Newspapers are updating their websites this morning to report on the deadly earthquake that occurred overnight in Morocco.
The world echoes the scale of this earthquake in the Marrakech region, “ but also felt in Rabat, Casablanca, Agadir, Essaouira », and even in Algeria. “ On photos and videos published by Internet users “, specifies the newspaper, “ We can see significant remains of homes in the alleys of the medina of Marrakech. But also cars crushed by stones. » « I was in my bed when everything started shaking », says a Frenchman living in Marrakech, “ I thought my bed was going to fly away… I went out into the street half naked, it was total chaos, a real disaster “.
Libération, for its part, collected the testimony of a 25-year-old English tourist, who was at the restaurant with friends when, she said: the tables started to shake, the dishes started to fly, we panicked… when the adrenaline died down, we realized that we were very lucky to still be alive “.
This is not the first time that Morocco has been hit by an earthquake, recalls Release And the world. “ On February 24, 2004, an earthquake measuring 6.3 degrees on the Richter scale shook the province of Al Hoceima, 400 km northeast of Rabat, killing 628 people and causing significant material damage. And on February 29, 1960, an earthquake destroyed Agadir, on the west coast of the country, and killed more than 12,000 people, or a third of the city’s population. »
Also in the press this morning, the G20 summit in New Delhi, and the ambitions of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
” The Modi bulldozer », title itself Release. Allusion to the operations carried out in the Indian capital, before the arrival of the greats of this world. “ The city of New Delhi has been sanitized or beautified according to official terms explains the newspaper. “ Some popular neighborhoods are hidden behind huge green panels in the colors of the G20, and others have simply disappeared. Thousands of homes have been arbitrarily bulldozed in recent months “. But Narendra Modi’s ambitions do not stop at the image given by the capital, he is also preparing for next year’s legislative elections, and ” wants to suggest to every Indian that this prestigious and rotating presidency (the presidency of the G20) is the result of their diplomacy and that thanks to Modi, the world is coming to them “, explain Release. ” Narendra Modi will then be able to represent himself to the Indian people with this image that he likes as “guru of the world” as his party calls him. “.
“guru of the world”, an expression that Le Figaro also takes over…
But for Le FigaroIt is “ India which dreams of itself as a guru of the world “. As Releasethe newspaper echoes the work carried out in New Delhi: “ Construction of 109 fountains… refurbished sidewalks and European-style street lamps on the road between the airport and the center… the government has also erased all traces of poverty in the south and east of the capital by razing a dozen neighborhoods… the bulldozers dug pits, demolished then buried the houses and goods that the 4,000 inhabitants, daily workers and small farmers owned “. ” These forced operations », continues Le Figaro“ are part of the image that Modi’s India wants to give to the world: a self-confident country, a great power which swears to eliminate poverty by the centenary of its independence in 2047, and whose voice resonates in the concert of nations “…
Rugby finally, and France’s victory over New Zealand, to open the World Cup…
” What a Kif » exclaims on the front page the Parisian… « These blues have a good champion’s face », adds the newspaper, which begins to dream. ” They are not yet world champions, far from it, but they still have a profile that is close to it… the blues did not only succeed in their debut last night… they opened up a horizon for themselves golden which, we hope, will lead them to the throne on October 28 “. The Team for its part, hello the French Fer (fer) allusion to the french flairthe French style of play is notably about speed… and clairvoyance…
Finally, Release is interested in the South African selection, reigning world champions, and who “ presents a workforce with only a third of non-white players… a heavy imbalance inherited from the inequalities of apartheid “, specifies the newspaper… However, the situation evolves, if one considers that in 1995, “ only one black was part of the title team at home “. Blacks and mestizos therefore only represent a third of the national team today. “ What little remains “, underlines Release“ while blacks and mestizos represent more than 90% of the population of this country of 60 million inhabitants “.