“ What have we done with these 20 years ? ” in the light of Humanity This morning. From 2003 to 2023, 20 years separate us from an exceptional heat wave that caused 15 000 deaths and which had highlighted the unpreparedness of the public authorities. At the time, the daily recalls, “ it was the emergency services that gave the alert about the consequences of the heat wave. An alert heard very late since the general mobilization of hospitals had only been decreed after two weeks of abnormally high temperatures “.
Is the health system today better prepared ? Not sure, write Humanity. There is the implementation of heat wave plans every summer, but the health system is worse and is also overheated. The situation is hardly better on the side of nursing homes. Since 2003, we have well implemented “ air-conditioned rooms and better information on the risks of hyperthermia for residents but these advances, the newspaper says, only not compensate for the chronic lack of personnel in the sector “.
A lack of measures in companies
45 degrees yesterday in this Parisian laundry where the daily went Today in France. In the back room, an ironing board with neon lights, a clothes steamer, three washing machines and a dryer. A humid, suffocating heat that large pipes try to suck up. like a kitchen hood “. For several summers, continues the newspaper, the climatic conditions weigh on the workers. And employers are adapting, in the dry cleaners and in the building sector, where shift days that start at 5 or 6 am are becoming almost the norm. But nothing’s set in stone and so far says Today, no global text freezes the working conditions of professionals during high temperatures. And this does not seem to be at the top of the concerns of the Ministry of Labor.
En Spain, extreme heat and elections
“ The left in extreme peril “, title Release. Pedro Sanchez has put his mandate at stake by calling legislative elections but, despite a positive assessment, his re-election is threatened by the right and the far right. And the daily tells of these upscale neighborhoods of Madrid where the populists of Vox are making money. We see in Pedro Sanchez “ all the weakness of Spain, its mediocrity, its ability to destroy and hate itself “.
In this Salamanca district, where Sanchez is accused of lying, Vox seduces for his outspokenness and his ability to defend the traditions of “ hunting, bulls, village festivals, or small farmers who are accused of siphoning water from dams “. It is in the name of the defense of values that many in this neighborhood will vote for Vox’s nominee. “ Left, said one of the inhabitants questioned by Freed, has become an all-encompassing machine. Sanchism is no longer being able to recognize myself in my Spain “, she concludes.
In Zambia, pollution kills litle by litle »
Kabwe town, 220 000 inhabitants, is considered the most polluted in Africa, explains Release. And yet the main lead mine closed a quarter of a century ago. But decades of exploitation have considerably contaminated the area. The old mining sites have never really been cleaned up. Everything was abandoned on the spot and almost a third of the inhabitants live on contaminated land, with a level of lead in the blood four to eight times higher than normal. Victims who could obtain compensation, because since the beginning of the year the South African justice system has been examining the appeal of a collective of inhabitants of Kabwe.
The new life of Mikhail Khodorkovsky
In The cross, portrait of the man who was the richest man in Russia and then served ten years in prison. Vladimir Putin, writes the newspaper, wanted to destroy him, deprived him of his fortune, the Russian state seized his company Yukos before allowing him to leave the country. No one knows today the state of his fortune or where it is invested, but according to the newspaper he is trying to unite the multiple currents of the Russian opposition to overthrow the president.
More newlyweds at the foot of the Eiffel Tower
The cross tells us that 2023 will be a record year for weddings. 300 000 ceremonies are expected after postponements and cancellations due to Covid. And new rites are appearing, with stages that must obviously be broadcast on social networks. The request of course is no longer made to the parents but to the person concerned and must be staged. There is also the EVG or the EVJF : you have to go to Orly on a Friday evening to measure the extent of the phenomenon, says the newspaper, and these cohorts of disguised young girls who are preparing to leave for the weekend with their girlfriends. And then of course the ceremony. New forms of ceremonies secular for those who do not practice any religion but are not satisfied with the ceremony at the town hall.