Come on, we’re giving you a weather intro. This weekend, the weather was (average) nice and you stayed warm to watch Greek Salad? No news on the menu. We don’t blame you because the real ones know: we were there to watch and we are delivering our summary to you this Sunday evening. We have selected five big news that should not be missed during the last forty-eight hours… Spoiler alert: we are talking about football.
1. Pension reform in the “Official Journal”
The express promulgation by Emmanuel Macron of the law raising the legal retirement age to 64 seized unions and oppositions on Saturday. The “Law of April 14, 2023 on the amending financing of Social Security for 2023”, signed the day before by a Head of State in a hurry to move on, was published in the Official newspaper very early Saturday. This ultra-rapid promulgation is the sign of a “contempt” and a “febrility”, denounced Saturday the number one of the PS Olivier Faure, who promised a “democratic harassment” to return to the 64 years. “It’s a democratic hold-up,” added the rebellious François Ruffin.
On the eve of Emmanuel Macron’s speech (Monday at 8 p.m. on the main channels in a long-awaited speech), the opposition continued on Sunday to pound his “provocations” and his “denial” of the crisis situation. According to the president of the deputies RN Marine Le Pen, the “choice” is limited for Emmanuel Macron between “three solutions to get out of a conflict such as the one he himself has generated”, she launched at the Grand RTL-Le Figaro-LCI Jury. And to list: “there is the referendum, (…) there is the dissolution of the National Assembly and there is the resignation of the President of the Republic”.
The Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, he challenged any “contempt”. He thus responded to the accusations the day before from Laurent Berger, who in the columns of Parisian was irritated by the “contempt shown to the workers”, which “will have been constant”. “On the contrary, there is a desire to work with everyone,” he said during the Grand Rendez-vous d’Europe 1/CNews, calling for a resumption of social dialogue.
More info: Violent clashes took place on Saturday afternoon in Rennes on the sidelines of a regional rally against pension reform. Businesses have been ransacked and looted by radical individuals. The police intervened, sometimes violently, to “stop the abuses”. “How far will this destructive madness go? “… Rennes calls on the State for help: a paper by our journalist, Camille Allain, to read here.
2. In Bordeaux, a serious car accident during a wild race
A 32-year-old motorist drove into the crowd on Friday evening in a northern district of Bordeaux during a wild car race. In total, six people aged 17 to 26 were taken care of by the firefighters, two of whom were more seriously injured than the others, “in the legs and pelvis”. Their days are not in danger.
The accident occurred in a commercial area of the city, where many people were “gathered to attend an unauthorized ‘run’ on the public highway”, said the Bordeaux prosecutor’s office. Our journalist in Bordeaux, Elsa Provenzano takes stock of this “run” accident, while the mayor of Bordeaux affirmed that “the public authorities” would “continue to act firmly” against these “deadly activities”. It is to be read here.
3. In Marseille, “the big village” of Camas mourns its eight dead
A hundred people gathered on Sunday noon at the call of an association to pay tribute, near the scene of the tragedy, to the eight victims of the collapse of a building blown up in the middle of the night by an explosion, there are one week. The participants in the small gathering placed bouquets of flowers and candles in front of the security barrier barring access to the security perimeter surrounding the site of the collapse, which occurred on the night of April 8 to 9 at 17 rue de Tivoli.
Words of support as well as drawings were also hung on the security barriers, in front of which a hundred people observed eight minutes of silence in tribute to the eight people who died. Our journalist Mathilde Ceilles was there and her reports can be read here and there.
4. Jean-Marie Le Pen hospitalized after a heart attack
The former president of the National Front (now National Rally) Jean-Marie Le Pen, 94, was hospitalized after a “slight heart attack” on Saturday. “His family and loved ones are worried but serene”, immediately indicated his adviser Lorrain de Saint Affrique, reporting that he is “aware” and surrounded. On Sunday, Marine Le Pen said her father was “well” and the news was “reassuring”. Guest of the RTL-Le Figaro-LCI Grand Jury, the RN deputy also declared: “My father is gloriously on his 95th birthday, so it requires from time to time a few visits to the hospital to make adjustments in some way. But he is fine, and I thank all those who inquired about his health. »
5. Boastful but not so good, PSG opens the doors to an 11th title
Throughout a week that we will soberly describe as hectic, Christophe Galtier says he has made every effort to take refuge in work. This one gave it back to him, at least in accounting terms (3-1 victory against RC Lens this Saturday evening, trailing nine points in the standings). As far as the form is concerned, we cannot say that everything was famous. The opponent may have put in his own by inflicting a numerical handicap from the 20th minute, the legendary Parisian feverishness cannot be extinguished so easily. Otherwise, it would be known. Entangled as usual in a swamp of tactical and defensive approximations, PSG was nevertheless touched by grace as rarely this season, during the last quarter of an hour of the first period. To the point of opening the doors of an 11th title. William Pereira replays the match for you here.