The blue night that followed the semi-final was much more turbulent than we thought. According Le Figaro“ urban violence (then) erupted throughout the territory ” French. From the city of Lille, in the north of the country, to that of Nice, in the south-east of France, via Amiens, Besançon, Troyes, Lyon, Grenoble, Albertville, Avignon, Toulouse, Paris and its suburbs, this daily, in a non-exhaustive list, inventories the incidents which multiplied in the night following the match, and makes an inventory of the throwing of projectiles to the firing of fireworks, passing through barricades, plus a car whose driver in a panic fatally injured a 14-year-old minor of North African origin while fleeing.
This drama occurred in the southern city of Montpellier. The neighborhood where the deceased boy lived is “in a state of shock”, reports The Parisian. His parents ” appealed for calm and respect for their bereavement “, underlines this newspaper.
This night from Wednesday to Thursday, in France, was that of the “ great surge », bids Release. In Paris, according to this daily, “ the radicals of the violent Parisian extreme right had organized a “mob” (anglicism designating a violent crowd) to attack Moroccan supporters on the fringes of the match between France and Morocco in the semi-finals of the World Cup “. Release also points out that in Nantes, western France, “ a dozen far-right activists surveyed the city center (and that) blows were exchanged “.
And Freed to denounce ” hordes of fachos (who) have deployed here and there in France to fight it out physically by shouting racist slogans “. According to this newspaper, this is the ” sign of a rise in power of identity and ultraviolent small groups “.
Sounds of Russian boots in Burkina Faso
Have or will Wagner’s mercenaries land in Burkina Faso? For the president of neighboring Ghana, there is no doubt that Ouagadougou has concluded an agreement with this Russian group of paramilitaries and has even granted them a mine in payment. In a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, President Nana Akufo-Addo the day before yesterday, ” assured that the step had been taken and that Burkina Faso had “reached an arrangement” with the Wagner group “, highlighted Le Figaro.
According to this newspaper, the ballet of Russian military planes noted in recent weeks in Burkina reinforces the credibility of Wagner’s arrival. On Wednesday, photos showing an Ilyushin disembarking weapons in Ouagadougou circulated on social networks “. And this daily to estimate that, ” if this installation were to be confirmed, the interim president Ibrahim Traoré takes (would) certain risks. In addition to a reaction, no doubt unwelcome, from some of its neighbors and its traditional partners, the population and the army will have to be convinced », warns Le Figaro. Which newspaper points out that ” the closure of the Radio France Internationale channels, as in Bamako, revived the hypothesis of a Malian rupture scenario “.
Tunisia, the great disillusion
Legislative elections without going, tomorrow, in Tunisia. The ballot promises to be largely shunned. It must be said that the Tunisians who can only aspire to leave the country. ” leave no matter what “, formulates the newspaper The cross. According to the Catholic daily, Tunisia suffers from haemorrhage. She loses her skills. Doctors, engineers, teacher-researchers, nurses, etc. whether they are freshly graduated, young experienced people or even seniors, they are leaving the country en masse, for the greater benefit of Western states – France, Germany, Canada in the lead – which barricade themselves against illegal migration, but are hungry for these well-made heads “, States The cross. According to this newspaper, twelve years after the revolution, the disillusion lives up to the hopes it had raised. Immense. Abyssal !