In Mayotte, 101st French department, in the heart of the Indian Ocean, ” after several days of extreme aggression between bands, relates Le Monde, the population of the archipelago barricaded themselves and the young aggressors entrenched themselves, facing the RAID that the government had just sent as reinforcements. Police and gendarmes confirm: ‘RAS’. ‘They are waiting for the RAID to be gone to start again’, we say ironically in Kawéni, neighborhood at the center of the brutality that has rocked the island, with the past two weeks marked by machete attacks on school buses. So a break, point The World, in a cycle that seems endless. The chronic insecurity suffered by the poorest department of France is brutally recalled to the attention of Paris. »
Demographic pressure
How did we get here ? Response from Figaro : “ despite the delays in the announced economic and social ‘catching up’, departmentalization has strengthened the archipelago as a pole of attraction for the region. Without the measures to fight against illegal immigration – patrols at sea, limitation of the right to land in 2018 – have not made it possible to control illegal arrivals from the three islands of the Comoros. Results, notice Le Figaro, under the pressure of immigration and numerous births, the population has officially increased by around 40% in ten years. Until reaching nearly 290,000 inhabitants – rather 400,000, according to unofficial estimates -, half of whom are foreigners. Despite the difficulties, successive governments have no choice but to cling to the latest addition to their departments. A question of well-understood interests in this very strategic Mozambique Channel. And loyalty to a population that has repeated in several referendums its desire to anchor itself to France. »
A French astronaut!
Also on the front page: Sophie Adenot… Until now, unknown to the general public and today on the front page, in particular of the Parisian.
Indeed, points out the newspaper, this engineer and Air Force helicopter pilot is now an astronaut with the European Space Agency; she is the only French woman who can hope to go into space in the near future. She therefore became the colleague of Thomas Pesquet and ten other career astronauts. »
This new generation, precise Release“ will have a chance of setting foot on the International Space Station (ISS) again before it disappears in 2031, but above all it should have the opportunity to work on the Moon alongside NASA in a few years. Either in the future station in lunar orbit (the Lunar Gateway) that the Americans and their partners want to build, or squarely in a habitation and research base at the south pole of the Moon. »
The excesses of learning…
We stay with Release which makes its front page on learning… Release who denounces a open bar reform » : “liberalized by Macron in 2018, work-study training cost the State just over 11 billion euros in 2021. Public money distributed without strategy or control. »
It’s true, recognize Releasethat ” it all starts with a very good intention: to help young people find work by fully supporting apprenticeships and continuing education. (…) Except that, four years later, the results of this public policy to support apprenticeships are, to say the least, mixed. Apprenticeship has become a real goldmine for private higher education, which has opened training centers for apprentices with a vengeance, assured of being able to take advantage of the manna, which, denounces the newspaper, has further enriched the investment funds holding these schools than made it easier for apprentices to obtain a permanent contract. A powerful lobby seems to have been put in place to prevent any backtracking and continue to take advantage of the windfall. The Court of Auditors itself was alarmed by the situation a few months ago, referring to the ‘financial impasse’ in which France competences finds itself, the public body through which the money for apprenticeship passes, which could post a deficit of 5.9 billion euros in 2022, according to a Senate report. And we don’t even talk concludes Release, the disappointment, even the despair of these young people who end up understanding that they have been tricked. »