2022 summarized in photos in the weekend edition Today in France. One photo per month, and a few key dates. The month of January for example, and the arrival of the Omicron variant, less virulent, but more contagious. Two years after the first cases, Europe is learning to live with the Covid summarizes the magazine.
In February, unsurprisingly, a date: the 26th, the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine and a photo: that of an apartment building in the capital gutted by a missile. A war at the gates of Europe, part to last notes Today in France weekend.
And among the other moments to remember in 2022 for the magazine: the month of April, the presidential election and the re-election of Emmanuel Macron, the month of June, and the jubilee of Elisabeth II or even the month of August, marked by forest fires. Some 30,000 hectares gone up in smoke in Gironde alone is a reminder Today in France.
And after 2022? What can happen in 2023? Good news to believe Figaro magazine which, in a nutshell, takes stock of 2022: morose between the war in Ukraine, the energy crisis, the return of inflation and the repeated Covid epidemics. The weekly ensures it: 2023 presents itself under better omens: and Le Figaro gives us 50 reasons to rejoice in advance….
I give you the most emblematic: the rate of the booklet A will increase… passing to 3% its best level since 2008. A “remontada”, affirms Le Figaroa consequence of inflation.
Inflation, the rise in prices which pushes to reassess the income tax brackets. Its scale will therefore be increased by 5.4%.
But this good news is not just figures: it is also the return to pharmaceutical sovereignty: in February, a paracetamol factory will be inaugurated in Roussillon in Isère. Le Figaro.
Another reason to rejoice for lovers of adventure…and archeology…the return of Indiana Jones to the cinema. And you will have to take advantage of it, it is the final part of the saga created by Steven Spielberg.
And then sometimes, the misfortune of some is the happiness of others. Le Figaro therefore lists a series of good news… well, for a magazine that leans right politically of course… such as the departure of Jack Lang from the Institut du monde arabe or the possible placing under guardianship of the city of Paris. The capital, led by socialist Anne Hidalgo, is awash in debt.
And then, provided that it does not bring us bad luck, the last good news of 2023 listed by the weekly: France world champion of rugby next year. While everything remains to be done, Le Figaro redid the match of a possible crazy evening, that of the final, on October 28th. Match won by the Blues of course. We cross fingers.
End of the year obliges, the ranking of the favorite personalities of the French in the JDD
And it’s a top 50, what could be more normal to find a singer there in 1time position… and who is it? And yes, the invincible Goldman even exclaims The JDD. It’s been eight years since the musician trusts the 1time square.
Just behind him, someone who could settle permanently at the top of the ranking: Thomas Pesquet. For the weekly, he reconnects with the tradition of adventurous scientists like Alain Bombard and Haroun Tazieff. (Today in France weekend publishes incredible photos taken by Thomas Pesquet from the International Space Station)
Two men in pole position, and the first woman, Florence Foresti, is in the 20th square. This is precisely the main lesson to be learned from this 2022 vintage according to The JDD : the under-representation of the female sex. I still give you the end of the composition of the podium behind Jean Jacques Goldmann and Thomas Pesquet: Omar Sy, a handsome player, confides that he too would have voted Goldmann. And then at the foot of the podium, and for the winner that he is, it must not please: Kilian Mbappé.
Another survey conducted by The Sunday Journal, on the year 2022, the year of crises for the French underlines the weekly. If for 72% of those interviewed, the war in Ukraine remains the highlight of this year, 34% believe that it is rather the climatic disasters of the summer. Finally in 5th place of the most significant events of the past year: the death of Elizabeth II since 22% of respondents believe that it is one of the major facts of 2022.
And then an investigation caught your attention this week François?
A rather crazy story told by M, The magazine of the world. That of the police investigation opened after the death of the Cachou Bear in the Spanish Pyrenees in 2020.
The police were tracking bear killers, they will uncover a real cocaine traffic.
The case starts on April 9, 2020, the date on which Cachou, a 5-year-old bear is found dead at the bottom of a ravine in the Catalan Pyrenees.
The investigation will put the investigators on the trail of poisoning with antifreeze, a widespread practice in the region, where the bear is not really appreciated, to say the least, by the breeders of the region.
The whole brigade of the Catalan Pyrenees is mobilized. And an anti-bear watts ap group is unearthed. Surprise: among its members: two forest agents, supposed to protect the plantigrade.
And by wiretapping the suspects, the police will discover messages giving quite mysterious dates. Add to that the suspicious comings and goings of a Colombian citizen.
For the Police, it smells of cocaine trafficking. Bingo, a conclusive search is carried out in an apartment which serves as a point of sale. 2 kilos of coca paste were also found in another nursery. An inspector told the weekly ” it was like the bear’s parting gift “.
Two investigations therefore, one completed on drug trafficking in the region. As for Cachou, we still don’t know who killed the plantigrade…
The bear, the hunters and the cocaine, investigation to read in M, The magazine of the world.