No Christmas celebrations, Monday evening December 20 in Gao, with the French soldiers of the military operation “Barkhane”, no meeting earlier in the day with the head of the Malian junta Assimi Goïta. Emmanuel Macron canceled his trip, officially due to coronavirus.
But the daily The Parisian has a sort of doubt. “Unofficially, some believe that the serious disagreements between Paris and Bamako more surely explain this cancellation”, report this log. “The big part of the visit of the Head of State was to be his first meeting with Colonel Assimi Goïta, president of the Malian transition “, Explain The Parisian.
However, ” with the junta in power since the putsch (…) of August 2020, the climate is electric “, Mainly because of two” annoying files »: The absence of a timetable for the organization of elections to put an end to the military transition in Mali, and that of the paramilitaries of the Russian group Wagner.
On these files, Emmanuel Macron asked for a ” clarification “, point The Parisian, and wished “ extend the meeting to the African presidents of the ECOWAS and the G5 Sahel (…) Goïta’s clear refusal, sticking to a Franco-Malian tete-a-tete », Completes this journal.
” The bilateral meeting would have been an opportunity for President Assimi Goïta to tell his truths to the tenant of the Élysée Palace, says a source toYoung Africa. However, in the presence of Nana Akufo-Addo and Mahamat Idriss Deby, the Malian authorities should have shown more restraint. “.
Christiane Taubira plans to run on the left for the presidential election
The former Minister of Justice has stepped into the arena yesterday, Friday, December 17, by giving itself a month to succeed in uniting the left around its hypothetical candidacy. And since then, there has been confusion within the left.
“ Yesterday, they were seven on the left to claim to govern France, says a former socialist elected Parisienot ; today, they are potentially eight. We walk on the head “.
Le Figaro does not say anything else, because with her proposed candidacy, Christiane Taubira demonstrates that she has ” the meaning of surrealism: to contribute to the unity of the left, it adds an additional candidacy “.
Result, the former Minister of Justice is already facing a ” no wall “, Formulates this daily. Which wonders if Christiane Taubira will be ” something other than a shooting star in the countryside, as ephemeral as a sleeve effect? There is little chance as his outing was improvised, without tail or head, relating more to political tourism than to the expression of convictions. “, Estimates in a Le Figaro.
Prosecution testimony against Roman Polanski
A witness corroborates the accusations of rape brought by the British actress Charlotte Lewis against the Franco-Polish filmmaker. Testimony of a former model collected by The Parisian. Karen Smith claims to have been present at the scene of the alleged rape of Charlotte Lewis by Roman Polanski.
Being reminded that this British actress, who was a minor at the time of the facts by her alleged, accuses the Franco-Polish filmmaker of having raped her in an apartment in Paris in 1983, The Parisian reports the testimony ” under oath ” of the former model Karen Smith before the American justice and who claims to have found her friend Charlotte Lewis “ disheveled, very groggy, dizzy and struggling to stand on her feet ” in the filmmaker’s room. “ The latter had confessed to him having been raped by Roman Polanski “, report The Parisian. Diary to which Karen Smith says that after that night, “ Roman tried to get away from Charlotte “.