When there is movement in publishing, it naturally causes a lot of ink to flow. ” Vivendi drops Editis to buy Hachette “, title The world. Vincent Bolloré’s group ended up realizing “: it could not hold both Lagardère Publishing (that is to say Hachette, Larousse, Livre de Poche and Hatier, among others) and Editis (which includes the Plon and Bordas houses in particular). In other words, he could not hold ” the two publishing leaders in France “, Explain The world : “ The competition authorities would never accept such a concentration, against which the rest of the sector was headwind. »
Vivendi to Hachette, the jewel of Lagardère Publishing
It is therefore Hachette, the jewel of Lagardère, which has the favors of Vivendi. “ It was the logical decision “, according The world, Lagardère Publishing is the world’s third largest publisher of consumer and educational books, with 2.6 billion euros in turnover in 2021. Hachette is its main brand. So yes, ” to get their hands on Hachette, Bolloré turns the Editis page », confirms Release. But this operation, says Liberated, ” does not reassure the professionals of the sector and the employees “, those who had opposed the Editis-Hachette merger project so desired by Vincent Bolloré. On the union side, no great relief, “the operation proposed for the moment is nebulous », Estimates a framework of the CFDT Book and edition.
From Lebanon to Uganda, portraits to discover
The cross, for its part, takes us this Saturday to Lebanon. ” Hold in chaos “. The Catholic daily gives us to see the « life of a Christian family in Beirut “: the Zouïn, “ a family in turmoil “. ” The Covid, the explosion in the port of Beirut, the plummeting currency, the skyrocketing price of gasoline, unobtainable medicines, unaffordable foodstuffs, incessant power or water cuts… Nothing is going well anymore. “, recount The cross. Striking and important report to discover or remember the extent of the crisis affecting Lebanon and the daily life of the Lebanese.
In the portrait-courage genre, a few pages later, we can also read ” The new Mandelas “. A series of portraits that presents activists standing up for human rights “, who try ” on their scale, to put the world back in place “. Today, we can discover the portrait of Frank Mugisha, ” Ugandan gay rights advocate “. He refuses to go into exile and he risks his life daily to carry the voice of homosexuals persecuted in his countrytell us The cross, asking for only one thing: the right for everyone to be themselves “.
The first reservists of the national police
There are also these French people who join the reserve of the national police. ” They are grocers, pruners, opticians… ” and ” called to patrol in uniform and with arms “. It is to be read in Le Figarowhich takes us into the improvised dojo on the ground floor of the police training center in Lognes, Seine-et-Marne », where 65 trainees train. ” Salt-and-pepper hair for some, plump bodies for others “. They are between 19 and 58 years old and form the very first class of the new police operational reserve “. Like them, 6,891 citizens have applied, we learn Le Figaro. Training on their vacation, unpaid.
In total, the trainees will draw ” 250 cartridges, as much as a student in a school of peacekeepers “, but not everyone wants to make ground. Like Jean-Charles, an optician in Val-d’Oise: ” I don’t want to be on public roads. At 56, I no longer feel like running to grab a fridge from the corner of my face he says. It remains to be seen now how these pioneers of the reserve will be welcomed in the services, where for the time being, questions mingle with curiosity », Reports Le Figaro. But the model has already proven itself in the gendarmerie, which has 28,000 operational reservists”.
A Frenchman faces 116 years in prison in the United States
A 21-year-old French computer scientist, detained in Morocco for two months, against the backdrop of cybercrime charges, is at very high risk in the United States. The story is a bit crazy, worthy of a thriller, it’s Today in France who tells it to us. The father testifies in the newspaper. His son, Sébastien Raoult, is accused by the FBI of ransoming companies on the web. He proclaims his innocence and his father believes him, tells us Today in France. The family requested the young man’s extradition to France, as the acts were allegedly committed on French soil. An extraordinary legal case…