Nikolas Cruz was formally sentenced to life on Wednesday November 2. On Valentine’s Day, in 2018, the one who was a minor at the time had sown death in his former high school: 17 people – including 14 teenagers – had been shot dead with automatic weapons. Last month, recalls the Miami Herald, he had escaped the death penalty, because three members of the jury had refused the sentence which requires unanimity. This rejection of a death sentence aroused the anger of the families of the victims. Rare fact: the judge allowed these families to speak at length and directly to Nikolas Cruz before the verdict was announced on Wednesday.
For two days, they therefore followed one another in front of the shooter. ” You stole it from us “says the widow of a teacher. ” And you haven’t been judged as you deserve “. ” One day you will die“, Continues the father of a teenager shot dead in the hallway of this high school in 2018, “ and I hope your ashes are thrown away, because you’re garbage“. These family statements close a very tense three-month trial, underlines the Palm Beach Postduring which the defense of Nikolas Cruz was violently attacked.
Brazil: Is Jair Bolsonaro really appealing for calm ?
Outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro calls for the unblocking of the roads by these supporters who are protesting against his defeat in the presidential election on Sunday, October 30. On his social networks, the outgoing president says he understands the frustration of his supporters. “I know you are unhappy… Me too“, he declares, “but we have to keep a cool head“.
“Are these statements really aimed at calming his supporters?asks the Brazilian press. Estadao notes for example that, a few minutes after this call, the eldest son of Jair Bolsonaro “showed solidarity» demonstrators gathered in front of the barracks to demand a military intervention. His other son, while sharing his father’s video statement, encouraged him to “don’t stop, don’t back down“. Folha de Sao Paulo adds that Jair Bolsonaro is asking protesters to unblock the highways, “because it’s illegalbut he doesn’t ask them to go home. These demonstrations, he says, are spontaneous and legitimate.
Haiti : will Canada take the lead in a military intervention?
Discussions around a military intervention in Haiti are on the front pageAlterpress. According to the online agency, “the issue of conduct, by Canada“of this intervention”seems to be clearing up“. In any case, on Wednesday November 2, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explained to journalists, before participating in a meeting in Parliament, that the Canadian government was weighing “ways to intervene to help the Haitian people“. “We understand how many Haitians there are who do not want to see international intervention. It’s a reality. At the same time, we look at the crisis, the rapes, the violence, the poverty, the cholera, the health crisis and we say to ourselves: we have to intervene in one way or another.“said Justin Trudeau.
Justin Trudeau who has also clearly expressed himself in favor of more immigration to Quebec. “The federal Liberal government unveiled its plans on Tuesday for a massive increase in the number of newcomers“, noted The duty : 500,000 immigrants every year by 2025. According to the Prime Minister, “immigration done the right wayis an adequate response to the labor shortage in Canada. These statements represent ahead-on confrontation with the vision of the Quebec government“, writingThe duty. Quebec does not want to welcome more than 50,000 immigrants, among others, “to protect the French language“. About 22% of Canadians live in Quebec, the newspaper adds. “To maintain its demographic weightthe province should thereforewelcome nearly 112,000 of these 500,000 immigrants“.
Rare minerals : Canada tightens the screw
One more word from Canada. The country on Wednesday (November 2) ordered Chinese state-owned enterprises to immediately divest their interests in three Canadian rare minerals companies. The federal government “faced an avalanche of criticism earlier in the year for allowing too much investment from the Asian superpower in the domestic mining sector“, explains the Globe and Mail. For the English-language newspaper, this is a clear hardening of Liberal policy, while “Canada’s weakness” in this sector “has become glaring, amid China’s inexorable rise“.
Ottawa has created a list of 31 so-calledreviews“, which notably includes cobalt, lithium and manganese used in solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicle batteries. “Last Friday (October 28), Ottawa had already tightened the rules on any new investment in Canada’s critical minerals sector», notes theGlobe and Mail. This decision vis-à-vis Chinese companies has been taken, insists the government, “after consultation with the security and intelligence community“.