violence for all”.
At midday, six minors were arrested in Paris for attacking a woman who, with a rainbow flag in her hand, was joining the pride march. They pushed her around and made homophobic remarks.
Video of the weekend: Meeting with Suzanne, a pen artist committed against homophobia.
4. A Sunday without JDD
The drafting of Sunday newspaper almost unanimously renewed its strike until next Wednesday, to try to prevent the arrival at its head of Geoffroy Lejeune, a director marked on the far right. The movement paralyzed the website, before preventing the release of the paper edition on Sunday, an extremely rare event in the history of the weekly, which Vincent Bolloré recently took over. “I understand the concerns of [l] writing, Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak said on social media. In law, the JDD can become whatever he wants, as long as he respects the law. But for our republican values how not to be alarmed? »
5. Valentin Madouas in red white blue
His father Laurent, himself a former runner, hugged him for a long time on the main square in Cassel. The 26-year-old Finisterian Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ) won the most important success of his career in this northern village: the French road cycling championship. He escaped very early and got the better of all his fellow riders to triumph alone despite a change of bike on the last lap. He will wear the tricolor jersey reserved for the winner on the roads of the Tour de France which he will start on July 1.