Did you take advantage of your weekend to disconnect? It’s time to dive into our summary of the unmissable news of this weekend.
1. Dialogue under pressure on compulsory vaccination
While Prime Minister Jean Castex is due to receive from this Monday the leaders of Parliament and local elected officials to address, among other things, the issue of the obligation to vaccinate caregivers, a hundred doctors (and not the least) asked the government to act quickly in a column published on the website of the Sunday newspaper. These experts summon the executive to immediately take the decision of compulsory vaccination “for any employee of an nursing home or a hospital” “(s’) exposing or exposing the people for whom it is responsible to risks of contamination to Covid-19 ”. In order to “avoid a fourth wave”, they ask it “to implement the necessary measures so that the application of this decision is effective before the beginning of September”.
In recent days, the rapid progress of the Delta variant has prompted the executive to relaunch this debate, which was already raised in March. Vaccination rates have since increased, but still remain insufficient: 57% in nursing homes, 64% in hospitals according to the French Hospital Federation (FHF). Health Minister Olivier Véran set a target of 80% “by September” for them on Tuesday, failing which the Covid would be added to the legal list of compulsory vaccines for caregivers – diphtheria, tetanus, polio, hepatitis B. But three days later, he said he was in favor of a tighter timetable: “If there is a law, I want it to be examined and adopted by Parliament as soon as possible, why not as soon as possible. the month of July “.
More info: A study relayed by the covido-skeptic site France-Evening claims that vaccines against Covid-19 statistically save three lives … for two deaths. However, neither the method nor the results are correct. The Fake off section of 20 minutes make the point this way.
2. Marine Le Pen confirmed at the head of the RN during the party congress in Perpignan
RN activists held their 17th congress this weekend in Perpignan, just one week after a defeat at the regional level that struck them. This Sunday, the party unsurprisingly announced the re-election of Marine Le Pen, the only candidate for her succession, for the presidency of the RN for a fourth term, which she should temporarily leave in the fall to devote herself to the presidential election. .
The number two of the RN Jordan Bardella was the best elected to the National Council (“parliament” of the party), ahead of the mayor of Perpignan Louis Aliot, and that of Hénin-Beaumont Steeve Briois, a sort of barometer of influence within the left.
Saturday, between 650 and 3,000 people demonstrated against the extreme right in the streets of Perpignan, a year after the election for mayor of Louis Aliot (RN). Waving Catalan, CGT or NPA flags, the demonstrators, coming from several departments in the region, marched behind a banner proposing to fight “together against the extreme right”, at the call of associations, unions or left parties.
3. Contemplation and anger after a new feminicide in Bordeaux
Friday morning a woman was found fatally stabbed at her home in Bordeaux. Her ex-spouse was referred this Sunday “with a view to his indictment of the count of intentional homicide by spouse”, explained the Prosecutor’s Office of Bordeaux. He is suspected of the murder of his 31-year-old ex-girlfriend, whom he was not allowed to see. The mother of their 4-year-old daughter had left him in early January, a separation that “he did not accept”, according to the prosecutor. The thirty-something, described as depressive and having alcohol “addiction” problems, was arrested shortly after by the Raid police while he was holed up in his apartment, 400 meters from the victim’s home. Convicted six times (traffic offenses and narcotics between 2004 and 2009), the ex-spouse did not
But since the beginning of the year, the victim said he had been harassed and had lodged a complaint twice with the police, in January, then in March to the prosecution to denounce the “obsessive” behavior of his ex-companion. Heard several times by investigators, the victim affirmed that “he was prowling around her home” and sent her numerous messages by SMS or WhatsApp about their separation and the custody of their daughter, recounted the prosecutor.
More info: The parents of the young woman found dead at her home on Friday participated in a rally in memory of their daughter on Sunday and expressed their desire to obtain custody of their four-year-old daughter. The report of our journalist in Bordeaux is at read here.
4. A multitude of companies threatened by a giant cyberattack in the United States
Hackers attacked US company Kaseya just before a long weekend to demand ransom from potentially more than 1,000 companies through its IT management software.
It is difficult at this time to estimate the extent of this attack by ransomware, or “ransomware,” a type of computer program that paralyzes a company’s computer systems and then demands a ransom to unlock them.
Based in Miami, Kaseya sells IT tools to businesses, including VSA software for managing networks of servers, computers and printers from a single source. It claims more than 40,000 customers.
First direct consequence: a large supermarket chain in Sweden had to close more than 800 stores on Saturday, its checkouts being paralyzed by the attack.
5. The Euro 2021 semi-finals table finally known
The Wembley stadium in the suburbs of London will host the semi-finals of the Euro at the start of the week: after the Italy-Spain duel on Tuesday, it is the England-Denmark face-to-face which will close the final square on Wednesday.
England, who qualified on Saturday night after sweeping Ukraine 4-0, still dream of ascending to the throne at home, 55 years after their last trophy.
More info: Are you missing a team and the Euro is depopulated? Not quite to believe our readers fans of the Blues. A week after the elimination of France against Switzerland, many of you are still following the great meeting of European football. Internet users tell us about their euro without the Blues this way.